END MASTER'S CRISIS CONTEST
Deadline: 11:59 PM EST August 1st, 2024
Reward: You live.
Basically make a story where there’s a great crisis that the protagonist has to deal with. This can be anything. Asteroid impact, super volcano, Godzilla like monster, inter dimensional alien invasion, demonic avatar of the end times, etc. It can also be any setting (Fantasy, Scifi, Modern, etc)
But it's not quite that simple.
I actually did have another contest in mind which was going to be called an “Amnesty Contest” where it was going to be a low pressure contest with no chance of getting SHAMED and mostly for the larva in the pit where they could get a chance to get out. However, one of gods around here, specifically Malk in this case has really got a bloodlust going on and the only way that can be resolved is through slaughter. (As one does) So this has altered things a bit.
So the lot of you who dare to face the werecappy (Who is the real life crisis in this scenario) in this contest still have the potential to be thrown in the SHAME pit (Or kicked another level down it.)
In fact, it isn’t really enough to just turn in a story, you need to at least try to match him in quality or if you’re really ambitious, beat the chicken soup out of him.
Remember, Malk’s been soaking up the hate and grim darkness around here since he was a snotnosed kid like some of you currently are. Because of this fact, he’s managed to rise to the top of the food chain and become one of the most formidable writers around here.
However, he’s also still prone to degeneracy so you lot may get lucky and he’ll get distracted from the contest by an androgynous AZN in a public bathroom or something.
This will admittedly be a little different than the average contest, but we’ll see how this experiment goes.
So as usual post here if you're entering and when you've completed your story also post the link to it here.
Anyway that’s about it unless I think of something else.
Good luck!
I will enter and face the Dredded Capybara. And if I die in the attempt hopefully it will be bloody.
Locked.
I honor the call, EndMaster, whatever the outcome.
THE CRISIS
hetero_malk
Challengers so far
DBNB
MiltonManThing
Petros
Ford
DarkSpawn
Olivine21
Bezro SHAMED
Alienrun
Orange
Corgi
Suranna
Kezmark
AwritingHobo
CavusRex (Songbird Vagabond)
PerforatedPenguin
ItzSugar
Marte
Ravenic_Virtue
obv entering this one lol
Sure, I'll give this a try. Does the crisis have to be world-altering or can it be personal?
Well if you think you can make a good story out of some personal crisis go for it I guess.
You ain't getting saved this time... Good luck! :D
Bro I just wanted to make a funny reply... (Was a meta joke to when Bezro mentioned me in the shame thread) I didn't intend to join. Please take me out of this! I'm going to be out of town later this summer among other personal stuff. I only entered last contest due to FOMO and now I realize that was a bad idea. In any case I found the story I was trying to write to be pretty cringey upon further reflection which only decreases the chances that I would have joined this that much more...which I need to reiterate was pretty low. I know End doesn't like when people are indecisive so I didn't plan on saying anything unless I was 100% sure I both wanted to enter AND that I could submit something of quality. If you wanna force me to commit one way or the other...just ban me from entering this contest specifically...I don't care. If I was given the choice I'd rather have it that way than the other way around. (This doesn't even take into account that I'm triple shamed and that part of me would actually like to enter a contest when I'm sure that I can manage it! I got really REALLY stressed last time and I don't want to repeat that!) (Seriously though...my body was really not handling the aftermath of last contest...even I didn't expect it. I normally would keep that stuff to myself but you kinda forced my hand here...) (EDIT: My body is still shaking...man I don't like this feeling at all...)
Rules are rules. If you post in the contest thread, you risk being entered in the contest. EndMaster listed you as an entrant in his post, you are IN.
My recommendation to you is to produce something worthy of an entry and demonstrate improvement to redeem yourself somewhat.
Yeah, banning you from this wouldbe awfully convenient for you smh
Just crank out 10k words of cringe and be done with it, nothing to get the shakes about lol
Well if that's what you want, of course you can join!
Hey, I've been having second thoughts cause I'm doing summer college classes. But there's no backing out now! So if I see you in the SHAME pit, we can be buddies cause we'd both be there due to real life. Lol XD (HELP.....!)
I somehow missed this comment when you made it... Glad to see you were this supportive this early on! That's pretty cool! :D (Also your claim of us both being buddies seemed to have aged really well! lol :P)
HA! You were right about that! XD *Noogy* :P
I'm back just to enter this contest
You've been sitting in the Triple SHAMED pit for awhile, this will either get you out or cast you forever into the Abyss.
As it happens, I've had the perfect storygame brewing for this contest. I'm in.
Locked
Get the fuck outta here, I lock my own damn posts
but you were too slow. locked again
Go lock yourself!
No! :[
Double locked
Alright, alright, I can sense the animosity towards me growing. I know I have become a bit of a 'flake,' so I would like to take this opportunity and try to remedy that. And, to entice me to write I want there to be some more conditions, if EndMaster allows it.
If I manage to publish something of quality I want:
-300 points
-An invitation to the Discord
-A murder story from @Petros
If I manage to fail spectacularly you are welcome to: -Ban me
Yep, being serious here. If the threat of being permanently banned doesn't entice me I don't know what will. Let's hope this isn't a poor decision spurred on by late-night psychosis and will actually amount to something instead.
Locked!
No.
Ford doesn't get to host a contest because he's retarded and he doesn't get to be banned because he's needed to upgrade shit on the site.
As for giving you 1000 dollars, well those are terms you can work out with him.
As I said, you're free to give her 1000 dollars for whatever terms, but you're still not getting banned or hosting a contest.
Well, this is a bit surprising so many have joined since the summer months tend to be slow. Some stumbling into contests by accident are always amusing. Quite a few challengers are already on the teetering edge of the Abyss if they fuck up on this contest and at least one person going big or going to bansville. (And cleverly finding a loophole from perma-lock out from contests)
Lots of high stakes this contest, but that's good. Makes the crisis theme all the more fitting.
I suppose the ultimate turn out will be the indicator if these sorts of challenge contests will have place for the future.
Does signing up for the contest as a newbie who is overly ambiguous and willing to risk the SHAME pit before I even have a chance to make any kind of name for myself on here count as surprising or extremely risky? Lol
Same. Lol
I'll submit something or start off my time here by getting shamed
I'm in the same boat. Lol
Damn, i tried reading It and thought the author didn't finish It, didn't figure out the fake death as i usually don't click on the end game button
Locked. Even though it is a totally gay acceptance speech.
:/ I'm strait. I was just trying to be dramatic.
You can be whatever you want. But your post is still gay.
*Sigh* If you wanna argue about this (which I do not. In fact, Imma leave it alone) then message me privately or something. This thread is for the Crisis Contest. I wanna leave it for that.
You are the only one who is arguing. I just stated a fact.
Dude, youve been here for not even a day. And if you paid any attention, you would know that if you say something stupid you will get called out on it.
Ah. Yes, I'm pretty sure that's any website that involves chatting online. But you are right, I should have just said 'Sign me up.'
I mean, you're probably right. I just take things literally when it's online because I can't hear the sarcasm and tone of a person when I read a message. :l But I like people! :D
I mean, I do get that. More people can join a discussion, which is always nice, but some people don't like when others spam. :/ So I want to be considerate.
Oh! Is that how it is spelled? :o
*Beep boop* :P
Lol jk. I'm neither gay nor a robot. But I do like R2-D2. Lol.
Fluxion
Wildblue
Lol SHAMED
Have fun on your vacation! :D
She's in.
Pretty late, but then I imagine most haven't started yet anyway.
I have started, but it was a rough week last week and I kinda lost some of my motivation. :,)
I kinda figured. But I'll get this thing down eventually.
As is tradition.
Smart smart.
Also, I love your pfp! :o
I don't know how some people can write a decently fleshed out story in like a month. It typically takes me 2 days of constant scraping and rewriting before I have wrote a page I'm satisfied with lol. *clap* *clap* to those who can do that.
I'd be surprised if this worked considering there's only a little over a week left. Also didn't expect you to succumb to this level smh my head head...
It would work if it was done by a member that was important. If anything Suranna's secured Crimson's safety which was assured anyway THIS time since he did a lot praising in a PM before he started posting regularly.
Counting today, there's a week left folks and as far as I know Malk is the only one that's actually worked on anything.
I know some are forgetful around here, so here's a reminder of which one of your worlds are in the crosshairs of this cosmic abomination that's coming to murder-rape your planet, your people and YOU all the while laughing manically about it.
hetero_malk ARRIVED
DBNB DONE
MiltonManThing DONE
Petros SHAMED
Ford (500 pts) DETROIT
DarkSpawn SHAMED
Olivine21 SHAMED
Alienrun SHAMED
Orange DONE
Corgi SHAMED
Suranna (300 pts) DONE
Kezmark SHAMED
AwritingHobo SHAMED
CavusRex (Songbird Vagabond) DONE
PerforatedPenguin (500 pts) DONE
ItzSugar DONE
Marte SHAMED
Ravenic_Virtue SHAMED
Fluxion SHAMED
Wildblue DONE
Here it is: Slaying the Scourge
https://chooseyourstory.com/story/blood-in-the-king's-court
Blood in the King's Court
And Orange is the first to show that she hasn't been idle in building up her defenses against the Malk crisis.
Oh, I definitely can't beat this in quantity. All I can try now is quality.
Alright, point taken. I'll shut up and write now.
Done
https://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-end-of-creation
The Crisis has entered the galaxy, hope the rest of you use your last remaining day to put up a suitable defense.
To be fair, I just read Malk's previous story that he suggested we read to get a better understanding for this EndMaster contest one, and that one was pretty short, but I guess it just shows that quality >>>>> quantity. I know that if I did a contest, I'd intentionally try and keep it short, but of high quality. I think that's the best strategy.
is that joke to much? im sorry madam, i just couldnt resist the tempation considering her profile page (just hope shes not serious)
loool, fair enough.
About 5 more hours left.
About 3 hours left.
Hour to go folks, SHAME is coming.
And looks like Dark has already fallen to the Malk crisis and dropping yet deeper into the SHAME pit. One more and he'll get a free trip to see some Mormons.
I'll be joining Dark. I can't imagine being able to finish in 30 minutes. Shouldn't have gone on vacation this week. Spent too much time on pictures as usual.
Here is my entry, such that it is:
End of the World as You Know It
This is awful, but it's done, and I managed to beat my personal goal - so it's a win in my book, even if it won't beat malk's story.
Cradle & Cane
I imagined him having a tab open on my profile, mouse cursor right over the ban button, just wating for the clock to turn 12.
oohay! Thank you, Sherbet!
I just wanna say that I really admire the work ethic you accumulated due to failing so many contests in order to, not fail one. I also tried to fully bunker down these last few days, but that's a different story. But during that time I constantly saw you online like, all the damn time! I'm convinced you stayed up like 3 days in a row to make this happen, cause if you did that's like actually impressive! Your probably resting now or literately anything besides writing/using this website, and if that's the case then, good job! You deserve it!
Thank you Alien! I appreciate it!
Man, I feel so bad that you got shamed. Not remembering to publish is a such a simple mistake and you clearly put a lot of work into yours. :(
Tales of The Distant Past
Time's up and everyone else is SHAMED
Good job on everyone for submitting their stories (for me to review bwahah)!
My game my have A FEW dead end links that I didn't have time to remove, but I assure you that even though the story is complete shit...its not the complete 1000% train wreck as last time! It probably still isn't good enough, especially not for this contest, but at least it was a half honest effort considering I didn't even want to join this contest in the first place. Yeah for improvement? Nah...this is still shit. Oh freaking well...
SHAMED
Lol, fag.
*sigh* I couldn't even get that one thing right... I'll let people vote if they wanna see what I wrote (literately all I have to do is hit publish or sneak peak even though its not 100% finished) Its not the complete nonsense of last time but its still crap so...yeah...its something at least...
If your talking about what I LITERATELY published last contest, it only has two pages in common with it, and that's only by technicality. As one page is completely rehauled and the other didn't even make it in if I didn't remember and on top of that, they were just slapped in in the original version with no context to build up to them. AKA that "story" isn't even a story by any resonable definition. But since I'm not in a super nerotic state like last time I should probably explain what's going on. Like I mentioned last time (and I feel people forget this often) I wrote over 100K words for last contest, but didn't edit any of it or put it into the editor. This time I tried to give myself a head start by just submitting the same story again, since I wouldn't be using any of the 20 pages of nonsensical garbage that made it in last time so noone here could prove that I was reusing the same idea aside from saying "Wait a second...why is this about dinosaurs?!". In other words, I didn't write as many words but I put more attention to making the words good, took the time to edit most of the story and streamline certain things and tried to familiarize myself with the editor. And that still was not good enough! I fell for all the same traps as last time, I just didn't fall for them hard enough. I didn't just write a shorter story cause...idk...maybe my pride got in the way saying "That's quite a lot of waste of words that you're not using!". But in retrospect I get why that's not a good mindset. I actually quite surprised how few people wanted to read what I wrote last time considering how much I wrote, but now I get it, noone wants to read a lot of crap. Though I still find it a little bit insulting that some people thought MY ENTIRE STORY was on the same level of what I submitted last time. It really felt like people were judging me based on the narrative created by how bad it is to fail to submit a contest entry on time, rather than actually wanting to know the truth about wtf happened with my story and what it was actually like. BUT I also get that I'm not entitled to be given attention, as most people probably aren't annal about the specifics of what I'm doing anyways. I probably just took it personally that I put in SO MUCH EFFORT last time only for it to feel like everyone hated me as a result, that not a single person seemed to care that my story couldn't come to fruition due to me underestimating how long it takes to get your story uploaded to the editor. Regarding the first half of that last sentence...I probably fixated on that too much and it definetly messed with my mental this time. Not to the point that I got overtly stressed like last time but I found it really hard to keep myself motivated for any of it really. (Not like Ravenic though, unlike her I at least wrote crap! lol :P And yes I'll explain wtf happened with her story later...) But now I realize people here don't actually hate me, they just really dislike when I say something annoying or obnoxious.
What you published last contest does not really demonstrate that you can function LITERATELY.
I just realized my long ass post didn't actually answer your question so let me do that... Fun fact about last contest...I actually did publish my story on time! I just didn't submit the link to the thread on time! I wanted to avoid that this time by having the submit window open in another tab. I was frantically trying to cut off as many null paths and finish up pahts that could be finished up with as little effort as possible and then it was almost 12 EST so I hit post on the tab I had opened. As a result I forgot to publish since my mind was more focused on submitting the link to the thread instead of publishing! Whoops! :P
Personally, I think the best part about your story is that it isn't published and the link is broken.
I actually agree! I have Ben's contest problem but on steroids! My mind is literately hardwired to not understand how to schedule crap around a deadline. Though the more honest truth is I just really really suck at this. At least there were no panic attacks this time AND I can write a bit better AND I put WAY more of what I wrote into the editor?! Eh...I have to take what I can get at this point... I think I got mad at people here in the past for saying that I'm beyond saving, because it seemed unreasonable, like of course I can improve. The problem is its taking too long. It'll be too long before I can write something that's actually good or questionably competent. Damn this is sad, but at least its all over now...
Can you explain this in more detail? I'm open to the possibility that I'm "morally failed" in some way plus I'm curious. If your response is something along the lines of "you need deadlines to prepare yourself for the world" then I'd say that's not completely true. I saw a yt vid a while back that counters this point (I can link it if you want, its like 4 mins). Granted its the only vid I've seen on the subject but the evidence seemed pretty good to me and correlated with how I felt about last contest. As systems that are predicated on fear are useful, they are flawed, and the best defense is always "its better than most alternatives" and like...sure...but you can make a better system if you really wanted to...that's the caveat. Granted this is a writing forum on the f**king internet so its naturally going to lean to either being too soft or being too harsh. A whole bunch of years ago I was on this online writing group that went in the other direction and I did even worse there. But as it turns out the world doesn't revolve around writing, nor does intellect (though people usually correlate the two due to words being an effective form of communication). So that's not a good assessment on how well this website is ran under a perfect perspective...perfect in every way mind you...is what I meant when I said that.
Im not going to speak for Daji, but what she said is not difficult to understand.
Your statement is complete BS. No human's brain is literally connected in such a way that it is impossible to understand a deadline. You choose to disregard it and not take steps to ensure you keep yourself from distractions. Since you recognize this as something you have difficulty with, not taking steps to compensate is just lazy.
Trying to blame your failings a physiological factor is just an excuse.
Upon further reflection I realize the deadline statement was an emotional reaction due to frantically messing with the editor for multiple hours straight before the contest ended. In other words the reason I failed is the same as last time, I couldn't adapt to using the editor correctly quickly enough while also being in a neurotic writing state. I know this is the case because I've entered Youtube contests in the past and did just fine in them, and that required me to actually become fairly decent at video editing, and not to say its the same as writing but there are some overlaps in the overall creative aspect. So I am capable of learning a craft and applying it to a deadline under the right circumstances. (Now I could explain why the editor here is un-intuitive for someone like me who isn't good at writing compared to something like Premiere Pro, but I get the feeling that's probably not a good idea, so I won't.) And finally, the problem was not laziness. You cannot look at everything I did last contest and say I was being lazy, it was just incompetence. I keep trying to write this super big story and its clearly a stupid idea for a first contest entry. Heck I even managed to weed out almost every dead link before hitting submit anyways, so if I did manage that and actually remembered to publish then I would have actually submitted something! Psychological factors can't excuse everything but they do excuse some things. I get that excusing yourself for everything is not always in your best interest but looking at someone else's problem through a blatantly biased lens isn't exactly much better either. You gotta look at the big picture and all of that you know?!
The reason you failed is because you are a limp dick knuckle dragging failure
I find it really funny that you say "Literately" instead of "Literally" especially because we are a writing site.
At first I thought it was a one time typo, which, hey we all do that. But you use it multiple times in different posts.
True, but the irony in light of Aliens writing is cracking me up
Alien proving everyone wrong arc when?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iDKu_2Zgg
I've unironically thought about such an arc myself (though I named it differently in my head). Its a bit of a pipe dream though, ie, its not likely to happen so don't get your hopes up. (Though I guess it would depend what exactly I'm supposed to prove wrong, but even then, how much writing I'm willing to do in the future is up in the air anyways due to irl life factors and personal motivation and whatnot...) Also the song you've linked is one I've heard a bunch of times via anime amvs (albiet a slightly faster version), so I guess in that regard we seem to be on the same wavelength! lol :P
Buddy you're gonna get banned in like. Two weeks.
This is seriously the only response you need for Alienrun.
