The Hoard Potato Plays an Online Game

[athelind]

Multiple Choice Dragon Game

(Found by normanrafferty)

This was too much fun -- as in, "I'll check this out, but I really can't spend much time on it this morning. Well, maybe a few more pages. Oh, hell, I'm done!"

But all told, it only took about 20-30 minutes, and some of that was getting up for coffee. Some mornings, torching a few knights and conquering a kingdom or two are just what you need to wake up and face the day.

It's a Multiple-Choice Text Game, in the tradition of those venerable Choose Your Own Adventure books. Clever addition: your actions and choices directly influence your attributes, and those, apparently, have further impact on your successes in your later endeavours.

The core Attributes are arranged in opposed pairs: as one of a pair goes up, the other goes down. They're delightfully Draconic:

Brutality vs. Finesse
Cunning vs. Honor
Disdain vs. Vigilance

As the game progresses, you also accumulate Infamy, Wealth, and Wounds -- well, some of you might accumulate the last; Your Obedient Serpent went unscathed until the grand finale, and still took only a single Wound as he dispatched his adversary.

This was a pleasant diversion, perfectly suited to the grauphy mood I found myself in upon awakening -- and quite probably the only time you'll ever see a computer game review in this blog.

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Comments

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

I guess I have enough residual dragon left in me that I did quite well at this. Golden dragon, of course. >:>

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

You finished with the following stats:

60% Brutality vs. 40% Finesse

28% Cunning vs. 72% Honor

31% Disdain vs. 69% Vigilance

Infamy: 84%

Wealth: 19650 gold coins

Wounds: 1

Blasphemy: 2

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I didn't copy my numbers -- I will, next time I play -- but I wound up with more Finesse than Brutality, more than 90% Cunning over single-digit Honor, and almost equal Disdain and Vigilance.

My Infamy was over 50%, but not as high as yours. I came out with over 22000 gold coins in Wealth, only a single wound, and only one Blasphemy point.

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(Worship me, don't worship me. Whatever keeps you quiet makes you happy.)

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If they worship me, doesn't that make them Atheists?

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[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I ended up with 90% Finesse and about halfway on the other two. I managed to avoid Blasphemy and took the wound in the final fight.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is fun. Thanks for sharing it!

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Well this definitely looks amusing. :3 Something wonderfully dragony to muck about with for a wee bit.

[richardf8]

You finished with the following stats:

19% Brutality vs. 81% Finesse

26% Cunning vs. 74% Honor

43% Disdain vs. 57% Vigilance

Infamy: 44%

Wealth: 10250 gold coins

Wounds: 4

Blasphemy: -1

The wounds were all sustained during the adolescent battle with my nestmate; I came through the final one unscathed.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

I got kilt by a war goddess. Ooops.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

You finished with the following stats:

17% Brutality vs. 83% Finesse

44% Cunning vs. 56% Honor

74% Disdain vs. 26% Vigilance

Infamy: 61%

Wealth: 9750 gold coins

Wounds: 3

Blasphemy: -1

[toob.livejournal.com]

This game is totally unrealistic! You can lose!!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Nonsense.

OTHER people can lose.

Oh, such fun.

[haystack.livejournal.com]

The humor in the writing is particularly enjoyable.

I finished with the following stats on 3rd playthrough (managed to survive the first two, natch):

96% Finesse / 4% Brutality
74% Honor / 26% Cunning
61% Disdain / 39% Vigilance
Infamy: 23%
Wealth: 12400 gold coins
Wounds: 0
Blasphemy: 0

It's just as possible to win by going Brute, Cunning, or Vigilance. Seems to be very hard to actually die in this game, which is my next challenge...