The singular thing that inspired Jack to join an order and become a Paladin was an image he saw of a buff, Fabio-looking man in heavy armor surrounded by scantily clad women. He had no reservations over this. He wanted to be the heavily armored tank with his own stable of heal-sluts. He even joined an order, without any reservations, that was most likely to make that happen. It was a notoriously stratified order where men were fighters and tanks and women were specifically healers. He had no issue with that, obviously, because he was male. He had just gone through some initial trials and tests to get in. He had not actually been inducted into the inner circle. Not yet. That was what his current meeting was for.
"You know how this order works, right?" Selene asked jack with a raised brow. She was theoretically a high ranking member of the order, but she was a healer for one of the main men, which meant she was basically a glorified assistant to him. She seemed skeptical, and a little hesitant about him for some reason. Jack exuded a very particular energy. She was familiar with it. It was her own energy when she joined. She felt so nostalgic seeing him in the room standing before her all confident and clueless. She got a rush from it.
"Of course!" Jack said enthusiastically.
She stared at him. Selene still had to go through the motions. "Can you give me a rundown on what you think this is?"
Jack smirked. "Well... From what I understand you let the girls do the healing and the guys do the important tasks. Right?" It was Jack's turn to feel a rush as Selene giggled.
"Yeah... That is more or less what it's about. But do you know HOW this works?"
"I guess I don't know the details." Jack admitted.
"Hmhm." Selena nodded slowly. Her arms crossed under her impressive chest as she inspected Jack. He was in a set of gear that he had bought with real money. Though, it was a modest set. She motioned to herself.
"I am a heal-slut." Just hearing the attractive woman say that was enough to arouse Jack. He gulped and hung on her words.
"Oh, if you are interested in being inducted could you strip out of that silly armor, please? We provide everything for our members." She asked offhandedly. Without even questioning it Jack began to strip. Selene lifted a finger to her lips and smiled coyly.
"You... You're sure you know what this is? What is going to happen?"
"Yeah! I'm good. I'm definitely into it!" He said excitedly, kicking off the last pieces of his gear.
"Oh... You're into it, huh?" Selene held back a moan before continuing. She knew based on his attitude that he had no idea, but that just made it better for her and the Order. They were a very specific organization that preyed of and propped up very specific types. They nurtured everyone into two hyper efficient roles that could best serve the player-lead government they supported.
"I am a heal-slut. My duty is to my tank. No one else. Understand?" She moved over to a closet as she spoke and rifled through it. She glanced back over her shoulder.
"Because our Order is fairly successful I am permitted to offer you free purity levels they are-"
"Are those like corruption levels?" Jack interjected.
Selene stopped abruptly and turned around. "How do you know about those?" She asked suspiciously.
"My friend got caught up in a scam because she's dumb." He offered frankly.
"Oh." Selena relaxed.
"Send her our way. We love dumb girls that can't help but get into trouble. It's kind of our thing." She stared at Jack very obviously as she said that. She loved that he had no idea what was going on, still.
He waved a hand dismissively. "Oh. I don't think she'd be interested. She's already hooked up with a guy.
"What a lucky gal." She winked.
"Alright... Anyway, moving on. Are you interested in the free purity levels? They are like Corruption levels but they are granted by good-aligned, high level NPC's instead of the bad aligned ones."
"I don't know how that alignment stuff works, honestly."
"Oh! It's pretty basic. In this world we would classify any NPC's that are against the players as bad and any that are in favor good. That's it."
Jack blinked. "What? So even if you're a shithead, so long as you side with players you're a good guy?"
"Yep." Selene gave a slight nod. It was a surprisingly insightful take from the man that she had for the most part discounted. Many 'good' NPC's were unabashed shit-heels in their own way. It was an observable and well-known fact of the Dark Continent.
"That's fine." Jack shrugged.
"Give me the levels."
"Do you... Want to know what they do?" She questioned. He was making it a bit too easy. If he asked like a smart boy she would have said vaguelly that his stats would be reassigned to maximize the efficiency of his role. It would not be a lie, because he was always going to assume that he was taking on a different role than what he was actually assigned. None of that occurred, however.
"It's free xp. I get stronger. What's there to know?" Jack stated confidently.
Selene covered her mouth and stifled a laugh. "Yeah, so true!" At that point she felt fairly comfortable around Jack, as he showed very little awareness.
"While I get that set up, Jackie, do you know how our partner system works? I can tell by our conversation right now that you are going to be an extremely valuable partner." Jack gulped as he heard that. Images of scantily-clad heal-sluts flooded his mind. Even if it was just one to start it would be fine by him.
"It's totally fine. I dunno how it works but I'm excited to get started."
"We put you with someone right away. We place beginner healers with men of the Order. No man should be without a healer in our organization." She worded things very intentionally to both excite and mislead him.
"You'd think there would be a lot of guys on stand-bye, considering how good the deal is." Jack observed, unintentionally pointing out a big problem with the great deal he assumed he was getting.
"You'd be surprised." Selene found the fertility goddess idol that had been left somewhere in the room from the previous induction. The item was a small statuette of an attractive woman with generous breasts and wide hips.
"So what's the job of the man in all this?" Jack asked, since he presumed it was going to be his role.
Selene lifted her head from her prep work. She was a bit surprised by the question but not perturbed at all.
"The men... Well, aside from protection it is the man's duty to properly condition and discipline their heal-slut."
"Am I going to be told how to do that?" Jack asked. He had no experience with that sort of thing.