> "Mario Paint Time Capsule"
> https://rentry.org/mptc
> I don't know who wrote this. Here's the synopsis:
> >A guy comes back home from college and looks through some of his old possessions, including an SNES and a copy of Mario Paint
> >Saved on the cartridge is a canvas with an ominous message
> >The guy finds a tape of himself as a kid playing Mario Paint. The dad walks in and yells at him to get dressed. The guy as a kid writes down in Mario Paint to go to the neighbor's shed
> >The guy goes to the shed and finds a little girl skeleton handcuffed to the wall. There's a box of tapes in the shed, and inside is a note written by the guy as a kid about what happened when he went to the shed
> >The guy says he'll get some "police friends of mine" to look into the case so that his dad and the neighbor face justice for what happened to the little girl
> The premise is OK (guy finds a time capsule about a messed up event from his childhood that he had forgotten), but it barely makes use of the Mario Paint thing. You could replace the Mario Paint canvas with a normal picture or note and nothing would change. It also isn't clear why the dad brought the son to the shed; I think it's implied that the dad and the neighbor were producing CP, which is why there's a box of tapes in the shed and an implication of the dad having sex with the girl and the neighbor wanting the son to have sex with the girl. If the son wasn't involved in the CP then why involve him? Maybe they just wanted the son to write down the incriminating note so they could jerk off to it or something.
> Also, like half the story has nothing to do with anything. We don't learn anything from the guy being a forensics student or any of the indulgent 90s kid nostalgia shit at the start. So I would shorten all that and draw my own images in Mario Paint to complement the story (that's easy to do because it's just kid drawings)