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Warden of Avon

Don't get distracted!

The target has been decided. The deadline has been set. All that is left is for you, Adam Finch, assassin extraordinaire, to execute your mission. Success is inevitable. Because you are weapon made flesh, and nothing will stop you from completing your mis- Oh! Look! A story-game!!

There are 5 endings: 'Double kill', 'War in the shadows', 'Retiree rescue', 'Kiss of death' and 'Who let him cook?!'.

Submitted for End Master's Prompt Contest 4 for the prompt of: 'A story involving being an assassin'

Ignis and Aero

Aero, a 14-year-old inhabitant of the village of Albritton, wants nothing more than to read his enthralling storybooks in peace. When he hears of a Golem wandering in the forests near his village, he is more than happy to let the professionals deal with it, while staying within the comfort of his home.

Unfortunately for him, his adventurous brother, Ignis, has other plans.

Author's note: If you want to collect all endings, then there are six of them: The Wise, The Mourner, The Cleaner, The Knight, The Skeptic and The Magician. Certain choices don't have immediate effects but may influence the endings. Also, certain endings can be reached through multiple different paths.

Submitted for Sherbet's Summer's End Synergy Contest.

Special thanks to mrcrimsonclean for proof reading :]

Of dreams and daemons

Most would be willing to trade a great deal to catch a glimpse of what the future holds. Hannah de Reade, however, has spent her time in Lumintrone ignoring the omens that she sees in her prophetic dreams. All she wanted was some semblance of normalcy.

But when her dreams warn her of a daemonic plot, she is compelled to act against it, leading her to be invited as an honored guest to the Imperial Castle.

However, in a court filled with dark secrets, are her eyes that can pierce through fallacies truly a gift or a curse? You will have to take Hannah's side and guide her through this ordeal that will forever change her fate.

And perhaps you will change the fate of Lumina itself in the process.

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Author's note: There are nine endings. I highly recommend reaching multiple endings since you may not be able to experience the entirety of the plot with one read. While they are not central to the story, I should also warn that themes of domestic abuse and graphic violence are present in it.

I really like the idea of evolving thunderdome stories into full blown storygames. I think incentivizing that is very cool. As for the willingness to step back from my drafts... personally I'm a little greedy when it comes to that. I wouldn't want someone else to continue my stories. Especially so, if I have my own ideas of how I want the story to move forward.

Honestly, I'll never understand this type of thinking. I get motivating yourself by setting up punishments, but asking to have your account banned basically puts you in a situation where if you make a mistake, you don't get the opportunity to learn from it either.

The improved font size definitely helps. Ideally, I want to be able to read the pages comfortably without zooming in. I think you could even go a tad bit larger here.

As for the two column/one column thing, I personally think it doesn't matter one way or the other. You should go for whatever you think looks better stylistically as long as you can maintain the font size.

Ah, alright then. Regardless, I'm aiming to publish something feature worthy for the competition so I will be bringing my A-game.

Yup, the default forum formatting is definitely more readable. That being said, I do think the newspaper like pages is part of your signature style like Mizal said. So maybe some tweaking in the font size and line spacing of the text in the images would suffice.

Funny thing is, the first page's formatting seems way more readable. I'm guessing the gazette was trying to conform to some sort of pre-determined page limit. If that is the case, then I'd say just ditch the page limit and use that formatting style everywhere.

Hey there. Let me preface this by saying that I have immense respect for the Gazette staff. To be able to consistently publish issues of good quality even after losing a member in an unceremonious manner shows a level of discipline that is worth admiration. I also loved the issues where you got guests involved either with artwork submissions or interviews. Overall, this is a really cool concept and I hope that you are able to keep it going in 2026 as well.

Ok. Now for the nitty-gritty. I had actually seen this post before and was putting off voting until I ended up forgetting about it. Weirdly enough though, I did manage to find time to vote on the thunderdome. That got me thinking as to why I voted in one and not the other. It certainly wasn't a conscious decision.

I think the reason is that I don't like the formatting of the gazette. The pages are printed in portrait mode which is fine if you're printing hard copies but on devices like laptops, the default view tries to show the whole page which in turn makes the text miniscule. You have to then fiddle with the zoom mechanics until the text is big enough to read but not so big that it feels like you're using your grandmother's cellphone. Speaking of which, I don't even want to think about how it feels reading it on an actual phone. I know these seem like really minor annoyances but I think they may have played a big part in why I was putting this off.

Again, this could just be me being weird. If it is, feel free to ignore the whole thing. I just felt like an explanation was owed.

I will be participating in the competition, and I'm a Warden so I probably fit the profile for whatever weird hate boner you have going on for them. You may use me as your benchmark if Milton isn't joining either. I'm not going to risk my own account over a stupid bet though.

Nice. This reminded me of Devil May Cry 3's opening sequence with Dante at his shop.

Why? Were you hoping to try it yourself?

Ok, I get the thing about intrusive thoughts winning now.