Mousecore, The Dramatist
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5/30/2025
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2/24/2026 10:55 PM
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Participate in a contest
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Welcome to my profile! I'm Mousecore, or Mouse. They/them pronouns because I'm three mice connected by one hive mind.
I like to read and review storygames. Eventually I hope to publish my own provided that I lock the fuck in and not get distracted. Want me to be contractually obligated to read your story? Request me for a review at the Review Club.
My PMs are open for those who want to chat, or you can ask for my Discord since CYS PMs are so 2001.
Outside of writing and reading, I'm an avid enjoyer of sports, technology/programming, films, and gaming. I spend my evenings watching shitty movies, playing shitty games, and getting knocked out in rings.
My Subjective Rating System
A worthwhile read in my opinion is a short 4, a 5 if you're interested in the topic, and any 6+ rated stories.
| Rating | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not a story, game, or quiz; plagiarized or AI-generated |
| 2 | Is a story, game, or quiz that is not plagiarized or AI-generated, but terribly written |
| 3 | The concept might be intriguing, but the execution is not good |
| 4 | Interesting ideas with visible effort, but with glaring problems |
| 5 | A good story with solid writing, with one or two major flaws (or lack of personal enjoyment) |
| 6 | Well-written and entertaining with an interesting premise; has some minor flaws or one major flaw |
| 7 | A great story that I would recommend to anyone; has very little holding it back from an 8 |
| 8 | Reserved for what I think are my favorite storygames on the site |
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Articles Written
How to Spot AI-Generated WorkWith AI-generated fiction on the rise, it's important to understand whether or not what you're reading is written by a real human. This article aims to establish major overarching concepts behind AI writing (especially in fiction) and how to find these patterns in the wild even as AI models progress over time.
Recent Posts
Fucking Genders, How Do They Work? on 2/23/2026 9:07:28 PM"I only know that I despise to see what could be a sycamore tree bound and clipped because only bonsai trees will fit in the house."
What a beautiful note to end on. If only it wasn't being wasted on some LLM being run in a desert shack.
How do I modify text with scripts & variables? on 2/22/2026 8:16:23 PM
I wish that article was a mandatory read for like 90% of these scripting questions.
How do I modify text with scripts & variables? on 2/22/2026 7:52:22 PM
You just add all the links/choices onto the page as usual, and you set link restrictions on each one depending on the variable conditions that must be met.
How do I modify text with scripts & variables? on 2/22/2026 6:15:50 PM
The article How to use On-Page Variable Tricks by BerkaZerka has the most accessible explanation.
Displaying a variable you created is as simple as writing %%HEALTH%% or %%MONEY%% which displays the integer value stored in the variable.
You may write an on-page variable condition like this:
%%MONEY%=%100%TEXT%%
This effectively reads as an if statement:
if (money = 100) { text }
You can also use other conditions like greater than >, less than <, not !=, etc.
Based on this idea, you can string together a full on-page variable condition statement with multiple checks that can change the text depending on a given variable value.
%%MONEY%<%100%You can't buy the gun.%%%%MONEY%=%100%You can buy the gun.%%%%MONEY%>%100%You can buy the gun and have some money to spare.%%I bit off so much that I am choking on 2/18/2026 10:06:50 PM
Damn, I thought End was cooking with his gay Bible fanfic suggestion too.
Firefox breaks the forum (no it doesn't, whoops) on 2/18/2026 7:59:36 PM
I don't gif a fuck.
Firefox breaks the forum (no it doesn't, whoops) on 2/18/2026 6:54:24 PM
Firefox seems fine for me using the Brad extension.
I am working on a massive project on 2/17/2026 9:25:21 PM
This sounds like a very fun idea. I would love to see it come to fruition.
From a scripting perspective, this is also doable in the CYS editor. I've created (and actively am creating, though not for a contest entry) simulations in CYS Script before, and it was doable, albeit very particular and finicky. If you're open to playing around with many, many variables in a primitive way, you'll see it done for your game.
The Owl's Challenge: Planning on 2/16/2026 10:04:30 PM
I think Option B is the most fitting and can be a fun exercise for people not actively trying to grind out their contest works (or people in the contest trying to get some muse). Maybe you can use some of the old one-word prompts for the mini-storygames.
Wardens, lmao on 2/16/2026 6:23:21 PM
You could always check out the Most Needy Storygames Reading Contest that's running the entire year, if you aren't inclined/able to hop into EndMaster's prompt contest. There's also the Review Club like Fabrikant said.
Plenty of mod-sponsored productivity events to dip your, uh, talons in.
