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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9575862" data-attributes="member: 7737">In the book as written, just the one that the Crypt Thing is holding.Buuuuuttttt… when Dalris describes the sceptre of power [take a shot] she says that according to legend it is one of a number of wands / staves / guisarme-voulges that the Bhukodian sorcerers used. THE sceptre of power [takeashot] is the only one that’s been recovered.Where could the rest of those scepters be? How about in the various sarcophagi that are in the same area as the Crypt Thing. It would be a cool scene if Carr entered a ROOM full of sceptres and had to determine which one is the right one, perhaps with Detect Magic, an INT test, or some kind of confusing conversation with the duplicitous skeletal guardian.Upon re-reading, Dalris’s “rod-shaped package” could be her bard flute. Then the “other” weapon that she has could be a figurative weapon, not a literal weapon. Specifically it could be…her only ornament is a curious neck ring made of gold. Its open ends are capped with identical red stones.Maybe. I’m completely speculating.As long as you don’t mind that you spend the rest of your existence near the “parent” Yellow Musk Creeper, forced to serve and to protect it.Indeed! It’s often a cliché that the villains are clever and competent (aside from, possibly, one monomaniacal flaw); pragmatic to the point of ruthlessness; demanding of excellence from their underlings. And the good guys win not by out-thinking the villains but by out-righteous-ing them and/or humorous dumb luck if it’s an action comedy.As you say — nope. Due to the nature of the CYOA format, the challenges have to be main character focused, unless the book can funnel the main character into position alongside the helper NPC.What’s funny and at this point, not surprising, is that on this path Dalris goes out of her way to state that Carr will need her help to identify the sceptre… and of course there is no payoff for this. There can’t be, because the book has to ensure that only Carr and Rufyl make it to the final confrontation, given that they may have gone directly there before meeting Dalris.</blockquote>

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