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I had written this story back when Bucky made that 'presents for mizal' contest. It was going great the first hour or so of writing, but then I procrastinated the remainder of the contest and literally wrote nothing else. This fragment of the story comes from the one hour I actually spent writing. I'm wondering if I should do anything with the concept. Maybe turn it into a CYOA.

Enjoy.

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"No! No no, please!" the man said, screaming. Sarah had grabbed him by the neck and was now holding him over a vat of molten metal.

"Where. Is. Your. Boss?" she asked, shaking him. Whether he was innocent or not didn't matter anymore. All that mattered was finding M.L.

The man squirmed in her grip, choking on his own saliva. "I don't know..."

Of course, another one. If they couldn't tell her, they were useless. Sarah released her grip and the man went falling. A scream rang throughout the building, before being muffled by gallons of liquid silver entering his lungs.

Sarah grimaced. A single fleck of silver had splashed upwards and melted on her cheek. In her left hand, she still clutched the man's sunglasses, emblazoned with the same symbol she had found on all of them.

M.L.

She sighed, crushing the glasses between her fingers. Three hidey-whites and two stingers raided, and yet there was no sign of M.L. Sarah turned from the vat and leapt down from the catwalk. The doors stood wide open ahead. She reached for the handle just as a beam of sunlight shined through and glimmered atop her silver-plated cheek.

It would be awful if a human saw that, she thought, before ripping the flesh off her cheek in one smooth motion. Tendrils burst outward and weaved themselves together, changing to the color and consistency of human skin.

Yep. It would definitely be awful if a human saw that.

I'm never sure how to respond to threads like this.

Do you want to do something with this? You'll be the one writing it. If you wanted feedback or something, that's different, but we're talking about a yes or no question that only you can answer.

I want feedback on the writing and concept so that I know if it's worth expanding on.

If you're having fun developing and writing the concept, then keep working on it. You're a hobby writer. The point is to have fun and get a little better along the way.

Okay, so there's an android/alien/whatever going around murdering people to hunt someone down. Is this some sort of villain-as-protagonist thing? It could work as a concept, but then again I'd say that about most ideas. Really it's like Bucky said, more just a matter of whether you'd have fun writing it. 

Though I'd warn you against letting yourself get overwhelmed with ideas. Going down that rabbit hole of 'wouldn't it be cool if???' with no restraint has basically been the bane of my wannabe writing career lol. From your profile it looks like you've already got six more in the works beyond the contest story, and so you're probably looking at almost a year of writing as it is, assuming no distractions.   

But there are only three games on my profile, one of which is an outline for the contest game. Excluding the outline I'm only looking at three games in total I'm working on right now, including the context one.

Anyway, I'm not the type of person to make a bunch of concepts and never finish them. I finish one project at a time before brainstorming the next one, although I do have a long list of concepts that I decide from when I'm working on a new project. I like doing the, 'wouldn't it be cool if...' route, because Stephen King uses the 'what if' route and I find it really effective to making interesting concepts.

I don't think it's a year worth of writing... maybe six months.

Is it wrong that enjoy people discussing my writing more than actually writing?

Yes, it is wrong.

I was going by the six Legends games you have listed in your outline, it looked like you'd be committed awhile. But, I guess technically you'll have esh helping with those.

Anyway, whatever you do, you've got the right idea in staying focused on one at a time. I've been trying to force myself to do that lately and I've made some good progress in the last few months. Though the contests are always too tempting a distraction...