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Elspeed salesman. edit: what a lovely snipe, have the last update: Swedish Thaumocracy posted:
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 16:59 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 09:36 |
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Just as according to plan.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 17:01 |
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:
That was a fantastic ending. Better goldmine the thread!
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 17:44 |
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There Bias Two posted:That was a fantastic ending. Better goldmine the thread! Farewell, Karum, son of Kanesh. Let's hope the dice treat you kindly (you slave-owning shitbag).
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 17:58 |
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There Bias Two posted:That was a fantastic ending. Better goldmine the thread! Yeah, before the other guy running a game in this thread comes back and ruins it. Someone should make a compilation of these pop up CYOA Right now I can remember:: Tree CYOA (good thread as well) Gebek CYOA (olothreutes?) Gebebans CYOA Minotaur at Acco (also Swedish’s?)
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:28 |
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Magicstraith!!
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:37 |
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Mr. Nemo posted:Yeah, before the other guy running a game in this thread comes back and ruins it. I do feel like Paradise Lost deserves a huge amount of credit for spinning off others into CYOA 'careers', even just looking at the ones run concurrently in this thread. However often we argue and bitch at eachother in here, there's no doubt that this world and this story has captured our imaginations and set them alight. p good imho
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:18 |
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Dog Kisser posted:I do feel like Paradise Lost deserves a huge amount of credit for spinning off others into CYOA 'careers', even just looking at the ones run concurrently in this thread. However often we argue and bitch at eachother in here, there's no doubt that this world and this story has captured our imaginations and set them alight. I know it's helped me invent so many new passive aggressive ways to insult all of you!
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:37 |
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PL has reaffirmed my crippling misanthropy, but there are a few bright spots. As Oscar Wilde said, "We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Not Enkidel though, that's too dangerous and we don't want to make Ish unhappy.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 19:49 |
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I'll give the new king of riotlandia a great deal. Why it'll be so good it's like I'm cutting me own throat
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:13 |
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Mr. Nemo posted:Yeah, before the other guy running a game in this thread comes back and ruins it. There've been a few bnaimokt captain CYOAs, too. Plus loads of little mock CYOAs where someone (Swedish?) made up the comment threads of the "other side". (Most recently the Nusku one.)
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:25 |
Lead out in cuffs posted:There've been a few bnaimokt captain CYOAs, too. these were both me
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:30 |
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SerSpook posted:these were both me Your finest contribution to the thread, imo.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:37 |
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I vote we have a vote on when we vote to elect the vote counter for an impromptu vote for Best Voter. (except it's unnecessary, The Fish wins)
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:41 |
Swedish Thaumocracy posted:
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 20:46 |
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Wasn't there also some kind of fish CYOA with a detective crab or something? Or am I mixing CYOA threads
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:15 |
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Diogines posted:You are making me feel bad about the many people the Capybaras sent to a horrible end... This was the crowning achievement of my Gebeban cyoa.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:31 |
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mercenarynuker posted:Wasn't there also some kind of fish CYOA with a detective crab or something? Or am I mixing CYOA threads I vaguely remember that one, but I don't remember if it ran its course or if it ended partway through.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:33 |
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the_steve posted:I vaguely remember that one, but I don't remember if it ran its course or if it ended partway through. IIRC it spun off into its own thread where it succumbed to the CYOA curse
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:52 |
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mercenarynuker posted:Wasn't there also some kind of fish CYOA with a detective crab or something? Or am I mixing CYOA threads Cuttlefish I think.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:54 |
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There was a cuttlefish CYOA themed around HUNGER/Asherah and ocean life with like a cleaner shrimp character that got spun off into its own thread.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 22:57 |
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I hope Manny the Minotaur is alright and didn’t get turned into that roadside shrine Diog?
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 00:13 |
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alpaca diseases posted:I hope Manny the Minotaur is alright and didn’t get turned into that roadside shrine On the plus side, Manny's Minotaur Burgers was a really great short-term business opportunity.
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 00:45 |
You are Uriah "The Hammer", Commander of the Mighty Men of Kavodel and slayer of demons. You are not totally sure where that nickname came from, it didn't start in Kavodel. You are really, really, really fantastic. You are thirty pounds of great in a ten pound jug. However great a random stranger in this shithole of a city thinks you are, you are at an absolute minimum, fourty five, maybe fifty percent better than that. You are just so strong and quick and clever and funny and virtuous and brave that it is kind of embarrassing. You are just plain better than almost everyone you have met in your entire life. If you reflect on these feelings a little bit you don't come to the conclusion that you are a raging egomaniac, rather, you feel sort of bad for everyone else. But just a little. And you don't reflect on it much anyway. And, and this is the important bit, you are so supremely confident of that fact that you don't rub it in other people's faces and that fact is probably what separates you from people like the rear end in a top hat who runs this city and could do with a good stabbing in the throat. You have no real desire to tell that to other people. The bit about how great you are, not the throat stabbing bit, well, that too. That and the fact you are a god drat hero who rescues women and children from monsters and demons, fights Eldritch Horrors on the regular that would drive lesser men mad and are on a Mission from El. You enjoy the mission a lot. It mostly revolves around you killing monsters and demons for Him and you are both very enthusiastic about that task and very, very good at it. Many of the original Balls are quasi-retired, you have not, if anything your time spent adventuring has only increased since Enkidel made the decision to become a potted plant in Kavodel. You don't know for sure but you've done some numbers in your head(being so great you are also great at math) and you have a theory. You suspect you are the most prolific killer of demons for thousands of years, depending on how you look at it. Maybe. No one has ever told you about mathematical formulas but you intuit it anyway even if you can't articulate it and the variables are roughly as follows: A=Age of demon slayer at time of demon was slain B=Number of demons slain. C=Current age of incredibly sexy demon slayer D=Demon Slaying Age Quotient D=(A/B)/C Which is to say, you are pretty sure you've slain more demons per year of your life at a younger age than anyone has since maybe the Old Tales? Definitely since at least the time of your King's great-grandfather which was what, a thousand years ago? Maybe longer? Not that they really go hunting like you do. Buuut the King did kill a bunch last Jubilee and several Behemoths... You've tried working in a point system or something based on ferocity but that is sort of complicated. Sadly you have no notion of how to chart it on a graph(or what a graph is) which would really help display the idea better but maybe if you... These are the sorts of things you think about as you and your best buddy Enkidel run across Ur towards the grasslands. And right now you are thinking you need more wine and call for another pitcher. The weak swill they serve here does little for you, El preserve, it'll be hundreds of miles until you can get a REAL drink, but there should be at least a few places on your stop where you can. You are at present in at a tavern whose normal clientele seem to be travelers and you are drinking and gambling, you've won a fair amount so far. You are of course gambling with Enkidel's silver. Why the El is he having you haul all of this crap across the entire world, if you find one is he going to PAY a demon to kill itself!? Sigh. It is not like you can't carry it but it is just so stupid. Speaking of stupid, one very, very stupid person even tried to stick their hand into your pack as you were playing, you turned around and just... glared at them for a moment and then they ran for it. You've been to Chorazin before and even if your adventures take you more west and south than north and east you've been to a few stops on your route. This place is loving terrible, if not for that shrine you needed cleaned you'd wonder why Enkidel stopped at this piss bucket at all and he actually wanted to STOP for one of their plays?! Ugh. You didn't run off because you knew that they were going to murder someone as performance art(though you'd not be surprised, you'd heard of such things), you left because you thought it would be so dreadfully, dreadfully boring. You know, it is a shame that Marnal's Mercy is... probably some place else because quite a few people around here could use a good stabbing. You had no desire to sit with whatever "nobles"(they use that word... El preserve... they really do... these people have no sense of shame but do not lack for irony) kissed Enkidel's rear end, or yours for a few hours and just didn't want to deal with such filth. It is much easier to deal with such degenerate filth by not dealing with them at all. And so you are currently attempting to enjoy a drink and playing darts and dice. Well, dice now. After a few rounds of darts you had no more challengers there. You lose the dice on purpose just enough to keep it interesting. It has been hours, hopefully Enkidel is finished soon... "HELP! HELP!" you hear a man scream out in terror from outside of the tavern and in a swift movement you grab your pack, spear and shield and are on your feet and make for the door to the street. You step outside just in time to see... A man wearing an expensive garment. Well less expensive now for it is soiled as he is tackled to the ground by three men with slave brands on their faces who beat him to death. You see others running down the streets and as you look up you see smoke from fires across the city... [...] Diogines posted:"Right this way, we are honored by your presence" the man says as he misread you say "No thank you". The man, realizing that you declined looks confused and then asks "Hero, where are you going?" You tell him you can find your own seat and enter the arena, working your way past the crowds of your adoring public to the top of the arena, to the worst seats, to sit among slaves and prostitutes. All seemed confused by this and many people talked in quiet tones, or tones not so quiet about it having no idea you could hear. When you asked a very, very confused slave if "this seat was taken?" he could all but stammer "n-n-n-no" as he moved over a bit to make room. A number of those seated nearby immediately left, likely in fear of being caught in whatever events surrounded your decision to spurn the nobles of Chorazin by sitting among them. ...oh gently caress. Hundreds, thousands of angry voices cry out as you race up the rows behind you towards the exterior wall of the arena. You spare a quick look over your shoulder to see thousands of very angry people rushing down in the opposite direction, attacking many in their path as others flee. You see those in the "rich" seats running for their lives. You drop over the outer wall of the arena, grab the wall part of the way down and then drop all the rest of the way to the street. You can hear a considerable amount of shouting and screaming and yelling and people crying out in pain. You close your eyes for a moment to spread your Presence Senses out and find your countrymen when you hear someone much closer to you shout "Aaaaaaaaaaah!" You open your eyes to see some merchant who has leaped, or much more likely was thrown from the top of the arena almost directly on top of you, head first, and who is most certainly going to die. You catch the very surprised man and set him down. "I... I... thank you Hero! They... they were animals! What luck, I... I cannot believe it! You were right there! It is really you! I've been trying to get to you all day! But what luck it shall be for you Hero, I have an amazing opportuni-" you hold out a finger to the man to be quiet, close your eyes for a moment and concentrate. He blathers on about something he wants to sell you, you ignore him. Mokt's Lament are not far apart, thank El, you run away from the man without saying another word... https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3550307&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=5571 [...] We need a little more time, sorry folks. But, we didn't want to leave you without anything so consider this to tide you over in the mean time, even if there are no options. Hopefully the next update with actual votes will be tomorrow. Diogines fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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alpaca diseases posted:I hope Manny the Minotaur is alright and didn’t get turned into that roadside shrine
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 00:58 |
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Things are going smoothly.
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:04 |
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Hahahahahahahahahaha
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:05 |
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So far so good!
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:06 |
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Rioting! The unbeatable high!
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:10 |
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Man I love Uriah
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:23 |
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Eryxias posted:Man I love Uriah
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:37 |
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Man we really should help Uriah invent a graphing and data presentation system. Imagine how much we could tease him about being a massive nerd when this system becomes the one thing he's famous for.
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:45 |
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Uriah is going to independently invent calculus so he can optimize his demon killing over time
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:45 |
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Diogines posted:You close your eyes for a moment to spread your Presence Senses out and find your countrymen when you hear someone much closer to you shout "Aaaaaaaaaaah!" ... what!? I thought mighty men explicitly did NOT have presence sense akin to Enkidel. Like, I know they can sense the mountain -- but has this always been the case?
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:46 |
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^^PoV switched back to Enkidel Uriah is v good but he can't eat people, he just wasn't born with the right parts (a gaping maw).
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:47 |
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Sorry merchant dude, my investment in you is saving you from falling to your death. Hope you can turn that into something profitable!
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:47 |
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Cornuto posted:... what!? I thought mighty men explicitly did NOT have presence sense akin to Enkidel. Like, I know they can sense the mountain -- but has this always been the case? it shifted back to Enkidel
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:47 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:it shifted back to Enkidel Oh, I'm dumb. I thought Uriah went to the arena to see what was going on. I just literally and mentally scrolled past the quoted update since I'd already read it. Cornuto fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Aug 21, 2018 |
# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:48 |
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Cornuto posted:... what!? I thought mighty men explicitly did NOT have presence sense akin to Enkidel. Like, I know they can sense the mountain -- but has this always been the case? The perspective had already switched back to Enkidel.
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:50 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 09:36 |
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Oh my god I cannot wait to see the look on Uriah's face when we tell him what happened. I'd loving kill for a scene inside his head where he realizes Enkidel accidentally started a literally unprecedented event just by passively being Enkidel, but even just the look on his face is gonna own.
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# ? Aug 21, 2018 01:57 |