- Maugrim
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I eat your face
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Hatching a plan to explore every possible path in this book
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- rudecyrus
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fuck you trolls
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Mar 2, 2020 19:13
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- Rebonack7
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We're almost done with this adventure, so why not rewind time a bit and see what happens if we nope out right at the start?
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This one is a no-brainer.
“Quick!” you cry. “Let’s get out before the alien returns!” You yank a lever underneath the hatch. It springs open. You and your friends crawl through.
The hatch clangs shut. You glance around.
You’re in a small room with four swivel chairs and a control panel in the wall. A sign on the control panel says EMERGENCY LIFEBOAT. PRESS RED BUTTON TO START.
You press the red button. A horn goes AOOOOGAH! AOOOOGAH!
“Oh, no!” Katy cries. “They’ll hear us!”
But the lifeboat starts up with a thump. You feel it begin to drift. You hear a loud whooshing noise, and the small ship takes off. You glance through the porthole.
“We did it!” you exclaim. “We got away!”
Your small craft is pulling away from the huge alien ship. From here, the alien ship looks like a big blimp.
The lifeboat moves farther and farther from the alien craft. Soon the big ship is just a speck in the distance.
You’re adrift in space!
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It doesn’t take long to figure out the lifeboat’s controls. Black buttons fire the engines. You steer with a joystick.
“Cool,” Jordan says. “This thing is easy to drive.”
“Yeah, right,” Katy mutters. “But where can we drive it to? We have no idea where we are.”
“Or where Earth is from here,” you add. How will you ever get home?
You gaze out the porthole. A pinpoint of light in the distance grows bigger. Soon you can see that it’s another spacecraft, shaped like an “X.”
“It’s completely different from the other alien ship,” you point out. “Maybe the people in this ship can tell us how to get back to Earth.”
“It’s worth a try,” Katy agrees. “What do we have to lose?”
A button on the control panel is marked HAILING FREQUENCY. You press the button.
The X-shaped spacecraft instantly veers toward you. It pulls up alongside the lifeboat. You feel a jolt as the big ship locks on the lifeboat.
WHOOOOSH! Air cycles in the hatch.
A moment later the hatch pops open.
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Jordan’s and Katy’s screams fill the lifeboat. The only reason you’re not screaming too is because you’re speechless with horror.
The creature that crawls through the hatch is... a roach.
A three-foot-tall cockroach!
Its slimy brown head is as big as a beach ball. Its six jointed legs are covered with stiff hairs. Its long, flexible antennas sweep through the air toward you.
With every step it takes, you hear a clicking noise.
As you watch, another roach squeezes in beside the first one. Then another squeezes through – and another – and another.
Dozens of giant roaches are crawling aboard the lifeboat.
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Cockroaches pour into the tiny spacecraft. One of them approaches the control panel and examines it with its roach antennas.
Others move closer to you and your friends. They extend their antennas toward you. They seem to want to touch you.
Katy and Jordan back up against the bulkhead, screaming so loudly, you can hardly think. It’s going to be up to you to save yourself and your friends.
But what can you do? You glance around frantically.
Your eye falls on a fire extinguisher. Maybe you could use it as a weapon.
On the other hand, the roaches seem curious.
Maybe they’re intelligent.
Maybe you can communicate with them and persuade them to help you.
Use the fire extinguisher on PAGE 38.
Try to reason with the roaches on PAGE 131.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Stuck with a massive repair bill after digging our way through the VR machine.
Fed to a litter of Abominable Ice Puppies.
Escaped the virtual world, but swapped bodies with Andy in the process.
Accidentally caused a cave-in with a magnifying glass and a compass.
Forced to serve snowballs for an ice-tennis game for a hundred years.
Squashed under the falling corpse of a ten-ton pelican.
Stranded in a virtual igloo with a year's supply of blubber-based foodstuffs.
Crashed a snowmobile into the side of a glacier.
De-rezzed into a cloud of pixels after cheating our way through the Ice Maze.
Had our head bitten off by a lizard-man after attacking him with a sword.
Stuck on a three thousand-year flight to Earth after watching our friends gruesomely dissolve into blob monsters.
Knocked out by a bottle and transformed into a blob monster.
Crawled into an egg hole and got eaten by freshly-hatched giant ant larvae.
Enslaved by the Arcturans and forced to polish their scalps.
Cooked to death by intense sunlight amplified by alien magnifying-glass leaves.
Forced to work in the spice mines after failing the Arcturans' quiz.
Sent back to Earth as a disembodied head after failing the Arcturans' final question.
Achievements
A Touch of Frostbite: Escaped the virtual world and gained the power to freeze anything we touch.
Bonus Level: Survived an optional detour through the Pit of Horrors.
Vapor for Brains: Deliberately answered all of the Arcturans' questions incorrectly, presumably out of pity.
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- chitoryu12
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Explain ourselves to the roaches
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Mar 4, 2020 00:54
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- Shwoo
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Don't be so quick to judge on appearances, and reason with them.
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Mar 4, 2020 00:57
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- AceOfFlames
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"If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances... Now, that would be interesting"
AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Mar 4, 2020
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Mar 4, 2020 08:32
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- AnAnonymousIdiot
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If it turns out talking does nothing to help, I'll eat my hat!
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Mar 4, 2020 14:14
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- PumpkinBat
- Oct 22, 2012
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Clearly this is a Joe's Apartment situation so we should try to reason with these Blattodea!
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Mar 4, 2020 16:48
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- Rebonack7
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If it turns out talking does nothing to help, I'll eat my hat!
Bon appetit!
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I’ll try to communicate with the roaches, you think.
“We need help,” you say. Your voice is shaking, but you try to look friendly.
To your surprise, one of the roaches speaks.
“Why should we help you?” it asks. Its voice is high and squeaky. “This is our territory.”
“You speak English!” Jordan gasps. “How – how –?”
“We monitor your television broadcasts,” the bug replies. “Especially the cooking shows. Very interesting!”
Whoa. You’re having a conversation with a bug. Yuck!
Still, you’ve got to try. “Uh – we’re stranded here,” you tell the roach. “Can you tell us how to get back to Earth?”
The spokesman – make that spokesroach – moves closer to you. Two of its hairy claws suddenly shoot out and grab you.
“Ow!” you yell. The claws have sharp edges, like a saw.
Two other roaches seize Katy and Jordan. All three of you scream and struggle. But the roaches are strong. They carry you into their ship and lock you in the brig.
A few days later, the X-shaped ship arrives at the roaches’ home world.
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Six roach soldiers hustle you, Jordan, and Katy off the spaceship. They march you to a door with a red light over it.
“Wh-what are you going to do with us?” Jordan stammers.
The roach soldiers just shove you through the door – into a room that looks and smells like a dump!
“Here you are. Excellent!” A truly enormous roach scurries toward you, ticking off items on a clipboard. “Take a seat. We’ll start taping the program in a minute.”
“Taping?” you repeat, totally confused.
“Yes, we’re making a cooking show.” the huge bug beams. “It’s called Garbage Magic. Today the chef will make stir-fried coffee grounds and moldy lettuce pie. It’s our very first TV program. You three humans are our TV experts.”
“Gross – I mean, great,” Katy murmurs with a sickly smile.
What can you do? You’re trapped light-years from home on a world ruled by giant roaches. If they want you to help them make insect TV, you have to obey them. No matter how gross it is.
Well, Madame Zapp warned you there were bugs in the program. Guess she wasn’t kidding!
THE END
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Stuck with a massive repair bill after digging our way through the VR machine.
Fed to a litter of Abominable Ice Puppies.
Escaped the virtual world, but swapped bodies with Andy in the process.
Accidentally caused a cave-in with a magnifying glass and a compass.
Forced to serve snowballs for an ice-tennis game for a hundred years.
Squashed under the falling corpse of a ten-ton pelican.
Stranded in a virtual igloo with a year's supply of blubber-based foodstuffs.
Crashed a snowmobile into the side of a glacier.
De-rezzed into a cloud of pixels after cheating our way through the Ice Maze.
Had our head bitten off by a lizard-man after attacking him with a sword.
Stuck on a three thousand-year flight to Earth after watching our friends gruesomely dissolve into blob monsters.
Knocked out by a bottle and transformed into a blob monster.
Crawled into an egg hole and got eaten by freshly-hatched giant ant larvae.
Enslaved by the Arcturans and forced to polish their scalps.
Cooked to death by intense sunlight amplified by alien magnifying-glass leaves.
Forced to work in the spice mines after failing the Arcturans' quiz.
Sent back to Earth as a disembodied head after failing the Arcturans' final question.
 Kidnapped by space roaches and forced to host a garbage-centric cooking show.
Achievements
A Touch of Frostbite: Escaped the virtual world and gained the power to freeze anything we touch.
Bonus Level: Survived an optional detour through the Pit of Horrors.
Vapor for Brains: Deliberately answered all of the Arcturans' questions incorrectly, presumably out of pity.
Our options posted:
- Answer the Arcturans' third question correctly.
- Use the fire extinguisher on the roaches.
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- chitoryu12
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Fire extinguisher
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- rudecyrus
- Nov 6, 2009
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fuck you trolls
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Mar 6, 2020 03:18
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- Shwoo
- Jul 21, 2011
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Never mind, the roaches are as terrible as they look, spray them with foam.
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Mar 6, 2020 05:53
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- Maugrim
- Feb 16, 2011
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I eat your face
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Never mind, the roaches are as terrible as they look, thump them with a fire extinguisher.
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- Rebonack7
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The lead roach reaches for you.
You grab the fire extinguisher. You aim it at the big bug. “Back off, bug!” you scream, and press the handle.
Cold, wet foam sprays out the end of the extinguisher.
The cockroach makes a high-pitched screaming noise. It scrambles out of the way. Foam splashes some of the other roaches. They all panic, crawling up the walls and skittering across the ceiling.
You keep spraying the fire extinguisher. Katy and Jordan cheer you on. Roaches scuttle everywhere in panic. Several of the giant insects bump the lifeboat’s controls. The small ship lurches and bounces like a toy boat in a flood.
Finally all the roaches squeeze through the hatch to their own ship. Quickly, you slam the hatch shut.
But the lifeboat is spinning out of control.
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The lifeboat bobs around so much, you feel dizzy and sick.
“Make it stop!” you beg.
Katy lurches toward the controls. She grabs hold of the pilot’s seat and pulls herself up to the control panel.
The small ship hurtles through space. “I can’t stop it!” Katy shouts, working the joystick frantically. She punches buttons. But the small craft only moves faster and faster.
Through the porthole, you spy the alien ship you came from. It swiftly grows larger. You’re speeding straight toward it!
“No!” Jordan screams. “We’re going to crash!”
You gaze out the porthole in terror. In another moment you’ll smash against the alien ship.
Desperately, you crawl over to the control panel. From the floor, you spot a button you hadn’t noticed before. It’s on the underside of the control panel.
A tiny label says: FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY.
This is certainly an emergency. But you have no idea what the button does. Should you take a chance?
Press the button on PAGE 103.
Brace yourself for a crash on PAGE 30.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
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Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Stuck with a massive repair bill after digging our way through the VR machine.
Fed to a litter of Abominable Ice Puppies.
Escaped the virtual world, but swapped bodies with Andy in the process.
Accidentally caused a cave-in with a magnifying glass and a compass.
Forced to serve snowballs for an ice-tennis game for a hundred years.
Squashed under the falling corpse of a ten-ton pelican.
Stranded in a virtual igloo with a year's supply of blubber-based foodstuffs.
Crashed a snowmobile into the side of a glacier.
De-rezzed into a cloud of pixels after cheating our way through the Ice Maze.
Had our head bitten off by a lizard-man after attacking him with a sword.
Stuck on a three thousand-year flight to Earth after watching our friends gruesomely dissolve into blob monsters.
Knocked out by a bottle and transformed into a blob monster.
Crawled into an egg hole and got eaten by freshly-hatched giant ant larvae.
Enslaved by the Arcturans and forced to polish their scalps.
Cooked to death by intense sunlight amplified by alien magnifying-glass leaves.
Forced to work in the spice mines after failing the Arcturans' quiz.
Sent back to Earth as a disembodied head after failing the Arcturans' final question.
Kidnapped by space roaches and forced to host a garbage-centric cooking show.
Achievements
A Touch of Frostbite: Escaped the virtual world and gained the power to freeze anything we touch.
Bonus Level: Survived an optional detour through the Pit of Horrors.
Vapor for Brains: Deliberately answered all of the Arcturans' questions incorrectly, presumably out of pity.
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- Leraika
- Jun 14, 2015
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Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
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Duck and cover!!!!
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Mar 7, 2020 03:24
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- LuffyVeggies
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I will press the button.
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Mar 7, 2020 04:21
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- AnAnonymousIdiot
- Sep 14, 2013
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*ahem* ~Oooooooh!~ What does this button do?
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- rudecyrus
- Nov 6, 2009
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fuck you trolls
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Push the button!
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Mar 7, 2020 05:43
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- Shwoo
- Jul 21, 2011
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The roaches might not have worked out, but I'm sure we can trust this ambiguously labelled button.
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Mar 7, 2020 05:52
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- AceOfFlames
- Oct 9, 2012
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Brace! Brace!
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- chitoryu12
- Apr 24, 2014
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Ignore emergency, brace for impact
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Mar 7, 2020 19:37
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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Pushing ambiguously-labeled buttons has never failed us before! Okay, fine, it probably has, but I'm not rereading nearly 300 deaths spread out over 23 books just to make sure this one joke is accurate.
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There’s no time to think. You jab at the emergency button.
CLICK! The hatch pops open.
WHOOSH! Air begins to rush from the cabin.
A computer voice blares from the console. “Emergency hatch release activated. Ten seconds to total vacuum.”
“All the air is escaping!” Jordan yells in terror.
“Shut the door!” Katy cries.
Quickly, you press the button again. Nothing happens.
The air whooshes out the open hatch. It tugs at your clothes, your hair, your skin. You hold on to the instrument panel to keep from being sucked into space. You feel like you’re caught in a tornado.
Soon, you realize, all the oxygen will be gone.
And you’ll go with it.
Face it. This time you made a bad choice. And, unfortunately, this exciting adventure has come to a breathtaking
END.
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Empty
Goal Endings: 1/2
Bad Endings
Stuck with a massive repair bill after digging our way through the VR machine.
Fed to a litter of Abominable Ice Puppies.
Escaped the virtual world, but swapped bodies with Andy in the process.
Accidentally caused a cave-in with a magnifying glass and a compass.
Forced to serve snowballs for an ice-tennis game for a hundred years.
Squashed under the falling corpse of a ten-ton pelican.
Stranded in a virtual igloo with a year's supply of blubber-based foodstuffs.
Crashed a snowmobile into the side of a glacier.
De-rezzed into a cloud of pixels after cheating our way through the Ice Maze.
Had our head bitten off by a lizard-man after attacking him with a sword.
Stuck on a three thousand-year flight to Earth after watching our friends gruesomely dissolve into blob monsters.
Knocked out by a bottle and transformed into a blob monster.
Crawled into an egg hole and got eaten by freshly-hatched giant ant larvae.
Enslaved by the Arcturans and forced to polish their scalps.
Cooked to death by intense sunlight amplified by alien magnifying-glass leaves.
Forced to work in the spice mines after failing the Arcturans' quiz.
Sent back to Earth as a disembodied head after failing the Arcturans' final question.
Kidnapped by space roaches and forced to host a garbage-centric cooking show.
Pressed an ambiguously-labeled button and depressurized our escape pod.
Achievements
A Touch of Frostbite: Escaped the virtual world and gained the power to freeze anything we touch.
Bonus Level: Survived an optional detour through the Pit of Horrors.
Vapor for Brains: Deliberately answered all of the Arcturans' questions incorrectly, presumably out of pity.
Our options posted:
- Answer the Arcturans' third question correctly.
- Brace for a crash.
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- Junpei
- Oct 4, 2015
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Can't post for 11 years!
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Brace for it!
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Mar 8, 2020 17:56
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- chitoryu12
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Okay I guess just do nothing and die
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- rudecyrus
- Nov 6, 2009
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fuck you trolls
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Brace
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Mar 8, 2020 20:21
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- LuffyVeggies
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Brace for impact!
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Mar 10, 2020 04:53
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- AceOfFlames
- Oct 9, 2012
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Brace. Brace.
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Mar 10, 2020 11:46
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- Rebonack7
- Aug 27, 2015
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Bracing for impact!
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“We’re going to crash!” you scream as the alien ship fills the porthole. You close your eyes. You can’t watch.
“Wait!” Katy shouts. “What’s that?”
You open your eyes. A bright beam of blue light shoots out from the alien spacecraft. It encircles your little ship.
The lifeboat slows down.
It stops spinning.
A big cargo bay slides open in the alien spacecraft.
The lifeboat moves toward the opening.
“It’s a tractor beam!” Jordan cries. “We’re saved!”
“What do you mean, we’re saved?” you snap. You punch frantically at the controls. But you can’t get free of the blue beam. “We’re right back where we started. And now we have to fight the alien!”
This takes us to the same page as if we'd decided to fight the alien right away - and more importantly, it means we're down to only one choice! Time to finally bring this game to a close!
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“We found an odd number of words,” you tell the aliens.
The first Arcturan glares at you. Its blue eyes bulge.
Suddenly you notice that its head is starting to swell! It seems to press against the sides of its glass case.
You glance at the other heads. They’re bulging too.
“What’s happening?” Katy whispers.
“I don’t –“ you start to say. But your words are cut off by the sound of shattering glass. The heads have grown right out of their cases!
Then –
SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!
All three Arcturans suddenly explode.
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Blue skin and bits of blue brain fly in every direction. You cover your head with your arms.
“Oh, that is so gross!” Jordan gasps.
“I am definitely going to be sick now!” Gagging, Katy wipes exploded Arcturan off her arm.
A shimmering blue door appears in the middle of the room. The three of you stumble through it – and find yourselves back in the Vegan game room.
“Congratulations!” a familiar metallic voice cries. It’s your Vegan friend. “We knew you could do it!” The Vegan shakes hands with all three of you at once.
“What happened to the Arcturans?” you ask.
“They couldn’t believe someone beat them,” the Vegan explains. “They exploded from an overload of anger.”
“We did what you asked,” you point out. “Now take us home.”
“I’m sorry,” the Vegan says. “We can’t do that now.”
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“What?” you yell. “After all we did for you?”
“Please. Calm down. We’ll be happy to take you home,” the Vegan assures you. “But first, all my people want to meet you. They want to thank you for saving them from the Arcturans.”
“Oh. Well – all right,” you grumble. “But make it quick.”
The Vegan takes you to a big room decorated with red, yellow, and blue streamers. You, Jordan, and Katy stand on a table, waving and smiling as the room fills with Vegans.
You’re still a little creeped out by the Vegans’ lidless eyes and ropy arms. But you’re glad you were able to help them. They seem so happy.
“Just call me Intergalactic Warrior!” Jordan boasts.
Finally the party winds down.
“Now,” your Vegan friend says at last, “it’s time to go home.”
“All right!” you all cheer.
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You and your friends strap yourself into your seats in the transporter. A thundering rumbling fills your ears. You’re slammed back against your seat.
After several minutes, the pressure dies down. You open your eyes.
You’re back at Madame Zapp’s arcade!
“WHEW!" Jordan cries, unstrapping himself. “That was some adventure!”
“I’m glad to be back,” you declare.
“Me too,” Katy agrees. “It seemed so real!”
“It was real!” you protest.
But then you wonder – was it? Virtual reality is supposed to feel exactly like real life.
Did you just imagine that it was all really happening?
“Where’s Madame Zapp?” Jordan asks.
You glance around. There’s no sign of her. And then you notice something on the wall of the booth.
Something very gross.
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You examine the substance closely. It’s blue and green.
“It looks like – EEEEEEWWWWW!” Katy groans.
“It looks like an exploded Arcturan brain!” Jordan exclaims.
“That’s what it is,” says a familiar, hollow voice.
You jump and glance at the console. The Vegan’s voice is coming through the speakers.
“What happened to Madame Zapp?” you demand.
“She worked for us. We planted her here to help us find smart Earth kids,” the Vegan tells you. “But it seems she was really an Arcturan spy looking for game-playing tips. When you won the three challenges, her brain exploded.”
“Yuck!” you mutter.
“Thank you all,” the Vegan calls. There’s a CLICK – and then its voice is gone for good.
But that’s not the last you see of your alien friend. When you, Katy, and Jordan leave the arcade, you happen to glance up at the sky. Then you stop and stare. “Look!” you call, pointing.
Over your heads, a strange, blimplike ship is finishing a skywriting message. This is what it says:
GAME OVER - YOU WIN!
Character Sheet posted:
Inventory
Red Level Map
Empty Bottle (Slightly Used)
Goal Endings: 2/2
Bad Endings
Stuck with a massive repair bill after digging our way through the VR machine.
Fed to a litter of Abominable Ice Puppies.
Escaped the virtual world, but swapped bodies with Andy in the process.
Accidentally caused a cave-in with a magnifying glass and a compass.
Forced to serve snowballs for an ice-tennis game for a hundred years.
Squashed under the falling corpse of a ten-ton pelican.
Stranded in a virtual igloo with a year's supply of blubber-based foodstuffs.
Crashed a snowmobile into the side of a glacier.
De-rezzed into a cloud of pixels after cheating our way through the Ice Maze.
Had our head bitten off by a lizard-man after attacking him with a sword.
Stuck on a three thousand-year flight to Earth after watching our friends gruesomely dissolve into blob monsters.
Knocked out by a bottle and transformed into a blob monster.
Crawled into an egg hole and got eaten by freshly-hatched giant ant larvae.
Enslaved by the Arcturans and forced to polish their scalps.
Cooked to death by intense sunlight amplified by alien magnifying-glass leaves.
Forced to work in the spice mines after failing the Arcturans' quiz.
Sent back to Earth as a disembodied head after failing the Arcturans' final question.
Kidnapped by space roaches and forced to host a garbage-centric cooking show.
Pressed an ambiguously-labeled button and depressurized our escape pod.
Achievements
A Touch of Frostbite: Escaped the virtual world and gained the power to freeze anything we touch.
Bonus Level: Survived an optional detour through the Pit of Horrors.
Vapor for Brains: Deliberately answered all of the Arcturans' questions incorrectly, presumably out of pity.
Going for the Platinum: Completed every possible path of two different Give Yourself Goosebumps books.
And with that, after way too many delays on my part, we're finally finished with Zapped in Space! Next time, our parents decide that a rotting, abandoned mansion in the middle of a place called Stinkeye Swamp is clearly prime real estate.
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- AceOfFlames
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That ending really explained everything.
Next time, our parents decide that a rotting, abandoned mansion in the middle of a place called Stinkeye Swamp is clearly prime real estate.
Have you seen the real estate market lately? You're lucky to be able to afford even that these days.
AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Mar 13, 2020
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Mar 13, 2020 12:08
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- Blueberry Pancakes
- Aug 18, 2012
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Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
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Well, alright then.
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Mar 13, 2020 13:02
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- Rebonack7
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GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS #24: LOST IN STINKEYE SWAMP
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“Swamp House?” you shriek. You gaze out the car window at the words painted on the mailbox. “You didn’t tell me our new house is called Swamp House!”
Your dad steers the station wagon down the long, bumpy driveway. “You’ll love it,” he assures you.
Then you get a look at the house. It’s a dump! It’s huge, run-down, and ancient looking. The white paint is dirty and peeling. Half the shutters are hanging by one hinge.
“It’s a fixer-upper,” your dad says as he parks the car.
More like a knocker-downer, you think.
You get out of the car and take a deep breath. Yuck! What smells so gross? You gaze around and see that the house sits next to a big, ugly swamp.
“That’s Stinkeye Swamp,” your dad explains as you all start unpacking the car. “Fifty square miles of wilderness, right in our backyard. Isn’t it great?”
“Whoopee,” you mutter.
“The swamp is supposed to be haunted,” your mom adds. “And they say there’s buried treasure around here. There’s even a legend about ‘Annabelle’s Curse.’” She shivers. “Oooooh!”
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“Mom,” you groan. You know she’s faking.
She punches you playfully on the shoulder. “What a grouch,” she teases. “You know you love creepy stuff like ghosts and legends.”
You’d never admit it, but your mom is right. The stuff about the treasure and the legend sound cool. The ghost part is lame, though.
“Welcome to Stinkeye Swamp,” a voice calls.
You drop the carton you’re holding and turn around. A boy about your age approaches. He has a pale face and long black hair.
“I’m Zeke,” he tells you. He gazes past you at the house. “So someone finally bought Swamp House.”
You sigh. “My parents,” you mutter. “The Fixer-Uppers.”
Zeke laughs. “Well, there’s plenty of fixing up to do here. But that could be cool,” he adds. “It will keep your parents out of your hair.”
For the first time since you heard about moving, you smile. “Hey – you’ve got a point,” you say. A broad grin spreads across your face.
You like the way this kid thinks!
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You and Zeke end up being great friends. He doesn’t go to your school, but you hang out together every afternoon. Zeke’s biggest drawback? He’s totally obsessed with Annabelle’s Curse and finding the treasure.
“Come on, what have we got to lose?” Zeke urges one afternoon for the millionth time.
You roll your eyes. “I’m tired of looking for treasure!” you tell him. “That’s all you ever want to do. We’ve searched the whole house a hundred times already.”
It’s Friday after school. Your parents are at work. You and Zeke are playing catch in the weed-infested backyard.
“Come on!” Zeke replies. “Even if there’s no treasure, we might find something down there.”
“Down there” is the basement of Swamp House. You haven’t searched there yet – because the basement stinks. It smells just like Stinkeye Swamp.
With a shrug, you follow him. Who knows? Maybe you’ll dig up some old comic books. Those might be worth something.
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You step from the hot sun into the damp, cold basement. It’s even worse than you expected. Old rotted chairs are stacked to the ceiling, along with crumbling papers, moldy trunks, piles of rags, rusty tin cans, an old sewing machine, and about three hundred cardboard boxes.
“There’s nothing here,” you complain to Zeke after a few minutes of poking around. You’re already bored. And you have a creepy feeling that there might be a large rat or two crawling around behind some of the boxes.
Zeke is on his hands and knees in the dust. “Wait!” he cries, popping up. “Look at this!” He holds out a bright, gleaming tube.
“Cool!” you exclaim. “An old telescope.”
In the glaring light of the bare bulb, the brass cylinder shines brightly. Almost as if it’s glowing.
“It’s something a ship’s captain would use,” Zeke comments, turning it in his hands. Letters are etched on the sides.
“Hey, let me see,” you demand. You take a few steps toward Zeke – and trip over something on the floor.
“Whoa!” you yell.
You’re going down!
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You land on top of an old trunk.
“Are you okay?” Zeke asks.
“I tripped over something,” you explain. You reach down and pick up an old leather-bound book. It’s held shut with a thick strap.
“What’s that?” Zeke asks. He walks over.
You study the heavy brown volume. The rich leather of the book’s cover shines dully. The pages are bursting out of the binding. One hangs loose. You can see writing in tiny black letters.
“It looks like some kind of diary,” you answer.
“Let’s open it up and read it!” Zeke exclaims. “Maybe the secret of the Swamp House treasure is in there!”
For the first time, you’re as excited as Zeke. You’re dying to read the book.
But Zeke is still holding the gleaming telescope. You can’t wait to look through that. You could probably see for miles with it.
Which should you do first?
To read the diary, go to PAGE 27.
To peer through the telescope, go to PAGE 25.
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