The Mindstone: A CYOA Tale from RavishU

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John wanted to test how far he could drive people to go against their own morals. He sat there for a moment, trying to think of a way to do that when he saw two people walking towards each other in the street. They were two average men in their 30’s, not important in any way he could tell, and neither with any pressing thoughts on their mind. John pushed two thoughts into their minds about fighting, and wanted to see what happened.

Nothing. No one did anything.

He tried again, but still nothing. By the time he had a reason why, they were out of range and away from each other. Turns out people don’t like to just fight each other without reason. They didn’t have a reason to hate each other. He needed to find two people that didn’t like each other.

Back at the bus stop, he found a woman looking at everyone with anger and disgust. She was a middle aged white woman, standing next to a small group of Latina women. John pushed into her mind. Her name was Susan, and she was in her 50’s and spent a lot of time watching Fox News and various Right Wing Media. She hated how the Mexicans near her spoke Spanish and assumed they must be talking about her. It didn’t take much pushing for John to stoke her hatred and bigotry, causing her to slap one of the Mexican women. A fight ensued, and one of the nearby witnesses called the cops. Susan couldn’t explain why she hit the first woman, but admitted it felt good to do so.

John smiled, taking this as a lesson. To get someone to commit violence, they have to be violent and hate-filled to begin with.

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All parts of the original story are posted. Please check it out and report any broken stubs or links. Also, I'd like to expand this over time but I'm short on time. I'm thinking about open sourcing the rest of this story, if anyone has any ideas where they'd like to see John go to down the line.