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Year's End Contest - Return of the Choose Your Own Prompt Contest

Deadline: January 3, 2020 at 11:59 P.M. eastern time.

Entry Fee: 100 Points

Minimum entries required: Five valid entries or contest is moot.

Basic Rewards: 25 Points (entry fee returned + 25 points) for successfully submitting a story that achieves a minimum of 4.00/8.00 rating.

Additional Rewards: 100 Points for 1st Place; 50 Points for 2nd Place; 25 Points for 3rd Place

Restrictions: No co-authors. No recycled stories.

Format:

CYOA Fake News Requirement: Post a thread in the Writing Workshop and update twice a week on your progress.

Note: The entry fee is high to discourage people from taking prompts they don't intend to finish. Don't be an ass. If you take a prompt, finish it. Because someone else may very well have wanted that prompt.

Instructions: A) Choose a prompt. B) To claim a prompt, reply with the number you wish to select and the description of the prompt. C) Edit lock your selection so you cannot change it. D) Someone important will (probably) confirm your prompt within 24 hours. E) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHECK TO SEE IF SOMEONE TOOK THE PROMPT YOU WANT FIRST.

Prompts: *** Prompts are binding as far as the plain language suggests. Beyond that, author creativity reigns.

1) Tell us a tale of a knight, a dragon, and a princess. Cupcakitty DONE

2) An aspiring medical student travels to a foreign land to study at a renowned hospital. The plague draws near. Kar BANNED AND SHAMED

3) A story set on a tidally locked planet. FistedDave BANNED AND SHAMED

4) Sharpen your ax, it's 793 - and the first of a steady stream of Viking raids are about to hit the British isles. Dezzo SHAMED

5) A better story about snow. Digit SHAMED

6) A story of a lunatic empress... with a fondness for horses. roffdoff SHAMED

7) Create a fantasy or science fiction world from scratch. The story must include a map of the relevant locality. Mara DONE

8) This story has an original and sensible magic system, built from the ground up. The plot is up to you. Shadow DONE

9) A romantic winter horror genre splice. Chef DONE

10) The younger son of a minor noble rallies coin and followers for his venture. His goal? Flee the kingdom and construct a castle on the shores of the mineral rich unclaimed frozen wastes in the far north. Derp DONE

11) This tribal community lived a rather simple existence with the occasional war and the odd bit of cannibalism - but everything changed when the strangely dressed gods arrived in their wooden turtles from across the sea.

12) The protagonist is an anti-villain. Everything else is up to you. Corgi DONE

13) A dwarf takes a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel. What happens next? BryceTheJew SHAMED

14) The mad scientist has just created a new ... animal? species? creature? race? Whatever it is, she has an army of them, and things aren't ever going to be the same. Patandjenfan33333 BANNED AND SHAMED

15) Breathe fresh live into the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Fluxion DOUBLE SHAMED

16) For your services to the crown, the king has granted you valuable lands near an important crossroads in a recently conquered territory. Now, it's time to retire and fulfill your dream of operating a renowned brewery and tavern ... but it may be wise to keep your sword-arm ready. Ogre DONE

17) History abridged: The protagonist is Attila the Hun.

18) History abridged: The protagonist is Cleopatra VII.

19) The protagonist is a goat farmer. The plot, genre, and time period are up to you. Mizal DONE

20) A cuckolded baron plots revenge against the local duke for impregnating his wife. enterpride DONE

21) They say the roads aren't safe for a young woman traveling alone. But that's never stopped you before. Wildblue DONE

22) A story set in ancient Mesopotamia. Maz DOUBLE SHAMED

23) A story that revolves around a mystery or a series of puzzles and riddles. Pugpup SHAMED

24) The supervolcano beneath Yellowstone exploded three years ago, and the earth has begun to slip into a new ice age. You really wish you didn't live in Siberia. Technology may be contemporary or futuristic. Ford (Chanbot) DONE

25) You're a pilgrim traveling to a holy site. To fund your travels, you tell short stories that the audience can influence. The setting may be historical or fantastical. Camelon DONE

26) The plot revolves around a graveyard tryst. Bilbo DOUBLE SHAMED

27) You live in a world overrun by monsters. Good thing you're a trained monster slayer. Chris SHAMED

28) Create a children's fable. Ninja DONE

29) The protagonist is a talking bear. Lopz66 DONE

30) For the bold - a story that will make Mizal cry. VainCorsair SHAMED

31) Diversity option: show them how it's really done. Victim SHAMED

32) EndMaster's box of horrors. Beg for EndMaster to give you a prompt. Canary DONE

33) CYOA winter-themed ballad. Serpent (Micropen) DONE

34) Frontier Contest throwback. TheDeadKin DONE

35) Chaos Contest throwback. Coins (Spartacus) DONE

19) The protagonist is a goat farmer. The plot, genre, and time period are up to you.


I can work with this.

I love the floppy-eared Anglo-Nubian goats.

7 I WANT 7 NO ONE WILL STEAL 7 FROM ME

Affirmed.

12) The protagonist is an anti-villain. Everything else is up to you. 

I love anti villains.

Confirmed.

34) Frontier Contest throwback.

Affirmed.

That’s the spirit. Confirmed.

9) A romantic winter horror genre splice.

I like this prompt a lot.  Let's do it.

Ah, yes, I need to lock this.

Affirmed.

Does "no recycled stories" mean that you can't use one that was already published? Or that you have to start a new one now? I have a big game I am working on and it might fit one of the themes so I was wondering if I could pick that and use the game. I am not opposed to starting a new game from scratch if that is what we are supposed to be doing.

I will go with that, thank you Chris.

What he said.

12) The protagonist is an anti-villain. everything else is up to you.

Claiming the role regardless, but is my understanding correct that this is a Villian because he has evil goals, while his methods are generally good. Like I want to take over the city for my own dievious purposes so I am going to systematically take out all the other criminals and appear like a "hero" despite my intentions.

I am choosing this to challenge myself.

Lmao! I scrolled through and didn't even see that one... rip... I'll pick a different one

I'll do 8) a unique magic system that is well explained

Okay read everything again and 8) for sure was not picked. 

Confirmed.

He must not love God ... It’s in all caps, so it means any god too.

I can incorporate demons in my story to play along with my new persona...

I do apologize though, I was skimming the thread on my phone while my family was watching the lions lose. I completely missed that one post. I only saw like Mizal, Chris, and Mara had entered.

Seems youre already challenged enough, Shadow 

I'll take number ten, please.

Yes. 10 is the choice I choose.

Granted.

Goddamnit Bucky, your post is all fucked up when going in to update it. Now I have to completely manually edit the whole thing so it isn't a mess.

Fuck your contest, fuck your timing with these contests and most importantly fuck you.

I did the first bit of cleaning it up. I was about to cross out the ones taken and write the names next to them, but if you want to do that and keep track of the entry fees, go ahead.

You have far more faith in people following a complicated instruction like that than me.

Weird. I just typed the prompts normally and copy pasted the instructions from the last prompt contest from two years ago.

When did he start using that? He was the first person to tell me it sucked back in the day.

I've always used the RTE on the forums. It's just easier.

I turn it off for story writing and then just turn it back on after publishing it.

I've explained this like a billion times.

Ah, I didn’t know you turned it back on for the forums.

Well, with one billion and one, I’ll remember now.

Noted.

5

 A better story about snow.

Locked

I expect great things.

What do the following mean?

A better story about snow

Frontier Contest throwback/ Chaos Contest throwback (basically just write a story with the rules of that contest?)

Diversity option: show them how it's really done

1) You need to learn CYS history. Find our resident penguin for ye old lore.
2) Yes.
3) Protagonist can’t be a straight white dude or dudette. Unless you’re playing the brother/sister incest card.

3) Jar of piss has to be one of the 17 gender options

29) The protagonist is a talking bear.
 

I'm assuming it's fine to go into negative points temporarily?

That's what I'm doing. I only have 77 points.

 

Look up "Sir Bearington."

Sure, you probably owe EndMaster extra requirements though.

So I am supposed to fake a development thread twice a week? What is the point of fake a development thread about a game nobody give a shit about?  Should be better than i pass that time writing the game?

It’s a joke. Technically it’s a “requirement” because it keeps people focused on their story and allows for community engagement. But we’ve never enforced it. End just claims the souls at the deadline.

She's upset at having to spend thirty seconds twice a week updating a thread. That's an entire minute that could otherwise go into writing the game.

Taking 22, 'cause I want to learn stuff about mesopotamia. I don't promise it'll be historically accurate, though. 
if not available anymore I take the 4

You get 22.

thanks!

16) For your services to the crown, the king has granted you valuable lands near an important crossroads in a recently conquered territory. Now, it's time to retire and fulfill your dream of operating a renowned brewery and tavern ... but it may be wise to keep your sword-arm ready.

I think I can work with that one...

Confirmed.

Sign me up for 16

Already taken

Fuck you Ogre, I will take 2 

You get Prompt 2.

Dammit, why didn't you take this 5 minutes ago? I've been waiting for someone to claim this one so that I could use that as my excuse for not writing!

It’s a prompt that suits you.

You have declared war, prepare for your death

The only death I see here is a suicide.

What was he banned for again?

He was thrice shamed, was bestowed a new account out of mercy, and got shammed again.

I'll take prompt 20. The hateful cuckolded baron seems an interesting premise.

And I guess this will edit lock it? Good luck with the writing everyone.

Affirmed.

Give me 33

Noted.

Also let the record show I was forced into this.

Could I please get "(15) Breathe fresh life into the tale of Little Red Riding Hood?"

Done.

You know what. Give me 32! 

Great, the biggest degenerate participating in the contest picked 32.

I need a prompt, though!

Now of course what would be amusing is to pick something difficult to write or better yet, give you the prompt like a week before the deadline.

However, none of that will be happening, but I'll PM something soon.

I'll look forward to it!

It'll be the first story game I ever write, so fingers crossed! 
 

Part of the fun of that prompt is the possibility you just refuse to give one at all.

I claim 25. :)

Should be interesting...

Affirmed.

Mizal has mentioned that she'll be taking care of the points business of the contest. I'll just be crossing off what's been taken and putting the names by the prompt.

And of course I'll be SHAMING the losers as usual.

The pit is practically a time honored tradition here now. Ah, the changing of the guard.

Lopz66 has #29 - talking bear.

This is a minor point, but I think it's worth noting. For those of you who take the time to get rid of those stupid double spaces between paragraphs in your story (easiest way I know of is to have RTE off when copy pasting your stories into the editor), I'll consider that a marginal improvement over a story of comparable quality that has those goofy wide spaces.

I think most people will agree that the single spacing is much more aesthetically pleasing and easier to read.

I can't I have no pc only a phone. And I don't think logic that the fact of having a pc that allows a better spacing is a reason to give a better score.

If you're typing directly into the editor, you can avoid those goofy spaces by having the RTE turned off. And yes, you can turn the RTE off while on mobile.

What is rte?

It's the Rich Text Editor. You can turn it on/off by going to: My Stuff -> Profile -> and toggling the RTE Box under Preferences.

Hmm, even turning it off doesn't seem to get rid of the spaces when I paste it in.

You pasting from Word? I'd advise turning off smart quotations (or whatever the bent ones are called) as I recall having trouble with that.

However, for spaces, I find that I am losing space rather than gaining it, in regards to the paragraph breaks, so it might not be Word...

If RTE is off and you’re still having issues, don’t stress about it. Your time is better spent on the quality of the story itself. I really don’t have any idea what the issue might be, but I assume it has to be a setting from your writing software. Maybe Mizal or Brad or Ford could help.

The game was rigged from the start.

Also, contest entrants may want to keep this in mind - Learning!

21

Your wish has been granted.

30) For the bold - a story that will make Mizal cry.

Hint: You probably want to go with laughter tears.

I pity you, you poor fool .

Easier Mizal than me or End.

So what would happen to the contestant failed to make Mizal cry, would they get shamed or what not?

Well, I plan on asking Mizal if the story makes her cry or not. In the highly unlikely situation that it does, the story will get a huge boost on my rating card because it will have succeeded in making the desired impact on it's (very narrow) audience.

But so long as it goes along the lines of scoring emotional points or so funny you want to cry - it will hinge on how entertaining the story is and how well it's written.

I don't think anyone has ever set out a rubric for judging criteria here - my position has always been fiction writing is too subjective for a set-in-stone rubric. Each judge - and I don't know who will be judging yet - will make their decision based on what's most important, and how they weigh different aspects of the story, to them. That's a good representation of how a general audience will judge stories.

I agree with you on that. And is true most with each person a different theme.

What I'm hearing is Puns are a must, and it must be inferred that someone's mom is getting it. That is if this poor slob has any hope of making Mizal cry.

Kar, I guess you should've gone for that prompt yourself, you're getting pretty close to making me cry already today.

He didn't pull a wibbins ... did he?

No, different kind of retard entirely.

@Ozoni really should just suck it up and write a storygame. Imagine willfully remaining in a state where your only option is to show up shivering on Ford's doorstep to beg to be let in.

Even I wouldn't stoop so low 

What the hell. Since the talking bear one is taken, I'll try 23) A story that revolves around a mystery or a series of puzzles and riddles.

You got it, dude.

I'd like 1) Tell us a tale of a knight, a dragon, and a princess.

 

Locked.

Confirmed.

Well, thank goodness that I have time to write this. I'm starting now, Trx for letting me come in the contest Bucky.:)

Before you get carried away, can you tell us what prompt you've picked?

 Number 23(involved around a series of puzzles and riddles and mystery):)

Taken

Fine, then 26 please.:|

23 is already claimed.

You should take the Little Red Riding Hood one, seems age appropriate.

Ha, Ha-_-

No

Then 14

I said 23 was claimed. 26 is fine. Do you want that one or 14?

And do you know what a tryst is?

14 and yes I do.

14 it is. Locked.

I'm halfway done with my book but I want people to see it now and tell me what I should change about it. :|

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-night-of-terror~2e

Well, you already published it, so I guess that's your entry. It also appears to have pages without text or links, so the evil Mizal will eventually get around to unpublishing it for failure to meet minimum site standards.

So what to do? I suppose you can unpublish the story yourself before Mizal gets around to it. Then we can pretend this never happened, and you can spend the rest of the contest period working on the story to make it complete and submit a valid entry. Or I imagine you could just throw in the towel now. I really hope you chose the first option though.

I also strongly encourage you to take a look at some of the featured stories on the site, spend some time in the Writing Workshop, and read the writing articles in the Help & Info section. You have a great opportunity to learn a lot about writing - seize it. A good story can't really be written in a day. Writing is a process, and it takes time.

Best of luck.

Trx!:)

Done:|

poison_mara kind of gave me a rating but it was ummm...

You can set stories to "sneak peek" which doesn't publish them, but allows others to see them. Or create a thread for your story in the Writing Workshop and you can talk about it/ask questions/get feedback there.

Thanks.

Why did you say 'Done', as if you had followed his advice instead of sitting there for twenty minutes repeatedly rating your own broken game?

As far as I'm concerned you've already disqualified yourself. I guess good thing you also proved you'd never have been able to meet minimum standards anyway, if you want to look on the bright side....

It's Bucky's contest however so if he wants to keep you in it to see what you do next out of morbid curiosity or whatever, that's his call. But it's looking less and less likely you'll be able to hang onto your account that long either way.

Let him be now, I am sure I won't be the last. Also, lHe can learn humility and not rush into stuff like rate himself with several spams accounts. To not deal with the fact that has screwed it up.  Then complain others have giving the score that piece deserves

I think patandjen is a girl.

It's an Alex of the Alexander variety. Don't be fooled by the avatar and username, that's just the YouTubers it's obsessed with.

In a few years and a snip-snip, I sense it'll be Alex of the Alexandria variety.

I laughed

Same.

Ditto

That is a lot of eights for a very not eight story ...

Well, I was actually wondering if you would overrule me with your wizard powers. Just for the record, I would have been fine with that. But I've gotten soft in my old age, and I think the contests are a great way to really help people find ways to improve their craft. This is an opportunity to learn! Or something ... So I'm fine with giving a kid a second chance to prove us wrong. (Yes - us. My hopes are high, but my expectations do not fly as well.)

Should I go with the classic 'lol, fag' here, or the trending 'ok boomer?'

So many questions.

Well, I don't really see Greta from Sweden as a "hero" per se - so I'm probably trending toward boomer.

She is our queen 

yaaaas slay kween

nevermind

Take the diversity prompt like your college trained you.

Can I lock number 3?

Sure.

Okay I lock number 3!

I really enjoy how the Writing Workshop has gone from being hooked up on life support for weeks to 22 new threads in the last two days....

Including mine which someone should definitely read and give feedback on

 

I claim 35. Chaos Contest throwback. 

Dragon dildos made me do it. 

Locked.

Hey, Im new on here. Im buds with @Davefaster, he showed me this sight. Im not the best writer but I was wanting to do #13 on the contest, the one about the Dwarf taking a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel..

FistedDave is your friend? Lol

Anyway, locked in.

Yeah, he is lmao. But yeah, im new here, so its gonna take me a second to get used to everything.

Maybe it's not the best idea to enter a contest as soon as you join the site?

Too late.

Yeah I know. This'll probably be funny, what with all of the noobs joining this contest.

He's got this. He will be guided and prompted by me. He will probably have, at least a 10k story written

Alright sure. Whatever you say. I'll look forward to it.

He might've written other things before, and he seems relatively normal.

Of course if he's just going to do what Dave says, well

uh

should be interesting.

This looks like fun. I'll put my current WIP on hold and claim #28: Create a children's fable.

Locked.

Well Bucky's contest is off to a great start, already one banned contestant. So much for entry 14.

STOP>_<! you deleted all of my story games. I'm just 10!:(

I'm sorry that happened to you, but try backing them up on your desk top. Just copy and paste in Word or something.

EDIT

Also, word of advice: since you're ten, you may not have experienced the gritty, awe inspiring, hilarious, troll festering toxicity that is the world of internet forums, despite your Gen Z pedigree. Especially forums like this one, which are kind of a throwback to the golden age of internet trolling (sometime around when you were born). As such, whatever you do, don't annoy people who have, for example, the power to delete your stuff. And definitely don't go telling people you're ten, because that already offends some people (not to mention, your age is probably a violation of the terms of service, since usually people have to be 13 to participate in internet forums).

Just be cool, go along with the flow, do not under any circumstances allow yourself to be sucked into the vortex of a flame war or argument. Just keep writing, and when you comment on the forums, don't stir any shit or allow anyone to bait you. Take criticism with a smile rather than offense, and stay low (and again, back your stuff up).

/free advice

He's already been banned at least three times, and hasn't shown himself capable of taking advice like 'just stop posting' so you're really wasting your breath here.

Ah. I don't envy you moderators. Hopefully the kid gets it this time.

I'm always amused by pleas of "I'm just a kid or I'm only x age!" when I'm banning younger noob fucktards.

It's like they actually believe that's going to stop me.

Especially when 100% of the time that's the reason you're banning them in the first place.

The only ten year old that never caused any problems around here is @StoryTurtle, and that's because she barely ever posts. I mean, presumably because her parents are forcing her to do calculus and practice the violin during the eight hours a day she's not making jeans for Walmart, but still, I wish more of them would do this.

@Mizal @Bucky

When I get my points back for entering my story I want to give 90 to @Ozoni.

I have a question because I think that we don't recover the fee If we don't reach 4/8 as score.  I would love have my fee back just for present a game. Because I won't get a 4.

You might not just lose your points; End might give you special tasks.

Old requirement was minimum site standards, which was just a 3.00/8. We have also established a 4.00/8 can be approached or surpassed in a matter of hours with the right scheme. So it’s time to start expecting better.

Well, I suppose is fair, for a native maybe is easy to have a  four. But well, I should have read the fact I would not recover my points just for presenting.

This is very wholesome and normally I'd agree to this, BUT, you went into debt for the entry fee and taking 90 points would put you right back in the negatives. You can only take out loans for entering contests, any side agreements you have to have the points to pay for yourself. Best get to rating games.

e: Sometimes you are allowed to make bets with other contestants. I'm not sure if we're letting that happen here, but I suppose if End and Bucky are fine with it, those of you (and there are many) who went into the hole because of a lack of 100 measly points could be allowed to bet up to 25 against each other. You'll be getting a bonus of at least that much just for entering something eligible.

I don't think its necessary here. It fit the theme of the Chaos Contest, but I think it's too much unnecessary work to keep track of the bets and figure out who loses and gets what.

But hey, you're doing the point stuff this time, so if you like self-inflicted torture ...

I can't believe no one likes Vikings.

@Pirate - Hey, you, get in here. Pirates are close enough to Vikings. Come write about them and earn your place in Folkvangr.

Wow, when you think about it, it's true. Anyway thanks but I'm currently working on my WIP and probably won't write another one in a such a short notice.

And what's Folkvangr? Is it a Viking thing?

It's one of the "good" Norse afterlives. The honored dead of Freya.

Oh okay, that's a cool fact. At least I've heard of Freja before. Thanks, Bucky.

Vikings are lame now. They're almost completely ruined by historians intent on making them woke, when they're not being co-opted by literal Nazis.

They helped move shipbuilding and navigating the sea further along. Also they were awesome warriors and their stories/myths are quite cool. They helped connect different cultures by trading too and I guess raiding.

That's why you're doing the Viking prompt right?

I'm not, I like the Viking age around 865 ad. The great heathen army was where it was at, along with Ragnars sons.

I like how you think

*bows*

4.) 793 Viking raids on British soil?

Sign me up please.

Requesting for post the deletion of my post for numerous reasons if possible.

I don’t understand that last bit, but you’re locked in for prompt 4. Good luck.

Can't wait to have a stroke reading whatever you might put out

So much entry 3.

Hell, if this keeps up, maybe I won't have to read any of these stories!

Dave got banned too? 

How are these people getting themselves banned so quickly?

They are retarded and going against Endmaster, or being annoying in general

Son of a gun, I was trying to coach him up into a better class of CYStian! What did he do this time? He was supposed to have Endeavor level protection.

"He was supposed to have Endeavor level protection."

Well that was one of his problems right there.

I saw the WW thread. Yeah, he was just begging for you to swing the hammer. That was also really rude of him.

I imagine these questions will come up at some point, so I'll head it off now.

Yes, you can have proofreaders and beta testers. They are encouraged.

No, you cannot co-author your proofreaders or beta testers.

Good thing we have you.

Yeah, the problem is to find them. they don't grow on trees sadly.

Just post a recruitment forum in the Lounge. We usually have at least a few people that are willing to proofread for anyone, just to be helpful.

6) A story of a lunatic empress... with a fondness for horses.

*hits the neigh neigh*

Is there also an excellent horselike lady?

For your inspiration, you are now coauthor

We'll just go ahead and call that a DQ. End will be pleased. One less story to read.

Not sure what you did, but good job Cricket.

I was just about to link the screenshot!
You're welcome. Happy to be of service.

Pretty sure he's an alt anyway.

He's not an alt. Make him write the story.

Oh, he entered the contest, by all means take his points. And he still owes a story to avoid SHAME. He just isn't eligible to win now.

Ecks dee

So really it changes nothing.

Anything but my 27 points!

Yo I was kidding

Doesn't look like it.

Cricket if he is annoying to you or something you could punish him proofreading my game. I can't find a proofreader, not in cog and not here. So i totally accept slave labor

I'll save Cricket the reply and proofread your game

notice the above capitalization of your name as my humble apology

I believe you'd be better off flying solo than with roff. But I put a thread up in the Lounge, Mara. I'm sure a few competent people will be willing to help.

Guess what, you were right. Lol.

Looking forward to the chicken's storygame.

Anyone who wants or will need a beta tester/proofreader - we have some volunteers here.

26) The plot revolves around a graveyard tryst.

damn why am I doing this damn I don't have time damn I need something to motivate me or I don't write...

Locked

I'll motivate you.  Go, Bilbo, go, write, damn you!

How's that?

My God! You're right! I've never been more inspired!

You used to be Mizal's pick for up and coming CYS star before you disappeared.

Look, sometimes you decide to avoid humanity for a few months so you hike 500 miles with no internet. It's not my fault Mizal doesn't understand this:p 

This is me encouraging you.  Whip crack, chair, bared teeth. 

Or motivating you.  Either way.

Nooo... I can feel myself being banished back to writing my storygame... Curse you and your encouragement!

Also I can write, but I'm pretty bad at writing branching stories. I can improvise a story in seconds but when I have to pin it down to three or four choices I struggle. 

Fuck got my timezones wrong:/ Well, it is finished so I'll post it anyway...

https://chooseyourstory.com/story/i-went-to-the-graveyard

I would join and take prompt 31 (diversity option) if I’m allowed to continue a story I started a long time ago and haven’t worked on since. I believe it has about 1,500 words right now.

Negative.

Oh well.

I RECOMMEND YOU READING THE INSTRUCTIONS AS IT IS ACTUALLY FORBIDDEN CONTINUE OLD STORIES. So you are disqualified before being accepted that is a new record

I read the rules. I was hoping that Bucky would be so desperate to get rid of the last few prompts that he would make an exception. Please don’t make assumptions.

I mean... you could have made a new game and copied the 1,000 words over. It had to be, what, 3-4 pages max? Not that I condone breaking the rules, but seems like a silly thing to make a big deal about. If you are starting now, you are 12,000 words behind where my game is at even with those 1,000 words. Some people are procrastinating; however, you are in a similar position compared to proactive people. I know Camelon is at like 25,000+ words, for example.

I didn’t want to circumvent the rules, and I didn’t plan on placing highly. I just wanted to motivate myself to finish a story.

I have faith in you

 

32k so far, but I'm not where I want to be. Lost too much of my writing time over the last week. I'm hoping I have a couple endings done by mid-morning tomorrow, otherwise this could end up as just another embarassing fiasco.

You are amazing, I am only at 20,000 because I am trying to write slowly but more grammatically correct so I am using twice the time in writing a page compared with other contests (basically I did the same word account now in 20 days that in the last in10) Hopefully, It will be far easier to read and enough to get a 4.

You're in.

Can I get confirmation from Bucky?

Endmaster outranks Bucky.

You're in the contest, it's too late to back out.

I mean he can use the old story, but he'd be automatically DQed for it. He'd just be avoiding SHAME with it.

The intelligent thing for him to have done, would have been to not even mention the old story and joined the contest. Not like we would have known.

I would think that the create date would give it away. Do I at least get the 25 points for submitting a story?

No, you have to reach a 4/8 score for that. You should have read the rules

I already knew that. End made it sound like I would only be avoiding SHAME if I submit a story since I’ve been disqualified. I want to clarify whether I would also receive the 25 points for submitting a qualifying story even if it’s disqualified from winning.

Mizal's doing the points this year. That's up to her, I doubt it though.

You’re only disqualified if you use that story.

Ah okay. I guess I’ll start a completely new story then.

I just said that fucktard. Pay attention you illiterate faggot.

I am an EndMaster fan 

You're damn right. I'm watching you, smh

I thought this would go without saying, but I was wrong. Please post a link to your submitted entry here when you are done. (Good job Pitka.)

I will end this tomorrow as I only have two endings left. My question is if I make it public before the contest deadline can I unpublished in the case of a proofreader send me more corrections before the deadline?

Just don't publish and post until the deadline. You don't get anything for publishing early, so take your time.

Once it’s published, that’s the entry. So I would put sneak peak mode on for proofreading beforehand.

28,000 words and done. However, I will wait for any possible proofreading change to publish it.

I could probably proofread this more, but I will not have much time tonight and tomorrow. Here is my entry!

Merlin: Origins

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/coelum

done kinda

http://chooseyourstory.com/Story/Honor_Among_Thieves.aspx


I forgot about this and wound up having to write the last few endings on my phone. But we're at my grandparents so I won't have any more chance to work on it.

I wanted it to be longer, I had to remove a choice in the beginning that would have been it's own path. But I think it's still okay, let me know what you think!

My game is published but I don't know how to put the link here . Can you put it here for me please.

Planet Mopper

I did very little writing over the Christmas break, so the story will be drastically shortened from what I had originally planned. It'll still have the main puzzle (and probably not much else), but I hope that puzzle alone is good enough to make it an entertaining read.

Here's my entry:

The Essucian Dragon

This might turn into a series. No promises there.

edited out stupid question.

But how do we mock it then?

It's Ford, you can always mock him.

"Methink’st [thou question] is a general offence and every man should beat thee.” - Shakespeare

No pit of shame for me: The Drunk Explorer Inn

Disney+ and Thrust 

Done!  I'll keep my participation record (and shame) clean, thank you very much.

My entry:

The Book of Vanishing Tales

All endings in place, this time. :)

Finished my entry here.

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-northern-settlement

Here's my entry.
http://chooseyourstory.com/story/a-treatise-on-heartly-manners

Centenarian

I did my best for my first story ever. Hopefully it's not total ass! 

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/vampy

Better than the actual story I had written

I give up. Should have known better than to enter a contest so close to the deadline.

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/ballad-of-the-dragon-slayer

 

Fml

https://chooseyourstory.com/story/officer-dick-gristle-

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-brave-polar-bears

THAT'S TIME AND EVERYONE ELSE IS SHAMED!

Sooo I'm a dumbass who got my timezones mixed up. I'm assuming I'm still out? It is finished I just thought I had an hour longer to edit:/

Alright. That sucks, but the timezone was posted there so I get it either way. 

I did the same thing last contest. Thought I had two hours left. I was warned just in time to publish it, but I didn't have all my endings done. I still need to go back and finish it, hah, I just got a bit burnt out putting so much work into it only to fail right at the finish line.

Hopefully, my current contest entry makes up for that rookie mistake.
 

This is what I would have said, but End already ruthlessly tossed Bilbo into the pit. It’s getting full though, so maybe she can stack the bodies in a pile and climb out.

@Endmaster

If I add a branch in my no-longer-contest storygame that features the character climbing over bodies to get out of pit of shame while a dark  figure looks on in contempt  would  that be a sufficient offering for me to escape the shame?

Might as well give the game some purpose.

Yeah, yeah, I'm a fool and an unoriginal one:p I should have at the very least fucked up in an interesting way. 

Next time I'll print it out then say "Oh you wanted it digitally?" like my roommate did throughout college.

Did that actually work?

Yeah, pretty sure that excuse worked on at least five different occasions. 

Jesus I read the deadline as the sixth for some reason. I’ll finish my story anyway, but I suppose I’ll get comfortable in the Pit of Double Shame.

Just for the record, I am very disappointed in Dave. Even after being banned, he promised to finish his story. In all his glory, End even agreed that Dave could come back on a permanent basis (until he started being annoying again), provided that he come back with a very specific account name.

However, Dave has failed to uphold his end of the bargain, and he wasted a good prompt.

Also, since the @TheCanary has unpublished his story, he is ineligible to win.

Canary never published his, apparently he ran afoul of the 48 hour wait like a base noob.

Well, sad for him, but same result.

I actually never said that, I said Dave could come back, I didn't say for how long.

Honestly, I just wanted to see if he'd actually change his name to FistedDave so I could mock him for being so pathetic and then ban him again.

I didn't read the fine print clearly. But it's okay, I just wanted the story. Of course, Dave didn't even manage that in the end.

Three stories left, and I'll be done. For possibly the first time ever, I may be the first judge to finish, well, judging.

And I'll say, from what I've read so far, there have been two stories that have blown me away. One story that didn't quite reach that level, but was a far cry ahead of the rest of the pack. And a number of shorter stories that had flaws but were nevertheless generally entertaining and amusing. Then we have those who pooped on the keyboard to avoid SHAME.

I'm looking especially hard at you, Corgi. You should take some lessons from Mizal on how to be a bum but still come off as more than a breast obsessed mongrel. She truly is a master of the deadline dance. Oh, and I haven't forgotten about you either, Coins. Golf clap for Ford for surprising everyone with actual effort.

Here's my results, all of it is in order:

1. Camelon - 7
2. enterpride - 6
3. Shadowdrake - 5
4. DerPrussen - 5
5. Mara - 5

Cupcakitty - 4
ninjapitka - 4
TheChef - 4
lopz66 - 4
Wildblue - 4
Ogre - 4
TheDeadKin - 3
m[I]zal - 3
Coins - 2

Haven't read anything yet, and probably won't get around to it for awhile.

Here.

lopz66 - 6

Coins - 2

[M]izal - 4

enterpride - 7

DerPrussen - 6

Camelon - 6

TheChef - 4

Ogre - 5

Mara - 6

Cupcakitty - 3

Shadowdrake - 6

Wildblue - 7

TheDeadKin - 2

ninjapitka - 6

Contest picks:

1. Enterpride

2. Wildblue

3. Derp

4. Shadow

5. Mara

Oh, you even share your individual story ratings now.

I think I did on another contest, I'd have to check though.

Yeah, I think you did that in the CoG/CYS contest.

Top five stories for me, in order.
1. Enterpride
2. Camelon
3. Shadowdrake
4. Ninjapitka
5. DerPrussen

Five was close between Derp and Wildblue, as I had issues with both stories but still liked them better than the others. In the end, Derp won out because I was more interested in the world he had.
Cupcakitty's story had some issues with format, and Mara's story had some with grammar. Those made things hard enough to read that it prevented both of them from making top five.
The main character of Lopz's polar bear story got on my nerves too much, and there were some places where I think the author forgot that he was physically a bear.
Chef's story did not make me laugh, and the action didn't interest me. Sorry. Maybe you just caught me in a bad mood, but I was bored.
TheDeadKin...that was a fucking pain in the ass to read those text walls, and I got a lot of formulaic or repeated pages in exchange.

I’ll post a results thread later tonight.