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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.

My theory is that he wasn't a girl until Gary said "afraid so." The only thing said before was that he only looks like a girl!

Great story can't wait to read more of it!

Fantastic chapter, I'm loving the mental changes Jon is going though. Makes me wonder if by the end of the 48 hours he'll even want to go back to his old life

I remember RS232, and PS/2 mice and keyboards very well. I just figured I wouldn't change that. I'll go for the 2002 option.

(Obviously for story reasons it has to be a USB device, since hardly anyone has the stuff to connect any of those other things. I'd just bump the year it was mailed up a bit probably 2002 since that's when the 4.0 story on CYOC was written.)

Out of curiosity I managed to track down the original story to see how it worked there and in that one the Chronivac is it's own independent device, no computer needed.

1999 is a bit early for a weird prototype device to have USB, it's far more likely to have an RS232 serial port, or if higher speed was needed a parallel port, or possibly it would have a custom ISA or PCI card. Windows 98 just barely had out of the box USB support, it was wonky and didn't include mass storage drivers.

Basically anyone working on a product in 1999 would still be trying to take into account machines that didn't have USB into account because it would be most of them, and even those that did only had 1 or 2 ports and the only thing that works plug and play are mice and keyboards, and only then if you have Windows 98. USB was still in the "exists but hasn't seen adoption yet" phase, everyone knew it was going to be important, but you couldn't assume people's computer's had it.

Firewire is also a possibility, but was much more common on Macs.

A fun little musing about how much has changed since 2000. I can't say I miss dial-up Internet.

I love the meta-commentary on this one. As someone who's been writing episodes in the same branch for over a decade, and only now is that branch moving past the first day, I can certainly appreciate how this episode points out how time passes at different rates for our protagonists and for us in the real world.

Love this whole story so far. Would love to see more of karen

Always excited to see another one of your chapters and amazing as always! Feel like the wishes come nicely and progress sensibly, every moment serves a purpose. And you do a good job of giving that teetering feeling, like these wishes or always just on the edge of going rapid fire and slipping totally out of control. So excited to see what's in store at the mechanic. Just for my own fan fiction, I'm hoping they have old yearbooks or high school photos in the waiting room, for as beautiful as Joan is, I'd love to see her reminisce and want the figure she had back when she was a teenager. Keep up the great writing!

Sometimes feel I get carried away with too many wishes. Let me know!

So happy this branch is resurrected once again. Looking forward to more

Thank you :)