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Post by paperexplorer on Feb 16, 2024 21:40:03 GMT
Given Ian's penchant for linear adventures, I'm thinking
CORRIDOR OF CARNAGE
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Post by blueswift on Mar 17, 2024 0:42:40 GMT
Fortune's Forum – Flabbergasted that someone survived Deathtrap Dungeon and that someone prevailed at the Trial of Champions, the villain’s motivation is to find the luckiest person alive. To accomplish this, the antagonist builds a third deathtrap and challenges anyone to dare try to survive it. The gimmick in this book is that throughout the dungeon are altars that someone can walk through to boost their luck stats. The goal is to get to the end of the dungeon with the highest luck score you can and hopefully, you will have a higher luck stat than the other competitors. The challenge to the player is to use their luck sparingly but because of the difficulty of the enemies, they’ll need to use their luck more often than they’d like. Still, this adventure will be easier than Trial of Champions and you begin the adventure with 12 provisions. You play as an adventure renowned for being lucky and you can exceed your initial luck score. The plot twist at the end is that Yaztromo is the final adversary. But is it Yaztromo in actuality or some bad guy who has cast an Illusion spell? If so, who is underneath the spell - Lord Carnuss, a Demon Prince, Riddling Reaver himself? Otherwise Yaztromo would have to have been enslaved, probably by Baron Sukumvit, and you'd get one of those awful pyrrhic endings if you can't turn him good again.
The bit about Yaztromo was mostly a joke and not something I put more than sixty seconds of thought into. Surely I'm not the only one slightly annoyed by the cranky wizard's gratuitous number of appearances? Still, since I put that idea out there publicly, an attempt to defend it will be furnished. However, my success is something that I doubt. Two possible ways immediately come to mind to justify his role as the final adversary. In either of the below, the idea is that Yaz and the main character do not try to kill each other but instead, Yaztromo calls for a ceasefire after some quantity of attack rounds which the main character agrees to. Think friendly brawl instead of an all-out war. 1. Yaztromo’s the one behind the whole new dungeon. He's seeking to find the luckiest person in the world so that any new threats that seriously menace the Fighting Fantasy world can be dealt with by that person. The logic is: ‘Well if this person is the luckiest person in the world then they will be lucky enough to overcome threats to the land by just sheer luck alone’. Wacky idea for sure but other bizarre ideas have been published in Fighting Fantasy. Alternatively: 2. Yaz fell asleep whilst smoking at home and accidentally set his tower on fire. That tower is now no more. Sadly, his home was uninsured. The antagonist who built the new deathtrap dungeon offered him a financial reward for his participation. The wizard intends to use the reward money to reconstruct his tower. As for nominating a quality candidate to be the main antagonist, my knowledge of Fighting Fantasy is too limited. Is Balthus Dire still around? I read Citadel of Chaos for the first and only time about 7 years ago and don’t recall if he perished or not. He may be looking for someone to lead his army while he’s convalescing from his loss at the end of CoC. Someone extraordinarily lucky sounds like a promising general. Although, neither West Point nor the Canadian Royal Military College ever saw my attendance so I can’t say so for certain.
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