Some stories have a message...kinda...

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WARNING! (The real one)

This story is pretty offensive, it can get graphic and downright ruthless at times so if you don’t like that sort of humor, don’t read this story. But if you read it anyway don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway, get offended and leave a hilariously triggered comment, that's fine too.)

Also, don't bother trying to "win" either. You can't. Just heed the moral lessons you may learn.

One musician's tale in a dying world

Additional Notes:

If you’ve read and liked Necromancer, then this might interest you as this story takes place during the same course of events of that story. (Not a prequel, not a sequel, but an equal!)

However, this story is definitely more “story” than “game”. In fact you shouldn’t even bother reading it if you’re intent on “winning”. You can’t. That being said, there is a “true ending” to this story and you’ll probably know if you get it. If you do get it, you can consider it a “win” if you like.

There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to “Letters to Home”. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide a little more insight into the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings on various situations.

The last hope for a dying empire

Additional notes:

This story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 13 epilogues total.

There are also several points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people, places, things and events. While not completely necessary to understanding the story, they do give you more insight into it.

Carnivals aren't all fun and games.

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While there is only one spot that contains extra histories for this story, it's basically the background information of all the major characters and factions. It's strongly recommended that these are read due to the fact that your character will be interacting with most of these folks in his attempts to successfully accomplish his task(s).

This story has a very factional feel to it, so choose your allegiances carefully to get one of the better endings.

If you see a bright light, duck and cover!

Additional notes:

I should point out that this story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story if you're lucky. You will also experience a completely different adventure depending on how you escaped the initial nuclear strike. (Assuming you do survive it.)

As with any of my writings, the "story" comes before the "game". However, this story was written in a "game like" format. So while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 4 special endings. (You'll know if you get one because you'll get an epilogue)

This one's for the kids, no really!

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This story has clear cut win/lose endings. There is nothing excessively unusual about this story, it's just a simple "children's story".

(Yes, you can still die in it)

Running the family business isn't easy!

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In a few places there are links for history or certain characters. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide further background information.

There are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad or neutral outcomes. Technically there is one very happy ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Underneath the sickness there's love...

Additional Notes:

WARNING!

This story contains a lot of graphic content, if you are offended by ultra violence, explicit sexual descriptions, tons of swearing, blasphemy, inappropriate dark humor, and brutal misanthropy in general then DO NOT read this story!

Of course now that I’ve mentioned all the things it contains, you’ll probably read it anyway, you sick little monkey.

Well don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway knowing it'll offend you and leave an amusingly triggered comment. That's fine too.)

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a very twisted man and his very twisted lifestyle.

Additional Notes:

This story is definitely more "story" than "game", however there are two distinct paths that can be followed, each with their own pitfalls and additional choices. There is also "one true" ending in which can be considered a "win" (You'll know if you got it, because you'll get an epilogue)

This story can get long, and assuming you're surviving, years do pass in it and you and your environment will change. There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people and things. While not completely necessary to understand the story, they do give you more insight into it. The text that accompanies some of the pics are also done for similar purposes (Your journal entries, personal thoughts, letters written to you, etc)

Humanity never changes...

Additional Notes:

There are links leading to various background information and your character's current thoughts throughout the story. In some cases these may provide greater insight since some mysterious things can occur in this story.

There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. Technically there is one ultimate "winning" ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Emotions can be wonderful or dangerous...

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This story has a few bits that are probably a bit on the disturbing side. Not many, but they are there in places. So if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it.

This story in general is probably a bit odd and less verbose than most of my other stories. There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just the tale of a teenager who definitely has some issues.

From humble beginning to infamy and beyond!

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a "sequel" to Innkeeper.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 12 epilogues.

Things would be so much easier if your name was Mary Sue

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as:

A direct sequel to the "Good Girl" short story in Tales From The Basement.

A semi sequel to the other TFTB short stories, Repression, TRASH, Love SICK and Geek.

A semi prequel to Ground Zero.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can still "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 16 epilogues total.

Because Basement Dwellers are people too!

Additional Notes:

This story is three stories in one. Your first choice will lead to a separate tale of a different “basement dweller”. Each one is mostly different in tone.

Ebay Escapist is weird and random. It’s the least verbose of the three. (Or my stories in general)

Good Girl is the longest and most descriptive of the three. There is some weirdness going on here too, but is mostly kept much more in "reality". There is a cast of characters link in the beginning to help you keep up with who’s who.

Anime Addict has a lot of offensive language and humor, so if you don't like that sort of thing you shouldn’t read this one.

In all the tales there are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, these are basically just tales of basement dwellers.

It's an edgelord boogaloo!

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This story is three stories in one where it follows a different protagonist based on the first choice.

This story is also probably really offensive or something. Probably shouldn't read it if that's not your thing, but feel free to do so anyway and complain loudly in the comments since those are always good for a laugh.

Anyway, there's your extra warning. You can't say you weren't told.

Incel Insanity and Whining Wokie are all new tales, while Film Fanatic is a "reboot" of sorts of an older story called Exploitation Theater. Yes, it's finally here and been greatly expanded on.

As always the story is always more important than the game focus, but also as always, you definitely can get better endings than others.

Three ladies. Three legends.

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a connection to Rogues, Eternal and Necromancer.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However there is an epilogue for each "winning" ending.

Yee Haw! It's a trailer park life for me!

Additional Notes:

This story has a ton of offensive langauge and humor so if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it. Though given the setting, the language used is pretty accurate.

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a typical day of a degenerate that lives in a trailer park.

Wow, did anyone even read the previous Mamma's Boy story? Didn't even get a passing comm for that one and it really was the best of the lot (Including these Buck comics I'm about to review). Tough crowd.

Anyway, rebooting this thread after nearly a year to finish up the last reviews of these TSR comics. Next up is the Buck Rogers one, but again a little extra history first.

So as I mentioned in the very first post, all of this comic endeavor was to try to branch out and tap into other markets and all that other shit. Didn't work out for TSR obviously on a grand scale, but more specifically it also didn't work out for their recently acquired Buck Rogers rights either.

For the Zoomers (and probably Alphies now here) if you haven’t heard of Buck Rogers, he was basically a very early pulp scifi action hero that went around getting into adventures IN SPACE…and the future since he’s always a pilot from his original time that got frozen and thawed out later in the 25th century.

He started out as a newspaper cartoon strip back in the late 20s along with a radio show and film serials later. Had a pretty good run until about the late 60s when the comic strip ended. However, there was a brief revival towards the end of the 70s to very early 80s. Besides the short lived strip at this time, there was also the TV show during this time.

He’s also always a straight white dude saving the galaxy because you always want a little realism in this sort of thing.

So TSR had the Buck Rogers rights back in the late 80s and thanks to the leadership at the time, they were REALLY trying to revive it and make it profitable. This naturally included a pen and paper roleplaying game, but also a board game (Which I used to own, it was basically like scifi Axis and Allies) a couple of video games, some novels and finally this comic book.

It was a multi-pronged attack which ultimately lead to disaster. Buck just wasn’t popular enough to pull TSR out of the tail spin they were heading down at the time and all the money they poured into it probably just made it worse. TSR wasn't really being managed well at the time anyway.

Still, I actually think their take on Buck was sort of interesting since they took a less “anything goes” and more “hard scifi” approach than other versions did. This version only centered around our solar system, tech wasn’t really “ultra-high tech” and there weren’t any aliens, though there were definitely genetically engineered humans to the point that they didn’t necessarily resemble humans proper anymore.

But we’ll get into all that as I review some of this stuff.

One last thing is “Who exacty was the villain for Buck?” Well that’s another interesting thing. Buck sort of came out before certain “tropes” were in place. Normally a guy like Buck is fighting SPACE NAZIS or something similar to Nazis because y’know Star Wars. Even if the Nazis aren’t specifically human, they’re usually aliens with Nazi like trappings. (AKA Cardassians from Star Trek)

However since Buck predated the Nazis, his earliest adventures were fighting the old “Yellow Peril” in some way. So yes, AZNs. Usually they were like a mongol horde (IN SPACE) type with Chinese Empire (IN SPACE) mixed in. (Of course by the time the 40s rolled around, Japs (IN SPACE) were even more fair game)

Fighting yellow hordes is great and all, but a hero really can’t really stand out unless he’s got a proper villain, which Buck did have in the form of “Killer” Kane who was a arrogant criminal/dictator/traitor/whatever role was needed for the Buck incarnation at the time. Kane was a white dude, but I mean come on, only another white guy is going to be a worthy villain match for a white hero after all. (Kane usually had a "sneaky" looking appearance so he probably had some mixed blood, and/or was a closeted degenerate)

Of course as time moved on, Buck’s old AZN killing days were gradually dropped. TSR completely changed things up and went a more “cyberpunk” route and made a corpo style government the main enemy, known as RAM.

Which stood for the Russo-American Mercantile.

For more lols, RAM dominated the solar system from Mars as their HQ.

(Insert whatever comment about today’s political climate and certain billionaire interests in the red planet here)

Next up, the reviews. Stay tuned!

That reminds me, I should finish up my TSR comic reviews. Just have the Buck Rogers series left.

To be fair Anthrax suggested drugs and who knows what DB suggested.

Honestly I'd really like to see what someone would do with that prompt.

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I skimmed the mod tool recently messages on the forums and Mizal's "crushes on cousins" statement caught my eye.

Disappointed to learn that this wasn't someone's hilarious taboo attraction dilemma since it was just someone else's cousin.

Ah yes "Ant". Sent's first and last attempt at adopting a noob. (He's not allowed to anymore now)

She was part of some retarded zoomer sub-group into something called "Floptok", whatever that was exactly.

For some reason she also labored under the idea we knew what the fuck she was even talking about in her weird TikTok Zoomer speak and we were followers of Andrew Tate when none of us gave a shit about him.

As for wet "poosay" and Deep Throat Circus, well Mizal said Ant just sounded like a typical horny teenager.

EDIT: As for Gemini4Ever she had a few different alts as I remember, but we always knew it was her because they all ALWAYS "Hated their mom and dad" (Yes, a lot of teenagers do, but she always expressed loudly in a certain way)

Moved to news.

Weird, I was just looking at that video like a day ago.

Faggots must be in everyone's algorithm.

If you got a fairly modern phone, it might work on that. Worked on mine after I couldn't get it to work on my ancient laptop.