[Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 36 – Armies of Death

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What was the pendant and where do you find it?

[SGamerz]

What was the pendant and where do you find it?

This is one of the weirder ones. There are 2 pendants in the book, both can potentially be found from the same encounter, but it's only possible to find 1 of the 2. They are also both useless red herring numbered items. They lie on the path where you choose not to travel on the Flying Toucan (which means you lose the game because you will miss the essential shield that is needed to get the Crystal of Light).

The encounter involves a wyvern-riding goblin, and everything that happens during that encounter is resolved purely by random dice roll. The wyvern breathes fire at you, roll dice to determine whether it kills you, injures you or misses you. The goblin shoots arrow at you, roll dice to determine whether he kills you, injures you or misses you. If you roll the highest possible value, your Elven archers shoot back at them. Roll dice to determine whether they hit or miss. Rolling the highest number means they all hit, and the wyvern falls dead on the ground. A successful LUCK test gains to a golden pendant with the number '10' (somehow it's not there if you fail the luck test). Rolling medium range number means your archers miss. Rolling low-range numbers means 1 arrow hits the goblin, and upon another successful LUCK test he falls off the wyvern and dies, and you loot a bone pendant from him with the number '8'. Both are equally useless.

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