Every year, the Grand Billings Arena plays host to the biggest night in professional wrestling, Riled in the Ring. On this annual event, athletic heroes and villains, or ‘faces’ and ‘heels’ as they’re called, pull out all the stops for a sold out crowd. It’s your dream to test your might in this legendary squared circle.
You quit your job and sign up for a Buckaroo Championship Wrestling training camp, and soon enough you find yourself faced with a myriad of life changing decisions that could alter the course of professional wrestling forever. You’re destined for a championship belt of your own, but there’s a whole community of dinosaur, bigfoot, unicorn and living object wrestlers who are ready to stand in your way.
Will you become Dr. Discomfort’s sidekick in a medical themed tag team partnership?
Will you survive a night in the graveyard and assume the mantle of an undead heel named Grim the Reaper?
Will you take down Buckaroo Championship Wrestling’s scoundrel owner, Vinny Cobbler, in the ring? Or will you crush this devilish T-Rex in the world of business?
The decision is yours!
THIS IS AN SPORTS/ADVENTURE NOVEL WHERE YOU MAKE THE CHOICES. IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE READ FRONT TO BACK.
Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.
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If you loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid, this book is for you! The main character is stuck in a job with a terrible boss and is inspired by some customers to try professional wrestling. Through this journey we meet several fantastical characters that include dinosaurs, unicorns, and even a sentient refrigerator.
The choose-your-own-timeline nature of the book means your choices impact the protagonist’s path. You (as the character) might go from battling a jerk of a t-Rex to an existential, fourth-wall-breaking nightmare of a self face-off, or you might even get stuck in a time loop, doomed to repeat the same play-by-play over and over again. I’ve gone through most of the scenarios, and even though I don’t really have any interest in wrestling, I found them all to be wacky and fun! Definitely recommend for a solidly good time.
Solid entry in Chuck Tingle's gamebook series - and given recent developments in the wrestling scene in this timeline, some of the stuff here is outright prophetic. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordp...