[Let's Play] Give Yourself Goosebumps: Into the Jaws of Doom

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Sat Jul 06, 2019 9:56 am

New way to die, go!

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:21 am

Flight sim.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:18 pm

Sorry for the long absence, I was on vacation.

You hurl yourself into the simulator and slam the door shut. The mosquito buzzes angrily against the small window.
You're safe. For now.
You glance around. The inside of the simulator is just like the cockpit of a huge jetliner. A million controls and readouts and two big chairs.
Then a tinny voice announces, "Flight 13, you are ready for takeoff."
Takeoff?

You stare out the front window. The scene appears to be rolling forward.
You're moving!
Can't be, you assure yourself. This is just a simulation.
The end of the runway is coming up. You grab the controls. Maybe this flight isn't real, but you're not taking any chances.
Then the voice comes on again.
"Emergency! Emergency! There is a giant mosquito—repeat, a giant mosquito—on the wing! Execute Emergency Maneuver 6-Q!"
6-Q? You wonder what that is.
Then the plane starts to pitch sideways.

The controls move in your hands with a life of their own. A red light on the panel starts flashing.
That can't be good.
"Wait!" you scream. "What's maneuver 6-Q? How do I do it?"
"Can't tell," the voice taunts. "That would be cheating."
"Thanks a lot," you mutter. Then you gasp.
The landscape in front of you is upside down! Alarms are going off all over the place.
You're going to crash!

You twist the controls one last time, but it doesn't do any good. The ground is coming up fast!
The cockpit shakes like crazy. A roaring noise fills your ears. You hit your head, and for a moment you don't see anything.
Then the noise finally stops.
Your head hurts, but you're alive.
Of course you didn't really crash. It was just a simulation.
Wasn't it?
Cautiously, you open your eyes—and scream!

In the crash, the door to the simulator flew open.
And the giant mosquito is sitting on your chest!
You try to swat it away, but you're too late. The mosquito thrusts its bloodsucking tube right into your arm.
Now you know why you always hated giving blood!

GAME OVER

What now?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:16 am

Run past the mosquito I guess.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:31 am

Yep, try to run past.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:30 am

Swatting at the mosquito, you head for the door again.
The big bug pursues you out into the hall, buzzing furiously. You race forward. It's right behind you!
The door to the fire stairs is up ahead. Maybe you could slip through to safety before the mosquito gets you.
Or should you just keep running?

Try the fire stairs?
Keep running?

Running Total of Deaths: 4 (2 by robot arm, 1 by crash, one by giant mosquito.)

Whiysper · Post by **Whiysper** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:30 am

Fire door. 'cos it's probably locked/trapped/some other entertaining lethal daftness.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:32 am

Fire stairs

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:41 pm

You race for the door to the fire stairs. The mosquito buzzes hungrily behind you. But you're going to make it!
You grab the door handle. ZAAAAAP!
"Oh, no!" you scream. This door is electrified! It feels as if you're being struck by lightning. And you can't let go!
Can you pry yourself loose before you are electrocuted? Roll the dice to find out.

We roll a 12, so:
You try to tear your hand from the door handle. It's useless! The electricity keeps your hand from opening. It's as if you're holding a handful of glue.
Too bad. You've come to a shocking end!

GAME OVER

Succeeding on this roll is also a game over (the mosquito just sucks your blood while you pull yourself free. Total missed opportunity for it to be bug zapped in one of these outcomes, even if we ended up going with it), which is some UK Steve Jackson bullshit right there. In fact, as soon as we opted to run from the mosquito when it first came to life, we doomed ourselves to die, the remaining variants of which are just "this asshole sucks your blood" and not very entertaining.

Try to swat the mosquito?
Flight simulator before checking out the mosquito?
Space capsule?

Whiysper · Post by **Whiysper** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:03 pm

Capsule is the only one we've not encountered at all, IIRC? Voting for new death backdrop

. Half-vote for flight sim before touching the death-bug, in case of ties.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:36 pm

Capsule

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:55 am

You walk over to the Mercury space capsule. You peer into the open hatchway. Maybe there's something you can use in there.
It's totally dark. You can't see anything at all.
Should you venture into the capsule or not?
After all, who knows what's in there?

Go in?
Check out the space suit instead?
Scared? Back out of the room to #166.

Running Total of Deaths: 5 (2 by robot arm, 1 by crash, one by giant mosquito, 1 by electric door.)

Whiysper · Post by **Whiysper** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:09 am

Enter!

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:17 pm

Entre.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:46 pm

Penetrate the capsule.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 3:55 am

You decide to enter the capsule.
You step in carefully. It's not much bigger than a closet inside.
Or a coffin.
You shudder. You wish you hadn't thought of that.
There seems to be a seat in front of you. You settle into it. Your eyes adjust a little, but you still can't see much.
You feel for a light switch. You find a knob and turn it.
Oops.

SLAM! The hatch swings shut behind you with a crash.
So that's what the knob is for.
You twist it again, but nothing happens. Uh-oh.
You bang on the door. It doesn't budge.
You're trapped!
As your eyes adjust to the dark, you notice three buttons next to the hatch: one green, one yellow, one red.
Which one should you press?

The green one?
The yellow one?
The red one?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:28 am

Red first

Whiysper · Post by **Whiysper** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 am

Sure, why not

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SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:46 am

Yeah, I think the Red button being the safe choice sounds like it would fit this book's sense of "humour".

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:54 pm

As you hit the red button, a hissing sound starts.
Then a computer voice declares, "Launch sequence activated. Fifteen seconds and counting."
You wildly push the other buttons, but none of them do anything.
"Ten. Nine. Eight..."
You gulp. Maybe the red button wasn't such a good idea.

Two. One. Liftoff!" the voice declares.
The capsule rumbles and shakes. You grip your seat tightly. You crash right through the ceiling into the rooftop atrium, where the cafeteria is. Finally the thundering noise stops.
You glance out the window--and gasp.
The cafeteria is swarming with spiderlike aliens!
It turns out that the Hall of Incredible Science is a giant intelligence test run by aliens. You passed!
That means your brain is good enough to eat. Which they do. Yum!

THE END

Truth be told, I kind of love how out of nowhere this ending is. Like the other bad endings are pretty much all "thing you are interacting with in the museum kills you, presumably at the Super Computer's behest." Pretty internally consistent for a Give Yourself Goosebumps book. This one is just "Actually, aliens are here and they set all this up to eat your brain." Does this mean that the Super Computer works for them? What about Peedee A.? Is the One True Path an escape route that they didn't account for?

Green or yellow this time?

Running Total of Deaths: 5 (2 by robot arm, 1 by crash, one by giant mosquito, 1 by electric door, 1 by hungry aliens running the place.)

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:13 pm

I vote green!

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:48 am

Yeah, why not green.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:28 am

Might as well. Green

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:04 am

You punch the green button.
The door swings open again.
Of course. Green for go! Good thinking.
You've had enough of the capsule. You crawl out and peer at the rest of the room.
What should you do now?

Check out the space suit?
Leave the Space Travel Room?

Although this section implies otherwise we can go back in and try the yellow button.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 11:46 am

Might as well go back and try the last button.

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