Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
12/17/2025 4:41 PM
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24858
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!)
Trophies Earned
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.
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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
Starting a Storygame With A Pre-Made World? on 12/17/2025 12:19:20 PMIt'd be just like writing about any other setting. There's probably a lot you know about that isn't relevant to the plot, and a lot of concepts you can't just assume the reader knows about once you're deviating from the typical generic archetypes like elves and dwarves or whatever. The challenge is just in finding the balance, introducing information in a natural feeling way without leaving the reader lacking relevant info or hitting them in the face with infodumps on things they don't care about yet.
Of course if you're using anything copyrighted, make sure to mark it as fanfic.
Don't ban me! on 12/17/2025 11:33:47 AM
Everything by Gower is good, you guys might not be the target audience for the others though.
Don't ban me! on 12/17/2025 11:28:47 AM
Try searching for WARCHIMP (very short) or Sir Osis (If you have half an hour or so.)
Don't ban me! on 12/17/2025 11:17:10 AM
We've had a lot of noobs begging for it lately, all these middle schoolers keep finding us despite their inability to read or type sentences.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 11:14:03 AM
"Nigga" is very different than the full word and sometimes used in different contexts.
Although, that was just either death notw kid or his friend again so they were getting banned either way.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 11:08:54 AM
Since we're just handing out comms to everyone here and the others didn't just write 20k words in 10 days, there you go.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 10:59:12 AM
I know right? These kids can put colors and fonts in their profile and post 20 times without ever reading, it's all backwards.
I will return those points if I see an actual review some day.
I will return those points if I see an actual review some day.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 10:55:28 AM
I like this noob.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 10:54:35 AM
I'm telling Petros.
"The R slur" and other gamer words on 12/17/2025 8:09:23 AM
It's so surreal to me that just a few years ago middle schoolers were the disturbing little sociopaths watching the most brutal and sickening torture and execution videos for fun, and now they go around complaining about "the r-slur". If only there were some middle ground out there.
