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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9566662" data-attributes="member: 7737">When we fall to our deaths it is from a height of 50 feet, and we weren't at the top yet, so the tower is pretty damn tall. You'd need a long ladder. I think such marvels of engineering are beyond the capabilities of the mental defectives who populate this book.In a path we didn't take -- if we don't follow the fence -- Beldon has to rescue us from some meenlocks (another Fiend Folio monster! I wonder if Morris Simon was ordered to cross-promote that book?), which he does by casting Magic Missile (1st level) and web (2nd level), with a Fly spell (3rd level) thrown in for gratuitous movement. Then there's the Death Spell (6th level) at the end of the book. A magic-user's level in AD&D can be deduced as [highest spell level he can cast X 2] - 1, so as soon as Beldon shows off Web we know he must be at least 3rd level; Fly makes him at least 5th level; and Death Spell makes him at least 11th level.Dammit! You've guessed the plot twist. At the end of book three, we're going to find out the entire story was something a happily married normal couple named Marla and Landor told their son Carr to amuse him.In this book when Carr is a sub-1st-level novice? Reading scrolls is perfectly safe.In later books when Carr is an experienced magic-user? Well....</blockquote>