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[qwertyuiopas]

This is a community effort to write stories. Rather than everyone participating to write one story, every addition may start from any other post(s), or none at all. It will probably become something like a CYOA, where the goal is more to make every branch an interesting story rather than create an adventure for the readers.
To make it easier to navigate, it is reccomended that every post that adds to a story would identify any ones that it continues from(a hyperlink, a quote, or the post number would be sufficient, but any other method could be used, or even none at all), and it would be useful if earlier posts were edited to contain references to any continuations that the author liked.

I will try to keep a list of starting posts here.

Spoiler: original first post (click to show/hide)

This forum game is a community story. Not one of those "add three words" ones, or a "you are a character". No, this is something at least a little bit more unique.

How this will work:
You write a story, starting from any previous post(s)(or none at all, even), and you post it, along with links to any posts that it continues from. It is reccomended, but not required, that you edit in links to any continuations you like, for easy navigation.

Links are suggested to contain the author, title, reply number, or any other distinguishing detail. In fact, the reply number on it's own without a link would be sufficient.


Although, after writing this, it seems that it would work best in the community projects section, maybe it could become more of a game, or it could be moved. I'll wait for opinions.

Some sort of distinguishing feature on story posts would help. Maybe a (Large? Underlined? Bold? Italic?) title?


I will try to keep a list of starting posts here.

Places to start:

• Reply #8: Shŕmmandeg, by Qwertyuiopas

[Armok]

((Nice idea. Also, maybe just say everything that is NOT a story post should be in Double Parenthesis ( (()) ). Thirdly, quoting should work well enough for the continuing part of it.))

[qwertyuiopas]

Quoting probably won't work, depending on the length of the post. At the very least it would need a spoiler, and probably take only the first and last few sentences, and put a ... between them.

Also, I will be renaming this, rewriting the first post, and moving it to creative projects, because it just doesn't seem to be enough of a game, so it *might* get more attention there. Also, because there is far more activity here, so keeping it on the first page will be harder.

Also, once it is moved, I'll probably write a short story start for others to start from.

[Sean Mirrsen]

((As long as it doesn't exceed the 40K character limit, quoting will work. Also, I suggest Size 3 bold italicized text, Like This
Btw, any story can branch out from any post?

* Sean Mirrsen foresees tonnes of Alternate Continuities.

))

[qwertyuiopas]

Yes, any story can branch from anywhere.

Also: Moved.

[abculatter_2]

((Are we allowed to start our own stories now?))

[qwertyuiopas]

Always have been, and using anything to distinguish a comment is optional, as long as it is evident that it isn't part of a story.

[Supermikhail]

Would anyone be interested in continuing my story from here? It's finished, but it's finished on a sort of cliffhanger (which was the main twist), which must create a lot of possibilities for alternate continues.

[qwertyuiopas]

Shŕmmandeg

In the long dark halls of Shŕmmandeg, the halls of unfinished stone and ice that lie above the fortress proper, few set foot except the guard. With little outside contact, the dwarves would venture deeper on the rare occasions that they ventured anywhere at all, as riches filled the halls below. Yet the early works remained, devoid of regular use, just below the arctic plane, a vast expanse of frigid white. Among these halls tread iron boots, sparse in number yet thorough in their watch. The chilled, dry air warmed little by the rare torch, dim and devoid of the scent of the feasts below, and yet the guards marched on, their duty to ensure the safety of the rest.

Years passed with little new above, the sieges that could have come routed by the icy plane, until one night the stillness broke, and everything would change. A pair of guards, as it always was, ploding along the frigid tunnel, came across a vast stone door, and tiredly passed it by. It was then that they heard a noise, a faint knocking coming from the other side. Whether freind of foe they readied themselves to confront the source outside. The knocking grew to pounding, and then beyond that too, the hinges holding sturdily, but the latch starting to break. With one last slam, the latch did break, the doors swung open with the force, and on the other side the guards beheld...

(This is left for you to continue. Yes, you. Ther potential writer reading this right now. Disregard any other continuatons and write what *you* feel it must become!)

Continuations:

• Reply #10: Sample oontinuation #1, by Qwertyuiopas
  
• Reply #11: Sample oontinuation #2, by Qwertyuiopas
  
• Reply #15: (untitled), by Supermikhail
  
  Edit: Added title.

[Supermikhail]

Also there's a story by Cthulhu http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42174.0, that I would really like to see finished, but the author doesn't seem to be interested in it. Maybe someone would be able to muster a similar sense of humor.

[qwertyuiopas]

Because of how quickly this died, I will post two continuations that vary greatly from the original, because I am assuming that few people have considered that it is not nessecary to  imitate the style, only continue the plot (and not even that, if they want).

Sample continuation #1 (Continued from Shŕmmandeg)
... the foot of Chuck Norris, followed closely by the rest of him, and Santa Claus! It seems that Chuck had decided to give them a gift of awesomeness and exterminate a few menaces on the lower levels (in return for their unique hides), and brought Santa along to carry the loot. After six days of unspeakably badassery, Chuck Norris took a seventh day of rest (Nearly depleting the booze supplies), and then departed, leaving a huge bloody mess for the dwarves. None of them minded, though, because they had the privlege to watch the whole thing.

[qwertyuiopas]

Sample continuation #2 (Continued from Shŕmmandeg)
With one last slam, the latch did break, the doors swung open with the force, and on the other side the guards beheld an absence. The snow was gone, along with every other visible object, and all that remained was blackness. Moments later, the blackness began to ooze in, taking monsterous forms as it advanced, forming into nightmarish hordes behind the rapidly fleeing guards. The guards had signalled to close the massive gates, and they barely were before the creatures made it through, but it was only a matter of time before they, too, would fall...

[Supermikhail]

The title for number two: LANGOLIERS: THE BOOZE EATERS!

I don't know, so far they haven't sparked any interest to write fanfiction, although your Chuck Norris story might change that.

[qwertyuiopas]

Well, I'm just hoping that *anyone* will write *something* for this. It doesn't have to continue an existing story. It doesn't even have to be aboout DF. It doesn't even need good grammar or spelling, although others might complain about those. 5 words? 100 thousand words? Either is fine.

If it starts a new story, I will add a link to it in the first post. If it continues one of mine, I'll add a link to it in the post it continues from. If it continues in the setting but not the plot, or the plot but not the setting, of one of mine, I'll still add it, probably in a second list. If it continues a story but you specifically request it, I'll add it to the first post anyway. I encourage others to do the same, but it is far from mandatory.

Mostly, I want to encourage creativity and see what spawns from this, and have more comprehensable and structured results than any of those "post 3 words" games. (Plus the tree structure that I hope develops in this...)

[Supermikhail]

I'd hate to make it another two-person entertainment, but you can probably expect to hear from me soon. Of course, about the langoliers idea - unexplained darkness has always fascinated me.