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Okay, I don't remember this now so going to vote for "how is this possibly a good morph" the giraffe.
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 07:19 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 00:04 |
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Clearly giraffe is best suited for such a delicate situation
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 10:36 |
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Giraffe for sure
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 13:55 |
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I don't want to see the yeen or the giraffe get killed so I'm gonna say police dog.
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 14:49 |
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Obviously our height will intimidate the dogs so let's go giraffe.
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 15:32 |
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Worst decision time! Giraffe time, baby!
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 17:15 |
GSD
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 18:31 |
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What could possibly go wrong with a giraffe on the loose?
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 18:54 |
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Alternamorphs posted:“Sorry to disappoint you,” you say, glad to feel that you have a mouth Mouths. A thing ferrets do not have. I like how You is acquiring every animal within reach. I never understood why the Animorphs didn’t collect animals just in case. It’s always, “Well this is a spy mission, I guess we have to acquire and turn into flies”. And I’d be, “Are you kidding? I’ve already got a bunch of small and/or inconspicuous morphs! I got a ladybug, a conifer bug, a paper wasp (ouch), a squirrel, a chipmunk, three species of tiny songbird, five medium sized ones, a pigeon, a mallard, a…” (goes on for several minutes as the gang stares in increasing horror) But anyway, while I do hope we get to use our Giraffe and ‘Yeen, right now it is Dog time.
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 22:40 |
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Rahonavis posted:Mouths. A thing ferrets do not have. Maybe it's a hold over from another draft where Fly was the correct morph choice? I dunno. Or maybe it's the author clumsily trying to say "thank god I have a human mouth again instead of a snout?"
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# ? Apr 14, 2023 23:55 |
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The morph tech in its infinite wisdom decided to fuse the mouth shut and remake the left nostril into the new mouth
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 01:26 |
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The First Journey – Chapter 11quote:The giraffe morph is the strangest ever. Your legs suddenly shoot up, your bones extending so far you think they’ll crack. Your neck lengthens, and you think your head will fall right off. Then your skin becomes leathery and spotted. That’s kind of cool. You fools. You imbeciles. You absolute boneheads! Good job, You is now dead, ripped to bloody giraffe pieces by a lion. Normally in the wild it’s actually female lions who do the hunting and killing for the pride, but male lions have been known to hunt and kill prey every so often, especially prey that literally wanders right into their path like You just did. So this is our first taste of death for the Let’s Read/Let’s Play, and as we can see the unidentified author(s) of the Alternamorphs books doesn’t gently caress around with their death routes. There’s no false sense of security and then a death a few chapters later, it’s just BAM, done, dead all in the same chapter. Give it another go and see if you can guess the right one this time. Our remaining choices are:
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 06:56 |
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sticking with bastard dog with a job
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 14:39 |
Staying dog
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 16:27 |
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Oh darn, let's go with the
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# ? Apr 15, 2023 17:18 |
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Yeah give that dog a whirl
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# ? Apr 16, 2023 02:16 |
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K9 class traitors will probably work.
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# ? Apr 16, 2023 02:32 |
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All dogs go to heaven except for the class traitors working for the cops, so You better hope they make it out alive.
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# ? Apr 16, 2023 09:30 |
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You all need to watch All Dogs Go to Heaven again. Morph the dog.
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# ? Apr 16, 2023 16:00 |
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K-9s might be class traitors, but the dog was the right choice. You gets to live… another couple of hours, let’s see here. Choosing the hyena is the other failure route. You can’t control the morph’s instincts in time and winds up nearly mauling a small girl to death in front of her parents an a crowd of horrified on-lookers and gets shot with a tranquilizer and are Nothlit’d by the time they finally come to. Not an actual death sentence this time, but still a Game Over ending nonetheless. The First Journey – Chapter 10 quote:You reach out and touch the K-9 dog Princie’s coat. The dog closes his eyes. You concentrate. This is the “correct” morph for the book, yet there’s something inherently vile about morphing a cop, out of all possible morphs quote:It’s a good morph, you tell yourself. In a minute, they’ll give up on a harmless kid who stuck a toe in the wrong habitat. Big deal. It’s not like you’re a big bad criminal. They’ll load you into the van, take you back to the station, and you can take off from there. So again, the plot of The Invasion is just rocketing ahead while You is off, at very least, making sure their identity remains a secret from the Yeerks. The actual Animorphs, meanwhile, have decided to launch their (ill-fated) first strike on the Yeerk Pool beneath the school basically without You. Again it’s stuff like this that’s why your player character never feels like a complete member of the team. Can you possibly imagine Jake giving the go ahead for a mission, even in the sloppy early days of the team figuring out what they were like as a team, with one member completely unaccounted for? You keeps blipping in and out of sight of the main cast so often I’m a little surprised they haven’t started to get suspicious that they might be a Yeerk infiltrator given how often they go dark, meanwhile Jake’s clearly like “Eh, gently caress ‘em, let’s go blow up Chapman’s house with an animal-based IED” or whatever the hell they were doing around the mid-point of any given early-series book. I’m not complaining here, just doing some of my usual LP over analysis. It’s a bit that I do. Some people find it endearing. A lot of people don’t. I’m doing this for your benefit, remember? You asked for this. The First Journey – Chapter 12 quote:It’s getting late, and you’re freaked. Cassie is in danger. Should you head over to school to try to hook up with the others? You can’t stay here while the other Animorphs put their lives on the line. Okay, Decision Point #3. We have four acquired morphs between the ferret, giraffe, hyena and German shepherd, but only two viable options for sneaking into the school:
Shall we?
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 01:11 |
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it's giving ferret again
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 03:31 |
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paw patrol morph is too noticeable, let's go ferret
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 03:47 |
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A dog in the school might finally get Superintendant Chalmers to fire Chapman, but I don't think our character is 100% on him being a controller, so let's stealth it up with the Ferret again
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 04:22 |
If you can be a German shepherd you should be a German shepherd
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 05:06 |
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Can't believe they'd rob us of the stealthiest option, the giraffe. I guess a cat snake will do fine. Ferret it is, then.
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# ? Apr 18, 2023 18:31 |
Ferret seems stealthy enough, let's do it!
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# ? Apr 19, 2023 03:14 |
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Ferret seems to work. in other news, Everworld is up. Everworld Come meet our protagonists and stay to see our narrator beat up while you're exposed to topical Rodney King jokes!
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# ? Apr 20, 2023 03:26 |
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Ferret won with a (near) unanimous vote, and just as well because the German shepherd is the death choice this time around. You actually manages to make it down into the Yeerk pool and just kind of… watches the climax of The Invasion play out and then just sits there dumbfounded as Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel and Tobias book it out of there, their mission the same tremendous near-failure as it is in the book, and then Visser Three smokes You with his morph’s fire breath. Part of me wants to think that this is the canon way this adventure plays out, given You’s general lack of actual contributions to the plot and tangible interactions with any of the characters we care about from the series so far. Also it’s kind of darkly funny to picture Jake not just having to process the fact that Tom has been re-infested by the Yeerks after almost getting away free with him, and that Tobias is now a Nothlit, but also that other genderly and descriptively ambiguous kid that got the morphing power from Elfangor with his other friends last Saturday night has completely disappeared since they all split up at The Gardens that afternoon. Imagine that version of the series playing out, where Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel and Tobias have to deal with the nagging thought that there’s a sixth unaccounted for Animorph out there that they have NO idea whether they’re alive or dead and never will. Jeez, and you thought this series was the stuff of nightmares before, right? The First Journey – Chapter 13 quote:You are concealed in a dark corner of the garage. You feel the ground rush up at you as your bones compress. Hair grows on your hands, on your face. Your nose twitches. Your body becomessleek, and the ferret mind urges you to play. There are so many things to investigate in the garage! It is kind of mildly fascinating, this book’s focus on and pre-occupation with Cassie. So far her and Marco are the only two characters that You has actually interacted with in a meaningful way. So it does make sense that You is particularly concerned for her safety and shows that they’ve grown closer to her, especially given this perilous situation they find her in. The First Journey – Chapter 14 quote:You scamper down the steps. No one notices you as you dart across the floor. You look like a mole, or another creature of the underground. A breeze tickles your fur and whiskers. Again, I’m pretty sure Tobias has literally no idea who we are, nor does he probably give a poo poo considering he’s in the process of committing suicide-by-morph clock right now. quote:<Cool,> Tobias answers. <We need all the help we can get. The others are about twenty feet behind you. We have to save Cassie!> After getting blueballed on it once before, it’s finally time to free the Yeen. At long last, You actually gets to feel like a proper member of the team after also getting jerked around a bit to finally get here. quote:You start toward Cassie, but a Taxxon gets in your way. No problem. You rip into him with your teeth. He tries to bite you back, but you are such an efficient killing machine that he is dead before he registers the pain. Another child successfully traumatized for life. Well done, Animorphs! There is no decision point at the end of this set of chapters because we are officially at the halfway point of the book. The COYAs slam several books together in the form of mini-adventures, so this one covers #1 The Invasion and then rockets forward to cover #11 The Forgotten. So we have that to look forward too, I guess. So now that we’re halfway done the first book, just what exactly are everyone’s thoughts on it in particular? Epicurius posted:Ferret seems to work. Also go check out Everworld, ya dinguses! nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 20, 2023 |
# ? Apr 20, 2023 03:37 |
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Outside of the sudden, no mercy deaths, the biggest problem is the character is a blank slate, so no one is allowed to have any real relationship with you. So, narratively, the simplest answer is to just shunt you into the Cop Zone while the rest of the story happens. Outside of that, the fun of weird AUs is seeing how crazy things go, so having our self insert stuck outside the plot until the end where they are supposed to lose is underwhelming. Honestly, once everyone gets the ability to morph, there are only three important beats in the first book: 1. Figure out someone close to the team is already a Controller 2. Load up on powerful morphs 3. Pick a fight in the Pool and lose So, honestly? Why don't you go hog wild? Let people get wild with it. Get some scenes with each character. Give us a name, man! Let us get into some bad decisions with morphs and try to get out of it!
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 00:23 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Tobias flies closer and perches on her shoulder. You know that more terror lies ahead. You know that safety is now an illusion. You will never feel truly safe again. Hey wait, I know this is probably just an oversight, but does Tobias not get nothlited in You timeline? Also drat, I really love the yeen battle morph, wish it had gotten use in the main series.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 01:19 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Hey wait, I know this is probably just an oversight, but does Tobias not get nothlited in You timeline? Yeah, the book just glides right over that. When we pick up things in the next half Tobias is permanently a hawk and Ax is just there with no introduction. It's an incredibly lazy book, all told.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 01:34 |
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Ferret and hyena are pretty cool animals so I'm at least happy to see this book use morphs that weren't in the main series.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 04:34 |
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Capfalcon posted:So, honestly? Why don't you go hog wild? Let people get wild with it. Get some scenes with each character. Because it's a CYOA book with just over 100 pages, not interactive fiction with a 6 or 7-figure word count and the ability to have a decision point on every page.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 04:53 |
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Fuschia tude posted:Because it's a CYOA book with just over 100 pages, not interactive fiction with a 6 or 7-figure word count and the ability to have a decision point on every page. Sure, but you could make the whole book the first story and give more branching options instead.
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 16:31 |
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Back on our bullshit. It’s time for Part II of Alternamorphs #1 The First Journey. The First Journey – Chapter 16 quote:“Pizza for dinner?” your mom says. Motherfucking time loops, am I right? So yeah we’ve jumped ahead many many books and are now going through the plot of #11 The Forgotten, the “Jake gets stuck in a time loop in the Amazon Rainforest… somehow” book. As a matter of trivia, according to the now-defunct ANIBASE, the Animorphs database that used to be on Scholastic’s website, The Forgotten was the book that nearly caused Applegate to give up on writing the series because she thought she’d run out of ideas and was just starting to phone it in and she’d lost the plot on the books. Anyway, at least in the second half of the book You is starting to feel more like a proper member of the team, having gone through presumably the plots of all the other books up till now, so they’re familiar with who and what Ax is, got to witness Tobias try to commit suicide-by-mall, met the Ellimist and all of the bullshit that came along with him, dealt with Jake’s little three day Yeerk hostage crisis and Temrash 114, was nearly part of a full party wipe involving the ants that live under Chapman's house, and met Erek King and the Chee and got to witness Erek go full KOS-MOS prototype rampage on a facility full of Hork-Bajir, Taxxons and human controllers after the kids flipped off his "don't be an insane murder robot" switch for a few minutes. Try to picture how all those adventures went, only with you making GBS threads them up, not You, but you personally, the one who is reading this now. experience BIJ! The First Journey – Chapter 17 quote:The trees soar above your heads. The leaves make a canopy so dense it blocks out the sky. The heat presses against your skin. Motherfucking time loops, am I right? Wait. So, we have three potential all new morph options to choose from, they are:
I’d say choose wisely, but the good thing about time loops is we’ll be back here once again if you gently caress up and get us killed. Motherfucking time loops, am I right? nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Apr 22, 2023 |
# ? Apr 22, 2023 04:11 |
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Why would they choose this, one of the most nonsensical books, to do as a cyoa? Anyway let's go parasol ant because I want to see You suffer
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 04:16 |
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Parasol ant is absolutely the correct choice, considering that You has canonically been on two different missions involving colonial insect morphs at this point. I'm sure they will be prepared to easily subdue the hive mind by now!
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 05:25 |
Monkey
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 07:21 |
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I'm sure that the protagonist can control the parasol ant morph and reassert his individual consciousness.
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# ? May 25, 2024 00:04 |
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I'm sure You won't have any problems with becoming an ant, considering You is already kind of a hive-mind of the thread consciousness
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# ? Apr 22, 2023 08:43 |