The BBC News site featured an article t’other day about “Fighting Fantasy” gamebooks. The adventure-filled concept is one I remember from my teenage years – albeit not with this particular series:
After reading a section, the reader would be invited to make a decision about how the story progressed. These choices could range from deciding which way to head down a corridor or whether to help a fair maiden (an invariably fatal decision in Fighting Fantasy).
Each decision would be associated with a section number that the reader would then subsequently read. These entries would continue the story into a series of branching narratives that would lead on to further adventures. Or an untimely demise.
I can’t help but wonder how complicated it would be to write a spanking version of the genre. “You are invited to a midnight feast in a friend’s dorm. Do you attend?”
“No” might lead to a girl being deemed boring, losing her friendship – or being caught in her own bed by a prefect as she read under the duvet with a torch. “Yes” might lead to fun and japes – or to the group being discovered.
Only – the whole premise is a little flawed when viewed in kinky terms. For what girl would be happy when reaching the end of the book, unpunished, to find that the final entry read:
“After a successful year as a school prefect, you leave the school with your disciplinary record untarnished.”
Actually, I can’t help but wonder if such a book could only work from the premise of a prefect, or housemaster. “You walk up the stairs towards the dormitories. Do you turn right or left?” – thereby allowing them to either look in on a room of soundly-sleeping girls, or stumble across an unsanctioned party…
I’ve read a spnking story like this before. It was quite nice. I’ll try to find it and will email you.
I’ve seen a couple over the years online.