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The Interactives "The Book of Masks"  : A high school student discovers a grimoire that can make magical disguises."The Wandering Stars" : Sequel to "The Book of Masks.""Student Bodies" : A high school student is turned into a blue goo that can possess people.For non-WdC Members "The Book of Masks: Archives" : Dodges the "Servers Busy" barrier!"The Book of Masks (Abridged)" : Introductory storylines for new readers.Community "BoM/TWS Message Forum" : Community for readers of the interactives."BoM/TWS/SB Wiki" : Notes and documentation for authors. Spoilers!Current Polls None The Latest 6/29: Interactive: "Switching Husbands" 6/29: Public: "Switching Husbands"
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| I should have known you guys would have voted for Mrs. Garner. Here's your reward: Interactive: "Mugging a MILF" Public: "Mugging a MILF" But tomorrow we'll take a sideways step into another branch, the one where Will chose— Well, that would be a spoiler. * * * For the poll, you've narrowed the choices down enough that I could start writing a new branch. But I'm going to let you narrow it down even more. Starting today we'll do some Plot Plinko polls until we hit a choice that needs a sequel: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Interactive: "The Master Planner" Entry: "The Master Planner" Whew! Still on track. So Will is planning to make himself a disguise as part of his investigation, but he's got a lot of possible disguises to choose from. You guys had a lot to choose from too, when you blindly voted. Tomorrow you'll find out if you voted the same way that rugal and I did. * * * In yesterday's poll you voted to do something more with the YouTube crew. But that's a big area, and there's lots of different kinds of situations that could be continued. Here's a third poll, to help narrow it down: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Interactive: "Chelsea Cooper, Marijuana Marketeer" Public: "Chelsea Cooper, Marijuana Marketeer" You guys are still on track—Will has struck a deal with Chen. Too bad the stuff he was planning to sell back has been stolen from the gym loft! You wanted Will to use some of his magical devices to track down the thief. Is that what he'll do? * * * Here's the follow up to yesterday's poll, wherein you guys voted overwhelmingly to return to a "well-established area": [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Interactive: "Into the Weeds" Entry: "Into the Weeds" Will is trying to make a deal with Chen, but Chen is trying to take advantage of the situation. When you voted, you chose for Will to offer to help Chen sell his stuff into new markets. How did that turn out? Tune in tomorrow! * * * Meanwhile, I am working on a commission at the moment, but I am also looking past that to what will come after. I have a very long branch that I need to publish, but I want to break it up with shorter, 7-10 chapter runs on unrelated branches. The thing is, I have no strong inclinations about where to write those unrelated stories. So let's take a poll! [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Today's chapter: [Hold on to the briefcase] Interactive: "The Backpedal" Entry: "The Backpedal" So today's chapter is a one-off. Tomorrow comes the chapter that is supposed to continue the branch. There's another week or so of chapters to publish, but today brings the final poll in the present series: [Poll completed and deleted] |
| Today's chapter, from rugal: Interactive: "Improperly Paranoid" Entry: "Improperly Paranoid" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted] Only two wrong turns for you guys so far. Can you keep it up? |
| Today's stuff: Interactive: "The Aristocrats" Entry: "The Aristocrats" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] Back on track again. But did you guys anticipate where rugal and I were going to go next? Or did you make a third wrong turn? Find out tomorrow! |
| Today's chapter: Interactive: "Dane in Distress" Entry: "Dane in Distress" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] Oh, look at that. Another set of unfamiliar choices. I guess tomorrow I'll be publishing the chapter wherein Will unchivalrously ignores Chelsea's pleas, because that's the one that I originally wrote. |
| Today's chapter, from rugal: Interactive: "The New Queen" Entry: "The New Queen" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] Now that you know what was meant by "Help Chelsea," do you regret voting to help her? You'll find out what the means tomorrow. |
| Today's chapter, which is the one rugal originally wrote to follow "Looking for a Promotion" : Interactive: "A Royal Coup" Public: "A Royal Coup" Today's chapter ends with a "Continue," so at least there's no chance of taking a wrong turn there! Here's the next poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Today's stuff, including a chapter by rugal: Interactive: "The Port in the Storm" Entry: "The Port in the Storm" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] The choices at the end of today's chapter won't look familiar. That's because you took a wrong turn when you voted for "Julia Paez" in the Blind Plinko poll. Tomorrow we will resume the storyline that rugal and I crafted, and you'll find out which of you were clairvoyant. |
| Today's chapter is the one that you voted for in the first Blind Plinko poll. Interactive: "Looking for a Promotion" Entry: "Looking for a Promotion" And you already know which chapter will appear tomorrow: It will be the one that you voted for a few days ago. Any regrets? There's also a new poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| New chapter is up: Interactive: "Dane's Doom" Public: "Dane's Doom" You'll recognize the choices at the end from the first Blind Plinko poll in this series, and now you know their context--what you were voting for without knowing it. "Julia Paez" won the last poll by a whisker. Here's the next poll in the series: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| There's a post below thanking those who have sent me GPs over the last few months. Please don't overlook it! Meanwhile, here's the first chapter in the new storyline. The first few chapters will be mine before rugal takes over for a bit. Interactive: "Unscrambling the Omelet" Public: "Unscrambling the Omelet" The background: Will and his friend Caleb have been messing around with masks, and Will has really gotten himself into a mess. The long and short of it is that he and Caleb have been body-swapping some of their classmates, so that Will is inhabiting the identity of Dane Matthias (a cheerful stoner); Dane is inhabiting the identity of Gordon Black (the captain of the high school basketball team); and Gordon is inhabiting Will's identity. Will has now gotten crossways with Gary Chen, a vicious thug and drug dealer. But the latest spell in the book might give Will a way out. Meanwhile, I am also running another series of "Blind Plinko" polls for this very storyline, but the polls are running a few days in advance of the chapters, so it will be Tuesday before you see the result of your vote in yesterday's poll. "Chelsea Cooper" won that poll ... and you get another chance to vote for "Chelsea Cooper" in today's poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] Or maybe you'll use this poll as a chance to vote in another direction. I have a second Blind Plinko poll for you as well, this one a continuation of the previous series I was running. It turns out that I had to rewrite one of the chapters and insert a new one into the sequence. So although choices in the last poll and the next-to-the-last poll remain the same, I need to insert a new poll into the series. Given the choices, I suppose it can also double as a general statement of preference: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| Every time I finish a storyline, I mean to make a post thanking all the readers who have sent me in Gift Points, and every time I manage to forget. So I've got a bunch of people to thank. If you've been sending me Gift Points, and I've said nothing, believe me, it's not because I don't appreciate them. It's because I've been saving up to post my thanks, and then I get distracted. Anyway, for the last several storylines I have to thank: * Easy, who is constantly dropping 1000-point gifts on me. * Tal, who dropped a big bag of points of me not too long ago * AstralBot3D, who loved the branch where Will partnered with Maria Vasquez * Sonicmetroid, who likes a lot of random chapters, which is especially flattering. * HayateZero and Wordsmitty, who both really liked "Girl Meets Boy" * that dude, forthefunofit, and Wolflord99, who each liked one chapter or other so much they just had to tell me about it with some GPs. * and the anonymous person who sent a cNote with 1000 GPs. Thank you, guy! The "tip" system that WdC created has done a lot to encourage me by giving you guys an easy way to express your encouragement. |
| Today wraps up the first "Blind Plinko" storyline: * Interactive: "Fears Unmasked" * Public: "Fears Unmasked" So tell me, how predictable was it? Did the blind choices give you enough info to guess how it was going to unfold? It felt rather obvious to me, largely because in their early chapters, the storylines tend to unfold in very similar ways. A new storyline will start tomorrow, but I'm not going to give you a link. Instead, I'm going to present you with a new series of Blind Plinko Polls: [Poll completed and deleted.] That is the choice at the end of the chapter that will appear on Monday, part of a new branch. That branch is already partly written, but whichever choice you vote for, you will get that sequel. Here's the way it will work: If you vote for the sequel that got written, then that's the one will appear, and the story will continue along its pre-written path. But if some other choice wins, you will get a one-off—the chapter you voted for—before the story backs up and returns down the pre-written path. We'll go on this way, with me giving you the chapter-ending choices a few days before the chapter is published, then publishing the choice you voted for, even if it comes as just a one-off bonus. That storyline, by the way, is a collaboration with rugal. He came up with the idea, and we took turns writing chapters or clusters of chapters. After that story branch gets published, I'll turn to publishing the plot line that you just completed in the second "Blind Plinko" poll. |
| No new poll, because at closing time yesterday's poll has a tie for first place. So I'm going to leave it up for a round of "sudden death." EDIT: And Andrea Varnsworth wins it in sudden death. There will be one more poll tomorrow, then ... Well, I don't know what. I'll have to think about it. Interactive: "Fail Safes" Public: "Fail Safes" |
| So this is what happens when I don't make a post predicting a runaway winner. We get a runaway winner! I wonder what will happen in today's poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] Also, today's chapter: Interactive: "The Junior Partners" Public: "The Junior Partners" |
| Yesterday's poll ran neck-and-neck throughout the day until "Spread it in each class" finally won it. But the sequel was going to be one of those chapters where a general kind of decision gets made, I could figure out what the decisions were going to be without writing the chapter itself. So I was able to anticipate today's poll regardless of which choice was going to win yesterday. Interactive: "Explaining Yourself" Public: "Explaining Yourself" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted.] |
| One choice ran away with it yesterday ("Persevere"), but even with that head start I wasn't sure I would be able to get a chapter and a poll written for today -- there was a lot of bookkeeping I had to do with student schedules and stuff as I updated entries for new characters. But I got it done! Interactive: "Follow the Bouncing Box" Public: "Follow the Bouncing Box" Poll: [Poll completed and deleted] |
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