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Summer

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Overview

Summer is the lifeguard and swim instructor at the Present Uptown Beach. Her route starts with ordinary conversation and a Swim lesson, then opens six automatic beach scenes, two heart-to-hearts, four optional dates and the repeatable paid Island Escape.

Quick Stats and Availability

Detail Value
Age / era / alignment 23 / Present / Neutral
Portrait Uptown Beach, 9 AM–5 PM every day
Favorite stats Strength 35; Stamina 45; Ability 35
Special relationship skill Endurance Training
Favorite gift Flowers
Personal route begins Story Beat 5 completed and Swim learned
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.
Breathing Techniques is the fixed direct reward marked below. Endurance Training is a relationship bonus skill, rather than a lesson taught by Summer's menu.

Ordinary Actions and Lessons

Action Requirement Cost Actual reward / limit
Talk to Summer Stranger 15 minutes 1 base; four daily
Swimming Lessons Acknowledged; Swim not already learned 180 minutes; $200; 60 Energy; 4 Calm Learn Swim and 10 base; once because the learned skill hides it
Breathing Techniques Known; Communication 40 30 minutes Stamina +1 and 10 direct affection; once
Give Flowers Known; one Flowers 10 minutes; consumes one Flowers 5 base at Known/Acquaintance, 8 from Friend; twice daily
The Swim lesson has no additional stat threshold or paid-version gate. Learning Swim elsewhere also hides it. Flower rewards rise to 8 at Friend, regardless of the menu's lower generic estimate.
  1. Visit 9 AM–5 PM, build Acknowledged and learn Swim. Take Breathing Techniques at Known with Communication 40.
  2. Continue the early main story through Beat 5, then revisit the beach with Swim to see Keeping Your Head Above Water.
  3. Follow the automatic scenes below as affection rises. Use Flowers from Known and Run the two heart-to-hearts when their stages are reached.
  4. Add optional dates for affection. Their gates differ: Win Her a Prize does not require Keeping Your Head Above Water.
  5. At Crush, Keeping Your Head Above Water unlocks Island Escape with paid access. Completing every later personal scene or either heart-to-heart is not required for that action.

Automatic Beach Route

All six scenes occur once, automatically at Uptown Beach, 9 AM–5 PM. Each after the first requires the preceding scene completed. They have no separately configured action cost. Totals include completion and the best dialogue reply.
Scene in order Gate Best reply Total base affection
Keeping Your Head Above Water Story Beat 5 completed; Swim learned Caring 8 +5 =13
Reading the Current Known; preceding scene completed Flirty 8 +5 =13
No Heroics Acquaintance; preceding scene completed Caring or Flirty 10 +5 =15
Beyond the Marker Friend; preceding scene completed Caring or Flirty 12 +5 =17
Old Timing Close Friend; preceding scene completed Caring 15 +6 =21
Clear Water Crush; preceding scene completed Caring or Flirty 20 +6 =26


Return to the beach after satisfying each gate. The two selectable heart-to-hearts supplement this chain; they are not listed as requirements for its later automatic scenes.
Main-story beach visits independently give Summer 10 base at Beat 2 and 5 at Beat 5. Beat 2 follows Beat 1; Beat 5 follows Beat 4. Both trigger at the beach 8 AM–6 PM, a wider window than her ordinary portrait. Their findings are not retold here.

Heart-to-Heart Answers

Both are one-time actions at Summer's beach portrait and require Keeping Your Head Above Water completed. Neither has a paid-version or higher-power requirement.
Conversation Stage Cost Maximum choice base
On Watch Known 45 minutes; 10 Energy 29
Island Swim Close Friend 75 minutes; 30 Energy 56
Island Swim does not explicitly require On Watch. Their menu gates already place them after the Swim-based route introduction.

On Watch

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 You make it look calm from the outside. 5
2 You notice people before they know they need help. 5
3 I like hearing what the work means to you. 6
4 You should not have to carry all of that alone. 6
5 I want to know the person doing the work. 7


Island Swim

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 If you are asking, I am coming with you. 9
2 I like being out here with only your voice to follow. 10
3 Then do not be ready. Just be here. 10
4 Then stop pretending. I am right here. 12
5 smile against her lips and stay there with her 15


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.
Maximum totals are 5 +5 +6 +6 +7 =29 for On Watch and 9 +10 +10 +12 +15 =56 for Island Swim. No extra completion base is configured. The player's Romantic skill adds a fixed 25 final affection after the normal calculation. Neither conversation configures NPC intimacy or player Erotic experience, including Island Swim's final kiss.

Optional Dates

All four dates are one-time content with no explicit paid-version or higher-power gate. They begin from Summer's beach portrait, so its 9 AM–5 PM availability narrows their action windows. They do not replace the personal route scenes.
Date Requirements Actual invitation window Cost Best base total
Zoo Date Acquaintance; Keeping Your Head Above Water completed 9 AM–4 PM 120 minutes; 50 Energy; $100 4 +4 +5 choices +5 completion =18
Farmers Market Date Friend; Keeping Your Head Above Water completed 9 AM–1 PM (action's window begins at 8 AM) 90 minutes; 30 Energy; $40 4 +4 +5 choices +5 completion =18
Picnic Date Close Friend; Keeping Your Head Above Water completed 11 AM–4 PM 120 minutes; 40 Energy; $30 4 +5 +5 choices +5 completion =19
Win Her a Prize Friend; own one Voucher; not pregnant noon–5 PM (action's window ends at 6 PM) 120 minutes; one Voucher 5 +5 +4 choices +5 completion =19
The voucher date has no extra configured money or Energy cost and is separate from an ordinary cash-paid fair date. Its final Funny and Flirty replies tie. These date rewards use the ordinary plot relationship calculation; no heart-to-heart Romantic completion bonus, NPC intimacy or player Erotic experience is configured.

Zoo Date Best Replies

Question Best reply(s) Base bonus
1 “I am trying to pick a direction, but casual Summer is very distracting.” 4
2 “That is why I listen when you teach me.” / “I like watching you talk about something you understand this deeply.” 4
3 “Then we will keep finding days where you get to breathe.” / “I like being the person you can relax with.” 5


Farmers Market Date Best Replies

Question Best reply(s) Base bonus
1 “I am happy taking it slow with you.” 4
2 “Peaches. You deserve at least one reckless thing today.” / “Whatever makes you smile like that again.” 4
3 “You are not standing alone. People notice what you do.” / “I notice. More than I probably manage to hide.” 5


Picnic Date Best Replies

Question Best reply(s) Base bonus
1 “I like that about you. You care before you even notice you are doing it.” / “For the record, you are doing fine on the romantic part.” 4
2 “Then let me give it back to you. You are allowed to rest.” / “I like this version of you too. Quiet, honest, sitting close.” 5
3 “You do not need rescuing. You just deserve someone beside you.” / “Beside you is exactly where I wanted to be.” 5


Win Her a Prize Best Replies

Question Best reply(s) Base bonus
1 “Stay close enough that I can distract those reflexes.” 5
2 “Call the current for me. We do this together.” 5
3 “The dolphin is taking over the next shift.” / “I will happily keep giving you that kind of attention.” 4


Island Escape

At Crush, with Keeping Your Head Above Water completed and paid access, choose Island Escape at Summer's ordinary beach portrait. It costs 120 minutes and 50 Energy, and can run once daily.
The handler awards 50 base affection and permanently adds 1 to maximum Energy on an eligible use. It increases the maximum, rather than refilling current Energy; no separate cumulative cap is configured in this handler. The video has no configured NPC intimacy or player Erotic experience reward.
Island Escape is separate from the one-time Island Swim heart-to-heart. Neither Island Swim nor Clear Water is checked as an extra prerequisite for the repeatable action.

Current Content and Troubleshooting

  • Summer is missing: her portrait runs 9 AM–5 PM, even though some story events use 8 AM–6 PM.
  • Swimming Lessons is gone: you already know Swim; the lesson hides once learned.
  • Keeping Your Head Above Water does not trigger: both Story Beat 5 and Swim are required, then a beach visit during 9 AM–5 PM.
  • A later beach scene is missing: check the preceding automatic scene and its listed relationship stage.
  • The market or voucher date disappears earlier than expected: the ordinary portrait ends at 5 PM and starts at 9 AM, narrowing the date's own window.
  • Island Escape is unavailable: check Crush, the introductory personal scene, paid access, resources and today's video allowance.
  • An island kiss did not increase a gallery counter: these authored heart-to-hearts have no NPC intimacy metadata. Summer currently has no affection-unlocked NPC intimacy gallery assets or worker recruitment route.

Credits and Current Scope

Verified against current Summer actions and handlers, scene/choice rewards, heart-to-hearts, date gates, video rewards and released early story requirements. Existing portrait and house style are preserved; story findings and scene outcomes are omitted.

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