Do you know what happens to knights who dare oppose me? They’re soundly beaten, torn to shreds, reduced to mere ashes, utterly and completely obliterated. No one can defeat the great and mighty (and—dare I say—quite handsome) Knarr'ator. I’m the best, most awesomest dragon there ever is, was, and will be. And yet here you stand, just a character in my story, challenging me like the fool you are. If you think you stand a chance against me, you’ve got another think coming.

But by all means, go ahead and try.

It seems you’ve found yourself within
The troublesome affair
Of trekking through the timberland
To slay the dragon there.

They claim it a ferocious fiend;
However will you fare?

My entry for the December 2016 Ballad Contest.

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French dragons.

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Image by Acrid.

Dvořák? Check.

Dragon? ...Check.

Kobold? Chick.

Also make sure it’s under 100 kB (or 97 to be safe). If it’s over you might have to resize or compress further.

First things first, turn off the Rich Text Editor. It’s in your profile options. It might look simpler without it, but you actually get a lot more freedom this way.

You’ll be able to enter these characters with what’re known as HTML entities (e.g. ä for ä). Here is the list of the entities you would need:

Ä ä ← Ä ä
Ö ö ← Ö ö
Ü ü ← Ü ü
ß ← ß

Edit: This will not work in the story title field, though. Looks like you have already, but you will have to make do with ae, oe, ue, and ss there.

Autoplay is always disabled on mobile, so that could be the issue for some people. It might also be a regional thing; YouTube can restrict videos from embedding or playing altogether based on criteria like that.

It's %ARROWS := %ARROWS – 1

It's using an en dash instead of a hyphen. It should be %ARROWS := %ARROWS - 1

You can comment after finding your way to an end game link. If you’ve already played it you’ll have to go through it again. The comment page is after the rating page.

Unfortunately, there are no loops in CYS Script. Every object would have to be made scrappable with some degree of manuality.

You could do something like that with some division in the comparison.

IF %HPVARIABLE < (%HPMAXIMUM / 2) THEN ...

Although now this has me thinking about how it would be neat (though niche) if you could access a variable's min, max, and start values through scripting.

Currently, the "Last Post" column cuts off the post title if it's over 20 characters long. Not a huge deal, especially on the subforum pages, but I propose that the link be given a title attribute with the whole title. That way, by hovering over it, users on the main forum hub can always view the full title of a subforum's latest post.

Oh, no, I mean the maximum of the five current stat values. If the stats are currently 3, 1, 2, 5, and 4, then the max would be 5. Nothing to do with the potential maximum.

Yeah, AND doesn't work with inequalities unfortunately. But you could calculate the maximum value and then check for which variable(s) equal(s) that maximum. It's possible some or all of them could be equal so you might need to tweak the stat order for tiebreaking.

%MAX := %STRENGTH
IF %SPEED > %MAX THEN %MAX := %SPEED
IF %ACCURACY > %MAX THEN %MAX := %ACCURACY
IF %INTELLIGENCE > %MAX THEN %MAX := %INTELLIGENCE
IF %STEALTH > %MAX THEN %MAX := %STEALTH

IF %STRENGTH = %MAX THEN # Strength is highest
ELSE IF %SPEED = %MAX THEN # Speed is highest
ELSE IF %ACCURACY = %MAX THEN # Accuracy is highest
ELSE IF %INTELLIGENCE = %MAX THEN # Intelligence is highest
ELSE # Stealth is highest