An allegory.

Author's note: the title of this story is actually The Fire, but someone else already created a storygame with that title, so I couldn't give it the title that I wanted. My second choice for the title was The Light, but another person already took that title as well, so, if you don't mind, just pretend that the title of this story is The Fire.

A story set in medieval China.

Note: Even early on in the game you can lose by making a strategically erroneous choice so choose carefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noaI_5CeAb0

Heroes of Might and Magic fans might find this video interesting.

I've fallen into a Heroes of Might and Magic AI-generated graphics rabbit hole lately.

Comparing the antagonist to an authority figure like a shooting instructor two-thirds of the way into the poem too abruptly introduces a perspective shift on the relationship between the antagonist and protagonist.

The word shot is repeated too many times in a brief amount of text without a rhetorical purpose.

The word every is used in two consecutive sentences without a rhetorical purpose.

The naïveté of wishing for painless love is a dramatic shift from the more mature tone of the first two-thirds of the poem.

The first two-thirds of it was great.

Also, why is there a semicolon in Line 5?

Are you even a real variety gamer if you don't also play board games, card games, and role-playing games?

Well, I, for one, believe that you have what it takes to win the bet. I have full confidence that your contest story will show all of these drooling morons just who the obviously infallible and intellectually superior writer is. They're all just big meanies who are jealous of your flawless punctuation and exposition choices, that's all. How dare they project their insecurities on other people and delude themselves into thinking that they are great writers despite a lack of any evidence to warrant such a conclusion to make up for any feelings of inadequacy that they may be feeling as a result of their real-life interactions! They just wished that they had as much writing talent in their whole body as you do in your little finger, I bet. None of their stories will stand a chance against the work of genius with which you are surely about to grace us.

How dare you accuse me of cowardly covering up my presence on this site? I challenge you to a game of hide-and-seek (to t*e death!) to determine once and for all which one of us has more honor.

He'll just need to ask us if he can use AI and how long of a story he should write and he'll have hit the noob trifecta.

The difference just seems to be the gender of the protagonist.

Maybe it's less that men hate reading than that women just hate watching porn. Men just get their rocks off via another medium, while women do it through books.

Story B was good; Story A was alright.