Choose Your Own Adventure: The Horror Of High Ridge FINALE
I was wrong. CHOICE #24 was NOT the last CHOICE in The Horror Of High Ridge. A "flapping and moaning" figure comes toward us. . ."Scared you, didn't I?" "Lisa!" Lisa's bed sheet ghost prank came about when she "got the creeps" after we left her in the cabin. "You were walking so cautiously that I decided to scare you."
Lisa says Ricardo was wrong, and she knows the real direction. CHOICE #25 is to follow her advice on Page 113, or ignore it on Page 84. Page 84 leads to the CHOICE #6 ending where Walking Eagle gives you the mission late at night to round up the ghosts and banish them. So Page 113 will have the last new content in the book.
"Let's go back the other way,' you decide. 'Is that okay with you, Ricardo?' 'I guess so,' Ricardo says. 'I mean, it doesn't make any difference to me.' You head up the street. This time you walk in the middle. Somehow with the three of you, everything feels safer. You are sure no harm can come to you.
Suddenly a figure runs toward you shouting, 'Run! Run for your lives! They're coming!' You recognize Mr. Burns, the mayor. 'What's going on, Mr. Burns?' you shout. The answer comes floating back from the now rapidly retreating figure. 'Can't stop. They got the missus. Run for it!' You shout after him, 'Who got Mrs. Burns?' but he is too far away. Then you hear something-a thin-sounding and terrifying moaning, and it's coming closer. Whatever got Mrs. Burns is after you. THE END"
Springfield's nuclear power plant causes trouble again. Mr. Burns in this picture doesn't look as old as he does in the Simpsons, but is sweaty and balding. He has a terrified expression as he looks away from the party. A shop next to the party has a sign that says SADDLES. I'll have to rule it an Inconclusive Ending due to the ghost coming closer, yet never managing to reach the party before THE END.
The Horror Of High Ridge reads like an Ultimate Ending book without the focus. Too many redundant endings and decisions with too little story. Not that the plot is especially great considering it's a generic horror Western. The real reason to buy a used copy is to look at the drawings, at least those that aren't a single knife at the bottom of the page.
It might be at least a few weeks before the next CYOA playthrough comes. It was a perverse honor to have my first spam post in the thread today, and it was surprising that it took so long. If you want a much better book about American Indians and many other people in the meantime, read The Dawn Of Everything.
Final Results
1 Good Endings
9 Deaths
2 Bad Non-Death Endings
7 Neutral Endings
8 Inconclusive Endings
I was wrong. CHOICE #24 was NOT the last CHOICE in The Horror Of High Ridge. A "flapping and moaning" figure comes toward us. . ."Scared you, didn't I?" "Lisa!" Lisa's bed sheet ghost prank came about when she "got the creeps" after we left her in the cabin. "You were walking so cautiously that I decided to scare you."
Lisa says Ricardo was wrong, and she knows the real direction. CHOICE #25 is to follow her advice on Page 113, or ignore it on Page 84. Page 84 leads to the CHOICE #6 ending where Walking Eagle gives you the mission late at night to round up the ghosts and banish them. So Page 113 will have the last new content in the book.
"Let's go back the other way,' you decide. 'Is that okay with you, Ricardo?' 'I guess so,' Ricardo says. 'I mean, it doesn't make any difference to me.' You head up the street. This time you walk in the middle. Somehow with the three of you, everything feels safer. You are sure no harm can come to you.
Suddenly a figure runs toward you shouting, 'Run! Run for your lives! They're coming!' You recognize Mr. Burns, the mayor. 'What's going on, Mr. Burns?' you shout. The answer comes floating back from the now rapidly retreating figure. 'Can't stop. They got the missus. Run for it!' You shout after him, 'Who got Mrs. Burns?' but he is too far away. Then you hear something-a thin-sounding and terrifying moaning, and it's coming closer. Whatever got Mrs. Burns is after you. THE END"
Springfield's nuclear power plant causes trouble again. Mr. Burns in this picture doesn't look as old as he does in the Simpsons, but is sweaty and balding. He has a terrified expression as he looks away from the party. A shop next to the party has a sign that says SADDLES. I'll have to rule it an Inconclusive Ending due to the ghost coming closer, yet never managing to reach the party before THE END.
The Horror Of High Ridge reads like an Ultimate Ending book without the focus. Too many redundant endings and decisions with too little story. Not that the plot is especially great considering it's a generic horror Western. The real reason to buy a used copy is to look at the drawings, at least those that aren't a single knife at the bottom of the page.
It might be at least a few weeks before the next CYOA playthrough comes. It was a perverse honor to have my first spam post in the thread today, and it was surprising that it took so long. If you want a much better book about American Indians and many other people in the meantime, read The Dawn Of Everything.
Final Results
1 Good Endings
9 Deaths
2 Bad Non-Death Endings
7 Neutral Endings
8 Inconclusive Endings
"I wonder what that even looks like, a robot body with six or seven CatClaw daggers sticking out of it and nothing else, and zooming around at crazy agility speed."
T-Hawk, on my Final Fantasy Legend 2 All Robot Challenge.
T-Hawk, on my Final Fantasy Legend 2 All Robot Challenge.