Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator

Member Since

5/5/2011

Last Activity

3/5/2026 10:32 AM

EXP Points

6,454

Post Count

25599

Storygame Count

11

Duel Stats

3 wins / 13 losses

Order

Lauded Sage Exemplar

Commendations

1,077
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 25591 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

Commendations and How To Get Them on 3/5/2026 10:11:03 AM
Reading and rating a game gets a point, leaving a good enough review for a commendation gives more points. Participating in certain forum activities and events can give more. (And just in case you're getting any idea of rating a bunch of games without reading them, we can usually tell when people are doing that and can just take all the points back.)

Commendations and How To Get Them on 3/5/2026 9:53:50 AM
You can look up "commend" or "commendation" in a dictionary for one thing. But a commendation shows up as the red text on a forum post or game, or it puts the gold star next to a game review. It's basically a gold star sticker from an admin or one of the more advanced community contributors on especially high quality writing. (Though it's a little more informal on the forum and can sometimes just mean we really like a post.)

The Review Club on 3/5/2026 8:53:50 AM
>>and in part due to SoecialOlympic's desperation rivaling that of a paraplegic prostitute in the comments section It probably backfired on you a little that this comment revived memories of your 3000 words of desperate slobbering over Fresh, people who live in glass houses and all. (but I can't really complain about that part, rereading all that was a good time.) But also, yes, kind of in poor taste to imply you're giving someone a lower rating because of something someone else said. Whatever competetiveness is on the forum shouldn't be spilling over to anyone's writing, and we don't need to imply to genuinely promising new authors that that is normal or approved either. And even the "compared to the previous game" part, to me anyway every game should be judged on its own merits, we don't have a sliding scale for each author. Anyway, SO triggered two people with four words, y'all need thicker skins. The people getting ruffled by SU's "attitude" need to get over it too, you little snowflakes never could've survived the Steve era lol.

Commendations and How To Get Them on 3/5/2026 8:23:12 AM
I'm amazed that every word in the title is spelled correctly btw, how did you pull that off? This is a definite improvement as the most coherent message you've ever written here, good job.

Questions for retarded children on 3/5/2026 8:19:33 AM
@Starcosplayzz You seem to be Keith's personal caretaker, are you going to be around the site often enough to help save him from himself, help tie his shoelaces, pre-chew his food, change his diapers and so on? @V__V Are you willing to adopt Jonathan?

Questions for retarded children on 3/5/2026 8:09:55 AM
@keithafraidofnilly @Jonathandracon How old are you two really, and what was the last printed chapter book you read? (If you have ever done such a thing.)

Commendations and How To Get Them on 3/5/2026 8:00:04 AM
There's an article here: https://chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=4351 Please do take your time reading some of the articles on writing, punctuation, and grammar while you're at it.

new game I made on 3/5/2026 2:35:30 AM
Now what about Jonathan, whose fault is he?

new game I made on 3/4/2026 10:51:32 PM
How do you two know each other?

The Review Club on 3/4/2026 9:10:36 PM
Well, it's not a serious enough issue to be naming names, but while it's true there are no major standards for on topic reviews honestly given, you guys are all little performing monkeys here chasing the dopamine of a tier system. People do weird things under these circumstances and it shouldn't akways be rewarded. It's like how we sometimes get ultrafags who rate all the games for the trophy without even reading them, completely defeats the purpose.