kieran
Baron
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Jul 6, 2020 6:55:48 GMT
The time-bomb bracelet is an illusion and it certainly feels that way when you read it. Do this thing quickly or you and everyone will die. YOU: Nope! I wanna save this random school kid, and play Elf games first. It can however kill you if you spend too long lost in the maze.
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Post by vastariner on Jul 6, 2020 8:38:37 GMT
What does he say? I can't remember now and PoE is not easy to access right now... The danger we face is greater than anyone can imagine. This evil has arisen before – many thousands of years ago , when only the Goblins lived for hundreds of miles around. Underground, a source of evil was discovered: a gateway to another place, a forgotten, ancient world of giant and unnatural beasts. The Portal had, perhaps, existed since time began, allowing a few wandering animals and humanoids to pass through. The evil in the portal was quiescent, waiting – and one day a Goblin war-chief proud and powerful, found the Portal, entered it, and was held fast by the evil force. The war-chief and the Portal took strength from each other and together they enslaved the population, creating an army of merciless thralls. Each wore a stone like the talisman you have shown me. But the Goblin war-chief was defeated! There are clues to help us. The Goblin war-chief made his base on the other side of the Portal, in the forgotten land. He thought he was safe there, believing that anyone from his world who passed beneath the Portal would be enslaved or, if his will was too strong for slavery, would be transformed into an animal or, in the last resort, simply exterminated by the power of the Portal. But the Goblins found a hero: one of their own race who was brave and strong and who, by chance, found the means to pass safely through the Portal. He took with him to animals – and many flaming torches, for the Portal was deep underground. And it seems that, after the Portal was unable to enslave him, it could not change him into an animal either, because he had two other creatures with him, and this dissipated the Portal’s power; nor could it destroy him because he was surrounded by light. Once through the Portal, the hero found the war-chief and slew him; returning though the Portal, he ordered that it be sealed below ground for ever. I would guess that the recent mine-workings have undone the concealment that the Goblins undertook all those thousands of years ago. Another great evil-doer has found the Portal; another warlord has arisen. But at least we have some clues about how to find and destroy him. Now we must depart! Thanks - although it is still ambiguous as to what it is. After all, if the Portal existed at the beginning of time, it could not then have been a pathway to an older world...
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jul 7, 2020 13:10:18 GMT
....a load of stuff about the origins of the Portal of Evil...
Thanks - although it is still ambiguous as to what it is. After all, if the Portal existed at the beginning of time, it could not then have been a pathway to an older world... It probably gets a bit timey-wimey and parallel dimensioney. I don't mind a bit of ambiguity here and there. Sometimes less is more in that respect. (Going off on a bit of a tangent), the origins of the Portal in FF37, the character and motivation of Bythos in FF32, and The Riddling Reaver himself for that matter I am content with as they were in the books. In fact Paul Mason's giving the Riddling Reaver some sort of background in the form of a daughter...(?! conceived in the traditional way was she ?!) in The Dreaming Sands (Warlock 13) and also claiming him to be the Jaiphrai Ah'Cha [sic!] of 'Deathtrap on Legs' (Warlock 7) is for me some extra detail that jars with me. It's possible to keep adding finishing touches to a work of art that is just fine as it is... until one too many extra touches start to detract from it.
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