Monday, 25 January 2010

Fighting Fantasy Monday: Seas of Blood (III)

A close run thing, but the majority of votes were for the "retreat into the nearby dunes to lie in ambush for any caravan that might happen by" option. So let's find out what happens next...

A bit of an anticlimax:

For three days, you and your crew lie under the blazing sun of the Scythera Desert, waiting for sight of the lumbering pack-animals common among caravans in this part of the world. Add 3 days to your LOG. You begin to run low on provisions and fresh water. Will you wait for just a few more days among these dunes (turn to 194), or give up on the desert and return to the Banshee (turn to 35)?

Log: 8 days.

Already the key failing of the gamebook format reveals itself - there is no "fuck it, let's attack the village instead" option. But this is the life we have chosen. 194 or 35?
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16 comments:

  1. Michael S/Chgowiz26 January 2010 at 01:22

    Bah! Let's head back to the ship and get to looting and plundering! I told ye scurvy dogs we should have raided that port! But nooo... ye're weaker than a two legged dog without teeth! To murderin' and plunderin'!

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  2. Zak Sabbath26 January 2010 at 01:43

    What he said.

    R!

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  3. Jason Langlois26 January 2010 at 01:46

    194 A caravan must come by soon, and the plunder will be all the greater for our having waited for it!

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  4. letsdamage26 January 2010 at 01:47

    I am a patient pirate. I'll wait.

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  5. Ragnorakk26 January 2010 at 02:35

    I hear the Banshee's wailing - we've spent too much time doing nothing here.

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  6. NathanRyder26 January 2010 at 04:45

    Arrrr, we should wait and pillage some caravans! They'll come by soon, and we'll have lots of swag and booty and pieces of eight! Arrrr!

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  7. Al26 January 2010 at 06:50

    194!

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  8. Mike D.26 January 2010 at 08:48

    194, patience will pay off. I am sure of it!

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  9. Tom Fitzgerald26 January 2010 at 09:34

    eight days wasted! Back to the ship I say to attack the first vessel we see.

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  10. opossum10126 January 2010 at 10:41

    194 laconically he comments...

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  11. squidman26 January 2010 at 20:46

    the game totally suggests that if we wait, there's something gonna happen.

    194!

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  12. Michael S/Chgowiz26 January 2010 at 20:48

    (Man, I'm so for splitting the party or having a PvP to settle this. Arrrr!)

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  13. NathanRyder27 January 2010 at 05:10

    By the by, the book does have a "fuck it, let's attack the village instead" option. You just flick back to the previous opportunity to go to the village and follow that path!

    Don't tell me you know never played them that way!

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  14. Tom Fitzgerald27 January 2010 at 16:34

    Be sure and be showing us the pictures when there are pictures eh? We don't want to be sailing blind.

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  15. Alex31 January 2010 at 06:36

    194!

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  16. fishlemons1 February 2010 at 20:23

    wait some more, something's bound to happen

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