There was, just goes to show how much I tried to erase the memory of that game from my memory. But yeah I did read the Bob White plot despite still having the silly notion that the gaurdian was the evil half of the Stranger from another world that was split from him when he obtained Avatarhood, which is silly since that implies that the Avatar is a good pure being as opposed to being what he was orginally written as which was a regular person who became a example of what people can obtain by following the three prinicables and the eight virtues that make them up. In other words the Avatar was more of a Buddha type of charecter rather then some pure being devoid of human failings, It was a really good outside of that one little nitpick and felt more like what one comes to expect of Ultima not to mention all the vile things you did back in Pagan play a stronger role as opposed to being like they never happened.

If I recall there was supposed to have been a fan made Ultima IX that was going to use the scrapped Bob White version of the plot but sadly it never saw the light of day outside of a early concept of the game.

Hmm . Only one release ?