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SELECT YOUR DESTINY BOOK #9 - HAUNTED MANSION MADNESS!

"I wish for a million - no, a BILLION dollars!" you stammer. Limahl nods and snaps his fingers, and a leather briefcase appears at your feet. You bend over to open it, and greedily start counting the bundles of hundred dollar bills. Wait a second, HUNDRED dollar bills? "Hey, this is only a million!" you complain. With an obnoxious grin on his face, Limahl says "Sorry, friend. You just get the one wish. Should've gone with the billion first! Bye!" Then with a flash of light the 80s pop stars disappear, leaving you dumbstruck.

Considering the economy, you shouldn't be complaining.
A LOUSY MILLION?!

"Oh FANTASTIC. A *MILLION* dollars. That's barely enough to buy a nice house! I WILL STILL PROBABLY HAVE TO FIND A JOB AT SOME POINT! ARRRGGGGRGRGGGRGRG!!!" you scream in rage. Suddenly, one of the little pulsating veins in your neck bursts, spraying blood all over Falcor's face. You pass out.

It's still more comfortable than the cardboard box you normally sleep in

You eventually wake up in a hospital bed, with an IV in your arm and catheters jammed up all of your no-no places. After you've recovered (and, if you're the masochistic sort, we can pretend there's a joke about bursting another vein when you get your bill, but I'm not gonna put one here, to hell with you), you start trying to think of a way to get another wish so you can get the billion dollars you feel you're entitled to.

Unfortunately, it just doesn't work out. You buy a bunch of fake magic lamps, throw quarters in wishing wells and fountains in every country in the world, nothing. You even try a few elaborate schemes to get gypsies to curse 80s one-hit wonder bands, but all that comes of that is recurring nightmares from seeing the members of Dexy's Midnight Runners vomiting spiders while you watch from behind a brightly painted wagon. Eventually the money runs out, and you're left homeless and jobless, begging on the streets for the rest of your life.

DEAL!

COME ON, EILEEN! PICK A BETTER ENDING!

Reader Comments

Baron Von Snugglemittens
Oct 30th, 2009, 06:06 PM
yes! I've missed these! great stuff!
With More Yes Than Ever
Oct 30th, 2009, 06:06 PM
I was hoping that we would be blessed with such awesomeness!
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Breathes Comics
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:36 PM
If I sleep in the nude, why am I wearing the same clothes I "rolled out of bed with in the morning"?
Member OfThe Pigmask Army
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:37 PM
"Doctor says he's got the diabetes, says that makes him hyperglycemic. Know what that is? Means he's got to get a lot of sugar in him all the time, or he'll get all listless and moody!"
One of the best Destiny Books so far.
Kat Kat is offline
Breathes Comics
Oct 30th, 2009, 08:39 PM
Of course there's also the issue of why I have toiletries when I didn't pack.

I'm still loving this. It doesn't need to make sense.
The Claw of Justice
Oct 30th, 2009, 10:28 PM
Just finished it...I haven't laughed this hard in a looooong time. Great work, guys!

Now I feel bad about my meat lips.
Funky Dynamite
Oct 30th, 2009, 10:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kat View Post
If I sleep in the nude, why am I wearing the same clothes I "rolled out of bed with in the morning"?
Two words: birthday suit.

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Of course there's also the issue of why I have toiletries when I didn't pack.
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Member OfThe Pigmask Army
Oct 30th, 2009, 11:37 PM
Wait a second, when you go back to your room after killing that monster, is that ghost from the "A Christmas Carol" movie starring Albert Finney as Scrooge called "Scrooge"?
I think it was a musical. My family watches it every year.
"GET OVER HERE, YOU WEIRD LITTLE MAN!"
I hate this hacker crap!
Oct 31st, 2009, 12:26 AM
Haven't had time to get through my entire adventure yet, but it is amazing. Great job guys.
Space Cowboy
Oct 31st, 2009, 07:47 AM
I would like to propose that the sentence "He flails wildly about as you punch him in the hump." is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Kudos to you guys.
King of the Monsters
Nov 1st, 2009, 01:14 AM
what? no choice that ends with you getting your nuts destroyed??? :P

kidding aside, awesome work.
Almighty Samfucius
Nov 1st, 2009, 11:56 PM
I really hate to be a wet blanket, but as an actual type 1 diabetic, I'd just like to point out that too much insulin is the cause of a diabetic seizure, not at all the solution. The solution to hypoglycemia (what causes a seizure) is more sugar, and the way to deal with a seizure in progress is to give the person a glucagon shot, which is quite distinctive from an insulin shot.
The Goddamned Batman
Nov 2nd, 2009, 06:45 PM
You know that this story is supposed to be funny, full of teh jokes, and in no way educational or based on true events, right?
Funky Dynamite
Nov 3rd, 2009, 03:47 PM
I was just glad I could spell "diabetes" correctly after years of hearing those commercials with Wilford Brimley.
Forum Virgin
Nov 8th, 2009, 12:45 PM
so, is there a good ending? I think I went through all the choices and never saw one that I would think of as a happy ending for player.

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