Step-by-Step Story

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Welcome to Step-by-Step Story!

Hey guys, welcome to my newest idea for a blog series. I'm not sure exactly how this will go, but I'm excited to find out. Also, I apologize in advance for the sort of low quality that this blog is.

Right, enough chat. Let's explain how this works.

My idea is simple. In each Step-by-Step Story, I will provide a scenario in the blog. Then, it's up to you, the blog readers, to decide where it goes in the comments. That's it.

Now, let me set the ground rules.

The Rules

Rule #1 is : you must do it in steps. That's why it's called Step-by-Step Story. Here's an example.

user001 - Step 1: go outside

user002 - Step 2 : run away

Get it?

Rule #2 : Do not leave two comments consecutively. Please. The idea is really that the storyline moves with different people's train of thought.

Oh, and one more thing. Each step needs to work with the ones previously. For example, if user006 leaves a comment reading - Step 7: Destroy an airplane, then user008 could not use 'Take off in the airplane' as their Step 8. 

Starting Scenario 

Alright then, here's my starting point for you.


You find yourself in the wilderness with nothing but the clothes you are wearing.


What is your Step 1?

38 Comments
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Level 73
Jan 6, 2024
Step 1:check for edible plants
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Level 67
Jan 6, 2024
Step 2: Look for the nearest body of water
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Level 68
Jan 6, 2024
Step 3: Drown self in water
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Level 52
Jan 6, 2024
Step 4: Reincarnate as a gazelle
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Level 79
Jan 6, 2024
Step 5: get brutally mauled by a cheetah.
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Level 66
Jan 6, 2024
Step 6: become said cheetah and eat a Dorito
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Level 91
Jan 6, 2024
Step 7: cheetah races a rhino, wins and eats a Cheeto.
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Level 62
Jan 6, 2024
Step 8: Cheetah gets hooked on Cheetos so it pretends to be a normal human in society in order to get more Cheetos.
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Level 79
Jan 6, 2024
Step 9: the cheetah is killed by a poacher. How sad.
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Level 63
Jan 7, 2024
Step 10: poacher arrested for poaching what appears be a human
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Level 66
Jan 7, 2024
Step 11: Poacher gets a good lawyer and wins the case, goes on to become the new main character
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Level 54
Feb 29, 2024
Step 13: Poacher gets shot randomly because it's America
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2024
How about in the rules you can’t die until a certain step or something
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Level 63
Jan 6, 2024
ya that ruins it for everyone
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Level 78
Jan 6, 2024
Well a story can continue even with a character gone
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Level 68
Jan 6, 2024
Well I have to say, this is everything I had hoped for
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Level 66
Jan 6, 2024
Hey guys, can we keep it all on one chain
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Level 79
Jan 6, 2024
I like it branching out, for it furthers the deep and complex lore.
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Level 66
Jan 7, 2024
It also makes it more confusing and hard to read.
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Level 79
Jan 7, 2024
Think of it like a Houcherés novel.
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Level 68
Jan 7, 2024
Step 1: Quizmaster recognizes Cyprus as European
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Level 52
Jan 7, 2024
Step 2: the Belgians destroy all life on earth
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Level 80
Jan 7, 2024
Except for Cypriot passport holders...
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Level 79
Jan 7, 2024
Step 4 (?): the Cypriots collapse into a bloody civil war over which continental union to join. In the end, the entire population is wiped out.
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Level 77
Jan 7, 2024
Step 5. A 15.7 magnitude earthquake obliterates all the tectonic plates on earth, forming them into one continent named "Anterica-Eurafricasiaceania" with Cyprus as the capital.
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Level 63
Jan 7, 2024
Step 7: Mass amnesia epidemic causes people to forget about cyprus..wait what is cyprus??
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Level 68
Jan 7, 2024
The epidemic makes people think that Europe is Cyprus
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Level 66
Jan 7, 2024
Huh?
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Level 63
Jan 7, 2024
SOMEONE could kindly please stop killing every character off
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Level 82
Jan 8, 2024
There definitely seems to be a lack of "yes and" in here. Quit a bit of "no, but", or Michael Scott always taking out a gun during an improv scene.
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Level 66
Jan 7, 2024
Step 1: FreeStater gets teleported into the Step by Step World…. He wouldn’t kill off himself… or would he?
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Level 63
Jan 7, 2024
Step 2: McKenzieFam spawns affront FreeStater and tells the quest: FreeStator must collect the 6 infinity blogs from across the world, without dying or else FreeStater will be granted immortality. MKF dissapears into thin water
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Level 43
Jan 8, 2024
Step 3: He journeys to the soul blog, a blog of a user who has passed on, where he faces his first challenge...
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Level 77
Jan 8, 2024
Step 5: FreeStater must then climb inside of his half-cockroach/megalodon thing to find the strife blog.
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Level 63
Jan 8, 2024
Step 6: The thing under goes metathesis and becomes a calf-horckoach/gemadolon. Apon this transformation, FreeStator is teleported into the DOTJE universe
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Level 66
Jan 9, 2024
FreeStater meets Qy of Svalbard and they become pen pals
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Level 87
Jan 10, 2024
I think a half-moderated approach would produce the most comprehensible stories. Something similar to a game master in a TTRPG, perhaps.

*initial prompt from GM*

*response from community*

*consequence of response from GM*

*response from community*

*consequence of response from GM*

and so on.

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Level 68
Jan 20, 2024
I will take the idea into consideration for a future edition.