Erm, Elen, with all due respect, this is a site for nerds. Nerds typically have had a better education than the general public, are very proficient in the sciences, and are very unlikely to fall for a "sacrificial altar" scam. Please do not take our immersion in fantasy worlds as an indication of proclivity to believe in the supernatural.

Unless you are just trolling, in which case you may proceed as you please.

Just in case you are serious, I would like to point out that the assumption that this Dr Imomoh had anything to do with your ex's decisions is completely post hoc ergo propter hoc. It is impossible that sacrifices of physical objects of any kind could have had the desired effect, unless the sacrifices in question consist of a scalpel, an operation theatre, and your drugged husband, and this Dr Imomoh happens to be an alien neurological surgeon with access to technology far more advanced than anything on earth.

dark
Wed Jul 10 09:35:48 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

That strikes me as very much a spambot, especially in the total lack of punctuation annd repeating of a mail address.

I actually feel very sorry for all those propper Pagans out there when this sort of thing comes uup.

Anyway, I believe I've just finished King Melchion (beware! spoilage ahoy!).

I found the bard, we returned to the castle and it finished with the king and Davor the mage riding happily off into the sunset. I'm assuming that this was the final ending, since though I've tried some of the other choices such as contacting the Dark God and pleading with the witch, none seemed as promising, however it still seems a bit weerd that the Master Bard couldn't break the curse, ---- and even if as was intimated the King was quite happy as a woman in the end, I would've preferd an ending where he had the option of going back to being a man but opted to stay female out of choice.

Part of the problem is that even when the master bard saves the King from being hanged, the text was still a little short, which made it feel a bit inconclusive, just like the ending where you get the king killed and take over yourself, but I'm not sure if this is because there is! another ending, or just that the author wasn't quite as definite as he could've been in the text.

dark
Wed Jul 10 09:46:00 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

spoilage below!

Okay, please disregard my last message, I just ried the harmonica instead of giving the scroll to the bard and that produced the absolute and final ending and also gave some explanation to the hole gender reversal thing, though a little odd that the scroll of lyrics (which is actually harder to find), wasn't the answer, ----- or maybe it was just that I did less exploring while looking for the Master Bard?

Either way, nice fairy tale, if whacky ending.

C-Star
Wed Jul 10 10:14:08 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

There are actually people out there that text people and post on the internet just like that, with no punctuation and about 15 sentences crushed into one massive wall.of text. It gives me headaches.

@Dark
Melchion seems to have a *lot* of endings, a lot of which I haven't seen, but I don't think yours is the best one. (The ending I got was paragraph 400 and revealed why Melchion was cursed and who the witch really was, and gives a very positive future to the protagonist, so I'm assuming that's the best ending.)

SPOILER

END SPOILER

dark
Wed Jul 10 13:25:59 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

Well as to spambots, it's true some people do write like that but combined with the repeated address showings and the fact tthat this person didn't clearly know what this site was about implies spambottage to me.

Beware here be spoilers!

Melchion does! have a lot of endings, since I don't think I've seen the one you mention. The ending I had the mage still had his own appearence but ended up marrying the King. I got it by taking the option to search for the master bard, then first going to I believe the southeast and the old witch's hut on hens' legs and drinking the tea to get the harmonica, then going northeast and investigating the grass hut in the forest where I found the bard, dealing with the elves and then giving the harmonica to the bard.

All the endings I found where the mage takes the King's appearence seemed to end badly, either the king kills or banishes the mage or gets killed her/himself leaving the mage to rule in his/her place.

Still, I believe there is one avinue in that plotline I've not quite explored so I'll try looking through it.

Much credit to the author in writing a book with so many different end points.

dark
Wed Jul 10 13:35:03 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

spoilage again!

Well it seems there are two ways to get to 100 and that hapily married ending, though I personally prefer the above mentioned method with the Master bard where Davor marries the king as himself, indeed I'm quite surprised given how badly some of the other opportunistic endings went that that one worked.

Still, much credit again to the author for having so many ways to win and yet not making the hole book too easy.

C-Star
Wed Jul 10 21:37:49 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

The path to my ending was rather strange.

SPOILER

END SPOILER

This was a few months ago, so I'm a bit rusty on the details, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

bcyy
Thu Jul 11 01:02:13 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

Speaking of Melchion, I found the ending somewhat revolting. The thought that the main character is marrying a woman who was a man only a couple of days ago sets off all sorts of alarm bells in my head.

Funny how Melchion exposes my transphobia, which I had not been aware of.

SPOILER

END SPOILER

C-Star
Thu Jul 11 08:20:51 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

I was a little bit grossed out when I realised the ending was going, but when it kept describing how happy they were I really couldn't keep feeling negative. It was still a little bit disturbing though.

And as for Outsider and the eating and sleeping thing... At the risk of sounding like a bit of a jerk, that does sound like a pretty big overreaction. How old were you when you played Outsider?

dark
Thu Jul 11 13:37:26 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

Beware! more Melchion spoilage ahoy!

@C-star, I found the other ending to Melchion, though I do think it is a rather more random path to that than the ending with the master bard.
In terms of odd reactions, to be honest I didn't personally have a problem, they were in love and both were happy which is a good ending in my book. Indeed, I would be interested in seeing in fiction more of this kind of none standard romance without! accompanying graphic s/xual descriptions or themes, just having two people of the same, or different, or transient gender who love each other much as two people of different genders would. The Falcon Banner series by Chrystopher Lidan is a great example, a full on space opera romance with a dethrowned royal, psyonic powers and a reliable general, ---- it made absolutely no difference that the principle couple were two men, or at least not to me.

Outsider I've not completed yet, or at least not got that ending, but that would probably be less my thing since I do suffer from genophobia meaning even descriptions of normal s/x I find somewhat disturbing (especially in the second person, indeed I had to stop playing one of the choseyourstory games yesterday for this reason).

That however is a rather specifically personal thing.

Btw, Chooseyourstory is a sight that lets people write gamebook style things with an inbuilt scripting language. There is unfortunately a lot of absolute dross on there, however there are some good ones (just go by site ratings), In particular I'd recommend dead man walking and dungeon stompage, the one being a very well written zombocalypse, the other more a traditional fantasy with rpg type mechanics. find the site at http://www.chooseyourstory.com/

bcyy
Fri Jul 12 00:37:13 2013
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

About 19, give or take a year, when I completed it.

23, when I learned about the more "adult" stuff. A female colleague was joking that she doesn't kiss her boyfriend in the mouth and everyone was laughing, but I didn't get the joke. So I looked up "kissing" on wikipedia. Would have happened anyway without Outsider, but it definitely augmented the shock.

pi4t
Mon Jul 15 10:40:52 2013
General Chat

Ok, it's either a member of the board trolling again, or a spambot. I'd suggest that an update to the spam filter might be in order.

C-Star
Mon Jul 15 13:53:40 2013
General Chat

How does the filter identify spam in the first place? I'm guessing keywords is a part of it.

C-Star
Tue Jul 16 09:48:09 2013
General Chat

I remember writing a few normal messages on the guestbook and being told they needed to be checked.

dark
Tue Jul 16 22:44:27 2013
General Chat

Spam is bad. I will say this is one reason for a forum, that and I'd personally be very interested to see one where we could converse about gamebooks, write articals, walkthrus, speculations etc. Also Punbb has very good spam filter extentions, (it's what's used on audiogames.net.

SCC
Wed Jul 17 11:12:32 2013
Windhammer Competition

Good to see the judging period for the Windhammer competition will be extended this year if the number of entries blows out. I still believe that last year a number of entries didn't even get read by the majority of fans due to the high volume. We'll see if things are any better this year.

Phil Sadler
Wed Jul 17 11:53:32 2013
General Chat

A lot of pathetic spam at the moment. I reckon the host is on holiday because he normally jumps on this sort of nonsense in a second.

SCC
Thu Jul 18 08:27:59 2013
General Chat

Heh. Just took the time to read the latest entry. Maybe we need a spell to deal with spammers?

dark
Thu Jul 18 11:23:53 2013
General Chat

Well maybe we should write to this Doctor who is such a tallented spellcaster, perhaps these reputedly magical tallents of his can deal with spam, ----- after all he's very well known in Europe, so well knwown that myself in the Uk has never heard of him! :D.

On serious matters, I'm glad we get more time for windhammer, playing all of the entries and rating them can take time especially when your having to use a screen reader and rely on find and replace.

I do actually still want to submit anohter entry myself, though unfortunately at the moment life is getting in the way, hopefully next year.

SCC
Fri Jul 19 05:18:32 2013
General Chat

dark, agreed. I do have an idea for this year's competition, but to craft a truly original, good idea takes time. Hopefully I will complete it in time. Later this year I also intend to finally write a story I sketched out two years ago - the unofficial sequel to a published FF story with a very unsatisfying climax. I wrote the introduction some time ago and may post it here as a teaser if there's interest.

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