The Gaming Den

If anything like this happened in real life, my reply would be something like, "Wait, first explain the pattern of marking on the cards." But since we have no such dialogue option, let's try it and hope either that it really is a math trick, or that we have a Skill or Luck test to decode s...

We've come this far. Follow him.

Sounds like a trap. Ignore it.

4 points. Go back to an optimal decision.

Leave him to work his con tricks alone.

Follow the parade.

Say we're heading for the Adventurer's Guild.

Report it, we want the trinket.

Back to the docks. We know from the previous attempt that we have only half as much as we need to get our backpack back, which is a quarter of the price of an adventurer's guild permit.

Stick it out.

Looking for work.

Great centres of learning.

Sure thing!

And if we're picking up there, ask where we can find work.

Thanks for running this.

So everything after the crown encounter referenced Higgly, so apparently we need him to get that far. What would have happened if we'd chosen Gibbly?

Since we're here, use Luck to increase damage for the rest of the fight, not to reduce damage unless it's that or die. The fight will only end when one of us is dead, and +2 damage increases our chances of surviving more than -1 to incoming damage.

Examine the tomb.

Look at the gravestones.

Give her gold.

Tell him about the Crown of Chaos.

Marik Om-Yash is who we're looking for, and say so.

Saying "it's none of my business where I'm headed" would be incoherent and it's unlikely that the secret path through this book is to convince him we have a fever so that he becomes much more helpful, so tell him Hamelin.

Knock again.

Mary gave us the answer there. Green is life and red is dead. Press the emerald eye.

Reach into the hole.

Drop one gold into the money box.