7/14/2012

11/19/2025 10:56 PM

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28 wins / 29 losses

Marauder Exemplar

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Cure for Writer's Block
Tips for Dialogue
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How to make your novel a page turner
How to Write Compelling Characters

Ciara's Game

Contest Winner for Endmaster's 2018 Fanfic Contest


Ciara's life has never been anything worth cherishing, until she participates in a game that changes everything.

Special thanks to Corgi for beta testing, you're the best!

Update 12/26/18:Changed good ending perameters so that the requirements make more sense.

Update 6/25/19:Fixed a script error where the judge did not properly acknowledge a player's choice.

P.S. There is more than one ending. If you haven't found more than one, then you have not tried "literally" everything.

Project Origin: Atrophy

Bringing back this little slice of fan-fiction by Mizal's request. It's old and was written before I really understood how to do a CYOA, but enjoy it anyway lol.

Project Origin: The Unraveling (part 1)

Bringing back this little slice of fan-fiction by Mizal's request. It's old and was written before I really understood how to do a CYOA and it's stupidly linear lol, but enjoy it anyway.

The Secret of Daphne

When a young family moves into the sleepy little town of Daphne, they find themselves in a virtual utopia. The small cottage they move into is lovely, but not so old that it has problems. The people are all friendly, a close knit town with a population of only 300. Both of the family's daughters begin to make friends in their new school and the husband and wife find themselves entranced with the romantic scenery.
But, if something is too good to be true, it probably is.

Disclaimer:

Graphic Violence

Drug Reference

Sexual Reference

Special Thanks:

BerkaZerka & Aman

For their invaluable feedback and help in the making of this game.

 

Update 1:

Fixed minor script issues

Update 2:

Fixed minor spelling/grammar errors

 

 

People think your story sucks? This article is for you!

If huge chunks of text are missing then you’re not even able to actually read the story or play the game really. I’m sorry but you wrote a multi paragraph review on a story you couldn’t actually read in its entirety? Why? I always appreciate reviews no matter if they’re positive or negative, but getting one from someone missing huge amounts of context to the story and therefore the game mechanics just feels wrong. Maybe only review stories you can read in full in the future?

Ok, so most of my info is of course from Helene and not Milton.

As a prologue, being without power, internet, and cell service for a week after it hit us meant I had the extra special experience of getting to hear all of this through the grapevine on the front end before I got exposed to it online.

So day 1-3: Boomers and the Gen X/Millennial boomer wannabes were claiming FEMA was confiscating supplies and donations and taking them away from drop off locations. But they were also screaming that FEMA wasn't there and neither was the National Guard... as chinooks were flying over my home around the clock. They were also enraged that FEMA, who again wasn't there but also is?, were turning away volunteers for search and rescue. The volunteers being unqualified rednecks with their wives and kids in toe on side by sides...

Day 3: They start accepting and mobilizing volunteers who are qualified, IE no kids allowed. Which honestly made me damn proud of my area, a lot of them make me want to pull my hair out whenever they open their mouths, but they aren't bad people. But... again, FEMA somehow isn't there and neither is the National Guard, even though both are the main ones organizing the volunteers? They're still accusing FEMA of stealing supplies and refusing to leave the donation supplies anywhere but local churches... who distribute the supplies through FEMA. The mental gymnastics of that week were honestly awe inspiring.

Day 4-6: People are no longer claiming FEMA isn't there, instead they are now making FEMA the local boogeymen of the Biden admin. Supply theft, $750 is the only money being offered but somehow nobody is getting it(again this was the grapevine still without internet or cell service to fact check this shit), they're just leaving people on the mountain(a lot refused to leave thanks to people spreading rumors about lithium mine conspiracies and FEMA loan sharks). Claims that Asheville is getting bulldozed and eminent domain is kicking in so Asheville will just be a lithium mine by next year.

I forget what number day it was, but I finally got internet without having to go into the city for it and got to really dig into all this shit. Social media was a fucking gold mine of conspiracy posts and tragedy porn.

Lithium Mine Conspiracy:

NC has the worlds biggest deposit of Quarts which is what is used in making Lithium. So the filthy Dems used cloud seeding to generate hurricane Helene to destroy NC so they could use eminent domain to steal the land to make a quartz mine so they could make their lithium batteries for their vile EV cars and force everyone to stop using gas powered vehicles. As more information came out about cloud seeding they then started claiming it was space lasers that made the hurricane. Everyone is of course ignoring that the mining company already owns the land they want to mine along with required buffer zone since I think 2021 and had just applied for mining rights or whatever this year. But of course they ignore everything but that they applied for mining rights, so they must be in bed with the Dems to steal the land... even though they already bought the land...

Voter Assassination Conspiracy

Supervillain Kamala Harris used space lasers to make the hurricane and directed it to hit only Red States to try and kill as many republican citizens as possible while also making it impossible for survivors to vote in the election without an absentee ballot(which of course they believe will be changed from Trump to Kamala when mailed in).

Trump Was Boots on the Ground, Kamala wasn't

AI images of Trump wading through water at almost 80 years old and climbing power poles to restore power are making their way around Facebook. People believe they are real images and that the reason they're being flagged as fake news is... Honestly I don't even fucking know. The ones believing these images can barely type a coherent FB post and it hurts my brain to try and decipher their all caps screeching. But they mostly have in common that they believe the video of Kamala handing out food to hurricane victims is actually AI. lol.

FEMA Funding Conspiracy

They think Kamala is secretly funneling illegals into the country by the millions, giving them $3500 debit cards each, free houses, and free food while only giving Helene victims $750. All I could find on this was that New York decided it would save them money to give migrants $3000 debit cards that could only be used at approved stores for approved items and they had had to have kids or whatever. But it was a one time thing and not to be reloaded monthly. I didn't dig too deep on it honestly because it was just flabbergasting at this point.

Filthy Dems Stealing Land Part 2

Separate from the Lithium mine, people believe that FEMA money is a loan which puts your personal assets down as collateral so when you don't pay it back they just steal your assets/land to then give to migrants. They also believe that if you leave your property when FEMA comes to save you then they will automatically take over the property to later gift to migrants after Kamala takes over. There are people trapped in NC, unable to get supplies or get down the mountains without helicopter extraction and they are refusing to go because they believe this conspiracy theory.

Those are the best and most complete ones I've come across. I've also seen some people applying for the $750 while living in their undamaged apartments they don't even own then screaming about illegals when they get denied and claiming they were going to use the money to help people in NC. Most people gave them pats on the back, but I saw one lone commenter reading them for filth.

I'm also seeing a metric fuck ton of tragedy porn on facebook. "Don't you fucking dare complain about anything because these people have it worse" type shit. Meanwhile our area on its own got its ass kicked, so I'm not sure why we're not allowed to complain amongst ourselves? A kid died while his family was trying to walk through tree filled roads to get to grandparents to check on them. He was 8 years old and without cell service no one could call for help. They couldn't get the tree off him. It was fucking sad. My own property got hit with a flash flood that had an almost 10FT water surge and nearly drowned some of our animals. We saved them by getting out in the fucking storm and wading into the water that had one hell of current to the point where it washed the bridge on our road away. We also saved our fence that was getting dragged down by debris by cutting chains on all our gates before they could buckle and tear out bracing posts from the ground. If I want to say that shit was fucking scary I'll fucking say it and fuck the tragedy porn bitches who live in their safe little city homes who only lost power for 2 days. End Rant.

Anyway, I have banned myself from Facebook in recent days and it has helped immensely. But I'll probably cave sooner or later just to go see what other juicy new conspiracy theories have been cooked up since I last looked.

The fat man. Because one death is better than five, but also let's face it... Fatty's quality of life is not going to be as good as the skinny peeps. If he did live, he'd just waste his second chance stuffing his face and being gross, possibly even reproducing with another fatty and thus causing the next generation to also be fat and gross.

1.H. When your job involves going into literal biohazards when one could simply bulldoze that SOB you might have the worst job. I was going to pick the child porn one, but at least those people get the satisfaction of sometimes saving kids. Hoarder home cleaners don't get that since most of the time the home goes right back to its hoarder state within a year. 2. C. At least when they see it I can proudly claim to have never missed even with the shits. 3.C. Seems like an interesting job and doesn't require constant laying in wait. 4.Top Right speaks to me, I'd wear the shit out of that tie.

I really want to see this kid snipe a bigot. Or attempt to at least.

I'm starting to wonder what he's going to do when he finally gets booted out of the White House. Either he'll fade into obscurity, kicking and screaming the whole way. Or, he's going to go buy some private island somewhere and have a private army made up of all his worshippers. Which will inevitably turn into a human sacrifice cult. I feel like it'll be the former, but the latter is so much more entertaining. Most of my neighbors have taken down all of their pro-trump lawn ornaments and signage. Even the Jesus 2020 - Our only hope, sign got taken down. Most shockingly of all, the fabled Trump Shitter is now just a plain ol' outhouse in a field of cows. When only the paranoid meth heads and neckbeards support you, you know you're going down hill fast lol.

Well, that just goes without saying. I mean why even have one if you're not going to get drunk, strip naked, and pass out in a field?

I'm late to the party, but thought I'd bring you all the wisdom of the hillbillies on this whole fiasco. The entire thing was orchestrated by Antifa, ya'll. No one there was truly a republican. It's all just the libs trying to frame Trump and his supporters as the bad guys. And next, this mob will be coming for our guns, but they'll be without their disguises at that time since Bimala will be in charge at that point. So best bury them in cases under your gardens this year so they can't be found when the lib hoards are upon us! Also, Trump is about to declare martial law according to some prophetic preacher dude who totes got permission from God himself to spill the beans to Trump's faithful. So we're all about to be locked in our homes while the libs are dragged from their homes for election fraud and shot in the streets. Italy's also apparently in on it so Trump is gonna nuke them once he stops the steal ya'll. Once Trump is back on the throne we can all dig up our gardens and get back to shooting random varmints off our properties and hoarding bullets for... reasons... Oh and of course mething it the fuck up. Yee Yee!

The main issue you're going to run into is that the trope of the "doom upon you" tarot reading is mired in misunderstanding of how tarot works in the first place. Even the card titled Death doesn't necesarily mean death, it represents rebirth 99.9% of the time. Because death is part of the cycle of rebirth. So it just means that something is coming to an end and making way for something new. In some decks the Devil card seems ominous, but it typically represents the material world and how one can become trapped by their attachments to materialistic pleasures (a rich social lite being depressed due to a lack of spiritual fullfillment would be a prime example). My advise would be to take full advantage of people's general lack of understanding and superstition about Tarot and just go with the trope no matter how unlikely it is to get those kinds of combos. To get that specific you would either need to do extremely intricate card spread like a modified celtic cross or hope and pray that simple doesn't backfire and do a 3 card past, present, future spread. At it's core Tarot is more about introspection than actual foretune telling. It's a great tool for personal meditation. When used in a fortune teller gypsy trope setting it only works well if the person on the other side of things has little to no understanding of how tarot really works.

@BerkaZerka @BradinDvorak Sorry, but I'm infecting ya'll with the 'rona :P