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Sorry, I got halfway through the background before realising I'd vastly underestimated the slog of typing the entire book. I'm going to bow out. Apologies.

Edit: See below, resurrected by someone more disciplined than me

Anybody interested in a Let's Play of The Gates of Death by Charlie Higson (AKA That Fast Show guy)? It's the most recent Fighting Fantasy, and Scholastic's 2nd original. Personally I found it a pretty poor offering but would run it if there is interest. I've got it from the library and it didn't im...

I don't like Brennan so I'm not playing. If anybody is still playing though, I'll just kickstart this thread. A=Z, B=Y etc.

I like the logic of the congratulations. I sent out an unarmed human against only me, my dogs, my 3 loyal henchmen and many environmental traps, and I won!!! Yay me, that'll show you how weak humans are.

Take a hint, Altheus.

Does the book actually check for black powder, or would someone who avoided the firework shop legitimately win?

What happens if you don't rescue Wulff or say you don't believe him?

Eat a couple of provisions and wash it down with a potion. Then since we've interrupted our urgent quest for a spot of lunch, waste some more time with this guy.

(Fun fact: literally any wrong turn in those caves is an insta-death.) Wat. I thought it was bad enough that half of those directional choices were bland and blind, but also DNS? That's awful. How does IL not know better by now? Don't attack the plot NPC, it's probably also insta-death. None of the...

Fire the blaster at the thing that looks like McReady but didn't say "ultra" once.

The thing about the way it's played here is that it minimises the number of Qs. If we were playing in real life we would need to go through Crecy, Thrix. Mechanon pt 1, Earth, Mechanon pt 2 and Yelov every time facing roll well or die challenges at each place. Even with a perfect path choice Falcon ...

Omegonthesane wrote:??? That was three votes to check envirosuit. Does it have no impact?

I'm guessing the extra time we spent making sure we were looking pretty enabled the radar to detect us.

If we take the figures given, Falcon will have reached a top speed of 30m/s after 3 seconds, and so will have travelled much less than 90 metres. I think 9 seconds is the right answer, 21 seconds is obvious suicide.

Thaluikhain wrote: Also, I think that should cost the letter codes up til now.

I think the idea is that if you play through the same choices in exactly the same way you do get all your letter codes back. The only difference being the addition of another Q given on reference 1.

A couple more questions that brings up: Does the Jug of Water also double as a jug of water, for scenes where you need to have some? Also, thinking about your water bottle, I'm guessing the fountain in the Garden was a source, is that right? the Rainbow Inn was one, were there any other water points...

Cheers, Thaluikhain, very thorough summary and thanks for the effort you've put into this game.

SlyJohnny wrote:The shrine of death was repeatable, including mugging Ashmodel for his ring.

I meant Emiterus's shrine.

On on hand he starts by saying "I haven't seen a duel for a long time", on the other Thaluikhain didn't give a codeword.

Congrats to SGamerz . Watching both threads more or less satisfied all my curiosities about the Rainbow Land, enough that I no longer have any interest in playing another game. If there are no further games though I do have some nagging curiosities I wouldn't mind the answer to. If there are further...

Thaluikhain, to fix the thread, please remove the last [ /quote ] from the preceding post.

Thanks, Mr Shine. No problem. I've now read all of your thread and the last bit of Ikeren's, and will be reading the SlyJohnny/SGamerz showdown. Assuming Thaluikhain isn't thoroughly sick of it by the time there is a victor, I'd probably be interested with a game against someone else, both of us wi...

Give her peace- the peace of the grave.

I'll step aside in favour of SlyJohnny.

Yes I won. If Thaluikhain wants to I'm up for another match, but will step aside if there's anybody else that wants to play as I think this would be more fun between 2 people with less knowledge. I think my knowledge of the Rainbow Land, which started off vague and has since solidified quite a bit w...

Out of curiosity, what happens if you choose the "it means everything" option when asked about the ruby? Obviously it's not something I would ever try in-game now the "it's so pretty" response is the clearly correct one.

Cheers for the game Thaluikhain, (and SlyJohnny). A pity that

the fact I was slowly drowning meant I had to force the issue.

Although Explosive wand can be happy that 13 WAITs later the new Duelmaster probably falls over dead.