A Nightmare Before The Night [CYOA]

by Selbi

Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Congratulations!

You’re at the end of the story!

Background Information:

This story is lightly based on and inspired by “Lustiges Taschenbuch #333” (January 4th, 2005). That book has been resting on my shelf ever since its release, and I was always amazed by its own choose-your-own-adventure story, so I wanted to try my luck at one myself.

Because planning and writing stories like this one take a huge amount of time, I chose to keep it fairly simple for now. True CYOA stories have multiple paths, sometimes even multiple alternate endings, and every choice will have serious consequences for you as a player. Most importantly though, they have around 400, not 40 chapters. I could’ve written something with more than one end, but the work for that would’ve been extreme. This project here already took me one and a half weeks of daily work.

This was more of a test for myself anyway, as well as to see how people generally like these stories. If the feedback is positive, I might consider writing more of these in the future!

Walkthrough:

1 – 2 – 3 – 23 – 31 – 9 – 33 – 21 – 8 – 26 – 37 – 13 – 27 – 38 – 4 – 11 – 34 – 17 – 40 – 39

In the most ideal situation you should have 20 chapters marked as read (summing up to only about 9,300 words). How far off are you? Comment!

Thank you for reading and playing!

Happy, Happy Helloween 2013!

Comments

[_CheckMate_]

Woo!!! I made it to the end! ... and I have no idea what path I just took, attempt two will probably be just as long

3425911 Well I think I found every path before I reached the end (though I admit it was partially intentional- but not wholly)

[Majora]

A true nightmare I owe alot of bits.......help me

[Phantom Shadow]

Finally, I have reached the end, and what a ride it was! I would like to see more stories like this! They're frustrating, but fun! Now, I sleep.
*zzzzz*

[Leonzilla]

Yay in the seventh try.
Well this was quite well done for just 42 chapters, the last story I read of this format had 250 chapter and took me literally weeks to reach the ending .(mostly because one of the rules of the game was to loyally start over and read everything again as you track your steeps.
It was a true work of genius. This story, THIS STORY was nothing in comparison.

Final count read 33/42 chapters
~Leonzilla

[MrAskAPirate]

27/42!
A fun read, Good Sir! I kind of want to go back and find out why so many ponies were acting so strange,

[Blagdaross]

Brilliantly executed, good sir or madam!

I think I read all the chapters...

[Sealcake]

Yuhuuu!
And only after one hour and using time-travel spells four or five times!

[Lag Incarnate]

Missed seven chapters, now I'm sad that I didn't see everything.

[Blaze Spectrum]

YES! Finally!

I read through every last chapter except for the last one... And visited Chapter 28 about five or six times.

[oopsloops]

Could you please make another interactive story with more endings? I'll love you forever if you do! I understand if it's too much trouble, I tried to write one and I ended up with three words before rage quitting. You sir, are talented. (Assuming you are male, I don't know)

[Mist Shaker]

stories like this can frustrate me but this was worth while.

[River Road]

25/42 Yay.

This story was really well done and didn't suck at all. I remember that LTB, too. Good times...
And I'm sure it was your achievement at least as much as the work of those guys. Funny enough, I know two of those six guys, and even wrote a chapter for Eternal Infernape (as contest prize). That just goes to show how much they work to help other aspiring authors.

[Solarnight]

Finaly.

Although I did cheat a little, when I saw go to chapter 28 after a while I just backspaces to pick a new choice.

[DarkChiyo]

I love these kind of stories. After 10 tries I finally found the ending

[Starlit Skies]

34/42

I only visited Chapter 28 once. As soon as I saw it was an option I backtracked :P

I wonder why AJ needed the money

[Princess Glitzy]

It took me a billion tries. I got nearly every ending. I went through almost every possibility (because I suck) and then I made it here. Thanks for wasting much of my life. I hope those damn fireworks were worth it. You get a smiley face for effort

[Mr Meow Mix]

I had 9 chapters left unread. I purposely picked ones I knew would fail most of the time because those are the fun ones.

[Xingyaru]

I chose a bunch of wrong decisions before finally getting to the ending xD you should definitely write more interactive stories like this ! It is unbelievably fun !

[Swaren]

Great story first cyoa story i read on fimfiction just got back from reading all the other endings 42 was preaty funny, anyway good job, i hope you make more of theese ass it was quite an fun read.

[Misspegasister_]

YES!!!

[KiKo4]

Finnlly made it ( more than 20 tries )

[Admiral Cheerio the po]

You should make more of these because this story is hilarious, I was smiling and laughing for most of this story.
You are a devious author and I hope to rise to your level of writing someday.

[Grekoy]

Yes! After eight bad ends I found the good ending! Yes!
Now I need to explore uncharted chapters.

[Musleblast]

Sixth try, 25 chapters read, now i'll just peruse the chapters I didn't get to, to see what I missed! ;-)

[ShadePhoenix]

I got 25 and I will take it!

[Andy Ray]

Ah...

Twenty four chapters. Hum...

...But was everyone alright in the end ?..

Oh, gosh!.. We are finally here, I can't believe it !..

Failures and subsequent time travels: 8 (as marked by the [TARDIS's noises intensify] tag or its varieties).

Thank you for this wonderful adventure !

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Uh, Doctor... I'm sure summoning the Daleks was the only way to reach the ending... Eh-heh-heh!..

Heh.

...

Up for a trip to somewhere ?..

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...A-alright... so... Back to routine and ordinary day-spending... then... ... (Maybe, I've deserved that for abusing TARDIS... But who would have thought there was an adventure coming?!)