Storythread

What are Storythreads?

A dedicated thread where writefags can come and create stories, thus saving other, innocent, /tg/ threads from being burdened with things like creativity and imagination. Many writefag threads could technically be described as Storythreads, but this page is for threads whose sole purpose is to provide a platform for writefags, rather than threads which are dedicated to /tg/ topics like Warhammer, MTG, etc, and happen to produce writefaggotry in the process.

What goes on in Storythreads?

Sometimes the OP will set a topic - which can be just about anything - thus inviting others to both read his writefaggotry, and contribute their own. However, the most common incarnation of Storythreads on /tg/ are the more freestyle Post A Picture, Write A Story threads.

Why are Storythreads important, and what do they have to do with /tg/?

If you ever want to be an even half-decent DM/GM, you need to be able to write good stories, and create good settings to put them in. Hell, if you even want to play traditional games it generally helps to have some understanding of how to create decent characters and narratives. Even where Storythreads do not appear to involve direct /tg/-related material, it's all good creative exercise for when your players de-rail you so thoroughly that you have to create an entirely new campaign in the space of one bathroom break.

Post A Picture, Write A Story

The name is self explanatory - people post pics, and then writefags come along a write about what they think is going on in the pic. Some anons suspect that this is part of a secret NSA psy-ops program to administer a variant of the Rorschach Ink-Blot Test to large segments of the online community. There are two flaws with this theory:

1) The vast majority of anons are too lazy to write anything, and

2) I create a lot of those threads and if I'm working for the NSA, I am being grossly underpaid.

These follow no particular theme and are in no particular order:

1 - The Deep Sleep
2 - Kitten Skin
3 - Die Forelle
4 - Raptor Squadron
5 - Biomass-22
6 - The Shadewood
7 - Lych and Dinosaurs
8 - Prosperity
9 - Loli Shop
10 - One Man Engineering
11 - The Impossible Cat
12 - The Guardian
13 - The Dominant Lifeform
14 - Unacceptable Working Conditions
15 - The Thespian Goblin
16 - Too Much Sand
17 - Robots Need Charity
18 - On the Road With Death
19 - Loyal Robot Retainer
20 - Intelligence Gathering
21 - The Fight
22 - The Gladiator's Son
23 - You get used to the extra dimensions
24 - The Zone (STALKER)
25 - A most terrible curse
26 - Battle Bodies
27 - Apples in the Undercity
28 - Cheers
29 - From Father To Son
30 - The Army of the Forest
31 - Frankie and Jim
32 - The Dark Lord
33 - Jelly
34 - The Librarian Of Time
35 - Waiting for Sunrise
36 - A Surprise Guest
37 - T
38 - The Great Battle Against the Undead
39 - Witches
40 - Scouts
41 - This is recon, not drag racing
42 - Old Soldiers
43 - Totally not the realm I was looking for.
44 - Some things should stay dead.
45 - They wait, they hunger.
46 - It's only cheating if you get caught.
47 - Tovarish
48 - Rune Mastery
49 - Criminal vs. Vigilante
50 - Tasty, tasty Easter Eggs
51- Warforged
52 - Don't Move
53 - The Crows
54 - Blue Dragon
55 - He raises the dead.
56 - The Dragon's Plan
57 - The love of a dragon.
58 - The Dragon and the Girl
59 - Hellbringers
60 - Convergence
61 - The Jump
62 - HEINLEIN
63 - The Alien
64 - Steampunk... ew.
65 - But what do they DO with the elephants?
66 - The Black Scribes
67 - Holiday hacking.
68 - Fuck Switzerland
69 - Final Reward
70 - Idea
71 - Boarding Plan
72 - The Study of Pain
73 - The Court of the Anceans
74 - Farmer Callahan
75 - The Akhaali
76 - Poker Face
77 - Sheep-punching Kathy
78 - Swamp Sirens
79 - Treasure Hunters
80 - Sheep Dragon
81 - Landers
82 - Iam
83 - FEDEX
84 - The Writhing Ruin
85 - Frozen Expedition
86 - The Throne of Wonders
87 - The Artificier's Son
88 - The Last Fairytale
89 - Apocalypse, King of all Worlds
90 - A Song Of Fire
91 - The End Of The World
92 - Giant Robotic Waifu
93 - Mecha Girl
94 - Woodsman and the BuzzRD
95 - The Green Knight (City of Light)
96 - The Street Samurai (City of Light)
97 - Canticles of Serhos
98 - Funbuns
99 - Archmage's Retirement
100 - Doc Theta vs. Binary Bill
101 - Have a drink with me.
102 - The Flames of Desire
103 - The Pie Angel
104 - The Jagged Tower
105 - Jim and the cue ball
106 - The Great Tree
107 - Taming Sand Dragons
108 - Colonists
109 - The Hanging Forest
110 - Living As A Zombie
111 - The Cat Who Knows Where It's At
112 - Glass Angel
113 - The Gathering
114 - Just Ask Alice
115 - Still Pimpin'
116 - Leviathan
117 - The Forest
118 - Arise
119 - War
120 - A Pirate's Death For Me
121 - The Thirst
122 - Secrets of the Sands (part 1)
123 - Secrets of the Sands (part 2)
124 - The Old Way
125 - Worm
126 - Jungle Expedition
127 - Upgrades
128 - The Shade
129 - The One
130 - The Life Aquatic
131 - The Eye
132 - The Bargain
133 - Centaur Shooting
134 - Serpent King
135 - Roma Victoria
136 - Reaper
137 - Notre Dame
138 - Modern Warfare
139 - Merde
140 - Martial Art
141 - David
142 - Labyrinth
143 - The Indescribable Xan Tsiun
144 - The Imperial Forest
145 - Good Souls
146 - Elegant Gentleman
147 - Arcane Blue Stone
148 - Visions of the Seer
149 - Biogel-Alpha-262
150 - Assisted Suicide
151 - Smoking
152 - Death In Blue
153 - Octopus Fairy
154 - Lord Of Serpents
155 - The Forge
156 - The Man In Black
157 - Firebug
158 - Sir Hilda
159 - Ermina Von Stuppen
160 - Haldor the Viking
161 - The Corgi of Hope
162 - D.O.G.
163 - Neon Angel
164 - The Fire Goddess (PROMOTIONS AHOY)
165 - Hell Worms
166 - Whaling
167 - Hans and his dead wife
168 - Madame Eschiere
169 - Fishing
170 - Coach Holdup
171 - The Devil's Hand
172 - Manila
173 - Saw
174 - Cookie Cult
175 - Indulgence
176 - Enemies of Man
177 - A Thousand Words
178 - Bitches be crazy
179 - The White And The Black
180 - A Grand Game
181 - Soul Sacrifice
182 - Illuminated Statue
184 - Damaged Gynoid
185 - Dentistry
186 - Savages
187 - Hornet
188 - Monster Hunter: Nephropid
189 - Post-Apocalyptic Ice Cream
190 - Treant
191 - Burning Biker
192 - T'Ela
193 - Bob/Taku
194 - The Serial Psychologist
195 - Flame Elemental
196 - Tommy Hayman
197 - Witchcraft
198 - Four Horsemen
199 - Desert Execution
200 - Nanofact search and destroy mission
201 - Drake & Frank
202 - The Fourth Horseman
203 - Solo Simulator
204 - Interrogation
205 - The Colonel
206 - Fairies
207 - Where's Maggie
208 - The League of Smiles
209 - The Siege
210 - The Tolling Bell
211 - Postapocalyptic Spider
212 - Eden (City of Light. See also: 95, 96)
213 - Harold and the Necromancer
214 - The Guardian of Haven's Run
215 - Battle for the Ridge
216 - Baldrick
217 - Blockade Runners
218 - Mob Boss
219 - Knight of the Wreathed Gun
220 - Famine
221 - War
222 - Pestilence
223 - Death
224 - Yuhn and Erhul
225 - Space-dad
226 - God of Orphans
227 - High Altitude Drop

A lot of pics only get a few lines written about them. Many of them are still well worth reading, but are too short to stand on their own. Instead of creating individual images for every single one, it's easier to store them in collages.

Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
Miscellaneous 2, part 2
Miscellaneous 3
Miscellaneous 4
Miscellaneous 5
Miscellaneous 6
Miscellaneous 7
Miscellaneous 8
Miscellaneous 9
Miscellaneous 10
Miscellaneous 11
Miscellaneous 12
Miscellaneous 13 - Huntergroup, Katie's Death, Metal Scorpion, Refugees, Ragnar the Barbarian
Miscellaneous 14 - Sea Forts, Light House, Camera Pigeon, The Flood, Centaur Soldier, RoboRomance
Miscellaneous 15 - Internal Combustion Engine, People of the Sun, Helmet vs. Giant, Curse of the Lich, Dead Gods
Miscellaneous 16 - Function, Temple Of Heroes, Futuristic Office, Hugh Mann, Mira and her Snakes, Undead Highwayman
Miscellaneous 17 - Sir Lyon's Daughter, Hrlorxu, Common Knights, Whale Wrestling, Rasputin
Miscellaneous 18 - Neo-Soviets, Jundori Dance, Chromatic Snake, Emperor Vitarius, The Twisted Tree

Some stories fit into more traditionally /tg/ themes:

Warhammer related:

1 - The Bolt Pistol
2 - Inspektork Gadjit
3 - Sergeant Ronah of the Knights of Zeon
4 - Shining Finger
5 - Black Locks

Other Storythreads

Not every Storythread has the Post A Picture Write A Story format. Some are on a single theme, while others have no theme at all and are simply stories. First, the miscellaneous:

1 - The Prisoner's Dilemma
2 - The Nano-Tech Barbarian
The Listening Post

This next gallery contains the work of a writefag who temporarily named himself Storytimer, for the duration of the thread. He had come across a thread on the Paradox Interactive forums, where someone, some years ago, had written a series that purported to be a chronicle of the events of the alternate timeline from the Resistance game series (see - Resistance: Fall of Man, and its sequels. Although if you are unfamiliar with the games then I strongly suggest that you don't read up on it until after you've read this, because spoilers). Storytimer found the work unfinished, and decided that he would expand, improve, and complete it himself.

Sadly, although Storytimer made a valiant effort, it was just too big a task and the series remains unfinished to this day. However, what we have is well worth reading in and of itself, and it furthermore inspired a few other anons to make their own contributions. So at the end of the day, good times were had by all and we got a few good stories.

(Numbered pics, 1 through 14, are Storytimer's series, while 'extra' pics are the contributions of other anons)

The Chimera Series