Stories chat corpse discussion

[upbeat brook]

I can focus on this

[frozen sleet]

doesn't need to be perfect

[upbeat brook]

It is but my brain can't help but put more effort than what is probably needed lol

[frozen sleet]

i think its funny that banana doesn't even have a expected start or end date for some reason

[elder cloak]

because we added a few extra people lol

[candid mountain]

their chapter just kinda popped up in the doc suddenly, no explanation /j

[elder cloak]

I was too lazy to rebuild everything in the sheet

Banan is a mystery forever

[south forum]

mystery banana

[upbeat brook]

Ok

I legit need to stop lmfao

[marsh pilot]

Vaitle cookin

[upbeat brook]

Not really xD

I could make this so much longer and more polished

I'm probably just going to hand it off now though

[elder cloak]

it is now @heady escarp's turn

with puts 800 bells next and frosmoth on deck

[thin cargo]

Dang dude, you did cook

[marsh pilot]

The end is in sight

[upbeat brook]

I apologize in advance apple :')

[elder cloak]

but your chapter is lovely

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

We are closing in on the end!

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

are we gonna do a krimas one if this fic does well?

[midnight edge]

if everyone agrees then why not

[south forum]

that'd be awesome

[midnight edge]

anyways i gotta keep writing

so

[thin cargo]

Is krima already here
(We celebrate Christmas early in September)

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[thin cargo]

Don't eyebrow it
Is true, yes

[quartz locust]

The Philippines start celebrating Christmas in September

The country with the longest Christmas celebration in the world

[south forum]

krimas

spooks to the moon krimas edition: garbage goes missing and saint needs help finding him

[frozen sleet]

Lol

As soon as Halloween is over this thread gets renamed

[heady escarp]

K!

[heady escarp]

Just realised I'm shit at writing anything but loss of life and limb 🙃

[marsh pilot]

Dewit

You can kill some lmao

Just not Smelvin I think

[heady escarp]

...ok

time to pay the price of being my favorite character

🐴

[south forum]

smelvin must survive the horrors

he must bear witness to the carnage

[midnight edge]

what if i decided to kill smelvin

[south forum]

banished from story chat

(silly)

[upbeat brook]

Don't worry

We just have smelvin crash through the ceiling later

Even if he dies he cannot

He transcends reality

[south forum]

gibby mode

[thin cargo]

If we finish the Spooks to the Moon, title suggestions for the krima

Long Winter Nights
A Sain't Special
Scugs of Christmas
What in the Void is Christmas? (Iterator edition)

thats all I could come up and now disappearing to pay debts

[midnight edge]

i saw that apple

[heady escarp]

I regret my decisions

[thin cargo]

[heady escarp]

ye i knows

[midnight edge]

long winter nights sounds p good

[heady escarp]

Past me forgot that she can't write silly

[midnight edge]

though it could work for smth else

[thin cargo]

[midnight edge]

is that every emoji with teeth visible

or smth

[thin cargo]

Mayhaps

Too bad Spearmaster doesn't have teeth

[midnight edge]

you forgot monksilly

and slugWOH

[south forum]

this too

[thin cargo]

[midnight edge]

monkdevious

[heady escarp]

mine does

[fossil grove]

[heady escarp]

look at those beautiful pearly whites

[thin cargo]

SM so cool that they got dem teeth

[heady escarp]

the whole 'no mouth' thing does make them very uncomfy sadly

[thin cargo]

can't join with the cool kids (other scugs) because they cant chew

[heady escarp]

...that gives me a dumb idea

[thin cargo]

[heady escarp]

ok lemme draw this

[fossil grove]

SM needs to go to the dentist

[heady escarp]

lol

[thin cargo]

SM gotta need to check dem teeth

[heady escarp]

unfortunately Suns is not a licensed dentist (just ask Hunter)

god why did I make my SM design so fucking complicated

[thin cargo]

[heady escarp]

high-effort shipost achieved

[fossil grove]

Spearmaster bubblegum?

[heady escarp]

yes

[fossil grove]

No wonder they got teeth issues. Too much sugar

[heady escarp]

lol

[south forum]

stares at spooky nerds

[frozen sleet]

Hey! It's rude to stare!/j

[south forum]

[south forum]

have i started a cult or smth

[upbeat brook]

If I was good at ASCII art I'd have used a dead PoE meme.

[thin cargo]

Huh, I wonder who started it

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

Oh boy, I sure hope I didn't type "Praise the Great Pumpkin"

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

Which includes the "Precepts" and the "Mass OC sacrifice"

[dry sequoia]

I’m wondering, how’s writing coming along?

[thin cargo]

Lemme check

It still on Apple

Now we's wait

[dry sequoia]

Oh, the rare Celestium keyboard mash!

[elder cloak]

I asked Apple yesterday how she's doing, and she's not responded yet

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

[upbeat brook]

Smelvin has claimed them

[elder cloak]

I'm sure they've just been busy

[jolly trail]

How goeses the corpse

[frozen sleet]

We're on the last few people

Only Apple, Eight hundred, and Frostmoth and We're done

[jolly trail]

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

behold chat

the end draws near

it is now eight hundered beads turn

[midnight edge]

thy end is soon

[elder cloak]

very soon

Frosmoth is next and then we're done

[midnight edge]

take a minigame for your travels

[marsh pilot]

SOON

[frozen sleet]

Indeed

[south forum]

[vital rover]

Where do I find the last author's leave-off?

[south forum]

@elder cloak we request assistance

[frozen sleet]

After-T13 should have dmed it to you, make sure they can

[dry sequoia]

T13 should have given it to you. If he hasn't, well.

[vital rover]

Found it

[elder cloak]

yey

[thin cargo]

[marsh pilot]

Can't wait to see if [redacted] was [redacted]

[thin cargo]

Who now?
-# must wait for the release like skong

[jolly trail]

We anxiously await the reveal of shmelvin’s fate

[south forum]

my son must survive

surely

[south forum]

[frozen sleet]

yeah no he died in my chapter and now they need to consult the dark arts to bring him back /j /silly

[marsh pilot]

Wrong chat oops

[south forum]

🫵

[elder cloak]

the compiled doc is looking great chat (it's done save for the last two chapters)

[frozen sleet]

i want to read it so bad, please dont say we have to wait for the chapters to release on AO3 with everyone else

[marsh pilot]

Nuh uh, we must build the suspense

[candid mountain]

gotta join a collab project at some point

[elder cloak]

just saying if we get finished by the 24th, we can post two chapters a day and discuss them here so everyone can get their time in the sun

[south forum]

[frozen sleet]

Well, then 800 apples would need to finish soon and frostmoth would have to write really fast

[elder cloak]

800 Beads said they're planning to be done tonight

[south forum]

if the chap im given isnt very long, i can write faster, so we'll see

[frozen sleet]

fuck i called them 800 apples

[south forum]

rip

[elder cloak]

I can also just start posting while you’re still writing

[south forum]

woahg

[jolly kestrel]

i thought the entire thing would be released on the 31st?

[elder cloak]

Although this fic is going to look absolutely cursed when it appears on ao3 with 14 co-authors

We’re reconsidering that

Mainly because of how long it is

We kind of want a chance for everyone to get some praise for their chapter

[midnight edge]

are we gonna all post ours as separate

but group them all under spooks

like woaf?

[elder cloak]

No I’m going to create a single fic with 17 chapters

[midnight edge]

...

[candid mountain]

"Damn, this guy writes fast" /j

[elder cloak]

It’s literally going to be a wall of names on the page

It’ll be so funny

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

“But the style is all over the place, and he’s got a short memory”

[elder cloak]

Chat, I’m currently writing a short afterword, (to make it a clean 18 chapters) does anyone want to add anything to it?

[midnight edge]

could i see whats written down rn?

[upbeat brook]

14 co-authors lmao

[elder cloak]

It’s going to be a list of thanks sorta deal

[midnight edge]

i swear i wrote the shortest chapter

[elder cloak]

I dont have anything written yet, it’s just anyone who wants to add some comments to the end of the fic

[elder cloak]

You didn’t

I assure you

[midnight edge]

huh wuh

ok

[frozen sleet]

so we can just start on the 24th no matter what

[frozen sleet]

how much did you write?

[midnight edge]

like 400 words or smth

(idk why i wrote so little but i did)

[frozen sleet]

oh, yeah that is pretty small

[elder cloak]

Nah it definitely more than that

I don’t remember lol

[midnight edge]

nvm its 595 words

still super short but

better than nothing

[elder cloak]

Yeah that sounds right

[elder cloak]

Short but sweet

[elder cloak]

Yeah that’s the plan

I’ll make Frosmoth super-promise not to cheat

[frozen sleet]

steal her AO3 account until shes done/j

[elder cloak]

Eye privileges revoked

[upbeat brook]

Post every chapter but it's all redacted except the first one

[elder cloak]

lol

Black highlighter over the text

View only mode

[upbeat brook]

Nah but then they can highlight it

[elder cloak]

Ahh dammit

[frozen sleet]

O5 access required

[elder cloak]

I mean, we can probably let the contributors read the whole doc once it’s ready

[upbeat brook]

No wait

Take all the chapters

Put them in a random number generator

[frozen sleet]

noooo

[upbeat brook]

And then randomize the order

[elder cloak]

I’m literally O5-13

Anyway, https://docs.google.com/document/d/106SV6OkASPD4lNjTbpE7ol8D-HLkQ72MulAYt9wmZYY/edit

@fossil grove can you pin this?

Anyone is allowed to add anything they want to, just for the end of the story

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Not required of course

[frozen sleet]

you might want to turn on suggestion edits, so you can make sure someone doesn't destroy everything

[elder cloak]

I just thought it would be nice for anyone who wanted to comment

[frozen sleet]

(as well as editing at all)

[elder cloak]

I’m not too worried about it

I can restore it

[frozen sleet]

ah ok we can edit now

[elder cloak]

And if it’s lost, then oh well

[frozen sleet]

yeah you can, and all of us can as well

[upbeat brook]

Do we really have those kinds of people here.

That would do such a thing

[frozen sleet]

this is technically public

[elder cloak]

Not in this subchat of a subchat of a subchat really

[upbeat brook]

Or do we have the kind of people, that would paste an image of smelvin. And then spam memes instead

[frozen sleet]

yeah thats prob gonna be frostmoth's note

[upbeat brook]

I think it's fine....if not well, he could make a private copy I guess idk.

[elder cloak]

Already have of my note

I’ll permit one image of Smelvin in the afterword, just as a treat

[elder cloak]

Thanks Cy

[fossil grove]

[elder cloak]

Good Stapler

[south forum]

my note can just be the smelvin blast

[elder cloak]

One Smelvin is permitted

[frozen sleet]

not if my note is the smelvin blast first!

[upbeat brook]

I wanted to do ascii art of him

"Le smelvin has arrived"

Then just spam Praise below it

😔

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

That’d be great

Also you guys can edit, right?

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

Cool

[upbeat brook]

nah there's only one problem

i can't do ascii art lol

[frozen sleet]

there it is, already

[elder cloak]

Lmao

You can try

[south forum]

smelvin blast

hehe

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

https://www.asciiart.eu/image-to-ascii

[outer girder]

shit i need to work on that

[elder cloak]

Work on what?

[outer girder]

the foreword

it wasn't finished last i worked on it

[elder cloak]

Ohhh rip

Do you want me to take out the version I already added to the compiled doc or do you want to edit it there?

[outer girder]

I can edit my version and let you know when it's done

[elder cloak]

Alrighty

Though I’ll add that I thought the current foreword was perfectly good

[thin cargo]

Hmmmm maybe I should do some proofreading
-# by myself

[elder cloak]

Of your STTM chapter?

[elder cloak]

chat, it is the final countdown

800 beads is finished

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

which makes it Frosmoth's turn

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

[marsh pilot]

[south forum]

holy shit this fic will have as many chapters as my genshin impact fic

funny coincidence

@vital rover i can see and hear this chapter very vividly, very yummy work bro

lots to work with

[vital rover]

Lmao that was quick quick

[south forum]

brain see everything like it literally happened

[elder cloak]

agreed. I thought it was a fantastic chapter

[dry sequoia]

Excited to read it.

[elder cloak]

loved riv's antics

10/10

[south forum]

i love smelvin

[dry sequoia]

He survived, and managed to get back to the main cast? I failed.

[south forum]

what if the christmas story corpse is garbage getting lost in santa's workshop

[south forum]

i meant in general

[dry sequoia]

Should’ve outright left him for dead.

[marsh pilot]

I contributed

[elder cloak]

[elder cloak]

except Santa is just NSH with a mall santa costume

[vital rover]

You can pry smelvin from my cold dead hands

It's such a ridiculous name, lol I love him

[dry sequoia]

My writing juice does need refilling, and you, as a writer, do have a lot of it in you…

[vital rover]

My god that is so threatening

[dry sequoia]

Smelvin will not be the only corpse I’m bringing back today.

[vital rover]

Celestiun is gonna juice me like lemon

[dry sequoia]

Sleep well!

You’d wish it was your last time.

[vital rover]

[dry sequoia]

Lemon!

[elder cloak]

[dry sequoia]

Crunch.

[elder cloak]

he's about to be eight hundred lemons

[south forum]

YES

[dry sequoia]

Alright - https://youtu.be/J4C3B8cT8Yg?feature=shared - recorded Celestium reaction.

I have transcended once more.

I have become the ultimate lifeform.

Eight Hundred Lemons, One Wailing Miku.

[thin cargo]

Ascension was imminent

[south forum]

i found a typo

[jolly trail]

Are we close to the end

My chapter is so dumb

[midnight edge]

my chapter is dumber

[thin cargo]

I don't know what I put mine but I need to do some editing

[south forum]

i am the final wroter

211 words so far

[jolly trail]

[thin cargo]

[midnight edge]

[thin cargo]

We are near to the Legacy of Smelvin

[jolly trail]

Frosmoth must decide smelvin’s fate

[south forum]

i have plans and they involve describing the environment apparently because i wanna yap

i must set the vibe

[midnight edge]

yap away

[elder cloak]

nonsense, your chapter is 🔥

[jolly trail]

It certainly is something

[frozen sleet]

It was amazing material I ran so far with what you gave me

[jolly trail]

Excellent that was the goal

Felt like a fun way to go

Can’t wait to see where you took it

[dry sequoia]

I don’t know how well mine went.

How did mine fly with the others?

[elder cloak]

do we want the compiled doc to drop here when Frosmoth is finished?

[jolly trail]

Idk I kind of like the idea of releasing one by one

But I might be the minority

[elder cloak]

I mean, we'll probably do that on ao3, but I made the compiled doc look all organized and stuff

I can release it after we do the 2 chaps/day until Halloween I suppose

[jolly trail]

My vote goes sequentially but whatever the others want is fine c:

[dry sequoia]

Getting ignored pretty hard here, I guess it didn’t.

[jolly trail]

I haven’t read any chapter but Anton’s

[elder cloak]

it very much flew, do know

[dry sequoia]

I want to spoil myself on Rosa’s fate so bad.

But I guess I’ll wait.

[frozen sleet]

Well, it is 2 a day

[elder cloak]

Banan has more willpower than me; she has access to the editor's spreadsheet and she hasn't read any of the chapters on there

[frozen sleet]

Well you're the main editor, you gotta

[jolly trail]

I wanna read them as they release

So we can discuss

My editing services weren’t needed, so

[frozen sleet]

This feels like a really big game of mad libs, or gartic phone

[jolly trail]

It pretty much is

Though I dug for little info for my chapter because I didn’t know what do with it

[elder cloak]

but writer-y

[upbeat brook]

I can't wait to see the reactions to how dumb mine is

[jolly trail]

T13 was patient with me lmao

[elder cloak]

[frozen sleet]

I feel like mine was also goofy as hell, so I think the whole story is

[elder cloak]

its alright I like answering questions

[frozen sleet]

Rip to the more serious writers who had to deal with the goofiness that the others made

[elder cloak]

it satisfies the rambling old man in me

[jolly trail]

I bet mine was dumber

[dry sequoia]

Frosmoth.

[thin cargo]

Nuh uh, I have the dumber fic

[elder cloak]

oh also everyone, any comments you want to make on the afterword need to be in by the 24th when I start posting

[upbeat brook]

Ok

[frozen sleet]

If we want to do a Christmas one, should we immediately start planing and recruiting like right after the final chapters are released

[upbeat brook]

I need to think of something completely stupid to put in the afterword

[jolly trail]

I liked your chapter

[elder cloak]

me too

[thin cargo]

[jolly trail]

Merry Christmas: the world is freezing and everything is dying (post saint setting)

[frozen sleet]

What would the plot be with that one, everyone has to deal with in some way some rain world version of Santa?

[elder cloak]

but NSH is wearing a mall santa costume

[thin cargo]

A Sain't Special

I do have suggestions like way, way up there

[elder cloak]

Sain't delivers NSH's "Presents" to everyone

[jolly trail]

Sain’t Nick

[elder cloak]

(naughty iterators may be sent straight to SUPER HELL by Sain't)

[thin cargo]

I do have the titles like, scrolling up in this forum

[jolly trail]

Futurama Santa energy

[dry sequoia]

Oh my.

[midnight edge]

super hell you say

[thin cargo]

🔥

[jolly trail]

(I’m so old)

[thin cargo]

-# the Iterators, probably

[elder cloak]

it's alright Banan, I understood that reference

[thin cargo]

I'm familiar with that but I kinda forgor

[elder cloak]

(my throbbing headache is eroding my social filter)

[dry sequoia]

You’re fossil too?

[frozen sleet]

That unused soundtrack plays

[thin cargo]

All I want for Christmas......

Is............................

silence took over

[elder cloak]

I feel like one, if it's anything

[elder cloak]

[frozen sleet]

Spearmaster: "are my 2 front teeth!"

[upbeat brook]

he needs a mouth for teeth first

[frozen sleet]

That'll be next year's

[dry sequoia]

I feel like a fossil.

[thin cargo]

-# Psst, check the misc

[dry sequoia]

My bones. My back.

[thin cargo]

-# the thread misc

[elder cloak]

Thanksgiving micro corpse lol

Suns gives spears the mouth they never had

[thin cargo]

I felt that

[elder cloak]

spears EATS

[jolly trail]

Does spearmaster have a fused jaw you think

[thin cargo]

[upbeat brook]

He certainly has something

[jolly trail]

Or can he still move it…

[south forum]

my provided chap seems to be not extremely silly

[dry sequoia]

I prefer the interpretation that he can still move it.

[frozen sleet]

Maybe, may be too much work to remove the jaw on top of everything else in the DNA

[elder cloak]

I was always under the impression that Suns just sewed his mouth in the laziest way possible

like he's got teeth and a tongue in there and everything

[upbeat brook]

yes but

[elder cloak]

just can't use them

[upbeat brook]

he can't meow in push to meow

[thin cargo]

That is actually

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

me too (ive watched 3 seasons on friends' dvds)

[frozen sleet]

insert no mouth must scream quote here

[jolly trail]

dvd sighting

Not gone the way of the floppy disk yet…

[upbeat brook]

but is it Blu-Ray

[frozen sleet]

I got a whole shelf of dvds

[elder cloak]

I still have all my xbox dvds kicking around

[south forum]

567 words so far

[dry sequoia]

Because you get the IHNMAIMS look.

[jolly trail]

Those are two distinctly different things

[elder cloak]

holy fast

[jolly trail]

You’re a machine

[south forum]

[upbeat brook]

I got like an entire shelf of CDs, and casette tapes, and records

[frozen sleet]

My dad has the record thing

[south forum]

i wanted to write the whole thing day one but saved up all my silly for this exact moment

[upbeat brook]

the record thing? xD

[elder cloak]

the silly is being released at dangerous speeds

[marsh pilot]

I hope mine was silly enough

[jolly trail]

Record players have devoted enjoyers

I buy records for sleeve art lmao

[fossil grove]

[elder cloak]

there is an imminent risk of silly dam collapse

[jolly trail]

I got the rain world ones

[elder cloak]

[upbeat brook]

WAAIT there's rain world records?

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

didn't know those existed either

[fossil grove]

That's cool as

[jolly trail]

Yeah they sell them where you get all the other merch

[elder cloak]

is it cool as ?

[jolly trail]

Though I preordered idk if they’re still available

[south forum]

[upbeat brook]

I could play the game OST in beautiful 1980s analog?

[fossil grove]

my hot take:
is cooler than

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

Hmm looks like they’re available on black screen

[upbeat brook]

proceeds to say a cold take

[elder cloak]

that's pretty cool...

[south forum]

[fossil grove]

you want a real hot take?
😎 is cooler than both of them

[inland lotus]

< what about this one?

[jolly trail]

https://blackscreenrecords.com/products/rain-world?srsltid=AfmBOorwz3AfaJ6uHywc63-K7gUMySapyUm55kPTFUhZ8-LK-2YvBydW&variant=44602768195850

https://blackscreenrecords.com/products/rain-world-downpour?variant=44347336392970

Europe though

[elder cloak]

[upbeat brook]

the cover art actually looks hella cool

[jolly trail]

The back side art of the Downpour one is my fave, it’s surv and monk in OE

[upbeat brook]

I wish the record itself was all black though

[thin cargo]

[marsh pilot]

I wish I had a record player

[elder cloak]

yeah seriously

[upbeat brook]

you can get em....pretty cheap?

[midnight edge]

hotter take, is better than /j

[upbeat brook]

I think you could find a used turntable for quite an affordable price

[marsh pilot]

beats them both /j

[elder cloak]

I still need to fix my grandfather's in my basement

[midnight edge]

beats them all /j

[jolly trail]

Slonk wins ofc

[elder cloak]

we're slonk stans here

[jolly trail]

[upbeat brook]

[jolly trail]

It’s been crawling up my frequently used

[midnight edge]

really?

?

[upbeat brook]

is always my most frequent lol

[midnight edge]

is the best you can do? /j

[fossil grove]

[frozen sleet]

you dare question my power?

[fossil grove]

oh wait, almost forgot the best emote

[midnight edge]

solos everything

no contest

[upbeat brook]

this is now emote chat

[thin cargo]

took over

[upbeat brook]

we have evolved

[midnight edge]

or

[elder cloak]

The corpse is forgotten for the emotes

but this is stories chat, where we talk about whatever we want, wherever we want

[fossil grove]

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

The symmetry is beautiful

[thin cargo]

What symmetry?

I lived for the asymmetrical

[jolly trail]

[thin cargo]

[upbeat brook]

well now I have to undo it

[thin cargo]

There

I lost the battle of asymmetrical ||||

[south forum]

716

[upbeat brook]

what is the silliness rating

of these 716 words

[south forum]

rivulet is silly incarnate while everything is serious

[jolly trail]

How’s our boy Smelvin

[south forum]

good for now

[jolly trail]

for now

[south forum]

i am the only one allowed to hurt him

[thin cargo]

[fossil grove]

I hope at least one of the incredibly stupid plot points I injected in my chapter made it to the end

[thin cargo]

I cannot against that since the creator has rights

-# get shit on, Sitter

[jolly trail]

I may have hurt him. Not sure, depends what the next writer did

[upbeat brook]

i have bad news for you, at least if it was your plot point

I actually forgot a plot point when I made mine , but oh well

[jolly trail]

I hope mine made it a ways in

Maybe Vaitle nuked it

[midnight edge]

if mine faded into the background thats completely fine lol

[upbeat brook]

Oh, I most definitely nuked where the story was going

don't you worry about that

it was 100% worth it

[inland lotus]

I feel like I may have taken my part a bit too seriously || ||

[upbeat brook]

and I will do it with the christmas story to

[jolly trail]

I tried to make mine silly

[upbeat brook]

I could still go back to mine

and grammar edit it

...nah

[elder cloak]

until I make you go first

[upbeat brook]

you think that will stop me?

I will only do more damage like that

[elder cloak]

hard to derail it when the rails don't exist yet

[jolly trail]

Vaitle: installs rails “Take that!”

[upbeat brook]

I'd actually be down to do this again though

[fossil grove]

chrismats fic

[frozen sleet]

i would as well, and when we post this, we may get more people wanting to join

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

we can make some new wacky rules as well

[frozen sleet]

oh no, this was chaos without much rules

[south forum]

hehe

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

rot-piloted giant toy soldiers that everyone dodges to locate Garbage in Santa's workshop

[elder cloak]

we could do the guessing version of this game though, where the order of writers is hidden and we have to guess who wrote what chapter just based on the style and stuff

[frozen sleet]

though that wouldn't change the writing side of things that much

[elder cloak]

and we set up a little google form and whoever gets the highest score wins some kind of prize

[frozen sleet]

-# all word debt removed

tho i would pay mine off while writing my part

only 1k debt

[jolly trail]

Omg this sounds so fun

[elder cloak]

we comment mob someone's fic

[jolly trail]

I volunteer oc art

[elder cloak]

(everyone writes a comment of a predetermined length on the person's fic)

[jolly trail]

If I win I guess I draw something for me

[elder cloak]

that would work

[upbeat brook]

I was excited and then you said "for me" and not someone else lol

[elder cloak]

we do the comment mob on HFISH if banan wins

[frozen sleet]

looks are time spent making slugcat 3d model "please no one have any scav OCs"

[elder cloak]

or I comission some other artist

[upbeat brook]

don't you still have to do that HFISH spinoff

T13?

[elder cloak]

I'm working on it

slowly

[south forum]

[jolly trail]

I feel like I could probably recognize almost everyone’s writing style pretty easily

Unless people try to mask

[elder cloak]

yeah Banan has that editing experience with everyone's stuff

[fossil grove]

clearly I gotta put up some kind of bluff so you couldn't spot me

[elder cloak]

part of the game

[jolly trail]

I’ll sense your Vibe

[frozen sleet]

Hehehe..... I wouldn't, maybe Cy... most definitely Cy. But not much everyone else

[fossil grove]

I suppose

[jolly trail]

People literally imitating each other’s styles lmao

[fossil grove]

[elder cloak]

I'll imitate your style Cy,

(or try my best to, since I won't be allowed to participate in the actual contest)

[jolly trail]

Might be fun to do with oneshots actually, everyone writes the same prompt

[fossil grove]

I dunno if I could deliberately write in someone else's style
I think a lot of it's too instinctual for me to really do it properly

[jolly trail]

Same

[elder cloak]

Maybe that can be the thanksgiving corpse

[frozen sleet]

Yeah, that would be fun

[elder cloak]

since that'd be faster

[jolly trail]

I could imitate quirks pretty easily but not like overall writing style…

[south forum]

[frozen sleet]

Everyone will write at the same time

[elder cloak]

exactly

[south forum]

also ive hit 1k

[frozen sleet]

I'm up for that

[jolly trail]

Holy cow

[elder cloak]

we could probably do it in less than a week if we really tried

[jolly trail]

On fire 🔥

[fossil grove]

Quirks—what quirks?

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

my god

[jolly trail]

line break

[frozen sleet]

That took me a whole day to do, don't leave me in the dust back here/j

[fossil grove]

em dash

[elder cloak]

semi-colon

[upbeat brook]

I am 100% confident I could guess Cy and banans

[south forum]

i dont write dialogue properly unless forced to (or i wanna make classmates look bad)

[upbeat brook]

everyone else's is like free for all

[jolly trail]

Just don’t slip up and do en dash. That would be horrible

[upbeat brook]

As for me, I could mask mine so good that nobody knows its my chapter muahahahah

[jolly trail]

Nah I’ll know

[frozen sleet]

Almost no one knows my writing style, soo

[upbeat brook]

I am taking that as a challenge

[elder cloak]

maybe we can do it where there's a second prize for who can get their fic guessed correctly the most times?

[upbeat brook]

If you do not guess it I will consider my mission accomplished

[jolly trail]

Guessed incorrectly

[fossil grove]

gotta lock it in with this collab so I can scan it on the next one

[jolly trail]

For max chaos

[elder cloak]

or that lol

[jolly trail]

I won’t be able to use my beloved em dash will I it’s too obvious

[elder cloak]

Periods and commas for you only

[upbeat brook]

would it be considered cheating

if I put my entire chapter in wingdings

[south forum]

i wanna write a cute little fic abt smelvin, gourm, and The Mother (oc) eating thanksgiving dinner with arti and dumpter

[elder cloak]

yeah probably

[fossil grove]

it wouldn't be very fun to read

[upbeat brook]

but you wouldn't guess it

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[frozen sleet]

I've noticed that I tend to reflect what other people do, for my chapter in this, I used Banan's as reference

[jolly trail]

You can just c/p and change the font

[elder cloak]

I might use the admin powers to translate that into arial right before posting

[upbeat brook]

no, but you see, its in russian to

[elder cloak]

HFISH 2 confirmed

(good choice tho)

[frozen sleet]

So I'll just replicate yours Cy

[upbeat brook]

Putting it in through a translator like 30 times

[jolly trail]

That wouldn’t be very nice

[elder cloak]

that's why I'm saying we should have a second prize for who can get guessed correctly the most times

[frozen sleet]

It would be funny, but a pain to read and guess who

[upbeat brook]

i'd do if it came out like, actually readable

usually putting something through a translator like 30 times and back though

it would come back nonsensical basically

[frozen sleet]

Ruining the fun of guessing which one is yours, cause then we'd just know it's you

Unless everyone writes nonsensical

[upbeat brook]

well now I can't do it because everyone knows now

[south forum]

everyone puts stories through a paper shredder and then glues them back together

[elder cloak]

please don't do that to me guys

[jolly trail]

Maybe I’ll write the most banan chapter ever

or oneshot I suppose

[south forum]

give it blurple energy

[thin cargo]

-# Blurple buff increased writing speed from 20% to 65%

[elder cloak]

exactly, like how do you write in a way to get recognized?

[jolly trail]

I’ll sign it “not written by Cy”

[frozen sleet]

you gotta stop telling your strats

[jolly trail]

Or is exposing my strats a strat??

[upbeat brook]

she wont because ill have HFISH open in another tab while I read everyone else's

[frozen sleet]

this became phycological warfare fast

[elder cloak]

very close to cheating

[elder cloak]

lol for real

[jolly trail]

How about “might be written by cy”

[fossil grove]

I will also sign mine "not written by Cy"

[jolly trail]

I’m jk though I’d probably just write normally

It’ll be more fun to guess

[fossil grove]

True!

[jolly trail]

Every fic is now signed “not written by cy”

I’m pretty confident I’d be able to pick out most people’s styles

[elder cloak]

I'll sign mine "Written by Cy"

[fossil grove]

I might try to avoid doing things I do a lot, but that's also just something I've been trying to do anyhow... I suppose

[frozen sleet]

hehehe

[jolly trail]

Could be helpful, more or less

[elder cloak]

some style practice

I think I'll just turn up the T13 classic style to 11

[jolly trail]

Not a single preposition

[elder cloak]

There will be no prepositions

[upbeat brook]

no prepositions?

[elder cloak]

I will wax poetic frequently

and you will know the history of the setting in excruciating detail

[fossil grove]

You'll know me by the unnecessary '&'

[jolly trail]

I feel like the & is directed at me every time

[fossil grove]

it is

[jolly trail]

[upbeat brook]

what is this lore behind the ampersand

[elder cloak]

all 'and' are replaced with &

[fossil grove]

I've used it a few times when I really didn't need to... because I like it

[jolly trail]

I proofread for cy a lot and he’ll just chuck an ampersand in in place of a random ‘and’ sometimes

[frozen sleet]

so like, do we start setting this up or? also, if we start doing more things here, we might change this to "Stories Wrting Games (not to be confused with the rainy games)"

[jolly trail]

I don’t underst&

[fossil grove]

Let's wait till the end of the month, I say

[elder cloak]

I could make a new forum post with the new rules detailed

[fossil grove]

let this one finish and get out in the air for a bit

[elder cloak]

that'd probably work better so we don't need reshuffle the pins on this post

[upbeat brook]

Yeee, I need to like, actually focus on my longfic for a bit before another silly one

[fossil grove]

ah my bad, I meant to say 'let this one finish & get out in the air for a bit'

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

Next he’ll be replacing ‘at’ with @

Chaos will rule

[frozen sleet]

sorry, I get a bit worked up and full of energy and everything must happen all right now

[south forum]

wh@

[fossil grove]

I'm just following my heart's threadline

[jolly trail]

Wh-at

[fossil grove]

all cool! it does sound fun

[jolly trail]

You got me

I think mid November would be good for this

[frozen sleet]

and ive been doing some mild programming just now so my brain is on overdrive

[south forum]

[frozen sleet]

at 11pm

[elder cloak]

yeah I'll set up the post early in the month and we'll get the rules and prizes set up, then start in the middle of the month

[frozen sleet]

i was tired all day, why must now be the time to be awake

[upbeat brook]

wdym

11 pm is normal time for computer programming

It's never to late to type code into a terminal

[jolly trail]

Mhm I can do a (RW) character art

[frozen sleet]

i have school tmr

[upbeat brook]

mmmm

I can't help with that then

did you try asking the sleep police

[elder cloak]

maybe the comment mob can be the second contest's prize?

[frozen sleet]

they can't see me, i installed malware in their sleep tracking eyegear

[jolly trail]

Idk if I would want comment mob

[elder cloak]

and we need to figure out what happens if there's a tie

[elder cloak]

yeah fair lol

[fossil grove]

second prize gets to pick the theme of the next collab project

[jolly trail]

Ooo

[frozen sleet]

that seems like a first place prize

[upbeat brook]

[marsh pilot]

Halp

[fossil grove]

first prize is art

[elder cloak]

they get to choose the prompt for the Christmas collab

[jolly trail]

I’m okay w art being second prize

[upbeat brook]

i thought this was the christmas collab tho

[frozen sleet]

this is the thanksgiving one

[upbeat brook]

Ooo

[frozen sleet]

rip to non-Americans who dont know how thanksgiving works

[jolly trail]

This one is also just oneshots so not really a collab

[marsh pilot]

I can provide an art too perhaps

[jolly trail]

Drymm art first prize for sure

[south forum]

i like arting as well

[marsh pilot]

N'awwww no u

[jolly trail]

I want a Drymm art gonna win

[fossil grove]

triple art

[upbeat brook]

how about all 3 of you

?

[marsh pilot]

Banan art is in lower supply, thus more vaulable

[upbeat brook]

for one collab

[frozen sleet]

i can make an STL for 3d printing but theyd have to have a 3d printer or get someone who does

[upbeat brook]

I can uhh

do crappy MSPaint art?

if that counts

[jolly trail]

Low supply or low demand

[south forum]

the best kind: dumpter quality

[jolly trail]

Wonter is still my #1 fanart tbf

[elder cloak]

I mean, they'd both be first place for different competitions

[frozen sleet]

or if yall are fine with it, i can make a 3d print and ship it to the winner, but that'd need a general location

[jolly trail]

3D print…

[elder cloak]

that sounds cool

3D print of your oc

[upbeat brook]

Wonter, but in 3D print

[jolly trail]

Not sure about something that requires an address though

[south forum]

dumpter in 3d

[fossil grove]

bean bag

[frozen sleet]

i can ship it to a post office in your city or a city nearby

[jolly trail]

Yeah I wouldn’t mind personally

[elder cloak]

we can always let someone defer to one of the other prizes though

[upbeat brook]

I personally can't have it shipped to a post office

id probably just end up defering it

[frozen sleet]

Banan, Moth, or Drymm art, or Sylveon 3d model, take your pick!

[south forum]

pick yer poison

[frozen sleet]

(after this whole thing of course)

[upbeat brook]

id still end up defering it

[elder cloak]

we can have the "let you choose the next theme" as a backup

[jolly trail]

You could just ask for pebbs and arti art if you don’t have an oc

Or whatever other RW thing

[upbeat brook]

technically I do have an OC....two of them if you recall

they are just concepts in my head~

[frozen sleet]

or maybe something else entirely

[elder cloak]

the only thing I'm afraid of is like some rediculous 5-way tie or something

[south forum]

battle royale

[jolly trail]

Raffle

[frozen sleet]

they play poker to battle it out

[upbeat brook]

they all get dumpter

[south forum]

excellent

[south forum]

make them all do one more fic or whatever and then you HAVE to choose one winner

fight to the death

RAAH

[elder cloak]

[frozen sleet]

Let's hope it doesn't come to that

[south forum]

1279 words

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

idk but i might be close to halfway done

[frozen sleet]

Already

[south forum]

mhm

fear my power

[south forum]

1550 words

[elder cloak]

cookin

[south forum]

i think ill do more tomorrow

i eep now

[upbeat brook]

She cooking it fine

[south forum]

gnight smelviners

[midnight edge]

hi spooks corpse

i just read all those messages above and

yeah it seems like a pretty good idea

if i wanted mine to have any chance of winning i would have to proofread that shit ten times over tho

[vital rover]

Winning?????

This is a competition????

[vital rover]

What?!

[frozen sleet]

We're thinking of a new thing for the Thanksgiving thing

[dry sequoia]

Everyone gets the same prompt.

We all take it where we want to.

But the goal is to make the others guess who wrote it incorrectly.

[south forum]

i wouldnt participate in that unfortunately

doesn't sound fun at all to me

[dry sequoia]

To each their own, I’d say.

[candid mountain]

How would that work?

[frozen sleet]

T13 takes all out stories and randomly gives them to people, then they have to guess who's story they got

[elder cloak]

It would be more like: everyone writes a oneshot on the same prompt, we read all of them, and whoever can correctly identify who wrote the story the most times wins a little prize

[thin cargo]

What we chattin here bout?

Aight, I'm pullin up

I have pebbles with a gun here

[inland lotus]

While I like the idea of writing on the same prompt, I feel like I haven't developed or understand styles enough to disguise my own or recognize others' that well so I probably will sit that one out

[vital rover]

My username's been absorbed

[thin cargo]

What's the prompt?

[dry sequoia]

It’s not made yet.

[candid mountain]

I guess words commonly used, ways things are formatted, common errors, preferred ways of describing/telling sth?

Does sound like a neat idea tho

[jolly trail]

And you don’t have to try and trick people, really it’s just a writing prompt collection with a small game on the side :3

[dry sequoia]

My style would be familiar to T13, Banan, Cy, and to some degree, Epochs and Karessra.

I'll be honest, I'm definitely getting myself read like a book.

[south forum]

me when i DONT proofread and DONT spellcheck ANYTHING:

[jolly trail]

T13 might still edit lol

Though he doesn’t have to :3

[thin cargo]

[candid mountain]

deciding which one is whose by amount of misplaced commas /j /lh

[inland lotus]

Make it that the prompt involves a large number so everyone has to use decimal separators, then see which someone uses, a ',' or a '.'

[candid mountain]

now we are getting cheeky

[south forum]

it is coming

are you guys prepared for my brilliance (silly)

[fossil grove]

[south forum]

oh man i am COOKING

1794

[elder cloak]

]

[south forum]

i cant spell

[upbeat brook]

Dang Sant is still alive

[south forum]

mm i be wrotering fast

[upbeat brook]

Wroting shall continue until Smelvin improves

[south forum]

this is fun

my motivation is going slugboom

[south forum]

2509

[elder cloak]

[frozen sleet]

idk if anyone was brave enough to kill off a cannon character, OCs tho, i think we were killing them left and right

[south forum]

we'll see when chaps drop

[upbeat brook]

Everyone dies but Smelvin and Gourmand

[south forum]

im def gon have the longest chap

i will be done later tonight tho

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

damn im having to consult the rw wiki for something

[south forum]

3205

[thin cargo]

[frozen sleet]

That's a big jump

[south forum]

this is why i wanted the last time slot haha

i wanna word it up

[frozen sleet]

you're within your normal time frame still lol

[south forum]

indeed

[south forum]

i should be done soon maybe

who wants the scary new wordcount

[elder cloak]

me

[upbeat brook]

6k

[south forum]

3983

[south forum]

taking longer than i wanted it to because i had to harass my cat to get shit away from her

she stole food she cant eat

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

she took a fucking grape

[marsh pilot]

Oh no

[thin cargo]

Aren't grapes dangerous to cats?

[south forum]

yes

i was eating some and she tried to run off with one

then i had to monitor her

[south forum]

okay im ACTUALLY almost done now

within 30 more minutes i will finish

[fossil grove]

[south forum]

i prolly could have finished earlier if i didnt have to do laundry or get toothache meds

[fossil grove]

you don't gotta rush! We've still got a few days of extra wiggle room

[south forum]

i added more lmao

im done now

I HAVE FINISHED AND SEALED SMELVIN'S FATE

SMELVIN ALERT

everyone should FEAR me and my SMELVIN POWERS

(silly)

i can go to sleep now

sorry story policers

[fossil grove]

gn

[fossil grove]

what fate a smellvin? we shall see...

[thin cargo]

Nah, you're off the hook

no bribes required

[south forum]

we finished early

yippee

[thin cargo]

[frozen sleet]

im guessing we're still waiting for tmr to start posting

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

i bet i have the biggest chapter lmao

[elder cloak]

well, I'm going to start crafting this absolute menace of an ao3 post

I just need to remember all 14 ao3 author names

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

That ending is brutal (but also pretty funny)

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

30k words combined

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

we cooked chat

[frozen sleet]

97 pages lol

[elder cloak]

I'm so afraid that I'm going to add a wrong person to the co-creators

[candid mountain]

[elder cloak]

that's everyone right?

[frozen sleet]

we have a doc for listing all of our accounts

[elder cloak]

I know but fatfinger

(i've been using that doc lol)

[frozen sleet]

(its hard to make sure everyone is there when idk all the different names people use on AO3 than on discord, hell even i have that)

[elder cloak]

what're we feeling for rating chat?

[frozen sleet]

silly

[elder cloak]

teen?

[frozen sleet]

you know the story best, idk whats in there

[south forum]

[south forum]

probably. i doubt any of us wrote anything too graphic to require mature or whatever comes after teen (im stupid and forgor )

[quartz locust]

It's mature

[south forum]

ah

[quartz locust]

So either gen or teen

[elder cloak]

ima go with teen because of all the wacky dying

and who has ideas for some additional tags?

[frozen sleet]

'/silly'

[south forum]

i dont know how to tag my own shit so i cant help you

[elder cloak]

send forth the pings

[frozen sleet]

oh come on

i dont have my ao3 account on me, ill change it later

make sure to ping me later

[elder cloak]

Hey,
@outer girder, @marsh pilot, @thin cargo, @inland chasm, @vital rover

[vital rover]

Heyo

[elder cloak]

Can you guys please enable co-creators on your accounts so I can post this?

[marsh pilot]

On it