Biggles CYOA (and stuff)

Okay, so the Biggles Choose Your Own Adventure/"Dark Intruder" book is indeed very fun, although it's actually really hard to win. I've now done two play-throughs and had to cheat both times to avoid running out of gas - I mean this literally, your airplane burns fuel as you travel - before I even managed to get to the criminals. But there are enough variables that the two playthroughs were really different from each other, so that was fun! And it's got a nice mix of options and randomness.

(I am a little disappointed that crashing and/or dying doesn't seem to be an option in this one. At worst you run low on fuel and have to go home. I mean, not that I *want* to crash and die, but it would be dramatic!)

Edit: Some notes on the book's gameplay with mild spoilers.

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In other news, today was the kind of day that I absolutely needed after the flurry of garden and yard work the last week: cold, rainy, gray, a good excuse for staying inside.

I encountered two interesting prompt lists on Tumblr for June: June of Doom (h/c prompts) and Swoon June (romantic prompts). Perhaps I'll do something with some of these! I do wish the whump people on Tumblr hadn't embraced having multiple prompts per day, though; I know the idea is to give people things to choose from, but for me the limited options were part of the fun and I tend to get choice paralysis and not write anything at all.