Girth Loinhammer’s Most Exponential Adventure

Girth Loinhammer’s Most Exponential Adventure is a massively interactive fantasy parody. If you can’t quite picture that in your head, have no fear! There’s a demo available online!

Artwork by Joe Wright

The story follows Girth Loinhammer, a “Dungeon Lord” who has tried to establish himself as a generic villain in a trap-filled underground lair. However, instead of attracting heroes for him to capture and torment, the dungeon becomes overrun with BDSM enthusiasts. The whole situation makes Girth very uncomfortable indeed, and most storylines follow some kind of attempt to remedy it, whether that’s by converting the dungeon into something else, or abandoning it to pursue another interest entirely. The adventures themselves frequently parody popular fantasy stories and usually end in disaster. Every passage offers two choices as to how the story should continue, each of which offers two further choices, and so on, ultimately leading to a whopping 512 alternate endings.

Here are a few screenshots of the text itself, as well as the fairly enormous flowchart:

You might want to click on this flowchart and zoom in to really get a grasp of what’s going on. The story is so large that it’s very difficult to illustrate the scale and the structure simultaneously.