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PAGE ONE

You look at a huge door. The princess is inside, waiting to be rescued. The glowing fairy fluttering around your head tells you 'The door is locked! You need the dragon key to open the door!'
You look around.

If you venture west, turn to page two.

If you explore east, turn to page ten.


PAGE TWO

You encounter a goblin.
You hit it for 6HP.
He hits you for 2HP.
You hit it for 6HP.
The goblin disappears in a puff of smoke.
The fairy shouts 'HEY! LISTEN!' in a shrill voice.

To listen, turn to page five.

To ignore her and continue your quest, turn to page three.


PAGE THREE

You encounter a bird.
You swing at it with your sword and miss.
It hits you for 4HP.
You miss again.
You dodge its attack as you begin to make sense of its bizarre movement pattern.
You hit it for 5HP.
It disappears in a puff of smoke.
You levelled up!
The fairy shouts 'HEY! LISTEN!' in a shrill voice.

To listen, turn to page five.

To ignore her and continue your quest, turn to page four.


PAGE FOUR

You find an old cave.
The fairy shouts 'DO A BARREL ROLL!'

To enter the cave, turn to page seven.

To deal with the fairy, turn to page six.


PAGE FIVE

The fairy says 'You need the dragon key!'

Return to page two.


PAGE SIX

You crush the fairy in your fist.

Turn to page seven.


PAGE SEVEN

An old man sits in the cave. He offers you a sword.
'It's dangerous to go alone!'
You look at the sword you already have. It's just as pointy as this other sword. There is no logical reason the new one would somehow do more damage to an enemy. The old man tells you it has a base attack of 12. You don't know what that means.

To take the new sword anyway, turn to page eight.

To refuse the new sword, turn to page nine.


PAGE EIGHT

Hey, two swords right? Why not? You see a goblin and decide to give a little demonstration of your dual-wielding skills.
You flail spasmodically and miss the goblin.
The goblin looks at you disdainfully.
You attack and do 15 damage to your own arm. It falls off.

You are dead.

To retry, turn to page one.


PAGE NINE

You start throwing a boomerang repeatedly at the old man's face and he's just sitting there doing nothing! You show your friend.
'Hnar. Cool.'
You return to the dungeon where the princess is being held. You still don't have the dragon key.

Turn to page one.


PAGE TEN

You are eaten by a grue.

To retry, turn to page one.


PAGE ELEVEN

You kick the fucking door down, because you don't need no fucking key. You make your own rules.
As you make out with the princess, you think about all the losers in the world who do what they're told and never ask why. Good thing you're not one of them!
You ride off with the hot princess on your awesome Harley.

Turn to whatever fucking page you like, who gives a damn.

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Comments: 141

Doodelay [2012-04-22 14:23:38 +0000 UTC]

Good Lord that's good. i never figured it out though...i'm going to try again

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joe-wright In reply to Doodelay [2012-04-26 20:24:40 +0000 UTC]

there's a trick to it

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Doodelay In reply to Doodelay [2012-04-22 14:26:27 +0000 UTC]

EPIC ENDING!

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BlackNight-DarkSky [2012-04-22 13:37:31 +0000 UTC]

I must have repeated the process about 5 times before i gave up and went to 11...kept trying to find that damnable key...*sob*

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joe-wright In reply to BlackNight-DarkSky [2012-04-26 20:24:10 +0000 UTC]

i am feeling slightly guilty about all the low-level stress I have created

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LeftyNinja In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 13:25:22 +0000 UTC]

This is great! I used to love "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, so I loved this one, especially because it is Zelda based.

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SkarsgaardWolf In reply to LeftyNinja [2012-04-22 18:05:43 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I thought it was Mario >.> *fails*

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LeftyNinja In reply to SkarsgaardWolf [2012-04-22 19:43:29 +0000 UTC]

I did too until I saw the part with the fairy. ^u^

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KuchikiYorume In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 12:22:32 +0000 UTC]

HAHAHA GRUES XD I saw the 'princess waiting to be rescued' and 'glittering fairy' and I was immediately interested. And then I met the grue.
Eventually I realized that NOTHING led to the eleventh, so I read it anyway. I guess I'm a little slow?

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joe-wright In reply to KuchikiYorume [2012-04-26 20:23:26 +0000 UTC]

haha don't worry I get stuck in games all the time
you got there in the end, that's the point

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cooeeh2o In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 12:10:37 +0000 UTC]

OMG I LOOVE IT!!!!!!!! So true!

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charizfire In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 10:14:12 +0000 UTC]

HAHAHA the ending is awesome
funny, because I'm writing a choose your own adventure now as well, except it's going to be much longer than this haha
(and it's taking such a long time... especially with the planning of the story.)

nice work

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Lit-Twitter In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 10:05:07 +0000 UTC]

Chirp, congrats on the DD, it's been twittered. [link]

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joe-wright In reply to Lit-Twitter [2012-04-26 20:21:43 +0000 UTC]

thanks little blue bird!

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Papavia-Lorraine97 [2012-04-22 09:00:10 +0000 UTC]

I died. A lot

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SuperAimster In reply to ??? [2012-04-22 08:41:28 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the DD!

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joe-wright In reply to SuperAimster [2012-04-26 20:21:50 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!

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Eathran [2012-04-22 08:28:31 +0000 UTC]

Listened to the fairy once, then refused the sword and restarted directly at the end.

I loved the ending (yeah, a Harley!) and the message

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joe-wright In reply to Eathran [2012-04-26 20:21:06 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you had fun

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Akira-Miyashi [2012-04-22 08:16:03 +0000 UTC]

I got killed twice. Then, I just didn't give a damn. Awesome one!

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joe-wright In reply to Akira-Miyashi [2012-04-26 20:20:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It was a pleasure to kill you

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xlntwtch [2012-01-16 13:52:57 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations on the DLD.
I don't know much at all about gaming, but enough about reading to enjoy this immensely. Funny and *seems* true. Thank you.

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joe-wright In reply to xlntwtch [2012-01-16 14:38:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it

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xlntwtch In reply to joe-wright [2012-01-16 15:15:06 +0000 UTC]

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DailyLitDeviations In reply to ??? [2012-01-16 04:27:55 +0000 UTC]

Your wonderful literary work has been chosen to be featured by DLD (Daily Literature Deviations) in a news article that can be found here [link]
Be sure to check out the other artists featured and show your support by ing the News Article.

Keep writing and keep creating.

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joe-wright In reply to DailyLitDeviations [2012-01-16 12:19:43 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!

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DailyLitDeviations In reply to joe-wright [2012-01-21 23:18:41 +0000 UTC]

You are quite welcome!

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Vigilo [2011-11-27 01:18:02 +0000 UTC]

This was wonderful! That ending was just.. yes.
(Also, ditto =zebrazebrazebra , who steals my comments before I can make them )

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joe-wright In reply to Vigilo [2011-11-27 13:02:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
I'm glad you liked it

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zebrazebrazebra [2011-11-23 14:54:44 +0000 UTC]

I was so addicted to choose your owns when I was a kid and this was a glorious way to revisit the genre. So many great references, and when you hit the grue I nearly died. To be honest the first time I just read it straight through for the joy of the writing, and then went back later to solve it, and then realised that by just reading it straight through I pretty much had solved it. Which made me feel awesome.

In short, fuck yes.

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joe-wright In reply to zebrazebrazebra [2011-11-23 23:43:56 +0000 UTC]

Haha thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I wanted it to be fun
Also yeah I was quite pleased with hiding the solution like that, I know full well most people end up just reading it straight through anyway, I certainly do!

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TheSkaBoss In reply to ??? [2011-08-04 20:48:16 +0000 UTC]

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC

I loved this so much I couldn't stop giggling all the way through. Then my boyfriend was all confused, so I read it out to him, and we were both so pleased to crush Navi. >

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joe-wright In reply to TheSkaBoss [2011-08-04 20:59:46 +0000 UTC]

Also, this: [link]

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TheSkaBoss In reply to joe-wright [2011-08-04 23:26:28 +0000 UTC]

*wanders off to watch*

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joe-wright In reply to TheSkaBoss [2011-08-04 20:57:37 +0000 UTC]

Haha well I'm glad I could help you both to finally realise your dream of squashing that annoying fairy!

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TheSkaBoss In reply to joe-wright [2011-08-04 23:26:22 +0000 UTC]

*grins*

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fyoot [2011-07-19 20:30:26 +0000 UTC]

I enjoyed this very much. It must have taken ages, though. I particularly liked page 11.

I wussed out of a choose-your-own-adventure format.

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joe-wright In reply to fyoot [2011-07-19 21:00:49 +0000 UTC]

I really love the format, I always wanted them as a child but I only ever read one, I think it was a jungle adventure.

I just looked them up on amazon, 'Prisoner of the ant people' looks like a good time!

It didn't take as long as I thought it would, the thing is I had more planned for going east, but I was kind of aware that people probably wouldn't have the patience for too much of it.

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J2571 In reply to ??? [2011-07-19 20:02:09 +0000 UTC]

Oh man. This is something special. Zelda References, StarFox references, a great premise.

The great thing is that we, the readers, actually have to make our own decision if we want to move on. Excellent work.

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joe-wright In reply to J2571 [2011-07-19 20:05:05 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I started with the idea that the reader would have to disregard the instructions and explore on their own to succeed, there's probably more mileage in that idea than what I did but I think it worked quite nicely. Thank you!

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