Board 8 > This topic contains a CYOA. Choose wisely...

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Okay, time to start this. Triple rankdown nomination topic will be coming in a couple days. (I've been keeping busy outside of B8, hence a short delay.) Goal here is to help smash my writer's block.

I haven't done a quality CYOA in a good 12 years, and I somehow still have the file for my best one (and the only one I really remember doing) if anyone wants to read it and relive the good ol' days:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/u9v1emc9fjru0yr/Hidden_CYOA_2009.doc/file

Anyway, the rules to start - I may change them depending on interest - will be:
-Basic multiple choice will be first vote wins
-Write-in answers must be seconded
-Important choices require 3 votes

If you don't know how to distinguish what choices are important, play Life Is Strange.
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June 28, 20XX, 8:17 AM

You are 21 y/o, living in a small apartment right off campus. It is a humid summer morn; you have no class obligations until your online summer course starts in two weeks. Still in your bathrobe, iced coffee in hand, you sit down at your laptop, and bring up Facebook to see what's going on in your world.

Please enter your name to log in.
Unlike future write-ins, this is first to 3 since it's your protagonist's name.

(You can homage people, real or fictional, just like 12 years ago, but please no stupid names. Please note this character can be male or female - others will be introduced later, and you will again get to control some of them. This, however, is the only character you will 100% get to dress, and as your protagonist is the only character who cannot be killed off.)
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Jon Bon jovi

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Bon Jovijon

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Gay Pants

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Gay Jon Pantvi

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Juan Bond Jovi

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Johnny J. Jovi

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Zachnorn posted...

Juan Bond Jovi

I'll change to this

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Zachnorn posted...

Juan Bond Jovi

This is pretty good imo.

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Zachnorn posted...

Juan Bond Jovi

You enter your name as "Juan Bond Jovi" only to find a message from Facebook:
"Your name is in violation of our new Terms of Use. The name used must actually be yours, with nicknames and middle names appropriate. Please provide a legitimate identification or enter a form of your real name to continue."

As this is not your name, you cannot provide the requested documentation. Please enter your real name to continue.

EDIT: And so we're clear, this was clear as day in the opening post...
BlueCrystalTear posted...

please no stupid names

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Eric van Butterworth

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I feel like they could have gone way stupider than that.
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Link

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Yeah Im out. If Juan Bond Jovi isnt real enough then Im good not participating in something that obviously is not going to have a good sense of humor over our choices.

Like I understand not wanting something completely stupid but come on

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Seamus Callahan

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kevwaffles posted...

I feel like they could have gone way stupider than that.

Well yeah. I knew immediately that I wasn't going to allow "Gay Pants" just like I wouldn't have allowed the classics like "Mike Rotch" or "Oliver Klozov" or "Amanda Hugginkiss" but I still don't want a name that, when heard in full, literally everyone would be stupefied by. As the one writing this, I'd rather not have to deal with that. I can work with a direct reference but "Juan Bond Jovi? Please explain. I wanna know your story." would get really old really fast. I want this to be fun to write, not tiring.
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