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Just go inside and talk to the peasants or whoever in their house like we're a normal person.
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# ? Oct 7, 2017 14:13 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 09:27 |
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This is like the prototype of a CYOA roadside sage hut.
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# ? Oct 7, 2017 20:10 |
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Enter the Hut. About Legends, I've read the first books and I mist admit I really didn't like them. The Gamebooks are absolutely one of my favorites, but often the narrative in the novels felt... forced, too many elements of grimdarkness pushed in there only for effect, not for a true narrative purpose.
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# ? Oct 7, 2017 20:13 |
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Guy Fawkes posted:Enter the Hut. Agreed. There's plenty of overt butchery of soldiers, bystanders, and children that permeates the early books, plus numerous mentions of rape by raiding giaks. I could understand some of that with a more adult targeted audience, but it just sits uncomfortably here. Tangential factoid: Lone Wolf receives a bottle of potable Tongues spells from the captain of the Green Scepter before he dies. He later uses this to speak to the Noodnicks in the tunnel to Durenor (did we skip them?) but it resurfaces in Kalte when he uses it to listen in on gossip of his guides and tell the sled dogs to shut up while they get hoisted up a mountain scaled as part of their journey. I appreciated seeing that little tie-in between books that also provides a mechanism for showing a segment of the story otherwise locked behind a rather specific skill. Some of the skills like healing and weapon mastery are easy enough to write in, whilst others are a bit ham handed: 'He had heard tell of the skill of Tracking, and suddenly saw the same field, only in the middle of winter with footprints clearly going to the left towards Holmgard,' (roughly paraphrased.)
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# ? Oct 7, 2017 22:19 |
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Ratatozsk posted:Tangential factoid: Lone Wolf receives a bottle of potable Tongues spells from the captain of the Green Scepter before he dies. He later uses this to speak to the Noodnicks in the tunnel to Durenor (did we skip them?) but it resurfaces in Kalte when he uses it to listen in on gossip of his guides and tell the sled dogs to shut up while they get hoisted up a mountain scaled as part of their journey. I appreciated seeing that little tie-in between books that also provides a mechanism for showing a segment of the story otherwise locked behind a rather specific skill. Some of the skills like healing and weapon mastery are easy enough to write in, whilst others are a bit ham handed: 'He had heard tell of the skill of Tracking, and suddenly saw the same field, only in the middle of winter with footprints clearly going to the left towards Holmgard,' (roughly paraphrased.) Tracking should be pretty easy to write in though. It's never going to be hugely significant, but a protagonist with an innate ability to always know which way is north and spot things like animal tracks, etc. is hardly unique to this series. Mikl posted:Guys, put these red shirts on and then go inside. The Chasm of Doom posted:Your men push open the door with their swords and quickly enter. You hear a muffled voice, and a ranger soon reappears at the door. ‘It is safe, my Lord,’ he says, and stands aside to allow you to enter. I have always hated that poem. Interestingly, the meeting with the old man is retconned pretty heavily in the novels, but in a way that won't become apparent for a long while yet and for no reason I could ever discern. Essentially, we're going to meet that guy again and the gamebooks are going to acknowledge that, whereas the novels go out of their way to say "nope, definitely wasn't him." Oh, and once again I've just got to comment on how utterly hideous some of Gary Chalk's illustrations of people are. That second troubadour looks like a corpse. An ugly corpse.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 00:29 |
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Creepy old man... creepier poem. Now let us question the traveling minstrels.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 00:35 |
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Chalk could illustrate monsters pretty well IMO, he just couldn't draw humans. Talk to the circus folk.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 00:37 |
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Tiggum posted:Oh, and once again I've just got to comment on how utterly hideous some of Gary Chalk's illustrations of people are. That second troubadour looks like a corpse. An ugly corpse.[/i] I kind of like this about the Lone Wolf series, it's refreshing to not have everyone be some pretty and featureless anime-looking fantasy person. And they don't usually look like purposeful caricatures either, just... ugly people! They're around! It's nice. Stop and question that ugly guy
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 00:54 |
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Tiggum posted:Oh, and once again I've just got to comment on how utterly hideous some of Gary Chalk's illustrations of people are. That second troubadour looks like a corpse. An ugly corpse. If memory serves, a headshot of that guy was used for the death tally in the first thread.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 01:36 |
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Ratatozsk posted:If memory serves, a headshot of that guy was used for the death tally in the first thread. Yep, that it was. I do like how I believe this is now the third thread in a row to have a "Redshit death tally".
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 01:46 |
These people look highly questionable.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 01:54 |
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Question them.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 06:50 |
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The Chasm of Doom posted:You signal to the driver to stop. The wagons halt and a small, moon-faced man in a bright pink tunic throws open the rear door of the leading carriage. He shouts and curses the driver as he descends the ladder, pausing only to adjust the cummerbund that barely covers his huge stomach. Seeing your men, he lets out a strangled shriek and fumbles for a short sword hanging at his side. ‘Bandits! Robbers!’ he cries, and wrestles to free his sword from its ornate scabbard. A row of anxious faces appears at the wagon windows, but the expressions soon change to a smile when they recognize your Sommlending uniforms. Apparently that's what used to pass for "absurdly fat".
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 11:57 |
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Dinner and a show? Sold!
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 12:37 |
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Our Rangers could use some entertainment before they start dying. Stay the night with the troubadours.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 13:05 |
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Let's camp with the troubadours.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 19:33 |
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How can we pass up an evening's entertainment? Camp with them!
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 19:47 |
Camp with these thespians.
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# ? Oct 8, 2017 19:57 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:It's written vaguely enough to NOT have limitations though! i say we Zoro this poo poo up and wield our holy blade in our mouth while dual-wielding 2 other weapons we find this adventure
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 00:17 |
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The Chasm of Doom posted:The wagons are drawn into a circle and you set up camp inside. A ranger is posted to patrol the perimeter. The troubadours construct a small stage onto which strides Yesu. He calls for silence before announcing the title of their play, ‘The Brave Warriors of Sommerlund’, a choice that meets with the hearty approval of your men.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 00:21 |
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After him!
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 00:39 |
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A clue! Chase him down!
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 00:40 |
achtungnight posted:A clue! Jinkies, get him!
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 02:00 |
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Get that man! I'm going to be honest, I completely forgot this book existed before this run. Chasm of Doom is about the most forgettable adventure in the Kai (and probably the Magnakai) series.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 02:48 |
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Materant posted:Get that man! I actually really like it. It's just a nice adventure with some pretty cool sections.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 07:23 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I actually really like it. It's just a nice adventure with some pretty cool sections. Oh, it's still cool (most ignominious Kai mission still goes to Kingdoms of Terror), it's just easy to forget next to the first two books, the arctic fortress, and what's coming next.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 07:34 |
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I really like The Kingdoms of Terror. It's not the best, but it's got a pretty unique feel to it and it's generally fun. I like this one too, though I can certainly understand why some people might not. But it's hard to really talk about either of them just yet without spoiling things, other than to say that they're both kind of light on plot. You've got an objective in both, but spend most of your time just travelling - and in KoT it's without any real sense of urgency either.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 07:48 |
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I liked this book too, also Caverns of Kalte a lot. Probably because I re-read the first 5-6 books during family road trips way more than any of the later ones, so they stuck with me pretty well and I got to appreciate their nuances.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 07:49 |
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Meandering journey-type books like Kingdoms of Terror and Book 18 later on are best served by either having an urgent purpose to the journey or having the journey itself having multiple memorable moments. Book 18 has the former for sure. Kingdoms of Terror has one or two good scenes, but I think overall lacked enough memorable events.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 07:55 |
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Chase him.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 09:48 |
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Has anyone brought up the Android gamebook, Blood on the Snow? I think it takes place some time before or after our current book. https://soundcloud.com/93-steps/sets/joe-devers-lone-wolf-original Jackard fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Oct 9, 2017 |
# ? Oct 9, 2017 10:45 |
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He's either a deserter or a looter. Chase him!
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 11:31 |
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His expression is just magical. ...Is that dagger what I think it is? I can't imagine it tastes very good.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 12:22 |
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The Chasm of Doom posted:Although the wagons are shrouded in darkness, your Kai Hunting sense reveals to you the actor’s hiding place. You climb the ladder at the rear of a large caravan, push open the door with your weapon, and enter. First, do we take the sword and give him our dagger in exchange, or let him keep the sword? Second, do we eat the broth, eat a meal from our backpack, slip away to hunt for some food or go hungry (and lose 3 Endurance)? vilkacis posted:...Is that dagger what I think it is? I can't imagine it tastes very good. Jackard posted:Has anyone brought up the Android gamebook, Blood on the Snow?
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 12:46 |
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Trade Dagger for Sword, eat broth.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 13:02 |
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He bought it, he can keep it. Not his fault it was stolen. Also eat the stew.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 13:14 |
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Take the sword Hunt for food
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 14:03 |
Leave the blade, eat the broth.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 15:41 |
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achtungnight posted:Trade Dagger for Sword, eat broth.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 15:48 |
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Take the <weapon>, leave the <foodstuff>. Go hunt instead. You can't trust actors, especially if one of them maybe killed Captain D.
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# ? Oct 9, 2017 16:04 |