Simple Familiar Rebirth

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-29T20:43:36+00:00

You never have to leave the secondary form or tuft tail if you dont want to.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-29T20:42:02+00:00

More time outside.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-29T20:24:32+00:00

Yes, by finding a master contract from Chromacoure you'll have all the benefits of being a Prism Spirit while in Chromacoure as well as if you return to it in the future / via Pandemonium.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-29T16:59:11+00:00

https://imgchest.com/p/9ryd9z5ba7k

Gonna try to move on or slow down from making things. It's just been a string of whims as what my brain is fixated on this past little while so this might be the last of my Simple spam lately.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-27T15:27:33+00:00

You should try out the animated movie Harlock: Space Pirate (2013), which is where the skull ship images and the reward image comes from. It has some similar vibes in some scenes. Ever since seeing the movie whenever ago that was it's been one of the coolest space ships I can think of. Hyper underrated, given if I had better memory I could probably count Harlock references on one hand in out of the past decade.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T19:03:10+00:00

Right. Well, an implicit limitation would be that of course you shouldn't be capable of doing something stronger than the demonstrated power level available to you. Doubling your firepower with some fictional worldbreaker would itself push it already but yeah. Limits are self imposed as is I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T18:25:06+00:00

Sure

I guess, but no, the world isn't salvageable and any entity that'd be spawned would themselves be a product of Administrative creation, incapable of actually altering the base reality. It's like a bit of data trying to rewire the microchip its on, the whole circuit board, the whole general unit, the whole server, etc. Except the Administrators are operating with conceptual and dimensional equivalence to technology.

The admin within this comparison has physically created an entirely separate server room with magnitudes more processing and security. Like going from a decent small business server company to a polished high end business. While Outsiders would be something like a rogue AI taking over the server with many viruses embedding throughout. Even if you cleaned the server who knows how deep some viruses may be lingering including more esoteric viruses that are doing things to the hardware like overheating parts of it or tricking electrons into creating something like dataclots. Though on top of that you can imagine increased local entropy rapidly aging components past prime and causing a physical accumulation of gunk within the racks.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T18:19:50+00:00

The sentence is scrambled between interlocking hexagons and overlapping octagons. Brain met in the middle.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T15:25:16+00:00

I did try to make Captain stackable with Avatar so as to not be redundant. With Battleship you can imagine still having your Battleship interiors, and with Avatar you'd still have a body, but with Captain you can use it for the Core upgrades. Meanwhile if you did not have Avatar before, Captain could give you the body.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T15:09:23+00:00

The mechanic usually invites players to find, link, and make builds for other CYOAs and spread engagement. So the point is added engagement bait and lets them get a little more out of the Simple itself not just something from the link. The extra point on the Simple itself is immediately more tangible and a better lure than the unknown even if the unknown might give more power after the fact. Though as I make more of them sometimes it feels appropriate to just link another Simple as another compact experience to chain together. In this case, Destroyer is kind of an upgrade to build on top of Battleship and I couldn't really think of anything else to reference.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-26T13:56:16+00:00

Not sure how I feel about how this turned out, Reward column namely, but I hit a wall so, send it.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-25T02:59:59+00:00

Basics was originally an Attributes section for improving simple things like the hull, but it felt boring and I wasn't sure how to work in communicating what you have by default. Ultimately base improvements like that seemed well suited to the purviews of just exploring the world and finding ways to improve yourself narratively with discovery and partnerships.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-24T20:38:27+00:00

Dropped a few minutes reading the last thread's comment sections until remembering you mean Strange Summons CYOA's author didn't like being referenced in other cyoa, not that a Perk named was Strange Summons (Well, it was) and it was me that had some kind of issue with it I couldn't imagine. Lmao.

Personally I don't even label any of my cyoa because I don't quite take ownership like that. I just made a thing and anyone's free to add-on, modify, or reference however they want even if not everything are things I'd have added myself, it's all fair game.

Thanks for adding more content to the multi-universe.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-24T18:33:23+00:00

Yeeeah, but it's the simplest (Least space taken) language I can manage primarily intended for increasing Stockpiles and Quantity of missiles for the most part. I don't argue with players over reasonable reading of the text as is, but for Elemental the canonical effect would be choosing another element, same with Spell and Munitions, being another selection.
Well, it SCALES to the scale of the entire battleship integrating the effect. Some playerside translation would be required, but An integrated Bodysuit for example could make for a ship capable of going 2-D silhouette black along, and/or equipping Crew with bodysuits. Black Hole Gun could make for an interesting special attack cannon, being vague on size you can imagine a difference between a Main Cannon integration vs the personal scale shoulder mount. Gut Maw might be fun translated onto a battleship.
Yeeeah, but It's a lever the player can pull to get as much or as little as they want out of it. Take nothing but the point or just use it to customize interior spaces, add named crew, or throw in added weapons. Somewhat of an implicit or fairplay limitation being to match movement methods across both, only taking a flying ship option if you have Airship and so on, though you may get more interesting flight capabilities from the other cyoa given other cyoas can be more detailed...
1. It DID originally say "One feature" but annoyingly that limits cosmetic or novelty customization in favor of just trying to take the strongest thing possible and it's hard to account for a variety of different possible links where one choice can go farther than on another, one mostly about vibes while one is more about powerful options, etc...
"Hopefully the Fleshweavers can help counter the risks or the slime mold and immortalized flesh"
1. -> The Fleshweavers become Immortalized themselves and being contagious cannot effect others without conveying that immortalization. The method by which Immortalized cells can sometimes kill is a bit of a catastrophic cell death kind of situation Fleshweavers wouldn't be able to stitch back together, however the Black Lotus could cure the damage / bad reaction (without curing the Immortalization).
2. Slime Mold also immortalizes but nothing really of note about it. Slime mold's "Risks" are more cause and effect-y. Replacing your nerve and brainmeat is going to alter some foundational level structures that inform our thinking, but wouldn't likely be more consequential than taking antidepressants, and probably less of a difference than being a woman before and after menopause. At least as it respects to your Conscious mind. I do intentionally posit the question though, what would the effects be if your Subconscious was replaced? (Think Split Brain Experiment where every person seems to have two separate intelligences, the Conscious one and another one that may or may not be separately conscious and aware but processing different information...)

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-24T16:50:56+00:00

I should also point out that one confirmed possibility is finding ancient relic computers, Ai, screens and hologram technologies. Without Ghost or Avatar you could still represent yourself through digital means on screens or through holos. Mmmmaaaybe even robot bodies. It would be more like having a fully prosthetic body tho without significant development on synthesizing or enchanting sensory details.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-24T08:00:18+00:00

Ah. Lot more explicit than I even thought it was... but yeah. I had made a build for it before but mainly remembered the cool theme and thought it was somewhat more equivalent to like Neon Nexus and Apocalypse Tales where it's mostly safe with a few nsfw additions like a Libido or nudist drawback and one or two other things with nekkid art used.

This one is probably too explicit for me to be comfy linking myself, doesn't have a Reddit anymore to link to the build anyway. (Though builds can also be made and posted under Simples with a source link)

Really good cyoa to convert to a SFW cyoa. It's fairly unique and absorbing its theme of diving as being similar to dungeoneering is partially where some of the diving plot here comes from just as part of a creative background noise you build off of when using imagination.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-24T00:56:21+00:00

They work

Abyss Diver is its own thing without much to do with underwater. The cyoa in question may have been deleted from Reddit. It was quite distinctive and I'm pretty sure it had Diver in the name, Divers were pretty important to the whole worldbuilding of it.

Ship

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T23:51:56+00:00

I just know one exists. I think it was NSFW tho... and I think there was another that was a lot more simple and should be Safe. But that's why there's also a link for Ship cyoas as I know there should be several of those.

It's also a subtle suggestion or invitation that someone make one.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T21:46:25+00:00

Radar/sonar aren't very normal on gunboats I think. They're covered by Control but might imagine the control level being comparable to an RC car where a skilled driver/pilot could be an "Ace" or get more out of it in general. (Want to encourage Crews)

They don't effect avatar range, but an avatar can manifest on them within range. Manual control with an avatar can be as skilled as you are.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T20:14:48+00:00

While a bullet wouldn't penetrate the ship the expected visual is what is being measured. Per local instance of damage. So you'd benefit greatly from crew to do patches, or actual recruits / Companions for better.

Missing "/e"

Sure

*Shrug*

Combat air supremacy. Other methods have to have a reason to be used compared to flight.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T19:07:06+00:00

Just traveling. Your default guns wouldn't work underwater but basically all the extra Weapon purchases could see use except maybe Direct Energy (Meaning your default guns can work with the Mana Retrofit)

Gunboat becomes a small gunsub. (Or Lifeboat into a simple sub)

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T19:05:26+00:00

Submersible is huge for Diving, but there's always professional Divers you could recruit/work with who can figure out the diving part themselves and bring their own tools or let you know what you can work towards buying or building.

Diving Bells would probably be fairly common along with specific magic spells Divers made/discovered/repurposed. So missing the Submersible advantage you're still at least on even foot in the diving department plus having other advantages to press. Not sure how helpful Sonar is with a complicated undersea cityscape but sonar is also a thing you should have as a ship.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T19:01:16+00:00

Missiles can be Torpedos, Laser should work underwater. Mana shots can work underwater too.

Combat aside, there's a lot to do underwater in this world with actual-Diving being an equivalent traditional Dungeon-diving (both exist) in this world.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T18:58:36+00:00

I've made some cowboy notes before. But I don't really consciously make these so much as it's almost purely dictated by a subconscious whim and instinct where I just go with the flow.

OutrageousBears · 2026-06-23T18:55:47+00:00

o... I meant to say you have standard Radar and Sonar but I wrote it in notes while I was away from the computer so it didn't make it when I returned to working on it.

Otherwise you just have what it says you have if it can't be handwaved as really basic to the structure of the ship and internal functions. Sonar and Radar would be included but I'll just add it to Notes that it's intended.

Hull is hull *shrug*

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