The White Mushroom House; A discussion of a Mario cyoa

So as I just posted early the Fletching w/ Robin is Anna's (the goddess) younger sister will try to post today or tomorrow about her mini backstory. So I had a few ideas but wanted to ask the readers and/ or voters first about their thoughts before I went ahead with them. You know what that means.....multi poll time woohoo.

First poll so far Flanna is the only Pokemon type NPC in my cyoa and she's mainly plot and she can ferry items for you to sell, buy, deposit coins, or withdraw coins. The truth is I am a huge Pikachu fan and was kinda of thinking of having Pika as Daisy's NPC companion. So far there are four NPC that will accompy the group. Starlow (will meet pretty soon), Flanna (already met), Prince Luma (about the same time as meeting Starlow) and Poulter Pup (wouldn't be much later and should make things very interesting btw Bow and Luigi).
So the question is would be too much of a stretch to have Pika in here?

A.) No make him both companion and combat related ( Daisy could use it as a personal summon)
B.) Kinda of just make it a companion or personal summon for Daisy (or somebody else if you want)
C.) X you are starting to worry me you already made enough references that require a leap of faith. I am telling you as a friend put the Pika away and let's pretend you never asked.

The second question is relating to having another couple of characters from the Wario ware franchise join the team. As everyone already knows I have Ashley joining and shes kinda of the Thajra of the party. Well I was thinking of adding a couple of other people and well here's the question. Would you like to see Jimmy T and Mona involved in the cyoa too?

H.) Yes, have both of them join as normal recruits
I.) Yes, both of them can join if they prove there beefiness over at the Mastiff dojo.
J.) Maybe, have one as a normal recruit and the other prove how beefy they are (please specify who)
K.) Only one should join as a normal recruit
L.) Only one and they should prove themselves in the dojo
M.) I don't want either one of those two but I would like .... as a person in the group (specify who and this will be one of the people who will have to be seconded)
N.) No one else from the series should be in just Ashley.

As a mini poll if either choices J,K, or L receive a majority.

1.) Jimmy T
2.) Mona

Finally, I have been thinking about how to do Giant battles. I have three ideas I thought of but I would like to see how the readers and voters would like them to play out. This poll does have a deadline but it's not happening anytime soon. (Will let you when this poll is closing).

W.) Have it play out like the prevouis battles have. Pretty much is will be both your giant character and the bosses have multiple parts you can target and if you destroy a certain part you win and vice versa. Yet depending on how much total percentage you get the rewards vary. The strategy and choices would be the same like I have been using.

X.) Have it as a one on one battle and play it out turned based. I can either have someone write up a strategy and if that gets enough backing use that for the players turn and I (I.e. the RNG) will run for the bosses side until someone hits 0. Or I can give you a series of choices and say chose (for example only) chose 5 and whoever has the most health after those 5 or however many turns I choose to have it play out be the winner.

Y.) I can have it play out like an interactive cut scene. Where I write for both the players and bosses turn and at certain points of the battle there will be a pause give you options and run the RNG and post the results. The cut scene continues until one side is the winner.

Z.) Custom option. It can be a combination of the three ideas I have. A version similar tlk the ideas but maybe a different way of approaching the battle. Something you thought of and it gets enough backing. (If Z wins the person who either thought of the idea or feels the most comfortable discussing it can PM me and we can work out the details)

So there you have your choices and like always make sure you vote responsibly. Can't have any drinking and voting out there this is a responsible cyoa.

That does sound really interesting. I do have dragon quest references in here and that would be a good way to implement another theme or idea from dragon quest. As long as there is no objections or out cry from the other voters we can certainly go with that idea. I have heard about rocket slime but never played it. I guess its something I can read about on gamefaqs though to get an idea about the basis. Also watch a YouTube video to see how it plays out.

So I will post the same question in the cyoa? There are no multiple choices or anything just whatever gets the most support is what I will be going with.


What would you like to call Mario's group? I for the life of me have a hard time thinking of a proper name came I kinda of struggle coming up w/ a name. The name you guys want to call them can be anything and I mean anything that enough supports. It can be as original or unoriginal as you want it to be.

So whatever gets the most support will be the new name for Mario and friends.