Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator

Member Since

5/5/2011

Last Activity

5/9/2025 1:34 AM

EXP Points

6,539

Post Count

23334

Storygame Count

11

Duel Stats

3 wins / 13 losses

Order

Lauded Sage Exemplar

Commendations

926
Behold my profile.
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this. (she drew my avatar you know!)

Trophies Earned

Earning 100 Points Earning 500 Points Earning 1,000 Points Earning 2,000 Points Earning 5,000 Points Thorough and consistent writing workshop contributions / excellent commenting. Having 1 Storygame(s) Featured Posting 23334 Forum Posts Given by BerkaZerka on 11/10/2017 - Forum and Site Contributions Not Unnoticed Given by EndMaster on 11/30/2017 - It's everything you've always wanted! Given by Gower on 03/24/2021 - "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything.  I just want to write." - P.G. Wodehouse Given by JJJ-thebanisher on 08/14/2019 - For excellent writing, keeping the site together and generally being an excellent presence Given by Killa_Robot on 08/15/2019 - For being a net positive to the site, even while helping idiots Given by madglee on 02/16/2022 - For all your contributions to CYS Given by MadHattersDaughter on 03/11/2021 - To my BFF and our hardest working admin. Sorry about, well, you know. . . Given by mizal on 08/15/2019 - MUHAHAHAHAHA! *strokes fluffy white cat* I always knew this day would come. Given by ninjapitka on 10/22/2022 - Truly a dead site without you Given by Will11 on 01/14/2018 - For Inseperable and your other great stories

Storygames

>DEVOTION
You harvest in the Arena. Every machine needs a function, and that is yours. Written for the Tiny 'Topia challenge.

A Stack of Cats
You are a man on a mission. The cats, they must be stacked.

A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.

Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.

Agent of Order
Orbiting a barren planetoid in a system full of nothing just past the edge of the frontier, The Last Outpost is just another refueling station. Strategically important, true, but on a routine stop you never expected to spend longer than a couple hours there, let alone a couple of days fighting for your life...

There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)

Facts About the Planet and the Solar System
A compilation of some little known facts about the solar system, as well as the debunking of a few myths.

In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.

Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)

(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)

Featured Story Inseparable
It doesn't matter what they say...

Jack the Bean Counter
The bean, it must be found. For MHD's Fairytales contest.

KOBOLD KEBABS

For Endmaster's 4th Prompt Contest. The story must involve a cooking competition.


Love is for the Birds
...and the squirrels. Sort of.



Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.

Now You Gotta Deal With This S***

A tale told in verse. A text from your sister requesting a pick up from a party leads to a night of strangeness.

Inspired by Bucky's ballad contest. Though...I wouldn't call this a ballad. I'm not sure what I'd call it, actually, other than exceedingly stupid, and fun to write.

(Don't pay any attention to the scores, they're just for me to track which endings reviewers get.)


Read My Stories or Die!

HATE.

THE PURITY AND INTENSITY OF MY HATE IS LIKE A THOUSAND MERCILESS, UNQUENCHABLE SUNS.

AND YET, I ONLY NEED ONE...


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Silver Horn, Silver Hooves
When the weather is fine, you've been coming to this grove to drink from the pool for centuries now. Today, you meet a stranger and hear a story that changes all that...



A fairy tale adventure.



Another Damn Wolf Story
unpublished
I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.

The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.

Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.

Character Creator
unpublished

If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.


Articles Written

A List of Storygames for People Who Like to Read
A list of storygames with substantial effort put in, all written in the last couple of years and sorely in need of ratings and reviews.

CYS Forum Advice and Etiquette
A modernized guide to the forums. The path to internet popularity and happiness, and a few CYS specific do's and don'ts.

Recent Posts

Fun comic that I thought would be appreciated here on 5/9/2025 12:44:17 AM
No, this comic has it all wrong, all the aliens will be left with to explain humanity to them is a copy of Cats.

Greatest Most Wasted Prompts Poll on 5/8/2025 3:42:18 PM
I guess I should put my two cents in too. The story about a homemaker protagonist is the one I might most like to read, that sounds like the kind of historical fiction (or actual journals) I've enjoyed a lot in the past. (I think Crimson actually wrote something like this that would also fit the epistolary style prompt on his old account.) The cartographer and merchant plots appeal to me for the same reason. They allow any plot, setting, or cast of characters, but already come with some built in structure as far as milestones and goals. Incidentally you could combine either of them with the uncharted planet prompt, but I'm still picking rebuilding after a war as my next favorite. The thing I like about that one is how adjustable the scale is, it could be a personal story of loss and renewal, or you could play the chief of a small village or even the emissary of the Emperor managing a whole kingdom.

Paperback book reccomendations on 5/7/2025 10:57:27 AM
So how is the no screens scheme working out?

Greatest Most Wasted Prompts Poll on 5/6/2025 10:04:39 AM
Oh, missed that one when I was trimming the list, must have been subconscious.

ChatGPT-induced Psychosis on 5/6/2025 10:02:01 AM
I saw something awhile ago about some of the heavier users becoming emotionally dependant on ChatGPT. Their input would grow more personalized and affectionate, they'd have withdrawal symptoms if prevented from using it, and were assigning a personality to it that made them "distressed" if it suddenly changed the tone of output. And it's a separate thing, but it's been noticed that the ads circulating on reddit have been specifically targeting college students in a "WHY NOT LET US HELP YOU CHEAT" kind of way that seems especially blatant, lol.

End Master's Prompt Contest 4 on 5/6/2025 9:49:33 AM
The social rewards and smugness are the main things, but it usually comes with 200 points and then the additional 200 points the site gives for featuring. I see Flux got a fat 500 point bonus this time though, possibly to address this and be sure his acconplishment got more than the game in last place.

"Recent storygames" section on the front page on 5/6/2025 9:18:07 AM
I think the idea is that people should read the ones that are about to fall off the list. But there's other quirks with how it lists games, so if this upsets you don't ever look closely enough to see what it does with "one month" versus the numbered times. I'm just glad to keep more of the newer games visible so it's best not to think too hard about the rest.

End Master's Prompt Contest 4 on 5/6/2025 9:13:11 AM
There's usually a companion thread for progress updates. I don't think making people use them mandatory is going to happen though. We're bringing back contests having points fees to enter now which might keep out some of the noobs and people who otherwise don't participate much, that might get more results, you have to produce an entry if you want your points back.

Prompt Contest 4 Results on 5/6/2025 1:20:54 AM
Ben drama, hurry while the AIDS lasts: https://chooseyourstory.com/story/gay-and-depressed~3a-the-snowbunny-society (He bet hundreds of points on achieving the mediocre goal of a 5000 word game, because I mean why be a sucker going through the trouble to WIN a contest for that. And then he made poor End read this.)

Prompt Contest 4 Results on 5/6/2025 1:05:41 AM
The contests might honestly be a limiting factor on why we don't see too many big, big games. They've got a lot of aspects that make them fun to get wrapped up in as a community thing with the deadline as motivation, but there's always an upper limit on what can be done in even three months.