My nightmare castle prequel's becoming quite different from the original. Firstly, your profile changes over time as you grow from a humble tribesman to a famous hero. Also, whereas Beneath Nightmare Castle's enemies were mainly corporeal, this features the gods and demons of a dimension known only as 'The Screaming'. This is home of the Howling Gods Xakhaz follows. For a lot of the adventure one demon from the screaming follows you, possessing people to attack you at key points.

Ibrahim
Tue May 27 17:14:22 2008
Beggars Of Blacksand

Hi Everyone.

I've completed beggers of blacksand and found the best ending or so I believe. For those of you who are stuck with this little game, I can give only this advice:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

Anyone have any more difficulty, email me off list at "ibrahim_gucukoglu@sent.com" for help.

Ulysses Ai Sun May 25 10:06:19 2008 Beggars Of Blacksand	In Beggars of Blacksand, the 'Healing Mixture' you can steal from the Man-orc restores LUCK, and not STAMINA as stated.
	I've fixed this now.

Age of Fable Sun May 25 07:21:58 2008 Beggars Of Blacksand	In Beggars Of Blacksand, paragraph 64 led to a dead end which doesn't seem to be intended.
	I've fixed what I think is the problem. Thanks for pointing it out.

Age of Fable Sun May 25 07:15:50 2008 General Chat	This is a question for 'NEWS'. Would it be possible/useful to have a publicly available 'skeleton' of the code used on this site, so that people can send you their gamebooks ready to go, rather than you having to turn the documents into code yourself?
	It's a reasonable suggestion, but I'm pretty confident that in practice it would be far more trouble than it was worth, and also that very few authors would want to do this.

Haoie
Fri May 23 03:56:23 2008
General Chat

I wait for an online version. Less incentive for me to cheat my way out of things. Only once or twice have I read the text first.

Ulysses Ai
Fri May 23 03:09:54 2008
General Chat

Hello everyone.
I have a question for people:

When a new gamebook appears on the Downloads page, do you read it right away, or wait for an online version to appear? If you do read it, do you just 'taste' it, or play it through in full?

Thanks everyone.

Al Sander
Thu May 22 02:31:44 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

duffmeister, in answer to your question, yes, their are multiple endings and one of the endings (tricky to find) explains the background to what's going on.

duffmeister
Wed May 21 17:27:58 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

In absolute honesty I haven't read Vault of the Vampire.

Haoie
Tue May 20 20:56:14 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

I had no idea Nightmare Castle was so popular.

If horror related stories are to be done, I'd really like a book based on something similar to Vault of the Vampire , which also have a strong gothic theme, somewhat similar to Outsider.

duffmeister
Tue May 20 14:36:53 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

In fact, I'd be happy to include some prequel elements to your adventure if you wish. If there are any items/characters/settings/concepts which you wish for me to feature which are in your trilogy, I could try and involve them. Will Shadowcaster come as just one book containing the trilogy or will you send in each part separately?

duffmeister
Tue May 20 13:30:48 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

My original prequelw as set in the same time period but lacked the good plot of Shadowcaster. It basically featered Old Huw's acolyte, the Left hand of Oiden, sneaking into the dungeons to shut a gate to the demonic planes. It ended up rather dull so instead I decided to do the prequel detailed above. The only characters from the original that'll feature will be Xakhaz (In human form, at least to start) and possibly Old Huw. Vlad the Slayer will also feature. I have had an idea. Do you think my prequel and your three prequels could possibly e organised to tie in? Hopefully my adventure reveals different secrets to yours, since mine mostly tackles the origins of the creatures in BNC and portrays the events referred to in it.

Stuart Lloyd
Tue May 20 13:11:24 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

My shadowcaster book (currently at 315 paragraphs, about half way) is also a beneath nightmare castle prequel, but it is set just before the events of beneath nightmare castle. Book 1 features Sakhenyaz as a servant to the main villain and Baron Tholdur heading to Zagoula. Sakhyenez then makes a cameo appearance in book 3 too. They did not have to be part of the trilogy, but I thought I'd tie them in for fun. I llok forward to reading yours, Duffmeister. Hopefully I'll have finished mine too.

duffmeister
Tue May 20 13:00:03 2008
I'm Writing A Gamebook

In fact, the nightmare prequel is being rewritten. It was rubbish but then I had an epiphany. The adventure is set roughly 270 years prior to beneath nightmare castle, you play as Skarlos (Your title, actually, not your name) in the devastation following the War with Chaos. It charts your rise to power and Xakhaz's growing power as his armies grow and head north. It'll still answer some questions from the original about the Vitriol Essence and Bloodlurcher origins.

duffmeister
Tue May 20 12:50:40 2008
Beggars Of Blacksand

Well I did enjoy it, but I have 1 question, is there just 1 ending or several. I got the impression I finished a few days early in it, did I take the wrong route? Also, I didn't get the bits of Citadel of Chaos featured.

Al Sander
Tue May 20 04:51:26 2008
Beggars Of Blacksand

Beggars of Blacksand is very much inspired by the Impudent Peasant format.

Changes between the online version and the (final) download version are almost non-existant - a few paragraphs adjusted for clarity and some spelling and grammar fixes.

Hope you enjoy it!

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