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

Additional Notes:

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.

Additional Notes:

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!

Additional Notes:

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!

Additional Notes:

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...

Additional Notes:

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!

Additional Notes:

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.

Yeah this isn't happening.

But I suppose if you're going to go for unlikely requests, might as well go big.

Now go home.

Actually I got another one I just remembered. Probably not as lame to get killed by an autistic child, but he makes up for it in being retarded.

So this one is mainly told through an ongoing narration. Though it does have a bit of dialog at times.

Starts off with this young boy walking alone in the dark, or at least the twilight? As I remember it was a black and white comic and it didn’t really look very dark but I assume he wasn’t walking around in the daylight since he’s the vampire in this story.

Anyway, it mentions how this little boy is A MONSTER and he’s been one for a fairly long time. Also mentions how his permanent child appearance actually is an easy way for him to get prey. Though in recent years it’s been getting more difficult and he doesn’t know why exactly.

It shows him stalking a neighborhood that’s practically a ghost town, though people are around, they’re just all indoors. The era seems to be about the 1950s. It shows whenever he approaches other children asking if they want to play they immediately scream/shout and run off. Again, he doesn’t know exactly what the issue is since his whole innocent child routine has been pretty solid.

He’s not having any luck until he spots some kid by himself sitting on the ground in a yard making dirt castle with a little shovel and bucket. Well it’s not like he needs to be invited into a backyard so he just goes in asking the other kid if he wants to play. Immediately the other boy yells at him saying he needs to get away and he shouldn’t be in the yard.

At this point the vampire is getting pissed that everyone is immediately so afraid of him and since nobody is around and this kid isn’t running off, he just attacks the boy and kills him before running off. Can’t remember if his mom comes out soon after and the vampire can hear her screaming as he’s running off, but it seems specific enough of a memory that it probably happened.

So now he’s had his fill of blood and now he’s off to go find some place to hide out before it’s day time again. Suddenly though he’s not feeling well, which is weird since he’s a vampire and all. He ends up stumbling into a school yard where he finally collapses. He tries to get up, but he can’t move his legs at all no matter how hard he tries. Again, he doesn’t understand any of this, until as he’s looking around from his prone position, he sees these warning signs and posters on the nearby school building.

The school signs are all warnings about polio and how kids should immediately stay away from people they don’t know because the virus is contagious and dangerous. It now occurs to the vampire that this is why the other kids were running from him immediately lately. It also occurs to him that the boy he fed on had leg braces which is why he wasn’t quick enough to run and ironically he was actually trying to protect the vampire from catching the virus he had.

And the story just ends with the vampire pondering his poor judgement as the end eventually comes in the form of the sun finally rising and burning him to a crisp as he’s paralyzed in the school yard. A nice find for the teaching staff and kids tomorrow I suppose.

The main question I have is how the fuck did he even survive this long without being at least somewhat aware of major shit going on in whatever country he's in? Polio was a pretty damn big deal back in those days, I feel like he would have known about it before then. Just thought no more than beyond his blood thirst I guess.

This isn't even counting if the virus would even affect him as a vampire since that just brings further questions about other diseases/viruses he somehow manages to avoid in all this time. But I suppose that goes beyond the scope of this little tale.

The Lamest Vampire Ever

So I remember reading this short vampire story once a fairly long time ago. For whatever reason it’s been going through my mind lately, not sure why, but might as well share it since I know everyone here is secretly or not so secretly into gay vampire shit.

Again this was something read a long time ago so I’m just remembering the major details, wasn’t a long story anyway. (And I don’t remember anyone’s name in this shit either)

Okay so as I remember the story starts off with a vampire coming back to his undead life after being staked for several decades. I think it was some grave robbers fucking around and they open up the coffin and see the stake in the corpse’s chest. One of them immediately freaks out yelling about vampires, while the other doesn’t believe in that shit and immediately starts checking for loot.

He ends up knocking over the coffin and the stake comes falling out in the process. The other grave robber is already running since he knows what that means. I don’t remember if the other sticks around long enough to get killed or runs off as well when he sees something going on with the body that doesn’t look natural.

Anyway, the vampire comes back to life and immediately remembers the vampire hunter that staked him in the first place and is eager to go get revenge on him. He tracks him down and confronts him. I forget where exactly because as I remember he somehow got inside to do this and I know damn well he didn’t get invited in. It might have been the vampire hunter’s real job office or something.

In an amusing turn of events, the vampire hunter uses two fucking pencils to create a cross and it’s enough to cause the vampire to have to back away. However, he notices there’s a some pictures on the vampire hunter’s desk and one of them is a kid. the vampire at this point says he’s got an even better idea for revenge because he’s going after his son.

Probably would have been better to not tip off his enemy like that, but villain arrogance I suppose.

So now the V.H. is freaking out about keeping his son safe and pretty much vampire proofs his house. Crosses, garlic, etc. Fortunately for him, his son is one of those weird kids that stays inside his room most of the time.

(Please note, this story was from an old 80s potentially late 70s comic, so staying in your room most of the time as a kid during this era would be pretty weird and not the most normal thing ever like nowadays)

So the vampire stalks around the house, but he’s barred from getting in, though again I’m not sure how he was getting in without being invited anyway. Maybe that wasn’t an issue though and that particular common vampire lore wasn’t a thing for this story. Eventually though the vampire just figures he’ll have to lure the boy out and then he’d get him.

He sees the boy through a sliding glass door and tries to lure him out like some pedo with a van full of candy, but the boy just looks up from what he’s doing and goes back to it like nothing happened.

Now you would think that with as paranoid as the vampire hunter was he might even move his son to a room that didn’t have a fucking sliding glass door to the outside world, but it was important to move the story’s plot along so there you go.

The vampire realizes “Gee, this was so much easier in medieval times, maybe all that stranger danger stuff they’re teaching in schools nowadays actually works. I better try a less obvious predatory approach.”

So the vampire turns himself into a puppy and whines at the door. The boy looks up and then goes back to what he’s doing. Vampire tries a kitten next, same result.

It should be noted that this kid has not moved ONCE from his desk and the only time he looks up is when he’s hearing the vampire at the door and he’s not even curious enough to close the curtain, tell his dad, or anything.

The vampire himself is baffled by this behavior and then notices some stuff in the kid’s room from where he’s standing. He sees a lot of butterflies in boxes. I’m not even sure if this is a hobby anymore, but back then, there were still people actively collecting butterflies and pinning the poor bastards to set up inside a glassed box with a label of what breed it was.

So yeah, this kid is a MAJOR autist for this shit. He’s so damn focused on his serial insect killing and arranging their little bodies that he’s not trying to pay attention too long to anything else.

So now the vampire is like “Oh, alright I got this little fucker now!” and he turns himself into a very colorful (And very gay) butterfly that beats his wings on the door enough that the boy looks up and is already like “Ooooh pretty!” and finally leaves his chair.

So I’m guessing the plan was for the boy to go outside and the vampire finally nabs him, which honestly should have been the case, but in the comic I guess it’s implied that the boy has some sort of special autism speed, because instead of the vampire transforming back and nabbing the boy, he quickly nabs the vampire and stabs him with a damn pin while he’s still in butterfly form!

Cue vampire hunter dad hearing a blood curdling scream and he comes running into the room with a buddy he was talking with at the time (A buddy of which doesn’t believe in all this vampire stuff even though the V.H. is actively telling him about it) He checks on his son, who is unharmed and completely fine and staring blankly wondering what all the fuss is about. Vampire Hunter’s buddy starts asking the son if anyone was in here and a bunch of other questions, but again a lot of blank stares.

V.H. tells his buddy not to bother because his son won’t respond because he’s…slow. (Hey, it was the late 70s-80s, merely calling him slow rather than outright retarded was pretty progressive!) He mentions his son just doesn’t behave like normal kids and he just focuses a lot of his time collecting butterflies and shows the various boxed butterfly collections.

His dad then notices a very colorful butterfly newly pinned and says “This must be a new one, I wonder where he got it?”

And then the story ends with the classic horror crypt keeper type narrator with some parting words. Don’t remember them all, but I do remember him saying something like “A stake, a pin, does it really make a difference?”

And yeah I guess it didn’t. Lol.

Year 6: January

Significant News

1. Taskmaster attacked Great Falls, home of the Beasts of Atom. Apparently he’s extended his war not just towards pure blood humanity, but to all living beings of flesh. However, the mutants of Great Falls proved they would not be an easy target and managed to fend off the attack.

“Steel is not strong, the FLESH is stronger.”

Current News

1. Reports have confirmed that the Prophets have followed in the footsteps of their old faction and JOINED the Taskmaster in his insane plans.

Perhaps it was the loss of their leader Ezekiel that drove them to choose their old false messiah of again or perhaps it was simple cowardice in the face of a great crisis.

Whatever the reason, it is said already they’ve slowly begun to embrace borgification.

“At least someone around here recognizes the weakness of their flesh.” - Taskmaster

Superman and Weapons (The Movies)

Alright a bit late on writing something up for these two, but I'll keep it short.

While both of these movies obviously couldn't be more different from each other, they're both pretty good. Superman in particular surprised me since I generally don't go for superhero stuff, but everyone here that saw it kept going on about how good it was so I figured I'd take a chance on it.

And yeah like I said, it was probably one of the best superman portrayals in a movie. I think what helped is they didn't bother going over his fucking origin story for the umpteenth time like they do with every new reboot.

One interesting bit they did do different is the idea that superman's biological parents sent him there with the message telling him to rule over the planet. (He didn't know this until later though since the message was garbled)

I immediately thought of the movie Brightburn since that was essentially a superhero horror movie where the alien kid got sent there to conquer the planet. So when I found out James Gunn had a hand in the Brightburn movie too, I figured that was him taking a small concept from that movie.

Of course Clark/Kal El grew up being raised to be the boy scout so he's still not doing anything evil. It's the whole nature vs nurture thing. The movie does a pretty good job in general of making Superman a REALLY good guy which is what Superman should be, just works for him a lot better than the grim and gritty treatment.

Of course there's always faggots that have to bitch about shit on the internet and I see a lot of "WHY ARE SUPERMAN'S BIO PARENTS EVIL, THAT DEFEATS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF AN IMMIGRANT STORY, IT SAYS ALIENS ARE EVIL AFTER ALL UHUHUH IT'S RACIST GUHUHUHU!"

No it isn't, shut the fuck up you reddit faggot. Superman still ended up being one of the good ones despite his OG culture. It's like how some third worlders come here and actually work as opposed to rape, steal, murder, rape, rape and rape.

As far as the movie itself, well other than the bit about his parents, it's a superhero movie so you know what to expect. He fights Lex and his minions and ultimately saves the day.

Moving on to Weapons

Well this one I can't really go into too much detail without spoiling it and while I generally never give a shit about doing that, it's good enough that I won't.

The whole movie is set around this mystery of an entire class of children walking out in the middle of the night and disappearing. Just like the trailer says. It tells the story from multiple points of view and a bit out of order with some overlap as the mystery is revealed. (Though it's not a major mystery since it gets revealed about half way in)

This movie is done by the same director who did the movie Barbarian and he sort of did something a little similar in that, but this one has less inbred rape product milk monster in it.

As much as I liked Weapons and everything it had going on it, personally I'd still say I liked Barbarian better and not just because it had inbred rape product milk monster in it. I just didn't like the characters in Weapons in general other than the guy looking for his son and the one behind this whole mystery. The teacher that was a fuck up probably worked well in her role though since she's fairly insufferable looking anyway.

Anyway it's worth watching too.

Year 5: December

Significant News

1. The Road Kings in their attempt to rebuild after several set backs, launched another daring attack on the last occupied resource by the borgified Vanguard. It wasn’t easy as the cyborg Nazis were dug in deep, but ultimately the defenses were breached and a final battle between old rivals ensued.

"Yes, let us settle who is the real master race once and for all!" - 14 of 88's last words.

Former Vanguard leader Alabasterd himself lead his side but even with all his extra upgrades, he was finally brought down bringing a definite end to the short lived faction.

With this victory, maybe there was a glimmer of hope for humanity.

“And nothing of value was lost.” - Taskmaster’s response when hearing the news of the destruction of 14 of 88.

Current News

1. “Hello there. Do you have a HOT ROD that needs a gentle touch to your STICK SHIFT?”

“Maybe you have a huge powerful machine that needs a LUBE JOB and RIM JOB?”

“Mmmm, well let us just OIL up your chassis and make sure your exhaust PIPE is BLOWN right.”

“Come on down to Jackie’s Garage for the upgrade of your DESIRE, right near the ruins of Iowa City at location 50. Open 24/7. WE DO IT ALL and be sure to check out the special on our HEADLIGHTS.”

Jackie and her group of wrench wenches are now open for business. (REALLY open)

Somehow I missed this thread completely.

Fixed the thread title.

There changed, since nobody else ever remembers how to easily change an entire thread title for all the posts.

Year 5: November

Significant News

1. After the failed coalition of the Fallen Land faction attack against the Taskmaster things have been relatively quiet. Even the Taskmaster hasn’t seemed to have capitalized on this failure. One can only assume that he’s preparing for major all out assault soon. Hopefully for the rest of humanity, the next coalition attempt is better unified.

Current News

1. Again, nothing major is happening on the world stage for now.

The gentle blowing of radioactive winds