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[CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:28 pm
by Kyle
Let's play an obscure Choose Your Own Adventure. This one is Underground Kingdom by Edward Packer! I'll give y'all adequate time for all people playing to vote/decide on the decision to make, then I'll advance the story accordingly.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:29 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:30 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:31 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:19 am
by Tahlvin
Skip the ledge. Let's keep falling.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:19 am
by Mike
Yeah, I say keep falling. Look for a softer ledge.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:32 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:59 am
by Mike
I am a coward. My inclination is to run and then figure out things from a better vantage point. But I also know that CYOA doesn't work that way.
But I still say run.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:50 pm
by Tahlvin
Sure, let's try running.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:56 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:45 pm
by Mike
Buh-wha??
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:07 pm
by Tahlvin
WTF, let's try to make it to the top.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:20 pm
by Mike
Yeah okay. I can roll with that.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:52 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:43 am
by Mike
Well... life or death moment here. I say doing something is better narratively than doing nothing. So I vote for going out swinging. Push on!
But I can be swayed.
I bet it's too late and we freeze to death no matter what we do.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:18 pm
by Tahlvin
Yes, let's force ourselves to keep moving.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:36 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:39 pm
by Kyle
So I don't read ahead. I only read after I've posted what your decision was. I've done plenty of these to know when I think y'all are fucked no matter what you do, but this pleasantly surprised me.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:58 pm
by Mike
I vote go.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:17 pm
by Tahlvin
Yes, let's go. Although it would be interesting to know what happens if we refuse to go.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:46 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:11 am
by Mike
So many chances to back out, and yet... I think we should shoulder on.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:03 pm
by Tahlvin
Is it shoulder on or soldier on? Regardless, I agree we go with him.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:50 pm
by Mike
Definitely soldier. I got caught up in should and shoulder.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:01 pm
by Kyle
It's "sold her on..." Back in the day when women were chattel, you would sell them on the market price. But eventually they dropped the "market price" because that was always understood. So you might say to your drinking mate about your wife/chattel, "Being married to her is a chore, so I guess I'll just sold her on."
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:03 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:18 pm
by Mike
This is the weirdest CYOA.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:40 pm
by Kyle
You didn't play the others, which were also written by Packer (the original author). These are all before he "perfected" the formula. The last series we did were even weirder because you couldn't die- it was a weird "open world" setting where you eventually got to the end.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:51 pm
by Tahlvin
Yes, this one seems to be forcing us to be wimpy. There's no option for "fall faster!"
I vote for trying to reason with Dr. Bruckner, since I definitely do not want to push the button. Let's get this thing moving!
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:07 pm
by Mike
Do that! Yes.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:29 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:37 am
by Kyle
I have so many questions about the physics of this world. Wouldn't the gravity on the earth's surface be the same as the gravity on the inner shell?
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:31 am
by Tahlvin
And what exactly is the source of light, if this black hole is black?
Anyways, I say we face the creatures. No time like the present to get ourselves good and truly screwed!
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:53 pm
by Mike
Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:37 am
I have so many questions about the physics of this world. Wouldn't the gravity on the earth's surface be the same as the gravity on the inner shell?
This is going to sound very counterintuitive, but given the configuration (hollow shell, with the remaining mass of the interior compressed into the "black hole" at the center), gravity here would be exactly the same as it would be in this exact spot if the planet was NOT hollow. That is, still considerable, and pulling us towards the center of the earth. At a wild guess, I'd say we'd be experiencing something like half a G.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:57 pm
by Tahlvin
But it would be half a G pulling us towards the black hole, not half a G pulling us towards the shell. But this is like complaining about the physics and plot holes in the old D&D cartoon, or ThunderCats. So let's just go with it.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:01 pm
by Mike
Correct. Again, at least as I understand it. Because the shell above all around us effectively cancels itself out no matter where we are inside the shell, therefore, the black hole is the only thing acting on us.
And yes... face them.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:54 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:45 pm
by Mike
Who am I to be rude to my hosts? I'd like to follow.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:35 pm
by Tahlvin
Sure, why not. Follow blue-fur.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:05 am
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:31 am
by Tahlvin
I say we tell him to go f himself. This "if you're not with us, then you're against us" BS isn't something I want to cower to. Sure, the Arton are making war boats, but the Raka are making bombs, so it sounds like both sides are trying to provoke the other, and I want time to figure out if I'm supporting the Axis or the Allies. So I say, do you worst, I will not take part in your war.
What say you, Mike? You're the other aspect of this split personality.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:24 pm
by Mike
I'm with you. Vivaldi's alive over there and is behind whatever non-aggressive thing the Archpods are actually up to.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:04 pm
by Kyle
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:06 pm
by Kyle
That's a sucky ending. I feel like you didn't actually get to participate in the story.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:47 pm
by Mike
Dangit! Shoulda been bloodthirsty.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:47 pm
by Kyle
That's what sucks about a lot of Packer's books. He rewards swashbuckling and seeking reckless adventure and punishes pragmatism.
Re: [CYOA] Underground Kingdom
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:07 pm
by Tahlvin
That was a steaming pile of nothingburger.
