Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
9/17/2025 10:58 PM
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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 - 7 September 2025 on 9/17/2025 2:27:40 PM>and when introducing Elise, using 'His girlfriend' instead of 'Max's girlfriend ' may flow a bit better
Yeah, that spot felt really awkward to me too. I had considered bringing it up but didn't see like there was a good spot to include it in what I'd written since I couldn't find any other technical issues.
Daily Motivational Quotes Of The Day on 9/17/2025 11:40:09 AM
Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
Daily Motivational Quotes Of The Day on 9/17/2025 10:32:44 AM
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory
As he defeated – dying –
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
By Emily Dickenson
Whoops, that wasn't motivational at all!
Daily Motivational Quotes Of The Day on 9/17/2025 9:47:00 AM
This becomes much funnier if you assume the old man is using the original meaning of "self-abuse".
Harper’s Big Gay Thread on 9/17/2025 9:35:57 AM
This frothing little adderall junkie gets to school and starts making accounts first thing at 7am. For the last time, get a life.
And I can't believe he's still trying to claim someone is editing his posts. If that were really happening, wouldn't he just stop posting?
And I can't believe he's still trying to claim someone is editing his posts. If that were really happening, wouldn't he just stop posting?
Daily Motivational Quotes Of The Day on 9/17/2025 9:00:55 AM
I think we need a new quote from Blister to set the theme for the day.
Also, to keep this thread from getting overwhelming spammed, I think it would be best for the rest of us to only on topic quotes that especially resonated or that are especially funny rather than just searching up "quotes about [whatever]" and dumping it.
Not that too many were doing that but it seems good to establish that early. (In other words, please restrain your autism.)
Opinions on 9/17/2025 8:43:43 AM
Is this the opening of the book?
I do like think the first sentence is pretty strong, and the second one is fine, but it meanders a bit after that. We don't really get a concrete idea of who either of these people are aside from the fact the narrator has some emotional issues.
But it'd be much easier to give a substantial critique of a longer passage to be honest.
(And it's okay to say fuck here.)
Thunderdome 23: Clayfinger vs Liminal on 9/17/2025 2:28:45 AM
This avatar is going to get really confusing lol.
CYS Monthly Gazette - 7 September 2025 on 9/17/2025 1:55:32 AM
Congrats by the way @Will11, on being the only member of the Gazette staff to vote in the Gazette sponsored duel. :)
Thunderdome 23: Clayfinger vs Liminal on 9/17/2025 1:50:58 AM
But the voting post is tiny and always needs padding. :(
