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In an effort to write creatively more often, I thought it would be fun to do a kind of interactive story on here ala the old Choose Your Own Adventure Books.
Here's how it works. I post what's going on in the world around the main character, and then a series of potential actions the main character could take. You all vote on one of those actions OR you can vote for an action of your own devising and hope the other posters rally behind it. The action with the most votes at the time that I begin writing the next post will be the one taken. Updates will be however often I can manage.
Sometimes there will be multiple things to vote on in a single post. Everyone gets one vote per thing to vote on.
In addition to voting, anyone can post ">What do I know about [x]?" to extract in-character information that the main character would know.
As the story progresses, your decisions will not only influence the events, but also the strengths and weaknesses of the legendary Biff Manfist, adventurer and ladies man.
The Character
You are Biff Manfist, a dashingly handsome and well muscled figure with a flowing golden mullet. Beyond that, he is clay to be shaped by your votes.
The Setting
A generic fantasy world of knights, dragons, and buxom wenches where there are dungeons begging to be explored and princesses crying out for a good, hard... rescuing.
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You wake with a start to the sound of a rooster crowing. Glancing about your surroundings, you notice you are...
Choice 1
You can't recall how you came to be here, but you do remember you were supposed to meet somebody last night. Who was it again?
Choice 2
Here's how it works. I post what's going on in the world around the main character, and then a series of potential actions the main character could take. You all vote on one of those actions OR you can vote for an action of your own devising and hope the other posters rally behind it. The action with the most votes at the time that I begin writing the next post will be the one taken. Updates will be however often I can manage.
Sometimes there will be multiple things to vote on in a single post. Everyone gets one vote per thing to vote on.
In addition to voting, anyone can post ">What do I know about [x]?" to extract in-character information that the main character would know.
As the story progresses, your decisions will not only influence the events, but also the strengths and weaknesses of the legendary Biff Manfist, adventurer and ladies man.
The Character
You are Biff Manfist, a dashingly handsome and well muscled figure with a flowing golden mullet. Beyond that, he is clay to be shaped by your votes.
The Setting
A generic fantasy world of knights, dragons, and buxom wenches where there are dungeons begging to be explored and princesses crying out for a good, hard... rescuing.
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You wake with a start to the sound of a rooster crowing. Glancing about your surroundings, you notice you are...
Choice 1
...on the tavern floor in a pool of what you hope is your own vomit.
...in a comfortable feather bed with a buxon wench nestled in the crook of your arm.
...sleeping in your bedroll in the shelter of a fallen tree somewhere in the wilds of the Tanglewood.
...in the rocking, shaking bed of a wagon en route to the capital, Freelance.
...in what appears to be a coffin.
...hanging upside from a wooden cross while a woman in leather regards you hungrily.
...in the living room of a family of confused and increasingly agitated halflings.
...in a piss-reeking jail cell.
You can't recall how you came to be here, but you do remember you were supposed to meet somebody last night. Who was it again?
Choice 2
The mayor of a village in dire need of Biff Manfist's special brand of violent problem-solving.
The recently widowed wife of a former adventuring companion who wanted you to investigate her husband's mysterious death.
A couple of your old buddies from the war to discuss a big score.
A whore with missing teeth and what she described as "some worrying news".
A morbidly obese merchant who needed your help beefing up security.
Walter Wittlesworth the 3rd, Archduke of Coffs Melbourne and Famed Rabbit Rancher.
Your sidekick and illegitimate son, Murphy.
Nothing to see here just yet. This will take shape as the story progresses
