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Post by Oiseau on Jan 3, 2005 13:50:10 GMT
I happened upon a webpage featuring an amateur Lone Wolf spin-off where you play a Drakkar. It was called Birth of the Dark One. According to Demian's gamebook database, there are six volumes in this series, and they're available in Word format. Does anyone know where I could get them? They look quite well made.
The Oiseau
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Post by The Wytch-King on Jan 3, 2005 15:30:54 GMT
 Hey, I am actually here and posting! How on earth did I manage to do that??
Errr ... sorry about that. As Han Solo has said: "Sometimes I amaze even myself ..."  Nevermind, on to the topic!The only assistance I can render is probably exactly the website where you found the first book: The Rising Sun e-Zine. The first five books are scattered over the issues 4-6 - as htlms, of course. ... Wait a moment. Just used a Kazim Stone, and look what I have found: The Wytch-King, now heading back for the loneliness of the Dazhiarn (Work's calling. Roaring, really.)edit: Happy New Year all around, btw! |
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Post by Oiseau on Jan 3, 2005 23:02:51 GMT
Hey, thanks. Guess a Kazim Stone works better than Google does. ;D
The Oiseau
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Post by The Wytch-King on Jan 4, 2005 11:47:32 GMT
Oh, the Kazim Stone I used definitely had some googly properties ...  The Wytch-King P.S.: My pleasure.  |
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Post by Sol on Jan 4, 2005 19:01:18 GMT
I've been taking a look at The Dark One and it is really not bad. I will be working through the adventure for fun - wish me luck!
Sol
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Post by Zipp on Jan 7, 2005 8:02:54 GMT
It's not that hard, but it's fairly interesting. The begining is a little disjointed, and some of the Darklord's schemes are a bit, well, not so bright as they should be,
but besides that it's a fun read through. I never finished myself, too many projects going on lately.
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Post by Gazguz on Jan 18, 2005 8:44:46 GMT
WARNING...SPOILER......
What did you think of the end?
I though it was a bit inconsistant.
Indeed what the author seemed to want you to do was so out of character for the creature and all the paths you had taken up till then had done.
Perhaps a better ending (in my opinion) would be instead of an option to step into the light or into the darkness, there should have been the choice to just step through the dark portal and sit at Naars side, or to use your amazing speed to snatch the sword of the sun, leap into the dark portal and destroy Naar with the sword. When the Kai master comes in after you let him recover the sword and make a deal with him... you keep the darklands and the rest of the world keeps itself to itself. You get to be your own master in your own kingdom with no rivals and Naar is destroyed. (It mentions in at least one of the lone wolf books that Naar didn't materialise in the presence of the Sommerswerd for fear that it could destroy him so it can destroy him).
You can exist on Magnamund as the agreement was between Ishir and Kai on the one side and Naar on the other... it is now null and void.
What do you think?
(And yes, I am an athiest)
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Post by Zipp on Jan 18, 2005 18:29:06 GMT
I don't really see what it has to do with Aetheism (me too, by the way, actually I'm more Buddhist than anything else) but I like your idea.
To be honest, I never finsihed the Dark One, but that sounds like a hell of a way to do it.
Oh man, it seems the internet didn't like my Goblin eating cookies. Well, marshmallows actually, but he ate cookies too. No more.
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Post by Oiseau on Jan 19, 2005 1:05:40 GMT
The atheism remark came about because the author of The Dark One claimed he wrote the ending under the influence of Christian theology (i.e. bad guys win = offense against God, or something ;D). That's why Gazguz stated he was an atheist when he gave his alternate ending.
I like that alternate ending, but I also like the original Paragraph 75 of Book 7, even if it does seem out of character for the hero. And I'm an atheist too, so reading that Bible quote at the end of the series kind of ruined it for me.
The Oiseau
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Post by Zipp on Jan 19, 2005 5:18:41 GMT
Yeah, it's a disservice to let anything other than creativity decide your endings.
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Post by yteng80842 on Dec 10, 2009 20:05:22 GMT
Sorry to bring a thread back from the grave, but Robert Shaw's webpage is down now, and his last books 4-7 is not accessible. Does anyone know if there are any other sites that is hosting them?
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Post by Oiseau on Dec 11, 2009 19:01:53 GMT
Xhoromag.com has all seven ... in French.
I really should upload the original English episodes as well ; you're the third one in a week to ask for them. PM me your email and I'll send'em to you.
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Post by rosswoof on Dec 11, 2009 22:51:20 GMT
make me number 4....
just pm'd you.
thanks in advance
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Post by Oiseau on Dec 12, 2009 4:02:48 GMT
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Post by yteng80842 on Dec 12, 2009 7:09:27 GMT
Thanks for your help!  |
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Hey, I am actually here and posting! How on earth did I manage to do that??
Nevermind, on to the topic!
