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Only two votes, but they're both in favour of investigating the smoke, so that's what we'll do.Flight from the Dark posted:Carefully parting the dense foliage, you are horrified by the sight that meets you. In a small clearing ahead, three Giaks have tied a man to a wooden stake and are setting fire to a mass of brushwood bundled at his feet. You recognize his tunic as that of a Border Ranger, one of the King’s men who police the kingdom near the Durncrag Mountains of the west. He has been badly beaten and is nearly unconscious. Flight from the Dark posted:Using the skills taught to you by your masters in the art of Hunting, you inch your way through the foliage undetected. In less than a minute you are directly behind, and only a few feet from, the stake to which the ranger is tied. The wood is alight and great clouds of smoke are engulfing the poor victim. You take your weapon and run forward, hidden by the smoke. One blow of your weapon is all that is needed to sever his bonds, and you pull him free and back into the safety of the forest. As you press on into the forest, you hear the shrieks of the Giaks as they discover that their prisoner has literally disappeared in a cloud of smoke! Without Hunting we'd have been forced into a fight with a couple of Giaks - leaving the poor guy to burn to death is not an option - but otherwise ended up at the same place. I made a couple of minor changes to the text in this update for clarity. If you're curious, you can see the original wording at section 177 and section 330.
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Check the bundle. We poke our noses into all we can.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 09:27 |
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take a look!, loot everything! Glad to see that hunting is already paying dividends
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 09:28 |
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The wisdom of the Kai is loot everything.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 10:26 |
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Poking through women's discarded underwear is a time-honored Kai discipline. Loot the pile!
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 15:33 |
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Let's start our heroic campaign by stealing some panties.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 16:13 |
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It is the heroic thing to do.Flight from the Dark posted:Wrapped in a bundle of women’s clothing is a small velvet purse containing 6 Gold Crowns and a Tablet of Perfumed Soap. You may take these items and continue your journey. Flight from the Dark posted:You have been trudging through the forest for nearly two hours. The nagging fear that you are lost begins to seem a reality. Apart from the occasional cry of a Kraan in the far distance, you have seen or heard no evidence that the enemy is in this part of the forest. As you descend a rocky hillock, you see something unusual in the tangled woods ahead. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Yea on the soap. It's not like we have much else to keep in our packs as of yet. We might as well keep the soap in case we need to smell pretty. Through the hill. Unknown danger is the best kind of danger!
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 17:11 |
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nae on the soap the fancy smell will probably bring monsters. Also let's go around the scary cave
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 17:29 |
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Get the soap and into the dark hole
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 18:06 |
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Get the soap and go the long way.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 21:54 |
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Get the soap, go into the spooky cave. I dearly long for a bow.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 22:17 |
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Materant posted:I dearly long for a bow. We do not have a bow and we wish to use it
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 22:28 |
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No soap, dirtiness is the way of the Kai. And to get even dirtier, let's go through the cave.
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# ? Aug 22, 2017 22:37 |
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Omnicrom posted:Yea on the soap. It's not like we have much else to keep in our packs as of yet. We might as well keep the soap in case we need to smell pretty. Comstar posted:Go the long way. Flight from the Dark posted:As you begin your climb, you hear the beat of wings approaching from the west. Kraan! By the noise they are making you estimate there are at least ten, perhaps more. You curse your bad luck, for the hillside offers no cover from the sky. If you are attacked during this difficult climb, you will find it nearly impossible to fight back and remain upright at the same time.
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This is why I told you to go in the cave in the first place. Go Back. We wish to use it but we do not yet have a bow so combat against flying things is a bad idea.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 04:15 |
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This is Flight from the Dark, not 'go into the dark away from the flight'. We have to stay out of dark spaces. Keep running up that hill.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 06:18 |
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It may be too late now- they can spot us going down as easily as going up. Continue going up.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 07:50 |
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Omnicrom posted:This is why I told you to go in the cave in the first place. Go Back. We wish to use it but we do not yet have a bow so combat against flying things is a bad idea. Flight from the Dark posted:The tunnel is dark and the air is much cooler than outside. You carefully advance with one hand on the tunnel wall to aid your sense of direction. You have been in total darkness for three minutes when you detect the foul smell of decay ahead, similar to rotting meat. If you have a Torch and Tinderbox in your Pack, you may light the Torch to see your way ahead. Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 14 - ENDURANCE 28 The way combat works in these books is a bit interesting. First you need to work out your "combat ratio", which is just the enemy's CS subtracted from yours (so in this case -3). Then you roll a ten-sided die (or use the Random Number Table in the back of the book) and look up the results for the round in the Combat Results Table. Then you just repeat until one or both combatants is dead. Round One. FIGHT! We roll: 10 Burrowcrawler: COMBAT SKILL 17 - ENDURANCE 0 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 14 - ENDURANCE 28 Well, that could have gone a lot worse. Flight from the Dark posted:The slimy creature lets out a long, ghastly death-cry and collapses. You are near to panic and scramble to your feet, grabbing what you think to be your belt from the jaws of the dead beast. You can see light in the far distance, and you sprint for it as fast as you can. When you finally emerge into the daylight, you fall onto the leafy ground and fight for breath in painful gasps. Flight from the Dark posted:The forest begins to thin out until finally you can make out a road through the trees ahead. The highway is full of people heading south. Many are wheeling their possessions along on handcarts. If we'd continued up the hill we'd have been spotted by kraan and killed. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Aug 23, 2017 |
# ? Aug 23, 2017 12:02 |
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I hate arbitrary inventory limits in CYOA games. "You need to discard your anvil in order to pick this key" is stupid, so I usually ignore pack limits if I can reasonably carry all my poo poo. That said take it and join the party.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 12:08 |
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You and me both, Samurai. Stay out of sight. Crowds attract trouble.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 13:42 |
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Join the group and bring our loot
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 16:59 |
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Kanthulhu posted:Join the group and bring our loot
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 18:15 |
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Stay out of sight I don't think I've ever seen that cover before. I'm trying hard to place a scene in the book that it actually depicts, and I'm coming up empty.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 20:05 |
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Kanthulhu posted:Join the group and bring our loot An extra weapon around will be helpful and there is strength in numbers.
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# ? Aug 23, 2017 20:07 |
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Ratatozsk posted:I don't think I've ever seen that cover before. I'm trying hard to place a scene in the book that it actually depicts, and I'm coming up empty. Comstar posted:Join the group and bring our loot Flight from the Dark posted:The people look tired and hungry. They have come many miles from their burning city. Suddenly, you hear the beat of huge wings coming from the north.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 02:52 |
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Let's not be rear end in a top hat Lone Wolf. Help the kids.
Materant fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Aug 24, 2017 |
# ? Aug 24, 2017 03:00 |
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Goofy? Badass. Now act like one.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 03:05 |
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He's got some gear there that doesn't belong in this book. Oh yeah, help the kids.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 03:16 |
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Children in danger? Save them!. It's hero time!
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 04:00 |
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Save the children, save the world?
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Ratatozsk posted:Goofy? Although looking at them again, the first one isn't so much goofy as creepy. Anyway, it seems like we're basically all on the same page here with regard to children and not leaving them to be killed by monsters. Flight from the Dark posted:You sprint towards the wagon. People are running everywhere in panic as the Kraan make their attack, carrying their poor victims off into the darkening sky. A large Kraan is hovering above the wagon and three snarling Giaks drop from its back onto the startled horses. You must fight them or leave the wagon and run to the safety of a nearby farmhouse. But on the other hand, there is a farmhouse we could hide in if we want to change our mind and not fight those giaks... Just saying. Still want to stay and protect the kids? Tiggum fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Aug 24, 2017 |
# ? Aug 24, 2017 16:57 |
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I think that mine was the American version. At least, its the version I had. Stay and play
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 17:00 |
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Orcs-I mean Giaks- menacing children? We attack! Huzzah!
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 17:01 |
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I count three weapons in that cover, game.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 17:36 |
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Fat Samurai posted:I count three weapons in that cover, game. Maybe one of them is actually a Special Item.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 17:55 |
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This one looks like they took a shot of Luke from RotJ and edited his outfit a bit. Also he's totally cheating with that extra weapon. Played this with my seven year old the other night. I'll have things to say about this and the following choices but I'll hold off for now.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 21:48 |
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Save the kids.
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# ? Aug 24, 2017 23:11 |
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FredMSloniker posted:Maybe one of them is actually a Special Item. Not in this book, it isn't
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Apparently you're all pretty committed to saving children.Flight from the Dark posted:The ghoulish creatures thrust their spears at you and attack. Fight these creatures as a single enemy. Giaks: COMBAT SKILL 15 - ENDURANCE 13 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 - ENDURANCE 28 Combat Ratio: 4 We roll: 3 Giaks: COMBAT SKILL 15 - ENDURANCE 6 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 - ENDURANCE 25 We roll: 4 Giaks: COMBAT SKILL 15 - ENDURANCE 0 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 - ENDURANCE 23 And that's that. The children are safe, and it's time for us to get moving. Shall we return to the woods or shelter in the nearby farmhouse for a while? Tiggum fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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