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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9565112" data-attributes="member: 7737">Thanks [USER=9849]@Echohawk[/USER] .Look at the last phrase in the Crypt Thing's writeup: "their aim appears to be solely that of obtaining pleasure by creating confusion and dissent."I would like to submit that part of the reason this book is so screwy is because the Crypt Thing has been secretly sowing discord from behind the scenes. It was the Crypt Thing who encouraged Dalris and Thayne to lie to Carr about the location of Landor's spellbooks. It was the Crypt Thing who encouraged various non-Carr students to try their luck with Landor's murder door. It was the Crypt Thing who, when Landor first summoned (?) it, encouraged the archmage to leave the Sceptre of Power in the same tower as his worst enemy (Beldon) rather than place the Sceptre somewhere safer.I'm being tongue-in-cheek, but....Also note that "victims [of the random teleportation] never arrive in solid material". So Rufyl's statement to Carr that this could happen is either misinformed or yet another lie. (And if it's a lie, maybe one suggested by the Crypt Thing!)I also love, love, love the alternate Crypt Thing who paralyzes and invisibles its victims and then, presumably, claims to have disintegrated them. That's the most AD&D thing ever.---By-the-book Crypt Thing cannot teleport people from elsewhere to itself, only the other way around. And it can only teleport people "once per party". I guess that does beg the question: if Carr alone visits it, then Carr+Dalris, then Carr+Dalris+Rufyl, would that count as three separate parties from the Crypt Thing's perspective, allowing it to teleport Carr three different times?---Why did good-aligned Landor choose a Crypt Thing to guard the Sceptre? Well, technically the Crypt Thing isn't undead, it just looks exactly like an undead. Landor had some rules lawyer in him.Maybe Landor suspected that Beldon would eventually be able to reach the vaults and wanted a guardian in place that would bamboozle and befuddle Beldon.Or maybe Landor with his hereditary WIS 3 just chose a random Fiend Folio monster because it looked cool. You can't deny that second illustration is amazing!</blockquote>

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