New Game: "Dumb Ways to Die in Sierra Games that No-one Told You About"

[Rath Darkblade]

Out of a cannon?

Still in Quest for Glory 4... Hurray! Our hero has beaten every monster in the game. He is now a proper bad-ass.

Then he visits Katrina in her castle. She's sitting on her throne, with a necrotaur (a kind of undead wolf thing) by her side.

Our hero wants to pet the necrotaur. Astoundingly, the necrotaur pants happily. Our hero looks and Katrina and says ...

"This guy taste good with soy sauce?"

[notbobsmith]

Space Quest 4: Roger uses the time machine to travel to "Space Quest 0: The Prequel" where he meets his parents. But he accidently interrupts their first meeting creating a paradox where Roger, and the entire Space Quest franchise, never exists.

[Tawmis]

Space Quest 4: Roger uses the time machine to travel to "Space Quest 0: The Prequel" where he meets his parents. But he accidently interrupts their first meeting creating a paradox where Roger, and the entire Space Quest franchise, never exists.

"Don't worry, pops! I'll clean up that mess. Sorry to have startled you so that you pulled out..."

[Rath Darkblade]

"Whoops" does not begin to cover it.

[notbobsmith]

Space Quest 4: Roger uses the time machine to travel to "Space Quest 0: The Prequel" where he meets his parents. But he accidently interrupts their first meeting creating a paradox where Roger, and the entire Space Quest franchise, never exists.

"Don't worry, pops! I'll clean up that mess. Sorry to have startled you so that you pulled out..."

MEETING! I said "MEETING"! As PQ1 puts it: "My, what a filthy mind you have!"

[Rath Darkblade]

I do not understand the word "interrupt".

Still in Quest for Glory 4.
The hero visits the Elderberry Bush, a plant that can walk around and whip things with tendrils that inject poison.

But our hero has taken a leaf (pardon the pun) from Leisure Suit Larry, and wants to take the bush...

Um, maybe we should fade to black.

(At least he didn't try to hug the Rusalka).

[Tawmis]

King Graham happens to step in front of the three witches caves just as the Batman car bursts out of the cave...

"Holy Royal Pain, Batman! You've run over another King!"

[Rath Darkblade]

But, um ... this is a thread about ways that the hero can die, through his/her own fault (usually by doing something really stupid).

(See above: picking up a poisonous bush and putting it in your pocket).

[Tawmis]

Standing in front of a cave when a car comes out seems pretty stupid.

[Rath Darkblade]

Well, yes, but Graham didn't know that the car was there.

If he did, and he knew it would come out, that's pretty darn stupid. Otherwise, it would seem to Graham like the Batcar appeared out of nowhere, which is plain bad luck.

[notbobsmith]

Quest for Glory 3: The Hero (a thief) gets himself wrapped up in his own rope. The Liontaurs can't resist playing with the giant ball of yarn.

[Rath Darkblade]

But if the hero is a thief, I can't see him getting tied up with his own rope. He's too smart (and agile) for that. Also, surely Rakeesh would get him out?

Still in Quest for Glory 4: The hero decides to try and capture one of the Carnivorous Rabbits alive. Amazingly, he does, takes it home as a pet, puts it in a cage, and feeds it lettuce.

It goes so well that he captures another one, puts it in the same cage, and feeds it too.

A week later, the two things eat so much that they grow enormous, breed like - well - rabbits, and overrun the entire valley. Nice job destroying the world, Hero!

[notbobsmith]

KQ3: Alexander finds a recipe for gunpowder in the book of spells. It does not go well.

[Tawmis]

KQ3: Alexander is caught on the pirate ship and thinks it's not so bad when he's told to "swab the decks"... but the pirates didn't say "decks".......

[Rath Darkblade]

KQ3: Alexander is caught on the pirate ship and thinks it's not so bad when he's told to "swab the decks"... but the pirates didn't say "decks".......

Oh, that's right! The pirates said "hecks".

Dumb Ways to Die in ... Quest for Glory 5.

The hero eats junk at Gnome Ann's and never goes to the Adventurers' Guild to exercise.

A month later, he's sitting around in the arena watching the fights. He has a beer gut, a cigarette dangling from his bottom lip, and food stains on his shorts.

Game over, with the death message: "Get up and move around once in a while, ya lazy bum."