The Ship of Stories

[lrig_rorrim]

It’s time for the Annual Games again, time to choose a new Narrator for the Ship of Stories. The Archetypes are all out of their halls and mingling here in the lobby, waiting for the stages to be set in the different story rooms, the choices to be made. You know your task: to earn as many points by the end of your story arc as possible while

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[lrig_rorrim]

There is more than one way to win with each character, and one Ultimate Ending. Good luck, and have fun!

[porn_this_way]

This is...there are no words for this. "Amazing" seems woefully inadequate. It's like Zork mated with a choose-your-own ending book, drank lots of satire while it was pregnant, and then gave birth on Livejournal. Everything about this is perfection - the idea, the execution, the hilarious subject lines that you allllmost miss if you're not paying attention...brava, bb. This shit is fucking epic, in *so* many ways.

[lrig_rorrim]

*grins* Thank you so much. I'm really, really glad you like it. This is pure playfulness and fun, and though it's rough and unpolished I really love it. I had no time to make it serious, and I was loopy on cold medicine for most of the time I was writing, so my humor and preferences are sort of splatted all over things. You were a wonderful guinea pig/beta tester/first reader and I really appreciate all your help.

I'm kind of hoping that lots of people will come and play and have fun with it, and I'll do a slightly more challenging version of this later, after I get some input from other folks. Maybe I'll even add more characters. *grins*

Blown. Away.

[livejournal]

User cheshire23 referenced to your post from Blown. Away. saying: [...] I don't care whether you care about LJ Idol in general. I do care that you play the game [...]

[jocosa]

^^^^^

I was thinking something similar but this said it so much better then I could have. This was phenomenal!! I played them all, tried all the options, but chose the mad scientist first because.. DUH .. MAD SCIENTIST!! :)

[lrig_rorrim]

*grins* I'm really thrilled that you enjoyed it! I had enormous fun putting this together, and knowing that people have tried all the options is totally the best, because some of those deaths were fun too. ;)

[beldar]

I won with two out of three characters (detective got squished)

I've occasionally thought about writing something like this, exploiting the potential of a web-page for unconventional storytelling. Well done!

[lrig_rorrim]

(raaaaaar lj just ate my reply to you. ah well, I'll just say all that stuff again.)

Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope you'll keep playing - there are eight total endings, including the one I called "The Ultimate Ending", and honestly a lot of the deaths are pretty fun too.

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I discovered twine games a little bit ago and started saying "hmm..." and then I started reading this awesome choose-your-own-path Hamlet book and went "hmmmm" even more. This was just the perfect combination of prompt, enough time to actually get it done, and devil-may-care attitude (or perhaps that was just the cold medicine) to make this happen.

I would love to see what story you would tell with a similar form! :D

[beldar]

One concept -- which I haven't gotten really past concept -- was to write a scene with several characters, with on the first page all the characters each have their own links which you can click in any order, and crosslinked among them, so that you eventually get all their perspectives, to complete the scene. Essentially, a schizophrenic Internet version of Roshomon.

Maybe someday I'll actually manage that. If you do, holler at me because I'd love to see it.

[lrig_rorrim]

That is an awesome concept and it sounds like a lot of fun to play with.