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Post by Doomy on Aug 17, 2005 10:00:15 GMT
Be that as it may, would anyone actually like to try and answer the question? It shouldn't be that hard - the man wrote exactly one gamebook, and you needn't even read it to get the right answer!
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Post by Dusk Fox on Aug 17, 2005 15:21:36 GMT
Okay, I looked it up after your massive amount of hinting making me curious. Despite my knowing the answer, I will let someone else have a go, because using a search engine to find the answer just feels like cheating...
...and I have no problem with that, but I've asked enough trivia questions lately that I don't feel the lack of another turn will be such a terrible thing.
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Post by Doomy on Aug 17, 2005 15:26:07 GMT
And so it came to pass that the Cheatingest Cheater in Magnamund decided, just for once, to hold off on the cheating - just a little bit, perhaps to see what it felt like. How long can this state of affairs continue? Stay tuned to find out!
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Post by Ghost Bear on Aug 17, 2005 21:22:12 GMT
and we all know people who speak Esperanto are lying to themselves Well DuskFox, as the Esperantinos would say: "Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!" And I think we all know what that means. ;D -GB PS: I hope more than a couple of people get this joke...
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Post by Dusk Fox on Aug 17, 2005 21:39:58 GMT
Bah. To hell with Red Dwarf and their perpetuation of the myth of Esperanto.
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Post by Zipp on Aug 17, 2005 23:52:14 GMT
My guess, Doomy, is that he said he would write a sequel to his gamebook, but never did.
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Post by Doomy on Aug 18, 2005 7:41:42 GMT
Just in case anyone missed this last time I posted it: The answer I'm looking for is nothing to do with Esperanto And Zipp, good guess but wrong. It's even more obvious than that. I'll post the right answer if no-one gets it in the next 24 hours or so.
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Post by North Star on Aug 18, 2005 9:20:31 GMT
Oh Outs, here's a possible answer to your named books question. In Creature of Havoc, when your memory clears, you find that you're actually a human captain with a named ship (can't remember either). Since you're him, technically you already had the ship but just didn't realise it! NS.
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Post by Doomy on Aug 18, 2005 9:54:22 GMT
Actually, NS, I did -sorta- mention that. But I talked around it rather than blurting it out, since it's pretty much THE BIGGEST SPOILER IN ANY GAMEBOOK EVER.
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Post by outspaced on Aug 18, 2005 12:36:30 GMT
And you don't start with it. Doomy--I also had to look up the answer, and I think I've found it, but I think someone else should answer it (I asked the last question). However, in finding the information, the webpage also made a couple of brief comments about John Grant. Hmmm . . .
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Post by Doomy on Aug 18, 2005 13:44:11 GMT
It did? Well, could you post a link after the answer goes up, which will be tomorrow morning (UK time), unless someone chips in first, please?
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Post by outspaced on Aug 19, 2005 8:47:52 GMT
Sure. It's only a few sentences, but it's . . . interesting.
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Post by Doomy on Aug 19, 2005 10:14:09 GMT
A little later than advertised (been busy) but here's the answer: As at least some of you know, Harrison wrote a well-known comedic SF series, chronicling the exploits of "Slippery" Jim DiGriz, aka the Stainless Steel Rat. One instalment, published in 1985, is interactive, entitled You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat. Thing is, you can't. You're stuck as boring old you. Blatant false advertising if you ask me. The book isn't too bad though, even if it presents absolutely no challenge whatsoever, having but a single ending.
Since nobody posted an answer, I'm making this a free-for-all. Anyone who wishes to do so may post a question, providing nobody else has already beaten them to it.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Aug 19, 2005 15:51:05 GMT
I could post a question, but this would defeat the purpose of my not answering when I already knew the answer (as it's readily available online). And it's not just that there's no challenge because there's only one ending--it's that there's no challenge because there is no way to lose. You can't die. You can't fail. The worst that can happen is you get stuck in an endless loop.
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Post by outspaced on Aug 19, 2005 16:20:05 GMT
Yeah, Doomy, you were busy writing that LOTR-sized PM! ;D
Any newbies out there like to ask a gamebooks/Lone Wolf-related question, then?
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