Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman Alternate Endings Part 10
Evidently CHOICE #15 isn't the only CHOICE that determines whether or not you enter a timeline where you see Yeti on Annapurna. CHOICE #16 alters reality too when I send Sangee back to get help.
But Carlos and I investigate the signal anyway when Carlos says he feels selfish waiting instead of helping directly. Before beginning the climb, we eat bread and cheese like characters in Victorian novels.
"Soon you are at a vertical wall of rock. Above it you see the face of the ice. Carlos drives the spike in; you both rope up and proceed slowly up the rock. Over the rock, you meet an expanse of firm snow. But under it lies hard, cold ice. On with the crampons. You lead the way, probing carefully with your ice axe to seek out any hidden crevasse. The climb seems endless, and even though you are only five thousand meters up, the air is thin and breathing is hard.
By mid-morning the sun is like a blast furnace. It reflects off the ice that surrounds you, and in the thin air the ultraviolet rays burn your skin. You both put white zinc ointment on your noses and lips. You had taken a sight bearing when you saw the flashes, but that was at night. Now, in daylight, it is not easy to be sure just where the flashes came from. But you have a good sense of direction, so you keep going.
Near noon, you gain a crest, and then you see it. It's a Pilatus Courier aircraft, one used for mountain flying. It lies in the snow, crumpled like a forgotten toy. The tail section is twisted, but the wings are intact. The engine is buried in the snow. Reaching the plane, you open the cabin door. Huddled in the plane are the pilot and two passengers. One of the passengers is unconscious. You do what you can for the people; later that day a Royal Nepal Airlines helicopter finds you. All is well. It was the right thing to give help in the mountains. Congratulations for a job well done. The End".
When I saw the words "Royal Nepal Airlines", I checked the publication date for the slightly-altered Chooseco version. It's 2006. Nepal abolished its monarchy 2 years later. Not relevant to the CYOA, but hey, I was curious enough to look it up.
The last few lines of this conclusion sound like the protagonists are trying to reassure themselves that this is a Good Ending, even if they have their doubts.
Results So Far
9 Good Endings
0 Deaths
1 Bad Non-Death Endings
1 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
Evidently CHOICE #15 isn't the only CHOICE that determines whether or not you enter a timeline where you see Yeti on Annapurna. CHOICE #16 alters reality too when I send Sangee back to get help.
But Carlos and I investigate the signal anyway when Carlos says he feels selfish waiting instead of helping directly. Before beginning the climb, we eat bread and cheese like characters in Victorian novels.
"Soon you are at a vertical wall of rock. Above it you see the face of the ice. Carlos drives the spike in; you both rope up and proceed slowly up the rock. Over the rock, you meet an expanse of firm snow. But under it lies hard, cold ice. On with the crampons. You lead the way, probing carefully with your ice axe to seek out any hidden crevasse. The climb seems endless, and even though you are only five thousand meters up, the air is thin and breathing is hard.
By mid-morning the sun is like a blast furnace. It reflects off the ice that surrounds you, and in the thin air the ultraviolet rays burn your skin. You both put white zinc ointment on your noses and lips. You had taken a sight bearing when you saw the flashes, but that was at night. Now, in daylight, it is not easy to be sure just where the flashes came from. But you have a good sense of direction, so you keep going.
Near noon, you gain a crest, and then you see it. It's a Pilatus Courier aircraft, one used for mountain flying. It lies in the snow, crumpled like a forgotten toy. The tail section is twisted, but the wings are intact. The engine is buried in the snow. Reaching the plane, you open the cabin door. Huddled in the plane are the pilot and two passengers. One of the passengers is unconscious. You do what you can for the people; later that day a Royal Nepal Airlines helicopter finds you. All is well. It was the right thing to give help in the mountains. Congratulations for a job well done. The End".
When I saw the words "Royal Nepal Airlines", I checked the publication date for the slightly-altered Chooseco version. It's 2006. Nepal abolished its monarchy 2 years later. Not relevant to the CYOA, but hey, I was curious enough to look it up.
The last few lines of this conclusion sound like the protagonists are trying to reassure themselves that this is a Good Ending, even if they have their doubts.
Results So Far
9 Good Endings
0 Deaths
1 Bad Non-Death Endings
1 Neutral Endings
0 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.