I made a new Choose Your Own Adventure Game - Cum here and play it! · 6:04pm Apr 27th, 2016
A pill, capable of permanently raising your IQ by 20%, comes into your possession. You only have a few minutes to eat it. After that, it will evaporate.
You are absolutely sure that there are no side effects and that the pill will do exactly what it's supposed to do if you swallow it—It would increase your IQ for life.
Choose:
- Throw the pill away. —> proceed to 1.
- Eat the pill. —> proceed to 2.
1. When the Universe offers you sweets you choose to throw them away. Only the life of lemons can await you now. By rejecting the good, you sealed your own fate and doomed yourself to a lower level existence. You end up dying in a work related accident. THE END.
2. You eat the pill. At first, you don’t notice anything changed, but as days go by, your life struggles suddenly seem easier to deal with. Things in your life are finally getting done, you're becoming more successful at all the things you struggled at before. Everything is better and nothing is worse. You received a good thing, without anything bad. You’re happy with your choice, and you never end up regretting it.
Over the years, you become a parent. You have a beautiful daughter who you love dearly. She just started school this year, though, she says it's kind of hard and doesn’t really like it. One day, you stay alone at home with your daughter. You both laugh, play with toys and have a great time. You try to teach her how to build an airplane out of a piece of paper, but she can’t seem to get the hang of it. She keeps messing it up halfway through the process.
Another pill makes its way into your hands. It is the same kind of pill that you had consumed. It too will evaporate shortly. It wouldn’t matter if you ate it because you know that you have become immune to it. It wouldn’t benefit you in any way. Your daughter, however… She could benefit from it.
What do you do?
- Throw the pill away. —> proceed to 3.
- Give your daughter the pill. —> proceed to 4.
3. Turns out your daughter wasn’t that bright to begin with. She fails school, becomes depressed. She struggles for a bit, failing at all she tries. On her 15 birthday, she commits suicide. THE END.
4. In the following months, the grades of your daughter in school improve. She finds it much easier to deal with every aspect of her life now. Everything is better! The paper aeroplane she makes now are like nothing you’ve ever seen before. They can glider really far and not even wind can knock them out.
Oh, wait, what is this now... I'm sorry. New research just came in. All possible effects of the pills were examined, and there was one bad effect that has been found. Turns out that the pill altered your daughter's DNA in a way that she's no longer related to you. She's physically exactly the same as she was before, with an exception of her IQ being 20% higher. Just her DNA is different. Come to think of it, things aren’t that bad, really. She’s still exactly the same person that you love. In fact, the bond between you two has never been stronger.
There's another breakthrough anounced. A new pill came out that cancels the effect of the first one. If you give it to your daughter, her IQ will drop to her previous level. Her DNA will also revert back to her original state, and she'll be just as related to you as she was before she consumed the first pill.
Choose:
- Do nothing. Everything is good exactly the way it is. You’re a happy family and you don’t want to introduce more problems that could threaten the harmony. —> proceed to 5
- Give the person under your care (no longer your biological daughter) the cancellation pill. —> proceed to 6.
5. Everything turns out great. You think that everyone should have an opportunity to become better. Sure, the genes get altered a little, but that’s irrelevant, anyway. The person you loved and raised to adulthood becomes a successful politician. She forms a party for the betterment of all people. She even pushes through a law that bans the use of cancellation pills on children. You celebrate it with a champagne at your family reunion. THE END.
6. You gain back your biological daughter. Turns out your she wasn’t that bright to begin with. She starts failing in school again. Over the years of struggling with her grades, she becomes more and more depressed. On her 15 birthday, she commits suicide. THE END.
I’d love to hear where your adventure led you to. Did you also end up valuing quality over kin? Let me know in the comments of this blog. Here’s how mine adventure looked like: 2 —> 4 —> 5
This blog was inspired by this thread.
I guess I went the same way as you did.
3900577 That's great! I thought I was all alone in thinking that making quality children is more important than making your own biological children.
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Well yeah, that's what happens in my book. Well, the future ones. One of the main characters puts his daughters/sons through training from Hell. The result? A killing machine with firepower equivalent to an Iowa-class battleship then sent into battle as her/his first test run to see if they're capable or not (they succeed) at the ripe age of twelve.
Ok, so what this boils down to is that this magic pill makes you better without effort what so ever. so it makes you perfect without any work what so ever. In the situation you would not everything won't be honky dory. You be constantly questioning yourself, thinking your worth is nothing without that pill. You would know that whatever you did was worthless. As for the bad ending of your daughter being stupid, ending in misery. Are you kidding ? What you are saying is that you have worth when you are really smart. Not everyone is really smart, and people who aren't really that smart their lives do become better.
3900717 If you win a Noble price for peace, does it really matter how much you suffered along the way? I think the end result is more important than the struggle. The good that you did is what matters in the end. If some factors made your work easier, then that's a good thing. You should be grateful for the help you received along the way, not angry at it.
You know, without your frontal lobe brain you wouldn't be much more than a monkey. The very fact that you're reading this is because your ancestors joined together to give you these good genes of yours. You have them to thank for. They chose to mate with smarter individuals, resulting in you being smarter.
You've already gotten your pill. It's what made you smarter than any other species on Earth. That natural selection pill was a good thing. I bet that if you had a cancellation pill in your hand that would revert your brain back to a more primal form, you wouldn't take it.
I value you because you were able to write your comment. Unlike the mouse in the basement, that is too stupid to even imagine such achievement. The mouse will stay stupid and will never amount to anything in its short life. I think you are much more important than that mouse. You're more valuable because of your extraordinary qualities. You're so much more than it will ever be. It doesn't even matter how much effort that mouse will put in to raise to your level. It will fail because it's too stupid for that.
If I had to choose between the world of mice and a world of humans who would be as intelligent as you are, I'd choose the latter. Quality matters. Beings of quality are important and should be protected.
We have the means to make life easier for generations to come. Sadly, the solution doesn't come in the form of a pill described in this story, but the end result could still be achieved. We shouldn't be throwing away the pill because of its bitter flavour. The effect is what's important. Not the flavour or its color.
Same, I got 2, 4, 5
I did not like the universe force feeding me pills, so I denied and died. Maybe I just trust things less when they seem too good.
Oh and this:
I'm not actually sure that it has no side-effects, so the very inclination that makes me think that there are no side-effects makes me think that there is in fact side-effects in the way of mind control. I toss the lovecraftian pills away, but apparently the Elder Gods deem this the wrong choice so I'm killed and forced to restart over.
So I guess when you think this more deeply, the moral of the story isn't that pills equal good so you should take them and give them to your kids. No, I think the moral is that everything is pre-determined whether you think you are in control or not; everything has a direct path and end or else the story itself- your story- simply ends. Someone else is in control and you are the aware or unaware vehicle, willingly or not, driving down an inevitable, inconsequential road.
4097421 The moral of the story is, that some things are objectively good and it's not smart to fight against them. Sometimes, your own morality can doom you.
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When I clicked the thread link and realized that there was actually a lot more to this blog post than I originally thought (but I still don't think this qualifies as an actual CYOA though).
Replying to the thread itself, I think that option B is the better choice. Children don't need to suffer problems or hardships if it could be avoided.
Replying to your comment, objectively good or bad things hold that sentiment on first impressions, rarely staying similarly objectively good or bad the more you get to know about them. Something to be held as 'good' can just as easily be held as 'bad', which is why I tend to be cautious around things that appear good at first, because they might actually be "too good to be true."
4098281 Yes, I did have an agenda when making this blog. Making a CYOA wasn't my main priority.
I'm glad you see the hidden message that I was trying to relay. I hope the rest of the world follows your example.