Notes"many choices
At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other"Unfurl
Notes"Forum member Jer decided to dig deep into the collective fetid imaginations of the forum goons this week to find out just what, in their minds, should have made it to the bookshelves."Unfurl
Notes"Stepping over to a mirror, you see yourself as you will look for the rest of your life--with a funnel-shaped object the size of an ice-cream cone sticking out of your head." No image, but this was always my favorite ending to the book.Unfurl
Notes"Forum member Jer decided to dig deep into the collective fetid imaginations of the forum goons this week to find out just what, in their minds, should have made it to the bookshelves."Unfurl