This is how I learned the words "ichor" and "talon"

Remember those Lone Wolf gamebooks? How could you forget anything with such awesome covers?

Well, it was kind of like Choose Your Own Adventure, but a great deal more violent, and like 500 pages instead of 60. (Somehow those CYOA books packed just as many sudden-death scenarios into 60 pages, though. And when you kept your finger on the previous page, you were right to feel guilty, cheater. You suck.)

The bad news is that those books are now out of print (or as they say on the internet, OOP!) and stupidly expensive. (Mom, did you give away my old books? Ouch.)

The good news is that a dedicated team of nerd-o's has transcribed the books to HTML. Unfortunately, there's no snappy java applet to help you keep track of your items and whatnot, but you could print out the Action Chart page, I guess. (Having not completed the previous four adventures, I was stuck with only five Kai disciplines for the course of this one. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what a perilous journey that was! Snort!)

They've even reproduced the Random Number Tables from the back of the books -- a helpful invention that saved you from having to buy a 10-sided die and admitting to all the world that you were a virgin. You were supposed to, with your eyes closed, put the eraser-end of your pencil somewhere on that page, and the number you came up with was "random," except that you totally knew where the pencil was going to end up, cheater. Also this meant that much of the middle of that page was substantially faded and sometimes completely erased due to multiple playings. So don't worry, mom, if you did throw those books away, I probably abused them too much anyway.

And for you perfectionists out there, you can check out all the times the Nerd Squad changed any little thing in each book. "Replaced 'suspiciously, but' with 'suspiciously but'" -- wow, thanks guys. Or should I say "...wow, thanks guys.' I had a nagging suspicion that there was a comma in the original text. Now I can sleep at night.