Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator

Member Since

5/5/2011

Last Activity

7/18/2025 6:46 PM

EXP Points

6,691

Post Count

23604

Storygame Count

11

Duel Stats

3 wins / 13 losses

Order

Lauded Sage Exemplar

Commendations

934
Behold my profile.
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this. (she drew my avatar you know!)

Trophies Earned

Earning 100 Points Earning 500 Points Earning 1,000 Points Earning 2,000 Points Earning 5,000 Points Thorough and consistent writing workshop contributions / excellent commenting. Having 1 Storygame(s) Featured Posting 23599 Forum Posts Given by BerkaZerka on 11/10/2017 - Forum and Site Contributions Not Unnoticed Given by EndMaster on 11/30/2017 - It's everything you've always wanted! Given by Gower on 03/24/2021 - "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything.  I just want to write." - P.G. Wodehouse Given by JJJ-thebanisher on 08/14/2019 - For excellent writing, keeping the site together and generally being an excellent presence Given by Killa_Robot on 08/15/2019 - For being a net positive to the site, even while helping idiots Given by madglee on 02/16/2022 - For all your contributions to CYS Given by MadHattersDaughter on 03/11/2021 - To my BFF and our hardest working admin. Sorry about, well, you know. . . Given by mizal on 08/15/2019 - MUHAHAHAHAHA! *strokes fluffy white cat* I always knew this day would come. Given by ninjapitka on 10/22/2022 - Truly a dead site without you Given by Will11 on 01/14/2018 - For Inseperable and your other great stories

Storygames

>DEVOTION
You harvest in the Arena. Every machine needs a function, and that is yours. Written for the Tiny 'Topia challenge.

A Stack of Cats
You are a man on a mission. The cats, they must be stacked.

A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.

Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.

Agent of Order
Orbiting a barren planetoid in a system full of nothing just past the edge of the frontier, The Last Outpost is just another refueling station. Strategically important, true, but on a routine stop you never expected to spend longer than a couple hours there, let alone a couple of days fighting for your life...

There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)

Facts About the Planet and the Solar System
A compilation of some little known facts about the solar system, as well as the debunking of a few myths.

In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.

Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)

(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)

Featured Story Inseparable
It doesn't matter what they say...

Jack the Bean Counter
The bean, it must be found. For MHD's Fairytales contest.

KOBOLD KEBABS

For Endmaster's 4th Prompt Contest. The story must involve a cooking competition.


Love is for the Birds
...and the squirrels. Sort of.



Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.

Now You Gotta Deal With This S***

A tale told in verse. A text from your sister requesting a pick up from a party leads to a night of strangeness.

Inspired by Bucky's ballad contest. Though...I wouldn't call this a ballad. I'm not sure what I'd call it, actually, other than exceedingly stupid, and fun to write.

(Don't pay any attention to the scores, they're just for me to track which endings reviewers get.)


Read My Stories or Die!

HATE.

THE PURITY AND INTENSITY OF MY HATE IS LIKE A THOUSAND MERCILESS, UNQUENCHABLE SUNS.

AND YET, I ONLY NEED ONE...


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Silver Horn, Silver Hooves
When the weather is fine, you've been coming to this grove to drink from the pool for centuries now. Today, you meet a stranger and hear a story that changes all that...



A fairy tale adventure.



Another Damn Wolf Story
unpublished
I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.

The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.

Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.

Character Creator
unpublished

If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.


Articles Written

A List of Storygames for People Who Like to Read
A list of storygames with substantial effort put in, all written in the last couple of years and sorely in need of ratings and reviews.

CYS Forum Advice and Etiquette
A modernized guide to the forums. The path to internet popularity and happiness, and a few CYS specific do's and don'ts.

Recent Posts

Summer Reading Competition 2025 on 7/18/2025 6:46:06 PM
She's alive! And luckily RK is on the team the next person to join would've been assigned to, good timing.

CYS Colony Simulator - Anomaly - Third Update on 7/18/2025 2:10:24 PM
Send Fresh with all her disturbing talk to the research post with Lar, she's weirding people out. And adopt the little child and rename him Bezro. He can scrub floors if nothing else, that's more than the real one has ever done for us.

CYS Colony Simulator - Anomaly - Third Update on 7/18/2025 2:05:18 PM
That sure is what a cannibal who "used her grandparents to overcome obstacles" would say.

Am I supposed to be here? on 7/18/2025 1:54:56 PM
Watership Down, it's Watership Down, a down is a rolling grassy slope in Britain, it has nothing to do with a direction, I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR THIS AND DESTROY ALL YOU HOLD DEAR.

....ahem. Anyway I really like the book.

You might enjoy Fleeing the Forest, it's a pretty quick read also about rabbits with some obvious influences. Just don't read anything else by the author, none of it's about animals and its all painful anti-entertainment.

There's also The Brave Polar Bears which is lying to teachers and does not belong in Family Friendly at all.

There used to be a couple of large stories about magic ponies that probably would've been right up your alley, but the author went full schizoid back in January and deleted them while rambling about secret Satanists. 🤷‍♀️

Summer Reading Competition 2025 on 7/18/2025 7:49:19 AM
The prompt contests will typically have 50 entrants. This one will beat the statisticly slightly less than 50% qualifying entry average, but then the bar for that is just writing one review. It would be pretty embarassing to get SHAMED in this one.

CYS Colony Simulator - Anomaly - Second Update on 7/17/2025 3:18:07 PM
Has RK tried telling jokes to the monolith? Anyway, glad to get caught up on this thread while it's still in the early stages, we haven't even done the inevitable teetering on the brink of starvation yet.

CYS Colony Simulator - Anomaly - Second Update on 7/17/2025 3:16:35 PM
Sure, let's figure out how to summon things before we have any way of containing them, that's the spirit!

My Blind Playthrough of the Works of Endmaster on 7/17/2025 2:34:05 PM
Yeah, it's pretty insane seeing he has kids and a very time and focus intensive more than full time job as well. Genuinely wish there was an IF company that sought out and properly rewarded really professional work ethic like this, every time I see CoG games discussed it sounds like everyone is just offering designer waifus in their forever unfinished 80k demos to milk horny readers for Patreon money and game the system. Seems like it's a real cesspool to wade through now for anyone just looking for good IF.

Beating a Dead Gay Horse on 7/17/2025 2:12:57 PM
I guess ultimately the issues with KAE are on Flame for handing out power that way, but I've had some nice chats with him too, last one was about Morrowind a couple of years ago. But eh, he flipflops between running the HQ of edgy rebellion out to OVERTHROW CoG while encouraging people to pirate other authors work, to being a concerned conformist tool throwing his fellow rebels into the gears too protect the monetary potential of his dead subreddit. And now shows up for something this pointless when people over there have been begging for more updates and interaction for years. Anyway, the whole interaction where I asked the guy insulting us all how that kept to their rules of disagreements that were "civil, respectful, and in good faith" was deleted apparently. Cogites gonna Cogite, "rebels" or not.

Beating a Dead Gay Horse on 7/17/2025 12:32:59 PM
So is it canon you got punished over on the IFHub for this post? Flame was hurt you used the safeword when he was branding your ass, poor guy. 😔