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So there were 49 contestants and 31 of those were SHAMED.

31

FUCKING

SHAMED

"Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting SHAME prepared for faggots and fucktards."- End Master 24:7

Jesus fucking Christ, I don’t even have any words for how much you fuckers failed on this one. Sure I always expect you to fail, but this is pretty spectacular even for you. Five of you faggots got yourselves double SHAMED and one fucktard got himself triple SHAMED. 

Fuck, two of you were so fucking hopeless you even got yourselves fucking BANNED.

You lot had THREE extensions and squandered ALL of them. And the topper is the one asking for all of them didn’t even finish! I’m not even going to mention her name here, she already knows how disappointed I am in her. 

Her AND the other divine being that failed to turn anything in have been cast down and STRIPPED naked of their powers until they get their shit together.

"Well at least we're together." - Thara

"Shut up, this is all your fault!" - Mizal

Good thing all the KAE folks also flaked out so your failure wasn’t even worse by having filthy foreigners embarrass you even further. CYStian honor is still preserved, but only fucking barely.

I’m going to just chalk up this mass fail to some grand “thoughtful” gesture of not wanting me to slog through your shitty writing so you didn’t turn anything in. 

Yeah, let’s go with that.

As for the ones that actually turned something in, two of you even failed at doing that properly and got yourself SHAMED anyway. Great job you fucking mongs.

So who won? At this point I’m not even sure why I should fucking bother with naming a winner. Shit, I should just name Fresh the winner since her story made me laugh the most which is one of the few bright spots in this shitshow.

In any case as usual Darius and Mystic being the overachievers they are, wrote like a billion words for their contest stories. In Mystic’s case she did even more than that, what with sacrificing things like sleep and eating just to work on her story.

The joke's on her of course since I didn't even bother to read it, however, if 31 of you kumquats had even 1 percent of Mystic’s drive, you wouldn’t be in the situation you are now.

So naturally she ended up winning again, though given the others that managed to limp something over the line, that’s hardly surprising.

As for the rest of you losers, some of you did alright for whatever reason and some of you sucked for whatever reason. I suppose another bright spot is there were a lot of noob writers that came through with better than average stories so there's promise for the future.

Here's the final results of those that actually turned in a story, except the two that co-authored that linear piece of shit. Fuck you both. (You got a 1)

Spell of Slumber - Mystic_Warrior 8

Gay and DepressedER! - fresh_out_the oven 8

Planetshakers - Wizzycat 7

Monster - Sherbet 6

Underland - TypewriterCat 6

When Rock Meets Watermelon - goodnight_a 6

Gay Old Time - Darius_Conwright 6

Hazy - crystalpenguin 6

The Siberian - Yummyfood 5

In 3 - PerforatedPenguin 5

Digital Consciousness - Abgeofriends 5

Crime of Passion - Petros 5

Meant To Be? - TrueParanormal 5

Undermined - DrowningWhale 4

The Painting of Red - ugilick 4

Temporary Paradise - Stormwind 4

Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf - Axxius 3

G-H-O-S-T - Morgan_R 3

That's it for this contest. Let’s just move on and not speak of this dark day again.

Congratulations to Mystic. I haven't read your story, but if the ratings say anything, you completely deserved the win.

A slightly smaller congratulations to Fresh. 2.6k words and second place, that really is impressive.

The story I wrote got a good, solid 6, and fifth place, so I'm excessively happy about that. (I also beat Petros in my very one-sided feud.)

I have a certain feeling that I lost twice haha. But anyways, congratulations Mystic for your win, it's an amazing story and I enjoyed reading through it! Surprisingly it's labeled as a fanfiction, but I hope that it will be featured in the Romance category (once the admin situation gets sorted out). Oh yeah Fresh, your story was pretty funny, being the one and only true gay and depressed story at heart. You've beaten me at my own game.

And shame on people who didn't submit. (Yes, I'm still a bit angry at myself that I submitted it a few days early, never should do that again)

You hope people would think before joining one of these. 31 people shamed, is that some kind of world record?  congrats to everyone who actually turned a story game in.

Yeah I'm actually glad I didn't have to read that many stories and threw a lot into the SHAME pit, though there were some prompts I would have liked to have seen results from.

I literally can't tell if your being sarcastic or not.

I've enjoyed a lot of these stories. Congrats to those who aren't shamed. I wanted to join, but I was too much of a pussy. 

Well done to Mystic. Your word count shocked me. 

6th is pretty good for someone whose only other CYOA was one page of map before giving up. 

Thanks for the contest! Congrats to everyone who submitted something.

I'm surprised, yet happy that fresh got second place. The story was hilarious and I rated it an 8 myself.

It just proves that one can never know what to expect in an Endmaster contest.

Congratulations to Mystic, as well as everyone else that submitted.

Congrats Mystic! Congrats everyone!

Congrats Mystic and all the other submitters! I'll probably get around to reading all of these. Eventually. Maybe. 

Woah, there are a lot of shamed contestants this time. I'm surprised considering the number of extensions. I might have to release a productivity guide soon. Then again, I'm sure most people would procrastinate on reading it.

Thank you for hosting this contest, End! Sorry for making you read so many words click through a lot of links. Congratulations to Fresh on placing 2nd, and to Wizzy, Sherb, and TypeCat for top 5! Also, well done to everyone who submitted. There seems to be many great stories and some of you managed to do really well for your first games. Peng, you finally made it out of your endless tomorrows!

I'm looking forward to reading and reviewing the stories in a few days, once I'm finished with my assignments. I know I always say this at the end of contests, but this time, I'm planning to read + review at least 1 story per day. It was part of my new year resolutions, after all.

Quick Reflection

Of course, here's the obligatory text wall everyone probably expects by now. I honestly didn't expect to win this one. In fact, I received a message during the last few hours asking if I was aiming to win, and I said it wasn't likely. Then I saw this result today and it startled a laugh out of me. This honestly made my week.

My main goal coming into this contest was to write the story I've always wanted to write. ‘Spell of Slumber’ was an idea I had many years ago, although I never felt ready to tackle it, as there were lots of complex themes I wanted to explore. That's probably why some names are a bit strange (a younger version of me created them and I didn't want to change too much). It was my initial idea for the first prompt contest too, but the relevant prompts were taken by the time I joined; this worked out for the best since I wrote ‘In Moonlit Waters’. That story might have been influenced by parts of my plans for ‘Spell of Slumber’ (poems, cover pages, font stylization, etc).

I know it sounds strange, but I felt slightly empty after finishing ‘Spell of Slumber’. Normally, towards the end of a contest, I’ll go from wanting to write the most awesome story ever to just wanting to get it over and done with. Hopefully that doesn’t reflect in my earlier work haha. Yet, it was different with this story, maybe because I spent over 2 months working on it and because of how much I related to the themes. Almost every main character has 1 of my irl flaws/ internal conflict. Some scenes felt too true to life that I ended up changing details because I felt like I was calling myself out too much. 

Oh, and the extensions were super helpful. Thank you to End and the person who asked for them! At the end of the first deadline, I was extremely stressed and plotting whether to stay up for 2 days in a row because I had barely completed the midpoint of my story. Not that I would actually do that lol. I'd probably have just cut most of the plot points if it weren't for the extension. It didn’t help that I had a friend who would spend most days of the week working on assignments with me, and I couldn’t tell her that everytime I would go to ‘sleep early’ and ‘wake up late’ I was actually squeezing out as many writing hours as possible. Then I ended up becoming overconfident and resurrecting dead plotlines since there was an extension, which dragged out the process and made me immensely stressed until the second extension. That time, I resolved to make use of my time more wisely and… procrastinated for 3 hours on a trailer. At least I didn't start playing an addictive game or anything like that. Then I worked consistently on my storygame until the last hour, which was the latest I’ve ever submitted for a contest because younger Mystic knew nothing about time zones. I was always so worried about missing the deadline that I submitted a day in advance even though my country was hours ahead of the US. Not that Dreamtruder or Breaker needed to be longer anyway.

Speaking of which, I'm planning to improve my ability to write shorter pieces, so perhaps my next storygame would be somewhere around 64k or 29k. For no particular reason. I might write one of my sci-fi or modern genres for a change of pace because I want to take a break from fantasy for a bit. But that won't be for at least a month or two; I want to read and rest for a while.

Normally, this rant-like, stream-of-consciousness post would go on for much longer, but I’m saving a few things for what’s to come. Maybe I might list out the strangest writing/ editing sessions I've had for this contest if anyone's interested. But once my main assignments are out of the way, I'll compile my most helpful writing/ productivity/ time management tips and tricks into a guide for actually completing a contest entry; I wrote an article about that back in 2020, tested it out on two contests, realized it worked to some degree, and after these most recent contests I discovered better strategies. That will hopefully be up in a few days time unless I get distracted by something else.

Overall, I can say I've won 100% of End's prompt contests now! Two contest wins in a row! Also I know people don't pay attention to orders, but the Architects have won the last 4 contests and I wonder how long we can keep this up.

...what?

End's angry rants are always so satisfying to read, when you know they aren't directed at you.

(Yes, I know I've never entered a contest before. Don't come for me please. I won't be home :P)

I would like to formally apologize to literally everyone my story beat. This was not the plan.

Can't say I'm upset though, beyond stealing other people's rightful placings lol

Congrats Mystic!  

Hopefully I will find some time to read your story.

Also congrats to all those who turned in something.

It seems contests have become a more common thing than I remember them being. However, there's really no set time (that I'm aware of) for the next to appear, nor any particular number of days that have to go by before the next one arises.

Seeing how this was such a disaster, though, my guess is that it'll be a little while. Perhaps give people time to recover and actually get their shit together before giving out more empty promises.

Also, the next contest may not be in this format, with separate prompts to pick from. Usually it's just one prompt and everyone attempts to create a story that has something to do with it.

Once every 3 months usually, sometimes more.

Fingers crossed that I can refrain from impulsively joining this one

I may avoid the site around that time so that I don't make a commitment I can't keep. I have very busy summers.

Nice.  The universe is slowly moving back into proper alignment

We're waiting for Thara