Vote registered, Alexandros the Third will use a single rewind to send him back to section 257, and he will walk along the ridge in search of a detour.
327
The ridge circles around the depression, heading for a thick clump of trees. The first trees are young saplings, but soon you come to larger, thick-trunked trees. You brush against one of them, and almost leap out of your skin as it moves and an enormous Tyrannosaurus Rex Rises from among the trees! Your heart sinks into your boots. What can you do? Roll two dice. If you roll higher than your SKILL score, you must attack the creature (turn to 132). If you roll less than or equal to your SKILL score, you may be able to try something else (turn to 81).
Rolling the dice yielded a 12, which is higher than Alexandros the Third’s Skill score.
132
The Tyrannosaurus Rex is upon you! In vain you try to fend off the cruel snapping jaws, but no matter how hard you fence you cannot win. Soon you will know what few others have known – the inside of a Tyrannosaurus Rex! Your adventure is over.
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Ooof, talk about bad luck. The second and last rewind will take Alexandros the Third back to section 257 again, and he will again walk along the ridge in search of a detour. Rolling the dice this time on section 327 yielded a 6, which is less than Alexandros the Third’s Skill.
81
Being not careful not to trip over the loose rocks, you lead the raging Tyrannosaurus Rex back to the edge of the ridge. If you can get him there before he attacks you, he should distract the Triceratops! As you reach the edge he makes one final lunge for you.
Test your Luck. If you are Lucky, turn to 34. If you are Unlucky, turn to 132.
The Luck roll yielded a 10, meaning that Alexandros the Third was Unlucky. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is once again upon him and proceeds to slaughter our hero once more.
Bonus death entry:
Alexandros the Third curses himself for his horrible luck and stupidity as the Tyrannosaurus Rex masticates him into a bloody pulp. Why, oh why, could he not get a break here? Whatever mistake he made in his past to deserve this, Alexandros the Third would have been completely willing to atone for it threefold. Of all of the ways for his quest to end, this was by far the most pathetic. Regret and shame fill him as Alexandros the Third meets a painful end inside the Tyrannosaurus Rex ... he had failed his mother, Telak, and Vymorna. The Lizard King and his servants will soon doom the entire region of Southern Allansia. With one last desperate will of the mind, Alexandros the Third releases his soul and leaves his body to be digested by the Tyrannosaurus Rex. As his soul zooms to the next world, he prays that his next incarnation would have a better life.
That has got to hurt. I am honestly surprised that the players wanted to try to sneak past the Triceratops, as the book gave clear hints that this was not a good idea with the words “you can’t really hope to sneak past it”. Trying such a risky move does not usually go well in Fighting Fantasy adventures. As it turns out, we chose the medium difficulty by choosing to sneak away before dawn. The easiest route was by far to steal a boat, as that would have allowed our hero to skip quite a few hard encounters, including the dinosaur scenario. Even so, taking a couple of curare darts would have greatly helped our chances of survival against the Triceratops, and I was also surprised nobody went for that.
The life lesson here is to trust your instincts and to take your starting choices rather seriously. That is how you get a rewarding life and maximize your chances in fulfilling your goals, as doing that allowed me to excel in college.
Now that we have the cringeworthy lecture out of the way, I have a rather sad announcement to make. I am actually going to withdraw from hosting Let’s Plays for a while, as my Covid symptoms are still not fully gone, especially my spleen pain. I will need to spend all of my time trying to prevent further complications from developing, and also to arrange a way to resume the work projects that were put on hold from the damned virus. By my count, I have done 11 Let's Plays since the end of last year, so I also think now is a time to take a break from hosting.
As I said in the previous post,
I am looking for the content of sections 31-35 of the Sky Lord book (Book #33), and would highly appreciate anyone who could show me the wording for these sections, as well as the sections that each of them points to. If anyone is able to provide me with this missing content, then I will run the book as my next Let’s Play. If not, then this will be my retirement, as covid has put me in a serious financial corner, and I will not be able to get a copy for a rather long time. Thank you all for playing, and I appreciate how good this community has been when it comes to carrying out Fighting Fantasy Let’s Plays.
Adventure Sheet
[spoiler]Alexandros the Third
SKILL: 9
Initial Skill = 9
STAMINA: 20
Initial Stamina = 22
LUCK: 7
Initial Luck = 10
ITEMS OR EQUIPMENT CARRIED:
Cloak
Hunting-knife
Sword
Rucksack
Armour
Bow and 1 silvered arrow
Bottle of healing balm (turn to 42 to use it)
SPECIAL ITEMS:
None
PROVISIONS REMAINING: 3
Note: Four Lizard Men escaped from the section 284 ambush
BOONS:
2 Restorations[/spoiler]