Gamebooks (Choose Your Own Adventure Style)

[Herman Gigglethorpe]

22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 20


Picking the other option in CHOICE #37 makes me accelerate just in time for the tree to fall on the trunk of the car instead of my face.


CHOICE #38 at 13:40 is to either abandon the car once it's on fire and the wheels are coming off, or continue driving.


The first selection takes me to CHOICE #10.  The 2nd option results in, you guessed it, more DEATH #3 action.


"You don't manage to do it.  You can't take control.  You give it a turn, and the car begins to spin.  It does a flip turn (vuelta de campana).  Suddenly, you see yourself hanging upside down.  Your whole body is in pain.  You know you are bleeding somewhere.  You notices loose teeth in your jaw.  It's hard to breathe.


But it doesn't matter when the gasoline, escaping from the gas tank during the impact, lights on fire."


Results So Far


0 Good Endings

5 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 21 Setup


Making a tourniquet for the anonymous woman in CHOICE #6 involves snatching her bundle of fabric and pressing it on her.  But there seems to be something inside the fabric.  It's a "small clay statue".  My character's seen it before in the Canary Museum, but doesn't know what purpose it has.


I'm not sure if the tourniquet works, but I've done all I can.


I drive in the direction of the fire, but then I brake.  I look around and don't see any wolves.  "putting yourself in a vortex of flames unnecessarily doesn't seem intelligent.  While the creatures are absent, you should try to rest and see things with a clear mind".


The woman seems to have passed out instead of dying.  She's holding onto the statue tight, but I have not clue why.  I look for some clues in her other belongings, but all I find is cheese, bread, and a knife inside a bag.  Soon the wolves are starting to return.


CHOICE #39 is to either drive into the flames, or wake the woman up and get some information.


Trying to wake her up doesn't seem to do much.  She's so cold, my character's afraid she's dead.


The wolves are going to win if I delay much longer.  Shaking and giving the woman light taps with my hand aren't doing anything yet. 


CHOICE #40 at 13:39 is to either take a glance and look at the source of the sound, or talk to the woman at all costs.


The great noise awakens the woman when I pick the 2nd option.  The whole car vibrates, and the woman screams.  She tries to get away from me, and I can't stop her.  She says "Have I arrived late?".  A tree falls and blocks the road.


The woman is now fleeing, though it's hard for her to walk.  No mention of her arm being torn off in this section!  CHOICE #41 at 13:40 is to either follow the woman, or "flee from the place, ignoring a woman that clearly is not in her right mind" (no estar en sus cabales).

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 21 Setup #2


I run after the woman in CHOICE #41.  It's not difficult to pursue her.  But she's entered the region of the fire without heeding the warnings of danger.  I see a wolf.  It's among the flames, walking and staring at the woman.  It's clearly going to attack.  I scream, but nobody listens.


CHOICE #42 at 13:41 is to either flee and "leave the woman to her fate", or run towards her and give a warning.


We finally get some explanations in the page before the next CHOICE.  The woman grabs me by the arm and urges "There's no time to lose.  Take this statue.  Place it on the altar.  That should stop it."


The idol is a "antique feminine figure, like those you've seen in the museum tens of times".


She then says "I'm dead.  Look, I'm not going to survive.  Do it yourself.  Save the island.  No.  Save the world".


CHOICE #43 at 13:42 is to either stay with the woman and assure her nobody will die, or take the idol and run into the cave.


I take the statue and run without looking back.  A wolf jumps on the woman, and I her her screams when it breaks her bones with its bite.


A cave is close, and perhaps it's a place to hide.  CHOICE #44 at 13:43 is to either enter the cave, or run to the forest, "trusting that no one may follow you".


I jump into the cave and start rolling.  But the wolf jumps on me soon, and we're both on the floor rolling around.


After a brief round of Wolf Wrestling, its skin starts to crack like ceramics.  Lava is oozing out of the wound, and the wolf looks at me as if begging for me to finish it off.


CHOICE #45 at 13:45 requires me to either kick the wolf to kill it, or ignore it and continue.


Ignoring the wolf allows me to pick up a burning branch and use it as a torch.  The cave begins to quake, and the wolf is fleeing from me.


The next choice, #46 at 13:46, is Let's Make a Deal, just like in Madame Clotilde's mansion in the dodo book!  Door #1 involves going to the right, and Door #2 is to continue my descent.  Which path leads to Death?  No clues in the text here!


The cave widens (ensanchar), and I feel a strange peace during the descent.  There's a room that's completely round with an altar in the middle.  It's decorated with Guanche paintings, jars, and cooking utensils.  I don't know why all this is here, but the more pressing concern is that there's no exit.


CHOICE #47 at 13:47 is to either inspect the altar, or "tear it all to pieces".

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 21


The altar is decorated with symbols drawn in colored clay.  Blue and green seem to be the most common colors.  The altar itself looks like a "very robust table".


There's a bowl with withered (marchito) flowers inside, and a worn-out mat decorated with female figures that appear as 2 triangles.  The rest of the room is empty except for dust and cobwebs.  At the center of the altar, there's a circle without dust, suggesting that someone's been here recently.


CHOICE #48 at 13:48 suggests that I either "leave, knowing you can't do anything here", or "stay in the room and hide".


Hiding for long enough draws a wolf's attention.  However, it can't seem to enter the room for some reason.  CHOICE #49 at 13:49 is to either throw small rocks at the wolf, or wait and see what the animal does.


Picking the latter makes me swagger (pavonearse) around the wolf when it can't enter.  However, there are now two wolves, and they're both jumping at me.  When they do that, they "disintegrate"!


Only lava remains on the floor where the wolves once stood, and pieces of the wolves' hides are bouncing around my feet.  "It's as if a force field struck them".


We finally get a new ENDING.


"You manage to leave the cave and look at your watch.  It must be daytime, but why isn't there sunlight?


The sky is completely empty and black.  Your walk is illuminated by the light of an enormous fire that hasn't stopped growing.  You don't know where you are nor what happened.  It's not normal that the sun has set so soon, although it doesn't matter to you much when you see something moving around you.


You stare at the sky.  It gives you the impression that a black area is moving and the stars appear and disappear nonsensically.  As far as you understand.


It's not a black area, but a dark mass that blocks your view of the firmament.  A mass so giant that it seems impossible.  It seems to be an immense human, completely black, that is turning towards you.  When it turns around completely, you see its eyes on fire and its smiling mouth.  It's spitting fire, and above all, you see its gargantuan hand about to grab you".


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:  ENDING #8:  "You see it all, and you don't do anything".




This is another Death that isn't labeled as a MUERTE.  It's obvious the demon is going to kill my character, whether or not it speaks about how puny humans are this time.


Why wasn't there an option to put the statue on the altar?  Did the player character forget about it?  Will there be any Good Endings in this book at all?


Results So Far


0 Good Endings

6 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

[Herman Gigglethorpe]

22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 22


Now that I've taken a break, let's go back to this hydra of a CYOA!


This path will take us through the "throw rocks at the wolf" route of CHOICE #49.


In the altar room, I chuck some stones at the wolf, and hit it in the snout (hocico).  It stares at me, and doesn't even seem angry about this.  The wolf ducks to dodge a bigger rock, and the wolf leaves after the third.  "It doesn't flee in terror; it simply leaves.  Like it's bored of the game".


CHOICE #50 at 13:50 is to either go after the wolf to kill it, or stay in the room and pick up more rocks.


Pre-ENDING text:


"You hide again, making a collection (acopio) of stones, trying to find the logic of what's occurring.  It seems the wolves don't go inside, so it must mean the altar is protecting you somehow.  You don't think about this much because the wolf returns.  And it brought company. . ."


ENDING text:


"The wolves position themselves in the doorway (apostarse).  First one.  Later, two.  Three more quickly appear.  You know they can't enter, but you also know you have to leave sometime.


They also realize that and abandon their positions of alert.  One goes to sleep.  Another yawns, exhaling embers when it breathes.  They become comfortable, including tidying themselves up (acicalar), licking their skin, and leaving a small trickle of lava with their tongues.


It looks like they're aware that they have to wait, so they're not in a hurry.  You throw a rock that hits one on the head, but the only thing you accomplish is to make it growl before returning to its initial pose and going back to sleep.


You hear other howls far away.  The cave is full of beasts, that, like you, have nothing better to do than wait".


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:  ENDING #7 "Waiting for death".


If this were La Isla de los Dodos, there would be some hope that the animals might leave.  (e.g. the box jellyfish ending).  But this is 22 Minutos:  Tibicenas, where you're doomed no matter what.  These wolves know siege tactics!


Results So Far


0 Good Endings

7 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 23


Running out of the altar chamber and trying to attack the wolf in CHOICE #50 is a short and fatal route.  Another flavor of DEATH #1 ensues, with a black-and-white drawing of a tibicena to make it a bit more interesting for those actually reading the book.


"You charge at the wolf.  You do it in a quick but irresponsible manner.  You haven't realized that another one waits in the shadows.  You fall to the floor before noticing its fangs".


So CHOICE #50 is another no-win scenario.  Is this story going to be like the Nintendo DS RPG Radiant Historia where only 1 Good Ending exists?



Results So Far


0 Good Endings

7 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

[Herman Gigglethorpe]

22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 24


Time to go back to CHOICE #48 and see what happens when I "leave, knowing you can't do anything here".


The answer is another wolf DEATH #1.


"You leave the room.  What you have seen has left you feeling iffy (dejar muy mal cuerpo), and you can't think about something else.  Although the cries of the wolf cubs? (cría de lobo) may be deafening.


You walk and sway, as if you had been punched directly in your sanity (cordura).  In a certain way, you know that's exactly what happened to you.  You find one in front of you.  One of those wolves was waiting for you in a bend (recodo) in the path.  It jumps on you".

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 25


Desecrating the altar in CHOICE #47 has DEATH #1 consequences.


"You strike the altar with great force, but it doesn't move or break.  It's made of stone, the same as the floor of the cave.  You drag the mat that's on top of the table and toss it to the ground, you step on it and twist it with force.


You do the same with the earthen bowl and you take your time to erase the symbols painted on the altar.  You don't know what all this is, but you are terrified, thinking perhaps it's to blame for what's happening. 


When you finish the vortex of destruction, you turn and see that a wolf snuck up behind you.  You hide behind the altar, but the wolf simply jumps on you.  You have no escape, and no one will hear your screams.  It bites you".


This path proves the altar is the source of protection specifically.  



Results So Far


0 Good Endings

7 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

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22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 26


It appears going down into the cave instead of right in CHOICE #46 leads to a "dead player walking" scenario.  If you're playing this book blind like I am, you'll realize that some paths are fatal before you make the final CHOICE.


Wonder if going right will make a difference?


This part of the cave is wider than the passage leading down.  It has enough curves that I can't see very far ahead.  The flaming branch torch isn't a great source of light either.  Some growls make my character stop in fear.  Some more wolves have smelled me.  (If they have a sense of smell like real wolves, how come they didn't bother using it in all the other paths where I snuck up on them?)


CHOICE #51 is to either continue, or stop and try to "advance with more delicacy".


Continuing takes me to a cavern full of wolves.  But they haven't seen me, and appear to be cubs.  There are at least 10 in the room.  A pair of wolves bark at me, and these cubs are the size of an adult dog.  (It would be funny if the author had "Pomeranian" in mind when he wrote that line.  Dogs come in many sizes!)


Some of these wolves seem to be afraid of me.  On the back wall of the cavern, there's a drawing of a spiral made of blue clay.  It's the same spiral that my character saw in museums and souvenir shops:  a Guanche painting.  But it's incomplete, and it looks like the clay in the middle is deteriorating, and tears of lava are coming from that point.



CHOICE #52 at 13:48 is to either kill a wolf cub, or inspect the spiral.


Going towards the spiral gives me a strange page.


The wolf cubs don't bother me at all when I go up to the spiral, other than growling.  Lava oozes out of the center where the paint is damaged, which my character initially mistakes for water.  (But the narration just said it was lava earlier!)


I put my finger in the blue paint and complete the painting of the spiral.  No more drops come out, and I flee.


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:  "Correct other people's mistakes".


The next step is to either hide in the other passage, or leave the cave by attacking the wolves, according to CHOICE #53 at 13:50.


When I try to hide, I end up in the altar room again with ENDING #7.  But the pre-ending text is a little different.


"You turn around just in time to see a wolf jumping on your jugular.  And in the middle of the jump, a blue flash.  One moment later, and the wolf disappears.  It exploded halfway into the jump, and turned into fire.  Tens of black pieces fall around you. 


The fire doesn't touch you.  Not the fire, or the other wolf that's seen what happened far away.  It doesn't approach, or try to enter the room.  It simply sits and waits".



Results So Far


0 Good Endings

7 Deaths

1 Bad Non-Death Ending

0 Neutral Endings

1 Inconclusive Endings

[Herman Gigglethorpe]

22 Minutos:  Tibicenas Alternate Endings Part 27


Trying to leave the cave in CHOICE #53 has not only ENDING #1, but the same text as an earlier route.  So let's not do that. 


Killing the wolf cubs in CHOICE #52 eventually results in another DEATH #1, but the ACHIEVEMENT for it won't bore you at least!


"You enter and step on one of the cubs.  Its head is a little bigger than your foot, and you don't think it would take much effort.  You stomp on it, and it breaks like an overripe watermelon.  Lava comes out of its insides, but very little.  It cools down as soon as it makes contact with the cold air outside.  You smile.  It was easy.


You kick another wolf, which breaks into pieces and tongues of fire.  You hit the third, which growls at you in fear.  The lava hits the wall, and although you hurt your foot, now there's no turning back.  You know you're going to win this fight.  These wolves won't eat anyone.


You continue hitting them one by one until their sad shrieks disappear.  Only pieces of what seems to be completely black ceramics remain.  You laugh in euphoria".


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:  "Commit genocide".


I'm imagining a dictator hearing the X-Box ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED sound just after the latest mass murder campaign.


The pre-text ENDING #1 part is short in comparison.


"You leave with your head high, but in the door, you see something you don't expect.  It's an adult wolf.  It's looking sadly upon the wolf fragments scattered on the floor, which are clearly its progeny.  Later, it looks at you.  And growls.  It jumps on your neck".