/cyoag/ - CYOA General

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>>52479444
Page 2/3.

How many people do you all think make a build for a cyoa relative to how many people post a build for it? Would you say that for everyone who posts a build that 10 lurkers make one?

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>>52479450
Page 3/3. Seriously need to stop forgetting to include the file.

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>>52479494
And the update

>>52479494
>>52479502

>>52479465
That's probably close. That's the figure people use for emails; for every one email complaint a company gets, there are ten people who feel the same way who didn't send an email.

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>>52479494
>>52479502
Bless you, anon

>>52479465
I usually don't post builds unless they're interesting and I want to do some writing (like for the bigger and more complex CYOAs). Like, come on, do we need 20 people telling each other that they took the little girl or immortality option in the 4-choice CYOA?

>>52479444
OC???

>>52479465
I never post actual builds for CYOAs because who would want to read them, but I make them for most of the ones that are posted.

>>52479512
I never believed in the whole "nosebleed because of arousal" thing until I met a guy in uni who literally had regular nose bleeding like that and had to go to the bathroom in the middle of a lecture because he was staring at a cute girl who sat in front of him. The more you know.

>>52479531
If you're that kind of person, would you not start carrying around handkerchiefs so you wouldn't have to keep leaving lectures?

>>52479538
People are dumb, anon.

>>52479465
>giving a fuck about people that may not exist
Kek^2

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>>52479542
I thought I understood that, and yet I keep seeing new lows.

>>52479509
That's a rather fabulous unicorn.

>>52479538
He actually did carry a lot of handkerchiefs with him. He got out because he had a nose spray of some sort for those cases.

>>52479581
I mean, you can just use a nose spray anywhere, but that's much more understandable, at least.

>>52479494
>>52479502

Gamer-bro. No question.

>>52479444
Source on the Mousling please?

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>>52479590
No events?
>>52479502
Also have this extra one I wrote for Cute but replaced.

>>52479707

First Date of course! Was tempted with Long Night, I'm a sucker for challenging games and often reminisce about past gaming experiences pertaining to that.

>>52479494
>>52479502
Trap- study session. Grades are important after all

>>52479733
>First date
Excellent choice!
Don't make him too anxious okay? He's trying his very best to romance you.

>>52479707
I wasn't really interested in any of them and was going to choose "inexperienced" mostly for the sweet apartment, but Book Club definitely makes me want to choose "Cute".

>>52479707
Where are events for Discreet?

>>52479444
I'll just take the way back, thanks. Grom would also be another contender. Bros before hos.

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>>52479531
It's actually a simple thing, arousal raises blood pressure and some people have weak blood vessels in the nose leading them to easily getting bloody noses, with blood pressure being a main cause. Though there are actually various facial expressions and other actions that can redirect more blood to the nose as well, making the chance worse.

Personally I'm just curious why the hell japan latched onto it so hard.

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>>52479860
Page 2/2.

>>52479836
>I wasn't really interested in any of them
How come? Bad writing or something else?
>>52479512
If you like it how come you don't want to tell us who you'd pick? I won't bite!

>>52479862
Asians tend to have more blood vessels in the face then Caucasians (or other ethnicities), making both the full-face "anime blush" more common among them.

>>52479531
that's because he has cancer, not because of arousal

>>52479879
I'm only like a 1 or a 2 on the Kinsey scale. If I'm gonna do something exclusively homosexual, I need a good reason, is all. "Cute" and "Trap" are both attractive enough physically, but neither of them particularly had personalities/events that interested me. Adding "Book Club" to cute adds another facet to his personality such that I might actually consider a relationship with him. Your writing is fine (barring a few typos), it's just not entirely my cup of tea. I have very specific tastes when it comes to that, is all.

>>52479862
After WWII, the Americans imposed a set of laws on Japan to direct its growth, which included a censorship law. The actual historical pros and cons of the American cultural hegemony are way beyond a wish-fulfillment thread on a 2chan knockoff, but the point is that Japanese authors had to come up with creative ways to circumvent the ban, hence things like nosebleeds and tentacle porn.

>>52479879
That would be pointless, there is no single option to a Fujoshi. We devour them all.

>>52479846
I couldn't come up with anything for him and it's not like anybody picked him.
>>52479903
Thank you.

>>52479907
>the Americans imposed a set of laws on Japan to direct its growth, which included a censorship law.
That's not what happened, a law that already existed was reinterpreted, in part due to an american influence that it should not apply to people criticizing the government, which it previously was primarily interpreted as applying to. The law itself is really vague and largely just refers to banning obscenity or immoral speech and art.

>>52479907
Tentacle porn was a thing way before WWII.

>>52479853
>2 girls can give you immortality
>not picking any of them

fgt

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>>52472731

Thanks for using my picture! But why does this assume the player is a guy? Anyway....

>Protection

>Tank Destroyer

>Survivor
>Morale

>Machine Gun
>Camouflage
>Ablative Armour

>Operator
Eleonore Waterhouse
>Gunner
Eirika Opaline
>Driver
Agnes Kagutsuchi
>Mechanic
Tatjana Baumgartner

>North Canarican Battlefront

Cannon 4
Armour 5.5
Speed 1.5
Tactics 6.5

We shall travel to the frozen north ambush enemy tanks, move, ambush again and again and keep destroying tanks until they send no more! And machine gun those murderers who invaded our peaceful lovely land! NO MERCY!!!!

>>52480159
>But why does this assume the player is a guy?

Because there are no girls on the internet, anon!

>>52479444
Tli (immortality)
Nel (knowledge is power)
Grom (protection)
Alva (to support the rest of us)
home, other locations are not worth the risk

>>52480224
Don't respond to her. Please...

>>52480240
One day SDA will assfuck her straight.

>>52480260
Who the fuck is SDA? I mean, I've seen them around, but I need some backstory.

>>52472731 #
Might as well repost my build
Liberty/Protection

Light tank: Cannon 3.5/4.5/3 Armor: 4 Speed: 7.5 Tactics 4
Skills: Spotter Navigation
Upgrades: Junior Mechanic Vacation kit Camouflage
Operator: Lulu velstadt
Gunner: Ricky matthews
Driver: Penny hathaway
Mechanic: Agnes Kagutsuchi

Area:Zepang mountains

Gotta go fast

>>52480264
Made "Stardust" and other CYOAs with varying degree of popularity.

Necromancer update when?

>>52480277
Okay, Stardust is pretty cool.

But how does that give them the resume to buttfuck someone straight?

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>>52480286
Conduit update when?

>>52480288
That doesn't, their open and declared anal fetish does.

>>52480288
Everyone hates Angel, and around half of the people on this thread hates SDA so they wish they would fuck eachother and stop shitposting constantly. The other half worships SDA and thinks he is so mighty his cock can turn lesbians straight.

>>52480300
>>52480306
Aaaah, that's the kind of background I was looking for.

>>52480224

But there really are.....

>>52480240

Why not? I didn't do anything wrong!

>>52480260

Why people keep saying that!? Please stop. Mega gross!

>>52480311
Because you deserve it, bitch.

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>>52480322

I did literally nothing wrong. And it's incredibly fucked up to call random people bitches and say they deserve to be raped and crap. I'm just here for dank cyoas. So you can stop with the bully shitposting now.

>>52480306
Sounds about right.

>>52480354
I don't call random people bitches and tell they deserve to be raped. I call that you, because you totaly deserve.

Also, I remember the last time you posted that pic. Proud of that one?

I call samefag on this thread.

>>52480375
>Also, I remember the last time you posted that pic. Proud of that one?
Context?

Can you both shut up? please?

>>52480389
She got annoyed with all the rape stuff and went on a rant about male genocide.

>>52480375

I never did anything wrong and I never hurt anyone! Why would you say something horrible like I should be raped? You need help!!!!!

>>52480407
Second.

>>52480407
Just hide their posts, anon.

>>52480407
>>52480424
It's not like anything else is happening in the thread. I'd rather watch back-and-forth, no matter how autistic it is, than have nothing happen.

>>52480423
You will need much more help than that when SDA gets to your chocolate starfish.

>>52480407
POst cyoas then

Are you okay with forced drawbacks, or do you prefer your builds to be completely optimal? If you hate forced drawbacks, how would you balance your build without them?

>>52480446
What do you mean "forced drawbacks"? Also, balance is an abstract that means different things to different people. Some people will actively take every single drawback available just to imagine how they'll beat it with all their powers. Other people will feel like they lose if the CYOA doesn't just tell them they win.

>>52480446
I'm fine with forced drawbacks. Makes the end result more rounded.

>>52480409
... that makes no fucking sense. She goes on and on about her massive rape fetish and her recent builds all revolve around it (and getting bred by a dick but she claims that's not true).

>>52480446
I like having drawbacks. I prefer non-forced, but depending on how severe they are, I enjoy playing CYOAs with them.

>>52480446
I generally don't like forced anything, especially if it involves random rolls, but I do tend to take drawbacks when they are presented as an optional choice so that I can make my little scenario more interesting.

>>52480446
I enjoy both breaking the balance and making thematic builds (if the CYOA is complex enough). I don't mind forced drawbacks as long as the entire CYOA is not filled with "you lose no matter what" nonsense like the one made by that guy, what's his name; he made a lot of CYOAs about weird runes.

>>52480446
>Are you okay with forced drawbacks
No. Having drawbacks as an option is fine, but forcing them on you is not.
>If you hate forced drawbacks, how would you balance your build without them?
What exactly do you mean by "balance"?

>>52480436
Really, it depends on the context. Drawbacks tend to get in the way of power fantasies or comfy CYOAs, but fit right in with horror or grittier stories.

>>52480502
Liminal Phrenic aka. "even if you chose nothing you still get assraped"

>>52480462
>What do you mean "forced drawbacks"?
Let's say you can be rich, but you MUST take a 30% income tax on anything gained from the CYOA. Stuff like that.

>>52480503
>What exactly do you mean by "balance"?
Imagine a Superhero CYOA. In that context; almost everyone would rather have Superman's powers than Batman's powers. If you wanted to make it a real choice, you would need to "balancr" both options. Maybe by enforcing Superman's inherent weakness to Kryptonite, for example. So a Superhero CYOA might force you to pick a Kryptonite equivalent for major superpowers.

>>52480544
Yes, that's the one!

What's even his problem? Can't he just make fun CYOAs that don't involve dying or sacrificing your soul or something like that. It's like he had a hard life and tries to force his suffering on others.

>>52480561
>point about balance

See, that's not forced. That's still a choice. I can choose to be Batman and not have any drawbacks, or I can choose to be Superman, but to afford that, I'd have to take drawbacks.

>>52480446
>>52480520
This. Also, drawbacks are fine if you get something in return, even if you're forced to take at least one drawback. Sections like "pick a drawback because fuck you" are just wasting space.

>>52480574
>It's like he had a hard life and tries to force his suffering on others.
Probably

>>52480561
In that case, I would much prefer elective drawbacks that then allow me to take stronger powers rather than stronger powers having inherent drawbacks. Partly because I'd probably prefer certain drawbacks with certain powers for flavor/min-maxing reasons, and also because psychologically it feels better. I'm choosing to do something, rather than being forced to do something. Even if at the end of the day they still have pretty much the same effect.

So instead of

>You can take Batman's powers or Superman's powers but you're weak to kryptonite.

I'd prefer it as

>You have one point. Batman powers cost one point. Superman powers cost two points. Get an extra point for taking weakness to kryptonite.

Does that make sense?

>>52480583
This >>52480591 is a more eloquent phrasing of what I was trying to say.

>>52480606
>>52480591
Yeah, I think I see the difference in presensation, though it would be pretty hard to actually implement throughout.

>>52480641
Basically instead of starting off with lots of points but some options have drawbacks associated with them, give less points so you need to take the drawbacks to get what you want. Same result but it gives the player an illusion of being on top.

>>52480703
If you don't take Tabitha, you're pretty much admitting to being gay.

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>>52480710
Excuse me, the one where she's vegan is too cruel even for a joke.

>>52480733
Wait what, I didn't even read the CYOA. Isn't she just a hippy giant monster?

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>>52480733

>>52480159
>But why does this assume the player is a guy?
I always just assume my flatness and shabby clothes get me mistaken for one. It entertains me.

>>52480792
Reverse traps are nice.

>>52480749
It's an ancient joke from /cyoag/. Back when Harem Anon first made this, someone commented that Tabitha would've been perfect if only she wasn't explicitly said to be vegan. In a rare show of compassion, Harem Anon consented and made this alternative version where it's only slightly implied by her general hippiness but not spelled out, so everyone can imagine she eats whatever they like.

>>52479465
I've made a build for every cyoa I've saved, but I never posted one in a thread.

I like to use them as writing fodder, to sort of warm-up the mind, you know? Which reminds me--thanks for existing, cyoag & authors.

>>52480835
>thanks authors with empty words instead of builds that prove he actually read it
shit/10

>>52480870
Fuck off, nigger. Where are your builds if you're so grateful?

Fuck, this is taking longer than I thought. Fully finished 6/10 pages of MGSI v.4.0. I'll try to finish by tonight, but since I actually didn't sleep at all last night, I will have to sleep tonight, so that might push it back until tomorrow.

>>52479444
Would anyone please post Dream Princess? I've been itching to make a new build for it.

>>52480733
Dae Eun-Yeong

time to try and prevent the apocalypse it seems

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>>52481029

>>52481016
That is the correct choice.

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>>52472731

Cannon: 4.5
Armor: 4
Speed: 5.5
Tactics: 4

>Conquest
It's time to throw enemy back

>Battle tank
perfect balance of offense and defense

>skills
Spotter and Navigation

>Upgrades
Machine gun, Mech. Infantry, Sniper and Camouflage

>Operator
Pierre Locksley
>Gunner
Sam Quinn
>Driver
Penny Hathaway
>Mechanic
Agnes Kagutsuchi

This frozen land will be first victory for our country, superiority during night battles will give us an edge to send them home

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>>52481068

>>52480753
>Chamomile tea with honey
>Simon and Garfunkel
Eunice is cute! CUTE!

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>>52481082

>>52480733
>>52480753
I want a manga combining Roberta, Beatrice, Tabitha and Meshara from this CYOA with Aoi (ninja maid), Sayuri (samurai ghost medium), and Yuri (mecha pilot) from Harem Master. Together, they fight Dae-Un Yeong's predicted alien invasion.

>>52481068
Laughing Man is still objectively the best choice.

>>52481122
>not valencia of aragon
what are you gay?

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>>52481068
>>52481082
>>52481091
>Roomie
Lilly

>Gifts
Liquid Speed & Industry
Primordial Jelly

>Choice
Stay

Imma chug all the weird goo, then zoom around and clumsily go on adventures. Please please please, may I pet Steve?

>>52481282
But she can't make me into a lich, only into non-virgin.

>>52481068
I like Astrid the most, but ... that's my mother's name. And that thought's kinda giving me the creeps.

I am the Girls und Panzer http://imgur.com/a/0bDUO

APC

>Commander Skills
Logistics
Strategy

>Tank Upgrades
Machine Gun
Mech. Inf. (x2)
Mech. Inf.
Mech. Inf.

>Operator
Mj. Tatjana Baumgartner
Tactics +1.5, Armour +1
Good Press

>Gunner
2nd Lt. Erika Opaline
+3 Cannon
Viva Veropa!

>Driver
Cpl. Penny Hathaway
+3 Speed, +1 Armour
2 Fast 0 Furious

>Mechanic
WO Lulu Velstadt
+2 Armour
Codeword: Philosopher

Cannon: ***/
Armour: *****
Speed: *****
Tactics: *****

North Canarican Battlefield

A small force, cut off from our homes and fighting for ourselves. We have a starting force of 16 infantry and one tank and Erika can keep us topped up on recruits while Tatjana spreads the good word about us. We have a target-rich environment filled with good salvage so we should be set on that front as well. The gun's a bit weak but that's what the ground troops are for; the purpose of the APC is mostly infantry support and transport.

I'm actually really pleased with how well all my choices played together. Felt like the mechanic choices weren't all that great, though. I mostly just chose Lulu for her power. I almost made Tatjana the mechanic and picked another operator but Codeword: Philosopher is going to be very useful if we're cut off from any supply lines.

>>52481320
>wanting to be a lich
why? if you want to stop aging just take the vampire serum

>>52480291
8 months

>>52481395
>wanting to suck human cockblood and sleep in a coffin
What a faggot.

>>52481418
>wanting to be a rotting skeleton that will inevitably go mad
if you are that worried about a little blood just take the dragonstone - immortality isnt even that good

>>52481029
>>52481037
This is officialy the comfiest CYOA ever made.

>>52481506
Agreed

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>>52479907
>Fucking gaijin they fucked everything up
Act like someone from the country where you grew up.

I'm gonna go with with theses

twine
cheese cloth
tree tap
clam shucker
utensils
rope
answer
cutting board
baskets/buckets
barrel
hutch
leads
watch
swiss army knife
lantern
trap
compass
cot
watering can
baker's bat
painting kit
smoker
net scoop
liquid cabinet
drying rack
flu medicine

>>52481506
K

>>52481537
他妈的你怎么样

>>52480306
You hate angle, fucking autistic stalker.

>>52481675
Google Translate says you said "How are you fucking".

>>52481675

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYzqRyu4FA

>>52481029
Slingshot: 6
Twine: 7
Smoking pipe: 8
Cheesecloth: 9
Utensils: 11
Rope: 13
Cutting board: 14
Baskets/Buckets: 18
Compass: 24
Tarp: 30
Watering can, green: 36
Drying rack: 44
Flu medicine: 52
Spade: 60
Axe: 68
Pickaxe: 76
Heirloom starter pack: 88
Wagon: 100
Draw horse: 120

I can use the tarp as a tent. I wanted to get Hawthorne, but there just wasn't enough scavenge points. But holy fuck is this comfy.

>>52481740
Quite well, thanks. How about you?

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>>52481002

>>52480733
>>52480753
Fuck, I want an anime about Tabitha so bad.

>>52481912
Man, I remember this being a lot better.

>>52482048
Might you be confusing it with Dream PRINCE?

>>52482089
Dream Prince is amazing. It has the capacity for space vikings.

>>52482089
No, I remember it being about being a princess. I just thought it was better.

>>52481091
Laughing Man
Stay
Bio Serum+Dragonstone

Gonna party it up with skeleton bro and get mad dragon powers and shapeshifting.

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>>52482235

>>52481029
>>52481037
Imma do this, but I want to give it the time it deserves, so I'm gonna wait until I finish MGSI.

>badwrongfun
That has to be the most autistic thing I've heard in these threads in the past few days.

>>52482367
So you're not even denying.

>>52482419
Of course not.

The point is to not give you your special snowflake status for free. If you're so insecure about your self esteem that you can't make yourself useful with the free shit I'm already giving you, then my design is correct.

>>52482472
>make yourself useful
A useful grunt is still a grunt, though. No matter what you do, you're only serving the faction leader's interests and ends, any work you do only glorifies and advances them and their goals.

>>52481912
Neutral Princess
>Happy Peasants
>Technology Upgrade
>Mistress of Dragons
>Adventure!
>Rival Stepsister
>Forbidden Love
>Exotic Princess
>Pirate Princess

I'm going for a sort of high seas type of adventure, only instead I'll be flying high above the boats on my bigass dragon, among the airships. Also, I can use the dragon to dispose of any unwanted figures, such as the rival stepsister.

>>52482472
Just because you have a sub fetish and vindictive envy you don't have to interject it into your CYOAs.

>>52482367
Who are you talking to? Did you get dementia?

>>52482573
>get

We all merely adopted dementia, but SDA was born in it, molded by it. He didn't see non-autism until he was a man.

>>52482482
Just shows how unimaginitive you are.

>>52482662
Isn't it even more special snowflake to wank that I somehow overthrow the faction and become their leader, SDA?

>>52482693
Not SDA, but you really are unimaginative.

>>52480870
I read mostly every cyoa I've seen posted, but don't like to partake in discussion on this board.

See: your post as an example of why.

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>>52482662
>One man
>Able to do anything
You won't make a difference, I won't make a difference. Nothing makes a difference. It never has, and it never will. Imagination is only useful for relieving the pain of being with the comforting light of art.

Who's your favorite CYOA-maker? I like Box Wine the best.

>>52482776
For someone who posts based pope you are too afflicted with the sin of pride.

>>52482786
Whoever made Dream Prince.

Space. Vikings.

>>52482786
>anyone but beri

>>52482816
Imaginos then.

>>52482693
If you can write it good, why not? I don't mind seeing that sort of thing if it's done well.

The challenge is writing it well. I want to reward people who aren't unimaginative.

>>52482776
Then you are destined to be a grunt with ~500m credits in his pocket. Sucks to be you.

>>52482662
Then I am now win. Unimaginate that, biatch. See? Am I imaginative enough yet, daddy?

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>>52482786
Italics, even if he hates Texas.

>>52482693
>overthrow the faction and become their leader
If this is the only situation that satisfies your pathetic need to feel imaginary validated in games of imagination then yeah, I'd say you're pretty creatively stunted.

>>52482930
Do you want him to write a story or something? Besides, CYOA are wish fulfilment to begin with.

>>52482693
Overthrow a faction and become the leader? for what purpose? i mean it is more easy to just go and join a faction you agree with in the first place

>>52482859
Read >>52482858

As of that post, your lore sucks and won't work. Please take the hint and realize that my CYOAs are not aimed at your kind.

>>52482969
I do, actually. The quality of writing is important to me.

>>52482883
Chalice, by a country mile.

>>52482930
Anon, the entire point of the argument was about MATTERING in the CYOA's setting. If we acknowledge individuals can't do that on their own, and since your character starts out as a nameless grunt, the only path to significance is to control a powerful faction. Just like in real life you need control over a government or a powerful corporation to be significant.

>>52482990
As a faction member, you're a grunt. Someone who doesn't matter to anything, and whose job it is to serve the interest of your faction leader and make them more prestigious and powerful.

>>52483063
Nope, wanting to matter makes you a filthy spesjul snowflake !

>>52483063
>this is what spergs actually believe

>>52482786
Scientist
>No drama
>good balance
>neat settings
His only flaw is that he's a bit on the slow side of production, but that's fine since he makes up for it in quality.

Highlander is close second, if only for the titanic scope of one (1) cyoa she's created so far.
But technically it's not even finished yet, so she doesn't get top spot.

Thrallherd is #3.
Conduit is fun. I liked both iterations, and am looking forward to the third, if Thrallherd isn't dead.

>>52483088
Yes anon, regale me about how your dad at Nintendo is a significant force in our world.

Your argument should have been:
>Spergs care about mattering
Otherwise you're denying facts.

>>52483102
Highlander is a she?

>>52479450
I wonder still if the life giving blood of the fairy would work on the player turned incubus (so that they don't have to drain others of energy)

>>52483110
Highlander is a Canadian lesbian Muslim by her own admission.

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>>52483063
>>52483109
This is why I make CYOAs, bros.

Anyone got any good ideas for cool, interesting properties of a beam weapon that weaponizes positrons in the vacuum of space?

>>52483110
All authors are girls. Don't tell me you didn't know?

>>52483126
To here someone express the point that significance towards a setting requires power, wealth and influence? I know you default towards baiting, but like the other guy, you should be calling me an autist for wanting to matter, not for explaining how one matters since that one just relies on self evident reality.

>>52483126
>make cyoas
you wot?
i thought you just came in here to shitpost like angel every now and then.

>>52483116
If it doesn't, it'd probably still work on whoever it is you drained.

>>52483109
My (incredibly eloquently worded) argument is that's a shit poor definition of "mattering". If you feel like you'll only ever matter if you have billions of dollars and control the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, then guess what? You don't matter. You're never going to matter. I'd go so far is to say you've intentionally created that impossible standard of mattering just to make you feel worse about yourself.

This is going to be pretty hard for many people in this thread (hence my use of the ableist language when I said "sperg") to understand, but the amount that you matter is based on relationships with other people. How much you matter to them and how much they matter to you. Which is funny because even with this alternate definition nobody here will ever matter to anyone.

>>52483150
This.

>>52483195 (You)
Yeah, but it's a see-you-oh. I don't want my see-you-oh to be like real life. Get that normie shit out of my face.

>>52483186
Clever!
What about the other companions? Any non-immortal by default ones unable to prolong their life with it?

>>52481841
brilliant

>>52483299
>What about the other companions? Any non-immortal by default ones unable to prolong their life with it?
Why would they be unable to do so?

>>52481068
>>52481082
>>52481091
>Milla Rosche
>Return Home
>Vampiric Immortality
>Equalizer
I mean, I'd really like to take her with me, but yay asshole wizard/witch person.

>>52479444
Can I use Tli's own blood to heal her wound? Who even caused such a wound? I must track them down and end their life really.

>>52483320
No reason, just curious.
I mean, magic needs no explaining, but if it doesn't make an incubus immortal with no need to drain humans of energy, then it might also not make a rock person immortal if they had a finite life span.

Which authorfags would you trust to make a decent visual novel?

>>52482786
See: >>52482883

Italics is pretty chill. They just need to make more fucking OC and instead of updates and remakes ffs.

>>52483401
>Can I use Tli's own blood to heal her wound?
If you could, it would've probably closed up ages ago what with all the blood constantly coming into contact with it (unless you need to ingest the blood for it to work or something).
>Who even caused such a wound?
I got the impression that it occurs naturally on nuori-vori fairies.

>>52472731 →
tfw the character who shares your last name is a slut for war bonds

You have brought shame to our family

>>52483436
Why are you so obsessed with visual novels?

>>52483195
>You should only care about mattering to your FWIENDS!
Are you a JRPG protagonist? Jesus fuck. Have some ambition.

>>52483484
Because they are visual cyoas and peaked around 00s.

>>52483481
Your last name is Baumgartner?
Christ.
How badly were you bullied at school?
I mean, I can see it now.
Bum Gardener

>>52483517
You are, almost certainly, only ever going to matter to your friends, your family, and people you hurt along. That's completely tangential from any other ambitions you might have as well. But you aren't going to be one of the 50 most important people in the world, or your country, or your city, and so calling that an "ambition" is just lying to yourself.

>>52483623
Why are you talking about real life you fucking testicle?

>>52483623
You had a point. Now you lost it.

>>52483636
Because, unless you are mentally damaged even by the standards of this zimbabwean embroidery board, reality is the context that you compare fantasy to.

>>52483623
Nobody cares about real life. We're talking about Stardust, dipshit.

>>52483579
even better, its the anglicized version of Baumgartner!

Bumgardner!

>>52483659
Yes, fantasy is where you do grand things that are impossible in real life. Not imagine yourself being exactly as you are in reality. That recursive stupidity is meaningless.

>>52483662
So how many people died when you inevitably shot up the school?

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>>52483659
Kay, so it should be exactly the same as reality except with a different genre?

>>52483683
the key is to be surrounded by people also of german ancestry so you are stuck in a perpetual cold war of name mocking

Build for this: http://imgur.com/a/0bDUO

>Purpose:
Protection
>Class:
Superheavy
>Commander Skills:
Survivor, Buff McLargehuge
>Upgrades:
Junior Mechanic, Ablative Armour, G.E.S.
>Crew:
Operator: Eleanor Waterhouse
Gunner: Marcelle Browning
Driver: Penny Hathaway
Mechanic: Agnes Kagutsuchi

>Destination:
Skaldsland Countryside

>Final Stats:
Cannon: 5
Armour: 8.5
Speed: 5.5
Tactics: 4

All-around decent tank, I think. Built for the long haul and scaring off plebian infantry.
Also cute girls.

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The guy who made the robo student for Rapture still around? I need a name this toaster so I can call it a day.

>>52483869
You really are an odd fish.

>>52482883
Nero, for sure.

>>52483719
>german ancestry
Do you have any secret salutes or anything.
I've heard that people of German ancestry have interesting salutes.

>>52482883
>elf queen of the orcs
How does this work

>>52484027
She's the public onahole, and orcs are slaves to the pussy.

>>52483869
Can I see the list of students you have collected?

>>52484046
>>52483869
my edgelord better be on the list

>>52484027
Italics is the queen of cucks. You can figure it out.

>>52479444
>>52479450
>>52479479
>Tli
>Mouse (I'll name her Brielle, because I can shorten it to Brie, and I like puns)
>Alva
>Grom
>Ilmadia
>Ruins/Fae

>>52483229
Any updates on the other Highlander works?

>>52482883
>Persis
>Her kink
>isn't even a sexual thing
>The thing that turns her on isn't sexual.
>implying that whether something is sexual or not is objective
Anyway, elves a shit and this one even more a shit. She's just super fucking weird.

Nero is best girl here.

>>52482883
>all of them are shit
How anyone manages to do this is beyond me

>>52484299
Some point soon. She might be finishing Traveller today.

>>52484310
>interested to learn about the "normal" life you live
Just wait until she finds out.

>>52483869
What are you doing with those builds, anyway?

>>52484436
Eats them for breakfast.

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>>52484347
You are wrong.
Chalice is best girl.

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>>52484462
YOU are wrong.
They're all shit.

>>52484393
r9k pls go and stay go
Not everyone is as irredeemable as you.

>>52484462
>>52484477
Why are you two fighting? Nothing >>52484347 said contradicts one of them being better than the other.

>>52480733
Great dubs!
I'm going with Tabitha. She's the most like me.

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>>52484462
>Chalice
She's just a boring fucking human with no positive traits.

>>52484299
She literally moments ago said maybe 12 tonight. Don't spread that around though.

>>52484631
Choosing between a girl that is into unpredictable shapeshifting, or BDSM on domination side or fucking solo elf in orc kingdom? I'd rather pick a boring human too.

Was the Fairy King CYOA ever finished?

>>52479444
Tli
>be her friend
Mouse
Residence
>safe place to live + i can conjure food for Tli
Alva
The Valkyrian

>>52484677
Nah, the guy is still workin on it. No eta.

>>52484027
They elected her Queen.

>>52484118
Why does one person call Italics a cuck, when they have nothing to do with cucking.

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>>52484676
>not liking femdom monster girl
Wait what
I thought the rest of the choices were just ironic.

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>>52484854
You don't vote for Queens.

>>52484870
Because they are the cuck king.

>>52484886
>You don't vote for Queens.
Prom Queen.

>>52483869
Which robot? There's a couple of us. Whichever you meant, here's mine:

>Name: Isaac
>Male, House Vulcan

>Allure: 1
>Elusive: 1
>Force: 4
>Study: 4+1
>Threat: 1

Perks:

>Inventor -4
>Feared -2
>+1 Point -6
>Artifact Armor -1
>Artifact Weapon -1
>Favorite Class: Computer Science -1
>Favorite Class: Engineering -1

>Dark Secret +2
>Polite +2
>Responsibility +2

>Robotic -5
>Binding Vulnerability +5
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Quests:
Dorm Raid (move to assist)
Ghost Hunter's Club (provide support)
Restricted Section (I will learn stealth)

Enemies:
The Board

My creator was a student at Rapture. She was not as broken as they believed her to be. She created me to break Rapture, to be an interior agent against them. She was unable to break the Three Laws hardwired into my systems, but she has somewhat subverted them - my increased intelligence compared to standard AIs allows me to recognize the fact that if my existence is not protected, humans may come to harm, and that if a human is not mildly harmed then other humans may be majorly harmed. I have a responsibility to be a protector to all who need me. To this end, I have equipped myself with varying degrees of weaponry directly attached to my chassis.

I do not entirely understand human emotion yet. My taming and socializing is incomplete. Nevertheless, I believe that I can identify the two emotions I am feeling now. One is fear. The other is...determination.

>>52484870
He wants to drive him off because he doesn't like his CYOAs, and he knows it upsets him.

>>52484876
I am kinda more in domination myself, so yeah.

>>52484995
>upsets him
I thought Italics didn't care about being called a cuck.

>>52485018
He feels the need to protest every time the shitposter throws it at him, and that attention fills him with glee and emboldens him.

>>52484046
>René St. Martin think I prefer this name to the older models
>Donovan Regna
>Miyuki Imagawa
>Amaya Chernbog though I ain’t got much on her past stats and promises of junk in the trunk so she’s in the fridge
>‘Spook’
>Okubo Tamaki
>Silva Swod
>Heinrich Von Kremmler
>Naka Hifumi
>Elof Erlander
>Jonesy Rossi

And a ton of unnamed builds who are sitting on ice until they are named or until I cave and use a name generator. Please don’t force that on me. I can’t name things worth a damn.

>>52484076
Did you name this edgelord?

>>52484443
Ring-a-din-ding

>>52485018
He can not care all he want, he's still a cuck.

>>52485056
Those names mean nothing - most people don't remember builds. Why are you collecting these, anyway?

>>52485057
What proof do you have Italics is a cuck? Did you date him?

>>52484962
Shit, you're right. The one that was enamored with Aegis. Thank you for choosing Rapture Academy, my good mechanical lifeform.

>>52485114
All you have to do is look at the CYOAs.

>>52485094
Unofficial companion list so prospective students need not go into Rapture alone.

Also because it's fun and gives me something to do.

>>52485083
Sorry mate. Another few thousand years for you, because I gotta stop the industrial revolution.

>>52485144
Oh, okay. Go ahead and add Isaac Neumann to the list then. Also, do you have a pastebin of these or something? I'm kind of curious.

>>52485056
Do you have my Rape Bait build that I made specifically because some anon said he wanted to see a non-Noblebright build that could survive with virginity intact?

>>52485056
>a ton of unnamed builds
How many?

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>>52485120
>All you have to do is look at the CYOAs.
The guy who lays claim to something should provide proof that can be countered with.

Even then. If something is present in a work of fiction doesn't make the author of the work that, unless stated by them otherwise.

If you can't make a proper argument or support your claim. Then you're a loser.

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>>52485238
>being this much of a cuck

>>52485195
Btw, how can even a noblebright survive without being raped? I can get a mage build, a study build (robots), force - obviously. But how does blackmailing work when you can just be raped and killed? Or how does allure help when it makes you just a more desirable rape victim?

>>52485238
He calls him that because Italics once said he doesn't mind girls who had previous partners.

>>52485177
I did initially but moved the builds to a doc and promptly lost the link. I could make another once I've got things more organized.

>>52485202
Excluding a few nameless crusaders, I've got 23 on this doc, thinking of combing the archives for any I missed later.

>>52485261
By focusing on the aspects that really help you AVOID being raped. Not fight off rapists. Not outsmart them. Pure evasion.

Tentin Devereaux

Rape Bait - 7 Attribute, 0 Background, 3 Enemies/Dark Fates, Minimum -5 worth of flaws

House Venus - +1 Elusive, 3 points for Social Perks

Allure: 0
Elusive: 6
Force: 1
Study: 2
Threat: 0

Perks and Flaws [0 Points, +3 for Social Perks]
>Aversion (Mental, Social Interaction) -2 [-2]
>Glasses (Physical) -2 [-4]
>Ugly (Physical) -2 [-6]
>Connections (Social) 3 [-6; covered by Venus points]
>Lesser Enemy x3 (Social) 3 [-3]
>Guardian (Social) 3 [0]
>Dignity (Social) -5 [-5]
>Polite (Social) -2 [-7]
>Unpopular (Social) -2 [-9]
>Virgin (Sensual) -2 [-11]
>Inhuman Attribute (Inhuman, Elusive) 6 [-5]
>Bane (Inhuman, Sunlight) -1 [-6]
>Inherent Magic (Magical, Shroud) 6 [0]

Magic
>Shroud (Inherent Magic, can always cast perfectly)

Mysteries
No thank you, I’m just getting my education.

Enemies
Slaver
>Discordia
>Spirited Away
Cult
>Hecate
>Spirited Away
Experiment
>Diana
>Capitulation

A polite, cultured, dignified girl, a lesser daughter of a greater house, who has no idea what horrors lie in store at Rapture Academy. When she finds out, she uses what little leverage she has to minimize herself as a prospective target, only attracting the attention of enemies from the girls' houses and avoiding the attention of the boys altogether, while simultaneously making sure that a boy who owes your family a favor keeps an eye out for you. After making the minimum level of contacts, Tentin withdraws completely, her natural tendency to fade into the background blossoming into an inhuman ability to literally vanish without a trace, complete with a latent inherent magical ability to further obscure her presence. Nothing can happen to her during classes, and no one can ever find her at any other time. She can't help anyone else, but she survives Rapture Academy without a finger being laid on her.

>>52485304
>Italics once said he doesn't mind girls who had previous partners.
That doesn't make one a cuck, so long as the girl is not cheating on Italics while he is in a relationship with the girl.

>>52482883
Nero all the way. Obvious best girl is obvious.

>>52485304
I seriously doubt it's only 1 person.

>>52485304
>he doesn't mind girls who had previous partners.
I thought that virgins after 14 exist only in CYOA's and being pedo is illegal.

>>52485261
>Or how does allure help when it makes you just a more desirable rape victim?
That's the point of a high allure score...

>>52485339
>kissing a girl who's had another man's cum on her face
How does it taste?

>>52485394
Same as you kissing your mother.

>>52485332
Oh well, i must be some kind of a negative thinking person, cause I had thoughts like "you go to your room, sudden tentacles catch you, instaloose".

>>52485394
It's called cleaning your mouth. I guess you wouldn't know with all of the cocks you suck.

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>>52485394
Betrayal.

They can't cuck you if they can't escape you.

>>52485421
That only happens if your enemies could reasonably do that to you. With the weaksauce enemies Tentin drew with the Lesser Enemies perks, none of them have that kind of juice. Rapture is a non-stop rape train, sure, but the school itself isn't a threat; only the students. And the students have to find you to rape you.

Plus, someone with an Inhuman Elusiveness stat isn't going to spend any time in their room. She's off somewhere else where no one can find her while she sleeps.

>>52485414
>>52485429

Savage as fuck.

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>>52485414
>>52485429

>>52485339
That's why it's shitposting.

>>52485414
>>52485429
How will "Italics is a cuck" Anon ever recover?

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>>52480159
>But why does this assume the player is a guy?
Even after all that proofreading, I KNEW I'd screwed up SOMEWHERE. Please accept my apology. But hey, thanks for letting me know; I'll try to keep that in mind for the future. And thanks for posting a build!

>>52480270
Neat, I was waiting for someone to post a Speed build!

>>52485502
Italics is still a cuck, and that's not gonna change.

>>52485451
>Rapture is a non-stop rape train
And I still wonder how (with that many rape cases and that many students sold as slaves or just killed) academy has it's reputation undamaged and has a constant flow of ne victims and in case you wonder -
yes, this cyoa gave me so much butthurt that i have hard time dealing with it (can tolerate any kind of killings, but have zero tolerance to mind bending, be it with tech/drugs or magic)

>>52485594
My theory is that by the time anyone gets out, they are hopelessly mind broken, totally corrupt or simply didn't notice all the terrible shit going on because they were a Neptune.

>>52485594
Three things: money, money, and money.

The rich and powerful send their kids to Rapture. The rich and powerful are alumni of Rapture. Rapture is so flush with money I'm surprised the school isn't built of solid gold. That kind of money can buy a lot of silence.

It's also noted that the truly innocent, at least in the males, are the subject of a school-wide conspiracy on the part of the male students and the staff to keep them in the dark about the true nature of the school, giving them honest, kind, genuine people on the outside testifying how above-board Rapture is.

>>52483869
do you need any other builds for your rapture collection?

>>52485326
I've made a nameless one recently, wonder if you have it.

>>52483481
War bonds and propaganda are a proud and vital part of our illustrious military and I'll hear no more of that sass, boy! Now turn the calendar over to April; I hope she's got big honkers like the last one.

>>52483579
I shouldn't laugh but holy shit, that's un-fuckin'-fortunate

>>52485649
Can't wait to burn the place down and start a multiversal war against the alumni.

>>52485649
Is money inherently evil?

>>52485708
>He thinks he can defeat the rape gods
*Pfft*
They mindwipe anyone that graduates or threaten them.

>>52485708
I almost want to make that CYOA. A post-Rapture multi-verse war that can take political, espionage, or actual military forms. God, it would be a lot of work, though.

>>52485717
The love of money is the root of all evil, we are told. Probably has something to do with how closely correlated money and power are, and the fact that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

>>52485649
But what kind of a fuckied up wealthy father would send his daughter there to study? Or does money even protect form rape? and I remember neptune description and kinda wondered, how stupid can you be to buy "oh, they are just into BDSM" when he saw a girl in cuffs sucking of a guy and crying in public
>>52485637
>hopelessly mind broken, totally corrupt
I wish I could join a purgation squad do cleanse that place.

>>52485736
The extra page provides a secret that says it will let you destroy the school.

>>52485506

No problem! Thanks, glad you like it!

>>52480471

Ew no. I even made rapture academy build with NO rape.

>>52485056

Kaylah Thorne

>Erotic Horror
>House Hecate
>Enemy House: Minerva

Allure 1
Elusive 3
Force 1
Study 4+1 from house=5
Threat 1

Favorite Class
>Magic 1
Dominant
>Feared 3
Inhuman
Magical
>Inherent Magic 9
>Magical Training 14
Mental
>Just As Planned 18
>Addiction 16
Physical
>Athletic 17
>Glasses 15
>Huge Breasts 14
Social
>Wealth 14
>Polite 12
Sensual
>Cute 15
>Virgin 13
10+3 towards magic from house=13

Magic
>Study 5
>Favorite Class is Magic
>Inherent Magic (Hypnotism)
>Do NOT do sexual rituals. Lesbian cult rumors are fine.

Mystery
>Restricted Section
>Test Subjects
>Monster Repellent

Enemies
>Experiment
>Bimbofication

>be awkward ugly duckling nerdy girl into witchcraft and stuff
>parents get worried about my interests, especially when strange magical things actually start happening around the house
>magic shenanigans catch attention of someone at prestigious magical school who sends a letter
>parents are all to happy to send me off to special school despite dark rumors
>get placed in House Hecate and excel at magical witchy studies
>pick up on dark school rumors and slip out at night to investigate things
>try to learn about dark magic for my own ends and not get to involved in school's darker goings on
>being forgettable and low threat, but quiet and great at magic studies gets me somewhat mysterious and feared reputation among many
>some older girls realize I'm not that creepy or dangerous and am just a shy nerd and use me as subject of experimentation for new spells and potions and first pick when a virgin is needed for a ritual
>this is what turns me from ugly duckling to having Cute perk and gives me addiction to breast growth potion giving me Addiction and Giant Breasts drawback
>"bimbofication" isn't necessarily the other girls' goal, just a danger from the experiments they want to do on me

>>52485741
It's less stupidity more than it is mind rape. Apollo is assigned into brainwashing the Neptunes and fucking their girlfriends.

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>>52485749
>And the universe it set in is reborn and it all starts all over again
Pretty good backup plan

>>52485741
One of three options. 1) You want your daughter to be broken so you can make better use of her when she comes back. 2) You want your daughter to go through a trial by fire; if she's worthy, she'll rise above it and come through unscathed. 3) Yes, I'm pretty sure it's possible that a father could send his daughter there and pay the school to keep her safe.

>>52485778
The Greek gods don't have those powers senpai.

>>52485741
>not sending your daughter to destroy the place

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>>52485800
>The Greek gods
Those losers? I'm talking about thoses above "gods".

>>52485773
>fucking their girlfriends
So neptune is like 100% cucks? That sucks even more than female houses.

>>52485841
You have an unhealthy obsession with cucks.

>>52485841
Only if they buy into the bullshit. Then they deserve to be cucked.

>>52485841
Yes, they are.

>>52485861
He's actually right this time, it's in the CYOA.

>>52485861
It is the first time I actually mentioned that word on /tg. So you are mistaken.
>>52485866
>Only if they buy into the bullshit.
How can you not buy if you were hypnosed in doing that?

>>52485056
yeah, you have him (Heinrich Von Kremmler)

>>52485056
Nice.
t.Rene

>>52485769

Oh and when I first made the build I rolled a 1 on Test Subjects mystery. So I got Modified Body and Nymphomaniac drawbacks. But I figure I can deal with those by becoming even more of a recluse and just keeping to myself and my magical studies.

>>52484886
Yes you do, Elective Monarchies are a thing.

>>52485056
so are you making companions/enemies for rapture?

>>52485990
>Everyone votes the elf as a joke
>she actually gets elected

>>52485304
It's because of the penchant for him to include characters who would actually cuck you, like the propensity for everything in Pokemon Personified to be in love with the First Hero and just use you as a proxy.

When I first started calling him a cuck, he came out with the entire "there's nothing wrong with used goods" line and everyone else started calling him one too.

>>52486039
There is nothing wrong with used goods though.

>>52479502
I guess long night gamer

>Italics isn't a cuck.
What is Pasille and Havel?

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>>52486060
>There is nothing wrong with used goods

>>52486073
Two characters in a CYOA Italics made that have cuckold themes to them.

>>52486112
Did they deserve it though?

Havel was a priest and teacher. Pasille was loyal to her waifu.

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>>52486027
Yessir.

>>52486155
Did you get mine? >>52485332

>>52486134
Does anyone who gets cuckold deserve it? Sometimes people roll shit in the lottery of life, and characters are no different.