Ethical Songs: A "Waifu Catalog" fanfic

1. Choices Made.

I scrolled through Neocities, admiring all the aesthetics people made with HTML and CSS. As a Computer Science student, it was kind of a shameful regret that I never tried making my own website with what little I knew of those programming languages.

"Yo, Angelo! Pizza's here!" shouted my roommate from our dorm's living room.

"I already ate Thai on the way here!"

"But you're gonna miss the movie, man," he came into my room, leaning on the doorway.

Right. I already saw the movie, it was some disappointing Lovecraftian horror flick. They just don't get it, do they? If you show the audience your Lovecraftian monster, it stops being Lovecraftian! You can't infect your viewer with madness through the TV screen, after all. However, I promised myself I would be more of a socialite in college. Though my roommates don't have many common interests with the weeaboo that I am, I still have to try and bond with them.

"Oh yeah, I'll be out soon then."

He left and conversed with our other roommates and guests, idle chatter filling the living room and leaking past the walls.

My eyes were still caught on the screen though, something caught my eye on the list of websites that thousands of people made and publicized. It was a CYOA website. An interactive game website that would give the user choices to make throughout an original or derivative story. Usually they were just wish fulfillment plots without much substance, but sometimes someone would make a real gem.

I saved the URL of it and sent it to my phone.

https://waifu-catalog.neocities.org/

Maybe it'll make for a neat party trick.

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"Oh my god! Just slap the violin out of his hands!" screamed a blue-haired girl from the couch.

The movie was just as disappointing to me as it was to the others, apparently. I hadn't read the original story, "The Music of Erich Zann", but anyone could see that what was on TV was a piss-poor adaptation.

Essentially, some college student rented out a suspiciously cheap apartment and discovered that the old man living upstairs would play his violin every night to join Azathoth's orchestral court of monsters, bringing monsters over and flirting with the end of the world.

They managed to turn a straightforward "haunted house" horror plot into an action-comedy B-movie, and tried desperately to pretend that things were still scary.

I was reading the rules of that CYOA site and some guy I didn't know was reading it over my shoulder too. He was definitely bored of the movie watch-along. The others had tried to focus on the movie, but devolved soon enough into mocking it and pointing out glaring plot holes.

"Wh- Why is 'Skyrim' rated as Danger Rating 8? Above 'Worm'? There's barely any bullshit threats there." said the man I had quickly decided to make a friend out of, starting now.

"Alduin's still a reality-ending threat."

"Yeah, but it doesn't say the Dovahkiin stops existing or anything. You can just kick back and relax while the plot takes care of itself."

"Fair. I guess people automatically want to be the main character?"

I picked the Elder Scrolls world as my starting world.

Next choices were Intensity, drawbacks essentially, to decide how difficult your time in the world would be.

I picked 'One in Ten' and 'Arena I'.