|
|
Post by outspaced on Apr 1, 2005 23:22:53 GMT
Well, I can't speak for the gamebook experts on these boards, but this dabbler can't answer the question, anyway. The author has been mentioned before in this thread. That's a big[/size] clue! ;D |
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on Apr 3, 2005 9:16:02 GMT
Looks like I've stumped y'all . . . I'll post a big clue here:
The series is Choose Your Own Adventure.
Does that help at all?
|
|
|
|
Post by Zipp on Apr 3, 2005 17:44:14 GMT
Whoa! Very devious! There's been so little said about THAT series, it just didn't occur to me to think about it. Ah, there's a little shelf outside this room with 24 books from that quite massvie series. There's a lot I haven't read, and I still can't think of one where you meet the author  By the way, is it North Star who is up for the Lone Wolf question? |
|
|
|
Post by Relenoir on Apr 4, 2005 4:33:48 GMT
By the way, is it North Star who is up for the Lone Wolf question? Yes, it is. North Star, come back! We need your trivia question!!!  Looks like I've stumped y'all . . . I'll post a big clue here: Well, Outspaced, I read the first fifteen or so when I was a kid, and haven't touched one in well over twenty years. Still remember the names of some of the authors. . . Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery, they wrote most of the first ones from what I remember. But I still don't know the answer to your question.  Maybe one of my friends who was still reading them told me about it, that's why it seemed familiar. |
|
|
|
Post by North Star on Apr 4, 2005 22:23:34 GMT
All right, all right! Give me a moment  NS. Edit: Super hard question then, by opening my favourite gamebook (the one with JD's autograph) at random. "Which country are you in, and which settlement are you avoiding, when you come across this signpost:" North - Chod - 250 miles West - Holona - 50 miles South - Tenzha - 20 miles |
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on Apr 5, 2005 9:17:18 GMT
Well, Outspaced, I read the first fifteen or so when I was a kid, and haven't touched one in well over twenty years. Still remember the names of some of the authors. . . Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery, they wrote most of the first ones from what I remember. You got the author, guess that's close enough (though I'm gonna count the fiendish question as fiendishly unanswered). The answer is: Choose Your Own Adventure #21: Hyperspace by Edward Packard. You get to meet him and ask his opinion on what choice to make next before he falls through a hole in the floor.  Looks like I'll pass the baton onto Rel, then. |
|
|
|
Post by Relenoir on Apr 5, 2005 14:24:58 GMT
@ Northstar: I know it! Found it in less than five minutes--had to look up the settlement. I'll leave this one for others, since. . . @ Outspaced: Huh, me? Okay, funny how that worked out. . . I wasn't even trying to answer the question, just reminiscing really. Anyway, for my non-Lone Wolf related question: Name the book and series in which you can marry a princess named Ariadne ~Relenoir, who got this out of a book he won in an allotment of books that included something LW. |
|
|
|
Post by North Star on Apr 5, 2005 14:28:21 GMT
That's WAY too easy, but unfortunately why the series you're after is The Cretan Chronicles, the question is a trick one. (See the beginning of Book III: Return of the Wanderer to find out why!)
NS.
|
|
|
|
Post by Relenoir on Apr 5, 2005 14:30:11 GMT
Well that didn't take long! Your up for the non-LW question, North Star! |
|
|
|
Post by outspaced on Apr 5, 2005 15:42:57 GMT
@ Outspaced: Huh, me? Okay, funny how that worked out. . . I wasn't even trying to answer the question, just reminiscing really. Yeah, but the fun part of trivia is that it's fast-paced, and my question was just dragging on . . . and on . . . and on . . . |
|
|
|
Post by snfcn on Apr 5, 2005 17:07:52 GMT
"Which country are you in, and which settlement are you avoiding, when you come across this signpost:" North - Chod - 250 miles West - Holona - 50 miles South - Tenzha - 20 miles Uhm, I'm guessing: You're in Eldenora avoiding Fabri? |
|
|
|
Post by Relenoir on Apr 5, 2005 18:17:00 GMT
I know for a fact that that's the right answer, so Snfcn, you get the next LW question!
|
|
|
|
Post by snfcn on Apr 5, 2005 20:26:12 GMT
I know for a fact that that's the right answer, so Snfcn, you get the next LW question! Damn, I mean GREAT! ;D Oh well, here goes: In a LW adventure you can pick up something that you recognise to be of no immediate value for you (at least not obviously so). [Insert: lame joke about towel] But you see that it is sought after by magicians like Banedon: What is it? |
|
|
|
Post by Zipp on Apr 5, 2005 21:06:14 GMT
Could this be the Vordak gem? No, I think I'm a bit off track...
Hey, was that ever used anywhere outside the Graveyard of the Ancients?
Oh, and people know that they don't have to spoiler protect anything except hints on this thread? I mean, it's pretty obvious there are gonna be spoilers...
|
|
|
|
Post by North Star on Apr 6, 2005 9:26:24 GMT
I'm fairly sure I know, but I'll let someone else answer!
NS.
Edit: I'm sorry to spoil it for you in 4 minutes flat then, Relenoir!
Non-LW question: In which game book do you start as a hulking, incomprehensible monster and, near the end of the book, infamously come to a set of seven rooms, each differently marked, where even the right choice will almost certainly kill you?!
|
|
Maybe one of my friends who was still reading them told me about it, that's why it seemed familiar.
