A Trip Up North

Rob and Suzanne head north to join The Velvet Hand, a swingers' club with a reputation to match its name, and it turns out to be cover for an MI5 job infiltrating an arms dealer's operation. The mix of spycraft and swinging is played straight, no wink at the camera about how odd that pairing is.

The espionage angle gives the story an actual reason to move the couple through the club's social circles rather than just parking them there, and the mission hangs over the visits as a reason things escalate.

As the story unfolds you steer the couple's choices about who they pair off with, which shapes how the club scenes and the wider plot play out. It's the same branching-choice structure as the earlier chapters in the series, just relocated and with a job to do this time.