Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator

Member Since

5/5/2011

Last Activity

11/18/2025 7:35 PM

EXP Points

6,338

Post Count

24573

Storygame Count

11

Duel Stats

3 wins / 13 losses

Order

Lauded Sage Exemplar

Commendations

1,063
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 24563 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.

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Recent Posts

Variable page down? on 11/18/2025 6:14:15 PM
It's a more code-heavy program for making IF, that most people using will use badly. Well, I don't know how accurate the '300 words about being gay and depressed' memes are anymore, but that's kind of what the community became known for lol.

Variable page down? on 11/18/2025 6:11:11 PM
I'm not seeing any issue with the Variables tab , but Cloudflare has been having problems with their servers on and all day.

Secret Santa 2025 on 11/18/2025 6:04:06 PM
Yep I'm in again.

Hi on 11/18/2025 5:51:41 PM
I still can't REALLY believe he's 13. He might be okay in a few years, if he calms down a little. Really no hesitation banning him on sight now though, we've got to get tougher about the AI abuse, and the actual stories are still accessible anyway if at ANY point he cared to read one.

New Daily Quotes Thread on 11/18/2025 3:49:45 PM
I just don't get why Bill doesn't seize the moment here. "Yeah, Donald cosplayed like Lewinsky and sucked my dick, what about it? You shouldn't have a problem with that unless you're some kind of homophobe." I mean, it's his word against someone with the last name "Epstein"

New Daily Quotes Thread on 11/18/2025 3:00:26 PM
The books were never able to keep my interest, and I've encountered way too many adult children obsessed with them decades later, plus I hate the entire genre of "wizard school" it spawned. So I can only be amused at her evolving into a massive troll. Like, she already has your money and your childhood, what are you going to do about it, get mad on the internet? It's hard not to admire something that well played at least a LITTLE.

ChatGPT-induced Psychosis on 11/18/2025 11:52:13 AM
So it seems over the last couple of years, people have been sending in AI generated letters to scientific journals in order to cheat the system and be counted as "published" in a journal. The person that figured this out was in sort of an obscure field, and had an AI letter cite two of his own papers back at him while making claims about info they did not contain. And looking into it further there were other people (mostly from the Middle East and China) who had never had any publications previously suddenly publishing in dozens of magazines as experts on dozens of topics over just a short period of time. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatbots.html. (not sure if that will be paywalled, NYT links are inconsistentb that way) Later I'll try and dig up a much funnier article I saw the other day on lovely delusional people in their 40s who have started dating AIs they think of as people. But this one seems a lot more like, actually significant since these journals are now having to rethink how they handle letters

How can I save progress on a story? on 11/18/2025 9:56:35 AM
Beep boop?

It would be nice if you'd play in traffic on 11/18/2025 9:52:14 AM
Why would you read that and think he was saying you were being immature anyway? The entire post was directed at Harper, until he made a derogatory reference to him being 13 and then made an aside comment, "no offense to Avo". That was because you are 12 and might take offense at a comment about someone being 13. I'm not even going to delve into how jokes about Cavus and RK needing to not lose to a 12 year old were "depressing" for you. But it would indeed be depressing for them, and funny for everyone else, if that were to happen. ...holy crapola okay and now I think I now need to take a break from this thread, I am all out of Overexplaining Juice.

It would be nice if you'd play in traffic on 11/18/2025 9:46:57 AM
You must not have used the site much in September. But okay, since there seem to be massive amounts of confusion: 1) Avo is currently in a match with Cavus and RK, as most of you know. The thread is titled Kill Avo or Else, as most of you have seen. The contents of the first post discuss how humiliating it would be for Cavus or RK, geown men, to lose to a 12 year old girl. This relates to the title of the thread. 2) Harper claimed to be 13 when he's probably younger than 13. Blister claimed to be 17 when he's probably younger than 17. If either of them are the ages they claimed they are, it'a no longer just annoying, it's depressing. That's why I said that. There was no reference to Blister being in the Thunderdome. 3) Daiki was also never in the Thunderdome and has no relation to this discussion. There, I hope that cleared things up. If there is still confusion, everyone involved please consult a doctor.