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Alternate title: Oops he did it again.

Alright, looks at this rate @Will11 will have make a storygame quiz to help a newcomer decide which band of outlaws he'd play as first. Congrats on another great story!

Haha thanks StrykerL, to be honest those things are getting as easy to write as the Magellan stories were so I'm going to give them a rest for a while and move onto other stuff and perhaps write another one in six months or a year :) The writing quality of those stories are still not as high as the really great authors on the site :D

It's offensive that you're appropriating my culture's outlaws, Will. Get your own.

Perhaps, but we must remember that it's the experience that matters for the reader. Words / Choices are ways in which we create the experience, an excellent fantasy game need not be written by Tolkein for it to be enduring in our minds, as long as the choices (and consequences) it offered us are fantastic. Perhaps, more concisely, I'm reasoning that narrative is also player driven, not just what we write (author driven), and if we build stories that allow strong narratives one way or the other, we've done what we set out to.

For future reference, if I start a sentence with 'I find it offensive that..' or any variation, you can usually assume I'm joking.

(Psst... I wasn't replying to your post on American cultural heisting  )

e: This is why I'd wanted a clearer UI for the forums

I was just rereading it, lol sorry I'm exhausted and I can barely stand looking at this screen right now.

It was a bagatelle, does CYS work on Kindles?

I agree, writing is all about the experience or response you trigger from your reader, sometimes the best writing is like art, selecting the best words to get the response you are going for or to trigger one in the same way a painter selects his colours and style for the response he is hoping to get. Haha sorry Mizal, the UK doesn't really have gun-toting outlaws the way America does, mainly because in the UK we think giving every single person in the country a firearm might lead to more people getting shot :D The American history of criminals and murdering bank robbers is happily rich and provides plenty of material to draw from :P

Well yeah and I kind of assume the entire UK being settled before guns were invented may have had something to do with the lack of them during the time period of most of your games. Also just generally with it being so tiny and boring with the least interesting wildlife in the world. It was cute how you guys had to ship people all over the world just to find something to do.

Haha it's true we lack dangerous wildlife so we have to go to other countries to steal theirs :D Tbh I do find the UK a bit boring as well, its history is nowhere nearly as interesting as America's and it's kind of dull. I guess that's why we went searching the world for more interesting places :D

There was an amusing theory that the blandness of British cuisine (and the desire to get away from it) was what drove the Brits on their world conquering spree

It may be true :D Chinese food is so much better than English food :)

The height of traditional British culinary art: boiling things.

Dear heavens, that was hillarious (and uncomfortably true). Disclosure, have lived in the UK and US for years in the past.

I'm hoping to get started on reading it later on today, and hopefully get a comment in there. I'm sure it's fantastic, so congratulations Will. :)