Your inscrutable thought process leads you to draw the PUNCH DESIGNIX on your SCRIBBLEPAD.

Author commentary: I just started making up commands from this point on to move things along, and there was virtually no detriment to doing so, or even any noticeable impact on the way the story progressed. I kept them pretty similar in feel to the commands people tended to submit, while cutting a lot of the bullshit they would throw out there. There was a kind of dumb sentiment among a few people that doing this was somehow "STEALING CONTROL OF THE STORY AWAY FROM THE READER!" I always thought it was silly how some conflated reader-submitted commands with reader control of the story. They were never in control at all. In fact, the commands were sort of a sneaky device to help make that point. Because the author and characters buck the will of the commands so often (e.g., "Get the pumpkin. Wait, what pumpkin? It's gone sucker, nice try."), the device turns out to be a repeated demonstration that the notion readers are exerting their will over the story was always an illusion.


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