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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:03:30 GMT
From TUFFF (Feb 2010)... Creature of Havoc has them aplenty! Where can I start? The blue slime?
The chattermatter?
The zombie aboard the galleykeep?
Falling off bridges into filthy rivers?
Getting captured in the forest traps?
Rice grains turning into death maggots?
Getting trapped in various rooms and dying from starvation?
Getting your glands cut out?
Getting shot in the heart by Dark Elves? "Your progress has been watched, foul creature of destruction!" |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:03:56 GMT
From TUFFF... This is a useful thread The more beautiful and pure FF is – the more satisfying it is to corrupt it. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:04:30 GMT
From TUFFF... Sarcasm is so easily lost on the web...
In any case, it's all in good fun, like the books we enjoy playing. Thanks Sunil. Some of those sounds nasty. I also know that Beneath Nightmare Castle is supposed to have some disturbing deaths in there... Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:05:03 GMT
From TUFFF... I remember SOTA having some very innovative death scenarios. Two Words |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:05:55 GMT
From TUFFF... Deathmoor states that the wraiths treat you to a particularly gruesome death. It doesn't matter that it doesn't describe what this gruesome death entails. But I imagine it's gruesome enough to win this category, hands-down.  On a more serious note, I think going insane vs. the Vitriol Essence and falling into the acidic pool in Beneath Nightmare Castle is pretty unpleasant. But then again, you die pretty quickly compared to the various endings involving hardcore torture and insanity. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:08:23 GMT
From TUFFF... Sometimes particular deaths are better left to the imagination... the more fertile, the better!
...or worse! Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:08:58 GMT
From TUFFF... I remember from House of Hell you can get captured and then you are given a choice of whether you want to spend the rest of your life in a tall cage forever standing up, or a small cage forever sitting down until you die!!!!!!! |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:10:18 GMT
From TUFFF... I remember from House of Hell you can get captured and then you are given a choice of whether you want to spend the rest of your life in a tall cage forever standing up, or a small cage forever sitting down until you die!!!!!!! True. Stuff like that are simple, yet, cruel and nasty. Not quite a hero's death, but also in House of Hell, if you wander in the sacrificial room, witnessing powerless the girl being undressed (I supposed though it's not specified) and stabbed and the cultists bathing in her blood is pretty disturbing.
Then if you are foolish enough to try and help her you get it too. Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:10:48 GMT
From TUFFF... Ghouls and Harpoon Flies have the ability to paralyse you, resulting in your being eaten alive, which is pretty grim if you think about it. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:11:53 GMT
From TUFFF... I remember from House of Hell you can get captured and then you are given a choice of whether you want to spend the rest of your life in a tall cage forever standing up, or a small cage forever sitting down until you die!!!!!!! Well at least they didn't ask for one lying down... The more beautiful and pure FF is – the more satisfying it is to corrupt it. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:13:18 GMT
From TUFFF... There's a few interesting deaths in Rebel Planet. My favorite, pretty gruesome when you think about it, is when you try to open a certain casing...
Liquid helium pours out and freezes your feet to the ground. Feeling nothing below the calf, you snap your own ankles trying to leave and presumably, falling off balance.
It's not so much the shattering of your ankles that's gruesome as much as the thought of you lying on the floor, probably still alive while your ankles thaw and sensations comes back into your body, then probably dying a slow death. Unless a merciful Arcadian Patrol comes along... And of course, this book is full of multiples impalements on swords and spike tails... Always nice. Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:13:52 GMT
From TUFFF... That's disgusting The more beautiful and pure FF is – the more satisfying it is to corrupt it. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:14:41 GMT
From TUFFF... Hynreck, did you like the bit in Rebel when the Arcadian guard lets you enter chambers with either "Certain Death" or "Probable Death" (you have no information which is which), and then you enter the former, and get chopped up by laser beams? No, I didn't either!  "Your progress has been watched, foul creature of destruction!" |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:18:38 GMT
From TUFFF... Hynreck, did you like the bit in Rebel when the Arcadian guard lets you enter chambers with either "Certain Death" or "Probable Death" (you have no information which is which), and then you enter the former, and get chopped up by laser beams?
No, I didn't either! Actually, this time, without any cheat from my part, I chose the right door. I did check, the second time I went through this part, out of sheer curiosity. In any case, in all FF, whenever there's a 50/50 chance of death out of a choice that requires nothing else but blind luck, it's always nasty.
It's never much fun to basically flip a coin to find out if you live or die. At the very least, make the death an interesting one, but still, frustrating. Though, perhaps, not as frustrating as that bit where you have to meet in Rebel that convenient alien on the way to Dorado... Stuff like that makes me wish I could meet the author to slap him in the face while screaming: Why? Why?? Goddammit!!! Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:19:23 GMT
From TUFFF... There's at least one pretty gruesome death in Demons of the Deep: If you bow in front of the Bone Demons, he picks you up, numbs you and start peeling the flesh off your bones until you become another skeleton with black pearls for eyes...
And if you try to flee from him, he catches you and start eating you feet first.
Now, isn't he deserving of his spot on the cover? I think so!! Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:19:48 GMT
From TUFFF... That's crazy, I tell ya, crazy! The more beautiful and pure FF is – the more satisfying it is to corrupt it. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:20:32 GMT
From TUFFF... There's lots of bloody and painful deaths in Sword of the Samurai, though not that many that deserve a spotlight... The authors don't go into too much details, though I guess being eaten alive by undead flying heads could qualify. It's also the first time I see the possibility to lose stamina points in a failure section. At some unlucky moment, you can cut-off your foot and lose 7 stamina points... and if you survive, you fail anyway and have to go back to your Shogun in shame. Interesting. It seems the authors went the extra mile to humiliate the player... Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:21:42 GMT
From TUFFF (April 2010)... As mentioned long ago by Sunil, Creature of Havoc's got plenty of terrible death. But what's really deserving of mention here is how Jackson takes his sweet time sending you to your doom. Seems to enjoy it, actually. Ah, but here's one not mentioned by Sunil which I thought was pretty nasty: being choked to death by the mudslime, by having this disgusting being pour itself inside your nose and throat and who knows what else...
I've got a vivid image of that. Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:23:16 GMT
From TUFFF... As mentioned long ago by Sunil, Creature of Havoc's got plenty of terrible death. But what's really deserving of mention here is how Jackson takes his sweet time sending you to your doom. Seems to enjoy it, actually.
Ah, but here's one not mentioned by Sunil which I thought was pretty nasty: being choked to death by the mudslime, by having this disgusting being pour itself inside your nose and throat and who knows what else...
I've got a vivid image of that. Hynreck, I mentioned the "blue slime" in my post above!!! "Your progress has been watched, foul creature of destruction!" |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:24:30 GMT
From TUFFF... Sorry, I thought you meant the poisonous slime into which you walk at one point and might slide in and swallow some... See, I always assume Mudslime would be brown, not blue. The one near the Yellowstone Mines. Speak in extremes, it will save you time. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:54:57 GMT
From TUFFF (October 2009)... Of all the terrible fates that can befall the player during an adventure, which one has seemed the most silly, over-the-top way to die? This is not necessarily exclusive to FF adventures, so if you have a non-FF humorous death to post, awesome! To get the ball rolling, in Scorpion Swamp, I find Grimslade's tower turning red-hot and exploding with me inside one that kept me laughing. I can't help but picture panning out from a tower with a very cheesy red glow effect all over it followed with a dramatic explosion. Outside FF, I'd have to say the Zork CYOA Conquest at Quendor has the most over-the-top death. If you decide to get past a door by trying to break the glass transom above it, an alarm goes off, steel doors drop to prevent escape, poison gas begins seeping in, poison darts shoot everywhere, robots wielding laser guns emerge from secret panels, and chainsaws begin descending from the ceiling. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:55:32 GMT
From TUFFF... The best intentionally humorous death I've ever encountered must be the 'inadvertent self-decapitation while attempting to remove a cursed dog collar' sequence from Grail Quest book 8. For unintentional humour, it has to be Lone Wolf book 13. Behind all the overdramatic and portentous text, the death boils down to: 'You save the world and a bridge falls on you.' |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:56:22 GMT
From TUFFF... I think the Chattermatter in Creature of Havoc is quite funny. "Your progress has been watched, foul creature of destruction!" |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:56:54 GMT
From TUFFF... Star Strider: You are flying down a disused metro tunnel on a sort of hover-board, and if you take a particular turning you're told: Oh, it's isn't a tunnel, it's an illusion; it's actually a wall of spikes. You are impaled and killed. Well, how lovely obviously I saw that one coming! ~ Vae Victis! ~ |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:58:03 GMT
From TUFFF... Star Strider: You are flying down a disused metro tunnel on a sort of hover-board, and if you take a particular turning you're told: Oh, it's isn't a tunnel, it's an illusion; it's actually a wall of spikes. You are impaled and killed. Well, how lovely obviously I saw that one coming! There are far more unfair and/or random deaths in other books (most notably Clash Of The Princes). The false tunnels in Star Strider can usually be deduced by looking at the map of the underground in that book.
I'm trying to remember which book has a paragraph in it which tells you "you deserved to die!" It's a wonderfully OTT line, but where was it from? |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:58:57 GMT
From TUFFF... The false tunnels in Star Strider can usually be deduced by looking at the map of the underground in that book. Fair point... It still feels like a bit of artificial difficulty to me though!  ~ Vae Victis! ~ |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 13:59:27 GMT
From TUFFF... Luke Sharp's first two books both go massively overboard with arbitrary Instant Deaths towards the end of the game. The map helps with some, but not all, in Strider, but Chasms has no obvious hints. But for the toned-down harshness of Daggers and Fangs, I'd assume that Sharp really hated his readers. I'm trying to remember which book has a paragraph in it which tells you "you deserved to die!" It's a wonderfully OTT line, but where was it from? Isn't it when you try to rescue the sacrificial victim in House of Hell?
Based on its position and the text that leads up to it, section 400 of The Crimson Tide is a wonderfully nasty joke. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:06:07 GMT
From TUFFF... I'm going to have to order Star Strider next, it seems. Arbitrary deaths are usually pretty funny. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:06:40 GMT
From TUFFF... Yesterday I had a go at another CYOA, Secret of the Sun God, and reached an ending where your character suddenly transforms into an eagle for no good reason. Makes me wonder if the author's research included consumption of one of the hallucinogens used in some Native American rituals. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:07:22 GMT
From TUFFF... In Forecast from Stonehange, your character is given a free wish by a group of faries. Unfortunately, you inexplicably blurt out that you wish to travel to "Mohenjo-Daro", some ruin which isn't even on the same continent as Stonehenge. Transported there, the story ends immediately. Probably the most bizzare conclusion I've ever seen! |
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