have anything to do with the destruction of the very large robot? Also, the golden tile found in the security office; to whom does it belong? We're supposed to find the three tiles belonging to the chamberlain, royal champion, and royal executioner, so I'm unclear as to whom the security office one belongs. The tile that you consider to be a bad mirror, I presume that that's the one we're supposed to get from the royal champion, but there's no way to retrieve it, and how are we supposed to carry it around, if it's as large as the wall? Sorry for asking too many questions, but I want to beat this game! Talk to you later.

Ulysses
Wed Nov 11 11:54:13 2009
Contractual Obligation

Now that that's clear, can I say that I actually felt that CO was a step down in quality from the previous episodes (although The Hypertrout also compared poorly with The Golden Crate, which I think is the best of the series so far). Part of this was because creeping around a palace in the middle of the night leaves few encounters to build comedy on.

As such I welcome any feedback, especially detailed feedback for the subsequent episodes. Episode 6 will probably be about the same quality as CO, but the next two episodes lok like they will be up there again, being in more populus settings.

Aiken
Wed Nov 11 11:11:03 2009
Contractual Obligation

Ulysses and Webmaster were right- my last post was written in the Crudian style. You'll need to play his book to fully appreciate this complex culture, which I would heartily recommend. I thought phrases such as "I adamantly am not looking forward to it a great deal" would allow people who hadn't read it yet to get the idea, but I suppose the text just came across as nasty on a quick perusal! Apologies to anyone who got the wrong end of the stick.

Ulysses
Wed Nov 11 09:50:31 2009
Contractual Obligation

Jordan:

There are some things in the adventure which are misleading. Whether or not the items in the vending machine are all useless is for you to discover, although I would suggest that all the trouble you have to go through to be able to get anything from the vending machine suggests that at least one of the items must be useful. I'm not that cruel.

Regarding the very large robot:

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Regarding the other item you mentioned:

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Ulysses
Wed Nov 11 09:38:18 2009
Contractual Obligation

For those using screen readers that don't notify of a change in text colour (apparently some can, but this normally would not be useful), normal posts are in white text, and the webmaster adds comments in orange text. After my reply to Aiken's post, the webmaster added "Obviously you aren't a barbarian..." at the end of my post, which I believe was meant to indicate that Aiken was saying the opposite of what he meant, as the barbarians in Contractual Obligation are prone to do.
Aiken himself will probably clarify his comments soon. Until then, let's just forget about it.

Jordan
Wed Nov 11 08:20:58 2009
Contractual Obligation

Ahh, I take it the comment was from the webmaster and not Aiken then? Appologies if my assumptions are correct. Okay, so I got through the security door, but the "very large robot" is giving me a bit of problems. I take it, since his skill as freakishly high, that there's a way to weaken/defeat him? Also, regarding the

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I've only found the one in the security safe. I presume that there are others to be found, but are they downstairs, or upstairs? And, it seems that my quest to find the coin was all for naught, since the items you can select don't seem to have that much use. I mean, the robotic jumping boots sounded promising, but they don't come out of the machine. I'm sure that I'm missing something, am I not?

Wayne Densley
Wed Nov 11 08:16:39 2009
Windhammer Competition

Hi all,

Just a short post to let everyone on the guestbook know that the Windhammer Prize for 2009 has proved a great success. Per Jorner won the prize with his entry, The Bone Dogs, and Merit awards were won by Kieran Coghlan and Alec Worley for their respective gamebooks, Waiting for the Light, and the Garden of Bones.

Thanks to everyone on the list who participated, whether it be as an author or voter.

All gamebook entries from the competition can now be accessed permanently in a Gamebook Archive that can be found at arborell.com.

Sorry about the lateness of this notification. I was sure I had put up a note here on the 7th but I must have had some kind of mental break as I cannot seem to find it.

Regards
Wayne Densley
Chronicles of Arborell

Ulysses
Wed Nov 11 06:01:23 2009
Contractual Obligation

Jordan:

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Thanks for your support everyone, but I believe this uncharacteristic comment from Aiken is humour from the gamebook itself (hence the comment from the webmaster). The fact that I didn't pick up on this at first demonstrates my attachment to my work...

Jordan
Wed Nov 11 04:33:47 2009
Contractual Obligation

Ulysses,

Still playing C.O., and have a question, since the adventure's been up for about a week now. Is the way to get the

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found by getting something from the torture chamber bot?

Josh
Wed Nov 11 02:25:42 2009
Contractual Obligation

Sarcasm anyone?

Jordan
Wed Nov 11 02:13:52 2009
Contractual Obligation

I must say that I agree with Craig. Everyone else's polite criticisms have been just that, polite. I presume you're pissed off because it was difficult to get to that ending. News flash, all of Ulysses' gamebooks have been frustratingly difficult at times, that's the fun in them. Though I've not reached that ending myself yet, and don't know what I'm missing in order to reach it, I highly look forward to doing so. Keep up the hard work, Ulysses, and thanks for allowing everyone the chance to read/play your gamebooks. They're phenomenal, and I appreciate the fact that you allow us to partake in your tallent.

Ulysses
Tue Nov 10 22:58:19 2009
Contractual Obligation

Opps. I mean: Well, if you don't like it, maybe I will write even more sequels!

Craig
Tue Nov 10 21:59:58 2009
Contractual Obligation

Aiken:

Pretty outride rude.

Anyone is entitled to their opinion of course on someone elses work, but there are ways of saying you "don't like something".

Anyone that bothers to put in time, energy and effort into a writing an original work should at least be given the courtesy of poliet critisim!

Keep up the hard work Ulysses

Ulysses Ai Tue Nov 10 21:55:37 2009 Contractual Obligation	Aiken: Yes, that's the successful ending. Sorry you didn't enjoy it. I can only suggest that if you aren't enjoying a gamebook, then don't persist with it as you did in this case.
	Obviously you aren't a barbarian...

Aiken
Tue Nov 10 17:50:56 2009
Contractual Obligation

Ulysses- On CO, I have reached the ending with the

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- I take it this means victory?

Really poor gamebook- not at all hilarious- I absolutely hated it and request that you never write a sequel, and definitely don't download it onto this site as soon as possible, because I adamantly am not looking forward to it a great deal...

Jordan Tue Nov 10 05:36:10 2009 Contractual Obligation	Are you planning on putting Ulysses' latest gamebook on the downloads page? Probably a stupid question, considering the others are on there, but...
	Yes, eventually. It was Ulysses' own suggestion to hold back the originals as he himself ideally prefers to play the online version of a gamebook but if the text version is available beforehand he tends to yield to temptation and reads that instead. So the idea is to enhance the experience for those of a similar mindset.

ffproject
Sun Nov 8 12:08:57 2009
News

Archiving

I have added to the Downloads page three works that risk disappearing from the Internet otherwise : the gamebooks Realm Of The Vampire by Sagi Hed and Midnight Deep by Hugh Eldred-Grigg, as well as Jonathan Hughson's website The Black Tower.

CrypticWizard
Sat Nov 7 02:02:53 2009
General Chat

Just wanted to clarify one point--there will be some combat in this book, but not as much as in other books. And at least 50% of the fights you do get into can be avoided if you make the right choices. As for the puzzles, I'm not using many of the "If you have the XX, turn to XX" type of thing. Many of the puzzles will require creative thinking (or some lucky guesses) to solve. You will see what I mean when it is finished. That might not be especially soon--real life does get in the way sometimes--but once it's completed I will submt it here and you can all get a chance to try it out if you are so inclined.

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