[Let's Play] Sorcery Warrior 1 - The Shamutanti Hills

[Beroli]

The bees swarm around you but you are powerless to defend yourself as you must use your hands to grip the tree. Throw one die. If you throw a 1-4, then this is the number of STAMINA points you lose as the bees sting you. If you roll a 5 or 6, you are lucky enough to avoid being stung. When you reach the hive, you knock it down to the ground.

Cutting open the hive on the ground, you may take with you the wax and the honey. The honey will provide you with enough nourishment for one meal.

Die roll: 6! You avoid stings.

Follow the path down into the valley?
Follow the path up into the hills?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 17/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 3 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to follow the path down the valley.

[Thaluikhain]

Don't see why not.

[Beroli]

The path winds alongside a bubbling stream and you follow it onwards along the west bank. The valley you are in becomes narrower, but you soon come across a flat, grassy bank where you may stop and eat a Meal if you so choose.

Do so? (Note from the gamebook-specific rules: If you eat now, you will regain 2 Stamina points. If you eat more than one Meal today, each subsequent Meal will restore only 1 Stamina point. If you do not eat at all today, you will take damage tomorrow morning.)
Continue?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 17/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 3 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to eat a Meal.

[Queen of Swords]

Sure, eat a meal.

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, eat.

[Beroli]

This is your first Meal today, so restore 2 Stamina. You rest for half an hour or so and then continue your journey.

You continue along the path for several hours, taking you deeper into the valley. Presently, the sun begins to set and the air becomes cooler.

Find a suitable site to camp for the night?
Continue onwards without sleep?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 19/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 2 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[Thaluikhain]

Find campsite.

[Omegonthesane]

camping time

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to find a site to camp for the night as well.

[Beroli]

You find a suitable shelter in the rocks on the bank of the stream and bed down for the night. If you have not eaten since you left the Outpost Settlement, you may eat (you have no reason to do so, and anyway you have eaten since the settlement).

Eventually you drift off to sleep, soothed by the babbling of the stream. A short while later you are awakened by a splashing noise. Looking out from your shelter you see a strange sight. Three small, thin, humanoid creatures, glowing with a dull red luminescence, are throwing stones into the stream. Every so often they chirp with glee as a good shot sends a fish flying into the air. As if pulled by a magical force, each fish floats across the water and lands at their feet.

Sit tight and hope they don't see you?
Stand up and hail them?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 19/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 2 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to stand up and hail them.

[Thaluikhain]

Hail them.

[Queen of Swords]

Hail them.

[Beroli]

As they see you, they all point and gabble excitedly to one another. One of them rises into the air and flies across, hovering over you to take a closer look.

Attempt to speak with him?
Prepare to defend yourself?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 19/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 2 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[Omegonthesane]

"The fuck you doing to those fish?" [Attempt to speak with them]

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to attempt to speak with him.

[Thaluikhain]

Speak with them

[Beroli]

The creature jumps in the air as you greet him and cautiously comes closer. Seeing that you mean no harm, he invites you to join with his companions.

Join them?
Say you would rather stay where you are and rest?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 19/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 2 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to join them.

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, ok, join.

[Queen of Swords]

Join them.

[Beroli]

The creatures are ELVINS, mischievous little half-humans. They live in a village not far up the river and they are fond of impish pranks. Every so often they will disappear and, as you search round nervously, reappear suddenly in front of you just to make you jump. They are able to turn their glow on and off at will, and another favorite trick is to extinguish their flow and drop down in front of you. More often than not, this means you trip over them, causing considerable merriment to all but you. Nevertheless, you keep your temper. You do appear to be hindering their progress and after an hour or so they tire of you and vanish into the woods along the riverside. You wait in vain for them to reappear and eventually decide to find another suitable shelter for the night to get some sleep. You awake again at sunrise and continue along the path.

You did eat the previous day.

You continue on your way and approach a rope bridge strung precariously between two boulders.

Continue along the path on your side of the water?
Cross the bridge and follow a path running over a small hill?

Name: Jason Beckett Mordred
Sex: Male
Skill: 11/11
Stamina: 19/19
Luck: 10/10
Weapon: Sword
Backpack contents: 2 Meals, Blimberry Juice (+3 Stamina), Glandragor's Axe (-1 Attack Strength), spellbook page 102, beeswax
Gold Pieces: 9
Libra's Favor: Not yet used in this adventure

[JourneymanN00b]

I vote to continue along the path, as crossing the bridge sounds like it will be trouble.