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Lauded Sage Exemplar

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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.)

Inseparable

It doesn't matter what they say...

Jack the Bean Counter

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

Character Creator

unpublished

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.

A modernized guide to the forums. The path to internet popularity and happiness, and a few CYS specific do's and don'ts.

that 1 of 5 pronoun (1) ˈt͟hat t͟hət pluralthose ˈt͟hōz Synonyms of that 1 a : the person, thing, or idea indicated, mentioned, or understood from the situation That is my father. The books on the table? I haven't read those yet. b : the time, action, or event specified After that I went to bed. c : the kind or thing specified as follows The purest water is that produced by distillation. d : one or a group of the indicated kind That's a cat—quick and agile. 2 a : the one farther away or less immediately under observation or discussion Those are maples and these are elms. b : another thing talking about this and that 3 a —used as a function word after and to indicate emphatic repetition of the idea expressed by a previous word or phrase He was helpful, and that to an unusual degree. b —used as a function word immediately before or after a word group consisting of an auxiliary verb or a form of the verb be preceded by there or a personal pronoun subject to indicate emphatic repetition of the idea expressed by a previous verb or predicate noun or predicate adjective Is she capable? She is that. 4 a : the one : the thing : the kind : something, anything the truth of that which is true the senses are that whereby we experience the world what's that you say b those plural : some persons those who think the time has come see also all that, at that that 2 of 5 conjunction t͟hət, ˈt͟hat 1 a (1) —used as a function word to introduce a noun clause that is usually the subject or object of a verb or a predicate nominative said that he was afraid (2) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is anticipated by the expletive it occurring as subject of the verb It is unlikely that he'll be in. (3) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is joined as complement to a noun or adjective We are certain that this is true. the fact that you are here (4) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause modifying an adverb or adverbial expression will go anywhere that he is invited b —used as a function word to introduce an exclamatory clause expressing a strong emotion especially of surprise, sorrow, or indignation That it should come to this! 2 a (1) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing purpose or desired result … cutting down expenses that her son might inherit an unencumbered estate. —W. B. Yeats (2) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause Rejoice that you are lightened of a load. —Robert Browning (3) —used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause expressing consequence, result, or effect … are of sufficient importance that they cannot be neglected. —Hannah Wormington b —used as a function word to introduce an exclamatory clause expressing a wish Oh, that he would come. 3 —used as a function word after a subordinating conjunction without modifying its meaning If that thy bent of love be honorable … —William Shakespeare that 3 of 5 adjective pluralthose 1 a : being the person, thing, or idea specified, mentioned, or understood b : being the one specified —usually used for emphasis that rarity among leaders that brother of yours c : so great a : such 2 : the farther away or less immediately under observation or discussion this chair or that one that 4 of 5 pronoun (2) t͟hət, ˈt͟hat 1 —used as a function word to introduce a restrictive relative clause and to serve as a substitute within that clause for the substantive modified by the clause the house that Jack built I'll make a ghost of him that lets me —William Shakespeare 2 a : at which : in which : on which : by which : with which : to which each year that the lectures are given b : according to what : to the extent of what —used after a negative has never been here that I know of 3 a archaic : that which b obsolete : the person who That vs. Which: Usage Guide That and which are both used to introduce a restrictive clause, i.e., a clause that can't be removed without changing the sentence's meaning substantially or making the sentence incomplete or difficult to understand. In "The cake that/which they served was pink," the restrictive clause is "that/which they served." To remove it renders the sentence incomplete: what cake was pink? Which is used to introduce a nonrestrictive clause, i.e., a clause that adds information to the sentence but isn't essential for understanding the sentence's basic idea. In "The cake, which was delicious, was pink" the clause "which was delicious" adds nonessential information; we still know that the cake being discussed was pink. That formerly did this job as well, especially in poetry, but the use is now rare. that 5 of 5 adverb ˈt͟hat 1 : to such an extent a nail about that long 2 : very, extremely —usually used with the negative … did not take the festival that seriously. —Eric Goldman

Okay false alarm, it was tested by others and works, apparently I had a file that didn't download or got corrupted in the most recent update and it made wacky things happen. Reinstalled the most recent version now and it's fine. This thread never happened and let's never talk about it again. edit: I did just get a shitty popup though asking me if I wanted an AI to "summarize the page", nasty and gross.

Maybe it's just that it's very late and I'm tired, but it's cracking me up seeing all the text walls you guys are posting, interspersed with the true masters of the review, getting right down to the core insights without a single wasted word:

Meanwhile the gay and trans members who have not made that confrontationally their sole personality trait continue on as normal.

And then have in your profile, "And yes I am actually a womanizer, and if you have a problem with that then get the fuck over it." Going around calling people child fucking rednecks too smh, you'd think he could take a few comments himself if he's going to be dishing them that way. In the end though of course it's easier to just give up and do nothing rather than put the tiniest bit of work in to earn respect.

Okay, as has been pointed out, you're all doing this wrong. You don't have to tie yourself in knots trying to be edgy, just tell a simple Biblical tale.

Here, listen:

A man and his girlfriend were traveling. The man refused to stop among foreigners, distrusting then too much, and so insisted they continue on until they reached a city of the Benjamites, his countrymen, just before nightfall. There though they quickly learned all was not well, and were tracked down by a mob while trying to take shelter in a house. The man shoved the woman out the door to save himself, and she was gang raped, to death.

The man, out of his mind with grief and possibly guilt, chopped her body into pieces and mailed the pieces around to the leaders of the other tribes as a call to arms.

400,000 were assembled and a bloody civil war took place, with the Benjamites being slaughtered nearly to the last man, except for a few hundred who managed to hide out in the mountains while the 400,000 went rampaging over their territory, razing their towns and even destroying the livestock.

It was then that the leaders of these forces came to their senses a bit, and realized they'd nearly genocided this branch of their own people. The remaining men were allowed to return, but there was another problem: all the others had sworn a sacred oath they would never let one of their daughters marry a Benjamite.

The solution to this turned out to be turning on one of their other settlements who had not sent anyone to help with the genocide. They killed every adult and all the male children, and captured 400 girls who would be married to the surviving Benjamites.

This still wasn't enough however, and so the Benjamites were told to hide out in a vineyard and kidnap 200 more girls traveling to a shrine for a holiday. Since their parents weren't voluntarily giving them to the Benjamites, they would not be guilty of breaking their oath! Genius!

And all of this came to pass because the people had no king to shame them.



See, that's plenty of drama to work with and it even has a moral. The Bible is full of storygame material, everyone stop taking this prompt and then making it hard on yourself for no reason.

I'm listening. I hear it as a series of sort of high pitched squawks, that rise even higher and crack near the end.

I choose to believe this was one of Derp's kids.

Aw damn, did he say why? Any time I start to like a noob they self destruct, it's very sad.

Maybe @BradinDvorak would know why, but just a heads up that for whatever reason, updating Firefox breaks the way forum threads are displayed to make them near unusable. Rolling back to 146 (the version from Jan 13th) fixed it for me. I'll be looking into whether anything can be done on the site's side to fix the issue.