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Higgly is trustworthy according to himself, which gives me "Honest John" car seller vibes. Vote for Gibbly

Subtractive Roman numerals have been used since Roman times, so any idea that something ending IX is the same as XI can't be right as it would be too ambiguous. You may be thinking of things like VIIII versus IX, with the former falling out of favour well after Arabic numerals were the main numberin...

I've read this book and I think JN was pretty over optimistic If s/he thought that it could be completed RAW, no rewinds. Although this one ended pretty early there are a few counterintuitive but necessary decisions later if you want to win. A couple spoilered here. You need to buy something expensi...

Watchman honesty.

Lets investigate the yelling, we might not get another chance. The blue-green smoke is something we can investigate from the island hub.

Stalls

Lets try our LUCK with a game of chance.

Aha, one I've never played.

Let's go for trade.

Yeah, I think Jackson made a mistake there. He set up the spell to have only one logical reading, but then put the 3 lines with numbers in the same order as they were received so people who don't actually think about it get through with just the order they wrote them down, even though the gate shoul...

So tumblers two sealed deep inside I bid you, portals, open wide One lock made out of Golem's hide By Courga's grace, and Fourga's pride Surely: So tumblers two sealed deep inside One lock made out of Golem's hide By Courga's grace, and Fourga's pride I bid you, portals, open wide Doesn't affect th...

Yes obey the guide.

I vote to keep the money, no drinkies.

when an adventurer like yourself could surely find your own way through the abandoned tunnels and mine workings?

That form of words seems to be clear shorthand for "you will die if you don't have a guide"

I vote to pay him, and not risk that we can negotiate.

I want to take the gold bracelet. It's explicitly worth less than the gems, and you can only take one, so why would you ever take the bracelet? Kind of trick a book writer might put in to hide a useful item. I'd also go for the rope and the potion but I don't really care about that.

Yeah, one choice seems as good as another here

Help with Earth please, (no particular reason, except I think Fire is too obvious)

Follow the storm.

As for name, how about Lisbeth Salander, the girl who plays with fire and has a dragon tattoo? (Ororo Salander, Lisbeth Munroe?)

Go to where the storm is worst.

Given the lack of other votes, I will rescind mine and double up on JourneymanNoob's suggestion of random selection with Horn and Tattoo

I vote for Erien. A randomer is not likely to be as good as Gorrin or Erien, and although skill is the most important attribute, I think Erien's overall stats are better. If we do go random, I'd guess we want to take the tattoo and the horn, as that's what JG gave the worst statted character, I'm gu...

Oh and for all the fuss the book makes about them the "Elven boots" are pretty pointless. You can either sell them (and gold is pretty useless from Greta Morg onwards) or use them on the Orcs but owning the bag of everything is already enough to outrun them without a stat test. The use at ...

You salute the Baron with gritted teeth and walk over to the entrance of the dungeon to take your place alongside your fellow contestants. ------------------------------------ Baron Sukumvit raises his arm aloft for the trumpets to sound the start of this year’s Trial of Champions. The crowd cheers...

OK so I'm back: Good to see the thanks but haven't quite finished yet. Alternative narrative following on from the battle with Urzel, just to play out the endgame After Urzel falls you and Throm head towards the main gate of Fang. Suddenly you are waylaid by 2 swordsmen, an axeman and a woman in a r...

Alernative narrative coming in this post, but no time at the moment.

As soon as he sees your face, Lord Azzur points at you and shouts, “It’s the murderer!” Baron Sukumvit orders his Guards to arrest you. “No, not yet!” Azzur says sharply. “ I admire the nerve of this fool. I want to know how many of my assassins have been killed.” You remain silent and take the sco...