The board is not only usable for idle chatter and gaming. It is now possible to take part in the authorship of a large selection of stories of your own choice. By visiting the link in the end of the post, you can read stories written by other members, but that's not the big deal. Each chapter of a story ends with two possible outcomes, so one of them (of your choice) can be selected, and you can read what would happen in that outcome.
However, if there is no part that continues from there, you have the ability to write your own chapter of the story, and think of two possible things that could happen in the end of it. It will be the stories with no end, and to make sure that there will be some quality, I have set up some rules for it.
First off, ruining a story on purpose will be punished, either by a warning or a ban. Do not even think about doing it. If you just don't think you can produce a chapter worth reading, then leave it to someone else. Quality before quantity, always remember that.
If you want to start your own story for others to follow up, you can do so, but it will require an administrator to go through it to see if it's worth reading. Almost all stories will be published, but it's just a check to make sure that it has some quality.
The idea is still to have fun, so I hope you all enjoy this new forum enhancement. I wrote the first chapter of a Science Fiction story called "The Blue Tempest", and I hope you will enjoy reading it, and producing new chapters for it. The only downside is that you have to be using the forum style "Synthesis" to be able to take part in this, but I will enable it for all styles later on.
Oh, I almost forgot, here is the link for the section:
http://www.zelaron.com/forums/vbstory.php
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