Hosting your own competition

One of the options as you scroll through them is to host your own competition!

You know that these competitions, at least the popular ones, can rake in a lot of money from entry fees and ticket prices. Sure, a lot of it has to go to the organizers, but such is life. Clicking on the option you are presented with a sizable sub-list of prizes, admission costs, rules, room locations and voting options. You want to draw a lot of people, so you decide to go with a beauty pageant/cosplay contest. In order to draw in the people, you set the grand prize at $10,000 and admission to $100. A notice nearby said that the winnings had to be drawn exclusively from ticket sales or a preexisting account. The largest room at the convention should hold nearly 300 spectators.

You scroll down to look at some more options and notice that there appears to be a cost associated with running this event. It appears to cost ten ♥'s, far too many for you right now, but is it a flat fee or does money just really up the cost? You erase and change some options and find that this does affect the cost, so you will just design your perfect event and then see if you can budget it down.

You still need to find a way to make sure the room is packed so you think about it for a while and enter various numbers into the other prize categories before you realize you can type anything into the slot. As a joke you type in that the second place prize will be becoming "John Doe's ****." A little green check mark signals that this is a valid "prize", and scrolling to the bottom you see that the cost has actually decreased by 3. Trying the same prize for number three just made the cost go up again. Racking your brain for useful prizes you realize there is an easy way to ensure the place is packed: for the third and fourth prizes you set it so that the "winners" get the privilege of servicing the entire audience. Five, Six, and Seven get petty cash prizes. This brings the price of the event down to five ♥'s: just inside your budget!

You finalize the event and continue scrolling through options until you see one to disable the birth control notice and reminders. A small tool-tip informs you that you should turn this off if low on ♥'s. You hesitate for a moment before disabling it. The thrill of the unknown is too much of an allure. You click "Confirm" and lean back in your chair. If all goes well you might not need to ever work again! Glancing over at your pass you see that all but one of the little heart icons has disappeared.

(I have Searcher0595's permission to duplicate his chapters here.)