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Marauder

Gay and Depressed in Prison

3rd place entry in Corgi's Gaybellion Contest

In this game, you play a very familiar character from the previous Gay and Depressed stories, who is now in jail. You used to be a side character in other people's stories, but now the spotlight is finally yours in this Gay and Depressed spin-off!

If you're interested in some more Gay and Depressed story games, check out the original by queenlatifah04, Gay Old Time by Darius_Conwright, Gay and DepressedER!!! by fresh_out_of_the_oven, and Gay and Depressed: The snow bunny society by Benholman44. All of the "gay and depressed" stories are stand-alone stories, so each one can be read separately, but I highly recommend you check these stories out!

White Collar Ghosts

unpublished

An Entry for Endmaster's Edutainment Contest

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An edutainment game that is designed to teach the complicated math of High Finance while also bringing you into the dangerous underworld of financial crime. Will you survive and come out on top? Or will you just become another statistic, a foolish high roller who wanted to make it big but got sucked into the machine, ultimately losing everything you've worked so hard for.

Embezzling, derivatives, and risk. You play as Shawn Carombe, an amoral and wealthy Harvard Business School graduate awash in the world of high finance.

Solve problems. Go out to fancy nightclubs. Drink expensive cocktails. Do crazy drugs, with names covering the whole alphabet. Wear fancy suits. Party with hard people who call you brother one moment, and in the next, stab you in the back. But above all else, be ruthless and unforgiving.

Calculus and Statistical Theory are your weapons of choice and your number one tools to get an edge over the competition. But if all else fails, the silver handled chrome gun tucked securely in your pocket has a bullet with your rival’s name stamped all over it…

Special thanks to Endmaster for hosting such a cool contest, everyone in this wonderful community who has supported me throughout this journey, and most of all, to the readers who are currently staring at this title page, and are on the verge of embarking on an exciting adventure, rife with organized crime, gangsters, illegal drugs, and tons and tons of math(wasn't a typo, you'll get both meth and math in this story XD)! I hope you like this storygame, and don't forget to rate and leave a comment at the end! Thank you!

It's the day before Halloween, and in my neighborhood, the streets are alive with spookiness as ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, and other supernatural creatures haunt the porches of many a house. What are you guys doing for Halloween? Any fun plans? If you're planning on dressing up, what costumes?

Hey Avo, Sorry I haven't gotten to answering this yet. I saw it though. Didn't mean to keep you waiting.

So, I guess the best way to describe the difference between energy levels and spectral lines is to use an analogy. So when you're playing darts, imagine you have an electronic light-up dart board. Different regions are colored differently. Similarly, each individual region in the Bohr Model of an atom represents an energy level. As you move closer to the center, your point values go up. Similarly, as you move closer to the center, the electrons experience a more stable orbit. But what's confusing is that the energy level goes down as you go closer to the nucleus. Because the nucleus can hug the electrons a lot tighter! So as electrons move through the different energy levels, they emit energy by releasing light(or absorbing light, depending on which direction they go). And that light can be measured by spectrophotometers, special instruments that scientists use. And to go back to the dartboard analogy, as you score in a region closer to the center, imagine that the dartboard lights up or says a little congratulations message.

"So when photons hit a proton, the it's electron orbitis it from farther away and gets closer again? "

Let's break this part down a bit, since there are a couple of things wrong with this sentence. So the electron absorbs photons, not the proton. But yeah, the general idea of it is right. Think of it like Mario eating a special mushroom and getting a powerup. When electrons absorb photons, they can jump to higher energy levels, just like how Mario gets special powers when he eats the mushroom.

"The n=6, 5, and 4 are equal distances from each other (going down, a bit right of the arrow) but for some reason the n=3 is spaced farther away and the n=2 even more so. As the electron in the symulation gets closer or farther from what I think is the proton (from the key), different squiggles appear."

Basically what happens here is that the electron shells(another way of saying energy levels) get closer together the further you go out from the nucleus, because it takes less energy to jump between subsequent energy levels as you gain more energy and reach the periphery of the atom. Think of it like this. When you're playing a video game like Dark Souls or Elden Ring or something, the puzzles/mechanics make no sense in the beginning, so you're struggling a lot. But as you play, going from level to level, or stage to stage probably takes less effort since you get the hang of it more.

" Obviously, the n is a variable and I'd love to say I know what it is but I'm not sure. Very obviously, they're showing some kind of different levels of energy. The arrows of the lines that appear sometimes point up, sometimes down. I'll make more observations about the connections between the squiggles and the proton/electron/photons in a sec, I need to look at it more."

Astute observation, Avo! So n is a quantum number. There's 4 of them, and n is the principal quantum number. Each number is a quantity that defines a different attribute of the electron, like what shell it's in, or what spin it has, stuff like that.

Nicely done Will! Dude, 6000 words in a day is impressive! And that too with teaching and all your IRL stuff. Awesome! I'll check this one out. I'm really excited for this one, and I've been looking forward to seeing what you'd publish. I think you seem to have a thing for "Terror" in your titles, since both Reign of Terror and now Terror of the Sea have that word in the title. Perhaps a third Terror story is coming soon?

Good job Will! Keep going!

That's some really awesome progress Will! Keep going man. I think 20k is a really reasonable goal, and it's so cool that you're going to finish sometime next well. All the best!

That's an interesting dilemma you posed here, Avo. Typically in college, we got a lot of our research done through the reading of scientific papers. Since a lot of the times, the websites with information on specific topics actually compile information from multiple sources, many of which are scientific papers. So it's good to go directly to the source, but a lot of times, the information there can be hard to understand because of the jargon and the complicated language. I think your game boils down to understanding basic general chemistry.Since you're working with molecules, learning about bonds and how they can sometimes alter the shape of the molecule could be interesting. In high school, there was this cool website that had a lot of interesting animations. These animations were science based, so they were accurate and they were a lot of fun, since you could alter different variables and see what happens! here's the site: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=chemistry&type=html This site was made by the University of Colorado in Boulder, and scrolling through the animations briefly, I feel like these would be helpful to you. 1. Models of the Hydrogen atom. I mean, you're planning on having your protagonist manipulate water, and hydrogen is a huge part of water. H2O after all. Some of the words can be kind of complex, but basically, a guy named Niels Bohr from way back when, decided that atoms had discrete energy levels that could be represented by these rings in the atom. And the electrons would follow the orbits faithfully like planets orbiting the sun in the solar system. But over the years, scientists figured out that the actual reality was a bit more complex. Still, the PhET animation shows the Niels Bohr model because it's easy for students to digest, and it looks pretty! You can also explore other models like the billiard model, plum pudding model, solar system model, de Broglie, and Schrödinger. The spectral lines form when the electron jumps between energy levels. And they give off some cool colors, which is emitted as light! You've got different spectral series that correspond to different states in fancy quantum mechanics equations that you most likely don't need to know until a few years down the line when you decide to study physics and chemistry professionally in university. 2. Building a nucleus. Honestly, it's kind of funny I put this one after the hydrogen atom models, but I feel like this is probably a better starting point. I've just been listing these in the order PhET has been showing, but I would recommend you start with #2 first. You'll learn about protons, electrons, what makes up a nucleus, and other cool stuff! 3. Molecule Shapes: Basics https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/molecule-shapes-basics In this one, you learn about how different atoms covalently bond to each other forming molecules. What's cool is that different molecules have different bonding angles and shapes. And this animation is really neat, because it manages to get into the essence of what makes these different, by having you see the molecule shapes before your eyes, and you can drag an atom and watch them move across the 3D space. I feel like it's important to be able to visualize molecules from beyond the 2 dimensional space of the paper, and I think this animation should be quite helpful in that. 4. Molecule Shapes: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/molecule-shapes This one is the long awaited and just-as-good sequel to molecule shapes: basics! This one has more fancy stuff like the option to toggle between single bonds, double bonds, and triple bonds, and lone pairs. Fun stuff! 5. Building an atom. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/build-an-atom This one is pretty key, and you basically just make an atom. There's even a little game at the end, so that's fun! 6. Changing between states of matter: basics. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/states-of-matter-basics You get to see how the molecules comprising each state of matter look at rest, and how they look when you apply a phase change. Fun stuff! Anyways, I hope these help. You can also ask some questions to any of us if you get stuck. I know there's a lot of science people on here who would be more than happy to help out!

Liminal, the good news is that for the mods, Detroit is more symbolic for them. They don't get actual tangible punishments of being in shame. But I guess simply being in Detroit is punishment enough. So you don't have to worry about springing MHD, she'll break out on her own!

Also, didn't see this earlier, but congrats on finishing the 10k story! You know, I think you should submit that story. If Endmaster allows, maybe you could do a second entry. I don't quite know how it works, but if you have it all done, you should publish it! Or if you want to save it, then that's also a smart choice.

36 pages and 18k words is awesome! I think you might be in the lead Avo! I hope the Khan Academy articles have helped! Let me know if you have any other questions about atoms or anything. Can't wait to see Shifting!

5 main branches is pretty ambitious! I love that you and liminal are planning so much! And I wouldn't say "Into the Darkness" and "Broken Bonds" were strictly linear per se, but I am excited to see you embrace more branching because you've got some really compelling ideas. What's your edutainment game going to be about? I know since it's a contest you may have to be vague, but what's the general field of study you're planning on writing about?