Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator

Member Since

5/5/2011

Last Activity

10/28/2025 2:26 PM

EXP Points

6,829

Post Count

24432

Storygame Count

11

Duel Stats

3 wins / 13 losses

Order

Lauded Sage Exemplar

Commendations

1,061
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 24431 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

anyone willing to talk shit in the late hours? on 10/28/2025 7:54:49 AM
It's 6am so I'm not going into any kind of detailed reply, but the splits and disagreements in the Democratic party, while that's a healthy thing that indicates the "party of free speech" is more than just talk, it also left them divided and cripplingly ineffective against the goosesteppers at a crucial time. (And yes I realize there are both left and right leaning people who don't identify as their designated party, but in the US an independent vote is as good as not voting.) The authoritarian leanings just make conservatives really good at falling in line and upholding the same narrative in a unified, at this point almost cult-like way. Although this does leave more "traditional" morally conservative leaning marginalized groups in an interesting position as you pointed out, though I think that could apply broadly to a lot of Hispanics as well as Muslims. Anyway, you should make the game, but with less impenetrable text walls. Going into the history of certain terms and how they ended up what they are today in itself would be useful, because that requires history and that's the biggest area the part of the population most in need of edutainment games seems lacking in.

I'm a little lost on these terms on 10/27/2025 9:42:25 PM
None of Endmaster's games use scripting.

Peng tries to write horror on 10/27/2025 9:39:08 PM
We'll get you back in the Thunderdome yet! I'll return with some feedback once three caffeine kicks in.

General questions on 10/27/2025 8:46:34 PM
That sounds like it could be a good thread in the Writing Workshop.

General questions on 10/27/2025 8:31:07 PM
We're going to have to start getting pickier about articles soon, lots of members seem to want to write them just because, but there aren't too many subjects left that really require a whole article to explain. If this is about some basic grammatical thing anyhow, Blister can learn that anywhere on the internet if he cared to look it up. We don't really need to cater to alt spamming lurkers here, you've surely got better uses of your time.

General questions on 10/27/2025 8:27:57 PM
Just set the variable to change to the desired result as part of the same criteria that triggers $DEST. You can use BEGIN and END to bookend code blocks if that helps you keep them organized.

anyone willing to talk shit in the late hours? on 10/27/2025 7:36:34 PM
Thanks for sharing.

Thunderdome 26: Petros vs Wildblue on 10/27/2025 6:33:13 PM
For Mystic that's brief.

I'm a little lost on these terms on 10/27/2025 1:19:22 PM
It needs to meet the usual site standards, aka complete, contains branching, and good enough for a 3/8 rating. (Look how it's possible to say that with so many less words than Mystic.)

I'm a little lost on these terms on 10/27/2025 10:54:18 AM
Yes. It really only takes a couple of hours to bash out a minimally acceptable storygame, so failing to do even that much in a period of usually two months is just embarassing.