4/1/2023

11/28/2025 5:02 PM

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1 win / 2 losses

Architect

“This is the ending all stories must eventually reach:
silence around an empty stage.”

—Unknown

Lazarus Cage

They want to keep you bound in the dark, but you won't let them. You will get out, fight and flee, fail and die, then try again and again...

Nautilus

Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.

After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?

Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.

Thanks, I'm glad I managed to properly convey the intended messages and that it resonated with at least some people. Also as a small blink-and-you-miss-it thing: Jack's not actually 19, he just says he is to avoid the risk of being sent back home. It doesn't change much if anything about the core story, but I figured it's better to point it out since it is one of those details put in to serve the theme itself.

Congratulations to RK. I might've been beaten, but I do feel at least a bit better after predicting the outcome. I'm still fairly satisfied with what I turned in compared to last time, but anything that's not a first draft put together last minute would accomplish that. And good job to Avo for exceeding expectations. If you keep practicing and taking feedback into account it only gets better from here believe me.

I mean (hopefully) nobody will be mad for getting a bonus gift. The one you get assigned is a requirement, but it's not against the rules to do something extra for someone you really like.

Twine is a different engine for making CYOA games that's a fair bit more advanced than the CYS editor and mostly used for commercial projects.

Can't promise my gift will be high or even medium effort, but I'd hate to miss out again this year so sign me up.

Then I volunteer myself. It should annoy at least one person in that situation.

How about we instead give them to the winner if that happens? Just a thought

What is this nonsense? I always assumed CYStia is a righteus meritocracy. I will not sacrifice my hard earned points to make some good-for-nothing's feel better about their laziness.

Hello there, hope you'll have fun during your stay here.

If being older (which by the way late 20s is not old or even older you self proclaimed zoomer) was the problem half of us would've been put to the sword centuries ago. This is just RK looking out for an actual 12 year old. A bigger problem than your alleged age is something you should have been aware of even before you made this thread, and that's that this is not the time (5 minutes after creating your account) and less importantly place (a forum for readers and writers of primarily interactive fiction) for doing it. If you're looking specifically for a place to find some roleplaying buddies shoving yourself into a DND community or something similar would've been a better and less insensitive choice. Meanwhile if you actually wanted to become part of this community, though why anyone would want to do that is beyond me, doing things like actually reading storygames, participating in existing events like many various contests or smaller things done by other longstanding members, or just writing something yourself since you technically started on that anyway would've been a better idea. Setting up camp in the Lounge with a thread about roleplay is something that could get a pass from a noob showing some interest in the actual purpose of the site (Hi Avo, how you doing these days?). Not doing so makes you virtually indistinguishable from a bot, or an alt of someone who for whatever reason has nothing better to do than be a recurring annoyance. Your intentions might be pure, and even if you happen to have poor social skills if you're at an age where you got bills to pay you should know better.