And deal with level gap of losing to a low-level enemy by having mechanics that scale according to player level. Would still need to make instant loss stuff fair somehow but I’m not a developer so whatever

I think that there’s a really obvious solution in a roguelike with quick and easy resets. Allows you to build enough momentum that it feels humiliating to lose and lets you actually play the game with defeat being an inevitable outcome

What you want is an inescapable bad end but that kind of conflicts with actually progressing, especially when you want to see all of the fun bad ends. Also fun when hard earned progress is undone by a low-level enemy or trap but more in theory than reality

It was put there when Lebanne was convinced she was still a boy that didn’t want to be a maid, but after years of disuse, she’s begrudgingly accepted her place beneath Jacinthe’s heel.

Expert adventurer auto-equipped with skimpy cursed clothes. Hacker brain drained by a simple spiral in the system she’s cracking. Invulnerable hero turned into a mindless bimbo by a low-rank villain.

is it better to tell her and crush her pride, or to let her think she's won so it's even more pathetic when she eventually loses again...

As time goes on, the memories of being anything but furniture fades from her mind. Workplace morale has skyrocketed thanks to all of her hard work. And her coworkers report that she's much happier now than when she was pretending to be human.

She obediently follows her giggling tormentors as they strip her down and buckle a cowbell collar around her throat. A tag stapled into her ear marks her as office property. Finally she takes her new post, tied up by the water cooler: milk dispenser and relief station.

As she spirals, her curse grows worse. Her horns grow higher on her head, and her tail begins to swish unconsciously. A pressure builds in her breasts as they, and her gut, spill out of her dress shirt. It becomes hard to fight back when she can't work up anything more than a docile moo.

She tries to keep her head up and avoid conflict, but their provocations escalate. They fawn over her like an office pet, petting her and feeling her up. She wants so badly to tell them off but the pleasure from the objectification is frying her now-pliable mind.

Manipulating a girl’s life in the slightest ways, slowly isolating her from finding comfort in anything but me until her mental state can be described as “panel 1 of an instant loss 2koma”