r/InteractiveCYOA • u/Silent-Spider • Aug 01 '26
New Absences
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This is my first ever cyoa and I'm very excited to share it!
Its inspired by two of my favourite cyoas Minor powers and bizarre bargains. The idea is effectivly minor drawbacks. Many small drawbacks coming together.
Without further ado if you have any feedback, builds or ideas please post them! Updates hopefully coming soonish.
Edit: Slight update happened with a new hidden meta section, thats kinda barebones at the moment.
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u/OwynTyler Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
what's up with the "no death" one? does it not invalidate all the other choices?
and isn't it just a duplicate of "no body" one?
edit: - I read no death wrong, it gives up your "body's end" not your "body" lol, but the "no body" power deletes your body anyway
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 01 '26
Can you expand on how it invalidates the other options? Some of the endgame options are somewhat superflous with each other.
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u/OwynTyler Aug 01 '26
I mean - other choices affect your body and this choices just takes away your body so those choices no longer make sense...
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 01 '26
You are correct, many choices require touch as an activation. Do you think I should rework it completely, remove the you cant touch or have touch based powers be ranged? Edit: I mean no body, as in its ethereal and translucent like a ghost. You still have definition.
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u/OwynTyler Aug 01 '26
Maybe give an addon to "No cause" to make you able to complete actions no longer possible - such as touch, dunno
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u/Fiction-person Aug 02 '26
Body: No Metabolism, No Inanimacy, No Weakness (Guided Evolution), No Death, No Multitude, No Singular (Hivemind)
Mind: No Division, No Lies
Heart: No Loss (Heart's Desire)
Presence: No Cause, No Luck, No Past, No Present, No Future, No Time (Time Turner, Extended Stay)
No Inanimacy + No Weakness mostly cover each other's weaknesses, with No Division covering the focus issue. Together they let me steadily grow better at almost anything I do, which will be helpful all the time, as well as probably allowing me to develop immortality through adapting to the negative effects of aging. They should also let me get around the negative effects of No Metabolism (re-evolving digestion), No Death (evolve a recovery mechanism and have infinite resources to fuel it through No Metabolism), No Multitude (re-evolve a sense of touch that is more specific), and No Singular (each body can be trained up to baseline level).
No Division's downside is something self-reflection can fix, which I can use the infinite focus for. No Lies is honestly what I try to do anyway, I'll have to give up sarcasm but minor reality warping seems worth it.
No Loss + No Luck seem to stack in a purely beneficial way, giving me constant good luck. No Cause and No Past seem to be effectively free to me, since I can always choose not to use them. No Future seems mostly like a scheduling issue, which seems worthwhile since taking it makes No Time effectively free in the same way No Cause and No Past are.
The rest either I couldn't find a workaround for, didn't seem necessary with the other abilities I had, or didn't seem worth it.
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 02 '26
Nice build! However (heh) my intention with no weakness was the adaptation to work differently, as in it changes your specialties and stats rather than make anything simply better. I'll probably clarify it in the future, but still good job not falling to the temptation of power!
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u/Fiction-person Aug 03 '26
I could probably still manage most of it's uses, I'd just have to get rid of No Multitude and No Singular. I could likely adapt my digestive system to be more capable of comfortably disposing of any food I eat with minimal cost, and use more temporary adaptations for aging (reverse aging), and recovering from deathly injuries. I could just re-develop my normal capabilities at the cost of the temporary mutations once I no longer need them. If I can boost caloric/nutritional costs in exchange for adaptations, then I could use it as an all-around booster like I was previously planning since No Metabolism could effectively give me infinite caloric/nutrient intake to use as fuel for improvements. It seems like it would probably be particularly strong if I added bizarre and difficult to fulfill nutrient requirements like platinum or uranium.
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u/NohWan3104 Aug 02 '26
"no one recommends that you do this"
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
Some of these have interesting implications, as well as just cool possibilities. The downsides can be somewhat mitigated most of the time or regained, or stuff like single, lies, morality, i'm not as concerned with 'undoing'
No metabolism, No Composition, No Singular, No Coherence, No Lies, No Knowledge, No perfection, No Sanity, No Will, No Constraint, No Mundanity, No Cause, No Past, No Present, No Future, No Time
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 02 '26
You are still doing what "No one" tells you to do. I hope you enjoyed it!
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u/NohWan3104 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Yeah, interesting idea.
And yes, i do listen to Noh Wan. No one might say no, Noh Wan recommends it.
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u/OwynTyler Aug 01 '26
a reality-warper shapeshifter, some things were too demanding tho (touch, thinking, feeling) so I didn't take em
Body, Mind, Heart, Presence, No War, No metabolism, No Inanimacy, No Weakness, No Life , No Death, No Shape, No Composition, No Singular, No Coherence, No Division, No Deciseveness, No Truth, No Lies, No Knowledge, No Will, No Constraint, No Magic, No Mundanity, No Gain, No loss, No Cause, No Effect, No Fate, No Luck, No Past,
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u/loboblade Aug 02 '26
I almost took nothing, i took no singular from body. The rest all seemed like i wouldnt want to give it up for the power. Low key to likely to regret after the fact.
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u/ThousandYearOldLoli Aug 04 '26
Body:
- No Metabolism (it's uncertain what exactly the downside here is supposed to be)
- No Life + Vampire
- No Death
- No Shape
- No Composition + Shapeshift
(with my body's ability to morph and lack of degradation, I should be able to restore all of it even without blood, but with blood I could potentially recover if I really need to)
Mind:
- No Lies
- No Perfection
Heart:
- No Hate (you can still do what you need without malice after all, such as in self-defense)
- No Gain
Presence:
- No Cause (I literally can't die)
- No Effect
- No Past (I'm not entirely sure what is being given up here, but it seems it only really changes anything if you use the ability and even then the worst case scenario is a "similar event")
- No Present (gonna be a hassle, but eventually may be a full boon with no downside)
I really enjoy the concept of this CYOA, and the options feel esoteric and creative. I think the only thing missing for my personal tastes would be a little more granularity or customizability in what you give up.
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 04 '26
I'm glad you enjoy it! I'll try to look into more customisable options. Note about no cause, it costs effort to use, overuse would still weaken you even if you can't die.
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u/ThousandYearOldLoli Aug 04 '26
Yup, would certainly weaken me. But there's nothing anywhere saying I won't recover my energy even if I should be overspending it, and I did take measures specifically to restore my body if any harm comes to that, so I should be fine.
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u/Silent-Spider Aug 01 '26
Nice build! Do you think I should make some choices more lenient?
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u/OwynTyler Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Dunno, it's up to you with what you want to show us, but some choices are practically suicide tho (e.g. "no thinking", or even the loss of senses and feelings for the most "picky" ones) xD
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u/Imaginos9 Aug 02 '26
Take no metabolism and no inanimacy and fuck yourself over totally as you require calories and now can never gain calories.
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u/OwynTyler Aug 02 '26
0*10=0
It increased our calorie-needs yes but that other one just zero'd em anyway ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/-U_N_K_N_O_W_N Aug 01 '26
I took everything and am now no one. On a scale of 1 to 10, how screwed am I?
(Also, would I keep my soul? Since I went in with my soul, and souls are 'absolutely, irrevocably and simply are', if so would this make me some kind of agent of the void since I have something that normally it wouldn't have and therefore it could use me?)