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That's similar to my original version, where it is Jon who is the breakout star, the actresses playing Sarah and Zoe are the nice ones, Shannon is a prima dona who thought she was supposed to be the star...and if they do end up in rewrites...what does that do to Jon's original life? If he gets back to it?

I'd be interested to see that! The whole premise sparked a lot of ideas for me. Planning to have Madison be the break out star who's in conflict with the more established star, Shannon who plays Karyn. Jon's going to have to struggle with Sarah suddenly being a supportive worried girlfriend, and Karyn suddenly hating his guts, his original body being a one episode gimmick, and an entire life outside the show he's a complete stranger to.

Might inspire me to add to one of the other branches. Bringing back old ideas.

So, the plan is for the episode they were filming to be the premiere of the second season of the show. In the plot of the show, Madison's regular character Jennifer has wished herself into Jon in this episode, which is why she was wearing all the makeup and clothes to make her look like a boy. Planning to have the show be a teen dramedy sort of CW adjacent. No clue if people still say Starlet, but the man she ran into, a producer on the show, was an older gentleman with perhaps a few antiquated phrases in his repertoire.

I want to know...what was the plot of the episode that required this? Episode 1, where the main character wishes themselves into a girl and that's the series? If it is more than 1 episode, there's the issue of the opening credits...especially if its an old school opener. Also, this is more curious...do people use the word Starlet?

I will be, life has gotten in the way the last few weeks

This was deliciously well crafted. Really enjoying this plotline.

Still hoping you'll come back to it.

Wow, you must be a mind reader. Love what you’re doing with this, more or less the direction I was thinking of.

I use my other monicker, Poliedro, there but yeah, just joined this week more or less.

Oh yeah, i'm actually on the fb server.

A newborn as the misterious voice puts it, I see, I like it. Partners in fucking around and finding out these two, much potential for shenanigans this premise much much potential >:)

I imagine less a magic wishing Stone MacGuffin and more... A magic freight train off the rails.

Just because he has the power and he's compelled to use it doesn't mean he knows how to use it. :3

I see, well that line wasn't really talking about a form of a powerful entity more so that in relation of a previous line "my dream familiar". Of course the whole initial chapter was meant to be vague enough that you could twist the narrative a generous amount without creating plotholes. However, I was thinking when thinking of the "familiar character creation system" as it were, is that the less true to her desires the witch is when choosing or designing a form, the less power the familiar has. Tried to kill two birds with one stone you see, a way to lure Jim to accept to let her choose and a way to tell future branch writers to "go nuts". But yeah considering he turned to a djinn I can see Little Ina playing a lot of The lamp of Aladin games as kid, but yeah I do like this direction, assuming he works like a djinn does, Sabrina might have gotten her own living equivalent of this site's infamous "magic stone" ;)

Hey, are you on the discord btw?

I'm glad you like it, I was actually inspired by this one particular line from your origin chapter.

"I'm afraid as much as I'd like to make it easy for you and give you something mildly pedestrian, that would only make you a weaker familiar,"

This sort of forced me to start thinking outside the box and imagine things like this or perhaps a bakeneko or other powerful mythological creature. (That's also cute)

I don't really have the plan beyond the initial few chapters but I did want to include a couple of things to make it interesting if anybody else wanted to continue, like the booming mystery voice.

Oh wait you're the one who did the familiar game on TfGames, quite the honor to have you writing from my branch. I've spent a lot of focus on the relation of these two dorks so I'm really happy how you wrote them here. Also, a Djinn, unexpected, was expecting more animal based forms but I like it, a lot actually, specially since this would make an extremely powerful familiar bound to a really unexperienced witch. This definetly made my day today, I'll be looking forward to how this branch develops. :)

Hey. I just noticed your new chapter here. Nice work. I think I might add a few chapters later.

I'm aware. This is my work and was backported as a failsafe.

Interesting Premise! I'm curious to see how this goes.

Yeah maybe, I realized this concept resulted in a chapter that was rather front loaded. The general idea was to have Jon slowly become something of a Ms. Fine type figure, but with a very particular agenda. The trouble with maintaining narrative tension when Jon has a clear goal, is that the stone makes things a bit too easy if he's not hugly dumb with it. I think that's why the Something Interesting branch is so popular, it neatly keeps him from over-utilizing the stone.

Interesting idea but maybe too ambitious?

Glad you're enjoying it! I wasn't sure how well it'd fly since the wishing stone's essentially been put away indefinitely, but I'm trying to keep some of the magic going with the dresser. I've written several more updates after this one that I'm still editing as I increase the length of the story line, constantly revising as later details pop into my head that should be called out earlier on. There will definitely be more.

A bit of a warning for the next chapter. Kind of graphic.

Such a wonderful love story. Must say I like the way you write these two, will keep a keen eye on this branch. ;)

Speaking of AI, I've tried many AIs, Novel AI is good, but it limits you to a number of tokens per account, personally I really like Dreamily AI, It's nearly as powerful and appears to be completely free with no token limitations thus far.

CHYOA

Eyyyyyy! 👉👉

Heh, I see what you did there ;)

So I fear I wrote myself into a corner here. I tried to be ‘clever’ and try something weird with story structure … but stories are made a certain way for a reason and this isn’t going to work. Going to take a few steps back, sorry to anyone who got invested in this.

Pretty big for a rabbit I thought

Must say, haven't been this much in bested in one of these since my first read here, that being Iridescent Sun. There's a good premise and a bit of mistery even. Also I like what you did with the exposition part between Larry and Shirley, many get caught on the show don't tell axiom to realize that banter is not only a natural way to expose, but also build character. I also adore Koto, I'm gonna stop reading for today so I don't know how he turns out, but I love the sheer sentient experiment laerning of our world aesthetic he has. Kinda reminds me of Imperfect Cell from Dbz, but instead of absorbing people he transforms them to achieve a Perfect world so to speak.

2 feet... that's like 60 cm! that is diminutive!

The latter, most likely.

Hmm interesting, perhaps this means a change in main character, Athena always brings cool things to the table.

So glad you are back ◕‿◕

Hello there, I'm the author of this little snippet. It's actually my first contribution to this site, so feedback is appreciated. I doubt for now I will continue the storyline myself, this was designed to function as a starting branch, so feel free to concoct your own familiar forms and scenarios. This was inspired a bit by https://tfgames.site/index.php?module=viewgame&id=927 Witch's Familiar and had in mind some speech pattern change along with the other more physical ones, again not a limitation just thought I'd mentioned, that would be all, thank you for your attention.

Fantastic story so far! Keep it up, please?

I'll say doctor, you have a very interesting writing style. Honestly I'm not sure how you keep up with the dialogue having to be written like this consistently.

I very carefully set my breakpoints to allow for multiple directions.

Well, I wonder what she will think when she sees Drew, will she think the house transformed her son into a woman, recognize that she was the Maidbot, think she is a stranger or something else? I am excited to see what you come up with.

This seems to be quite an interesting route. Is this standard possession or something else?

That's the one. Thanks!

This might be the thread that you are looking for: https://fictionbranches.net/fb/story/9369

Special thanks to whoever wrote the inspiration for this part of this story. I remember reading branches that involved another magical dresser some time ago but, try as I might, could not locate it now to add on. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I would love a link to it. Thanks in advance!

I've been visiting Fiction Branches for years but was never the creative writing type. That all changed about a week ago when I discovered a miracle of modern science: NovelAI, an online tool that takes some prompts (in this case, the entire "You Are What You Wish" root episode's text plus my take botched take on the magical dresser) and attempts to continue writing where you left off. It's allowed me take the tiniest spark of an idea and turn it into multiple fleshed-out scenes. I'd been dabbling with it for a few days now and finally got it to a state that I don't feel too embarrassed to share. I'll be posting what I have so far in smaller chunks to allow for more branching. Hopefully my words inspire some of you!

To be clear: NovelAI did not write this story. These are nearly 100% my words and ideas. Any time I got stuck I would have NAI spit out a few possible options on how to continue. Most of it was trash but sometimes I'd find something that could be recycled. AI can't yet replace creativity, but it certainly can help inspire it.

Boy, I miss this story :(

Thanks. I wasn’t sure if it’s a good idea but I really like the antagonist here. It kinda shows what someone with real magic is capable of and leaves no trace at all …

That got dark a lot faster than expected.
Really interested to see where this is going.

Me neither. Even us older writers can forget how very clunky and slow digital communication used to be.

Thanks, sorry about the delay in replying. FB really has been around for a long time. Long enough for the continuity issues to be very noticeable. I created this to give a vague 'in universe' explanation for reconciling the issues caused by the passage of time.