RPG Promotion Game

[The first map is finished, so feel free to start with the Tokyo map!

I've been busy and haven't been feeling up to writing lately. I'll be back to updating by next week at the latest, once I have some time off. I'm very sorry, everyone. I absolutely won't abandon this story, I swear!]

You are an utterly ordinary player of immersive RPGs, and you've just picked up a career-advancement game with a gazillion gorgeous male character portraits.

With nothing to lose, you click into this soul-crushing corporate-slave game.

From the start, you unlock [Tokyo Map: Red and Black Career Advancement]

On this map, you punch Gin and kick Gin.

You earn achievements for slapping Bourbon's butt, groping Scotland's chest, carrying Rye bridal-style, and successfully poisoning them, but those minor achievements are nothing worth mentioning.

The player who once ruled the world falls at the task of saving NPCs. Why are there plot deaths for two totally irrelevant police NPCs?!

After loading a save seven, eight, nine, ten times, you still can't do it. Where's your player pride?

You were the one who saved their lives, and they still suspect you of something. While you sulk and ignore them, you receive terrible news: those awful NPCs and the backup NPC coworker you called in are plotting together to bring down the Black Organization, the company you've been dreaming of getting promoted in?

So you decide to fake your death.

When the ending CG, "Sins Vanishing in the Flames," pops up, it finally dawns on you:

This isn't a career-advancement game! It's a simulator about how corporate bankruptcy drives workers to desperation!

[Bad Ending: Sins Vanishing in the Flames]

In your new run, you switch to a new map that looks nice and sunny: [Namimori Map: Flame-Fueled Career Advancement]

When the rabbit-eared boy (your future boss) is knocked to the ground and robbed by delinquents, you show off your skills and beat them up. Ah, you saw their health bars were low, so you finished them off on impulse.

The rabbit-eared boy faints in terror. Did you... scare him to death?

Damn it! How can the boss of a gang be so useless?

Wait, the map is crashing... You think I'm going to say that? This map's boss is a total glass cannon!

System notification: You have killed one future gang boss.

Map crash warning!!!

The player never thought the hardest part of a game would be getting into the main story, not leveling up. Why is this happening?

How can a game not even let the player enter the main story? Damn it!

So after the Sky Battle, the player runs off with the Varia▽

You used to ignore me, but now I'm out of your league. Hmph!

Even after changing jobs, you're still devoted to your BOSS (promotion). But while you were slacking off, the villains turned your beloved boss into rabbit jerky!

Furious, you storm the villains' lair alone, but just as you're near death, you get hit by a Ten-Year Bazooka. Staring at the rabbit boss from ten years ago, you suddenly understand:

The true meaning of this game is: never count on anyone else to get promoted!

For your third run, you choose [Yokohama Map: Ability-Fueled Career Advancement]

Now fully awakened, you turn completely evil. What plot? What NPC affection? Everything can get out of the way of your promotion!

You sweep through Yokohama like a gale:

Morning quest: Beat up the gravity manipulator, with one slug specimen as a bonus.

Noon activity: Outwit the overthinker and earn the title "Script Smasher."

Night dungeon: Push all your rival executives out of the running and unlock the exclusive skill "Workplace Bullying MAX."

When the System displays the ending [Happy Ending: Loyal Hound], you stare at the title "Port Mafia's Most Loyal Doorman" and fall into deep thought:

"I worked my ass off to get promoted, just to guard the door?!"

Disgusted by the title, you decide to pursue the highest honor in career advancement, the very end of the game...

"Huh? Why did my black suit jacket turn yellow?"

Fireworks burst from the System: [Congratulations on unlocking the hidden ending: Yokohama's Yellow Robe]

After countless trials and tribulations, you finally get promoted▽.

*Congratulations, player, on achieving the final ending [King of Yokohama: No One Can Stop Me]

*The heroine experiences these stories through a player's perspective, so she doesn't judge right and wrong, only what she likes.

*Written in third person.

*The third world will be a crossover.

At first, everyone will have one-sided crushes on her. The ending may branch, or depend on who she's most compatible with later on.

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After being goaded by a friend, Bafang Tian Lu'an boasts on the day he gets the game that he'll complete every route within a month.

He enters the game full of confidence.

Day One

Beaming with confidence: "Completing every route? Easy! I've got the stamina for it. Give me a month, no, two weeks!"

Day Three

Dark circles piling up, with more resentment than a ghost: "...No, is this game... a demon?!"

[A day in the player's life

Daytime: Get chased by demons in Heian-kyo and nearly become a sacrifice.

Noon: Hunt demons in the Sengoku era to gain experience and level up.

Evening: Lure man-eating demons out in the Taisho era and practice swordsmanship.

Early morning: In the modern world, one pen and one lamp make a miracle.

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The player's smile slowly disappears: "...Wait, why do I have to go to school and take exams when I'm playing a game?!"

And now some people want to drag the player into a dating sim, too.

Even if you're all handsome, don't take it too far! Player, don't become the first player to die from overwork, okay?

You're game planners sent to drain the last bit of energy from the player and keep them from finishing the game, aren't you? You absolutely are!

Day N:

Friend: "Hahaha, what happened to finishing every route in two weeks?"

Player: "...I can keep going. Just... let me beat that damn math exam first."

The player lets out a loud sob.

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Theme: Find your own path.