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Yorick is just going to stroll right into the royal court, introduce himself to the King and Queen, and make a bunch of fart sounds at them.quote:>>Go back<< Against all odds, Yorick has cleared the initial screening and been accepted as court jester! The future is looking bright! But can Yorick keep up the good work? Should he start adding some variety to his act? Or should he keep the momentum going on his current routine? Wait, what did King Hamlet mean when he said Yorick had to survive the day? Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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KEEP FARTING
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 00:36 |
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*pppppphhhhhhttttt*
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 00:38 |
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We're supposed to be "a fellow of infinite jest," so more farting seems appropriate.
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:50 |
Definitely more farting.
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Having little to no knowledge as to how to actually put together a comedy routine to keep the attention of capricious nobles and their children, Yorick just sticks to what he knows to have worked so far. But is Kid Hamlet going to get bored of it too quickly?quote:>>Go back<< Nope! Kid Hamlet never grows tired of his personal Fart Jester, who terrorizes Elsinore Castle for five years before dying of natural causes and getting buried in an unmarked grave. Congratulations, Yorick! We've made it to a happy ending! Well, sort of. We'll have to see later if there is a way that Yorick could depart this world leaving more behind than just a lingering fart smell that's inundated everything in the castle by the time he dies. So long, Yorick! We'll be seeing you after we spend some more time with To Be or Not To Be. Last time we played, the late King Hamlet avenged his death by exploding King Claudius's body all over the Queen's bedchamber and face, then became a gory-explosion-ghost vigilante for all eternity. But was there a better way?
Voting closes tomorrow at 9 PM CST. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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Option 2. Let's thoroughly plumb all of the wrong decisions here.
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 18:23 |
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Option 1
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# ? Apr 11, 2015 18:23 |
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Option 2. Sit-com hilarity ensues. I love the little Hamlet picture.
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Lil' Hamlet is pretty cute. Option 2, let's get it out of the way, I guess.
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Per the vote, we're going to rewind time to when Hamlet's dead dad was deciding whether to eavesdrop on Claudius and Gertrude's conversation.quote:
Unfortunately, the Ghost King of Denmark isn't nearly as good at spooking people as he is at blowing them up. Whether or not he actively snoops on Claudius and Gertrude, the Ghost King will still decide that things can only be solved with a good old-fashioned murder. On the surface, it looks like the same decision set we got when we made the decision to eavesdrop in our previous run. But if this CYOA was being done from the gamebook's printed form with reference numbers shown, at least one of the decisions here would lead to a different number than last time. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Kill him yourself
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 06:17 |
Let's see how ghostsploding Claudius works out this time.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 06:33 |
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Screw it, let's make Hamlet do it!
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 12:21 |
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Let's do it ourselves again then we can get Hamlet to do it
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Hamlet Sr. is going to go and attend to this murder business himself, just as he did last time. Unfortunately, he's not a very creative guy and is going to murder King Claudius in exactly the same manner as before.quote:
Another exploded Claudius, another horrified Gertrude. This time, Hamlet Sr. is willing to think things through before passing judgment on his widow, though he seems to be of the notion that he's still married to her. Is he going to let this matter slide? Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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If ghosts are real, maybe polyamory is real too. Let's be cool about this.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 00:03 |
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If we get mad, maybe we can explode her too this time.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 00:39 |
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Stay Cool, everybody. Just Stay Cool.
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Get mad
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We're cool with polyamory.
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It's a tough call for him to make, but the Ghost King eventually decides that just because Gertrude married his exploded brother doesn't mean he has to get overly upset. Rather than yelling at Gertrude or doing something else that he might wind up regretting for all eternity, he puts the matter to rest.quote:
The Ghost King's willingness to tolerate his widow's little indiscretion is repaid by his nation's willingness to tolerate having a spectral horror from beyond the grave rule them for all eternity. Congratulations! ...Yes, I double-checked. Yes, that really is the ending illustration. I looked and it repeats in another ending where it's actually applicable. It's possible that we'll run into another misplaced illustration elsewhere that belongs here, but I haven't yet found one. Turns out that this particular gamebook is loving huge to the point that I'm still picking through all of it. One website sells a very nice poster depicting all of the game's events in flowchart form and it's positively mind-boggling. I'm considering working it into the LP to show our progress toward revealing everything. The Haml-O-Meter still lists us as "Not To Be." We still haven't gotten very deep. Anyways, now that King Hamlet has reached a happy ending of sorts, it's time to spend some more time with Yorick! Welcome back, Yorick! Please stop farting. Last time we did a playthrough of Poor Yorick, Yorick was hired on as the court jester and so enthralled Kid Hamlet with his fart noises that he was put to work doing nothing but making fart noises for the rest of his life. It was a comfortable way to spend his life, but let's see if Yorick can get into a more sophisticated career that isn't eventually doomed to obsolescence by whoopee cushions or Space Station 13.
Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Option 1
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 06:05 |
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Option 1 Same.
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One That was a pretty interesting ending
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quote:a quick flip through the constitution reveals that there's nothing in the rules that say a ghost CAN'T be king! There's actually a section that explicitly says that should this happen, the ghost assuming the throne would be totally neato. I'm serious; that's what it says: "totally neato." You've got yourself a pretty cool nation, Hamlet Sr.! I've actually read the Danish constitution, and it pretty much doesn't say that. Like, at all; it's actually quite explicit about the heir being a man or a woman (§2). It's ruining my immersion. I must say I quite enjoy this LP. The writing of the game is prone to be annoying but in small doses as imposed by the format, it's really quite amusing altogether, and there's quite a bit of content even though we went with a "wrong" path. Oooh, and option 4 - this can only end in happiness.
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Ol' Yorick is going to try talking to Kid Hamlet instead of breaking his mind with excessive fart noises.quote:>>Go back<< On second thought, maybe becoming the Fart Jester of Elsinore was actually the more dignified option. Is Yorick really going to put up with this abuse? On a side note, I've made some edits to previous updates. To Be or Not To Be has an art gallery listing all illustrations that we've seen, and for each image there's an infocard with a short blurb about that particular image's creator. All such infocards are now viewable by clicking the respective images in this thread. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Yes.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 00:09 |
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Yes.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 00:42 |
Let's be a horsey.
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klafbang posted:I've actually read the Danish constitution, and it pretty much doesn't say that. Like, at all; it's actually quite explicit about the heir being a man or a woman (§2). It's ruining my immersion.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Let's be a horsey. That, or more fart noises.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 15:58 |
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How many megapoints do we even need to go up that scale? It's almost like megapoints mean nothing.
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# ? Apr 18, 2015 00:51 |
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Yorick is totally going to bear this kid on his back a thousand times.quote:>>Go back<< Never accept a job as court jester for somebody who's rumored to suffer from chronic unhappiness. Yorick might very well be paying for that mistake in a moment. Glazius posted:How many megapoints do we even need to go up that scale? It's almost like megapoints mean nothing. We'll get there. It does take awhile before we start finding our way up the Haml-O-Meter but it eventually happens. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:We'll get there. It does take awhile before we start finding our way up the Haml-O-Meter but it eventually happens. Does that mean it's a cumulative thing, not a measure of how good or bad a specific ending is?
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# ? Apr 18, 2015 18:02 |
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Let's see where Porkchop Weebottoms gets us. Probably not very far.
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# ? Apr 18, 2015 18:17 |
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Wow I do not understand nerds getting angry at comedy CYOA books. If anything the way the OP has chosen to handle game-overs is making the book boring since we're just mechanically save-scumming to explore every path that doesn't lead to a dead-end. That sort of presentation is going to lead to the LP dead end! For this thread! Of course an adventure-is-chosen-by-you book loses its charm when you just read every outcome.
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FredMSloniker posted:Does that mean it's a cumulative thing, not a measure of how good or bad a specific ending is? The Haml-O-Meter has a couple of non-obvious mechanics, but there's a vague, somewhat underwhelming method to its madness. Arglebargle III posted:Wow I do not understand nerds getting angry at comedy CYOA books. If anything the way the OP has chosen to handle game-overs is making the book boring since we're just mechanically save-scumming to explore every path that doesn't lead to a dead-end. That sort of presentation is going to lead to the LP dead end! For this thread! Of course an adventure-is-chosen-by-you book loses its charm when you just read every outcome. I'm more or less okay with save-scumming the last decision on each page of Poor Yorick, due to certain quirks about its structure that are going to become very clear in a couple of updates. As for To Be or Not To Be, good point there as well, but without wanting to get too spoiler-y as to the reasons, I'm not 100% sure it would work to restart the gamebook every time we hit an ending. For now, I'm okay with the save-scumming inasmuch as it progresses the current story path we've on, but that story path is soon coming to an ultimate close, at which point I'll make some changes. I'm working on some other stuff for the thread too, and will be cleaning up previous posts further in the coming days. That said, I know that this LP could be better, and I'm more than open to suggestions as to what I can do to improve it. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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WEEBOTTOMS
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