⢠Fight Sk 9 St 10 Xakhaz. In my opinion there's not enough going on in the true path again. Anyway, the old mad priest tells me that there is ‘part’ of an ancient weapon somewhere in town that might be useful – oh hi there, spearhead in my inventory! Beneath Nightmare Castle is a thing of beauty. All is not well in Neuberg. I remember seeing it plenty of times in shops, sitting on the shelf beside other FF books, but there were always others that inevitably caught my attention more. Beneath Nightmare Castle Beneath Nightmare Castle. High difficulty level aside, Beneath Nightmare Castle is a real delight. Yes, there's a route that's less hazardous than the others, but if you want to take a more eventful one, you still have at least a chance of winning as long as you don't do anything stupid. Coming up real soon – a classic of the FF series, as I venture into the mysterious darkness of the CRYPT OF THE SORCERER!! This proves rather unhelpful, because the tower in question is not connected to the rest of the keep. 246. ⦠Creatures from your worst nightmares lie beneath Neuburg Keep! Beneath Nightmare Castle by Peter Darvill-Evans, unknown edition, This time I tell the stranger in the cellar that I do not want him to cut me free. It is by no means perfect, but it is an exquisite horror fantasy romance with clear influences of HP Lovecraftâs The Call Of Cthulhu.. Minimum stats. Seriously, that actually happened, and I’m pretty impressed that it did. So I restart the game. An age-old horror has been re-awoken deep beneath the Keep, and it is up to you to face it and free the town and your friend, Baron Tholdur, from evil enchantment. I sense a recurring pattern here. It has four stats: Skill, Stamina, and Luck function like in the other books, and a Willpower stat is added. Beneath Nightmare Castle. The only thing I really have to say about this cover is that the castle somehow manages to look like a miniature despite being painted (I held back on a Holy Grail joke just there. Peter Darvill-Evans. Instead, it glugs down the soup, then beats me with its axe until I’m dead. ⢠If fail: o Test Luck. House of Hell is the tenth entry in the Fighting Fantasy line of Gamebooks, and notable for taking a departure from the usual formula by not only setting it on Modern-Day Earth, but having you, the protagonist, as an ordinary everyman/everywoman, and shifting the genre from Heroic Adventure to Gothic Survival Horror.Written by Steve Jackson, co-founder of Fighting Fantasy with Ian Livingstone. Right now, though, I'm down to 6 luck and 9 willpower, and I've just now gotten inside Nightmare Castle. It was the first to be released with the gold dragon cover and was the last one I got on initial release. Isn’t it odd that, due to the internet’s general attitude towards spoilers, I’m hesitant to even name the villain in a 20 year old book. 038. â Cthulhu Doesnât Dance I head right back to the tavern, where I sleep for the rest of the night and awake to a big dinner the next day, recovering a few scraps of health. As you can see, there is a new stat â willpower which is tested much like luck. The quest itself is a fairly simple one, but as per usual I’ll avoid the specifics in case you ever want to read the book and would consider them a spoiler. 2 Comments. Nothing odd about this city at all. 25) Beneath Nightmare Castle Solution ⢠If succeed: o Xakhaz is destroyed (victory). Instead, my characters are too generic â black robed wizards, zombies, elves and knights. It’s at this point when I start to discover just how sadistic the game really is, because I find myself being pickpocketed by a little 9-year old girl, who promptly stabs me. I sneak into the main building through a window though, and there are two doors – one of which is barred from this side. Anyway… There is an evil being who is going to be resurrected, and it is his influence that is tainting the city like a big ol’ smelly taint. 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Adventure Sheet SKILL: 12 STAMINA: 19 out of 20 LUCK: 8 out of 9 WILLPOWER: 8 out of 11 Provisions: 4 meals (restores 4 STAMINA each) Possessions: Leather ⦠I decide not to open it, on account of it being barred from this side means that they’d want to keep something on the other side out! I wake up tied to an altar and being sacrificed by hideous abominations of nature. How-To Tutorials; Suggestions; Machine Translation Editions; Noahs Archive Project; About Us. I try to knock it down, but don’t roll well enough on the dice and attract the attention of six guards, who proceed to gradually beat my stamina points down to nearly zero. I awake in a dark cellar. Book #25 in the original series is something of a turning-point. There's not enough interesting things going on throughout the book. However, the storyline is completely unrelated to that of the author's previous work, Beneath Nightmare Castle. The poor little creature tells me a sad story of his life carrying soup back and forth between the violent, abusive orc in the kitchen and a violent, abusive orc who’s guarding a door. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. The book tells me that I take a break to have a meal, and it occurs to me that this is one of those books where I’m only meant to eat when directly told that I can – the instructions were not entirely clear on this, so I suppose that technically I shouldn’t have healed up quite so much at the market earlier, but we’ll ignore that because OH MY GOD THE MONSTER’S TENTACLE HAS EATEN MY MEALS AND IS NOW ENORMOUS AND IS TRYING TO CHEW ON MY FACE!! BENEATH NIGHTMARE CASTLE. o If succeed: ⢠3 Damage. The horror themes work really well, whilst some of the death scenes are simply a pleasure to read. As I sneak through the servant’s corridors, I hear the sounds of shouting and eventually catch sight of a small, whimpering little goblin. I’m not foolish enough to go to the keep’s main entrance, so I find a path leading to the main gardens. Don't say I ain't good to you). The book then forces me into a round of combat with this child, whose skill and stamina is utterly shockingly awful. Home; Books; Search; Support. Hopefully the plan to run away as often as possible will be wise, because I rolled a mere 7 in Skill. If you only played the true path through the game (which definitely isn't from your first attempt) you ruined your own experience. My character's stats are 9 / 20 / 7 and a willpower of 11. All this time I never noticed the fifth Swordsman! 014. It’s not long before I find my way to a stairway that leads out of the garden and into the main keep itself. Once I am inside I eat a hearty dinner, and speak with the innkeeper who tells me some friendly jokes. And to show that he’s serious, he sticks a knife in my face, making damn sure that I don’t even think about running away and abandoning this quest. April 28, 2011 sl1605 april a to z, beneath nightmare castle, Peter Darvill-Evans, villain, xakhaz. Creatures from your worst nightmares lie beneath Neuberg Keep! So I offer to carry the soup to the orc instead, and give the goblin a sock so that he can be free from his life of slavery. In this book, you find yourself in Neuburg, once a pleasant town in Khul, but now home to the vile monsters begotten of warped sorcery. In this book, you find yourself in Neuburg, once a pleasant town in Khul, but now home to the vile monsters begotten of warped sorcery. Stamina: 20. They then knock me out. Some of the pages ⦠I wake up tied to an altar and being sacrificed by hideous abominations of nature. Jul 2, 2015 - Beneath Nightmare Castle cover art by Terry Oakes. The streets are deserted and the doors and windows of the houses are boarded up. So, because it’s such a nice and lovely night, I decide to head out on a moonlit stroll. TBH even the true path has many fun and interesting encounters. But first, in order to receive the blessing of the gods, I need to complete an ordeal. Walkthrough reproduced from Justin Parallaxâs Blogspot page http://fightyourfantasy.blogspot.co.uk/ with permission. If you enjoyed this walkthrough you may enjoy Justins novels: â Return to âReturn to Ozâ I reckon this is a pretty good adventure. Return to the Parallax Walkthroughs Index. Easy enough. A crude failure of a book. The book features a blend of the fantasy and horror genres. I must admit that it looks pretty intriguing, with some horror elements and a Willpower stat that is very reminiscent of Call of Cthulhu’s Sanity system. Agreed. You are an adventurer and a mercenary, on the way to Neuburg, a city in Khul, intending to pay a visit to your old friend, Baron Tholdur, the Margrave of Neuburg Keep. Showing page 1. I'm really not sure what book you think you read. It takes a few rolls to be able to escape from the thing unscathed, but I resolve to be a little more careful when checking out the towers. He does not, and leaves me there. I leave the building, which appears to have been a local guard post, and head to the local tavern. What follows is perhaps the best example of my complete and utter inability to play these books with any level of success. Puffin Books, £3.50, ISBN 0-14-032238-8 Fantasy, 1987. Beneath Nightmare Castle is the 25 th entry in the Fighting Fantasy series of gamebooks, written by Peter Darvill-Evans. Not a ‘test’, but an ‘ordeal’, which evokes a whole different variety of mental images. 7/14/7/7. As a result, I will play this very much like a Call of Cthulhu game, which means I will be running away as often as possible and will emphatically NOT be looking in any ancient books that I happen to find along my travels. 03/31/20: Added Clash of the Princes solutions. My new quest becomes ‘get food, recover stamina’, so my first course leads me to the marketplace. Strange dinosaur-like creatures have suddenly begun to appear and they have been attacking the settlers and miners in the unnamed forest. It also features Also note that you can only eat provisions when instructed. So here is the first of my favourites, from Beneath Nightmare Castle (Fighting Fantasy 25) by Peter Darvill-Evans. Solution to Casket of Souls. The whole point of a gamebook is to explore the available paths. I continue my re-play of Beneath Nightmare Castle. So I need to go to the keep, find a magical talisman, and kill the evil thing. Well, a pleasure to read if you're into that sense of the macabre, coupled with a sadistic love of twisted and inventive deaths. 001. Willpower: 12. But just like my last playthrough, this is a book I didnât get to play as a kid. : You can reply to ⦠Threads and Posts; Total Threads: 103: Total Posts: 1,196: On This Board; You can create threads. I don’t start with any items or provisions, instead I was on my way to the town of Neuburg in order to visit the Baron there, who is an old friend of mine. Yeah, so technically the tree is several hundred feet tall and might be Yggdrasil or something, and I faint halfway through climbing it, but it seems that I passed the test and my initial stamina and willpower is increased – no mention of improving my puny skill score though. Showing the survival instinct that is typical of me, I immediately walk into a trap and get captured by a group of very suspicious characters. You generate Initial Willpower the same way as Skill or Luck. Interesting monsters with good gamebook balance & design. The town was creepy and full of thieves, and the garden was full of spiders and te An entire squadron of guards do not come running. How could anything be wrong in a quiet town like this?”. I take pity on the poor creature, because I’m a lovely and kind-hearted person who would definitely never hit a little orphan girl with my sword. 01/21/20: Added Robot Commando solution. Read the synopsis for the science fiction/fantasy book "Beneath Nightmare Castle (Fighting Fantasy 25)" then reserve it from the library and discuss it with other members. The horror genre isn't particularly up my alley either, so I wasn't sure what to expect here. This time, I manage to knock down the hallway door successfully. Nothing at all. So as a result I just kinda skipped past this one at all times, until now. That sound you are hearing now is my heart breaking, just a little. Because I know that it’s useful to have as much junk in your backpack as possible, I buy this fork, only to discover that it is actually the head of an ancient spear. They’re what a ‘cute little puppy’ would be if they were designed by Clive Barker. Roll 1d6 - Help for New Fans of Gamebooks, The Pen is Mightier than the Sword - Amateur Adventures, The Sticky Web - Blogs, Twitter & Websites, Ahd'vel Dah'vel Vel'dah Elv'dah Lah'dev Hal'dev, Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy, Way of the Tiger, Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy. Beneath Nightmare Castle is #25 in the series. Added Star Strider solution. I somehow manage to survive enough to kill the beasts and cut one of their tongues out as a trophy (technically it’s a ‘sucker-covered tentacle’, but let’s not split hairs here). 03/08/20: Added Creature of Havoc solution and artwork. Welcome Guest. It is also, especially at the beginning, fiendishly difficult. From what I have read on my fellow gamebook blogger’s pages, this book has quite some strong Lovecraft elements to it. 237. Just… try to have a high skill point, okay? I always love how oddly random that green globe is. Cultists come into the cellar and knock me out. I accept, and search the cellar. They come from many sources and are not checked. A mysterious voice offers to cut the rope that is binding me. He tells me that I am the chosen one, because into every generation a slayer is born and all that kind of stuff. Hoping to find a way to sneak into the keep, I eventually stumble across a hole in the wall of one of the towers. The book then tells me that I am starting to feel more relaxed, and states “Maybe you have been imagining things. Nothing unusual here at all, nope. Amazon.co.uk: beneath nightmare castle Select Your Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads, including interest-based ads. I come to a door. Beneath Nightmare castle is not a book I knew much about so without further ado, here are my stats: Skill: 9. However, I was not familiar with its inspiration and so did not include any original Lovecraftian elements. Willpower. You open the door and find the blade of a curved sword inches from your nose. Doing my best to post new gamebook playthroughs at. Restart again. This is a very neat adventure. Luck: 9. Pretty average then. There are some moments of utter innovation as well. This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Role-playing games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of role-playing games on Wikipedia.
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