BEFORE YOU START…- In your subject line, please indicate your character’s name, fandom, and gender preferences!
- DO NOT LEAVE YOUR COMMENT EMPTY. Empty comments will be deleted. What do you need to put in your comment?
- i. Which setting you want to play.
- ii. Whether or not you want to play with cheat codes on (see below)
- iii. Some kind of yes/no permissions or kink list.
Please feel free to use the following code in your post to help with this, or feel free to make your own:
HOW TO PLAY…
- Tag into each other’s posts. The person creating the original post defaults to protagonist unless stated otherwise! Feel free to be creative with the opening scenarios and cast list: these are suggestions to help you, not a set of commandments from on high. Note: By default, you will start at the beginning. If you and your partner are both up for it, you can always choose the LOAD option and pick up mid-game or at the end from your last save point.
- The goal of a dating sim is to get to that very sexy, sexy end. However it’s not a guarantee, and as an homage to the genre, we’ve tried to keep in line with that! Every few posts, the person playing the cast member should create a “flag post.” This is a tag which seems normal but at the end gives the protagonist a list of two to four choices to pick from for reactions, making it an exciting, choose-your-own-adventure game that will advance or regress the relationship of the characters depending on the appropriateness of the action! So what happens when the protagonist picks an option?
- a. Pick the “good” answer: get a heart on the cast member’s meter! ❤( We recommend putting these in the cast member’s subject line to keep track of.)
- b. Pick the “neutral” answer: nothing happens.
- c. Pick the “bad” answer: Lose a heart, or enter the ☠zone, which is an awful lot like the friend zone, only less pleasant. (Again, we recommend copying this symbol in the cast member’s subject line.)
- After a “flag” post, it’s generally a good idea to wrap up the particular “scene” with another short tag or two and do a time skip to another interaction with the character for more realistic relationship development.
- If you hit 4 hearts, congratulations! You’ve maxed out the luuuv meter and you trigger the super sexy game content.
- But wait! What if I have multiple crossbones? Or I just can’t seem to get there? Or what if I just can’t be bothered to go through all that work for my smut?
CHEAT CODES
Everybody knows there’s always certain glitches or Easter eggs included in games that let you do things that the creators didn’t necessarily have (officially) planned. The Love Hotel’s Dating Sim is no different, and someone has been so kind as to leave you a list of possible codes. The following codes can be entered in at any time (with your partner’s permission) to trigger the following:
- ♋SMUTTALICIOUS♋: The simplest of the codes , this one just skips you straight to a sex scene.
- ♋SMUTTALICIOUS SQUARED♋: You thought four hearts was maxed out? Try sixteen. This code acts as a heavy aphro option, just in case you want your partner to be super head-over-heels for you.
- ♋NEVER SAY NEVER♋: Triggers a smut scene too but with the difference that this scene is one outside the cast member’s usual comfort zone! Ex: A stoic character brings you to a bed strewn with rose petals and candles. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not an excuse to do something outside your roleplay partner’s comfort zone. Please be open and honest and respectful of one another here!!
- ♋I HATE YOU BUT I LOVE YOU♋: This cheat code triggers both ‘dislike’ and a smut scene. Hatesex for the win!
- ♋IT’S COMPLICATED: Wrong answers earn you a skull and right answers earn you a heart, but they all stack together. Warning: May make for some very hot, but very confusing, sex.
♋FISH OUT OF WATER♋: Ever want to find out how a housewife of modern-day suburbia would take to being in a horror setting? The future? The wild west? For the lulz, lift your wooing partner out of their proper setting and into one of your choice.- ♋HARDER AND LONGER BABY!♋: For the more experienced gamer, start the game off with your character in the negative zone earning half the hearts for each correct answer.
- ♋DOUBLE OR NOTHING♋: For those experienced gamers who just can’t be satisfied by one partner, try for two!
- ♋CODENAME COCKBLOCK♋: Perhaps you’ve maxed out all those hearts, but for some reason you’d like the PG-13 ending instead. We can do that, too!
CREDITS & OTHER
- As always, be good to each other. Respect those kink lists and preferences!
- DO NOT LEAVE YOUR POST BLANK. Blank posts will be deleted. Please see “before you start” for advised content.
- Major thanks and credit for the original code and idea goes out to Neko at
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) superfluousaccount. Thank you for allowing us to adapt this into an open post at TLH for everyone to use. Without you this would not have happened. - Neko’s original code and ideas have been revamped by foundparadise and helperanon.This Open Post was designed for use at
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[It was time for summer vacation. At least, for everyone else it was. Ryou's parents had gone on an extended business trip overseas, and her friends were also off doing their own things out of town, so she was spending the summer alone. How tragic.]
[Instead of being cooped up in a big empty house, Ryou had decided to go outside today. It wasn't too hot or muggy outside, so she wanted to go to the park and read a little bit on her own.]
[However, on her way there, she saw the desperate looking man with a baby girl in his arms. She recognized the man as Atem, her next-door neighbor. Ryou approached him.]
>Are you all right? You look like something is troubling you.
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Phone in hand, and baby girl in the other arm, he was pacing outside. He'd almost been determined to go in with his daughter. He certainly wasn't about to leave her home. That was ludicrous! And he couldn't believe his higher ups would ask him to do something like that. She was barely a year old!
But a crying baby while he was interrogating someone? That just couldn't be done... He was out of options.
He looked up when he heard her, distress written all over him. He didn't really know her that well, but she lived next door. Close. She seemed pretty well put together. Her parents were good, from what he knew. A college kid? He wasn't sure. But desperate times...]
I'm in a situation. [Coming right out with it seemed like the better idea.] I need to go in to work on short notice, and I can't get anyone to watch my daughter.
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[Still, she wasn't the kind of person to just leave someone hanging. And leaving a baby home alone was never good either.]
I can watch her for a little while. I don't have any plans this afternoon anyway. Just tell me if there are things that she's allergic to or things she really doesn't like. Does she have a schedule or anything? [At least you're thorough, Ryou.] And probably emergency numbers, just in case. Or your work number, at least.
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She's not allergic to anything, as far as I know. And she has her own playroom right in the front area. [Children's tapes and cds. Colorful toys and books to be read to her. Atem was an attentive father, and very loving. Which would come across in the way that, though he was in a hurry, he was still reluctant to just hand his child over to her.
He looked a little saddened by the prospect, curving his arm up to give the girl a kiss to her forehead before coming closer to hand her over.] Let me get you my number. [He moved away to get a paper and pen to write down his office and cell phone number.]
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Oh, before I forget, what's her name? [Can't just be calling her 'the baby' all the time. She even smiles gently at the baby to show that she wasn't someone to be scared of.]
I'm Bakura Ryou, by the way.
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[He was just so very lucky that she'd been coming his way. But was this really all he could do? Thank her? Reaching into his pocket, he retrieved his wallet.] I shouldn't be gone too long, but let me pay you for your time in advance.
>No.
>Yes.
>Unsure...
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It's okay. You don't have to pay me. It's a one time deal, and you might be late for work if you stay around any longer. It's really okay. I don't mind. Yuiko-chan is safe with me.
♥
He smiled, wider than before.]
Thanks. I'll be home as soon as I can. [And with another small wave, he's off.]
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[NEXT SCENE]
[Ryou is sitting on Atem's front porch swing with the baby in her arms, both asleep. Yuiko might be in a different outfit than what she was wearing when she was left in Ryou's care, but the baby was okay and sleeping peacefully. It looked like she had had fun today.]
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He grimaced. Was he thinking about his late wife..? It was .... entirely too soon...
The happy thoughts disappeared and he stepped up to the porch.]
Sorry, for being late. It looks like you have a handle on things, though.
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W-we did have a small accident when I was feeding her formula. I hope you don't mind that I changed her clothes. [Ryou might also have a bit of spit-up and baby drool on her clothes though. Babies do have a tendency to do that, after all, and she was not prepared for it.] I... figured you might be mad if I took her home with me so that I could change shirts, so I've pretty much been here all day. I hope you don't mind.
[She gently hands the sleeping baby back over.] Yuiko-chan really is a treasure, though.
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She's wonderful. [Tone dropping to that warmth that would become common in use when regarding his daughter. She was his whole world. A few more rocks of his arms were given before he looked up at her.] ...you wouldn't accept my money, but maybe you'd like something to eat? I can't promise the best dinner you've ever had, but.. [It was something.]
>I'm not really hungry.
>I have to get home.
>Let me change and come back.
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[There always was the possibility of going back home, back to the empty house where she would just feel lonely for the rest of the night, eating TV dinners alone in the dark. Well, not really in the dark, but you get the idea.]
I-I really don't want to impose-![Of course, at the moment, her stomach starts growling. She might have taken good care of Yuiko-chan and her needs, but her own just kind of fell to the wayside in the process.]
[On second thought...]
...Give me five minutes to go home and change. Wait, no, three minutes! I-I can even help you with making dinner. [He did just get off from work, after all.]
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[No word on the help. Most likely because he'd need it and he knew it. He wasn't the best chef ever. Really simple meals were the only thing that came out of his kitchen.]
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[What do you wear to a dinner with your next door neighbor after you had just watched over his kid?]
[She decided to go the casual route and just wear a slightly over-sized t-shirt, like what she had been wearing before, minus the baby spit up and drool. This wasn't a formal dinner, after all. Just something between neighbors, right? No need to be fancy.]
[And then she was sprinting back downstairs, putting her shoes back on and racing out the door and back to Atem's place. She made good on her promise of three minutes. She was panting in his entryway.]
I... I'm back.
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You didn't have to rush. [Called from the kitchen as he pulled some random spices off the rack to season the meat. He'd put Yuiko in a bassinet, resting in the living room where he could see her.]
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Sorry. Just when I get excited, I tend to rush around. [A small pause.]
Do you need any help with anything? Washing or cutting vegetables, maybe?
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If you can cutting vegetables is fine. I'm just making stir-fry. [He's going to start slicing up the beef now.] What's your favorite dinner dish?
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[One quick wash of her hands and the vegetables later, and she was chopping and cutting away, almost as quick and proficiently as a professional chef.]
I don't have any particular favorites, but I do have a not-so-secret weak spot for sweet things and baked goods. I just can't help it, no matter how many times my mother says it'll rot my teeth.