Octotale
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Every answer writes the next page

Stories that grow
with every choice.

A collaborative fiction platform where your answers shape the narrative — and anyone can branch the story in a new direction.

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The problem

Stories have always been one-way.

You read what someone else decided. You follow their path. When it ends, it ends — no matter how many directions you wanted to explore.

Writing your own feels impossible. The blank page, the plot, the characters, keeping it all consistent. Most people give up before the first chapter.

And AI-generated stories? They feel hollow. Generic worlds with generic people making generic choices — because no one told the AI what you care about.

The solution

Octotale makes you the architect,
not just the audience.

You don't write prose. You make decisions — about the world, the characters, the philosophy underneath the story. The AI handles the craft. You handle the soul of it.

Stories are passive

Your answers drive every chapter — nothing happens without you.

Writing is a blank page

You answer questions; the story writes itself from your choices.

AI stories feel generic

You build the world first — genre, era, characters, philosophy — then the AI inhabits your world.

Stories are linear

Every chapter branches. Explore every "what if" without losing the original thread.

Collaboration is chaotic

Readers write parallel threads. Owners decide what becomes canon.

The result: A story that is unmistakably yours — one that could only exist because you answered those questions, in that order, on that day.

How it works

Four steps. One universe.

01

Build your world

Choose a genre, a time period, characters, and a philosophy. The universe takes shape before a single word is written.

02

The story finds its opening

Answer one question and the prologue appears — written by an AI that remembers every detail you gave it.

03

Every chapter is a choice

Each chapter ends with five questions. Pick one. A new chapter is born. The story branches like a tree.

04

Others can branch too

Readers become writers. Anyone can take the story in a new direction — a parallel thread waiting to be discovered.

Features

Everything the story needs.

Branching stories

Every answer splits the path. No two readers follow the same thread.

Living characters

Characters remember what happened. New ones appear as the world demands.

Threads & canon

Readers write parallel branches. Story owners can weave them into the canon — or let them run wild.

Your story is already waiting.

Pick a world. Answer a question. See what the ocean brings back.

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