The Gaming Den

Hide in the grass.

(You cannot fail this Spot Skill test.) As you are looking for some rope to tie her up with, you see Shevala's hand suddenly disappear inside her stinking robe, then draw out a vial. You grab her hand just in time and snatch the Potion of Stamina away as she is about to drink it! Gain 1 Luck point. ...

'AIl my gold, yes, and my magic too! I've got a lovely pair of gauntlets for you, dearie, that I have. All in there! Just don't kill me!' She tells you the magical key words which she says will bypass the magical ward on the archway. The cowardly witch slobbers and drools and cries to herself.You kn...

You can hear the sound of muttering ahead of you, so you edge towards a cave entrance and peer round the comer.The old witch, Shevala, is talking to herself in her disgusting den. The place is cobwebbed and filthy, and repulsive sights are on display everywhere: sheaves of dried bat's wings, plaited...

Work out Attack Strengths for yourself and the witch (she has a Skill of 10). (Executive decision: you could use magic gauntlets if you had them, but not the magic sword.) You get 19, she gets 16. The acid burns her and she screams in pain and loses 3 Stamina. Your acid is used up. You can now shoot...

Don't use a rocket; we're at only a 1-point Firepower disadvantage and have twice their Armor. We'll likely have much worse fights later.

You approach the cave entrance but can make out only darkness. Lighting your lantern, you edge your way into a space and then you see a passage leading further into the rock crag opposite, so you head towards it. As you do, there is a dull 'pop' above you and you look up to see some large fungi on t...

The old women continue their furious arguing for some time, then walk away from one another. The older and uglier of the two walks up to a large rock and lays her hands on it. The boulder simply rolls to one side, revealing a passage which leads down into the subterranean gloom. She enters, and the ...

Groping your way through the fog, you find a farm girl standing over the body of a youth that has been dumped beside some straggling thorn bushes. 'The bandits! They have killed Frederick,' she says miserably. You look down at the body. The young man still seems to be breathing, so you bend forward ...

An endless plain stretches ahead of you in central Analand. The people hereabouts are friendly enough--mostly simple farming folk--and you can find barns to sleep in at night and the occasional bowl of soup and crust of bread. However, during this lengthy time of travel you must either eat four meal...

You demand to know who sent the thugs to attack you. The grovelling wretch says that a huge brute of a man, someone the villagers had never seen before, came to Fendringham the night before last and told the thugs to expect you. 'Gave us ten gold each to deal with yer, 'e did,' the man says. "E...

The 'Rat and Bat' is not an agreeable place but the food is plentiful, even if [sic] doesn't taste very good. The clientele aren't pleasant company, either: most of them seem to be as thick as they are smelly. You fill your stomach and retire to your room to get some badly needed sleep. This is goin...

Should there be any unclarity, I've already taken the four meals you had to eat while traveling off the Adventure Sheet; you went from 5 to 1. If you eat two more meals you will be at full Stamina.

More wearying days of travel lie ahead of you. You can cadge food along the way, but you must supplement the hospitality of local people with your own food. You must eat four meals, but you can also buy food to replenish your backpack (1 Gold Piece buys enough for 2 meals here; note that your backpa...

Work out Attack Strengths for yourself and the witch (she has a Skill of 10). (Executive decision: you can use the gauntlets but not the magic sword.) You get 20, she gets 19; you just barely succeed because of the gauntlets (she would implicitly win ties here). The acid burns her and she screams in...

How can you hope to break a huge stone with a sharp weapon such as a sword? Test your Luck. If you are Unlucky, your sword simply shatters and you no longer have a magic sword. (Which, given the impending battle with Carollar, would mean quick death.) If you are Lucky, the blade does not break but y...

Though the creature you pursued into these depths is a witch, the cavern you now enter looks more like the domain of a necromancer. The bodies of twenty, perhaps more, small and stunted, Dwarf-like creatures are entombed here in various stages of decay. Some are little more than piles of bones, but ...

If Shevala is to be believed, Carollar has the soul gem.

Also, just for the record, this book came out a decade before Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince mentioned horcruxes.

Lose one Blood Point for the delay. The letters contain a couple of diagrams of mystical wards which Sewarth and Harquar had experimented on. One of these looks very like the pattern you can see glowing faintly in the archway. You follow the instructions in the letter for removing the barrier and, t...

You find the witch's treasure trove. The avaricious crone must have slain many travellers on the borders of her lands, and she has hidden her ill-gotten gains here. You find trinkets, coins and knick-knacks worth a total of 20 Gold Pieces. There are also two excellent sealed and preserved cheeses wh...

(You cannot fail this Spot Skill test.) As you are looking for some rope to tie her up with, you see Shevala's hand suddenly disappear inside her stinking robe, then draw out a vial. You grab her hand just in time and snatch the Potion of Stamina away as she is about to drink it! Gain 1 Luck point. ...

'AIl my gold, yes, and my magic too! I've got a lovely pair of gauntlets for you, dearie, that I have. All in there! Just don't kill me!' She tells you the magical key words which she says will bypass the magical ward on the archway. The cowardly witch slobbers and drools and cries to herself.You kn...

You can hear the sound of muttering ahead of you, so you edge towards a cave entrance and peer round the comer.The old witch, Shevala, is talking to herself in her disgusting den. The place is cobwebbed and filthy, and repulsive sights are on display everywhere: sheaves of dried bat's wings, plaited...

You prise away the rock and make your way quietly underground. There is a faint phosphorescent glow from wall fungi here, and you don't need your lantern. The passages you enter are oddly sculpted, as if by some long-lost race of subterranean dwellers; they twist at odd angles, and the floor is slig...

Feel free to preemptively vote on "go left" or "keep following the main passage" here too.