TEXTVENTURE - Wordplay to the EXTREME!

[Archem]

You would flashback to your fifth grade classes, except that you were too busy playing HOOKEY. All the cool kids were doing it. Boy, do you regret that decision.

YOU HAVE LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILL(S):

HINDSIGHT

[Archem]

>HELP

Type a word for information: >HINDSIGHT

HINDSIGHT, as they say, is 20/20. This LVL. 1 DECISIONCRAFT SKILL costs ONE (1) REALMSPHERE per use, and allows the player to relive past events. Your actions may not be changed, however, so make ample use of the LOOK command.

[WarxePB]

> Next

[Dragonium]

>USE HINDSIGHT
>ASK SKELLY about OLD MAP

[Archem]

You use HINDSIGHT.

REALSPHERE COUNT: ZERO (0)

Your HINDSIGHT takes you back to when you first encountered SKELLY

You cannot interact with your surroundings while using HINDSIGHT.

[Archem]

>Watch SKELLY carefully.

[Archem]

You pay much closer attention to that scruffy rogue known as SKELLY this time around. Perhaps it's all that DECISIONCRAFT witchery you've begun to dabble in? Whatever the cause, you pick up on smaller things, such as seeing him WRINGING his HANDS upon seeing what is quite certainly the OLD MAP being removed from your WALLET. You also hear MUTTERING with a new degree of clarity that may actually be intelligible.

QUICK-TIME EVENT - PRESS B NOW!

[drenrin2120]

>Press A
>Press LEFT
>Press UP
>Press B

[Archem]

Your dead. game over.

Jeez, the boys down at localization might be out of a job if they keep up this quality work. Still, it gets the point across. You are DEAD, by way of having the bad luck of missing the key that would have saved your life, and instead hitting the key that kills you. That key, of course, is every one that isn't B.

LOAD (Y/N)?

[Archem]

>Y, Y, Y!

[Archem]

Good call, pressing Y. Some players would have pressed N, or perhaps even H, just to be a smartass. Fie to them and their meddling ways!

You resume play from your crazy QUICK-TIME EVENT. It sure would be awful if you had to keep doing this over and over again because you weren't quick/accurate enough...

QUICK-TIME EVENT - PRESS B NOW!

[fruckert]

> Up
> Up
> Down
> Down
> Left
> Right
> Left
> Right
> B
> A
> Start

> B

[Archem]

Why would you press all those keys that have already been established as KILL KEYS? There's not even a START key! That's it, you broke the game. Beyond repair. The LOAD function is melting as you sit there and read. Your MONITOR is beginning to convulse, being trapped in the middle of a massive seizure. Surely, your HARD DRIVE is eating itself. The GAME's cartridge is spitting out MAGNETIC TAPE all over the floor. It's pretty amazing how badly you've destroyed everything. In the end, at least you've learned a valuable lesson about meddlin-

CHEAT UNLOCKED - DECISIONCRAFT SKILL NOSTALGIA ACQUIRED

Oh. You've entered a cheat code. How convenient. You're quite fortunate to have the game's DEUS EX MACHINA ENGINE on your side. You've passed the QUICK-TIME EVENT, if only to prevent you from destroying everything again.

[Archem]

>HELP

Type a word for information: >NOSTALGIA

NOSTALGIA is a DECISIONCRAFT SKILL that allows the player to return to the PAST, when things were better (or so you think). NOSTALGIA costs THREE (3) REALMSPHERES

[WarxePB]

>Listen carefully to SKELLY