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A quest with enough depth it has its own rating has to be important/essential. Take the quest.

I read it a simultaneous, and that would be my preference. Alternatively I'm happy with going first or second on sequential.

I'm up for that. I know what SlyJohnny's build is, and everything that happened on both sides of his first two adventures so it would be fair if he wants to create a new mage or completely reshuffle his newgame+ sorceror.

I can take over the mage 2 thread as I've already read it completely.

What's happening in general terms:

You're being summoned due to a deliberate action taken by Explosive Wand in a specific zone

I might be interested but I have 2 advantages that would probably make it unfair: I have been following the game and have read all three threads, and I remember having these books 20 years ago. Virtually all I actually remember though is in which zones the instadeath items are located and the correc...

Thaluikhain wrote: Or you may cast one of these spells:
The Deathknight (1 CP)
Immolation (2 CP)

EDIT: While you could cast Immolation, you'd need the Eye of Flame for that and you don't have it.

Actually Immolation is the 3CP uncounterable, not the 2CP instadearth.

Return to Firetop and Trial of Champions I would say are pretty unsuitable for this format, being One True Path or Else adventures, the others I don't recall, but I would be happy to give a go.

Ulrich is a gonner, but try to save him anyway. Chances are, by performing the "good" but ultimately pointless action we'll get some karmic reward.

Horns, and try out the other town.

Keep the gun: I can easily see a combat situation where gun+SHOOTING is optimal, gun only is sub optimal, no gun+CLOSE COMBAT is worse and neither skill or gun is fatal.

Edit: drop the goggles and rest.

Talk to Gaia.

Companions make adventures more interesting, even if they are bad news, so get conned out of 10 scads. (Also, that seems an odd name for a unit of currency. Is it supposed to be some trendy futurespeak or something?) I'm guessing it's a corruption of "Escudos", the same way all the city n...

Show the healer our broken body.

3MP seems like a waste to take down this jerk. We would need to be very unlucky not to win outright with no buff, and there's probably a free full heal coming up. I vote for no special action, or second preference to use only theskill spell. I'm definitely against spending 2 or more MAGIC.

. I mean, if we *can* whittle down the Fourth Great Orc and Second Mutant Orc before their pair steps up to fight us then sure but that isn't clear from the text. the sword will fly through the air and attack any single Orc... you can see in the room where combat is taking place We can definitely u...

The sword, if used, should only attack orcs with 3, 5 or 6 STAMINA until no such orcs remain, then it can attack 1 and 2 STAMINA orcs.

Orc slaying sword can explicitly be used on any combat round in addition to a normal attack, so not much point using it before a combat. Lava sphere I think was able to be used at the beginning of a combat with no combat penalty, so not much advantage from using either option early. See the lay of t...

I would prefer to use the 3 small ones and consolidate, on the basis that if later we have only 1 action we can use it to bring out the big gun, but whatever. I'm happy with using neckerchief too.

Vote heal and neckerchief (half a vote to use herbal restorative for the heals)

down all 3 herbal restoratives and march in.

The wording here is weird, since there's no need for the book to tell you that the dagger does 1+1 damage....normal combat attacks inflict 2 points damage anyway, so it's kind of pointless. Judging by other FF books, there is sometimes a "poison antidote" that enables recovery/immunity to...

No giving up our potions.

Nope, refuse her. Watch out for the cat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEmMKKGk0aI

Casting Death is the equivalent of a 20 STAMINA hit in lost potential provisions, (and it still might not connect). I think we can take them with just the Skill spell and then use 3 points on create food to compensate for our lost STAMINA.

Let's give this one a miss. (That miss not being Jallarial)

Drink luck potion and search. Take new way out if search finds something bad, nothing or something minor. Ask again if it finds something quite good.