Let's Play the Grailquest series! (If this kills you, go to 14.)

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Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Use your head, Pip!

# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 01:37

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 16:16

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

I'm leery of wasting too many of our potions. Let's take a nap the next time our Life Points take a hit.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 01:22

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Temples are a dime a dozen, but islands? Those are pretty rare and warrant further exploration.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 19:52

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

posted:

"Then praise his poetry to the skies
Even if this means telling a few lies..."

# ¿ Apr 25, 2015 18:21

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Backtracking is always the path of failure. Onwards!

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 17:42

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Give the darkness the finger (of lightning).

# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 19:29

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Ghostwoods posted:

Looks like the Double Doors via 18

It does seem like this is our only unexplored option at the moment.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 15:42

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

See the bones.

Second courtyard must connect to the battlements, your map is terrible. (I feel your pain - CYOA mapping is a nightmare.)

# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 20:19

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

inflatablefish posted:

You know what we haven't done yet? Let's sleep and get some life points back.

USE A HOUND CARCASS FOR A PILLOW!!

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 00:08

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

I think things might just work out for us if we take the back way up to the battlements!

# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 18:19

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Have you considered simply running this single thread through the whole series and linking the individual books in the OP? If you get viewers joining on when you're a few books deeper in, then they don't run the risk of losing the initial books into archives. You can even ask a mod to update the thread title for each book or for the whole series. Just a thought.

Regarding the last book, aren't there a few amusing dreams that we didn't hit? I can't recall if they reuse those in the subsequent books or if they wrote new ones each time.

# ¿ May 3, 2015 03:18

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

idonotlikepeas posted:

The armor is just a straight bonus, since we can wear our jerkin, so that seems good. The book also told us we need a weapon apart from EJ, and a dagger is the cheapest way of doing that, so that makes sense too. (Hopefully EJ will be usable in the majority of encounters, so investing heavily in a non-EJ weapon probably isn't that great an idea. Now that I've said this, we'll lose him in the first section.)

I don't think we need to buy five rounds of potions, though; note that each 3 silver gets us a dozen. We will hopefully not need sixty potions. Let's get two of those (24 potions) instead, and use the other nine silver as follows:

* 6 Sacks: 0.5
* 12 Climbing Spikes: 0.5
* 15m roll of bandages: 0.5
* 1 tinderbox: 0.5
* 1 container of oil: 1
* 12 fish hooks: 1
* 1 carpentry hammer: 1
* 1 blanket: 1
* 1 horn: 3

This sounds diverse and good.

# ¿ May 6, 2015 11:59

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Might I suggest that we take the starting equipment as set for the book at this point? Because I, for one, plan on voting us directly towards anything that remotely resembles an instadeath (for the wonderful flavor text, of course) and revoting gear each time we kick it sounds like it could drag things down.

Let's try the chasm again.

# ¿ May 10, 2015 04:34

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

My memories of this village are pretty vague. Try walking around the door, I guess?

# ¿ May 10, 2015 20:36

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

51->63->41->72->69->33->33->43->45. Knock out the non-descript hovels first.

Unless we encounter some significant plot in the process, that is.

# ¿ May 11, 2015 16:58

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Secret passages and snooping around for later. Let's check off some more boxes (and stone houses and little bush creepies)!

55->61->52->44->50->39->48

# ¿ May 12, 2015 12:13

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Let's try magic.

# ¿ May 13, 2015 13:26

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

55->61->52->44->50->39->48

Then maybe we can look at the field or something.

# ¿ May 14, 2015 01:38

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

20 24 28 34 47 54 57 60

# ¿ May 17, 2015 12:59

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

LOOOOOOT!

# ¿ May 27, 2015 19:39

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

I have a bad feeling about 137. Let's do it.

# ¿ May 28, 2015 16:41

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

inflatablefish posted:

Then we'll try the church, then the smithy, then the apothecary, and hope that one of them lets us in.

ONLY A FOOL WOULD VISIT THE CHURH FIRST, but I'm otherwise fine with this.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 00:26

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Chug a potion then sleep. The best of both worlds (and then sleeping is less likely to kill us outright.)

# ¿ Jun 21, 2015 15:44

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Ghostwoods posted:

What kind of question is that? Of course we open the chest. Cast PIP first though, in case of poison traps.

And then sleep some more. 'Twould be a shame to left anything left undreamt at the end of things.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2015 20:41

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Jazzimus Prime posted:

This, but quaff two healing potions first. And ~~DON'T~~ RISK the Dreamtime. ~~Too~~ Many chances of a bullshit instant death!

# ¿ Jun 24, 2015 02:09

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Take the chance that he may be harmless, but do so vigorously.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2015 18:42

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

I handed off my LP of this series at this point and if memory serves, it fizzled early in the next book. As such, I'm looking forward to seeing most of that for the first time!

# ¿ Aug 15, 2015 15:19

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Mister Perky posted:

DreamTime at least once per book, since it's a mechanic unique to Grailquest (in my experience) and an LP thereof should show it off.

Since it's risky, though, pop some potion first and try to supplement with DreamTime [best case] or as insurance against DreamTime [worst case].

Yes, but then explore the cave.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 22:07

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

T'would be unseemly to deny the Argonauts the opportunity to obtain a Golden Fleece. Head for the shore.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 18:18

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

The $64,000 Question is like a 50's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 23:52

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

It would have been much more ironic if this had occurred on page 14.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 01:49

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 16:16

Ratatozsk: Mar 6, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

Southwest because gently caress south.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 02:27

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