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A group of six manage radio comms with Blacktail-Niner who guides them on a journey across six states amidst the undead, but will it be his greatest triumph or his gravest mistake?
Horror • Adventure • Action • Mystery • Sci-Fi
Full CC for MC • 2 LIs + No Romance Option • Choices • Points • EA • STW Upon Completion
After being surrounded by lies, all the rich, popular girl wants is some honesty.
And the academy's most hated jerk? He's the one with plenty of it.
Drama • Comedy • Romance
No CC • No Choices • No Points • EA • STW Upon Completion
Art by @nalanalini
This story is already available on Wattpad!
Cyber City, 2091.
Detective Carver is assigned an undercover droid partner as part of an initiative to showcase the efficiency of droids, but the droid has an initiative of her own – providence.
Thriller • Mystery • Sci-Fi • Action
Cyberpunk + Futuristic • No CC • Choices • EA • STW Upon Completion
This story centers around a female knight who is assigned to guard a prince. No official description has been set yet.
Fantasy • Adventure • Romance
Historical • CC for MC and 2 LIs • Points • Choices • EA • STW Upon Completion
Episode Interactive
Spotlight
Anyone and everyone is free to add my character to their story as long as they credit me as @schittwriter and respect my requests;• • •I’m fine with being the love interest of a completely made up character that the reader does not play as/that is not the character of a fellow author.I would also prefer to not be included in any stories that romanticize the mafia (no offense intended!).• • •You can also tag me whenever you publish! I’d love to try out your story/stories that you’ve added me into. (:
man_1, Body_006 (Tan/Gold - 3 rows up from the bottom, last tile in row)Eyebrow_287 (Black - Top right color tile)Hair_304 (Brown Black - 4th row down from the top, 3rd tile on row)Eye_253 (Black/Dark Brown - Top left color tile)Face_255 and Beard_243 (Beard Color is the last color tile in the first row)Nose_285Lips_288 (14th row from top, 2nd color tile in row)AccsMask_033, AccsNecklace_008, Jacket_023, Sock_006, Shoe_152, AccsLeftEar_007, Pants_257 (Black - 2nd from the left on the top), AccsLeftForearm_044, Tattoos_031
I don’t mind if you change some of my details for your story.Here are some alternatives if you need them:
• Hair_342 (Hair)
• Hair_329 (Hair)
• Hair_416 (Hair)
• Hair_375 (Hair)
• No Beard (You're free to remove the facial hair if you'd like to)
• AccsMask_028 (Face Mask - Top right color tile)
• AccsBlush_001 (Blush - Bright Red - 3rd tile, 2nd row)
• Sam, Sammy, Samson, Shep, Shepard (Display Names and/or Nicknames)Please refrain from making my character a love interest for a self-insert/MC character or the love interest of a fellow author’s character.
The reason for this is well… because it’s kind of weird and makes me uncomfortable.
And (respectfully) please don’t add me to any stories that romanticize the mafia.
Wolf_1
Wolf_1_8 (But she’s actually a tall black/tan Kelpie. Spotlight just doesn’t have her breed & probs never will)
Akila is my beloved canine.
If you need to know her personality; she's highly energetic, loves to jump on people, enjoys car rides and the company of children, dislikes other dogs and is highly protective of me.
Slim (Gold 03)Arched Soft (Black Dark)Medium Side Part Flip / Asymmetrical Curtain Bang Undercut (Black Dark)Deepset Downturned Lidded (Brown Black)Triangle Chiseled Scruffy Beard / Square JawStraight PointedMedium Straight Natural (Beige Gold Matte)Thick Round Rim Glasses Plastic Black OR Round Wide Plastic Black/Blue/Red/Orange/Navy, Full Body Hair Black, Multi Cartilage Piercing Metal Silver (Optional)
I don’t mind if you change some of my details for your story.Here are some alternatives if you need them:
• Short Shaggy (Hair)
• Square Long Jaw Stubble (Facial Hair)
• Color Shaded Sunglasses Metal (Glasses)
• Brown Black, Red Purple (Hair Colors)
• Sam, Sammy, Samson, Shep, Shepard (Display Names and/or Nicknames)Please refrain from making my character a love interest for a self-insert/MC character or the love interest of a fellow author’s character.
The reason for this is well… because it’s kind of weird and makes me uncomfortable.
And (respectfully) please don’t add me to any stories that romanticize the mafia.
German Shepherd Bicolor Black (But she’s actually a tall black/tan Kelpie. Episode just doesn’t have her breed & probs never will)
Akila is my beloved canine.
If you need to know her personality; she's highly energetic, loves to jump on people, enjoys car rides and the company of children, dislikes other dogs and is highly protective of me.
OliveAthletic ArchGeneric Short Hair (Black)Deepset Sloping (Black)Defined TriangleButtonUneven (Terracotta)Hipster Glasses (Black)
I don’t mind if you change some of my details for your story.Here are some alternatives if you need them:
• Short Wave (Hair)
• Deepset Piercing (Eyes)
• Chiseled Square (Facial Hair)
• Punky Purple (Hair Color)
• Sam, Sammy, Samson, Shep, Shepard (Display Names and/or Nicknames)Please refrain from making my character a love interest for a self-insert/MC character or the love interest of a fellow author’s character.
The reason for this is well… because it’s kind of weird and makes me uncomfortable.
And (respectfully) please don’t add me to any stories that romanticize the mafia.
OliveAthletic ArchGeneric Short Hair (Black)Deepset Sloping (Black)Defined TriangleButtonUneven (Terracotta)Hipster Glasses (Black)
I don’t mind if you change some of my details for your story.Here are some alternatives if you need them:
• Short Wave (Hair)
• Deepset Piercing (Eyes)
• Chiseled Square (Facial Hair)Please refrain from making my character a love interest.
The line between human and droid, programming and consciousness has always been distinct, until a prototype crosses that line believing she was never a machine to begin with.
Let me know if you would like me to create a guide for something else.
GUIDE: Navigating Your Portal
This guide is for beginners who are new to the portal experience.
This also includes archiving stories.
NAVIGATING YOUR DASHBOARD
GUIDE: Carrd Co
IMPORTANT NOTENot all functions will be available for your plan, some of them may only be available for paid plans. I have a Pro Plus plan, so some of my features and limits will not be available/the same as yours.
ICONS BELOW YOUR SITE AND WHAT THEY MEAN
FREQUENTLY USED SETTINGS FOR EACH ELEMENT OF YOUR SITE
FREQUENTLY USED SETTINGS FOR YOUR SITE
NAVIGATING YOUR ACCOUNT AND PLAN
Plan tiers will also typically have different variations that you can choose from. If you upgrade from a free plan to a paid plan and create sites or a number of sites that exceed the limitations of the free plan, you will not be able to downgrade to the free plan again until you remove what exceeds the free plan’s limitations.
CREATING A CARRD FROM A TEMPLATE
BACKGROUNDS
What is a background?It serves as the ‘back wall’ behind all other elements of your page. You can have solid colors, gradients, slideshows or an image as your background, but it is best to choose and adjust a background that will make your text visible and readable.
CHOOSING A BACKGROUND TYPE AND CUSTOMIZING A SIMPLE BACKGROUND
ADDING AND ADJUSTING AN IMAGE BACKGROUND
ADDING AND ADJUSTING A SLIDESHOW BACKGROUND
PAGE
WHAT IS THE PAGE?
The page is what your elements sit on top of and what your background sits behind. Your page can have its own shape, its own color and its own layout, separate to your elements (text, images, etc) and separate to your background.
ADJUSTING YOUR PAGE
IMAGES (Story Titles, Covers, Art, GIFs, PNGs)
WHAT ARE IMAGES?
Images are pictures that can have different formats, such as JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG etc. These can be added to your website wherever you wish to place them, the most common images used are profile pictures and story covers.
ADDING AND ADJUSTING IMAGES
ICONS
WHAT ARE ICONS?
Icons are symbols, sometimes logos that act as links. For example, you can have an email icon and once pressed, the viewer will be redirected to a mail page to send you an email. You can have multiple icons side by side that can redirect viewers to different apps/sites that you use.
ADDING, ADJUSTING AND REMOVING ICONS
WHERE AND HOW TO INSERT EMAIL URL
mailto:[email protected]
ALTERNATIVE URL FOR GMAIL IN PARTICULAR:
http://mail.google.com/mail/u/[email protected]The same applies to this URL as the one above. You insert this in the URL slot for your email icon, link, button and replace “user” with your email address. DO NOT INSERT BOTH URLs, YOU ONLY NEED ONE.
SLIDESHOWS
WHAT ARE SLIDESHOWS?
Slideshows are a short function that displays different slides (which are typically different images) instead of just one image.
ADDING AND ADJUSTING SLIDESHOWS
BUTTONS
WHAT ARE BUTTONS?
Button links are boxes that can be colored, outlined and contain text, they can also redirect viewers to whatever links you place into them. They are essentially a better looking alternative to the basic underlined hyperlink. Button links can be adjusted to be more rounded, more angular, colorful, solid, mostly transparent and you can have them horizontal or vertical depending on your personal preference and page space.
ADDING BUTTONS
ADDING ICONS TO BUTTONS AND CUSTOMIZING BUTTONS
DIVIDERS
WHAT ARE DIVIDERS?
Dividers are lines used to separate different sections of your page and create a cleaner and more organized aesthetic, but they do not redirect your viewers to anything, they are purely cosmetic.
ADDING DIVIDERS
ADJUSTING DIVIDERS
COUNTDOWNS
WHAT ARE COUNTDOWNS?
Countdowns can be used to countdown to the release of your story and upon release, the countdown can redirect readers to your story if you add your share link to it.They can also be used for other announcements like giveaways, countdown to going live, countdown to next chapter update to name a few.
ADDING AND SETTING A COUNTDOWN
TEXT
WHAT IS TEXT?
You can add text to your page if you want to write something to your readers, whether it’s a description of your story, a bio, a question, information or even a quote.
ADDING TEXT
ADJUSTING TEXT
LINKS
WHAT ARE LINKS?
Links are URLs used to redirect your page viewers to other sites, like your story, your spotify playlist, a charity that you support, your backgrounds and overlays. They can even be used to redirect viewers to specific parts of your page.
ADDING AND ADJUSTING LINKS
CONTAINERS
WHAT ARE CONTAINERS?
Containers are designated areas that can contain more than one element in a selected area. The most common is text beside an image.
ADDING AND ADJUSTING CONTAINERS
CONTROLS
WHAT ARE CONTROLS?
Controls are markers used to categorize and separate different parts of your page. These include the commonly used Scroll Points and Section Breaks.
ADDING SECTION BREAK CONTROLS
ADDING SCROLL POINT CONTROLS
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECTION BREAKS AND SCROLL POINTS
• Scroll Point Controls are Yellow, but Section Break Controls are Blue-ish.• Scroll Points are best used when you want to be able to quickly redirect viewers to specific sections of your page where they can still scroll and up down afterwards if they want to. It’s like if you have one very long script with numerous chapters on a piece of a very long piece of paper, and you had a scroll point at every chapter. If they wanted to visit chapter 37 out of 50, you could provide a link at the top that would automatically scroll them to chapter 37.• Section Breaks are similar, but not quite the same. You can imagine that very same long piece of paper with all of those chapters on it, well let’s just say that you added Section Breaks every 5 chapters. Those Section Breaks would act like a separate piece of paper, rather than the one. If you provide a link to navigate to say chapters 1-5, viewers would not be able to see chapter 6 and onwards because chapters 1-5 is like it’s own page because of the Section Break. When you use Section Breaks, I highly recommend that you add a “Go Back” Button link (or just a normal link that says “Go Back” or something similar so they can exit that Section Break by going back to your ‘home’ page and look at your other sections).• “Can I have Scroll Points inside of Section Breaks?” Yes, you can.
WHICH ONE IS BEST FOR ME?
It really depends on your personal preference and the size of/how long your page is. I personally prefer Section Breaks because I like to categorize my sites into different “pages.”
I’d suggest Scroll Points if:Your site is not very long and you have different titles down it.
Your Section Breaks are long, hence Scroll Points within them could be handy.
You personally prefer Scroll Points.
You’d prefer your viewers can scroll up and down your page/section without being “cut off.”I’d suggest Section Breaks if:Your site is on the longer side and you have different titles down it.
Your personally prefer Section Breaks.
You’d prefer your viewers do not scroll up and down the rest of your page upon choosing to go to x section.
You will be using your Section Break/Scroll Points names to navigate to them.
You can either use standards links, button links or icons to navigate to your Section Breaks/Scroll Points, you do this by inserting your own Carrd Co site URL into the appropriate link/button/icon and the Section Break/Scroll Point name on the end of it with no spaces. E.g:https://schittwriter.carrd.co/#storieshttps://schittwriter.carrd.co/ is my Carrd link and #stories is the name of one of my Section Breaks that contains my stories.
PUBLISHING YOUR SITE
HOW TO PUBLISH AND SAVE DRAFTS
Remember that your site description is visible to others when you share it! That’s why it’s always good to keep it short, concise and accurate for your viewers and potential viewers.
VIEWING YOUR SITE AFTER PUBLISHING
Need Your Email Linked To A New Device?
If you need to link your Episode Account to your new iOS or Android device, contact the Episode Team via a support ticket and ask them to link your Episode Profile Email to your new device so that you can continue to use your Episode Profile and Create section.What does it mean to have access to your “Create” section again? It means that you’ll be able to continue working on/accessing the stories that you have been writing.Sometimes you may need to enquire about this linking action more than once for it to be executed, however, with this being said — please refrain from spamming the Episode Team.Note: Your progress on stories that you’ve read (not written) or are currently reading cannot be transferred, unfortunately, however you can ask the team to reimburse you for gems and passes that you may have lost, especially if you had purchased them.
Opened Your App Only To Find Out You’ve Been Banned?
If you’ve hoarded plenty of gems, you may have been banned under the suspicion of hacking the system in order to obtain a large amount of gems.Make sure to contact the Episode Team via a support ticket to let them know that you’ve been wrongfully banned (unless you did hack).If you don’t believe you’ve been banned because of gems, but the reason escapes you - you should still contact the team via a ticket so that you can be provided with an explanation.
Need Resources to Help You On Your Journey Towards Becoming an Episode Author?
Luckily for you - there’s plenty of resources that have been created by fellow authors!Website with useful (and updated) templates, guides and tips:
Dara Amarie’s WebsiteYouTube tutorials by Joseph Evans:
Joseph’s Tutorials“Story” on the app filled with guides:
Coding 101 by Tal GordinEpisode’s Academy:
Academy GuidesOfficial Episode Guides:
Episode GuidesOfficial Episode Forums:
Episode Forums
I highly recommend Dara Amarie, Martini and Farah De Santis’ topics on the forums.Mary D Sava’s Coding School:
Mary’s Website
Mary’s Patreon Coding School
Mary’s Video TutorialsMy guide to navigating the portal:
Portal GuideEpisode Life's Site:
Tutorials
Templates
Where can I get FREE backgrounds and overlays for my story?
There are quite a few places around where you can obtain FREE backgrounds and overlays that you’re allowed to use.
I urge you to avoid sites like Pinterest, why? Two reasons:
1) Many pictures there are copyrighted.
2) Most of the time, it is difficult to track down the original creator.Make sure you pay attention to credit and usage requirements by each creator if you intend to use their content.Backgrounds:
PixabayBackgrounds:
PexelsBackgrounds:
UnsplashOverlays:
CleanPNGOverlays:
PNGtreeBackgrounds & Overlays:
Uncle Mugen’s free VN backgroundsBackgrounds & Overlays:
FlowerGriefer’s ThreadBackgrounds & Overlays:
Marysol’s ThreadBackgrounds & Overlays:
Bianca Hail’s ThreadBackgrounds & Overlays:
Wincy’s SiteBackgrounds & Overlays:
Cinnamon’s Thread #1
Cinnamon’s Thread #2Backgrounds & Overlays:
Episode Life’s Backgrounds
Episode Life’s OverlaysBackgrounds & Overlays:
My Edited Episode Backgrounds and Overlays
My Free Backgrounds and Overlays
Where can I PURCHASE backgrounds and overlays?
Worry not, there are also plenty of places to purchase backgrounds and overlays!
Make sure you pay attention to credit and usage requirements by each creator if you intend to use their content.Backgrounds & Overlays:
Adobe StockBackgrounds &Overlays:
iStockBackgrounds & Overlays:
CK's PatreonBackgrounds & Overlays:
J Miley's PatreonBackgrounds & Overlays:
Amanda Michele's PatreonBackgrounds & Overlays:
Dana i Nana's PatreonBackgrounds & Overlays:
Cora's Patreon
Cora's Ko-FiBackgrounds & Overlays:
Sophookles' Ko-Fi ShopBackgrounds & Overlays:
My Ko-Fi Shop
Information on Gem Hacking & Unauthorized Internal Code
As an author or a reader, or both, never accept “help” from accounts that claim they can provide you with free gems, passes or boost your story. These accounts typically use hacked gems, which in large amounts, can result in the removal of your story (or stories) from the platform without the possibility of being reinstated.Make sure to contact the Episode Team via a support ticket if you have had your story banned due to a large amount of gems and you believe you are innocent of hacking or accepting “help” from hackers (unless you did hack or accept this “help”).Authors and their stories alike can be banned from the platform if they are found to have used or are under the suspicion of using “unauthorized internal code.” This code can only be used by employees of Episode and/or those who have permission to use it and has not been released for public/community use.Make sure to contact the Episode Team via a support ticket if you believe your story has been banned under this suspicion. Unfortunately, there is no way for community authors to verify what codes in their stories are available for use and what codes are not. If you see “tips and tricks” you are not sure of, you can contact the team to make sure the code is available for use.
Please be mindful that consistently sending multiple support tickets or replying on several occasions to your ticket without the team having responded yet can result in your ticket being pushed back down the queue.
Interested in reading the forum posts on these matters?
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Episode Forums Closing Down
The Episode Forums are coming to an end?!
Yes, that's right, it unfortunately is.
After serving writers, readers and artists alike for almost a decade - the site is coming to an end.The forums will officially close on the
28th of June, 2024.Episode has decided to shut down the forums and migrate the community to Discord.
If migrating to Discord is not your style, there is still the Instagram, Tik Tok, Reddit and Facebook communities.Any resources you have put on the forums or have seen there and want saved - please do so now as links to the forums will not work once the site is shut down.Transfer your content or helpful content you've seen to Discord, Google Drive or another platform that you trust or use.Can the forums be left as a view-only site?
No, unfortunately not.