The Simpworks Choose Your Own Adventure thread!

[gkscotty]

A strange idea we had in chat...

This thread is the GFWC Choose Your Own Adventure Round Robin!

(don't know what a CYOA is? This may provide an adequate introduction)

The robin is very simple. A person writes a piece of text, and at the end proposes at least two options for what should happen next. Readers vote on what option should be taken, and the next person writes that. And so on.

However, if you don't know what to do, this being a CYOA, you can always kill off the character in an entertaining way.

RULES FOR WRITERS
1) No crossovers please
2) Site's normal content rules apply. Don't go turning this into a lemon, please.
3) You can write what you want, so long as you fulfill the option that was voted on as it was written. This includes changing to a different scene with different people, changing or killing the protagonist, or anything that doesn't conflict with 1) or 2). Any length is fine, though 1-3 paragraphs is probably best.
4) At the end of your post you must provide at least two options for people to vote on.
5) Please write in third person, past tense prose.

ENDING THE STORY
If you read the link above, you'll no doubt see that ending the story in as nonsensical and anti-climactic a fashion as possible is vital to the enjoyment of a CYOA. You always have the option of ending the story - whether it be by death, mutation, sudden aging to 110 years old, travelling to a realm of endless pleasure, imprisonment, brainwashing, giving up or even victory.
You don't need to ask anyone's permission to end the story. You can end the story however you like.
Once the story ends, we will go back to the previous post and continue down a different branch. The person who ended the story must supply at least two new options for people to vote on for that previous post - the previous options are no longer valid.
If a story ends on a complete and happy ending, we may choose to go back to the first post with new options, or start a new story.
Have fun ending the story in interesting ways!

VOTING
Your vote counts! Post by posting in this thread. (you can also chat here too)
After a section is posted, you have 24 hours to vote, after which the next writer can write and post their section.
Ties shall be broken by me flipping a coin, or in the case of three or more way ties, rolling a dice. In the event of seven or more way ties, the chicken giblits will show us the way.

If you wish to write the next section, say so when you vote. The first person who does so will get to write it. But try not to hog the spotlight - after you post a section, let another two people have a go before volunteering again.
The mods reserve the right to ignore or revise this rule (and any others) if some people want to write but aren't getting a chance.


Assistant Crone has graciously been press ganged volunteered to write the opening post. Wish her luck!

[AssistantCrone]

[OOC: Here goes...]


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Someone had thrown out an entire shoe!

It was a natural shoe, made from the skin of a chewy brown animal. Zoidberg found the other kind very difficult to digest, although he'd give it a try on a bad day. This, though, this was a good day. For a start, shoe. Then there was the nice balmy weather and the fact that it was the weekend and people were bound to be out in the park with their many picnics. They tended to give you strange looks if you wandered around munching a shoe, but their larvae might throw you a pity sandwich – which, after all, was just as tasty as any other sandwich.

Zoidberg decided to take the route through the back alley where there were so many dumpsters, useful not just for food but for shiny trinkets that might be valuable, like the twirly whatsit or the small round thing that kept beeping faster. As he crossed the road, he heard an odd sound coming from the Planet Express building. Plink-whang, it went, as if somebody was playing a giant game of tiddlywinks. There was a strong chemical smell – well, stronger than usual. Zoidberg stood on the corner, listening and nibbling the remains of the heel.


Option 1: Go and investigate the plink-whang noise. Perhaps you can be useful!

Option 2: Continue through the alley to the park. It's nearly lunchtime.

[archonix]

1!

[Stretch_Dude]

1, totally. Interesting sounds are interesting.

[fellranger]

Definitely 1 (and *lol* at larvae  )

[c_nordlander]

1!

[Enhas]

Of course 1.

[D.B.]

2! I mean, 1!

[gkscotty]

Looks like a clean sweep!

Since nobody volunteered to write the next section, I'll do it soon.

[gkscotty]

Zoidberg walked back toward Planet Express, lazily snacking on the treat he'd found as he did so. To his delight he found someone had left one of those gel insoles in it, a delicious surprise.

As he turned the corner, he looked up at the Planet Express building just in time to see the windows of the lab break, and a stream of dark purple goop shoot out into the street. Seconds later a few of the other windows broke and the same dark gloop spewed out of them. Filling the street, it started to flow towards him.

1) This sludge should be avoided, yes! He climbs up onto a nearby fire escape and takes to a roof for a better view.
2) He runs down the street away from the muck, whoopwhoopwhoopwhoopwhooping as he goes.
3) His friends need him! He runs forward toward Planet Express, allowing the goop to wash over him.

[Stretch_Dude]

I'm going with 3. Mystery goop + Zoidberg = greater potential for future chaos.

[AssistantCrone]

1, and LOL @ delicious gel.

[Enhas]

#1.

[c_nordlander]

1. And I, too, would like to LOL at the gel soles.

[Terry Y]

#2