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Post number 11950

kingmissile — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:29:55 -0800

A crazy Halloween "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, only it's not quite as "tame" as the original CYOA books by Edward Packard. In fact, every choice you make in this on-line book could lead to your death. Good Luck!

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:55:08 -0800

I miss Onion links.

By: marknau

marknau — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:59:28 -0800

How about a Brunching Shuttlecocks link instead? Choose Your Own Damn Pokemon Adventure

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:05:50 -0800

ahhh, Lore. Much better. Actually, anything that doesn't start out with your mom dead in a puddle of her own sick would probably be better.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:34:17 -0800

What a fantastic piece of crap that is. Couldn't even get to the first option.

By: cps

cps — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:51:58 -0800

Jerk your Own Adventure

By: cps

cps — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:04:49 -0800

Brunching also offers up Choose Your Own Damn Harry Potter Adventure

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:29:05 -0800

Aaaaugh!

By: epersonae

epersonae — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:48:41 -0800

actually, I remember being genuinely terrified by a CYOA when I was about 9 or 10. it was a haunted house, and there were a number of choices you could make that would lead to being trapped, instantly killed, etc. I had terrible nightmares.

By: kingmissile

kingmissile — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:27:29 -0800

I recall the "Journey Under The Sea" one where I think I both drowned and got killed by an eel or a shark. Good times, good times.

By: jjg

jjg — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:49:57 -0800

I seem to remember there were some rather unsettling ways to die in "The Third Planet From Altair" and "The Cave of Time". Edward Packard rules. CYOA books by anyone else were invariably lame.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:31:45 -0800

Didn't he write all of the first twenty or so? He had some silly pseudonym like D.Terman or something. I used to love The Mystery of the Maya...and I think that creepy one was The House On Chimney Rock. Oh and UFO 54 or something was a favorite too.

By: cps

cps — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:38:18 -0800

Mystery of the Maya! Now it's coming back to me! I think those CYOAs is what got me into computer adventures, and from there the glories of System Shock. Alas, nothing since has beat it.

By: elle

elle — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 04:01:35 -0800

i read 'deadwood city' after seeing it on reading rainbow. it was the only book reading rainbow's ever gotten me to read; (they tell you about the whole damn book most of the time.)

By: epersonae

epersonae — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:18:20 -0800

omigod! Kafkaesque! yes, it was The House on Chimney Rock. I say that phrase, and reading about my own death, while sitting in an unfinished basement surrowned by my dead father's books, me & my sisters' dollhouses, and plastic bins full of legos...it all comes back so clearly. okay, now *that* reads like the beginning of a halloween tale.