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That was less than consistent with the results of the raid if you don't join in the combat. A fitting last ending for a book that was pretty bad.

I have no stake in this; I'm not going to fight!

Let's join the raiding party and do a violence...

That all felt so...pointless. My decision meant nothing.

That drawing of elderly You is strangely horrifying.

Eeh! And it was going so well until I was sacrificed to the Toltec god...

How odd...

Okay...that ending was reasonably satisfying. R.A. Montgomery manages a hit or two in this freakish gamebook.

Absolutely preposterous in every way.

We're told these aliens are great, but where's the narrative evidence?

Maybe next time I'll go? Probably not. I prefer humans.

I love R.A. Montgomery, but he's a weirdo. Again, not (usually) the good kind. But I do miss him. We lost him in 2014. Eleven years ago...

Manuel is a real mystery. And not the good kind.

Ha! I take back my continuity compliment. In this ending the continuity is rubbish.

That was interesting. The continuity was good, with the same rockslide having occurred in the distant past I had just been inhabiting.

Will the gold still be around in modern times to make me wealthy?

So silly. Some of these endings are painfully Space and Beyond>, but I suspect this book is even worse.

I'm in desperate need of water. I'll go on that team.

I'm not playing. Why risk death for a sport that means nothing to me?

This isn't even my culture, so I'd rather defend than attack.

This time I want to go with the warriors. The priests were nutty.

Excuse me? Why offer the choice to lead a revolt against the corrupt priests if you're going to allow me no such action? That's just bad storytelling. You're better than this, R.A. Montgomery.

Such a strange-minded book. Only R.A. Montgomery...

Uh-huh, right. Manuel is just like Pherantz, the bizarre head of research in Space and Beyond. Come save us from this story, Edward Packard! Please?

Just ridiculous.

Well, yeah...if I can hail Manuel for assistance why would I refrain?

I guess I have to take up the knife, but I have no intention of stabbing anyone.

Sure, I'll stall for time. I'm not sacrificing a human being to the Mayan gods, no matter what.

Yikes! Still, I don't regret refusing to perform some ritual sacrifice, human or otherwise.

Why not go full bore and become a Mayan priest?