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So kinda confusing but I don't have a lot of time. So I'll try to write as succintly as possible.

I have a text-based adventure story I am writing. Its for my computer science class. So really they just care that I wrote the code.

https://onlinegdb.com/HyaFLng7I

But I would love to have better stories too. So I would love having more depth to the stories. So this is a super short 26 hour giveaway. But I will be giving 250,000$ to the best piece of story for the descriptions below. (Each 8a 4b ending counts as a different piece of text). Please DO write for more than one ending. You can win multiple times in multiple sections.

You might have to play the game to even know what I'm talking about. So sorry. Like I said confusing. (If you find bugs let me know. There's only so much testing I was able to do)


1st. In one alt. ending I have you die while capturing the horse? I mean from a horse person's point of view - "What the heck?". So maybe a crazy tale where at the end you get bucked off a cliff or into a tree or something.

2nd. There is one instance where the above is supposed to happen to you, but due to sufficient skill you make it through. So maybe some epic tale of riding out a bunch of bucks only to have to give up in the end.

3rd. So if you do catch a horse you randomly also get a deer. And I never said such a thing in my ending. I think I also let you go directly to the merchant? (don't remember if I actually did or not. Oops). But maybe some tale about how after you got the horse you were able to quickly hunt the deer then because you were so much faster you were able to go directly to the merchant. But then you decided you should let the horse run free. (But also I do give a substantial skill boost for catching the horse. Like +50 I think)

4th. All of the bandit endings. (4A and 4B) Die or not die. Not die he takes some money, and you lose skills because you are all shaken up. Die and you actually gain skills because hopefully you learned your lesson.

5th. Similar thing with catching the boat scenes. In some you die, in others you make it through but no boat. And some you have a boat. I don't have any story at all for these.

6th. Catching the fish. Some you get a massive amount of fish, but lose skill. Like you are SO exhausted from it. Others you catch a medium amount of fish, and lose less skill because you are exhausted. In the other you catch a small amount of fish but you're skill goes up because you learned something.

7th. All the deer endings. You catch it, die, or lose it. (7a, 7b, 7c). The die while catching deer statistically is just the lose it options, but if you have negative skill or something than "your sheer ineptitude" makes you lose it. Would love a story with that explained. (And all three of these endings)

8 Raft stories
8A floating and getting a sunburn.
8B (searching for the fishing pole. (spoiler alert - no one ever gets the pole mwahaha)

9
A description of edge of town
B. Descrption of edge of forest
C description of deeper in the forest where you see evidence of the deer, horse, and how its cold etc.
D. Description of edge of the ocean.
E. Description of floating on the raft.

10. So if you leave the bar with negative skill a sherriff comes to arrest you. Need more text here.
A Need more description on resisting arrest (and eventually ending up dying)
B. Need more description on willingly going to jail.

11. Longer tale about working for the merchant

Pretty much every other place with text. Every step that I might have forgot.



I will add as I remember more of my options.