27) Star Strider Solution

[champskees]

Like most of the FF Sci Fi adventures, this book’s pretty boring. There are no set pieces that stand out, and it has similar flaws as those found in Rings of Kether. I like Luke Sharp books because of the way you end up mapping them; it always ends up as a web of confusion, and mapping out the optimal route is always more fun when you have real options. In this solution I have gathered the main clues (the coordinates) but they are not entirely necessary.

Note the book does not cap Skill, Stamina or Luck to their Initial Rolls. To be honest it doesn’t really matter; minimum stats will do okay in this adventure even if you stick to the ‘common’ rules. The only difficulty in Star Strider is the random ‘roll 2D6 four times, double = death’ test at the end, which relies on nothing but pure chance. Why he likes including these silly dice rolls in his books, I have no idea.

Time taken using this method: 41 time units (includes 5 hrs of drink and eat time – optional).

- Have some food cubes (+1 Stamina).
- Talk to the android.
- Go along with them (-2 Time).
- Give him a name.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Trust the Grom, sit back & relax (+3 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Follow it first (-2 Time).
- Follow the android.
- Attack the android.
- Ask the robot where the Grom secret records are kept (-2 Time).
- Enter the basement (+6 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Keep a low profile.
- Raise your hands to show you will not fight (-2 Time).
- Choose the left circuit.
- Formula: A+B-1=C. 4+5-1=8. Go to para 8.
        o Working:
                o 6,9 = +3. 9,14 = +5
                o 8,13 = +5. 13,20 = +7 (increments go up by +2)
                o 4,5 = +1. 5,? = +3. ? = 8
- 67,64 = -3. 64,73 = +9. 73,46 = -27 (alternate between + and -, increments go up by x3)
- 46 + (27x3) = 127. Go to para 127.
- Clue: Circle with horizontal line through it (-4 Time).
- Hurry on in your search (+6 Stamina).
- Approach the android (-2 Time).
- Go to the salt mines.
- Fight the craft.
- Fight Sk 7 St 8 Bandit Zipcar. Special Encounter (Do not reduce your actual stamina from this fight). This walkthrough assumes you beat this fight (you would have to be really unlucky to lose here).
- Clue: London Area, 169A.
- Run for the ZipCar (-2 Time).
- Risk pressing the button.
- Glide right (+2 Luck).
- Set course for Paris (+4 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Go quietly.
- Risk going in.
- Clue: 824B.
- Say nothing.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
        o If you failed all three Fear Tests, you die.
- Choose the Knight (+2 Luck).
- Fight Sk 4 St 4 One Armed Excel.
- Go into the warehouse.
- Take the right door.
- Stamina Test: 2D6 vs. Stamina+D6. Fail = 1 Damage & repeat until successful.
- Go to the Silverhound terminal (-2 Time).
- Go back to the other one (+6 Stamina).
- Jump on & take it (+4 Luck).
- Travel flat out.
- Test Luck. Fail = Death.
- Go west (-2 Time).
- Test Luck. Fail = Fight Sk 7 St 8 Leech.
- Go north east (-2 Time) (Para 2).
- Go north east (Para 7).
- Rest, eat & drink (-5 Time, +4 Stamina).
- Go north east (Para 21).
- Go north east (-2 Time) (Para 62).
- Go north east (Para 318).
- Go north. Note there is a door marked with a chess knight symbol in this chamber (-2 Time).
- Go east (Para 37).
- Go east (Para 116).
- Test Luck. Fail = 2D6-2D6 Damage.
- Go east (-2 Time) (Para 12).
- Go west (-2 Time) (Para 180).
- Choose Heading B.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Carry the president out (4 Damage).
- Try the elevator.
- 2D6 Stamina Test. Fail = Death.
- Advise him to fire a missile at it straight away.
- You have saved the Galactic President. You receive an Iridium AmEx Credit Card (0%p.a for 6 months on any balance transfers).

[FF Fan]

This is the worst FF game up to this point (#27 in the series). Not fun, too much random, pointless page turning, and the scoring system is stupid (as you note, the init levels aren't maximums, leading to ridiculously high STA and LUCK scores.

A terrible game.

Thank you, Champskees, for posting these solutions, great work!!

Wayne

[axelf]

Champskees, I appreciate all the solutions, especially for these less traveled FF books...

[CharlesX]

Is there still a path through if you fail the Bandit Zipcar fight, or are you just finished if that comes to pass?

[roidhun]

For the benefit of anybody else who's pedantic enough to care about such things... this is a repost of Champskees's solution, slightly edited to identify which Stations in the London Underground you have to pass through.

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Time taken using this method: 41 time units (includes 5 hrs of drink and eat time – optional).

- Have some food cubes (+1 Stamina).
- Talk to the android.
- Go along with them (-2 Time).
- Give him a name.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Trust the Grom, sit back & relax (+3 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Follow it first (-2 Time).
- Follow the android.
- Attack the android.
- Ask the robot where the Grom secret records are kept (-2 Time).
- Enter the basement (+6 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Keep a low profile.
- Raise your hands to show you will not fight (-2 Time).
- Choose the left circuit.
- Formula: A+B-1=C. 4+5-1=8. Go to para 8.
        o Working:
                o 6,9 = +3. 9,14 = +5
                o 8,13 = +5. 13,20 = +7 (increments go up by +2)
                o 4,5 = +1. 5,? = +3. ? = 8
- 67,64 = -3. 64,73 = +9. 73,46 = -27 (alternate between + and -, increments go up by x3)
- 46 + (27x3) = 127. Go to para 127.
- Clue: Circle with horizontal line through it (-4 Time).
- Hurry on in your search (+6 Stamina).
- Approach the android (-2 Time).
- Go to the salt mines.
- Fight the craft.
- Fight Sk 7 St 8 Bandit Zipcar. Special Encounter (Do not reduce your actual stamina from this fight). This walkthrough assumes you beat this fight (you would have to be really unlucky to lose here).
- Clue: London Area, 169A.
- Run for the ZipCar (-2 Time).
- Risk pressing the button.
- Glide right (+2 Luck).
- Set course for Paris (+4 Stamina, -2 Time).
- Go quietly.
- Risk going in.
- Clue: 824B.
- Say nothing.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
- Test Fear. Fail = 2 Damage.
        o If you failed all three Fear Tests, you die.
- Choose the Knight (+2 Luck).
- Fight Sk 4 St 4 One Armed Excel.
- Go into the warehouse.
- Take the right door.
- Stamina Test: 2D6 vs. Stamina+D6. Fail = 1 Damage & repeat until successful.
- Go to the Silverhound terminal (-2 Time).
- Go back to the other one (+6 Stamina).
- You entered the tunnel network at Brixton Station and are now at Stockwell Station. Jump on the sophisticated speedboard & take it (+4 Luck).
- Travel flat out.
- Test Luck. Fail = Death.
- You are at Victoria Station. Go west (-2 Time).
- Test Luck. Fail = Fight Sk 7 St 8 Leech.
- Go north east (-2 Time) (Para 2).
- You are at Knightsbridge Station. Go north east (Para 7).
- You are at Hyde Park Corner Station. Rest, eat & drink (-5 Time, +4 Stamina).
- Go north east (Para 21).
- You are at Green Park Station. Go north east (-2 Time) (Para 62).
- You are at Oxford Circus Station. Go north east (Para 318).
- You are at Warren Street Station. Go north. Note there is a door marked with a chess knight symbol in this chamber (-2 Time).
- You are at Euston Station. Go east (Para 37).
- You are at King’s Cross Station. Go east (Para 116).
- Test Luck. Fail = 2D6-2D6 Damage.
- You are at Farringdon Station. Go east (-2 Time) (Para 12).
- You are at Moorgate Station. Go west (-2 Time) (Para 180).
- You are at Bank Station. Choose Heading B.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Roll 2D6. Double = Death.
- Carry the president out (4 Damage).
- Try the elevator.
- 2D6 Stamina Test. Fail = Death.
- Advise him to fire a missile at it straight away.
- You have saved the Galactic President.

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In a couple of cases I had to make a best guess, because there are two Stations close together on a real-world map of the Tube. I always assumed that the one with the most cross-connections between different Lines is the one the author is most likely to have intended it to be.