The Gaming Den

The occupants of this hamlet are mercenary wretches. 'Give us a gold and I'll tell you what you want to know,' is all that any of them will say. Do you: Forget the scholar/magician and head on (turn to 89)? Spend a day doing manual labor to earn a Gold Piece and pay for information (lose one Blood P...

You follow the road leading eastwards away from the Iakeside settlement. You spend a long time walking: you must eat two meals and you lose 2 Blood Points. (You don't have Bloodbane.) You stop at a coaching inn and ask after the black coach. People talk to you with strange, glazed expressions and th...

It takes some time to quieten the monk down--lose 1 Blood Point--but eventually he responds and tells you what he knows. A great Ghoul stormed through the cells of the junior monks, Marcus has been murdered and Endrell is missing. Of the other Elders there is still no sign. A grim, hardened warrior ...

The black coach vanishes in the darkness. Somehow you have to pursue it in order to find out where the creature which has brought death and mayhem to the monks has gone. <misleading option elided> Villagers and other monks are already streaming towards the monastery, attracted by the sound and the s...

Skill roll: 6, for 12. Stamina: 1, 5, for 18. Luck: 5, for 11. Faith: 6, for 9. Better chance this time, I think. Grabbing the gold at the start, it is possible, this time, to fail the Luck test, so: Succeeded with a roll of 7. You pay for information and don't show the papers to Endrell, talk to M...

Round One: Eric 15, Lizard 11, Luck Test succeeds with a 6. Lizard is at 2. Round Two: Eric 13, Lizard 10. Flawless victory. The witch makes a grab for the poisoned dagger in her cloak, but it goes skittering away from her across the floor! Gain 1 Luck point. However, she does have a long skewering...

Count my vote for unlimited lives.

(With three unanimous votes, calling it early.) As you stoop to examine the first tomb, for an instant the hands of the corpse seem to reach out, as if begging for help. But then the body is still again, and you cannot be sure whether your senses fooled you. For an instant a whisper seems to echo ro...

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 ...

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...

Interesting! I see that you've been using your own house rules to circumvent most of the existing bugs in the texts (although for the most significant one, it looks like the players still missed a particular important (but not totally game-breaking) item despite that, due to their own votes ). I pr...

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...

Waiting wins 2-1, buying meals wins 2-0, buying six meals wins 1-0, eating two meals wins 1-0. 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 o...

Using Luck to inflict damage beats using Luck to prevent damage 2-1. Round One: Eric 13, Vampyre 18. Eric is at 11 Stamina. Round Two: Eric 16, Vampyre 14, Luck Test Unfailable. Vampyre is at 7 Stamina. Round Three: Eric 18, Vampyre 14, Luck Test fails with a 12(!). Vampyre is at 6 Stamina. Round Fo...

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 seemsto be breathing, so you bend forward t...

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...

With all four people who have participated in this thread to date having voted unanimously, I think I can call it earlier than I was expecting. You have to Test your Skill , at a -2 penalty for lack of rope. First attempt fails with a 10 due to the penalty, second attempt succeeds with a 4. The fail...

You leave the Golden Goose and hang about outside; minutes later, the fat sage emerges and waddles off towards Orchead Square. He unlocks his front door and, if you were thinking of forcing an entry, you change your mind when you see the size of the enormous bodyguard lurking in the hallway. Reason ...

Buying silver stake and mallet wins 3-0, buying garlic wins 3-0, buying provisions wins 1-0, not buying Ghoulbane wins 2-1. The Golden Goose is a flashy place frequented by the well-to-do, and the guard standing at the door to keep riff-raff out looks like a half-Troll. Certainly he doesn't care muc...

You must fight the wolves one at a time. First WOLF Skill 6 Stamina 7 Second WOLF Skill 6 Stamina 7 Round One: Eric 17, First Wolf 15. First Wolf is at 5 Stamina. Round Two: Eric 18 First Wolf 14. First Wolf is at 3 Stamina. Round Three: Eric 17, First Wolf 18. Eric is at 16 Stamina. Round Four: Eri...

Eating your last Meal wins 4-0. Leaving the trail on the left side wins 3-1. Sounds of yelling and snarling can be heard coming from the woods to your left. You creep silently towards the source of the noise and come upon a man trying to keep at bay a pair of heavy-muzzled, thick-furred wolves that ...

Round One: Eric 14, Giant Raven One 14. Round Two: Eric 16, Giant Raven One 16. I am not making this up. Round Three: Eric 13, Giant Raven One 9. Giant Raven One Stamina 4. Round Four: Eric 14, Giant Raven One 10. Giant Raven One Stamina 2. Round Five: Eric 15, Giant Raven One 10. Flawless. Round O...

That's the survival horror genre for you; most options mean death, and if the protagonist gets out, it's over the dead bodies of the other victims there. No, you cannot rescue the nurse. You immediately die (and the book tells you you deserved to die for thinking you could prevail against those odds...

Of course. Anything you don't see before the end of the Let's Play, I'll be happy to describe here. Heading on wins 3-0. As you set off on your way, the skies darken and peals of thunder can be heard coming from the north. Dark clouds scud across the sky and the wind lashes into your face. You almos...