You can get to entry 68 without losing your left arm (if a salamander has already "baked" you), but the text still incorrectly says you are off balance due to the loss of your left arm.
Curious to know if Hummingbird was completed. Escaped after talking to mud girl. Also if someone could help me with Sleeping dragon at Silouette that would rock. I'm stumped. :P
A refreshing FF change. Did it take long to create this?
As far as the online adaptation went, no, not really. It's fairly short, doesn't have any complicated permutations and didn't need any corrections (although it looks like Amir has since found one). I don't know how long it took to write originally.
Unlike most gamebooks where choices as simple as to look at something or enter a shop denies the player all the other options, A Shadow In The North allows you to check everything.
However, it falls a little short in content maybe, but that's like asking more of a short movie or book.
Anyway, this is an example of good gamebooks. Cheers.
Robert Douglas Sun Nov 29 01:10:58 2015 Reading Club
Oh dear, oh dear! Seems I'm the first person to make a recommendation - very well....
'The Man in the High Castle' is an alternative history novel set in the year 1962 and a dystopia in which the Allied powers lost the second world war. Most of globe, including the United States, has been divided between the Japanese and the Nazis. A Cold War now exists between these two Axis superpowers. Meanwhile, Martin Bormann - Hitler's successor - has died so now the high-ranking Nazis are sucked into a power-struggle to become the next Reichsfuhrer. Such a candidate would certainly influence relations between the two spheres. Many Japanese officials fear a Third World War, since Nazi Germany is more scientifically advanced and in possession of nuclear V3 warheads. The titular character of this book is in fact an author by the name of Hawthorne Abendsen, his work 'The Grasshopper Lie Heavy' is the novel within a novel, so to speak: his portrayal of an alternate world, a victorious outcome for the Allies, but one also very much different from our OWN world. While a more liberal Japan regards the book with some degree of fascination, the Nazis have outright banned it from bookshops as seditious material. As a precaution from vengeful repercussions, Abendsen has taken refuge within the neutral buffer Rocky States. Juliana Frink is one of the main characters, a Pacific States citizen, and obsessed with meeting Abendsen. However, in this dark and dangerous world, nothing is certain...
This novel deservedly won the Hugo Award. Phillip K Dick in fact better known for intelligent, plot-twisting sci-fi stories such as Bladerunner ('Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep), Minority Report, and Total Recall ('We Can Remember It For You Wholesale'). And now there is 'The Man in the High Castle' TV series recently released by Amazon and co-produced by Ridley Scott. This is a worthy adaptation, although please note there are some changes in the plot and character names. You can watch Episode 1 for free as a taster. The novel itself is highly-regarded within 'alternate historian' circles and ranks among the most popular. It's also likely that it inspired the videogames 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' and 'Turning Point: Fall of Liberty'.
For more in-depth information on any of the above, I recommend a visit to Wikipedia.
Disregard my former rantings, this gamebook can indeed be completed, all with a sanity score of 4! Great job Simon, keep up the good work man. Look forward to more from you.
Is the fire irng a necessary part of the optimum ending? If I obtain that, my sanity always drops to 2 or 3, I believe we need four or more to proceed. A walkthrough would rock lol.