Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
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9/2/2025 1:03 AM
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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.
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unpublished
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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.
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Recent Posts
The Haunting of Hill House on 9/1/2025 11:15:43 PMRemembered that I've had Hill House downloaded on my Kindle a long time already so I've started reading it too. I generally avoid horror these days but it's been on my radar a long time, and we're close enough to October.
The opening paragraph is indeed somewhat famous, even Stephen King has praised it.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
The opening paragraph is indeed somewhat famous, even Stephen King has praised it.
Summer Reading Competition 2025 on 9/1/2025 9:55:22 AM
Thanks to Will and Mystic for really thing above and beyond with this one, not to mention maintaining that energy for three whole months. The total number of reviews reached is just jawdropping too, what on earth are a couple of these people going to have left to do next year?
Anyway, my plan was always to post exactly one review in the last hour, mission neatly accomplished. My only regret is that I was so tired last night I didn't dare wait around til 10:59 for fear I'd faceplant on the keyboard at exactly 10:58.
2025 Summer Reading Competition | Tracking Thread on 8/31/2025 11:24:59 PM
Great job, me.
Mizal vs the Gayzette on 8/31/2025 1:59:44 AM
I'm pretty sure they were eating people, it's just subtle about that.
The Haunting of Hill House on 8/31/2025 12:52:03 AM
Lol. Enjoy your reading, but this is where threads go to die.
Mizal vs the Gayzette on 8/30/2025 2:24:06 PM
They seem like such a nice family, glad they're eating well.
CYS Monthly Gazette - 8 August 2025 on 8/30/2025 11:51:40 AM
Realized I'd never commented on this one. Really always do enjoy the interviews even if all of the staff is weird and lame and will never survive the wasteland. I'm especially amazed you got Theo to agree to an appearance, an event that will probably never be repeated.
I'm sure it really helped that Milton went after him with his deceptively wholesome grown up human appearance, and not one of the edgy zoomers. Must've caught him in a weak unsuspecting moment.
CYS Monthly Gazette - 27 August 2025 on 8/29/2025 2:38:52 PM
Ah yes, just wasn't up to your usual exacting quality standards.
Really might as well leave up the only passable thing you've managed to complete so far, especially when people have put effort into reviewing it.
CYS Monthly Gazette - 27 August 2025 on 8/29/2025 1:36:35 PM
100% agree with the genre description, but I think how you defined a gang had a lot more to do with your own predelictons. Not everyone needs to be a goonsquad--though in this case there did need to be more leaders.
Profile Badges on 8/29/2025 1:29:34 PM
Used to be more common to do that in older games, might be a fun trend to bring back.
