Advice 1: go to guard room and talk to npcs there, they explain game system in detail.
Advice 2: Join official discord server, people there are really helpful, fast to respond, and happy to help new players, with useful advices, instead of giving them 2 random ones before the one that actually answers their question (most of the time XD ).
Advice 3: pleasure gain negated by endurance stat:
- You want Karryn to take more pleasure damage lower her endurance (equip -endurance items or fight and run to increase fatugue, which lowers all her stats).
- You want less pleasure damage equip +endurance items.