[STORY TIME?]

Submitted by Wizzandy on April 9, 2026
Ok so if you are chronically online like me, you will realise that there hasn't been a message board post in 2 days. Soooooo, I will break this unusual silence with something fun, something that used to be popular in JetPunk. Let's do the game where somebody starts a story, and the users can reply with one sentence that can change the story in any way they like. For example:

I start - Once upon a time, a handsome prince travelled across lands, searching for true love.

Another user replies: But one day, he stumbled upon the kingdom of Gavalon.

Another user replies: He came across a priest, who told him that the kingdom was in great famine after a rival kingdom attacked and destroyed their crops.

An also here are a couple of rules:

1. You cant reply to your own comment, but you can still contribute to the story more than once

2. No irreversible death of the protagonist.

67 Comments
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Level 51
Apr 15, 2026
New contributions are now closed.
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
Ill start: One day, a cosmic meteorite landed somewhere on earth.
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
Out appears something, something glowing, something mysterious...
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Level 45
Apr 9, 2026
Something.. too strange and Bartholomew goes to inspect..
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
But before bartholomew could, he tripped over a branch and broke his legs.
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Level 46
Apr 9, 2026
As he howled in pain, there came a baker.
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
That baker was none other than the famed Muffin Man who lives in Drury Lane.
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Level 88
Apr 9, 2026
Bartholomew looked up at the Muffin Man and said, “Don’t I know you?”
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Level 46
Apr 9, 2026
And the baker in reply says nothing. Instead he gives a stern look at Bartholomew and signals him to follow.
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
Bartholomew, confused, asks "Tell me who are you?", refusing to follow him
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
The baker says "eat my shorts", which annoys Bartholomew, because that's his line.
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Level 65
Apr 9, 2026
Horrifyingly, Bartholomew watches on as the baker proceeds to actually consume his shorts.
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Level 76
Apr 9, 2026
"Get away from me!" Bartholomew shouts. But it's too late.
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Level 78
Apr 9, 2026
But Muffin Man forgot that he left a tube of super glue in pocket of his shorts.
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
Then the weird substance from the asteroid earlier rapidly expands and consumes the baker
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Level 54
Apr 9, 2026
Bartholomew quickly runs to grab the super glue that had fallen out of the muffin man’s pocket
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Level 71
Apr 9, 2026
(Didn't he break his legs?)
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
The weird substance from the asteroid starts consuming other people albeit very specific, ranging from a celebrity in town to a school teacher.
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Level 46
Apr 9, 2026
The weird substance glances at Bartholomew, and forms into a Tiger, Elephant and a vague figure which looked like a human zombie, and POOF! it disappears.
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Level 81
Apr 9, 2026
Leaving behind an angry koala bear..
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
The angry koala bear runs towards Bartholomew,
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
Bartholomew gets rabies from the koala bear but fortunately goes to the hospital and is cured
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
Bartholomew walks around the oddly empty hospital, and then he finds...
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Level 78
Apr 9, 2026
A hospital mask which makes every word you say sound wise.. once it’s worn. And as he picked it up and put it on…
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Level 53
Apr 9, 2026
His eyes filled with confusion and dread, as the only words he could muster up were “chungus amongus”
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Level 39
Apr 9, 2026
His tongue flew out of his body and into the air as his lack of work made his tongue rebel from his body causing a huge civil war to occur in his mouth with the teeth and bacteria allying with the tongue against the jaw bone.
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Level 52
Apr 9, 2026
(what)
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
The tongue which was still airbourne hit at ruck driver which made him crash into a rock which uprooted a tree that pushed a rock into a pingo which destroyed it and made a lot of falling rocks that orbited the earth at high speeds and eventually came back crashing down and destroying all the pingos in the world
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Level 76
Apr 9, 2026
The Jawmancipation Proclamation occurs which brings peace to Bartholomews Mouth. Until....
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Level 39
Apr 9, 2026
The esophagus hated the treaty so it declared independence.
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Level 57
Apr 9, 2026
I guess this pingo survived!
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Level 92
Apr 9, 2026
Then Bart ran into the ocean for some reason.
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Level 53
Apr 9, 2026
He swam deeper and deeper, his lungs his two most loyal allies, and found peace in the ocean’s depths, a peace which was shortly and cruelly disrupted by the sound of a friendly crab getting sucked into a small crack in a maintenance pipe and suffering the gruesome effects of a little thing called differential pressures.
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Level 45
Apr 9, 2026
He tried to save the crab, but ended up getting sucked in
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Level 75
Apr 9, 2026
The pipe turned out to be in fact a one way wormhole; the other side of the wormhole is the planet Kepler-186f where the plants are red.
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Level 53
Apr 9, 2026
He ate a mysterious fruit from a tree which cured his colorblindness, and to his surprise, it turns out the plants here were actually more of a maroon all along!
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
Then in the distance he heard explosions!
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2026
It turned out that he had suddenly appeared in the Invincible universe, and he heard those explosions because rex sploded.
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Level 71
Apr 9, 2026
After 'sploding', Rex proceeded to go out of his mansion to greet Bartholomew
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2026
Rex and Bartholomew meet each other, and greet one another, right next to the BIG STRONG TREE.
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Level 45
Apr 9, 2026
And the BIG STRONG TREE told them: "I bear a quest upon you. Go forth and rescue the princess from her castle tower. But beware; a dragon guardeth the gates!" And so they went.
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Level 45
Apr 9, 2026
Unfortunately, the dragon made Rex fly all the way to Mauritania, so Bartholomew continued the rescue alone.
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Level 71
Apr 9, 2026
There in Mauritania, Rex had an equally important side quest
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Level 75
Apr 9, 2026
His side quest was to sit under an apple tree for a really long time so he would achieve enlightenment and derive Newton's laws at the same time.
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Level 53
Apr 10, 2026
In the heat of the Mauritanian oasis, stood a man- no, a mirage, of none other than Newton himself, who guided Bartholomew and Rex Splode on the path to enlightenment and taught them Newton’s Eighth Law of Motion- “If either of you has a piece of gum on you right now, you should definitely, like, give it to that Isaac Newton guy, or the planet will implode on itself or something… yeah trust me dude, I didn’t write the rules of the universe.”
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Level 71
Apr 10, 2026
Rex and our ol' pal Bart started panicking, desperately checking the 100 pockets they both had for gum, but their search was in vain...
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Level 39
Apr 10, 2026
Bart and Rexes lungs declared independence as the stress from the panicking was too much.
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Level 53
Apr 10, 2026
Bartholomew’s lungs formed an alliance with his esophagus from earlier and began to wage war on his body, his tongue flew away again, Rex Splode exploded his skeleton to stop an evil alternate universe Bartholomew or something, and as if all that wasn’t bad enough, Bartholomew received a phone call informing him that his tonsils were hit and killed by a drunk driver.
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Level 46
Apr 11, 2026
Bartholomew suddenly wakes up. He suddenly finds himself under the big strong tree, and he understands that he was dreaming. He also finds out that Rex is in danger. He knew that he had to save him. But now he has 2 choices - Go for the Princess or for Rex.
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Level 71
Apr 11, 2026
(That's more than one sentence😭)
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Level 51
Apr 11, 2026
rex is dead, rex sploded
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Level 71
Apr 11, 2026
Due to his enlightenment and guidance from Sir Isaac Newton from under the Big Strong Tree, Bart had a plan on what to do.
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Level 39
Apr 11, 2026
As he executed his plan, his thoughts leaped out of his head and he forgot everything, including his own name.
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Level 45
Apr 11, 2026
He thought his name was "Quintimingus", and he tried to continue the quest, but had a Cheshire cat by his side.
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Level 46
Apr 12, 2026
And the Cheshire Cat was none other than the one found in Alice in Wonderland
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Level 39
Apr 12, 2026
The cat attacked him and he fell to the ground, blood seeping out of his head though miraculously he did not feel any pain and ended up in Monowi Nebraska
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Level 45
Apr 12, 2026
Then Monowi's population increased to 2, and Nebraska freaked out, and Quin/Bart was scared and fled to Missouri
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Level 39
Apr 12, 2026
He was shocked when the Show Me state showed him nothing but grass.
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Level 46
Apr 13, 2026
??
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Level 68
Apr 13, 2026
However when Bartholomew observed closely, he found a manor in the distance.
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Level 39
Apr 13, 2026
As soon as he stepped inside, the Manor collapsed
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Level 46
Apr 14, 2026
But the hero never dies, he “miraculously” survives.
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Level 39
Apr 14, 2026
He works hard, rebuilding the manor piece by piece only for it to collapse again,
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Level 53
Apr 14, 2026
The rubble slipped through his fingers and the thick dust wore down his lungs, as he stared out at his empire of nothingness.
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Level 46
Apr 15, 2026
He finds it worthless, and remembers the trapped princess
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Level 51
Apr 15, 2026
He travels to the princess's location, but Toad shows up, telling him that the princess is in another castle. Bartolomew gives up, using the same trick Jeremy2011 used to break the rules. He wanders into an empty Belgium shaped area in Europe and is erased from existence, and then our story ends.
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Level 46
Apr 19, 2026
But what is unknown to them is that it is only the end of one beginning.