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Shasta Stories: Choose Your Disaster

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An interactive comic series set in Mount Shasta, California, where three chaotic Dans turn local anecdotes into branching graphic stories.

Why it surfaced

The choices change the artwork and dialogue but never the ending—a wonderfully stubborn mechanic for stories involving an Easter barbecue, a McDonald's drive-thru, a constantly running garden hose, and one headlock. Its recurring characters and sharply specific local setting give the project much more personality than a standard web comic.

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