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Unknow Clock - Community forum story

A topic by Maidelen created Sep 05, 2023 Views: 505 Replies: 22
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The idea of this simple forum game is making a story starting with simple things like answer questions as "What this character gonna do?", or contextual prompts.

What ideas I have in mind for this? Almost nothing. I don't have big story ideas for this. I want to see how far this forum game can get with just simple steps.

Al right, let's start Unknow Clock!

The first character needs a name and a sex. Only six letters for the name.

Name: Greggg

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and Sex?

also greggg

Very nice

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The newborn character Greggg needs some traits before ghe spawn in the world.

What body (5 in total) you select for ghim?
What skin color (6 in total)?
And wich main trait? Kindness, Rudeness or Soulless?

Only 1 user can select a trait.

Her body can be 4, her skin 1 and her trait is rudeness.

Can I ask questions about Greggg too?

What is her favourite book, film and sports team?

How many brothers and sisters does she have?

What do her parents do for a living?

Greggg lowkey looking like a Karen 

His body is the biggest one, with 4th skin and rudeness.

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Or is that just what she wanted people to think, with her loveless marriage and crippling gambling debts???

One detective thinks there's more to this car crash than meets the eye...

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And that detective is her husband... Her husband named Bacon.

Greggg was "survived" by him and her son, who is named Cheese.

Bacon Greggg and Cheese will never be the same. 

Yes! I think we are getting somewhere here people XD

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To recap: Greggg, a gambling addict with marriage problems, has disappeared in what is believed to be a fatal car crash. Everyone believes this and mourns her, including her only son, Cheese. Her husband however, a detective named Bacon, is a skeptic about the whole thing. Will he find that there is more than meets the lie, or will Bacon, Greggg, and Cheese remain a broken family with an addiction to McDonald's breakfast???

(This is the kind of story that needs a genuinely profound message despite all the silliness)

I was not expecting this at all. So funny, let's continue while taking this. First, gonna try given Greggg a design, after that I'm gonna put some rules to have more direction on this.

I'm the narrator of this game, a brain with a speaker. Ok? Ok.

Oh, Greggg. How sad is your life. You leave behind a son and a lot of debts with banks and casinos.
In some way, you got in a place that breaks space-time laws, and after an strange fade, you got yourself in a strange place.


An island in midle of the water. Poblation? Comforts? Nothing.

What's next? There are secrets? More people? More islands? This is a new world, certainly. Who knows how weird is the seed that generate the world.

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I was no expecting some crazy random storylines. Well, this is a forum game, its normal. Better I establish some dynamics/loop and "status quo". The ideal will be to find a balance between random crazy ideas proposed by users who go through this post and some direction on my part.

There is, Greggg appareance:



Is embarrasing how much I took to draw Greggg. In the game i'm working on I draw 2 colors characters, so come back to draw with normal colors was a bit hard. I hope this forum game makes a great excuse to draw more!

Why Greggg's face is hidden? I miscalculated and was with little space in the face to give Greggg eyes-nose-mouth, so I come out with long hair and a mask to cover Greggg's face. Also, in Greggg's hair theres a decoration coin, because of Greggg's gambling adiction. Sorry for the anatomy mistakes, and if I draw a supposedly not-skinny woman a skinny one. I thought about giving her steel knuckles to accentuate her Rudeness trait, but that may be a weapon she gets in the future. But to fight who?  We'll see.

Let's see what awaits! I hope this does not die so quickly

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So what should we do next? tell Greggg to swim? climb trees? or hop to nearby hole?

"I was not expecting some crazy random storylines."

What's that, you want more crazy, random storylines ;)

Well, of course, Greggg's nemesis is her detective husband Bacon who's investigating her alleged death. Naturally, his police superiors will not allow an investigation without evidence, so he has to investigate in his own time. As his wife's debts have been passed on to him- and his remaining money goes on McDonald's breakfasts- his car's been taken away by the bailiffs.*

*Do other countries have bailiffs? In Britain they're legal debt enforcers. For that matter, what country are Bacon, Greggg and Cheese actually from?

Aaaanyway, Greggg has to continue his investigation on public transport and a child's pink scooter he stole. This is sure to culminate in an intense game of cat and mouse with his wife, who is currently blissfully unaware of the fact, and safe for now, as he has no means of getting across the water. ( and he obviously can't leave his kid alone in the house for too long- sure his parents will babysit now and again- but he doesn't want to stretch their goodwill).

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Bacon racing in the streets for his job


Greggg decides to take a look to that underground cave, a bit scared. She encounters a interesting decission:

One key, two chests. When the key gets used, it cannot be used again.
What chest Greggg will open? The big weapons chest? Or the cooking chest?
And what is gonna be in the chest?

1 user decides what chest will be open and another user will decide the content of the chest.

Coming from a family of McDonald's breakfast, her instincts would suggest the one with the egg on it XD

But might I suggest some subversion, as I have been lightly studying in my own work? Maybe the weapons are in the cooking one and the eggs are in the weapons one... Could this imply that someone knows Greggg's instincts better than she does???

Sounds like a good idea, let's see if the other user uses that.

Greggg found weapons from the chest but they look like spoon and fork. She equipped both of them on her hands but she wondered what should they be used at.

Couple seconds later, bat monsters attacked Greggg. What will Greggg do?

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