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Post by tyrion on Jul 7, 2020 14:53:45 GMT
Last round warlock of firetop mountain was eliminated. Or, as autocorrect would have it, Warnock of Firefox mountain.
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Post by kieran on Jul 7, 2020 14:56:02 GMT
And so my trilemma becomes a dilemma: the more engaging Island of the Lizard King or the more creative Scorpion Swamp?
I think I'm going to vote for Island by the thinnest of whiskers.
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Post by Wilf on Jul 7, 2020 15:09:33 GMT
And I shall keep voting for Scorpion Swamp by the widest of chasms.
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Post by a moderator on Jul 7, 2020 15:18:49 GMT
Island of the Regrettable Ethnic Stereotypes gets my vote.
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Post by stevendoig on Jul 7, 2020 15:19:50 GMT
Voted for Lizard King again. Nothing much wrong with it, but I reckon it's the least interesting one.
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Post by tyrion on Jul 7, 2020 16:09:55 GMT
I think island of the lizard king as well. The only other contender is scorpion swamp, I could play that all day long though.
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Post by schlendrian on Jul 7, 2020 17:00:19 GMT
Same dilemma as Kieran, and I know to many this may not be much of an argument, but Island has dinosaurs, therefore Scorpion swamp has to go
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Post by The Count on Jul 8, 2020 0:16:31 GMT
The presence of the Bold Brave Beautiful Buxom Bikini Babe, blatantly and brazenly based off Raquel Welsh, is not enough to make me want to revisit a bland and boring Fire Island
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Post by vastariner on Jul 8, 2020 11:18:29 GMT
Biased in favour of Lizard King as it was the first I read. It's also well-written, Livingstone can do a good prose.
So was thinking it has to be Scorpion Swamp, which is somewhat bitty. But it is clever in that you can revisit locations and have a different text.
Ergo going for Citadel of Chaos, which is, really, a bit of a mad concept. Were I Dire I think I'd be a bit fed up with all that ludicrous activity going on under my penthouse. And him turning out to be a vampire is a bit deus ex.
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Post by Wilf on Jul 9, 2020 8:21:28 GMT
Biased in favour of Lizard King as it was the first I read. It's also well-written, Livingstone can do a good prose. So was thinking it has to be Scorpion Swamp, which is somewhat bitty. But it is clever in that you can revisit locations and have a different text. Ergo going for Citadel of Chaos, which is, really, a bit of a mad concept. Were I Dire I think I'd be a bit fed up with all that ludicrous activity going on under my penthouse. And him turning out to be a vampire is a bit deus ex. Except he's not a vampire, and the bit about sunlight being a poison to him is information you can pick up in the library, right after you've learned about the combination lock, so it's not technically a deus ex machina either.
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Post by kieran on Jul 9, 2020 9:41:38 GMT
Except he's not a vampire As an aside, sunlight being fatal to vampires was never part of the tradition or even early vampire fiction (Dracula for instance has the Count as being at the height of his power at midday). It was invented for the 1922 movie Nosferatu and then passed into popular culture. For that reason, I always thought Twilight got a bit of an unfair bashing for its sparkly vampires. Seems a perfectly valid interpretation of the mythos to me.
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Post by vastariner on Jul 10, 2020 20:39:39 GMT
Not quite - Stoker's Dracula was much more powerful at night. Indeed he was limited in his shapeshifting during the day. the bit about sunlight being a poison to him is information you can pick up in the library, right after you've learned about the combination lock, so it's not technically a deus ex machina either. But if I recall, the pulling-the-curtains-off is a bit of improvisation, rather than a tactic.
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Post by kieran on Jul 10, 2020 20:52:52 GMT
Not quite - Stoker's Dracula was much more powerful at night. Indeed he was limited in his shapeshifting during the day True (apart from at midday) but definitely the idea of sunlight being fatal was not in Dracula or any other vampire story before Nosferatu. Actually the whole final confrontation with Dracula in the original novel is very underwhelming. As regards Balthus, you can of course discover his weakness by accident in trying to throw his curtains over him, but someone who has read the book in the library would probably recognise the option as an opportunity to make use of his weakness.
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