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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9560674" data-attributes="member: 7737">I know, right? It's like every cheesy romantic comedy action movie trope with a nerdy gloss. I'm not being sarcastic this time: Carr and Dalris's meet-cute is absolutely fantastic.Correct -- there are no women at the college.Carr can interact with the woman who's part of the press-gang attack in the bazaar; it's unclear how old she's supposed to be. But yeah. Dalris is definitely the first/only &quot;girl his age&quot; (ish) (maybe) (if we squint) that Carr interacts with.Exactly. I wonder if this gamebook was actually geared at somewhat older readers than 13-year-old Joshua in 1986. Because for most 13-year-old boys, especially bookish D&amp;D playing boys, girls are weird and yucky.Hold that &quot;princess&quot; thought -- I'll have more to say about it later.Fair enough. But the only people in our world who would unironically say &quot;I'm descended from both French AND Olmec royalty&quot; are likely following that with a drawn out &quot;mannnnn&quot; just before they take another toke of the wacky tabbacky.Would you believe that the eventual truth is MUCH DUMBER than your joke?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 9560674, member: 7737"] I know, right? It's like every cheesy romantic comedy action movie trope with a nerdy gloss. I'm not being sarcastic this time: Carr and Dalris's meet-cute is absolutely fantastic. Correct -- there are no women at the college. Carr [I]can[/I] interact with the woman who's part of the press-gang attack in the bazaar; it's unclear how old she's supposed to be. But yeah. Dalris is definitely the first/only "girl his age" (ish) (maybe) (if we squint) that Carr interacts with. Exactly. I wonder if this gamebook was actually geared at somewhat older readers than 13-year-old Joshua in 1986. Because for most 13-year-old boys, especially bookish D&D playing boys, girls are weird and yucky. Hold that "princess" thought -- I'll have more to say about it later. Fair enough. But the only people in our world who would unironically say "I'm descended from both French AND Olmec royalty" are likely following that with a drawn out "mannnnn" just before they take another toke of the wacky tabbacky. Would you believe that the eventual truth is MUCH DUMBER than your joke? [/QUOTE]

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