Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #3: The Forest of Doom

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:02 pm

Make that velvet fly.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:16 pm

On pulling back the curtain you see a tiny green-skinned creature with a large head. He has a long nose and pointed ears and wears brown canvas clothing. A large medallion hangs from his neck on a silver chain. The creature is sitting at a table examining a red clay figure of a human hand. On seeing you enter the cave he takes a stone hammer and smashes the clay hand. He is a GREMLIN chief and jumps to his feet to face you with his hammer. You must fight him.

GREMLIN SKILL 5 STAMINA 5
During each Attack Round you must reduce your Attack Strength by 3 because of your cramped fighting position.

Gremlin 15, Dick 16. Gremlin is at 3.
Gremlin 14, Dick 13. Dick is at 12.
Gremlin 12, Dick 11. Dick is at 10.
Gremlin 13, Dick 16. Gremlin is at 1.
Gremlin 12, Dick 14. Gremlin is dead.

(That guy got some hits in on us. Do we want to eat any Provisions?)

You take the medallion from the neck of the fallen Gremlin. It is made of gold and is worth 9 Gold Pieces. There is nothing else of use or value in the cave. There is no other exit from the cave and you must crawl back down the tunnel to the junction.

Back at the junction you may either crawl south back to the well or continue west.

Adventure Sheet
Dick McBigThirdLeg
SKILL 10/12
STAMINA 10/18
LUCK 8/9
Equipment: Sword, Leather Armor
Provisions: 6 Meals (+4 STAMINA each)
Potions: Potion of Fortune (restores LUCK to full+1), Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (cross-posted under Magic Items)
Gold Pieces: 5, Amulet worth 9 GP
Items: Map, Small Brass Bell
Magic Items: Nose Filters, Holy Water, Ring of Light, Rope of Climbing, Armband of Strength, Headband of Concentration, Garlic Buds, Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (last two cross-posted under Potions)

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:38 pm

Looks like we're going to need money. Maybe we should have kept some. Continue west.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:12 pm

You soon arrive at another junction in the tunnel.

If you wish to head north
If you wish to head south

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:49 pm

South's not a direction we have a lot of opportunity to go. Carpe diem.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:28 am

angelfromanotherpin wrote:South's not a direction we have a lot of opportunity to go. Carpe diem.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:20 pm

The tunnel ends at a cave entrance. On entering the cave you see that the roof is no higher than the tunnel and you are unable to stand up. The cave is the lair of an intelligent creature, for it contains small pieces of furniture. There is a wooden box just over a meter in length at the back of the cave.

If you wish to lift the lid of the box
If you wish to turn round and return to the junction in the tunnel

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:25 pm

Possible halfling vampire detected. Merits further investigation.

Mr Shine · Post by **Mr Shine** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:01 pm

try the box

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:34 pm

As you touch the wooden box, the lid flies up without your having to lift it. From out of the box leaps a tiny green-skinned creature with a large head. He has a long nose and pointed ears and his clothes are made of sacking. You are taken by surprise and the GREMLIN tries to stab you with his dagger. Test your Luck. (2;5=7; Lucky.) You manage to dodge the thrusting blade.

The small Gremlin is agile, being able to runaround you while you have difficulty in moving about on your hands and knees. You back up against a wall and draw your sword.

GREMLIN SKILL 5 STAMINA 3
During each Attack Round you must reduce your Attack Strength by 3 because of your cramped fighting position.

Gremlin 12, Dick 18. Gremlin is at 1.
Gremlin 17, Dick 16. Dick is at 8.
Gremlin 13, Dick 15. Gremlin is dead.

Rummaging through some bedding in a chest of drawers you find an ingot of gold. It is worth 28 Gold Pieces. However it is very heavy and if you wish to take it with you, some other object from your backpack will have to be discarded There is no other exit from the cave and you have to crawl back down the tunnel to the junction.

(Do we want to discard anything for the ingot? Also, do we want to eat Provisions or use our Luck Potion? Technically if we did either or both of those that should count as dropping something, even though it's cheesy as hell. There's a reason Ian Livingstone dropped inventory management after this book; he can't write one to save his life.)

Back at the junction you may either go east or keep going north.

Adventure Sheet
Dick McBigThirdLeg
SKILL 10/12
STAMINA 8/18
LUCK 7/9
Equipment: Sword, Leather Armor
Provisions: 6 Meals (+4 STAMINA each)
Potions: Potion of Fortune (restores LUCK to full+1), Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (cross-posted under Magic Items)
Gold Pieces: 5, Amulet worth 9 GP (possibly 28 GP Gold Ingot)
Items: Map, Small Brass Bell
Magic Items: Nose Filters, Holy Water, Ring of Light, Rope of Climbing, Armband of Strength, Headband of Concentration, Garlic Buds, Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (last two cross-posted under Potions)
Note: one of these items might be dropped in exchange for the gold ingot.

EDIT: adjusted some formatting

Mr Shine · Post by **Mr Shine** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:42 pm

discard a gold piece.

Go north.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:52 am

We can also discard the map. Or leather armour (this depends on whether the book has an event which costs us armour). Or, as a less cheesy alternative, the 9 gp amulet. I vote map.

Eat two meals and drunk the Luck potion. Luck 7 isn't too promising.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:08 pm

(Going north, eating the meals and drinking the Luck Potion; since we gobbled down so much I'm assuming that counts as an item dropped. If anyone thinks we should drop something else, state it with the next vote.)

Ahead you hear high-pitched voices frantically calling to each other. The tunnel ends at a small cave entrance. Suddenly an arrow flies out of the cave towards you. Test your Luck. (1,2=3; Lucky.) The arrow whistles past your head.

You press on down the tunnel into the cave entrance. The roof of the cave is no higher than the tunnel and you are unable to stand up. The cave is very small and filled with tiny bits of furniture and all manner of objects and curios. Standing in the middle of the cave are two green-skinned creatures with small bodies and large heads; they have pointed ears and long noses and their clothes are made from sacks. They appear very alarmed and charge at you with their daggers. You must fight the GREMLINS as you are unable to turn round and escape.

First GREMLIN SKILL 4 STAMINA 3
Second GREMLIN SKILL 3 STAMINA 2

You fight the Gremlins one at a time but must reduce your Attack Strength by 3 for each round of combat because you are fighting on your hands and knees.

Gremlin A 13, Dick 16. Gremlin A is at 1.
Gremlin A 10, Dick 13. Gremlin A is dead.
Gremlin B 5, Dick 19. Gremlin B is dead.

(Finally, a Flawless for Dick!)

There are many hand made clay figures of human hands in different positions covering every available surface area. They are all painted with bright red glaze. In a copper vase you find 3 Gold Pieces, which you put in your backpack. There is nothing else of use or value to you in the cave. You leave by crawling back the way you came to the junction, taking a clay hand with you if you wish. (We're back to no inventory management so I assume we take the hand. And we can't drop that for the ingot.)

(Only direction left for us is to go back east, and then back to the well.)

You reach the end of the tunnel and are about to step out on to the ladder on the wall of the well when you hear footsteps above you. Somebody is coming down the ladder.

If you wish to reach out in an attempt to grab hold of the first leg that comes into view
If you would rather wait for the visitor to enter the tunnel

Adventure Sheet
Dick McBigThirdLeg
SKILL 10/12
STAMINA 16/18
LUCK 9/10
Equipment: Sword, Leather Armor
Provisions: 4 Meals (+4 STAMINA each)
Potions: Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (cross-posted under Magic Items)
Gold Pieces: 8, Amulet worth 9 GP, 28 GP Gold Ingot (45 GP total)
Items: Map, Small Brass Bell, Red Clay Hand
Magic Items: Nose Filters, Holy Water, Ring of Light, Rope of Climbing, Armband of Strength, Headband of Concentration, Garlic Buds, Potion of Stillness, Potion of Healing (last two cross-posted under Potions)

EDIT: fixed typo on number of Gold Pieces.

Mr Shine · Post by **Mr Shine** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:03 pm

See who it is first, stabbing potential allies is never good

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:15 pm

I doubt we traveled back in time, so it's probably a gremlin. Grab that leg.

Mr Shine · Post by **Mr Shine** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:32 pm

OK, grab.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:56 pm

You grab hold of the leg and pull down as hard as you can. A small green-skinned GREMLIN falls past you with a loud wail into the water. You seize your opportunity and climb up the ladder while the Gremlin is floundering in the water. You climb out of the well and return to the path.

Which way are you heading?

Continue east
Continue west

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:56 am

We were going west before descending into the well. Let's continue in that direction.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:32 am

Walking west along the valley floor, you pass a junction in the path, which leads south and back into the hills You decide to keep on walking west.

The valley floor is covered with lush green grass and is very flat. You soon arrive at another junction in the path. You may either continue west or head north again.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:15 am

West. Systematic!

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:06 am

angelfromanotherpin wrote:West. Systematic!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:18 pm

To the left of the path you see a small man with a long grey beard sitting cross-legged on top of a huge mushroom. He is wearing a bright red jacket and cap, and his trousers are black and end at his knees. He is asleep and is snoring loudly. You may either give him a gentle push to wake him up or walk quietly past him to continue your journey west.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:24 pm

Ordinarily, I'd say don't taunt the gnome. But he might know about the quest objects. It's a motive for sticking our nose into most anything, wise or unwise.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:24 pm

Poke him!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:35 pm

The small man wakes up with a start, loses his balance and falls off the mushroom. He curses as he lands on the ground but jumps back on to the mushroom shouting, 'Who did that? Who did that?' He looks at you and frowns. You may either attack the GNOME or attempt to start a conversation with him.

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Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #3: The Forest of Doom

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