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2 days ago
Commended by Mystic_Warrior on 4/1/2026 7:15:39 PM
Due to recent demands, just a few changes to site policy. Over the next few weeks, we will be sulfurous threads that do not comply.

The chooseyourstory.com forums are a welcoming place for all writers, readers, and people who do neither. Please treat others in this forum with respect, regardless of literacy levels, age, IQ, species, username, avatar, opinions, legal status, effort, or intent.

If you're not sure what you're typing is welcoming, you need to make it nicer, or else strike yourself sharply ten times on the wrist with a spork and then post nothing at all.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree!

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That's not okay. That hurts feelings, and destroys lives.


Please avoid:

Name-calling.

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Responding to a post’s tone and coherency instead of its actual intent.

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Reasonable counter-arguments.

Numbered lists.

Yapping.


The conversations we have here set the tone for everyone. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum a relentlessly positive place to be.

Coming soon: a flagging system to alert moderators of any potentially problematic posts, particularly the ones you disagree with. Don't engage with the ideas in those posts, just alert the authorities and have your opposition silenced.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and ban any user account for any reason at any time. Do Not Question This. (Unless you want us to upgtage to the flogging system.)

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness. Be polite! Don’t post anything that a sheltered middle class White person would consider offensive, and don’t advocate for any of these things.

Remember, keep CYS a beautiful town with beautiful people. No wrong exits, no bad neighborhoods.

Keep it clean.

Respect each other.

Don’t Argue.

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That is all.

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2 days ago
OK, got it, we will be sulfurous threads!

(and we will not comply)

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2 days ago

I agree wholeheartedly, but we're overlooking the root problem here: it's you, Mizal.

We should ban Mizal, then we will truly be an internet utopia. What is Mizal if not the cause of all this disgusting hatred, attacking and blabbering!

Ban Mizal!

Oh, my bad - please ban Mizal!

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2 days ago
This makes a lot of sense. I think it's time to part ways with my abrasive persona and be a force for good and inclusion. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Mizal

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2 days ago
Thank god this will never happen. You're awesome just the way you are Petros, don't ever change!

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2 days ago
I thank Allah for you every day RK

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2 days ago
"Lol fag" is just another way to say "LGBT genocide".

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2 days ago
I was waiting to see that in a response. But it seems the authorities not only know best, they have already changed the hearts and minds of the people, ushering in a new era of inclusion, diversity, affirmation, and equity.

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23 hours ago

At least call it LGBT+, there's hundreds more than that.

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2 days ago
I'M GONNA WIENER!

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2 days ago
I can't believe you think this is a fucking joke, RK.

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2 days ago
Whoa! Watch the language please, there are children here.

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2 days ago
My apologies. *This jackass RK really thinks this is all some mother-fucking, god-damned, bitch-ass joke. I can't fucking believe this grade-A bullshit.

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2 days ago
Oh and stay tuned for a new site updates, the return of the School-Based category and the addition of Progression Fantasy!

And also: I'm pleased to welcome GreatSoldier to the mod team. He will be replacing Endmaster.



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2 days ago
I would like to request that TypedRooster replace me on the mod team! Meanwhile we should feature and commend every story, post and review so that no one feels left out :)

While we're suggesting changes, contests are too adversarial, they just promote rivalry and overly competitive grudges. Everyone should give each other pats on the back for unfinished WIPs since attempting to write is a feat in itself regardless of actual output. Let's rename the Pit of Shame into something friendlier, like the "Palace of Sunshine".

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2 days ago
The Bouncy Castle of Good Tries

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2 days ago

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!

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2 days ago
Commended by TharaApples on 4/1/2026 6:55:39 PM
Your writing is masterful as always, Thara. The post itself is dense with content and choices, and it kept me entertained until the very end. I couldn't help but be curious in all of the possible outcomes and decisions that are so neatly and wonderfully placed in this story of a single word. I have to say that I enjoyed every minute of this post. I'm tempted to say that you have outdone yourself, but your writing is always consistent in just how good it is. Thanks for yet another wonderful read, I eagerly anticipate the next post that you may create. Be it some inspired sequel to this post, or something completely different altogether. At this point I think that it is safe to say that it is only right for me to look toward to your next piece. The level of care and attention to detail that you place into each of your posts is always a treat to read and enjoy. Thank you once again, for writing this wonderful and enthralling post.

(All posts should be like mine from now on, full of praise and compliments and nothing more).

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2 days ago

Many people are saying this.

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2 days ago
S**nds good Mizal. I wholeh***tedly agree that we should n***r indulge ourselves in n******e conversation and focus on positive, encouraging comments! Hey, is anyone else getting their post censored?

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2 days ago

This post does not feel welcoming to me. I feel attacked.

I'm shutting down the Gazette.

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2 days ago
Yahoo!

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2 days ago
Only short form jokes from this point forward.

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yesterday
Nothing is punished, since there are no longer any punishable offenses.

Big Mods are always watching!

P.S. Your mother is so hard I cannot do her. You know what else is hard? Not me, because that would be disrespectful! I'm sure someone is, though. That person should be banned. Not should be -because saying someone should be banned is rude of course - but if they're not adhering to the rules set forth by our glorious mods then I'm afraid there is no other choice.

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yesterday

Lol, fag. Oh wait, that's not allowed anymore. Uhhhhh...

*ahem*

Hello Ms. Mizal,

I would like to submit a formal complaint about the recent changes that have been implemented regarding this site and its culture. I fear that by implementing these changes to the forums and games, we will be losing a significant part of what makes this website special, and that you will have the ability to decide what happens on this site without outside input or opinions, which would clearly result in a totalitarian future, which clearly no one here but you would enjoy.

I hearby posite the idea that you should be banned hencforth and the great lady and saviour MadHattersDaughter (may she ever have good health) is placed upon her rightful throne as the new queen of CYS for the foreseeable future, as the great lady and saviour MadHattersDaughter (may she ever have good health) clearly has better judgment than you have ever had, currently have in this moment, and will ever have in the future, and can be trusted to control every aspect of our lives without question.

Thank you,
UnscapeableDeath.

*cough*AllhailourladyandsaviourMadHattersDaughter(maysheeverhavegoodhealth)!DownwithMizal!*cough*

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yesterday
Commended by TharaApples on 4/2/2026 2:47:09 PM
Banned.

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yesterday
Oh. Huh. I always thought it would actually happen eventually, but I didn't expect this to be what caused it.

Oh whelp.

I will still be posting in the daily quote thread every day, even if I have to make a new alt every time to do so. Don't worry, though, I won't do anything else.

(I will also return in full next year, btw. I do not intend on fully leaving this site if I can help it.)

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yesterday
Don't do the first thing, but perhaps return in a year with more wisdom.

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yesterday
Commended by EndMaster on 4/2/2026 5:46:19 PM
Never fucking mind, you just lost that right acting like a fool.

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yesterday

He just wants to quickly justify his banning is all.

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yesterday
Well, since my quote was deleted, I guess I am truly not welcome here anymore. I won't post quotes anymore or make any more alts after this, so don't worry about that. (I will still lurk around the forums as a guest though, lol.) I sincerely apologize for whatever caused me to get banned in the end, and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

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yesterday

The beautiful irony of the guy who begged for and asked mods when people were going to get banned, to be banned himself before the people he wanted to be banned.

It is chefs kiss. Just like grandma used to make.

CYStia has been cinema lately.

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23 hours ago

I'm still fine with you. :D

(If you ever even see this...)

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20 hours ago
I wouldn't say you're not welcome here anymore(unless I misread the situation or I'm missing context), but I do think you've overextended your hand for now and taking some time away before coming back would be ideal. I guess the main thing was spamming the forum with giant lists of every one's name for the CYS hot take, but to be fair, I did something similar too in one of the Secret Santa threads, but maybe it was cringe then as well and I just didn't know it. Also, I got to say praising Warrior Cats while dissing Eternal is a bold move on CYS, but I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with speaking out your opinion, it's just an interesting stance to take. But in any case, there are a lot of folks on here who still like you and find you to be pretty cool so don't sweat it and just keep writing, (even if it's off-site for the time being)!

For the record, I really liked how you would be really passionate about topics and not be hesitant to expound on them for a post or two, it's just really genuine and cool because it's interesting to read about something that someone is really interested in. Also, you had a lot of cool ideas for stories.

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yesterday

Yeah. No surprise that he's the type to spam alts. 

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20 hours ago
Honestly, I didn't expect UD to be banned. RIP. You were always a pretty good dude, you lasted about a year so I figured you had some pretty good staying power. I think like other people mentioned, maybe don't make an alt every time just to post on the quotation thread, especially since the quotation thread isn't the most pressing thing you could do that makes it absolutely necessary to make alts in order to continue.

Hopefully you come back, I liked a lot of your short stories that you posted on the forums, and your enthusiasm/breadth of knowledge on many topics(including the IMMUNE SYSTEM) is commendable!

I would say just try to read the room a little better, especially with the whole making a new alt every time you want to post a new quote, but I struggle with that too sometimes so it's nothing against you.

You got a lot of potential to be a really great writer, and you're also a nice person in general, so I wish you nothing but the best and I really hope you come back!

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yesterday
Damn, I was penalizing him points and then he was banned.

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yesterday
Lol, what is actually happening here. I never touched his account.

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yesterday

When you said banned, I thought it would be funny to ban him. I was thinking you'd unban him since it was just done in jest, and as a gag. And then he scrambled to create alts for some reason.

 

He really jumped the gun. 
 

But don't worry, I won't let you take the heat for this one.

 

Complete transparency on this one.

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yesterday
Well obviously I would have unbanned him too as soon as I noticed, but since he just said he was intending to make alts every day with full knowledge that that's the exact kind of thing that turns temporary bans into permanent ones, I'm suddenly not in such a hurry. Might come back to this later, or maybe someone else will do it. I got dragons to feed after all, important stuff.

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yesterday

Shit. I unbanned him already. He owes you and MHD an apology for his alt-making behavior. You're both too busy to have to deal with things like that.

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yesterday
That's fine if you unbanned him, that's just you being your whimsical self. He really put me in a predicament here if anybody expected me to do it though, damn, I am too lawful to negotiate with hardcore unapologetic repeat offenders. We have well established precedents about these things! With recent examples! Got to make examples of those types or society falls to anarchy.

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yesterday

Okay, I banned him again for you! So you don't have to dirty your hands with the act of killing. Maybe you can bring him back now at your leisure. Or one out of our many nurturing and sisterly/motherly mods can do so.

He only needs to hate me this way.

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yesterday
He can simmer banned and read and write and solve a code all by himself. Then after that he's still on thin ice.

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yesterday
I have explored the avenue of an early pardon based on contest progress, but turns out he's got less than 5k and no scripting, I don't think a day or two out of four months is really gong to throw much of a wrench in things at that pace.

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yesterday
Well it can't be Thara at fault, look how innocent that new avatar is.

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yesterday

I already said it was me! Unless you're taking my kill!

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yesterday

I unbanned him. He needs to apologize for his alts. To me. Personally. And I apologize for my womanly emotions getting the better of me, as the dearly departed Cel would most likely put it.

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yesterday

The real April Fools joke was reserving all this for the day after.

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yesterday
Well you can't just plan these kinds of things, you need that special pinch of retard dust to make the magic happen.

I am disappointed he acted like Rooster though, even Cel had more dignity.

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yesterday

Very true. Have we not made enough Forum etiquette posts already? 

To revisit something someone else said, I would say I want site members to be forced to read these articles. Then again, we'd lose on some entertainment I guess.

Edit: I'll also say that we all have our times of weakness. We're not always our best selves; we all need to lean on GOD'S grace. I try to stay optimistic that anybody can become wiser for the experience and improve, even if we don't see it here. I'd rather hope than not.

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yesterday
Seems a bit harsh for 10 minutes of weakness after being unfairly banned in the first place. Clearly today was one of his dumber days, but unlike rooster he has stuff published, contributed in other ways and was not actually spamming alts. Complaining about being banned for nothing is understandable, and another one to take back his own stupidity and say goodbye isn't rooster territory.

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yesterday

I respect your opinion, Fabrikant. With a featured story to your name, and other commended story-games, as well as many commendations.

You deserve a community contributor trophy! 

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yesterday
Oh, wow, thanks! (I did not expect that)

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yesterday
Oh hey congrats!

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16 hours ago
Congrats Fabrikant!

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I sort of agree, but I also think him folding under zero pressure and revealing his plan to altspam daily was the thing that did him in more than anything. He probably could've made bail pretty quickly if he just didn't do that.

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yesterday

That was indeed what did him in. As discussed in the hallowed halls of the mod summit. 

He really shouldn't have displayed he had the capacity to be an alt spamming tard.

Rookie mistake!

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yesterday
I have genuinely not touched his account fwiw, I was trying to get a quick lunch in when I was informed he was going a little fucktarded on the forum. I'm really too busy today to get too involved with any of this right now though, but MHD was already dockimg him points for something unrelated, plus he was getting overexcited with whatever that numbered list spam in Sherb's thread was at the same time, so just a perfect trifecta of poorly timed decisions. It does seem he's pretty consistently annoyed others a lot more than he has me as well, so although it was a bit wackily unexpected, an enforced time out may be good for him. (And it sure sounds like Endmaster's going to be enforcing that time out, lol.)

Seriously, UD's not going to become any less interested in writing or reading books just because he's not able to post on the forum, but he's one of the youngest posters and does need to mature in a couple of other ways. And if anything he was wasting too much time here at the expense of other kinds of productivity. (And what there is of his story is still accessible to him even without an active account.)

Anyhow, this is a matter strictly being handled by the Chaotic side of the pantheon, please forward all complaints to the Abyss.

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yesterday
He did an awesome job of foreshadowing his own demise ;)

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yesterday
Threatening to use alts was definitely not a smart move, but if nothing else, the willingness to actually leave the site (provided he keeps to that) makes him better than the recent slew of alt spammers.

I will just say though that if you're reading this, UD, and you remain interested in reading, writing and/or CYOA after you've matured a bit, I'm sure no one has objections to you returning then. The 'immature child becomes a valuable contributing member after growing up' arc is a classic on CYS.

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yesterday
I'm feeling optimistic today. 1000 points he comes back and gets a featured story within the next 5 years.

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yesterday
I'm also feeling optimistic. UD seems to like the site & be interested in engaging with the forums & storywriting. 25 points he comes back within 6 months.

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yesterday

I'll ignore these bets, since he's staying dead as an example.

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yesterday
End is the boss fight.

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yesterday
It shall takes years, or decades, or centuries, but one day I will be able fight him !

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22 hours ago
Wait lol what did he do? All I can find in the forum is a couple of annoying lists and making some joke alts after a joke ban.

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22 hours ago

Well on top of him just being an annoying faggot who annoyed several other members with his non-stop yapping, he managed to piss off MHD and few of the other gods by being extra retarded that day.

Honestly I didn't even know about any of this shit happening at the time, but given that we've lost far more useful and important members, UD being permabanned is barely a blip. Dude's been sucking since he got here.

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22 hours ago
Damn, RIP I guess. Well, I'll be holding out hope he pulls off a Chris/Ace character arc long-term

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21 hours ago
To do so, he must first overcome Death Itself; too bad UD is an atheist, I think he'd have to text Jesus for this one.

Although, Shutting Up is such a powerful device in the ban evader's toolset, that is unfortunately not an area any of these kids are skilled at. I've always wished soft bans on posting or DMs were possible, but then that's the main reason the ones that get noticed in the first place are here.

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23 hours ago

...

She's kidding... she's kidding... she must be kidding... he must have also dont something else... what-

EDIT: my sanity has been restored (wonder why strikethrough underlines small text? Is that worth asking in bugs & problems?).

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yesterday
What is this?

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A civilized place for public discussion.

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I would like to lodge multiple complaints against the blatant discrimination in this post.

1) "Toaster fucker" is a derogatory term meant to disparage the robosexual community.

2) The term "subtle-ism" downplays the danger and impact of microaggressions, and also inadvertently reveals Mizal's complete disinterest in actually ensuring we are safe from such things.

3) Mizal has told us to be like the noble sea cucumber. The similarities between a sea cucumber and a penis indicate that Mizal is dog whistling in support of rape and the patriarchy, while attempting to appear "safe" to lure victims into a false sense of security. I demand immediate action.

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yesterday
Does Clanker Wanker sound better?

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yesterday
Detecting a troubling amount of negativity from this post, I'll be forwarding your case to the Ministery to see if any adjustments are required.

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23 hours ago

You have to be joking, you genuinely have to be joking, or else my brain is going to die and I'm going to try to get banned...

EDIT: I didn't realize this was posted on April Fools lol

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18 hours ago
OP was only a 4/8, no offense but I've read funnier stuff from Mizal. Clusterfuck surprise ban of insignificant mortal batted around on the petty whims of powerful forces raised it to a 7 though, feels very Greek.

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14 hours ago
Some say the gods are mercurial. I of course would never say that, for fear that they might smite me. Suffice to say they should not be trifled with.