kieran
Baron
Posts: 2,458
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Dec 15, 2017 14:36:22 GMT
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Post by vastariner on Dec 31, 2017 14:12:38 GMT
I had a sudden thought about the dog-ape and ape-dog. Perhaps these were the first (or among the first) of Marr's experiments in marrangha. And he either gave them to Balthus before their relationship soured, be it as a serious gift, a joke novelty, or a veiled indication of his owers, or Balthus somehow appropriated them in one of their skirmishes.
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Post by marblefigure on Apr 27, 2019 18:43:41 GMT
It's laughable that the gorilla headed dog is the deadlier of those two strange things. It obviously has the less deadly parts of both beasts.
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Post by schlendrian on May 11, 2019 20:02:46 GMT
It obviously has the less deadly parts of both beasts. Makes you wonder what kind of stats a Man-Rhino complementing the Rhino-Man would have
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Post by Pete Byrdie on May 12, 2019 12:21:47 GMT
I find them an odd choice as the first line of defense to Dire's citadel anyway.
The bear/dog hybrid in the post above is digitigrade, suggestive of a wolf or dog, rather than plantigrade like a bear. I suspect it's a wolf in bear's clothing.
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Post by schlendrian on May 12, 2019 12:49:43 GMT
You've got a point. They are, to give them credit though, at least alert, which can't be said of Zagor's guards. And, if you think of creatures like this wind spirit, the ganjees and that leprechaun, Dire obviously has trouble with the discipline of his troops - he might not have much of a choice in his door guards...
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Post by Pete Byrdie on May 12, 2019 16:30:47 GMT
Fair point! I hadn't realised the Citadel of Chaos was so called because of the general lack of order among its staff. Actually, the whole tower seems to be a free-for-all, with whole rooms inhabited by random creatures. In the early days of gamebooks, the dungeon crawl model still reigned.
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vagsancho
Knight
Posts: 809
Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Jul 21, 2019 18:33:27 GMT
The chaos is dominant in the citadel of chaos. We also feel the same in master of chaos. However we feel no evil in this book. Just a desire for power, not more.
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 18, 2019 15:18:38 GMT
Adding to the silliness of ape-dog and dog-ape, some translation nonsense: In the German translation, while the small one was called ape-dog, the big one was called a wolf-gorilla, kinda defeating the point of them being made from the same animal.
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MacZidane
Squire
Posts: 5
Favourite Gamebook Series: House of Hell
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Post by MacZidane on Apr 13, 2022 16:54:28 GMT
Played this today for the first time in years,and died to the Miks.
Which is all the more remarkable when you consider I've had this book since its release in 1983, and I've never before been in the room where that enemy is!
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IoannesKantakouzenos
Traveller
Being slowly eaten alive by a Ghoul
Posts: 105
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Aventuras Fantásticas)
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Post by IoannesKantakouzenos on Jun 8, 2022 15:40:16 GMT
I liked this one when I first got it, found it had the same feel of TWoFM (at least for me). I always imagined that the Big-Bird-from-Darkness that features on the front cover to be the Clawbeast (and the Rhino-Man that appears in third of the line in there doesn't look at all like the fearsome character that appears on (118), if my memory serves me right. My biggest peeves with CoC? Dire's grandfather eventually found it necessary to protect himself from his minions by setting up various protective traps between the creatures and his own dwellings, most notable of these being the Doompit Trap (...) What the deuce is notable about a room with a chest full of lead and a wide and deep trench around it? The other one that comes to my mind only appeared in the Portuguese version: Balthus Dire's father's name was "translated" to Graggen Dire for no apparent reason.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jun 8, 2022 19:50:28 GMT
It's laughable that the gorilla headed dog is the deadlier of those two strange things. It obviously has the less deadly parts of both beasts.
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Post by CharlesX on Jun 8, 2022 20:22:13 GMT
It's laughable that the gorilla headed dog is the deadlier of those two strange things. It obviously has the less deadly parts of both beasts. I've never thought before about the illogic of The Simpsons family having a pet dog and a pet cat at the same time - surely they'd be at each other like a cat with a rabbit, or something.
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Post by Akharis on Sept 17, 2022 12:13:23 GMT
Where can the combination to Balthus Dire's metal security door be found in the Black Tower?
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Post by a moderator on Sept 17, 2022 13:24:57 GMT
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