Hello Ulysses Ai. Congratulations with the Diamond Key, an excellent script. But there was on thing that I'm not clear on. It's actual location. It starts in Granborin 'The Sun's Anvil', I'm not sure where that is on Titan. Targaren is the starting city. Then a city called Red reiver. But I just haven't been able to find these on any of the maps. Please could you give us a rough indication on the location of this adventure?

Ulysses
Sun Oct 25 04:37:58 2009

Hi Arguth

I did originally intend to locate the adventure in Titan, but in the end didn't look up place names, instead I just made the name up. That said, there is a reference to Fang in the adventure which I should have removed.
So the answer to your question is that it isn't on Titan at all, or is on some undiscovered continent.

Thanks for reading

Drakol
Fri Feb 26 07:10:42 2010

Greetings - Played "The Diamond Key" a few times now.
I've quite liked it and it is an enjoyable one.
Even if every single time I die in the end...

Wanted to ask a Question or two : P.s. the next bit has lots of item and some situational spoilers.

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Ulysses
Fri Feb 26 11:44:23 2010

Hello Drakol.

It's no secret that to defeat King Darm at the end you should be aquiring magical items to use against him. If I recall correctly, there are 8 successful endings depending on how you defeat the King, and whether or not Kianmay survives.
What I remember is:

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I hope that helps.

Ulysses
Fri Feb 26 13:14:12 2010

Drakol:

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Aiken
Thu Mar 11 15:14:27 2010

Reading through the list of names on the "downloads" page, I was struck by a preponderance of unwitting double-entendres, my two favourite being two books which should surely be in the same series: "The Quest for the Ebony Wand" and "Pit of Peril". This made me consider whether one of the defining characteristics of the Fighting Fantasy Series (as with the God-father of all sword and sorcery- Tolkein) is an amazingly coy attitude to sex. In these frequently gory and even gratuitously violent works, no mention was ever given to the motive force which presumably was responsible for Titan's population (although the illustations of "Vampyres" etc. were somewhat less inhibited).

To this effect, I have to praise the Diamond Key, which managed to be serious and avoid puerility whilst having some element of the erotic in the form of various semi-human lovelies (a theme that seems to resurface in the WWGB series frequently). In particular, strengthening your fire-balls has never been so enjoyable.

Ulysses
Fri Mar 12 04:39:19 2010

I try to be well-rounded

Haoie
Sun Mar 14 19:58:35 2010

Gamebooks shouldn't take themselves too seriously . So some faux sex/violence/breaking the 4th wall, I appreciate.

Z Sun Feb 6 02:39:32 2011	Hmm, the downloadable version of The Diamond Key seems to indicate that the player starts off with a choice of an extra weapon and an extra item, but the online version doesn't seem to incorporate this?
	The online version is slightly cut down from the original for technical reasons.

gamebook freak
Sat Apr 16 14:42:01 2011

hi, this is my first post heare and i don't know what to say, i like the dk alot, but so large, and the problem is that i am fired wen i lose all my money lol.
and sorry for my bad spelling, english is not my first language

James
Thu Apr 28 16:04:39 2011

Ulysses are going to have a sequel to the diamond key?

Ulysses
Fri Apr 29 00:41:22 2011

@James:

There is no direct sequel to The Diamond Key, however I do have partially completed stories set in the same world. One of which is based on the Orcs encountered in the mountains as you played tDK.
These will not see the light of day for some time.

Ulysses
Tue Jun 21 04:16:29 2011

Just discovered there is an entry for The Diamond Key on Titannica. Makes me feel kinda famous. My other books don't have entries, but I feel like to create content there about any of my own works would be conceited...

P.S. And thanks to Gallicus for all his effort.

Glen
Mon Jul 16 15:24:19 2012

Wow, that took a long time. Outsider! is certainly huge. To follow up from my earlier post, I would now like to ask:

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I also just finished The Diamond Key and would like to mention that it was yet another great romp from Ulysses. Thank you! I found the sheer variety of the adventure staggering. I do have one question regarding it:

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C-Star
Mon Jul 16 15:41:28 2012

Glen, generally the best ending in a gamebook Is the last paragraph in it. So paragraph 1000 would be the best. (Not 100 percent sure though) I think there are some exceptions in some gamebooks though, so you can't just peek at the last paragraph and spoil it. But the general rule Is Last Paragraph=Best ending.

pi4t
Mon Jun 10 13:13:00 2013

There seems to be an incorrect route in the (text version, at least) of The Diamond Key. 512 sends you to 552 if you want to ascend, but so far as I can tell, it should be 443.

pi4t
Mon Jun 10 13:16:23 2013

Sorry to double post. I see now that it's actually meant to send you to 522.

Eulalios
Sat Oct 12 20:44:49 2013

It's so long since I played this that I have forgotten how I got to the point of survival. I remember replaying until I managed to get through with the love interest alive!

Truly, a great work. I especially liked the several Otherworld sequences.

Dhanya
Sat Oct 19 07:54:30 2013
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

It sure would be nice to be able to start the game up again just before you make the last decision that kills you.

It's certainly a thought. There would be a fair amount of work involved because it's obviously different for each gamebook. I'm not promising anything, and the chances are it won't happen, but I'll bear it in mind. In the meantime, you can of course always save your position using Bookmarks/Favourites.

It had occurred to me in the past that if I'd opted for a purer style of gamebook simulation I could also have introduced a feature to simulate the jamming of your fingers in various different pages to keep your options open. It doesn't really fit with the direction I went in though.

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