The Gaming Den

I did not call it where the boy was concerned.

Go over to the oasis and hope there are clues if it's poisoned.

You pull the bowl out from beneath the altar stone. It is about six inches in diameter and four inches deep, and there is a dry, brown flaky substance in the bottom which looks very much like the stains on the altar. You have heard of evil cults practicing horrific sacrificial rites in order to gain...

The altar stone is roughly nine feet long and four feet wide. There are holes near the four corners and in two of them are remains of leather thongs, obviously used to tether the wrists and ankles of the unfortunate victims. The surface of the stone is slightly concave, with a shallow runnel leading...

Ah whoops! Yes, go back and go with the child after all, if that's an option we have.

I figure unless we go back and follow the suspicious child, we'd better trust this guy to some extent. Let's pay and go with him.

This strikes me as a two-person con. Wait until he's gone and then go to the inn.

I will also vote to go to the fire-eater.

This looks like a setup for a robbery, but okay, go with him.

Go look at the fire-eater.

Let's leave now.

As you move away from the water into the depths of the cave, your torch gradually illuminates more of your surroundings. The cave extends some sixty feet from the pool and stream in this direction, and shows signs of having been used by intelligent creatures. Against the wall is what seems to be a r...

The pool is about twenty feet across and forms a semi-circle against the end of the cave. The water is deep and clear, but you cannot see the bottom. Ripples spread out across it from the water running down the rock. These miniature cascades emerge from several separate spots in the rockface, where ...

Good luck with your new job!

I vote to reroll the stats if we die, as none of them are especially good. I also vote for the name Rebecca, and to buy the water bottle and the Potion of Levitation. Sure, we can look at gambling.

Sneak into the control room.

As you near the pool, you notice two places where there are isolated prints of booted feet. At the edge of the pool you gaze down into its depths. The water is clear and your vision only slightly impaired by the ripples spreading from the small cascades feeding into the far side of the pool. It seem...

You are in a large, dark, underground cavern, apparently carved out by the water over many centuries. The floor is firm and sandy and in the Northern corner you can just make out a pool which feeds a trickle of water winding across the cavern and out through a tunnel in the South Western corner. Sev...

Just around a shoulder of rock, the defile pinches out. The stream itself issues from a narrow tunnel, some four feet wide but at least ten feet high. If you wish to go in, you will need a torch as it is pitch-black within. Light a torch and enter? Go back? Name: Andrew Bond Sex: Male Expertise: 13 ...

You are in a narrow defile. To your left it runs South East down to a narrow, muddy valley which leads away to the North East around a shoulder of the Mount. A large meadow stretches away on the other side of the valley. To your right it curves around to the North, narrowing as it climbs higher into...

Leave the Gojira here.

Clouds of dust are stirred up as you cross the room to the ruined door. A hefty kick dislodges it from the remaining rusty hinge, and you move into the room beyond. These were obviously the sleeping quarters for whatever group once lived here. Your original thought that they were Frogmen, based on t...

No. The entry you turn to for leaving the complex is the same if you do so after releasing the zombie or as soon as you arrive at the complex. As far as you currently know, the zombie has entirely left your life. It is possible that some future entry will start with "if you previously released ...

Enter the shipwreck.

Your curiosity overcomes your unease in the face of these weird events, and you stand back, though with your weapon cautiously ready. In a few minutes the dismembered Zombie is whole once more and clambering to its feet. Eyes staring blankly and arms again held before it, the figure ignores you and ...

Retreating to the foot of the stairs, you swallow a tablet and stand ready to fight. The Zombie lurches from its ancient prison and plods sightlessly across the living quarters towards you, hands apparently reaching for your throat. Luckily, your weapon is a cutting weapon; a blunt weapon would be u...

You draw a weapon ready to fight, then consider. Will it be best to fight in here amongst the Skeletons, or outside in the living quarters amongst the remains of the furnishings? Fight in here? Step back through the door and fight out there? Also vote on whether to swallow one of the tablets now. (O...