The Untold Tale

[Beowuuf]

I was just finishing off the old Test of the Kai improvised gamebook, and looking back over the first Blue Robes Rising. I'm quite in the mood to try another, though a little trepidacious since the last one pettered out.

Anyone fancy it?


I'll post the idea and first post to spark your imaginations anyway

Edit:
Current doc: www.dmjump.net/untold%20tale.doc
Support text: www.dmjump.net/effwef.txt

Edit 2: The above link is now the 'finished' version

[Beowuuf]

The Story So Far...

You are Banedon, famous Brother of the Crystal Star. Go on, I dare you to name another. However, tales of your many deeds have only been told in your home planet of Magnamund. Where on Earth are the tales elsewhere? You were promised, and all you got was a reduced gamebook in the back of the Magnamund Companion!

There are so many tales, like the time you sat around waiting for Lone Wolf to come back from the Daziarn. Or the time you got captured by Cadak in Kaag.

Ok, not good examples. Still, there is one tale that was hinted at but never properly revealed in its full glory. There was the time you earned the famed Skyrider.

This is...the Untold Tale!

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1


It is a cold morning in MS5054, and you have the mother of a hangover. It's not really your fault, everyone is still going on and on about Lone Wolf saving Raunon, and it made you hit the sauce a little hard.

You don't begrudge a similarly aged fighter against evil his success. And it's nice he's managed to make something of himself after the misfortune of the whole rest of the Kai being wiped out. really, it's just great.

Still, you know, you didn't just go to Holmgard from the monastery. Y'know, you went all the way from Toran to the monastery and back again. Is it your fault the Guildmaster was drunk and didn't pass on your message about the Kai?

And while Lone Wolf swaned off to the safety of Durenor for tea and biscuits and an ubersword, you only had your wand to play with in a besieged Toran!

And no one seems to mention it was actually a Brotherhood mage that captured Vonotar, and Lone Wolf just helped. Ok, that mage wasn't you, but still it doens't do your class any good with him grabbing all the credit.

You even gave that man your Crystal Star, and told him you'd be brothers in this time of strife. Did he ever come to visit in the four years since and find out if you were still alive? Did he hell. And because of that no one believes you, and thinks you lost it throwing it at a Doomwolf while running away in terror. And so thay call you "Donnie Donnie No Star" and pull your robes down during lunch.

As you say, you can't really be blamed for overdrinking a touch. Ending up with a dwarf crew after playing cards...that the Guildmaster could probably yell at you about. Really, who sells the crew and keeps the ship? Is that even legal? And man, how drunk did you all get last night?


All in all, there are many reasons to make yourself a little bit scarce for a while. Luckily, you have now reached the rank of Journeyman, which means you have eight of the ten excuses required to become a really good bluffer when pretending to know magic and get ahead in the Brotherhood. You should be able to go off on a 'mission' without anyone being any the wiser.

Hmm, what about Dessi? Vonotar maybe had the right idea, just the wrong magic. Perhaps you can discoverthe secrets of the Old Kingdom magic and marry them to your own. Create some Good Old Left Hand magic, if you know what I mean. Wait, that sounds like a lude pick up line. Hmm, perhaps that's why you have a sore cheek this morning too.

So, time to smuggle some dwarfs out of your room and onwards to advenutre! And it might just be the quesiness of your stomach, or it might be the gurgling feeling that this advenuture might put you back on the map!


Do you want to go visit your Guildmaster first? He knows Dessi, and should still be sober at this time of the morning. Go to 2

Do you want to go to the stores and grab some asprin, and perhaps any magical maps and other items not nailed down first? Go to 3

Or do you want to leave without delay? If so, you probably need to steal some form of transport then. Go to 4

[Samildanach]

Haha, brilliance. I'll contribute when I find time.

[Beowuuf]

Cool!

[Samildanach]

I will contribute to this, honest. I've had loads and loads of work lately. Applying for PhD funding while studying Norman law and Sicilian administration is time consuming...

[Samildanach]

Mar 23, 2011 11:53:09 GMT -5 Samildanach said:

I will contribute to this, honest. I've had loads and loads of work lately. Applying for PhD funding while studying Norman law and Sicilian administration is time consuming...

Still this. I'm behind with my dissertation. I'm taking a year's break to have a full time job, so hopefully at that point I'll be able to write something for this.

Are there enough regulars left to make it possible though?

[Beowuuf]

Regulars are around, but lurking really I don't think it will take off, the Test of the Kai ended up being finished by me ages afterwards (pdf available!)

Shame really, fun premise!

[Samildanach]

Yeah, I think even with enough contributors there needs to be someone keeping a firm hand on the tiller and making sure thw contributors tie everything up. Probably a much bigger job than it initially seems.

[Beowuuf]

Lol, eh, the tying it is sometimes half the fun. I don't mind nudging that together. More the contributors, really

[Beowuuf]

I actually continued this for fun recently, taking it up to 111 sections so far. Thought I'd post what I've done so far for fun too!

If anyone has an alternate section idea or new section idea, feel free to post - I've included my semi-legible support document with all the numbers and items.

I'll update the doc file when the mood strikes me and I add more posts Or someone else does!


Edit: The doc files are now linked in the first post!

[Beowuuf]

Interesting, didn't recall it was 8 years ago I suggested this, and 4 years ago I posted where I'd got with it. It got finished in the end, though not edited in any way.

Bevity is, of course, the soul of wit, so the fact this stretched to 260 sections by the end probably speaks volumes about its quality

Still, I've uploaded the completed version, with the link in the first post still being valid if you wanted to see if for fun or to fulfil some form of masocist streak!