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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 12/24: Interactive: "The Mother of My Enemy Is Me" 12/24: Public: "The Mother of My Enemy Is Me"
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| Today's chapter— * Interactive: "A Rescue and Retreat" * Public: "A Rescue and Retreat" —ends the current branch. A short-and-sweet commentary post can be found here: "Re: Making a Fourth Maskateer" Tomorrow I start fulfilling another commission, with a short sequel to "Meet the Welches" . Background:Will and Caleb have accidentally petrified Will's dad, and the two of them are trying to find a cure. They need a secure place to work, and Will has just hijacked the body and identity of one of the school's tutors, Shannon Welch. They have just arrived at the Welches' house, to take care of Shannon's husband. * * * After that, I will tackle the Will-and-Sydney-and-Caleb storyline I've been polling about. I've just closed the second poll, and I don't even know why I bothered to poll you people. It was obvious a mile away what routes you would want to see the story go down. Anyway, "Will should impersonate Caleb's mom" was the runaway winner, both in the free votes and the GP votes. I didn't even bother to calculate what the final vote would have worked out to, but it probably would have been 75-15-10. [EDIT: Okay, while figuring out dividends, I did have to calculate the final vote. It as Will-64%, Sydney-25%, Golem-11%] At least some people were smart enough to GP-vote for some of the losers, so that there will be a GP dividend distribution this time. |
| The current storyline continues with: * Interactive: "Mickey Martin Makes Her Debut" * Public: "Mickey Martin Makes Her Debut" Meanwhile, the last poll is now closed, with "Start with Caleb's mom" the decisive winner, both in terms of free votes and GPs. In fact, someone could have made a killing by voting GPs for one of the losing choices. If one person had voted 10 GPs for "Start with Caleb" they could have gotten almost 45,000 GPs back. But no one voted for one of the losing choices, so all GPs go back to their original senders. Next poll is now up, asking: Who should impersonate Caleb's mom? "BoM Poll: Caleb's mom" Same rules apply as before. This will be only a 3-day poll (practically all voting in the previous round was done in the first 72 hours), and will close at noon ET on Wednesday, June 26. |
| For the next two weeks I'm booked with chapters that fulfill two commissions, but I'm already looking past that. I got poked enough times from enough people about "Vengeance on an Ex-Friend" that I knew that would be the next one to continue. I'm at work on it already. My plan is to continue all three branches with at least 5-7 chapters each (maybe more, depending), but I don't want to publish all three back to back. So I'm running a poll to see which of the three that readers want to see published first: [Poll completed and deleted] As the poll emphasizes, this is not about seeing which choice gets taken. It's about which of the branches will be published first. So, do you want your favored choice to be the first one? Or would you vote for a less favored choice, so you'll have a chance to savor the anticipation? Poll closes on Sunday, June 23, at 12:00 ET. In the meantime, today's chapter is now up: * Interactive: "A Sex Change at School" * Public: "A Sex Change at School" |
| I've built up a bit of a backlog by finishing of some commissions, and tomorrow I'll start sustained daily publishing again. It will start here: "Three Little Maids Are We" That's the branch where Will, Caleb, and Keith have been playing with the masks; have crafted some female personas for themselves; and have acquired a fourth partner in the sophomore girl Teresa MacNeil. Separately, I've been having fun with AI-generated images again ... "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reference Photo Carousel" |
| As I said I might in my last update, I'll be adding odds-and-ends chapters here and there for a little while as I start writing new BoM storylines and building a backlog. These will mostly be appearing in the same few areas, but don't expect any sustained storytelling from me, though some of them might get a sequel sooner rather than later. |
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