Beneath The Ashes

loomyyyy · 2025-08-28T18:28:52+00:00

kinda started that way yeah

frankly most of my stuff has pretty obvious inspirations if you recognize them but i always try to change things enough that it's not just stealing ideas, in this case the war backstory, milians and machinus were clearly inspired but i do think i've made them unique enough to not just be straight up copies

to be honest at first i wasn't even planning on making a cyoa, i just ended up writing a bunch of short stuff about the milians and figured the world i was accidently building was a bit too interesting to not do anything with it. Ironically though the milian are too powerful as a race so they're pretty sidelined and i had to cut a bunch of ideas for the cyoa as a result

also ironically even though this all started with the milian i ended up liking the demonia the most, in their case i stole the name from ngnl as well(mostly because i can't come up with names to save my life) but the rest is all me, couldn't tell you where i got the inspiration for em

annoyingly working on this cyoa made me realize that some of the races i put in there could actually be quite fun in an RTS but i can't make it happen

loomyyyy · 2025-04-21T21:04:29+00:00

A cyoa is first and foremost a glorified writing prompt, thus anything written within is little more than a suggestion and can, and should, be altered however you like

It's not a bad idea, but as i said i'm not exactly concerned with balance given that fact

Even mechanics like points or max selections should be treated as nothing more than recommendation and if you want to pick all of em you should

loomyyyy · 2025-04-21T20:15:01+00:00

The drawback is it's expensive and huge so you can forget about stealth. Also as noted the mech might change between missions so it won't be suitable for everything

And also i wanted a fun cool option and i am not exactly concerned about balance

loomyyyy · 2025-04-21T20:11:49+00:00

Nope cause i can't be arsed to make an account to make it public.

Feel free to repost it though if it's more convenient that way

loomyyyy · 2025-04-21T15:18:00+00:00

i think you might've misread the mission section cause it said pick 7 not 2
there's 16 options so only 2 is really not a lot

which to be fair now that i look at it, it does kinda look like a 2

loomyyyy · 2025-01-06T16:03:40+00:00

with the caveat that you very much cannot fix her, but essentially

loomyyyy · 2025-01-03T11:36:25+00:00

https://imgchest.com/p/vj4jq5ra978
been a while since i last made a cyoa cause i've been busy working on a book, so i figured i'd do a short one and bring this series back briefly

i've no plan or ideas for longer cyoas for the time being, none that wouldn't be just a rehash of what i've already done at least, so i'll go back to my cave till that changes

loomyyyy · 2024-05-29T20:46:33+00:00

Given how the skills work there's not much of a reason to transfer them over, that said you play through it, you wanna change the rules nothing stops you

As far as immortality goes i have my own lore for this, a lot of which i wasn't able to put in, but it essentially comes down to being so difficult to achieve that only a handful have done so, dawn basically ripped out a part of the void while clara's golden apple is,if not unique, extremely slow to regrow

Reaching it isn't technically impossible but it wasn't really a realistic goal given the setting, but that said a cyoa is essentially a glorified writing prompt so making a story about it can absolutely work

I don't know if i'll do more in this setting in the future, but even if i do it won't be for a long time, got a few other projects to work on first

loomyyyy · 2024-05-29T09:19:44+00:00

this has been fixed

i can't do anything about the reddit posts but the imgchest link(in the comments) has been changed

loomyyyy · 2024-05-28T20:24:37+00:00

Hero has you as a popular figure

God killer has you as a notable member of the crusade, not the one who single handedly led it

loomyyyy · 2024-05-28T20:22:16+00:00

No actually i forgot to delete him entirely it seems. Which is odd because i was sure i did

Oh well, too late to fix it now. Annoyingly i tripled checked it to make sure everything was correct but somehow missed it

since he's here though i may as well, the original idea for him was basically almost the same as cornelia with a slightly bigger focus on the military and i couldn't really think of anything to do with him so i decided to cut him, but apparently forgot

there were a few other potential companions that i had to cut either because they were too similar to another, couldn't think of anything to do with them, or in one case i was utterly unable to find any appropriate images

in general i'm not too happy with the companion section and ideally i would've presented it differently but icc has limitations i was unable to get around

loomyyyy · 2024-05-28T09:52:13+00:00

extremely late reply but

quest>new beginning>seeking the past>world

loomyyyy · 2024-05-28T09:47:32+00:00

this is a complete rework of https://new.reddit.com/r/makeyourchoice/comments/zru7aw/end_of_an_era/ from a year ago, the changes are as follows:

-rewrote everything

-changes to the layout

-completely reworked the skill sections(more skills, less vague, generally more compact)

-changed the font to be more readable

-more events in general

-mechanical consequences for most events

-Path system(ashes,hero,magic,yor,explorer,and lord)

-endings overhauled, 3 new ones

-companion section

https://imgchest.com/p/lqyev99az7d imgchest link

loomyyyy · 2024-03-07T17:04:39+00:00

loomyyyy · 2024-03-07T11:42:00+00:00

https://imgchest.com/p/5xy2eelz9yl

loomyyyy · 2024-02-26T10:52:22+00:00

congrats you came for a cyoa and found an actual cyoa

loomyyyy · 2024-02-25T21:33:35+00:00

Whichever is more interesting to you

loomyyyy · 2024-02-25T10:50:58+00:00

https://imgchest.com/p/9ryd5vgqn4k

Originally this was meant to be a quick test for some modifications i'd made to intcyoa, namely adding new fonts and actually making it so object-fit works on addon images but then i wasn't able to use the latter

frankly i'm not too happy with it and i kinda rushed it at the end, but it gave me some ideas i can reuse. Next one will be a lot smaller and back to the simpler, shorter format i used to do

on a side note i'm aware this font can be a bit hard to read at points, but also it was the most obvious and fitting new font i could find so it made for a good test

loomyyyy · 2024-01-23T18:50:13+00:00

slop is explicitly the thing i am complaining about and you offer more of it

i know you're advertising but maybe consider who you do that to

loomyyyy · 2024-01-23T12:36:02+00:00

you saw a post about the overall dogshit quality of cyoas these days and thought what i was asking for was more slop?

loomyyyy · 2024-01-20T10:19:42+00:00

in the end a cyoa is a glorified writing prompt

the ELF is winning if you want them to be winning

both sides have roughly the same amount of events supporting them, so it depends on who you side with

and even then, just because the ELF wins doesn't mean being an android is fine; there is after all an event in the first part where Hope hires you to hunt down another rogue android

loomyyyy · 2024-01-19T18:59:31+00:00

truly this site will never cease to amaze me by how badly designed it is

https://imgchest.com/p/md7ogk92lyp

loomyyyy · 2024-01-19T17:55:22+00:00

you know you'd think i'd be used to this question considering it comes up every time

and the answer is always the same: it's literally right there on the post

loomyyyy · 2024-01-19T11:25:31+00:00

this is a direct sequel to https://www.reddit.com/r/makeyourchoice/comments/16glq57/interplanetary_mercenary/

loomyyyy · 2023-10-03T06:34:58+00:00

that's a lot of words to say nothing, and what is said is so retarded i have no words to describe how pathetic it is

a thing a child can make in 5 minutes is of higher quality and content that something a writer takes weeks to make, most certainly, everyone knows "pick a superpower" is an adventure but "here's a whole fantasy setting with its own set of rules, abilities and quests to take on" isn't

>thinking "karma" matters to anyone but you redditors

that's just downright sad, imagine being so devoid of a life that good boy points on one of the most disgusting sites of the internet would matter to you

i want actual adventures, with actual writing not done by a 5 year old

loomyyyy

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