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ffproject Fri Nov 18 17:22:18 2011 |
Sharkbait's Revenge Stuart Lloyd's Windhammer 2010 competition-winning gamebook is now ready for online play. The ship is now sinking fast. The rest of the crew are on the lifeboats heading to the island. You notice that they haven't left you one. They see you as responsible for causing this disaster and if they catch you on the island they will probably skin you alive. However, the island is the only escape you've got... |
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Jordan Wed Nov 23 01:15:19 2011 |
Excellent gamebook, Stewart. Just got one question. I've restarted a few times when my skill is low. Is there any way that your skill rises above 9? I've done everything but am having trouble defeating the ninja. Is there an item that might come into use? Thanks. |
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Stuart Wed Nov 23 15:42:44 2011 |
Thanks for the feedback, Jordan! For increasing your attack strength, make sure that if you get a weapon you click use for it or you will get a -2 penalty in combat. The shield increases your attack strength by 1 and the leather armour can protect you against some attacks. You can buy all of these from the armourer. Read the spoiler if you want to know how to defeat the ninja without fighting him:
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pi4t Fri Nov 25 15:03:59 2011 |
I've found a minor bug with Sharkbait: If you don't have your lucky doubloon, the game still lets you click on the 'buy the map' section on board the ship, effectively letting you have it for free. |
| Thanks for pointing this out. If it was reference 30 then I believe I have fixed it. |
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adam Thu Jan 19 07:29:20 2012 |
Just played sharkbait, loved the Deadliest warrior and Family Guy references!!!! Oggityboogityboo!!! |
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Dunshelm Fri Nov 15 22:54:18 2013 |
What a tedious game,you make the wrong move and you end up going around in circles |
| Maybe there should be a gamebook that always leads you to a successful conclusion, regardless of the choices you make. |
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Phil Sadler Sat Nov 16 11:27:13 2013 |
Funny you should say that about gamebooks, because there are video games that are impossible to lose. Take the strange Typing of the Dead (House of the Dead with swearing). It has infinite continues and, should you continue after you die, you will start of exactly where you were, any bosses still wounded and your own health recovered. Ridiculous. |
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Rather than repeated resurrection, what I think I was envisaging was that the hero would be destined for victory one way or another, and all decisions the player made, however stupid, would ultimately lead there. |
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pi4t Tue Nov 19 13:21:43 2013 |
There are computer games which it's impossible to lose, merely change your route to victory. Antichamber is one: failing, say, a jump, and falling into a pit, doesn't cause you to die but means you take another, perhaps harder, but entirely different route through the next part of the game. Planescape: Torment, I understand, has a major plot point that the main character is unable to die (much as, perhaps, they'd like to). |
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D-L-T Mon Nov 25 02:54:17 2013 
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it's not that I didn't like the sound of the "Challenge mode" :) it's just that I haven't really had time to play around that much lately! |
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gigs Thu Dec 19 15:45:01 2013 
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after the armour seller talks to you and tells you to meet him in the watchtoer their is not an option to do that? |
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brandon Tue Dec 31 19:05:11 2013
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It was a very interesting experience |
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gigs Fri Jan 10 17:45:55 2014 |
How do you enter the armourey? |
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Gigs Mon Jan 20 16:54:53 2014 |
I am stuck on it! |
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Jest Wed Apr 2 22:36:09 2014 |
Completed and managed to get the Ghandi challenge (doesn't make me a coward does it?) Have tried this one many times in the past and kept coming back. Good fun and funny in a lot of places. You really have to work it out and try a lot of the options to get through. Thank you Stuart Lloyd and FFP. |
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Sunni Fri Jun 20 03:51:37 2014
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Never underestimate the power of the bamboo stick! Nice short story though you could keep going around in circles if you didn't do the right thing. On to the nect challenge 7 down |
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Sunni Sat Jun 21 13:24:57 2014 
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Ok, I've completed all the challenges except 1, the rich man's challenge. It doesn't show even when I have 55 pieces of eight and 2 treasures! |
| Sorry about this. I've belatedly fixed it and given you the icon you deserved at the time. |
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Ryan Sun Nov 2 22:38:55 2014
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A really good book and is exciting |
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dark Tue Mar 31 21:27:41 2015
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Rather fun even if the writing style was a little short and a lot of the game felt run on dice rolls. Actually in the last fight I confess I replayed a few times, indeed it strikes me this is one where high attribute scores really! are a necessity. Still, love the theme of pirates and the nods to that awsome novel, On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers which also features Black beerd by the name of Ed Thatch who plats his beerd with burning ropes (though I was a little surprised there wasn't more Voodoo). I just wish some of the descriptions hadn't been quite as terse so that I got more of a sense of the colourful setting. |
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imflipinawsome Tue Sep 22 13:53:31 2015
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Well... i did have fun so thats good |
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Mage Sat Jan 9 10:28:16 2016
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Hmmm...I can't seem to fulfil the "Rich Challenge" either..... |
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Mage Sat Jan 9 10:29:21 2016 |
Sorry, ignore that last post, I mis-read the condition. |
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Mage Sun Jan 10 04:59:12 2016
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Done! :D |
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job Sat Dec 31 16:29:13 2016
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After a while the only thing I could do was either leave on a ship or keep hanging around in the market. |
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bluejuice915 Thu Mar 30 18:44:54 2017
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Well, it took several tries but I finally did it. The intricacy of what you could do to win was cool. The scarce battles were good, and the choice heavy gameplay was great. I will return at some point to find the other ending and challenges in of Your Teeth completed]. Until then, perfect degree of annoying difficulty. Grade: 97 |
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RogueOne Tue Oct 24 22:29:31 2017
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Done! |
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Anomynous Fri Nov 10 14:48:03 2017
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bad ending |
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paul Sun Mar 17 18:35:40 2019
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died in combat :( |
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Jay Sun Jan 17 16:29:37 2021
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I completed it! Good adventure! |
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Choi Seungcheol Mon Apr 19 09:07:30 2021
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well that was a bit disappointing |
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Mage Mon Oct 18 04:22:38 2021
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Not bad, but a couple more LUCK bonuses to be gained would have been nice.... |
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YARD Wed Aug 23 13:48:50 2023
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Wow, after first finding challenges after beating Outsider!, I didn't expect a gamebook with a much lower length to also sport them, but it certainly deserves it! Unlike Douglas' similarly-sized works, Windjammer limitations are almost imperceptible here. The only example I can think of is when at 150 (or the equivalent ref if you follow the other path), there is no option to flee yourself if you do not have all of the requirements, and instead your character automatically marches on to his entirely predictable doom. Besides Skin of Your Teeth, I also got Gandhi and The Other Successful Ending, but then I restarted instead of playing the challenge button again, and the record of that was lost. Still not sure how to get the Rich challenge, and the Warrior appears really luck-dependent. If there's one thing I have to ask, it's this: do those scrolls actually work? I tried on refs 112, 5 or 77, to no avail. Even if the character in those refs is somehow not the right person (which seems extremely unlikely) at least some acknowledgement of you trying and failing would seem necessary? Another thing is something I spotted in Rise of the Night Creatures as well: your most basic weapon (Butcher Knife in there, and a Dagger here) auto-equips, but the next strongest one (Silver Dagger and Sword) does not, even though it is entirely possible to find either of them while empty-handed. Before I go for my usual haul of typos, I want to note a certain pecularity in writing, which occurs very often (though not always) to the point I'm not sure if it's intentional or not. This is the propensity to follow up quoted speech with capitalized verbs, which I am pretty sure is not the way, but is the norm here. The exceptions are something like ref 8, where it's "backstabbed us' shouts Blutz", and the norm is that path's ending ref, where it's "captain.' Says Blutz." or Background, with its "He won't forget who's in charge now!" Laughed the captain." If the capitalized way is wrong, then pretty much every ref with direct speech (i.e. ref 7) would need to be checked. Now... 7 "He speaks with the upper class accent of a man who mixes with royalty regularly 'Why share your " (missing period.) "pulls out a pistol and points it a Brandon's head. " "You don't think I would make" (shouldn't it be past sense?) 15 "They rest upon what looks like giant threads of spider silk" (not sure about singular vs. plural) 44 "'Listen,' replies the small man 'All you need" (missing period.) 48 "You see the eyes widen as you reveal the treasure you have bought with you." 53 Is it intentional that Skull and Crossbow is not italicized? 58 "His warm, friendly, outgoing personality must his antidote to smelling of fish the whole time." 68 "put his cronies in charge of the city and the sent his men through the streets, arresting and executing so called followers of Caldoss." 77 "but he is not buying it 'How do I know" (missing period.) 78 In front of the door are two guards.Will you: (missing space.) 84 "I'm sure will you need it" 90 "One of their ships has weighed anchor just outside the reef Relieved" (missing period.) "if your ex shipmates did tell them" (missing dash?) 121 "The spider trips up over a human skeleton, leaving to enough time to flee from the clearing." I didn't get the full quote from ref 35, but I think that the sentence with "Fishpool Street" also should be double-checked. |
| Thanks, fixed the clear mistakes. I don't have the inclination to go through and correct the punctuation relating to quotations, especially as I'm not certain how it works myself. All the challenges can be done but of course luck plays a part. The scrolls do work and where to use them is not an arbitrary guess, there are clues in the text. |
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YARD Sat Aug 26 05:20:46 2023
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All right, all challenges done! I obviously did find ref 38 now, but I still think that using the scrolls should do something in the aforementioned refs 112, 5 or 77. There is no way that particular character wouldn't have reacted to those being in your presence! You even get "Galron is not here" when you try to use them some of the unrelated refs (perhaps that short message ref should trigger every time you try to use the scrolls on any refs besides the right one and those?), but there, it's just nothing. Also, in the same ref 38: "'Thankyou!' He exclaims and hugs you." 28 "and plunges his sword in one of the soldier's neck." (?) 58: "There are three other places which may be interesting : a bathhouse," I also just noticed this at 78
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and at 16
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| Why should the scrolls do anything at 112, 5 or 77 ? The character in question isn't there, and even if he was, why would he react to them being in your possession? He would only know that you had them if you showed them to him. |
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YARD Sat Aug 26 05:23:23 2023 |
Oh, and if "punctuation relating to quotations" is about the upper-case vs. lowercase right after quotations, I should note that seemingly every other gamebook I can think of uses lowercase. (i.e. ref 7 in The Word Fell Silent.) |
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YARD Sat Sep 2 11:48:36 2023 |
OK, I'll spell it out if I have to.
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Another observation.
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Some more grammatical details: 58 "that catches your eye is the barbers." (apostrophe?) + "which may be interesting :" (space). 68 "runs away to the leg that you can now see." (to a leg?) I also have to ask about the missing hyphens.
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