College Love or Lust?

September 2021

You step off the train onto the raised platform overlooking your new college campus. The sun is bright, warming the otherwise cool morning air that you can breathe without a mask. You are about to step onto your campus for the first time as a Sophmore, along with who knows how many others, and you couldn't be happier for it. No more online classes, no more busywork to prove that you're still 'engaged' with the material. But a lot more figuring shit out.

For example, as you approach the end of the platform and look at the highly vertical campus before you, how are you supposed to find your dorm? You've heard rumors that this place was called "CSU StairMaster" by prior students, and now you believe it. The college is built like a vertical maze, webs of stairs running from lecture hall to lecture hall.

"Man, they weren't kidding," a female voice says, behind you. "Stairmaster it is."

"Yeah, seriously," you turn, and are greeted with yet another complication with learning in person.

The girl who is stepping up to the railing to stand next to you has her winged eyeliner and black lipstick on-point, and that is the least attractive thing about her. 5'2, with dark hair, dark eyes, and curves that stretch out the front of her striped fitted T-shirt and the back of her black form-fitting pants, she has an elaborate tattoo of what looks like a naked succubus curled around a rose on her exposed left arm. It almost looks like it's pole dancing. Your brain goes wild imagining the kind of girl who would choose to have something so suggestive inked into her body forever.

She notices you staring and raises an eyebrow. "My name is Emma."

Fuck. An entire year of getting acclimated to attractive coeds, lost. Never to be recovered. You default to the best possible response. "Ryan Brown."

She smiles faintly, "Do you know the way to the Dorms, Ryan Brown?"

All at once, you remember that it's in the opposite direction. The platform sits over a road with the campus ahead and the dorms behind.

But more importantly: she's messing with you. She's already marked you as someone she can twist around her finger. Drastic action may be needed to correct it.

Hello. This is your author speaking. There will be a lot of stuff in this CHYOA that only properly makes sense if you choose "start game." I've tried to make it so that all the choices loop back on each other frequently, but the 'scores' are what show the actual impact of your decisions. The core caveat here is the choice between (love) routes and (lust) routes for all love interests. See the info option for more details.