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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9573142" data-attributes="member: 7737">Commentary:OK, WTF?! Is this section supposed to mean that because Rufyl is technically still Landor's servant -- excuse me, "magical assistant" -- we are unable to summon the pseudodragon? That makes no sense at all.Apparently in this gamebook Find Familiar is locked on to a specific entity, rather than by-the-book Find Familiar that summons whatever random creature is within range at the time you cast the spell.Let's accept that Find Familiar somehow knows the specific entity that each wizard should summon. As Thayne would put it, Find Familiar works by what we call 'magic'. Then why would Carr's entity be Rufyl, who already belongs to someone else? Put another way: If Rufyl has to serve Landor forever -- excuse me, "magically assist" Landor forever --, even after Landor's demise, then why would Rufyl even be a valid target for Carr's Find Familiar?Rufyl doesn't get turned over to Carr until Carr reads Landor's scroll in the tower. Which Carr has not done at this point. Therefore Rufyl does not belong to Carr, which means Carr's Find Familiar spell shouldn't care about Rufyl and shouldn't even be able to pick Rufyl as its target.Or, Rufyl does already belong to Carr, in which case the spell should work to summon Rufyl.The book can't have it both ways: either Carr's Find Familiar is locked on to Rufyl in which case Landor's scroll that turns Rufyl over to Carr is pointless and Carr's spell should have worked; or Carr's Find Familiar cannot lock on to Rufyl because Rufyl still belongs to Landor, in which case Carr's Find Familiar spell should have functioned normally and summoned something random like a toad.Leaving the logical contradictions aside, who blocked the spell from functioning? <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Beldon: How? In this path he doesn't even know that Carr exists. Plus Beldon should have no sway over Rufyl.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Crypt Thing: Why would the Crypt Thing block the spell? The Crypt Thing is bored and desperately hopes Rufyl brings someone by for entertainment, so it should have no reason to block Rufyl's summoning by Carr.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Landor: Why would Landor want to prevent Carr from summoning Rufyl when Landor intends to turn Rufyl over to Carr anyway?</li> </ul>Rufyl is the key to the endgame. It is only Rufyl who can convince the Crypt Thing to teleport Carr into the vaults. It shouldn't matter WHERE nor WHEN Carr summons Rufyl: in Landor's study, in the privacy of his quarters at the College Arcane, or here in the mountains of Seagate Island at Thayne's village. In fact, it should be in Landor's interest for Carr to summon Rufyl as soon as possible!Unless… maybe Landor is still bitter at Thayne because of the warning about Beldon, which Landor ignored, but now Landor blames Thayne anyway because Thayne should have warned Landor harder. Therefore Landor is not going to let Thayne be anywhere nearby when Carr summons Rufyl. No, Landor would rather prevent his own son from gaining key information and aid from the pseudodragon, just to spite his ex-friend Thayne.</blockquote>

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