User blog comment:EtherealNyx/The Destiny Games Update/@comment-30866079-20161227135131/@comment-25954732-20161227161214

Hm? I'm not sure what you mean exactly by that.

If you mean that I can't write the story without the assistance of the simulator, I'd say that's a false view.

1. First off, I write a lot. The vast majority of them (except for this fanfic, incidentally) were created without any sort of generator. All of my plot ideas mainly reside in my mind.

2. Secondly, the simulator is insanely hard to write a good narrative off of. Sentences like "x convinces y not to kill them" are perfectly fine if you're merely trying to amuse yourself, but a story cannot be built on one sentence results. If presented with this option, I have to describe how they get into the situation, the tension of the scene (y could easily be killed by x or x may not persuade y in time [both viable options in the simulator]), and even the dialogue all plays a role. This takes more time to visualize and put into writing than it does to run through 10 rounds on the simulator.

3. And my final and most important point, in response to anyone asking "Why not decide the results yourself?", is that it would be insanely boring. It's all well and good for me to decide that one of my friends would have a winning character. And I could write that they managed to systematically murder everyone one by one. But, that would bore the reader. The simulator offers that element of surprise. This way, no one can accuse me of favoritism. The results are randomized and I play no role beyond writing what occurred. I even offer photographic proof at the end of each chapter.

If you didn't mean anything like what I just said by your comment, I'm very sorry for the assumption and would like to know what you intended to say.