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Warden

Don't get distracted!

The target has been decided. The deadline has been set. All that is left is for you, Adam Finch, assassin extraordinaire, to execute your mission. Success is inevitable. Because you are weapon made flesh, and nothing will stop you from completing your mis- Oh! Look! A story-game!!

There are 5 endings: 'Double kill', 'War in the shadows', 'Retiree rescue', 'Kiss of death' and 'Who let him cook?!'.

Submitted for End Master's Prompt Contest 4 for the prompt of: 'A story involving being an assassin'

Ignis and Aero

Aero, a 14-year-old inhabitant of the village of Albritton, wants nothing more than to read his enthralling storybooks in peace. When he hears of a Golem wandering in the forests near his village, he is more than happy to let the professionals deal with it, while staying within the comfort of his home.

Unfortunately for him, his adventurous brother, Ignis, has other plans.

Author's note: If you want to collect all endings, then there are six of them: The Wise, The Mourner, The Cleaner, The Knight, The Skeptic and The Magician. Certain choices don't have immediate effects but may influence the endings. Also, certain endings can be reached through multiple different paths.

Submitted for Sherbet's Summer's End Synergy Contest.

Special thanks to mrcrimsonclean for proof reading :]

Of dreams and daemons

Most would be willing to trade a great deal to catch a glimpse of what the future holds. Hannah de Reade, however, has spent her time in Lumintrone ignoring the omens that she sees in her prophetic dreams. All she wanted was some semblance of normalcy.

But when her dreams warn her of a daemonic plot, she is compelled to act against it, leading her to be invited as an honored guest to the Imperial Castle.

However, in a court filled with dark secrets, are her eyes that can pierce through fallacies truly a gift or a curse? You will have to take Hannah's side and guide her through this ordeal that will forever change her fate.

And perhaps you will change the fate of Lumina itself in the process.

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Author's note: There are nine endings. I highly recommend reaching multiple endings since you may not be able to experience the entirety of the plot with one read. While they are not central to the story, I should also warn that themes of domestic abuse and graphic violence are present in it.

This is certainly an interesting prompt. Naturally, a power outage needing to be involved forces the authors to write about a story in the modern age. That being said, I was secretly hoping one of the authors would try going the futuristic route. Nonetheless, both these stories were very fun to read.

Story A had a typo (you aunt -> your aunt) at one of the first dialogue sections. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but you should really try to ensure that your opening paragraphs are the best they can possibly be. This includes being extremely rigorous when checking for SPAG. The rest of the story was quite delightful. A slow burn with a reveal that re-contextualizes why the mother might have been so stressed out. Very cool. The pacing in this one was really good. The exposition at the end was a little rushed though. You could have tried commenting on how Tabitha had been to the hospital before and found her mother's patients a little weird. It would have set up some foreshadowing that they were actually aliens. Eh, whatever, the fact that you made the aliens the good guys was very creative and that deserves some bonus points in my opinion.

Story B was far more dialogue heavy and written well. My one big issue with it was the character of Charlotte. Tiana seemed happy to see her, but she really just seemed to be an ass to me. I first wrote it off as her character changing across edits with the first line being a relic of her original characterization, but after her transformation, Tiana remarks that she thought she was beautiful. I can't tell if it's the demon book screwing with her mind or if she always had a crush on Charlotte. That relationship just felt confusing and it sort of prevented me from being able to properly enjoy this story. I also think that the book's effects on Mr. Williams could've been foreshadowed better too. Maybe the normally cheerful Mr. Williams could've been testy and irritable when Tiana and Grant first arrived. It would've made his reveal as a monster more powerful too.

Though both the stories had several good things going for them, I ultimately believe I would have a harder time trying to improve on Story A than Story B. Therefore, I shall vote for Story A.

It would make claiming a role impossible for the trolls. I don't think that would work.

Wait actually, I realized that my pitch was horrible because the revived player would just immediately out everyone's role knowing it's guaranteed to be true. Disregard lol.

If playing a certain way gets you targeted and killed instantly, is that really considered playing well?

I agree with the idea that getting the dead involved somehow would improve the overall enjoyment factor of the game for everyone. Maybe a dead player can revive if they correctly guess the roles of everyone who is alive but it's first come first serve and you only get one guess per night.

I understood that reference!

If it weren't for your bold play, we wouldn't have figured out that Milton was the investigator. He would've most likely formed alliances with more innocents and maybe even guided Ant to use his abilities better. I say you were a big part of this victory. :]

Actually.. even if malk was good, we still had the ability to spam the forums to skip one day of voting. So we would've spammed, killed in the night and once again been in the position of two trolls vs two cystians.

The only way malk's addition could've helped the cystians is if he joined as either the productive cystian or a second chaos mod or maybe conditionally the apathetic cystian. I would've indeed been pissed if that happened. XD

Well, I didn't take many risks on account of me being a noob to this type of game. Hell, I actually thought being vocal was the norm. It wasn't until the second day did I realize that's not how people normally play. XD

Thanks Milton! :]

I'd like to be a good guy the next time around, just to see what it's like on the other side.

Well, to be fair, Malk was only added after our victory was guaranteed. If we went with the version where MHD was killed and Malk wasn't added. That still means it'd be you, me, Scape and Enter. We could tie the votes and get a kill the night after.