CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

This is something that I have both seen done and been the one to do on other sites in the past in one form or another, and I thought I might bring it back here. At its most basic, it will be simply telling a story, but not with what you might call a "linear" path of progression and plot. I will be providing the writing, but you all will be the one providing ideas, or, if you are at all familiar with the wizardry and insanity that Andrew Hussie has produced through MSPA's early ventures, "commands". I will then respond to them with (hopefully) amusing tidbits to progress things toward whatever end the commands leading up to that point has put our intrepid adventurer on the path to.

The commands will primarily operate on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a few days for everyone to provide input. I may very well use every command people offer, or combine multiple ones into one command if they are relevant or similar. I only ask that you do not make them overly complex. A good sentence or idea will suffice for a single command!

With that said, it is time to start off simply and just to gauge interest!

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Travelling alone on a dusty road, you suddenly come to the realization that in all of your aimless wandering, you have forgotten many things you once knew. You are going somewhere, but cannot recall where. Somehow you feel it is important, however. You struggle to recall information to your mind, staring down the sun-baked trail before and behind you.


What is your name?

My name is Jim the Knight.

Nov 14, 2015 18:08:14 GMT @flamesofdoom said:

My name is Jim the Knight.

You think it over for quite some time. Finally, after taking a particularly deep breath and almost choking on a lungful of Jenkins and Son's Trail Dust your memory stirs. Waving off your shortness of breath, irrelevant compared to your sudden burst of insight, you proclaim aloud to yourself, "Yes, I remember now! I am Jim! Jim the Knight!"


You briefly wonder why you felt the need to announce that, but just as quickly disregard it to ponder over whether you might have a last name. But then you quickly get distracted by wondering where you, Jim the Knight, might be going to out on this lonesome dusty trail.


What exactly ARE you doing?

bleat like a goat

For reasons you cannot contemplate, you suddenly develop a strange urge to bleat like a goat. This is a very un-knight-like thing to do, or so you think.

And yet...you cannot resist. There doesn't seem to be anyone around, perhaps just once to alleviate this ridiculous urge...

You bleat like a goat. It is a very convincing impression. A goat you had not noticed until this particular moment in time, grazing in the tall grass you had also not noticed until now off to one side of the road, looks up at you quizzically. You feel very embarrassed and hunch your shoulders in shame.

Challenge the goat to a bleating duel.

Nov 15, 2015 17:14:39 GMT @flamesofdoom said:

Challenge the goat to a bleating duel.

The goat off to the side of the road bleats at you in mild distaste of your performance, returning to grazing among the grass. For reasons you cannot explain, this greatly irritates you. Who is this random goat to think that it can out-bleat you?

You march right over to the goat and throw down the proverbial gauntlet in challenge, bleating angrily at the goat with an accusatory finger point. You feel very bold and powerful.

The goat headbutts you in the face.