Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
1/9/2026 5:41 PM
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25048
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
Secret Santa 2025 on 1/9/2026 3:50:59 PMAll the offense meant to Naz, just lying down to die to avoid 1000 words is weak smh. MHD didn't even ask for 1000 good words.
Secret Santa 2025 on 1/9/2026 3:35:55 PM
The form was open until midnight last night. She still has to compile stuff and write commentary after that. Mystic is also at a full 12 hour difference from most of the rest of us, in addition to having a bit more to do than the things that kept Naz from writing.
Can I turn off advanced editor for one story? on 1/9/2026 2:56:20 PM
You can probably just switch it back on for those if you ever need to.
Can I turn off advanced editor for one story? on 1/9/2026 2:42:16 PM
You're thinking about the Rich Text Editor. That's the big ugly box you typed that post in with all the buttons around it, and you toggle it off in your profile. It's possible you'll need to log out and then in again for the change to take effect.
That will mean you just need to use HTML tags for italics and bold in your stories. 95% of the time that's all the formatting anybody bothers with anyway, though if you know more advanced stuff about HTML there's a lot more flexibility there.
And you might as well grab the site extension from Brad's profile while you're at it btw, now with the RTE box gone you can give dark mode a try. (It's toggled on in your profile.)
That will mean you just need to use HTML tags for italics and bold in your stories. 95% of the time that's all the formatting anybody bothers with anyway, though if you know more advanced stuff about HTML there's a lot more flexibility there.
And you might as well grab the site extension from Brad's profile while you're at it btw, now with the RTE box gone you can give dark mode a try. (It's toggled on in your profile.)
CYS Monthly Gazette - 8 January 2026 on 1/9/2026 8:08:55 AM
It was suggested by a few in discussion of the last one that the reason a lot of people weren't reading these on mobile devices was because the text was not very friendly on the eyes in the Canva format.
Special v Naz on 1/8/2026 11:08:46 PM
Naz was the pacifist protagonist beefhotpot was looking for all along.
Special v Naz on 1/8/2026 10:21:09 PM
Lost Realm was good, but Chosen Hero has a special place in my heart for being an utterly mediocre story that started with a first page of near incoherent, hilarious drunk-level grammar that Ebon didn't get around to fixing for years no matter how many times it was memed on.
You can still see heavy traces of it in the description: "A world on the cusp of disaster. Two sides on the verge of destroying each other, but there is hope. In the form of a hero. Now this will person..., will they be able to rise into the mantle of hero?"
The current first sentence that used to be the start of the second paragraph still makes me smile too: "As the son of your father..."
Like, no shit?
You can still see heavy traces of it in the description: "A world on the cusp of disaster. Two sides on the verge of destroying each other, but there is hope. In the form of a hero. Now this will person..., will they be able to rise into the mantle of hero?"
The current first sentence that used to be the start of the second paragraph still makes me smile too: "As the son of your father..."
Like, no shit?
Special v Naz on 1/8/2026 8:24:58 PM
Book of Vanishing Tales is one of my favorites from the fantasy section. It just does things so differently from the typical fantasy action story, it really made an impression on me.
Special v Naz on 1/8/2026 7:27:28 PM
https://chooseyourstory.com/member/?Username=EbonVasilis
Flaking on three prompt contests in a row was quite the sad conclusion to the guy who made his comeback claiming he'd surpass even Endmaster in the name of Mormon Jesus.
An article on writing epic story games? on 1/8/2026 6:56:53 PM
Nice, I'll give it a, look later tonight.
