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Infrangible Warden

A Treatise on Heartly Manners

A contest entry for Bucky's year's end contest: choose your own prompt II.
Play as Lord Robert, the baron of Rivellon, at the lowest point of his life. He's cheated on by his wife, betrayed by his liege and filled to the brim with a turmoil of conflicting emotions.
How does his life end? 

Avarga

Entry for EndMaster's Prompt Contest 3. In this epic tale of courage, sacrifice, and redemption, Your journey will take you to the very edge of existence and beyond. Will you stand to lead; or will your story be cut short?

Brimstone

Allow me to share my story.

Cannibal Apocalypse

Pretty sure this isn't meant for the family-friendly category.

AAA Nazi Game

unpublished

Yeah, that title's gonna change

An alternate history scenario after the victory of the Third Reich.

An entry to End Master's Prompt Contest 5: "A story about time traveling Nazis or dinner with Hitler. I don't care, just something with Nazis I guess. Time period and location still don't matter."

AvargB

unpublished

Contest Winner

unpublished

It did not win.

Darkest Hour

unpublished

The year is 2478 and the human race once again finds itself within Sol's borders. Like a phoenix from our bitter past, we have risen anew.

Like Aeneas, we had been cast out of our home. We searched the galaxy for a new home, and like him, we found it and made it our own. We struggled and were battered by the harsh conditions. But now, both ready and willing, we will eclipse the legends of old.

Now we shall fight to reclaim what is rightfully ours.

Fast little game

unpublished

10pm until I fall asleep let's go!

General Butt Naked

unpublished

FOR ENDMASTER'S CONTEST<, PRAISED BE THE LEGEND.

Liberia and Sierra Leone are small countries on the west coast of Africa. Like many African countries, the lands are extremely rich in natural resources and vibrant in culture.

However, in the 1980s the climate halted in corruption and mismanagement under the All People's Congress Party. With over 70% of the people barely capable of buying a single cup of rice, survival became much harder. Not trusting in the democratic process any longer, the RUF was formed to drastically revamp the economic system and redistribute the country's wealth. They fought for education, jobs, and true democracy. In the process, they pillaged the lands and cut off many limbs.

It is in these times Joshua Milton Blahyi is born, butt naked. And in these times he'll fight, butt naked. For he is:

General Butt Naked.

Neglected

unpublished

This is my neglected story.

zExpedition Aquarius

unpublished

For centuries, man has scoured the stars, desperate to find its likeness. Thus far all was for naught; empty husks and barren rocks worked hard to crush his dreams. There was just one anomaly, one beacon amid the darkness. This is its story. This is the story of man's first foray to the stars.

An entry to Mizal's Tiny 'topias Jam. Where a lot more little bite-sized stories are -and will be- shared by other authors.

And for those that don't have the extension, and thus can't click on the storygame to open it, here's a tiny backdoor left open. Feel free to make use of it, and even leave a comment if you like.

Expedition Aquarius

zLetters Unanswered

unpublished

An epistolary novel containing the desperate pleas of a sole father. How will he bring his daughter safety in a city ripe for rebellion?

An entry to Mizal's Tiny 'topias Jam. Where a lot more little bite-sized stories are -and will be- shared by other authors.

And for those that don't have the extension, and thus can't click on the storygame to open it, here's a tiny backdoor left open. Feel free to make use of it, and even leave a comment if you like.

Letters Unanswered

I'm on my phone right now in my last wakeful moments, so forgive me for being curt. Once again you mention you can point to countless examples of some members. Dude, own it up and start naming the bad apples directly or linking actual threads for scrutiny rather than speaking in generalized statements. Nobody has strong feelings about you calling abusive racism bad, people are put off by you preaching doom and gloom, essentially forming a line in the sand where there's no nuance between either fully following the words of prophet Will11 or being turned into that other category of being a vile abusive racist. What the fuck are we even arguing about? Now aside from not knowing what you intend the C-word to mean, effectively hampering our communication (cogite? cunt? Cancer? Chimpanzee? Canadian? See how censoring words and thoughts impedes discussion already on a micro-level) I don't ascribe to the point of us not actively spouting curse words every second sentence to be any result of implied filters. Hell, we're forming actual paragraphs here that are, I dare say, above the lolfag level without any rules or moderation hanging over our heads! What a wonderful world we live in. And yes, perhaps if you actually read my post you would see how cyberbullying differs from what happens here in my optics. And again, if you don't like this particular brand of a children's adventure tale fanfiction site, why not head over to any of the multiple competing sites with their own distinct culture prioritizing safety over authentic discourse rather than making this one so inclusive and accessible to all that it loses its core identity? In the end praise without room to critique is worth nothing, just as friendliness without room to squabble. That is what I mean with genuine and authentic interaction that filters inevitably turn into just another clone of the modern internet. Would I tell a kid to off himself? No. Would I go out of my way giving them preferential treatment to accommodate them? Also no. Also I instinctively abhor the need to pull attendance metrics in any form to quantify objective betterment. In that case we can all just fuck off to Facebook and be done with it.

I have my moments

Since this turned out to be one of those threads where everybody and their mother feels obligated to put their 2c in, figure I might as well. This original post (and Mystic's ensuing one talking about mostly British laws, but I'll go into that later) irks me. Not because I feel called out. In fact, I rarely post beyond an idle one-liner or an angry rant, nothing in-between. Nor does it irk me because dunking on some poor kid is my favorite pasttime and the main reason of visiting this site that I won't let anyone pry out of my cold, angry hands for any reason, but because I feel it makes false straw-mans to argue against and makes even worse equations to support your conclusions. For one, you'd likely find that dislike of abuse and racism aren't controversial at all, and the holier than thou hill you've erected, resulting in a piss-poor attempt of vilifying the poor sod that is against your further argument, is largely made of vignettes of your own imagination. Rather than getting crucified and banned for this apparently self-righteous crusading post, your 'opposition' is largely made up of people who go 'damn, that's crazy' only to then genuinely enter the argument in good faith. What a weird thing for abusive racists to do, right? Alright, with that out of the way, let's dissect the main problem at hand: bad treatment of noobs who fail to integrate into the site culture and social norms, noobs who are more likely than not children. Now pardon me not going into any specifics, I don't follow enough threads close enough to recognize the excerpts you gave, just as you haven't linked to those particular threads or have given specific names for context. So consider this my kneejerk reaction to yours. I feel like the core of the site's identity is its lack of filter. It is considered its greatest boon when you consider the in-depth reviews and competitive spirit it promotes. It also results that what you put into the site governs what you get out of it. People who genuinely interact with the other members get some of the most authentic feedback and interactions around that just aren't found in communities where every thought is policed and negative anything heavily discouraged. On the other hand, people who enter in bad faith, make alts, ignore (now in this modern era dozens of) warnings and continue to troll and spam despite getting banned over and over again, well they get an authentic reaction in turn. Now to call this communital reaction to somebody being around in bad faith cyber-bullying is where I draw the line. For one, there's zero emotional attachment to a new member and this random small site on the internet. We aren't a social media. We are simply some random forum. To quote Tyler's infamous tweet here, "Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha" There is literally nothing stopping them from closing the tab and/or googling another writing site to misbehave on. We aren't the rare and only hobbyist site on this topic out there. They hold all the power there. This isn't something that follows them around wherever they go, nor involves real life friends to get shamed or ridiculed by, something that has actual repercussions of threatening social expulsion from everybody they know or actual meaningful impersonation, further blackmailing them into things they are unwilling to do. This is just a site they found a couple minutes/hours/days ago and somehow this self-inflicted obsession to continue interacting despite the clear message that they are unwelcome here. In my opinion, it is not that deep. In fact, calling this cyberbullying, in my opinion cheapens the word and does a disservice to those who have actually been coerced, blackmailed and cyberbullied and seen their lives ruined due to it, much like the gluten people have ruined it for those who suffer with Celiac's or actual allergies. I think that flows in my rebuttal of Mystic flexing her law degree onto this topic. Written anonymous vitriol of Username27 against NewTrollingMemberAlt912 in an attempt to ward them off an obscure site with less than fifteen members online at one time is worlds apart from DM'ing little Johnny Smith, the twelve year old boy with his smiling face and favorite pet cat on his profile picture, on instagram in an attempt to coerce the poor kid to vile deeds. And UK's draconian internet laws should be met with as much scorn as its turbulent politics deserves. Not only has it been met with half a million signatures for appeal domestically the last time I bothered checking, the very attempt to further regulate the internet is more akin to the CCP's fetish for total control than anything genuine, but I digress into politics. In any case, luckily it's not relevant to the respectable parts of the world. I furthermore agree with Malk that online speech and actual real life speech are worlds apart and demeanor on one differs from the other in more than merely anonymity. He's worded it succinctly and any further elucidation would just be a circlejerk. That leaves me with the more controversial opinion of arguing against the ever increasing trend to coddle and treat kids with literal kid gloves. In my opinion, the responsibility of the kid's online presence is with themself and their parents first and foremost. I fondly recall my own childhood on the internet. From the infamous 2000's COD lobbies giving rise to thick skin, and a C1 level proficiency in English vulgarity, to various small sites, where the online anonymity of a written format allowed me to interact with adults on an even standing for the first time in my life. I wasn't judged for my status, age or prior experience. Only what I put on the page mattered. It was eye-opening to not get infantilized from the start, and looking back, I haven't grown up any worse from either experience. In this thread alone, members attest to and have spoken in favor of getting treated like anyone else during their formative years. It is something unique to that specific period that I feel modern internet has taken away. And hell, looking at it from another angle, back in the day in our elementary, kids used to share truly fucked up clips of cartel torture and shitporn, and I don't believe the modern generation have magically lost that innate self-destructive curiosity of the morbid. I don't believe a few words on the page of a writing site make a significant impact in comparison.

Fabrikant

Enterpride never trolls I heard

Walk up to the first person you see and find an excuse to touch their teeth instead!

I am sure MissileSender's top priority right now is to log in to CYS and inform us of his well-being and continue debating western debauchery. In fact, I have it on good authority he's busy attempting to circumvent the blackout as we speak.

Ace

I'm very partial to a well intoned 'damn, that's crazy' myself

It's only insulting if you feel insulted. I said being a woman is a bad thing, for a man. In the same manner we have a term loosely translated to 'manbitch' in Dutch for very masculine women. That ain't insulting to men either. Alternatively you can go the modern gender stereotypes are outdated and every one is their own special person philosophy, in which case I'd call you a degenerate and be done with it.