Some stories have a message...kinda...

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WARNING! (The real one)

This story is pretty offensive, it can get graphic and downright ruthless at times so if you don’t like that sort of humor, don’t read this story. But if you read it anyway don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway, get offended and leave a hilariously triggered comment, that's fine too.)

Also, don't bother trying to "win" either. You can't. Just heed the moral lessons you may learn.

One musician's tale in a dying world

Additional Notes:

If you’ve read and liked Necromancer, then this might interest you as this story takes place during the same course of events of that story. (Not a prequel, not a sequel, but an equal!)

However, this story is definitely more “story” than “game”. In fact you shouldn’t even bother reading it if you’re intent on “winning”. You can’t. That being said, there is a “true ending” to this story and you’ll probably know if you get it. If you do get it, you can consider it a “win” if you like.

There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to “Letters to Home”. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide a little more insight into the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings on various situations.

The last hope for a dying empire

Additional notes:

This story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 13 epilogues total.

There are also several points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people, places, things and events. While not completely necessary to understanding the story, they do give you more insight into it.

Carnivals aren't all fun and games.

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While there is only one spot that contains extra histories for this story, it's basically the background information of all the major characters and factions. It's strongly recommended that these are read due to the fact that your character will be interacting with most of these folks in his attempts to successfully accomplish his task(s).

This story has a very factional feel to it, so choose your allegiances carefully to get one of the better endings.

If you see a bright light, duck and cover!

Additional notes:

I should point out that this story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story if you're lucky. You will also experience a completely different adventure depending on how you escaped the initial nuclear strike. (Assuming you do survive it.)

As with any of my writings, the "story" comes before the "game". However, this story was written in a "game like" format. So while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 4 special endings. (You'll know if you get one because you'll get an epilogue)

This one's for the kids, no really!

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This story has clear cut win/lose endings. There is nothing excessively unusual about this story, it's just a simple "children's story".

(Yes, you can still die in it)

Running the family business isn't easy!

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In a few places there are links for history or certain characters. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide further background information.

There are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad or neutral outcomes. Technically there is one very happy ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Underneath the sickness there's love...

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WARNING!

This story contains a lot of graphic content, if you are offended by ultra violence, explicit sexual descriptions, tons of swearing, blasphemy, inappropriate dark humor, and brutal misanthropy in general then DO NOT read this story!

Of course now that I’ve mentioned all the things it contains, you’ll probably read it anyway, you sick little monkey.

Well don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway knowing it'll offend you and leave an amusingly triggered comment. That's fine too.)

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a very twisted man and his very twisted lifestyle.

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This story is definitely more "story" than "game", however there are two distinct paths that can be followed, each with their own pitfalls and additional choices. There is also "one true" ending in which can be considered a "win" (You'll know if you got it, because you'll get an epilogue)

This story can get long, and assuming you're surviving, years do pass in it and you and your environment will change. There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people and things. While not completely necessary to understand the story, they do give you more insight into it. The text that accompanies some of the pics are also done for similar purposes (Your journal entries, personal thoughts, letters written to you, etc)

Humanity never changes...

Additional Notes:

There are links leading to various background information and your character's current thoughts throughout the story. In some cases these may provide greater insight since some mysterious things can occur in this story.

There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. Technically there is one ultimate "winning" ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Emotions can be wonderful or dangerous...

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This story has a few bits that are probably a bit on the disturbing side. Not many, but they are there in places. So if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it.

This story in general is probably a bit odd and less verbose than most of my other stories. There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just the tale of a teenager who definitely has some issues.

From humble beginning to infamy and beyond!

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a "sequel" to Innkeeper.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 12 epilogues.

Things would be so much easier if your name was Mary Sue

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as:

A direct sequel to the "Good Girl" short story in Tales From The Basement.

A semi sequel to the other TFTB short stories, Repression, TRASH, Love SICK and Geek.

A semi prequel to Ground Zero.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can still "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 16 epilogues total.

Because Basement Dwellers are people too!

Additional Notes:

This story is three stories in one. Your first choice will lead to a separate tale of a different “basement dweller”. Each one is mostly different in tone.

Ebay Escapist is weird and random. It’s the least verbose of the three. (Or my stories in general)

Good Girl is the longest and most descriptive of the three. There is some weirdness going on here too, but is mostly kept much more in "reality". There is a cast of characters link in the beginning to help you keep up with who’s who.

Anime Addict has a lot of offensive language and humor, so if you don't like that sort of thing you shouldn’t read this one.

In all the tales there are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, these are basically just tales of basement dwellers.

It's an edgelord boogaloo!

Additional Notes:

This story is three stories in one where it follows a different protagonist based on the first choice.

This story is also probably really offensive or something. Probably shouldn't read it if that's not your thing, but feel free to do so anyway and complain loudly in the comments since those are always good for a laugh.

Anyway, there's your extra warning. You can't say you weren't told.

Incel Insanity and Whining Wokie are all new tales, while Film Fanatic is a "reboot" of sorts of an older story called Exploitation Theater. Yes, it's finally here and been greatly expanded on.

As always the story is always more important than the game focus, but also as always, you definitely can get better endings than others.

Three ladies. Three legends.

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a connection to Rogues, Eternal and Necromancer.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However there is an epilogue for each "winning" ending.

Yee Haw! It's a trailer park life for me!

Additional Notes:

This story has a ton of offensive langauge and humor so if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it. Though given the setting, the language used is pretty accurate.

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a typical day of a degenerate that lives in a trailer park.

Should be available now.

Yeah hold on.

Necroing for great nostalgia.

Locked

Good Boy (The Movie)

First off the basic premise is a horror movie from the point of view of a dog. Yep, that’s the gimmick for this one.

Now what this movie does is several ideas and none of them are exactly new, but it’s probably new in that they shoved all the ideas together.

So let’s the POV thing out of the way first. Horror movies in recent years have been messing about with this lately. In a Violent Nature (Reviewed earlier in this thread!) had the whole POV from the actual slasher chopping up folks. That one did it pretty well for what they were going for. (Basically an artfag Jason film) Apparently there was another horror movie from the ghost’s perspective, I didn’t see that one though so dunno if sucked or not.

So why not a movie with Dog’s POV right? Well, it has been done before and I’m not just talking about some Benji movie (Does anyone remember Benji?) I mean it’s actually been done in horror before. There’s a horror anthology series called VHS and in one of those horror shorts, the camcorder was literally hooked up to a dog, so you were getting all the “found footage” from the dog’s POV as it ran about.

This movie actually doesn’t do that. Which may or may not be a cheat depending on your strict adherence to POV. Personally I feel the movie still qualifies because the camera still for the most part always follows the dog or is shot from the perspective of what the dog would be looking at. In only one major instance does it deviate from this since it focuses on the dog’s owner for a long while near the end before the dog shows up again. (Even in In a Violent Nature deviated from the gimmick towards the end)

New or not, it’s rare enough in a horror movie that I didn’t mind watching it for the gimmick.

Okay so next thing, is it real or is it just all symbolistic faggotry?

Well there’s a shitload of horror movies that do the whole “This monster is just metaphor for X and there actually was nothing supernatural at all!” This movie does something very similar. And while you could watch it and believe something supernatural is going on, even before midway through you’re sort of getting impression that this is one of those symbolic movies. Two that immediately come to mind are Babadook (Because that’s one of the more popular ones of that type) and Him (Since I saw that recently)

So what’s the symbolism? Well I’ll just spoil the whole thing.

The dog’s owner has cancer, like the type you don’t get better from. Even the beginning of movie starts out with him in a comatose state, bleeding from the nose and his sister finding him before calling for an ambulance.

The owner ends up going to his grandfather’s old home in the woods to rest up, because he doesn’t want to spend more time in the hospital resting up. Of course the dog (Or Indy as he’s called) is with him and being a dog he’s interpreting things in his dog like way.

Now you could believe the dog is seeing ghosts, but what this probably is, is Indy interpreting things based on his sniffing. For example there’s a bit where Indy sees the grandfather’s dog and follows him to a location. What’s really happening though is Indy is just catching the scent of the old dog and where he wandered.

They try to mix things up and have you guessing due to the sister occasionally calling the owner and going on about grandpa’s house being haunted since she’s superstitious (Indy’s owner isn’t though). The grandfather died (also implied to be cancer) in the house with a dog which they never found (Turns out the dog was in a separate part of the cellar long dead). There’s times where Indy is physically grabbed by an entity of some sort. He even winds up locked in the basement and the owner doesn’t know how he got there when he’s looking for him.

Well it could be a ghost, however the explanation is simpler. It’s all Indy’s owner doing this shit due to his brain cancer fucking him up. All throughout the movie he’s getting worse to the point where he’s doing shit like banging his head on a door repeatedly and isn’t even aware he’s doing it until Indy nips at him to stop. Indy is just interpreting his owner as a monster because he’s acting in a hostile way when he’s grabbing him roughly or something similar.

So how’s it all end? Well the dog’s owner dies and this is the only bit where you could say some supernatural stuff for certain is happening, though even then it could be explained away as more symbolism. (And probably is)

Indy’s owner wakes up and he’s calling for him and then while the camera is focused solely on him and his actions for awhile, he sees himself in his bed, bleeding from the nose dead. All of this causes him to freak out, Indy pops up again and the entity shows up to grab the owner and drags him down into the basement and then into a dark cave in there. Indy actually runs after his owner through the separate cellar door outside and drags him back out of the cave only for the entity to pop up again.

The entity disappears and it’s just the owner covered in the same black goo as the entity. The owner tells Indy that he’s a good dog, but he can’t be saved and needs to stay. Owner gets dragged back into the cave.

Later the sister shows up at the house and opens up the cellar door outside and you can tell she’s already upset from her voice. She sees the grandfather's dog’s corpse thinking it’s Indy at first but then she see Indy and calls for him to come out.

Indy looks back at the dark cave a few times, and then leaves the cellar (Go into the light boy!)

Credits roll with Indy in the car with his head hanging out the window.

THE END

(So no the dog didn’t die which I’m sure would be a relief to most except Petros)

That actually wasn’t quite the end of the movie though, after the very short credits, the director of the movie pops up with Indy (Which is his dog in real life) and says as a thank you for seeing the movie in the theater there’s a short bit of how they made the movie to make it look like Indy was more expressive than he actually was and how they got him to do certain things. Things like trick of the camera angles, the lighting, how long it took, etc.

“The key thing to keep in mind, is Indy has no idea he’s actually in a movie.”

It was sort of a neat thing to have as an extra that you’d normally only see on a Bluray/DVD.

So yeah I guess you could say I liked it well enough that I didn’t mind seeing it. I wasn’t even disappointed. Though one might wonder why I tolerated this more than say Him or Babadook, both of which I didn’t like.

Well I suppose you could say I cared more about the dog and I don’t care about whining children, hysterical women or black people. (Not necessarily in that order)

Also because I watched this movie which is from a dog’s point of view, I am now a fearsome Pomeranian because apparently that’s just how it works now. Of course the title was “Good Boy” so I’m still a male dog and not a bitch so it’s okay.

Stargirl and Wildblue made me laugh. Keep up the good work.

"Better to burn a thousand innocents than to let one heretic go free."

Has never read the Bible.

Well now I'm thinking of an old 90s song called "What if God was one of us?" And mentally replacing that line with "What if God said Lol, fag?"