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Post by Gabe Fandango on Jun 17, 2024 3:59:03 GMT
9. Identify a full-page internal illustration that features a ghoul. BONUS CONDITION: If you pick a correct and unique answer illustrated by Russ Nicholson, you get to deduct 1 point from your total score.
Island of the Undead section 114 (Greater Ghoul) - trialmaster, evilwizard, Wildy, vastariner (4) Chasms of Malice section 14 (pack of ghouls consumed by spell) - petch, sylas (2) The Warlock of Firetop Mountain section 275 (single ghoul) - Per, Peter (2) Eye of the Dragon section 362 (single ghoul) - Peter's wife, hallucination (2)
Invalid Answer: Island of the Undead section 339 (charred corpse) - kieran (12)
Oof, first question where nobody got a unique answer! The bonus point does not come into play, except possibly causing most players to go for Russ Nicholson books. Nobody even tried for either of the vampire books illustrated by McKenna, both of which feature ghouls. And even among Nicholson's books, there's at least one other viable answer available in Deathmoor, which again nobody went for.
kieran's answer references what's described as only a "charred corpse" in the text, and wasn't described as a ghoul anywhere. It also doesn't feature any particular trait of regular ghouls other than being a product of what was probably originally a dead body, merely crumbling to ashes after inflicting a single scratch on you (and doesn't actively attack you, it only activates upon you going near it), so I cannot accept the answer.
After 8 rounds of leading the pack, evilwizard is finally dethroned after being involved in another sizeable pile-up, and Peter's wife sits on top of the rankings. Will she retain the lead in the last question?
Updated scoreboard:
Peter's wife - 12 petch, evilwizard, - 14 trialmaster - 16 vastariner - 21 Per - 22 Peter, sylas - 23 kieran - 29 hallucination - 31 Wildy - 36
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Post by Gabe Fandango on Jun 17, 2024 5:20:44 GMT
10. Martin Martin McKenna contributed new cover arts for a lot of the books reprinted by Wizard Books. Name one of these books which had cover art done by different artist(s) in the Puffin edition. BONUS CONDITION: You may pick books that are outside the range contributed by the above-listed departed members for this (and only this) question, but if you do pick a book within the range and score a correct unique answer, you get to deduct 1 point from your total score.
Return to Firetop Mountain - trialmaster, Wildy, vastariner (3) Temple of Terror - evilwizard, kieran (2) The Warlock of Firetop Mountain - Per, Peter (2) Armies of Death - sylas, hallucination (2) Talisman of Death - petch (1) Spellbreaker - Peter's wife (1)
Once again, the only result of the bonus point system is to cause a lot of clashes for players attempting to gain it! The only ones who scored unique answers are the 2 who wisely chose not to compete for the bonus point. One of them already leads the ranking, and thereby solidifies herself as the winner.
Congratulations to Peter's wife for winning this round!
Updated scoreboard:
Peter's wife - 13 petch - 15 evilwizard, - 16 trialmaster - 19 vastariner - 24 Per - 24 Peter, sylas - 25 kieran - 31 hallucination - 33 Wildy - 39
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Post by Wildy on Jun 17, 2024 5:34:44 GMT
Congratulations to Peter’s wife and thanks to Gabe Fandango for the round! Lots of interesting and challenging questions.
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Post by Gabe Fandango on Jun 17, 2024 5:49:06 GMT
As promised earlier, here's the comparison of how players would have ranked/scored under the alternative penalty points system used per Per last round:
Final score:
Peter's wife - 13 petch - 15 evilwizard, - 16 trialmaster - 19 vastariner - 24 Per - 24 Peter, sylas - 25 kieran - 31 hallucination - 33 Wildy - 39
Final score under alternative penalty system:
Peter's wife - 13 petch - 15 evilwizard, - 16 sylas - 17 trialmaster - 19 vastariner - 24 Per - 24 Peter - 25 kieran - 27 hallucination - 25 Wildy - 29
The major change would be that sylas would be significantly higher in the ranking. hallucination, Wildy, and kieran would have ended up with lower points, but since the latter 2 got wrong answers during rounds with fairly sizeable pileups, and the former was in a fair number of pile-ups himself, it would not have been sufficient to change their ranking positions.
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Post by kieran on Jun 17, 2024 7:33:48 GMT
Thanks Gabe and well done to Peter's wife. I decided to take a risk with my ghoul answer but I probably wouldn't have accepted that one either!
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Post by hallucination on Jun 17, 2024 7:51:08 GMT
Congratulations to Peter‘s wife! Thanks Gabe for the round!
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Post by petch on Jun 17, 2024 11:02:30 GMT
Ouch, I think that might have set a record for the most incorrect answers submitted during a single round. It's always a tough one to judge whether a contentious answer falls just inside or outside of the question criteria - you want to be able to reward players for clever thinking where you can but you also have to juggle being fair to other players if answers go against the wording or the spirit of a question.
Anyway as always that was a lot of fun and it was tight at the top up to the very end. Thank you Gabe and congrats to Peter's wife.
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Post by Per on Jun 17, 2024 13:13:06 GMT
Congratulations to Peter's wife, thanks to Gabe for running the round, and awkward fist bump with Peter for apparently going with more or less the exact same strategy I did:
1. Pick Warlock whenever possible
2. If not, grudgingly pick Masks
3. If not, grudgingly pick Chasms (which ended up with one more pick than Masks anyway)
4. If not, and having exhausted all Nicholson, Bulmer and Achilleos titles, pick the first eligible one found among the Martin/McKenna titles
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Post by sylas on Jun 17, 2024 14:53:52 GMT
Congratulations to Peters wife.
Getting penalised because illusions are real creatures hurts where in the same contest having an eyepatch means having one eye.
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Post by petch on Jun 18, 2024 12:17:13 GMT
Boo! Hi, it's me, the Messenger of Death here. It's a little known fact about me that when I'm not setting up overelaborate traps in remote ruins, I like to relax by reading rare entries contests on niche interest internet forums. In fact I like it so much that I have used my otherworldly powers to take over petch's account so that I can run my very own round! Rules and questions for this round are below. Send your answers by PM to petch by the deadline... or die!!!The Rules
- Eligible books are all main series Fighting Fantasy gamebooks published by Puffin, Wizard or Scholastic, and the Sorcery! series. - You can take more than one answer from the same book if you wish. - I like Per's idea that providing a wrong answer should not necessarily rule a player out of the competition entirely. So for this round a wrong answer will score you 1 more point than the highest clash for that question (for example if everyone else managed to get a unique answer for that question, a wrong answer would only score you 2 points). - For Qs 1 and 6, just the name of a book is needed. For all other Qs, please include the book and corresponding reference with your answer. The Questions1. Name a gamebook with a title of two or more words, that contains within its first word the letter D2. Provide the name of a character whose first or last name begins with the letter E
3. Name an opponent you can fight that begins with the letter A4. Name a code word you are instructed to take note of that begins with the letter T5. Name a location marked on a map that appears within a book that begins with the letter H6. Name a gamebook with a title of two or more words, that contains within its last word the letter D7. Provide the name of a character whose first or last name ends with the letter E8. Name an opponent you can fight that ends with the letter A9. Name a code word you are instructed to take note of that ends with the letter T10. Name a location marked on a map that appears within a book that ends with the letter H
Clarifications (Or: A Fruitless Attempt to Ward Off Controversy) - Qs 2 & 7: It's the given name of a character I'm after here, not a title, species, profession or nickname. For the avoidance of confusion over the 'first or last name' wording, characters who only have one word names are acceptable. - Qs 3 & 8: It's the name of the opponent exactly as it appears next to their Skill and Stamina scores in a combat encounter that's needed here (so 'First Assailant' wouldn't count for example, as the first letter is F). - Qs 5 & 10: The name of a location exactly as it is written on a map (so 'The Hill' wouldn't count as the first letter is T). - Any other questions or clarifications needed, please ask in the thread or by PM if preferred. The Deadline
22:00 BST one week from today 25/06. Will do my best to post the results the following day. Good luck!
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Post by hallucination on Jun 18, 2024 17:28:20 GMT
Question re 5/10: Will maps at the beginnings of books also count, or just ones internal to the adventure with a reference number?
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Post by petch on Jun 18, 2024 18:33:19 GMT
Question re 5/10: Will maps at the beginnings of books also count, or just ones internal to the adventure with a reference number? Yes, both of these would be acceptable.
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Post by Peter on Jun 19, 2024 9:12:49 GMT
Here are all my replies in one post:
Apologies, I had the picture of the Spider Hag in my head, from Shadow of the Giants. And I was going to pick the washer-woman in Citadel of Chaos, but I had a feeling she was some sort of apparition, not a real person.
As I was short of time, I tried to get as many answers as possible from as few books as possible. I thought I might get them all from a single book, but then I realised that the cover of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain didn't qualify for Q8.
Well done to my better half. These last two quizzes have been well put together and fun to play. Thanks Per and Gabe.
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Post by Per on Jun 19, 2024 16:00:57 GMT
I assume that the "Name [...] -> actual real name" rule isn't in effect, since otherwise "First Assailant" couldn't qualify in the first place.
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Post by petch on Jun 19, 2024 16:08:55 GMT
I assume that the "Name [...] -> actual real name" rule isn't in effect, since otherwise "First Assailant" couldn't qualify in the first place. Yeah I didn't word that especially well, for Qs 3 & 8 it's the opponent as written next to their Skill/Stamina scores in a combat encounter, in whatever form that takes. The only Qs I'm after actual real names for are 2 & 7.
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Post by petch on Jun 21, 2024 14:44:30 GMT
Thank you to scouserob, hallucination & Wildy for your answers.
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Post by petch on Jun 23, 2024 18:21:00 GMT
Thank you to Gabe Fandango, evilwizard, trialmaster and Per for your answers.
Just over 48 hours remaining for anyone else who fancies a go to submit your answers.
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Post by petch on Jun 24, 2024 18:59:12 GMT
Thank you to sylas, Peter, Peter's wife, kieran and adrius for your answers.
A little over 24 hours remaining until this round's deadline.
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Post by petch on Jun 25, 2024 23:23:38 GMT
And so the Messenger of Death has relinquished his icy grip on my account just in time for me to announce the results. But um, just in case anyone asks, all that stuff in my browser history - that was the Messenger of Death too.
For ease of commentary I'm going to announce the results in a slightly unconventional non-consecutive way by grouping the thematically similar questions together.
Question 1: Name a gamebook with a title of two or more words, that contains within its first word the letter D
Correct answers:
Blood of the Zombies: 3 (hallucination, Wildy, Peter's wife) Midnight Rogue: 2 (Per, vastariner) Deathtrap Dungeon: 1 (scouserob) Island of the Lizard King: 1 (Peter) Demons of the Deep: 1 (evilwizard) Sword of the Samurai: 1 (trialmaster) Battleblade Warrior: 1 (kieran) Daggers of Darkness: 1 (Gabe Fandango) Legend of Zagor: 1 (adrius)
Incorrect answers:
Citadel of Chaos: 4 (sylas)
Question 6: Name a gamebook with a title of two or more words, that contains within its last word the letter D
Correct answers:
Star Strider: 3 (hallucination, Peter's wife, vastariner) Deathtrap Dungeon: 1 (Peter) Talisman of Death: 1 (scouserob) Seas of Blood: 1 (sylas) Demons of the Deep: 1 (evilwizard) Robot Commando: 1 (trialmaster) Daggers of Darkness: 1 (Gabe Fandango) Siege of Sardath: 1 (Wildy) Island of the Undead: 1 (kieran) Night Dragon: 1 (adrius) Eye of the Dragon: 1 (Per)
I suppose in trying to work out the psychology of other players for this question, there were two possible trains of thought: whether to go for a title with a big bold D right at the beginning of a word, or one that has a less obvious little d hiding somewhere within one. Looking at the results, that bolder first option would appear to have been the safer bet, as the only clashes that occurred were in instances of the latter. Two players, Gabe Fandango and evilwizard, both went for alliterative DD titles for both questions (a big pair of prominent double Ds, if you must) - fortunately for them, they both chose different ones. Peter and scouserob both chose Deathtrap Dungeon, but were lucky to avoid a clash as they each chose it for a different question.
Regrettably I've had to consider sylas' answer of 'Citadel of Chaos' for Q1 as incorrect, as in its full title its first word would be 'The'. However thanks to the more lenient penalty in play for this round he is not out of the running yet!
Leaderboard:
1. scouserob, Gabe Fandango, evilwizard, trialmaster, Peter, kieran, adrius - 2 2. Per - 3 3. Wildy - 4 4. sylas, vastariner - 5 5. hallucination, Peter's wife - 6
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Post by Wildy on Jun 26, 2024 5:46:43 GMT
Fantastic! I can’t wait to see if the messenger breaks my curse of being last each time!
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Post by petch on Jun 26, 2024 8:43:41 GMT
Question 2: Provide the name of a character whose first or last name begins with the letter E
Correct answers:
Eeyun (Return to Firetop Mountain 238): 2 (scouserob, sylas) Elvira (Talisman of Death 35): 1 (Peter) Erulia Falsehope (Creature of Havoc intro): 1 (vastariner) Ethilesse (Creature of Havoc 167): 1 (Per) Eldenurin (Phantoms of Fear 301): 1 (evilwizard) Epicurien the Inquisitive (Sky Lord 216): 1 (Peter's wife) Elindora (The Keep of the Lich Lord 395): 1 (Gabe Fandango) Eviron the landlady (Moonrunner 237): 1 (kieran) Edgar (Spellbreaker 279): 1 (adrius) Endrell (Revenge of the Vampire 69): 1 (trialmaster) Eli (The Gates of Death 236): 1 (hallucination)
Incorrect answers:
Urzle Ironface (Assassins of Allansia 163): 3 (Wildy)
Question 7: Provide the name of a character whose first or last name ends with the letter E
Correct answers:
Urzle Ironface (Assassins of Allansia 163): 2 (Wildy, kieran) Racknee (The Citadel of Chaos 39): 1 (scouserob) D'Ouse-E (Starship Traveller 74): 1 (Peter) Grimslade (Scorpion Swamp 40): 1 (evilwizard) Arthur Flange (The Rings of Kether 158): 1 (Peter's wife) Fats Bluebottle (Appointment with F.E.A.R 113): 1 (Per) Sige (Slaves of the Abyss 384): 1 (vastariner) Preece (Armies of Death 230): 1 (sylas) Dry Jade (The Crimson Tide 261): 1 (Gabe Fandango) Lorrie (Return to Firetop Mountain 238): 1 (adrius) Javinne (The Crown of Kings 61): 1 (hallucination)
Incorrect answers:
Rosina Dree (Creature of Havoc 252): 3 (trialmaster)
Perhaps I was so preoccupied with the theming of this round when I set it up that I failed to notice that a few of the questions had a huge amount of possible answers. These were two such questions, and so there are only a small amount of clashes here. I did however enjoy some of the really obscure characters that I had completely forgotten about and who are mentioned only in brief passing that eagle-eyed players managed to spot (Eli the imp from The Gates of Death, anyone?). Ian's boating buddies from Return to Firetop Mountain proved a popular source of answers, with two players picking 'Eeyun' himself, and adrius narrowly avoiding a clash by going for a different character from the same reference (Lorrie the dwarvish helmsman).
There were however a couple of incorrect answers to shake the leaderboard up a bit - Wildy's answer of 'Urzle Ironface' was incorrect for Q2, and while the same character provided a valid answer for Q7 it was also a clash with kieran. trialmaster's answer to Q7 proved a lot more problematic to referee; on first impressions the end of 'Rosina of Dree''s name would seem to be a suffix indicating her place of birth or residence rather than a part of her given name. But then I began to consider that as there was no information given about the origins of the character, it perhaps could be argued that it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility that the naming conventions of that part of the world would assign a person's village to their name at birth, making it not too dissimilar from a surname. Before I disappeared too far down the rabbithole of potential Allansian name derivations though, I noticed that the answer as submitted was 'Rosina Dree' rather than 'Rosina of Dree' as it is written in the text, making it an incorrect answer in any case.
I expect there are loads of other possible answers here; some of the more well-known ones avoided by players for possibly being too obvious are Balthus and Lucretia Dire, Captain Bloodaxe from Demons of the Deep and Eleanor the Enchantress from Sword of the Samurai. Four players retain perfect scores so far.
Leaderboard:
1. Gabe Fandango, evilwizard, Peter, adrius - 4 2. scouserob, Per, kieran - 5 3. trialmaster - 6 4. vastariner - 7 5. hallucination, sylas, Peter's wife - 8 6. Wildy - 9
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Post by trialmaster on Jun 26, 2024 10:25:07 GMT
You are too diligent petch! 😣
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Post by Per on Jun 26, 2024 11:05:36 GMT
Eleanor was perhaps the first that came to mind for Q2, so no way was I taking that. Though I didn't personally consider Elindora, that may also have been unnecessarily bold. Amusingly though I did take note of Elvira, Eviron and Erulia Falsehope before settling on my answer for Q2 (and before that I had temporarily settled for Enthus from Spellbreaker, but then deemed him too high-profile).
The only other answer that I bothered to note down for Q7 was the first that came to mind, Orville from House.
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Post by Wildy on Jun 26, 2024 11:06:54 GMT
Ouch, I misread question 2. Looking at the results so far, I’ll soon become the messenger of Clashes…
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Post by petch on Jun 26, 2024 12:12:50 GMT
Question 3: Name an opponent you can fight that begins with the letter A
Correct answers:
Android (Star Strider 304): 2 (sylas, kieran) Alien Ship (Starship Traveller 235): 1 (Peter) Arcadian Secretary (Rebel Planet 107): 1 (Peter's wife) Arctolyce (Phantoms of Fear 171): 1 (evilwizard) Angry Yellow Blob (Sky Lord 324): 1 (trialmaster) A Murder of Crows (The Keep of the Lich Lord 142): 1 (Gabe Fandango) Agitator (Legend of the Shadow Warriors 181): 1 (Per) Alligator (Deathmoor 279): 1 (adrius) Akharis (Curse of the Mummy 144): 1 (Wildy) Assassin (The Shamutanti Hills 117): 1 (scouserob) Air Serpent (The Seven Serpents 261): 1 (hallucination)
Incorrect answers:
Angaroc (Phantoms of Fear 85): 3 (vastariner)
Question 8: Name an opponent you can fight that ends with the letter A
Correct answers:
Third Kappa (Sword of the Samurai 13): 2 (Gabe Fandango, Per) Lady Lotmora (The Keep of the Lich Lord 120/309): 2 (Wildy, evilwizard) God-Headed Hydra (The Crown of Kings 65): 2 (hallucination, Peter) Zera (The Rings of Kether 321): 1 (scouserob) Shura (Sword of the Samurai 270): 1 (sylas) Khuddam Churka (Chasms of Malice 32): 1 (kieran) Mutant Ameoba (Island of the Undead 189): 1 (adrius) First Xoroa (Curse of the Mummy 26): 1 (vastariner) Fourth Xoroa (Curse of the Mummy 26): 1 (Peter's wife) Denka (The Gates of Death 450): 1 (trialmaster)
Another pair of questions with lots of possible answers, with a range made even wider for players with the forethought to pick an encounter with multiple opponents which would make the likelihood of matching answers with another player enormously improbable...ah. Unfortunately for Gabe Fandango and Per, that remote chance is exactly what happened (vastariner and Peter's wife avoid the same scenario by picking different Xoroa from Curse of the Mummy). This very bad luck, coupled with the fact that Gabe's fellow leaderboard table-toppers evilwizard and Peter also provided answers that doubled up for the same question, leaves adrius as the only remaining player with a perfect score past the mid point of the round.
Another contentious answer that proved difficult for me to adjudge was provided by vastariner. The angaroc in Phantoms of Fear does not appear with stats in a combat encounter as my additional notes under 'Clarifications' stated, but the same book provides lots of other non-standard combats due to its dream world. I could perhaps have been persuaded that an actual dream combat from Phantoms may qualify, however reading the context of this particular encounter in the book suggests that you are trying to flee from, rather than battle, the angaroc, so on that basis I have regrettably ruled it as an invalid answer.
Again, masses of possible untapped answers here, with some of the most notable being some creatures that appear right at the beginning of Out of the Pit under 'A' - Aakor (who appear in Stormslayer) and Ape-man (from The Forest of Doom), plus a couple of boss encounters, Morgana from Masks of Mayhem and Ishtra from Phantoms of Fear.
Leaderboard:
1. adrius - 6 2. scouserob, Gabe Fandango, evilwizard, Peter - 7 3. trialmaster, Per, kieran - 8 4. Peter's wife - 10 5. hallucination, sylas, vastariner - 11 6. Wildy - 12
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Post by petch on Jun 26, 2024 15:31:42 GMT
Question 4: Name a code word you are instructed to take note of that begins with the letter T
Correct answers:
Trail (Magehunter): 4 (Per, kieran, adrius, vastariner) Tiaohe (Black Vein Prophecy): 3 (Wildy, Gabe Fandango, trialmaster) To (The Crimson Tide): 2 (sylas, Peter's wife) Turn (The Crimson Tide): 2 (scouserob, evilwizard) Talisman (Night of the Necromancer): 1 (hallucination)
Incorrect answers:
The Analander (The Crown of Kings): 5 (Peter)
Question 9: Name a code word you are instructed to take note of that ends with the letter T
Correct answers:
Art (The Crimson Tide): 3 (evilwizard, trialmaster, sylas) Revenant (Night of the Necromancer): 2 (hallucination, Wildy) Nroht (Knights of Doom): 2 (Per, kieran) Lost (Magehunter): 2 (Gabe Fandango, Peter's wife) Rotiart (Knights of Doom): 1 (adrius) Braveheart (Night of the Necromancer): 1 (scouserob) Host (Night of the Necromancer): 1 (vastariner) HOT (Sorcery!): 1 (Peter)
In contrast to the last few questions which had a plethora of answers for players to choose from, here we have two of them with a significantly narrower scope. In all honesty, I didn't intend for them to be quite this narrow - I had it in my head that code words were a mechanic that were sometimes used by Keith Martin, but actually the system he uses of converting words via alphabet code is somewhat different. It wasn't until the answers started coming in and I noticed that all of them were from the same few books that I realised that there weren't many titles players could draw their answers from here. There are several code words in Moonrunner, however none of them start or end with T. That only leaves Jon Green and Mason/Williams who use the mechanic, and even then, many of their books either don't use code words or don't have any that fit the criteria of the question. Therefore, it would appear that all of the books that contain valid answers have been mined by players, with most possible answers given (bar Peter's answers which I'll come to in a moment) - I can't find any other ones for Q4, and there are only a couple of others I can find for Q9, both in Night of the Necromancer ('Judgement' and 'Ironheart').
A couple of players noted a peculiarity with the way in which Magehunter instructs players to take a note of equipment and companions; it presents them in inverted commas which makes them appear functionally identical to code words. However on looking at it closer it appears to differentiate its code words from its equipment list by prefacing them with the phrase 'the word', which rules out a couple of other options ('turban' and 'Kurt') from that book.
Credit to Peter for trying a couple of outside of the box answers, both taken from Sorcery!. I've ruled his answer of 'The Analander' for Q4 to be incorrect, as looking at how it is presented in ref 237 of The Crown of Kings, it is more of an instruction rather than a code word, with the book instructing you to turn to a new reference if you are identified as such. It's also a phrase rather than a word. I was also ready to rule out his answer of HOT for Q9 on the basis that it's a spell rather than a code word, but then I noticed the following sentence in The Sorcery Spell Book: 'The spells will be identified only by these three-letter words, so it is important that you memorize at least some of the codes.' For me, this clearly indicates that all of the spell options in Sorcery! are code words for the spells, and moreover, even though the rules specifically forbid you from writing any of the spell codes down, it is nonetheless directing the player to take a mental note of them, and so I'm more than satisfied that this clever answer from Peter meets all of the criteria for the question.
With just two questions to go and all players falling afoul of at least one clash in these tightly contested questions, there's been a shift in the lead with scouserob now leading the pack, but it is still tight at the top!
Leaderboard:
1. scouserob - 10 2. adrius - 11 3. Gabe Fandango, evilwizard - 12 4. Peter - 13 5. hallucination, trialmaster, Per, Peter's wife, kieran - 14 6. sylas, vastariner - 16 7. Wildy - 17
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Post by kieran on Jun 26, 2024 16:23:50 GMT
Trail ( Magehunter): 4 (Per, kieran, adrius, vastariner) Tiaohe ( Black Vein Prophecy): 3 (Wildy, Gabe Fandango, trialmaster) To ( The Crimson Tide): 2 (sylas, Peter's wife) Turn ( The Crimson Tide): 2 (scouserob, evilwizard) Talisman ( Night of the Necromancer): 1 (hallucination) Completely forgot about The Crimson Tide code message for this question! Was losing my mind trying to find an answer before I stumbled on Trail. Meanwhile I found tons ending in T in Night of the Necromancer.
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Post by petch on Jun 26, 2024 18:36:59 GMT
Question 5: Name a location marked on a map that appears within a book that begins with the letter H
Correct answers:
Hills (The Forest of Doom): 3 (scouserob, Wildy, vastariner) Hulugu (Daggers of Darkness): 2 (trialmaster, kieran) High Xamen (The Shamutanti Hills): 2 (hallucination, Peter) Herring Wharf (Midnight Rogue): 1 (Gabe Fandango) Horned Hills (Dead of Night): 1 (Per) Hustings (Legend of the Shadow Warriors): 1 (evilwizard) Hallow's Well (Spellbreaker): 1 (sylas) Halak (Curse of the Mummy): 1 (adrius)
Incorrect answers:
Hope's End (Magehunter): 4 (Peter's wife)
Question 10: Name a location marked on a map that appears within a book that ends with the letter H
Correct answers:
The Ruins of Kabesh (Master of Chaos): 3 (hallucination, kieran, vastariner) Tancred's March (Chasms of Malice): 2 (Per, Peter's wife) Great Marsh (Stealer of Souls): 2 (Wildy, Peter) Calah (Seas of Blood): 1 (trialmaster) Channel of Goth (Seas of Blood): 1 (sylas) Lagash (Chasms of Malice): 1 (scouserob) Castle Heydrich (Vault of the Vampire): 1 (Gabe Fandango) River Sardath (Siege of Sardath): 1 (evilwizard) Farleigh (Revenge of the Vampire): 1 (adrius)
In a note of minor interest, every player chose to take their locations from maps that appear prior to an adventure rather than maps that appear during one opposite a numbered reference. Once again there are too many untapped answers for me to list, but on many of the maps which players took answers from, there were other potential answers present (just a couple of examples are Kish from Seas of Blood and the town of Sardath from Siege of Sardath). Answers come from a range of books and a range of locations, with landmarks from all three continents of Titan represented. Sadly I've had to rule one answer as incorrect, with Hope's End appearing on the map of Moonrunner, not Magehunter as submitted in Peter's wife's answer.
The three way clash of 'Hills' from The Forest of Doom proved crucial. Perhaps it is so invitingly inconspicuous that players were drawn to it (indeed, Per noted in his submission that it was an answer that he considered and rejected on the grounds that it might be too obviously clever). Whatever the reason, the prior leader scouserob being caught up in the clash allowed adrius to reclaim the advantage and clinch the win by the narrowest of margins.
So congrats to adrius, and commiserations once again to Wildy whose run of rotten luck continued as he ended up at the back of the pack yet again (albeit joined this time by vastariner). Thanks to all for participating, hope you enjoyed.
Final leaderboard:
1. adrius - 13 2. scouserob, Gabe Fandango, evilwizard - 14 3. trialmaster, Per, Peter - 17 4. sylas - 18 5. hallucination, kieran - 19 6. Peter's wife - 20 7. Wildy, vastariner - 22
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kieran
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Post by kieran on Jun 26, 2024 19:11:42 GMT
Thanks Petch and well done to Adrius.
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sylas
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Post by sylas on Jun 26, 2024 19:42:32 GMT
Thanks Petch. That was fun and harder than I thought. Congrats Adrius
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