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[CYOA] A Practical Guide to the Destruction of Angels
Mojo_Jojo
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I. Introduction
Elsewhere, a single sharp click prompts an end to dreams. Consciousness slowly drags itself together with the sound of something old and rusted reluctantly moving. Damp, musty memories disintegrate like gossamer. All that is certain is this place had been known as The Bastille. A sharp intake of breath stops any further attempts at snatching the disintegrating threads of the past.
II. What is this?
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) game. It’s sort of like a Play By Post but more freeform and with no defined player list. Every turn I’ll post an update, with a few options and then you lot get to decide what you would like to happen. With your choices determining the fate a mysterious, ancient entity that was sealed away for some reason. Anybody can jump in and have their say on the direction taken in a given turn. I'll go for whatever gets a majority.
I also encourage you guys to post little side stories, or drawings or whatever. I’m just arbitrating, you're the voices inside the entity's head. Also, it helps me to know what you guys want so I can swing my options to fit that better.
In other words it's a bit like a another thing like Space Australia or Seven Wizards.
III. The Rules
These are ultralightweight and I'll introduce them as required. I plan to be less number-y in this game that I have historically. We'll see how I manage.
IV. Can I play?
Yes, just look at my latest post and tell me which option you want. Do it in bold and red so I can see it.
V. How do we start?
I need a number, a symbol, a letter and a name. Help me out and do it in red and bold for vote counting.
I'll aim for posting an update per day, probably after work so this first one has thirty hours or so
Where are you?
1: Slumped in a barred cell set in the wall of a deep pit carved into the earth
2: Cocooned in chains and suspended from the branches of a vast petrified tree
3: Frozen within the heart of a salt-crusted glacier
4: Buried in the fine white sands of a vast desert
5: Impaled by an ancient spear in the throne room of a ruined castle
6: Sitting restfully in a dusty study
What do you still carry?
£: A hammer and chisel
$: An insatiable hunger for flesh
%: A fragment of the old sun
&: A collection of surgical tools
*: A taxidermied jackelope
Who has woken you?
A: A youth, little more than a child, who slipped away from her chores and stumbled upon the forbidden
B: A zealot, hooded and whispering prayers
C: A father, haggard and desperate, searching for his lost child
An aristocratic explorer, seeking to win the attention of her queen
E: A warrior, hidden inside an armoured shell
F: An old enemy friend
What is your name?
(No options here, time to be creative!)
There is always hope. Hope that the passage of time, the winds and rains, will be enough to reduce all things to dust. To erode away the remnants and remove the lingering spectres. Such hope is madness. Wicked pride that refuses to recognise fundamental nature. All that has happened is that the world has forgotten what was sealed and why. Now the day has come when the futile containment fails. And once more I must do nothing except bear witness... and try to pretend that there isn't a tiny glimmer of hope deep within me that this time could be different.
-A weary voice
Elsewhere, a single sharp click prompts an end to dreams. Consciousness slowly drags itself together with the sound of something old and rusted reluctantly moving. Damp, musty memories disintegrate like gossamer. All that is certain is this place had been known as The Bastille. A sharp intake of breath stops any further attempts at snatching the disintegrating threads of the past.
II. What is this?
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) game. It’s sort of like a Play By Post but more freeform and with no defined player list. Every turn I’ll post an update, with a few options and then you lot get to decide what you would like to happen. With your choices determining the fate a mysterious, ancient entity that was sealed away for some reason. Anybody can jump in and have their say on the direction taken in a given turn. I'll go for whatever gets a majority.
I also encourage you guys to post little side stories, or drawings or whatever. I’m just arbitrating, you're the voices inside the entity's head. Also, it helps me to know what you guys want so I can swing my options to fit that better.
In other words it's a bit like a another thing like Space Australia or Seven Wizards.
III. The Rules
These are ultralightweight and I'll introduce them as required. I plan to be less number-y in this game that I have historically. We'll see how I manage.
IV. Can I play?
Yes, just look at my latest post and tell me which option you want. Do it in bold and red so I can see it.
V. How do we start?
I need a number, a symbol, a letter and a name. Help me out and do it in red and bold for vote counting.
I'll aim for posting an update per day, probably after work so this first one has thirty hours or so
Where are you?
1: Slumped in a barred cell set in the wall of a deep pit carved into the earth
2: Cocooned in chains and suspended from the branches of a vast petrified tree
3: Frozen within the heart of a salt-crusted glacier
4: Buried in the fine white sands of a vast desert
5: Impaled by an ancient spear in the throne room of a ruined castle
6: Sitting restfully in a dusty study
What do you still carry?
£: A hammer and chisel
$: An insatiable hunger for flesh
%: A fragment of the old sun
&: A collection of surgical tools
*: A taxidermied jackelope
Who has woken you?
A: A youth, little more than a child, who slipped away from her chores and stumbled upon the forbidden
B: A zealot, hooded and whispering prayers
C: A father, haggard and desperate, searching for his lost child
An aristocratic explorer, seeking to win the attention of her queenE: A warrior, hidden inside an armoured shell
F: An old enemy friend
What is your name?
(No options here, time to be creative!)
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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Rhapsody
Jayna
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It's clearly a heirloom of some sort.
If we want to change our vote should we edit our post or make a new one?
I thought it was a snack, a light breakfast if you will.
Just edit it. Do a strike through and rebold/colour it if you think it needs doing.
Verdict: 5 % A Rhapsody: Thrones, suns and young ladies
Status
-Mysterious spear
-Fragment of the old sun (knife)
-Hole in chest
Youth
-???
Vote
What will you do with the spear?
1 - Hurl the spear into the dust. You do not wish to be burdened with a reminder of your imprisonment any further
2 - Give the youth the spear. Perhaps your new servant would be more use with such a tool
3 - Keep the spear. You would like to see whoever imprisoned you struck down by the same weapon they had employed against you
What will you do with the youth?
£ - Provide her with the gift of language. This could cause some damage to so simple an animal
$ - Accept her mouth sounds as attempts at communication and put your mind to learning to communicate with her
Where will you go?
A - Down into the dust
B - Across the plateau
Somewhere across a body of salt, upon a half sunken bronze bell, a watcher lands clumsily. In the hierarchy of beings, they are the lowliest. Moving as if tugged on strings, none know of their purpose, or care much why. As they tend to do, it speaks now, mimicking words without knowledge of the meaning.
“I’m glad that’s the name.”, it croaks, “I was thinking of the song. But it can be a long poem too. An ecstatic feeling..”
There is no one nearby to listen.
Just as clumsily, it takes flight.
Keep this one's mind intact, our own mental flexibility should be sufficient to match these crude grunts. If it can think and wield a spear, it may be a powerful... well, not ally, but a tool we can use.
The spear is special, the essence disrupted us. Keep it close, away from the enemy. Need for power, allies. Raise the creature up to be worthy, and find more to serve us.
If we accept that this sub-entity is trying to communicate it necessarily follows that they can figure out how to put the pointy end of the spear into something. We've got the sun-knife.
Also, going down into the dust is an inevitability. Why wait?
also if I had seen this earlier I would've voted Rhapsody for name.
Time to fly
Edit: Note, the above is a bit, not actually trying to insult, like idea we are all voices in its head.
Did you mean:
3 £ B ?
I certainly did, anyways.
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Who cares for the trinket or expending our energy on something so trivial?
So hysa ec Rhapsody
Yes
Bathe in our majesty
"Are you an angel? My name is <<Rana>>.
Thank you for sparing my life.
I'm sorry I left my uncle.
I will return home now.
Thank you for your mercy"
Aeiouy
Yaeuio
Bcdf
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kr.gm
mnpqr
shb.n
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The little one might be disgustingly adorable, we must find out without liquifying its thought glands.
Verdict: 2 $ B: Sharing the spear, not breaking the youth's brain and heading across the plateau
Status
-Fragment of the old sun (knife)
-Hole in chest
The Youth, Herald of Rhapsody
-Mysterious spear
Vote
How will you respond?
1 - Destroy one of the figures to properly cow the rest
2- Destroy all of the figures. Strong and impulsive offense is the most effective defence.
3 - Attempt to address the figures in the youth's tongue: Inform them that they are claimed by Rhapsody
4 - Attempt to address the figures in the youth's tongue: Attempt to understand what they are
5 - Send your Herald forth
It is time to verify that we have mastered this primitive tongue, then, perhaps, we can start teaching this rabble true speech.
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Understanding is paramount, how are they so broken as to not recognize us? The Herald will perform their duty. They will Know.
Context is important!
“Diplomacy is key. For every key there is a lock. Unlock the locks and then things go free. That’s nice. Keys!”
Lightning illuminates the sky as the wind throws it down, tumbling through dark clouds.
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The lack of genuflection is concerning.
Are we not magnificent?
Our Herald seems to understand at least.
Maybe some more time and our Herald will correct the issue.
You want me to take it?
Are we going to <<Babel>>?
"that's where i live. i'm not really sure what the others will think but i bet they won't mind that i went off exploring rather than gathering wood if i bring you home with me"
"there's my uncle"
"uncle! hello. you'll never guess what happened!"
var english = 'aeiouybcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz'; var garbage = 'yaeuiopltvkr.gmshb.ncdjfq.'; function means(input){ return translate(input.toLowerCase(), garbage, english); } function demeans(input){ return translate(input.toLowerCase(), english, garbage); } function translate(input, a, b){ output = '' for (c of input){ var character = english.indexOf(c); if (character == -1){ output += c; }else{ var find = a.indexOf(c); if (find != -1){ output += b.charAt(find); }else{ output += '.'; } } } return output; }The lack of genuflection is concerning, yes, but what is expected of the lesser creatures. We failed to raise this one to proper prophet, so we seem stuck to sending it as a servant. If they fail to be properly cowed, then we may need to stoop so low as to smite one
Surely we can impress ourselves on these creatures without harming this one's home.