On Hummingbirds Island, section 2-27, at the end of the section are the words: "Restore your SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK to their Initial values." I think these words should be hidden from the player, as they are automatically delivered by the software.
You make a good point, but rightly or wrongly this is the way I've done it throughout all the gamebooks. It would be a huge task to change it everywhere now.
I noticed that the link on the first page of this adventure (the one that takes you to a kind of gazetteer of Shabak http://www.fightingfantasy.org.uk/ShabakRealms.htm) doesn't work anymore. Is there any way to re-instate it? it would be sad to lose that nice stuff. Maybe the author can be contacted and the same information can be made available in some other way?
I don't know if it exists outside of archive.org any more. I had already changed the link on the links page to point to the archived version, now I have updated the one on the first page of the adventure as well.
brilliant, totally brilliant. Being a bit of a cheat, and because dying several times is tough, what about a cheat mode where you win all fights, just so you can get to the end and enjoy the story? thanks, Peter