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Hi there.

I have written some time ago a CYOA story, and I want to move it from MS Word to this webpage. But the problem I have is that i don't know which category should I use.

The story happens in the present, but there are some scifi elements that most people in the world doesn't know it's existence. That scifi elements are very limited. There is action, i.e. combat scenes. There is a lot of Slice of Life elements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life), but not like school life or family life, just the events that happen to the protagonist/s.

Also, there are some mystery elements, such as events that the reader doesn't know the reason, at first sight, so he can investigate why that happens.

It has also horror, but not horror just like horror or terror movies, more like a sense of danger or unavoidable fatal disaster, rather than an assassin following the protagonist.

Any idea? Thanks.

Err, you're giving very vague descriptors. Can you elaborate on the Sci-Fi part?

Currently it sounds to me more of a Modern Adventure, but that could change mattering what the Sci-Fi direction is.

@Tanstaafl: I can't elaborate more about the sci-fi elements since they are unknown to the protagonist in the begining, and an important part of the mystery that the protagonist can investigate, and also tied to the horror elements So I can give specific details without spoiling the argument.

The only I can say is that the scifi elements are not related to technology like supercomputers, robots or spaceships. It's about the human nature.

Sorry I can't specify more.

I will set then Modern Adventure.

Thanks for your tip.

Uh, your welcome.

BUT, assuming it's some sort of virtual-world (I peeked at the 'Flow' story), I think it might fit in Sci-Fi adventure better. If it doesn't then, well, I think you're choice makes sense!

Glad to help.

Thanks.

But don't pay too much attention to that description, since I'm still trying to come with a good description that doesn't contain any spoiler.

Also, the description you read is far from being complete.

No idea haha

Everything else?

Hard to say without playing it, but I'm inclined to say even minor sci-fi elements justify categorizing it as such.

I set modern adventure, since it has also many elements from other genres.

Sounds like Modern would work.

Just another quick bit of advice. If you're directly copy/pasting stuff from Word on here, make sure you turn off the rich text editor or else you'll get some text weirdness on the page that you'll have to go back and correct.

Ok, thanks for the tip.

Hmm...you said slice of life. Is the social setting similar to what's actually going on right now? Is the sci-fi technology mentioned real? If those two answers are correct, I'd say modern adventure.

By the way, which yokai are your favorites?

Yes, it's the same social setting as the one where the player lives. Of course, with fictional characters, but they can be real anyway.

The sci-fi elements have nothing to be with technology or even with human evolution, but with human nature. In the real world (this is, outside the novel) there are people that trust in it, others don't, but nobody can demonstrate it's existence or non-existence. Like you can't demonstrate that God exists or not.

The protagonist/player has, initially, a very limited knowledge about this, but events happen in a way that he has a chance to investigate and follow clues to reach a deeper knowledge.

Also, there is a horror touch in what the protagonist can take decisions that will make him fear for his life, suffer nightmares, have dreadful visions...

Onibaba is my favorite one.

Sounds like cosmic horror, very light on the horror aspect, of course.

Onibaba? Ah, the demon witch. Feasts on human flesh and, in one really jacked up case, the blood of unborn children.

I would have to say that my favorite are, in no particular order:

• Tanuki
• Te-no-me
• Baka-Neko and Nekomata
• Kitsune (you know, expect for the part about them possessing women through their nipples)
• Shiri-Me (don't look up, unless you're over 18 and/or have a sufficient quantity of brain bleach)
• Okuri Inu

Not cosmic horror since the argument is not centered around the horror elements.

Basicaly, it is about the day-to-day life of the protagonist, who will have the chance investigate and discover about something that most people considers sci-fi, and tied to this sci-fi element there is associated a lot of mystery that the protagonist must solve if he wants to get deeper in the knowledge of the sci-fi element, but investigating and knowing more about that, can (and probably will) lead to horror and nightmare-ish situations.

This is basically the argument of the novel. Can you classify it?

Well, if the character discovers something about the universe that brings about an existential crisis, it's cosmic horror. It sounds like your story is going to be a little of that. If you don't know where it should go, just stick in it everything else and see what people say about it.