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Repetitive backtracking, heading straight along and then downwards: (Escaping just takes us back to the three way junction.) You walk a few stealthy paces down a dimly lit passageway with smooth black walls, looking out for guards - but you see none. You soon come to a three way junction within the ...

visit the wizard I guess, though I'm not sure if we have any gold?

North.

(One vote for left, another for going straight on again. I guess I'll count Dr_Noface's earlier vote as the tiebreaker) You make your way along a winding, featureless passage which opens into a bare, spherical chamber, a very odd design. You are about to enter it when a smoky shape starts to take fo...

(Weirdly enough, the perspective of that picture is wrong and misleading; we're supposedly seeing the creature through the iron grille, and there are no other exits from that room, yet we can see the iron grille behind it rather than in front of it.)

Wait, what? We were offered the chance to go up to the top if we hadn't been there already when we were at the bottom. But now the book says we can't go down, making that statement impossible. What the hell book? (It is possible to go straight on again after you return to the crossroads from the le...

Running away and find another way around seems a safer bet than fighting.

It was unusual because it was generating the wights and stuff spontaneously, with only occasional reinforcement from the unlucky adventurer corpse. Initially it was portrayed as fucked because there was a huge battle there, and the last survivors of the massacre fought a fighting retreat to the cent...

Drive on north.

You climb up the black stone steps to a landing, where you find a heavy door on one side and no other exits. You listen at the door, but can hear nothing. You decide to open it. Test your Luck . (4: We are Lucky.) You are fortunate indeed, for you crouch down as you open the door and a volley of fie...

I imagine if it was a healing potion he would've drunk it, but I may be overthinking this. It doesn't seem like we'll need it to accomplish our objective anyway, this doesn't seem like the kind of gamebook that'll make us lose outright for not drinking a potion of danger sense on paragraph 289. I vo...

Roll two dice. (10; The total is greater than our skill, so we find nothing here. We're instructed to return to the previous paragraph and pick another choice. So do we:) *Climb the stairs back up to where you came from? *Climb the stairs up two flights, if you havn't been there before? *Follow the ...

The air gets hotter as you descend the stairs, and they end in a circular, plain chamber with a single passageway leading off it. The heat feels even greater in that direction, and the smokiness of the air makes your eyes water. If you have to fight down here (before taking the stairs back up), you ...

I remember Avernum had a city next to a permanently cursed cavern full of undead. They didn't really have the resources to sanctify it or whatever, so the nearby town just kinda dealt with it, and it became a tourist attraction for adventurers who would go in and keep the zombie population down.

You hurry on down a very long, meandering passageway, which eventually opens into a circular chamber of black rock. Around the smooth walls are bronze rails, and a circular stone staircase cut into both floor and ceiling leads up and down. Will you take the steps leading up or those leading down ? F...

ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

FrankTrollman wrote:Giant eagles are usually Good because Tolkien. We have a friendship gem, so we should probably back away as that is the most likely way to get to use it.

-Username17

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West. Let's get back to the edge of the swamp and see if we can continue north.

You move round to the far side of the Sphere, doing what any sensible person trying to sneak up unobserved would do - which is precisely why there is a guard here, of course. Suddenly a pair of skeletal talons tear at your back, deduct 2 points from your STAMINA. If you are still alive, you tum to f...

No compelling reason to pick a fight, not having a stamina gem any more and considering we might need to double back over the scorpions. I say we just go.

No reason to distrust the bridge, or to suspect that there'll be a more trustworthy bridge that gives off better vibes anywhere else along the river. If we have to fight a troll or something to secure a crossing point, then that's fine. I wonder who built this bridge? This a swamp that the villagers...

Shouldn't we have lost 2 stamina points when we killed the first ghost too? And since the story is harping on about cover, lets sweep. There's only a "when you first hit one, turn to-" and a "when you first kill one, turn to-" instruction. Presumably we aren't surprised by the s...

North.

You set off in a northerly direction, hoping that the creature flying around behind you won't notice you. Now you must Test your Luck . lf you are Lucky, you can press on northwards; If you are Unlucky, the creature flies down to investigate you. (We are lucky.) http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__c...

(Two votes to press on, one to investigate. Pressing on.) The afternoon passes slowly; you soon work up a sweat as you stumble along paths littered with treacherous rocks half hidden under a blanket of snow. The smoky, hazy valley of the Spheres seems never to get any closer, and you haven't made mu...

Dozens? Might be tricky to kill them all. Leaping over them would involve a luck test and we'd probably have to fight them anyway.

I'm not sure. I guess fight?