Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
12/13/2025 6:13 PM
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Storygame Count
11
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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!)
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!)
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Storygames
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.
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 ReadA 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
CYS Monthly Gazette - 8 December 2025 on 12/13/2025 12:31:52 PMEveryone, I vote for the one RK wrote.
CYS Monthly Gazette - 8 December 2025 on 12/13/2025 12:09:15 PM
Which story did you write, maybe I'll just vote for that one.
Accusatory comment on my barely started story on 12/13/2025 11:21:16 AM
Okay, obviously that name can be easily googled, and lol what the fuck.
@Gower
I want you to see this, Gower! Look at the inane, bald faced lies your fellow English professors are telling. SHAAAAME, SHAME upon the whole profession!
New Austin: 2325
Even the OP was admitting it was an unfinished outline he was sketching out, and there basically is no detail, the generic nature of it all is how it got the AI accusation to begin with.
Did the professor use AI to write a comment? Lol.
@Gower
I want you to see this, Gower! Look at the inane, bald faced lies your fellow English professors are telling. SHAAAAME, SHAME upon the whole profession!
Marshall N Armintor on 12/13/2025 for New Austin: 2325
An impressive amount of detail, and way more branches than I could've anticipated. Quality of the writing is the best I've seen so far this whole year, even last spring. Reminds me of A Mind Forever Voyaging, a least a bit. Keep it up, I think you've got more to say in this medium.
New Austin: 2325
Even the OP was admitting it was an unfinished outline he was sketching out, and there basically is no detail, the generic nature of it all is how it got the AI accusation to begin with.
Did the professor use AI to write a comment? Lol.
Accusatory comment on my barely started story on 12/13/2025 11:02:05 AM
Well now I have to know, who is Marshall N Armintor, and does he choke himself on your dick often?
Heya! on 12/13/2025 10:57:28 AM
My Stuff > Pictures, and you may have to size it down because the limit is kind of strict. After that you can select it from the drop down in your profile.
Also, welcome to the site, I'll take your mastery of of complete sentences to mean you can't be anyone recently banned making a return.
If you're browsing on a PC, you might like to get the site extension from Brad's profike, which will let you toggle on dark mode and some other features from your profile and give the site a general facelift
Also, welcome to the site, I'll take your mastery of of complete sentences to mean you can't be anyone recently banned making a return.
If you're browsing on a PC, you might like to get the site extension from Brad's profike, which will let you toggle on dark mode and some other features from your profile and give the site a general facelift
A Message For Naz on 12/13/2025 8:38:54 AM
This is a nice gesture, but why does no one on this site just use DMs anymore.
Looking For Feedback on 12/12/2025 10:35:10 PM
You don't appear to have the story in sneak peek, so only mods can use that link.
Also, nobody let Naz near this game, she'll start using asterisks again.
EMOJICON Hates AI on 12/12/2025 10:11:11 PM
(Maybe this is a good time to switch to DMs?)
Accusatory comment on my barely started story on 12/12/2025 9:58:26 PM
Removed it and posted in the other thread, didn't realize you had a second one too.
Do not post AI generated text. on 12/12/2025 9:54:02 PM
I think your mistake is assuming that artists are the ones doing this.
For most people the standard option has always been searching Google for existing art that at least sort of matches the vibe of what they're looking for. There is no "point of the art" except in helping them visualize whatever.
When half of what searches pull up now is going to be unlabeled AI art anyway, I'm not sure there's any realistic reason to not just generate it themselves. The problem really only comes in if they're trying to claim it as their own work.
