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I hate being a Warden. I really do. Even when I get to the top, it'll all be so futile, like being king of the dungheap.

But, this is OUR dungheap so we have to make the best of it. I've refined my thinking over the last couple of days, which is why I'd like to extend an invite to stories_unwritten, who shares my goal.

Even though we'll eventually have to resort to viscous backstabbing, for the time being I think we should work together, as the newest and most motivated Wardens, to bring about a new status quo and better way of doing things.

I've done some analysis of the competition and will post my thoughts soon. (TL;DR, there isn't much.)

But for the short version, Chris and SindriV are obviously the old guard with their more than decade old accounts, they've become fat and complacent and need to be toppled. Chris may put up a little bit of a fight, but not much of one, and Sindri is just passively waiting for the end.

Then there's enterpride, Petros, Clayfinger, and Milton, and that's really it as far as the ones that might create a threat.

Petros and Enterpride have my respect for tearing down other Wardens, but in the end there's only room for about two spots of relevance, and I'm willing to share the first and second place with you, SU. We just need to coordinate tossing down the others, so the third spot will be Sindri, we can create a sizable buffer of his bloated corpse against the others.

In the meantime we should use this thread to strategize on the storygames we'll be publishing, track progress, and find a mod to be our patron.

The ones we have to beat:
SindriV - 2011 account, 731 comms, 13 stories, no longer writing
Chris113022 (he's Chris) - 2014 account, 309 comms


And the mostly unimpressive competition, starting from the bottom:

applegirl - 57 comms, Exemplar? Exemplar of what? Bitch hasn't logged in since 2015, irrelevant.

Unforgiven - 57 comms, made 1 post, 1 game in 2020, never returned.

Clayfinger - 58 comms, yeah we know who this guy is. He's low on the list but in the contest. 2024 account, sort of straddling the line of new, perhaps there can be a place for him in the new regime.

MiltonManThing - 60 comms, 2024 account also. 3 games, the longest and highest rated one however should be unpublished by the rules of the site.

Bucky - 2014 account. Seems to have been very active at one point but only 64 comms? Last game written in 2017. Last posts display strong markers for autism.

Agstand - 2016 account, 77 comms. 2 games, last seen 2022. Mediocre.

Morgan_R - Still active, joined 2012, ancient. 81 comms. Only 1 game, rated under 4/8. Last game rated was in 2023. Keep an eye on if they begin to write?

RNDGamer, another Exemplar. From 2019, 1 game, 87 comms. No games rated but their own. Possibly died of Covid.

Tim36D - 2014 account. 88 comms, 1 game. Still active, but last game rated in April 2024.

IronPanther - Another 2014. 99 comms, why not just write a short story to round up? 1 storygame, last game rated in 2017, no activity since 2019.



The top 10, these are the "best" Wardens.

jster02 - 2016 accounts, 2 storygames, 120 comms. Shouldn't everyone be making at least 50 comms a year if they're even somewhat contributing? I don't understand this list. Still active, doing idk what.

readwithjeremy - 164 comms, 1 game. 2022 account, last active 2024. Hates the site, loves chess?

AzBaz - Exemplar. What is an Exemplar? 185 comms since 2017, only 1 game, in 2024 they said they're no longer writing here.

Romulus - since 2011(!), 7 storygames, 186 comms...last activity 2024. Really got to be here ten years or more to look even somewhat capable as my fellow Wardens, wow.

pugpup1 - Exemplar, and everyone past this has weird titles I'm not bothering with. Another ancient from 2011. 4 games, 199 comms, why not round that up, what are you doing? just write a long forum post about anything and Mizal will commend it! Active this December but last game rated in 2022 and last forum post a day before. 2 featured games. Dead but could rise.

fresh_out_the_oven - banned


Here are the active threats:

enterpride - 226 comms, very active. 2018 account, 4 games. Wears blackface? Potential threat level: medium. Tears up other Wardens with honorable reviews, I can get behind that.

Petros - 2022 account, 266 comms, last online in December. 6 storygames, but mostly short. Potential threat level - medium. Last posts insulting a weaker Warden, I respect it, we could join forces.

Clayfinger - intends to become a contender with this contest too, enjoys mod protrction.

Stories_unwritten - that's you. Set your own threat.

NeonCatYT - has some kind of cult of personality but stats are low

Poxy4 - seems like a bitch

Morgan will never write, review, or post, I actually have no idea what's going on with her either, maybe she's had the same tab poem on her phone for years.

Nothing beats applegirl tenaciously holding her place on the board for 11 years with less than 60 comms and without any sign of a pulse though.

Sticky, glutinous backstabbing.

I do not trust you but we can be sessa-takuma !! It means to improve ourselves through friendly rivalry.

Looks like we need two stories or more to be in top ten, this might take a while, maybe a few weeks or months. It is best to write fast with quality. Reviews are not a good deal for speed i think. Thankfully writing stories unwritten is my hobby !

We can do it ! Ganbatte.

Considering how quickly RK rose through the Marauder ranks with featured reviews and is ranked higher than some users with commended stories, I wouldn't be so quick to discount them. 

The best technique imo is to write exclusively 29k storygames. One day I will figure out how to write shorter stories and amass all the commendations on the site.

RK opened his account at about the same time I did too. I've really been slacking, huh? ToT

     It's either you're slacking, RK is built different, or a mix. I think it's a mix, most likely but I couldn't tell you the ratio.

Clayfinger, if anything I feel like it's the opposite. You got 3 genuinely enjoyable well-made games. And for any of one of them, a case can be made for commendation, while meanwhile, I'm out here with 1 game which is a gay and depressed spin off. While those are awesome, I do want to make a game of my own, so this contest is kind of my best opportunity to get something good out there.

Haha, seems like we both have some catching up to do.