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"she'd successfully gotten Karyn back for all the endless comments and micro-aggressions over the years"

At least Sarah can admit to herself that Jon and Karyn have never done anything to her, and her "revenge" is the actual aggression.

I like that it's Karyn coming to save Jon. Most of the time it's Jon doing it. If I was Sarah I would be scared with what Karyn might do to her

Well, Karyn still has the notebook so can easily cross out all the copies Diamond got. It surprises me that Sarah did nothing to stop that. But maybe Jon didn't tell Sarah about the notebook cause that is Karyn's secret. But that also feels like a solution without any consequences
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Welp. We lose. Game over, this situation is irreparable.

...Or is it?

Regarding the bra wish: by sheer coincidence, their wish was taken at face value, and Karyn ended up with a slightly enchanted piece of clothing, instead of something powerful and/or sentient, that added an extra complication into this strange situation.

Promising start.

Matisguy is right. Just a little griping among the cheerleaders about Sarah could be the trigger that gets Jon to gossip out something to cause an uprising.

Wait a fucking second

Sarah just left Jon alone with a bunch of random girls while he still has a compulsion to overshare his Gossip

Rare mistake on her part, I wonder if it'll be her undoing after all, if the notebook isn't

This is good, I enjoy the copy being his/her gender identity and not just a full conversion to girl. I love the idea of him being forced as essentially a man to stand in the women’s change room dressed in an obscene court and viewed as ‘one of the girls’

All these voices you think John is in Disco Elysium

One would certainly assume so!

Surely Karyn can cross off the mental changes?

I'm enjoying this but also hope Karyn can save him.

I think "you need to have a cheerleader outfit intended for your gender" would have created a male uniform even if there wasn't one.

This storyline gets my heart racing. It's been ages since I've read a story that has given me that visceral emotional response. Super stoked.

I do like how Sarah is basing a lot of what she's doing on incomplete information. That if she ever asked about other mitigation that they cooked up, then she would learn about the notebook. But why would you worry about anything else, when there's a wishing Stone in play?

Awesome chapter! I could feel my heart racing as it got worse and worse. I know that there is a easy escape hatch, but I still don't know where you are headed and that's really exciting

Although, I didn't notice but the glasses went on Sarah's face until I went back to double check. Highlighting that might be a bit better, but the next chapter does explain it more.

I think the length is fine. It's just part of the incremental uploading. Someone a year from now is going to breeze right past this cliffhanger, but when there's time to think about what's going to happen as there's not a link to the next chapter yet, that makes it easier to notice

Don't forget that this entire site is basically writing/reading in serial installments. I was going to address it in the next chapter anyway, but I think I already write all my chapters so much longer than most people's, and I might need to work at shortening them if I can so it fits better with the approach of the entire site.

@GQCassie ah ok. Stil seems a bit of a stretch to me tho. Still though interesting chapter let’s hope for Jon that Karyn is reading the journal right now

The glasses specifically see through magic to the truth and Sarah got a glimpse through them, then plenty of time to piece together why Jon would even tell her in the first place. Karyn's wish in the theater closet about the glasses could have been worded a lot better!

Wait a minute Jon didn’t even tell her about the copy wish and it’s requirements. All she knows is about the rock, so how does she know the copy wish?

Yeah kinda expected this. Also what would happen if Karyn decides to cross off the gossip plus the other copies Sarah forces on Jon. She probably would forget but having the glasses would make her see through the magic again an be confused as to why jon changed

that makes sense Lucas Rose

Ok. To the last poster, Endless. Think carefully. To be head cheerleader and control the clique of the hot girls, you not only need to know and disseminate the gossip, but when to twist it, use it to misdirect and sometimes outright lie. So what John is about to say is open to a lot of variables. And did John receive with thr copy the desire to be the one in control of the clique? If so, he wouldn't give Sarah the ammunition needed to stop him.

I wonder how much he will tell. Everything, the wishing stone, only about the copy wish or does he somehow manage to hold back last second and only say it was that Karyn’s hair is fake.
I will probaly know which will be picked and I wonder how Sarah will use this knowledge if she even believes what Jon says

Last sentence was defo an engraved invitation for Murphy to mess up things

Some nice solutions. Not perfect of course but still nice

Thanks!

I am one of those accounts on deviantart
https://www.deviantart.com/thisguy10101

This is really fun, hopefully Jon gets some more compulsions.

This is really fun, I love the added layer of the compulsion!

@mattwandcow if you need to know you could copy off the author and see where they want to go o7

Hmm are John and Karyn going to copy Sarah and biff?? Relationship wise?? lol there’s so many possibilities I have no clue what’s going to happen I enjoy this though lol

I consistently have no idea where you are heading with this, but it's an awesome ride.

I know there are accounts on deviantART that seem to only post infinite World story concepts. So searching there might give you some options?

I use spicy chat for my interactive story needs.

Dude I'm at work right now on my lunch break, you can't be getting me all hot and bothered like this, I'll get in trouble!

the way you write the swaps for this is super cool and unique. hoping there is more!

Tbh i can see him wanting to join the cheerleaders with what he got from Mrs kline

I really love this branch/storyline. Wonder if he'll end up getting something from a female teacher by accident, too

Thank you! You've written a number of my favorite branches, so I really appreciate it!

I had a feeling that Jon would end up in a cheerleading outfit eventually, one way or another :-p

I can see a few different ways the story might progress from here, and I'm very curious which route you end up going, or if you take a direction I hadn't even considered. This is a very fun branch so far.

@Nora Lua, Ask away. Given the state of mind I was in while writing this I was wondering what the first question would be anyway, haha

Yeah… I got many questions…

Do you have any plans of Jon copying from his family?

Thank you!

Honestly, I had this idea for a means of things impacting Jon and Karyn for a little while, but while I know which direction I'm taking this, other people should feel free to deviate off in any direction at any point themselves if they want to!

This is ready for Hollywood

So, my flight home was delayed due to maintenance. That meant I missed my connection, had to rebook a flight the next day, and then THAT flight was delayed. But hey, lemons from lemonade, right? Tradition is to write an episode if you've nothing to do but wait at an airport, so I turned my brain off and wrote whatever came to mind. "Something interesting" indeed!

Feels like a missed opportunity that no one made the "I am 2 inches taller than Karyn!" make Karyn 2 inches shorter then Jon.
So he'd have the issue of staying as small as he currently is, getting his initial wish of making Karyn "petite" and he's probably in another mess because she'd now remember being this small and to get perission from her to be taller again he'd probably need to fess up, which my cause further retaliation instead.

I wonder what he will actually get from Karyn