Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
11/29/2025 2:41 PM
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24631
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
General questions on 11/29/2025 9:06:27 AMAlso, just so you know every time I see that much RTE crud at once I get so angry that I go out, I find a pure, innocent kitten, and I RIP ITS HEAD OFF.
I didn't do it last night because I had to work really early, but paste responsibly.
General questions on 11/28/2025 11:13:26 PM
Pretty sure she's asking what the user would put in. Which would be exactly none of that.
General questions on 11/28/2025 10:59:41 PM
Not sure it was necessary to paste all that, but unless you have some super special formatting, generally you have an empty box and then you type your story in it. This is called plain text, you're looking at it. All the rest is part of the source code for the site, the poster does not interact with it. (You already know this because when you made your account the RTE was off by default until you went in and selected it manually.)
RTE inserts a huge amount of unnecessary crap to get the exact same effect. Like wrapping every single line with style tags for ordinary black text with no special font? Paragraph breaks for every line? Special characters for spaces and apostrophes end quptation marks instead of just using the actual ones? It's so ugly and that's what would break new user's game scripts half the time.
You already typed an italics tag above. That's all you have to do when you want italics inside your game, the letter I inside angle brackets, and you never have to worry about anything else. (Except on the description page, where you need to add line breaks.)
Edit: I seem to have skimmed past the second paragraph asking about your profile upon being confronted with multiple screenfuls of gibberish, but you still wouldn't need that amount of coding, much of that was inserted by the RTE simply because it's the RTE.
But anyway, it shows up fine and still would even if you switched, people not using the RTE can still see the effects of the RTE, just like people using the RTE can still see the effects of HTML. It wouldn't make much sense to have both options otherwise.
New Daily Quotes Thread on 11/28/2025 5:28:11 PM
I found myself feeling very petty about the whole doxxing thing yesterday when something came up that reminded me of it. But then I just redirected it by wondering if she washed all the clothes she sent TCat.
I mean, Army Boy absolutely got a load of crusty underwear stuffed in a bag to take home to mom, but of course their situations were very different, he probably didn't mind.
General questions on 11/28/2025 2:25:01 PM
The rich text editor is a plug in that inserts its own coding, it just isn't compatible. HTML works with plain text.
New Daily Quotes Thread on 11/28/2025 12:05:10 PM
Despite TCat also being a little psychotic, I feel like she's also pretty clean, and might be feeling like mistakes were made at having shared her name and home address with a person who will likely try to move in with her one day to pile discarded food trash on all her furniture, wallow around on top of it for weeks, and then rub chunks of gnawed cheese behind her ears for that irresistable fragrance before going out to seduce all the autistic boys in town.
... honestly it's hilarious sometimes how many absolutely crazy fucking people this site manages to attract.
Speaking of which, I wonder what ol Fluttershy is getting up to these days. I should dig out some on his greatest hits for the thread sometime.
Happy Thanksgiving! on 11/27/2025 11:16:25 PM
Caffeine can effect people in different ways, especially if they get too much of it! But there's also a joke there about the funny people in Utah, don't worry about that one though, you'll get it when they knock on your door one day.
Happy Thanksgiving! on 11/27/2025 10:22:15 PM
Suranna tried the forbidden drug--coffee--for the first time tonight and was never the same.
Happy Thanksgiving! on 11/27/2025 5:46:46 PM
Sherbet was after the cranberries too, he tried to kill me I swear.
Thunderdome 27: Kill Avo or ELSE on 11/27/2025 10:35:06 AM
GAZETTE STAFF FAILS IN VOTE FIXING ATTEMPT, read all about it!
