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Chef Martha

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Overview

Chef Martha is the Present-era Downtown Restaurant's head chef. Her route includes conversation, culinary scenes, two H2Hs, two dates, a Master Chef lesson, an apartment visit with several branches, a private video and an optional family continuation.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 31 / Present / Evil
Home NPC location Downtown Restaurant
Restaurant and portrait hours Every day, 10 AM–10 PM
Remote apartment visit Downtown Apartment Complex, 10 PM–midnight
Favorite stats Cooking 70, Creativity 50, Perception 40
Special relationship skill Silver Tongue
Teaches Master Chef

Relationship Walkthrough

  1. Visit the Downtown Restaurant, 10 AM–10 PM, for The Downtown Restaurant introduction: 5 base affection. Funny +4 is its highest choice reward.
  2. Use Talk to Chef Martha, available from Stranger, for 15 minutes, 1 base affection, five times per day.
  3. At Known, revisit for The Special and Tip Money. With Communication 50, use Culinary Creativity: 30 minutes, Cooking +1 and 8 direct affection, once.
  4. At Acquaintance, start Beach Day from her restaurant portrait 2–5 PM: 60 minutes, 15 energy, restoring 10 calm.
  5. At Friend, revisit for Kitchen Confessions, and start the Farmers Market Date during its effective 10 AM–2 PM window.
  6. At Close Friend, revisit for The Competition, start Starlight Walk 7–10 PM, or take the Boardwalk Sunset Date 5–8 PM if its extra gates are met.
  7. At Romantic, use Master Chef with Cooking 60, or visit her apartment from the Downtown Apartment Complex, 10 PM–midnight.
  8. At 1,000 affection, her paid Private Evening video becomes available from the restaurant portrait 8–10 PM, separately from the apartment conversation.
The H2Hs, dates, automatic scenes and skill lesson use their own gates. Neither H2H requires the other completed, and the apartment action does not require finishing either date first.
Listed relationship rewards are base values. Favorite stats add bonuses when their thresholds are met, and the special relationship skill doubles the adjusted base before the shared random roll. Equipment, buffs and alignment can further change the final reward. Raising affection does not replace quest flags or earlier heart-to-hearts.

Daily Actions and Skill Lessons

Action Requirements Cost Reward Limit
Talk to Chef Martha Stranger; restaurant open 15 minutes 1 base affection Five per day
Culinary Creativity Known; Communication 50 30 minutes Cooking +1; 8 direct affection Once
Master Chef Romantic; Cooking 60; lesson incomplete 300 minutes, $900, 150 energy, 80 calm Master Chef skill; 30 base affection plus choices Once
Private Evening 1,000 affection; paid version; 8–10 PM 120 minutes, 50 energy 80 base affection; 25 NPC intimacy experience Once per day
Master Chef is her personal advanced lesson. Its rewarded choice favors Caring +5 over Flirty +4 or Funny +3. Completing it hides the lesson. The action's Cooking 60 gate takes precedence over the skill definition's generic minimum.
The restaurant also offers the separate Cook Food location lesson: Intelligence 18, 200 minutes, $250, 40 energy and 40 calm, available 10 AM–10 PM until that skill is learned. It is not the Master Chef lesson and does not require a Martha affection stage.
For a work-based affection opportunity, the restaurant's Dishwasher job requires Stamina 10 and takes 60 minutes, 30 energy and 5 calm, during 10 AM–10 PM. It awards 1 base Martha affection alongside its pay; Cook Food improves the pay. This is separate from the five daily Talk uses.

Automatic Culinary Scenes

Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
Tip Money Downtown Restaurant Chef Martha: Known+ 0
The Special Downtown Restaurant Chef Martha: Known+ 5
Kitchen Confessions Downtown Restaurant Chef Martha: Friend+ 8
The Competition Downtown Restaurant Chef Martha: Close Friend+ 10
The Downtown Restaurant Downtown Restaurant No additional prerequisite 5


These scenes complete once and have no extra hour gate beyond gaining access to the open restaurant. The Special, Kitchen Confessions and The Competition require Known, Friend and Close Friend respectively, with no preceding culinary-scene flag in their own triggers.
Scene Highest base bonuses, in choice order
Tip Money All +3 → Tip +1
The Special Funny +4
Kitchen Confessions Flirty +5
The Competition Funny +5
The Downtown Restaurant Funny +4


For Tip Money, return all $150 for 3 base affection and a Good alignment choice; there is no player wealth gain. Keeping the $50 tip grants 1 base affection, $50 and a Neutral alignment choice. Keeping all $150 grants that wealth, gives an Evil alignment choice and has no registered affection reward.

H2H Best Answers

Start both conversations from the restaurant portrait, rather than travelling to the beach or park to search for their buttons. Beach Day starts 2–5 PM at Acquaintance. Starlight Walk starts 7–10 PM at Close Friend, costs 60 minutes and 10 energy, and restores 15 calm. Both are one-time H2Hs.

Beach Day

Round Best ordinary choice Base points
1 You had me at sunscreen. 6
2 You look completely different outside the kitchen. 7
3 Maybe it's time to find out what else you enjoy. 7
4 I like seeing this side of you, Martha. 7
5 I'll be ordering from the private collection from now on. 8


Starlight Walk

Round Best ordinary choice Base points
1 I'd love to see your secret spot. 7
2 You deserve more evenings like this. 7
3 You deserve to be seen, Martha. All of you. 8
4 This is better than anything on your menu. 8
5 Kiss her under the stars. 10


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
Conversation / round Requirement Special answer Base points
Beach Day / 1 Charm 35 Only if you promise to pack a picnic. 9
Beach Day / 2 Empathy You push yourself way too hard, Martha. 10
Beach Day / 3 Intelligence 35 The best chefs have a life outside the kitchen to inspire them. 10
Beach Day / 4 Charm 40 You're even more beautiful when you're not hiding behind an apron. 10
Starlight Walk / 1 Charm 45 Any view with you in it is the best view in town. 10
Starlight Walk / 2 Empathy You always take care of everyone else. Who takes care of you? 12
Starlight Walk / 3 Intelligence 40 The best ingredient you've ever had was always right here. You just forgot to taste it. 12
Starlight Walk / 4 Charm 50 The only thing missing from this perfect night is a taste of you. 14
Special answers replace the ordinary answer for that round. Starlight Walk's final kiss records 5 NPC intimacy experience.

Dates

Date Requirements / restaurant start time Cost Base affection Best choice bonuses
Farmers Market Date Friend; 10 AM–2 PM in practice 90 minutes, $50, 20 energy 5 Flirty +5 → Funny +5
Boardwalk Sunset Date Close Friend; Diane's boardwalk built; paid version and supporter access; 5–8 PM 60 minutes, $50, 30 energy 10 Sweet +5 → Sweet or Flirty +5 → Sweet or Flirty +5
Both dates start from the restaurant, and each completes once in total. The market action is configured to begin at 9 AM, but Martha and the restaurant become available at 10 AM, which is the practical start. The boardwalk date's daily limit does not make it repeatable after completion.

Apartment Visit: Ordinary Paths

At Romantic, travel to the Downtown Apartment Complex between 10 PM and midnight and select Knock on Martha's Door. This remote action works after her restaurant shift and costs 180 minutes and 40 energy, with three uses per day. It is a repeatable branching conversation, separate from the restaurant's Private Evening video.
The opening routes are ordinary, Intelligence 35, Charm 35, or Seduction. The conversation jumps between the numbered rounds below; a single visit does not play all 25 rounds.
Round Best ordinary answer / position choice Base points Next Player Erotic XP
1 Take in the moment 10 Round 4 0
2 Suggest she take the night off from cooking 15 Round 6 0
3 Tell her the chef whites were pretty great too 10 Round 6 0
4 The only thing I want is right here 15 Round 6 0
5 Keep the momentum going 15 Round 7 0
6 Kiss her 15 Round 9 0
7 Take her hand and lead her to the bed 20 Round 9 0
9 Take the lead 15 Round 10 0
9 Let her ride 15 Round 11 0
9 Turn her around 15 Round 14 0
10 Tell her she is perfection 15 Round 16 0
11 Hold her hips and match her rhythm 15 Round 16 0
12 Start with a generous serving 20 Round 13 0
13 Return the favor 20 Round 15 0
14 Keep the heat on high 15 Round 16 0
15 Ask what she wants next 20 Round 17 0
16 Tell her it was the best meal of your life 15 End 25
17 Promise her next time you bring the whipped cream 25 End 50


At round 9, Take the lead, Let her ride and Turn her around lead to Missionary, Cowgirl and Doggie branches. Each ordinary choice gives 15 base points. The ordinary endings award 25 player Erotic Experience at round 16, or 50 at the special-course ending, round 17.

Apartment Visit: Special Answers

Round Requirement Special answer Base points Next Player Erotic XP
1 Intelligence 35 Compliment her place 15 Round 2 0
1 Charm 35 Tell her she looks incredible 15 Round 3 0
1 Seduction Pull her close without a word 20 Round 5 0
2 Intimate Communication Tell her you want to be her best ingredient 40 Round 7 0
3 Charm 45 Tell her you want to devour every course 25 Round 7 0
3 1 Perfume consumed Give her the perfume 40 Round 7 0
5 Charm 50 Whisper that tonight she is the meal 30 Round 9 0
6 Pleasure Arts Show her what you can do with your hands 30 Round 9 25
7 player Erotic Experience 1200 Show her the full tasting menu 50 Round 12 0
9 Sensual Mastery Time to make dessert 40 Round 12 25
10 Stamina 40 Pick up the pace 25 Round 16 25
11 Strength 35 Flip the script and take over 25 Round 16 25
12 Creativity 40 Turn her into a masterpiece 35 Round 13 50
13 Pleasure Arts Show her your own technique 35 Round 15 50
14 Stamina 45 Give her the full service 30 Round 16 30
15 Charm 50 Tell her the main course is next 35 Round 17 50


The Perfume answer consumes one Perfume and is available on the Charm opening path, not as a separate restaurant gift button. The 1,200 player Erotic Experience option in round 7 and Sensual Mastery option in round 9 both open the longer special-course branch. Creativity 40, Pleasure Arts and Charm 50 improve its later rewards.
For a clear route to the special-course ending: choose the Intelligence 35 opening, use Intimate Communication at round 2, then the 1,200 player Erotic Experience answer at round 7. Alternatively, reach round 9 by any ordinary path and use Sensual Mastery there. Continue through rounds 12 → 13 → 15 → 17, choosing available special answers for their extra points and player experience.
NPC intimacy experience is separate: the ordinary kiss records 5, Missionary/Cowgirl/Doggie branches 25, and the special-course ending 40. Conversation points are processed through the shared relationship calculation at completion; the numbers here are base choices, not a fixed final affection total.

Optional Family Continuation

To unlock Martha's deliberate family branch, enable unlocked pregnancy content, complete Akira's Pregnancy Protocol, reach 2,000 affection and 500 NPC intimacy experience with Martha, and finish both The Competition and Master Chef. She cannot already be pregnant, recovering from delivery or have a child with the player.
At the opening of an eligible apartment visit, choose Ask Martha if she wants to have a child with you. Complete that dedicated branch. Ordinary intimate endings do not substitute for this choice. The branch records 40 NPC intimacy experience, awards 50 player Erotic Experience, and has two final 25-base-point choices.
Return to the Downtown Restaurant while Martha is present for the three one-time automatic milestones:
Milestone Availability Base affection
Without Garnish Reveal event from pregnancy age 11 days 5
The Kitchen Can Wait Age 31 days or later, and at least the day after the reveal 7
One More Place After 30 days in the final stage, and at least the day after the final visit 10
Minimum progression is 61 days, with later completion of required visits delaying progression. Recovery lasts 8 days. During visible pregnancy, Beach Day, Starlight Walk, both dates, Master Chef, Private Evening and ordinary apartment visits are blocked. Talk, Culinary Creativity and the ordinary culinary automatic scenes remain safe.
Check In takes 30 minutes, grants 5 direct affection and is available once per day during pregnancy and recovery. After recovery it becomes Family Check In. A pending eligible lifecycle scene can launch during check-in; required milestones still need completion.

If Progress Stalls

  • Her restaurant portrait and the restaurant itself use 10 AM–10 PM. The market date cannot actually begin at its configured 9 AM opening.
  • H2Hs start at the restaurant, while the apartment action starts at the Downtown Apartment Complex, 10 PM–midnight.
  • Master Chef needs Romantic and Cooking 60, plus its substantial resource costs. Cook Food is a different lesson.
  • Private Evening needs 1,000 affection, the paid version and 8–10 PM, not Intimate or an apartment-visit flag.
  • Apartment special answers need their named stats, skills or Perfume; missing one still leaves ordinary paths available.
  • The optional family branch requires both The Competition and Master Chef, plus 2,000 affection, 500 NPC intimacy experience, the enabled content and Akira's protocol. Player Erotic Experience does not replace NPC intimacy experience.

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