A tale of hope, a tale of unwavering. A tale of hurt, and loss, and change- a tale of love, turned into hatred. A tale of lies, turned into truths...

Believe.

Take control of Hue, the peculiar and tardy offspring of a human being and a magical entity- cursed with being created through unconventional means, painted to life with hope and magic... but something went wrong. Existing not as a human, but as a creature of ink, set out with the goal of finding those who created you, all while on a collision course with a duo of tyrants that have sent the villagers into a deep depression- the island is full of hurt, deceit, unsavory characters, and ugly truths that may have been better left in the dark.

Can you get through it all... without changing?

Can you stay true to their intent?

Can you become human?

This storygame has a total of 22 endings. 10 bad, 6 neutral, 6 good. A good amount of those are death-adjacent.

This is my entry for EndMaster's Prompt Contest 4. Happy reading!

If you've ever seen Kitchen Nightmares, you've run into the same problem I have. The show is fine, whatever, but certain episodes would have been seriously elevated if Gordon Ramsay had been allowed to just take out some of those restaurant owners. I can't be alone in thinking that, right?

Last year we at CYS brought in the New Year with Wholesome Dog's Birthday Adventure. This year... this.

Disclaimer: This gets a little rancid.

Super Bonus Challenge: See if you can deduce which page of this storygame was written by Sent!

Hunger means desperation.
Play as Elizabeth, a young woman recently involved in a tragic accident that claimed the lives of her family... except for one, very unfamiliar man. Or, is he a man at all?

This is my entry for EndMaster's Prompt Contest 2. There are a total of 7
endings (and one profile badge) to find, not including deaths.

"One last adventure in the forest with our friends. There's nothing to be afraid of..."

Play as Rebecca, a troubled and pessimistic young woman living in a small town called Whittle Falls. Sleepy and independent, leading a simple existence and a very happy one- once upon a time. Now, a terrible curse has befallen the town, in the form of an unstoppable Beast that refuses to stop its violent hunting.

Navigate Rebecca's bonds both old and new, and take her on one final trek through the forest. Confront the distant and buried past, while trying not to fall to the otherworldly horrors lurking around every corner.

Winner of EndMaster's Prompt Contest 3!

Prompt 43: A story involving body horror.

There's something horrifying lurking in the water...

Play as Will Robinson, a money-loving fisherman living in the foggy town of Bullhead Rock, who's been bribed into unraveling a mystery and putting an old legend to rest once and for all. His desire for cash outweighs his fear of supernatural nonsense- and this can easily get him into trouble...

There are 5 endings you can get, not including deaths, of which there are quite a lot.

A sixth, secret ending can be obtained by getting the Legend Killer Ending, clicking the Reset Game link, and then getting the Blessed Ending.

Winner of Mizal's 2023 Gone Fishin' Contest!

A twisted and broken family.
A parallel world.
One chance to escape.
 

This is my entry for EndMaster's 2022 Prompt Contest.

Four endings, including a true ending.

Oh no! Wholesome Dog overslept, and is late to his own birthday party! Help Wholesome Dog get to the party his friends are throwing before it's too late!

There are 4 endings!

Just about every colonist that is recruited/joins will, of course, be reworked by yours truly to be based off of CYStians. A simple request or really any participation in this thread will land you a spot as one of the colonists, we'll start with three and work our way up, more spots becoming available as more colonists join us in-game. Due to the nature of the game, some of you (or all of us!) will probably die, and that is okay. This is probably a good time to remind you that I have never played with most of these mods, so if I'm unable to pilot us to success, then WHATEVER, SUE ME. Things should be kept very fresh though, I have a variety of added bits of content that will give us lots to raid, pillage, build, and farm. It will be a delightful story, I am certain!

Anyway, before we can get to revealing WHO our three unlucky beginning colonists will be, first we have to decide on where they're going to crash-land! I've combed through the map and identified what I think are the five best spots (I refuse to play on an ice sheet don't suggest we land on an ice sheet), presented here to be voted upon by the CYStian people. For reference, we are sharing this planet with wood elves, EVIL wood elves, dark elves, EVIL dark elves, high elves, EVIL high elves, rat people, some NORMIES, a heavily genetically modified clan, pig people, animal people, some tribes of varying levels of violence, imps, three different pirate groups, two different clans of dragon-tamers, and a monstrous hivemind. So the neighbors will certainly be interesting no matter what!

OPTION 1: The Maabetoller Taiga

A boreal forest bordering on the tundra, this location will be dense with wood and animals. It's one of the less populated sections of the map, so we'll have some breathing room from enemies, but the red icons do indicate that our neighbors are none other than the evil wood elves I mentioned earlier, and there's some pirate presence as well. On the plus side, this is near one of the only two rat-people settlements on the map, and they're friendly and cool as far as I can tell.

OPTION 2: The Purple Alligator Shrubland

Largely here so I wouldn't feel bad about having five forest-y options, this is about the best patch of desert land I could find in the world. It is extremely craggy and mountainous, plant life will probably be lacking, and we'd be wedged in between two different disgusting hive-monster settlements... yes, this IS the best desert option we have, the other one is completely walled in by mountains! You ever try to send a caravan past a mountain in Rimworld? It takes YEARS of your life!

OPTION 3: The Legua Mountains

Another boreal forest option next to the northern tundra, but this one has some important differences compared to Option 1- that being the neighbors, largely. While we ARE next to what could be a valuable ally in the dragon-taming Velonir people, we are also right in between two very powerful and very hostile elven cities... not to mention, all those brownish tiles (like the ones surrounding the Craggyant Sea) indicate heavy pollution.

OPTION 4: The Steamy Omeia

Look, I don't know what an omeia is or why this one is particularly steamy. What I do know is that this is a pretty good piece of land- a basic, temperate forest and swamp area in the middle of the continent, surrounded by neutral settlements and just a few hostile ones. What really makes this spot interesting, though, would be all those factories sitting around, ripe for the looting. The pink ones are owned by pirate clans, and some are wealthy enough that we could come away with some pretty fat stacks of loot.. angering them in the process, I'm sure.

OPTION 5: The Edna Islands

This chain of islands to the far west caught my eye. While it's not very populated and we would be largely cut off from most of the other factions and the mainland until we get ourselves some vehicles, it does seem pretty nice and cozy, and gives us an excuse to invest in boat travel. We could start on the peninsula (though it does host an evil elven city and a monster hive) and sail to the other islands, particularly to build rapport with the dragon-tamers on that one little island there.

Where do we land, CYStians? Cast your votes!

Inefficient
Acid
Twitter
Key Lime Pie
I've never seen it but it seems to be right there in the title that it's BEFORE Christmas
Yes
The firstborn
Crunchy
I have two in my house, one for each, because it can be either, but never both with the same thermometer
Gardening
Yes
Plane
Giardia
I'm not sure, I take a lot more inspiration and stylistic choices from horror media and games than I do from other storygames
I felt like most of my storygames had a fairly ugly and twisted premise (not that there's anything wrong with that), so I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and write something more thematically 'pretty.'
Take a hammer to it
Mushrooms, chicken, arugula, and bacon are my favorites for pizza
Spiders
Lennon
No, I'm perfectly happy staying on the ground and also I've seen too many space movies where something goes wrong. However if I'm allowed to bring a bunch of flat earthers with me then yes because that'd be really funny.
Racism
I enjoy pink, red, and beige a lot
Probably kitchens
Unicycle duty
I don't think you'd be able to handle it
Lobter
Yes
No
I have to smoke crack those days actually