Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
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5/5/2011
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You harvest in the Arena.
Every machine needs a function, and that is yours.
Written for the Tiny 'Topia challenge.
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.
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.
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
It doesn't matter what they say...
The bean, it must be found.
For MHD's Fairytales contest.
For Endmaster's 4th Prompt Contest. The story must involve a cooking competition.
...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.
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.
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.)
HATE.
THE PURITY AND INTENSITY OF MY HATE IS LIKE A THOUSAND MERCILESS, UNQUENCHABLE SUNS.
AND YET, I ONLY NEED ONE...
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.
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.
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.
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Recent Posts
Thunderdome 27: Kill Avo or ELSE on 11/27/2025 10:35:06 AMGAZETTE STAFF FAILS IN VOTE FIXING ATTEMPT, read all about it!
Thunderdome 27: Kill Avo or ELSE on 11/27/2025 10:00:06 AM
All right, doesn't seem like any more comments are going to trickle in and I've got a big pan of dressing to make. The win goes to Story C of course, congrats RK! The Gazette staff of course still struggles with themes, but it was a fun story with a sense of style, and you're lucky we turned out to have so many closeted furries around here.
Better luck next time to the others! At least Cavus was not beaten by a child, though Avo's story was such a big improvement from the first one against Blister I can't wait to see what she comes up with for the next time she does one of these.
Better luck next time to the others! At least Cavus was not beaten by a child, though Avo's story was such a big improvement from the first one against Blister I can't wait to see what she comes up with for the next time she does one of these.
Happy Thanksgiving! on 11/27/2025 9:14:11 AM
Enjoy your gluttony today! Post pics of pie if you wanna.
With the shutdown the holidays could've been a little grim for a lot of US families, so I'm thankful that all got straightened out in time for folks who needed it. I am also thankful I survived a spontaneous trip to the grocery store yesterday evening and was not run over or trampled for the last bag of cranberries, felt like an iffy thing there from the moment I arrived and could not find a place to freaking park.
Flight Rising on 11/27/2025 5:28:39 AM
Wait were you one of those QUIRKY gay kids writing about QUIRKY gay dragons? The community sure has a lot of those, my eye kind of starts to twitch after about ten seconds browsing profiles over there.
Flight Rising on 11/26/2025 11:44:01 PM
If you have any old festival items they might be worth quite a bit of pretend money.
New Daily Quotes Thread on 11/26/2025 10:55:49 PM
"The funny thing is, I can fully accept a sociopathic daughter that just disregards any sort of responsibility, takes advantage of folks, etc.
It's more of the hygene thing that is like "Ew."
I can't have stinky daughters running about." --Endmaster
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 11/26/2025 7:05:45 PM
Okay I know this is old, but for my own curiosity I have to ask now, are there foods or drinks that you DO believe can be an important part of a culture?
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 11/26/2025 7:03:05 PM
OH, that's probably why you put what week it is next to each entry, that's genius! But no one could've figured it out based on this cryptic clue.
Baiting And Hooking (Part whatever) on 11/26/2025 9:32:39 AM
"Epic" is one of those watered down internet terms, some people just use it to mean like "big and cool", but in the original sense it's a "heroic epic", like a major poetic work about a mythological hero or comparable series of events. Sort of like the Iliad, the Odyssey, or Beowulf. (And yes, you will ask what these things are, and I will die and cry a little on the inside, but now you can look them up too! Maybe even ask your English teacher about them or read them some day.)
The word focal is related to focus, and used similarly.
And the Levant is a geographic region like Mesopotamia, that was the center of some of the earliest major human cultures and the development of agriculture.
Edit: typos fixes, swipe keyboards are hard
Flight Rising on 11/26/2025 1:37:45 AM
Since there's various tiny children bopping around on the forum again, just thought I'd mention this site a few of us have messed around with in the past.
https://www1.flightrising.com/
It's another one of those cringy-yet-shamefully-addictive browser pet games like Neopets, except in this one you're breeding a bunch of different varieties of dragons that look like glitter encrusted rainbow vomit, and dressing them up and stuff.
Just remembered an account I haven't touched in two years existed and have been looking through it again, and I don't know, I kind of like it.
There's some occasionally neat lore and the economy is balanced I think impressively well via the ability to combat train and rid the otherwise infinite supply of dragons from the game for currency--there's the ability to buy currency too but really zero need for it unless you're that guy that's like YES, I MUST have this rare collection of pixels that was released only briefly in 2013.
Though on the surface it's all very kid friendly to the point of stupidity. Dragons "breed" by magic and the exalting mechanic whereby you send dragons you don't have room for anymore to "be with their god" is totally NOT death, you guys, the dragon just went to live on a farm in the sky.
Also, sometimes fleshy chunks off the animals in the entire ecosystems you rip through end up in your inventory, but those are just Shade-possessed spectres, no animals were harmed. You also absolutely don't melt down your dragons' beloved, trusting pets--some of which are sapient races with cultures of their own whose armed forces your dragons routinely rampage through--into a cauldron for alchemy ingredients, we don't need to talk about that. (I am pretty sure the devs are winking at the camera at times.)
Typical gameplay is either five minutes a day of collecting items, clicking nests, and tossing excess junk (including dragons) in the auction house, or you can grind simple old school Flash looking JRPG style battles for hours to collect loot and level dragons for your elemental Flight leaderboard if you're INSANE. There's also this whole side of it where people write elaborate biographies for their dragons, for a different kind of insanity. There are various no pressure outlets for whatever your personal autism is in that way, but the real game of course is about hoarding pretty pretty pretty dragons until you can afford to alter their genes with unethical magic and then put them in the perfect outfit.
I think technically you need to be 13 to play, but Avo just ask your mom to unblock it for you and then lie when you register.

