Write or be SHAMED!!! *Any resemblance to real life persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidential.

It's about a time in the life of a knight named Sir Osis. There's a pony too

Winner of Sir Corgi's Lords of the Land contest.  Originally published April 14, 2019, but briefly unpublished for edits to the font and description.

This story is "Cave of Time" style. So just make use of that back button if you would like to see another path.  Please let me know what you thought of the story after you read it.  I appreciate comments.

Special thanks to Ghost11 for the motivation, suggestion, and inspiration for one of the endings.  

 

Poor Clam. This is probably what started his fixation on chocolate foods. I'll sign.

Any initialism can be an acronym if you try hard enough. Also congratulations.

And compared to a few months ago, you're pretty much a professional chef now. This was meant to be in the OP, because of its intense wholesomeness, but I messed up. So I'll just put it here.

One of our dear members is learning how to cook. He's much better than he used to be. But it's a process. One that is very much ongoing. So if you guys can help by sharing any tips, recipes, or instructions, that would be great. It's best if they're detailed. Really detailed. Like, "how much pink there should be when you stir the hamburger" or "what kind of oil to saute food in" detailed.

Done.

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Good for stories that lean more gamelike and have clear lose endings and multiple ways to "win." Terrible 97% of other cases. If there's no way to really lose in a Game Over way, the stats usually feel tacked on and pointless. If there aren't a lot of ways to NOT get a Game Over losing end (and the Game Over losing ends are not just as entertaining as a winning end), then it makes trying to find the other branches annoying because you can't just hit the back button every time you finish a path in order to work through them all, so everything becomes about trying to get the stats just right instead of enjoying the game, win or lose.

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Up where I am we don't have armadillos or possoms, but we have raccoons, fox, badger, skunks, bobcat, timber wolves, coyote, cottontail rabbits, jackrabbits, woodchuck, mink, gophers, muskrats, beaver, deer, mountain lions, chipmunks, squirrels, and such in the region (eastern North Dakota to west-central Minnesota.) Up in Northern Minnesota there were black bear that got into our garbage a lot too, but they're a lot rarer as you get out of the north woods. A stray moose might come around too. But no hedgehogs. );