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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9581243" data-attributes="member: 42856">Love it!So we don't even get to actually keep the sceptre with us? At least, it would be less obvious if it was kept buried into some anonymous log cabin rather than kept in  a display roll of tanned hollyphant hide inside the druid's sacred chapel.This gives us reason to think that the book was doing an early promoting of the game.I think they should go the way of the Flumph, so... tanning their hide is something of a good thing to do.And what did his adoptive daughter think?As a side note, you didn't mention the most horrific aspect of this creature: it's intelligent. Perth tanned the hide of a good, intelligent creature. So rationalizing that the hide was tanned after its natural death is akin to a necromancer having a spellbook covered in human leather: we wouldn't think more highly of him if he said "but I waited for the person to starve naturally before skinning him".If this had happened, I would have ordered Rufyl to disclose any information relevant to my father, including any and all treasure stashes he might know of or useful information he might had, instead of waiting for it to be randomly popping up in the conversation.Also, WIS 3 Carr can't identify a script and deduce the most basic thing.Actually, we do. The sceptre was interred in the crypt where nobody could touch it for 15+ years. It is possible someone broke in (there are other spellcasters that could have teleported in, or used another way into the crypt, through another sealed exit instead of just 'porting in) and fondled our rod, but then the Crypt Thing can tell. And Rufyl can ask it about that. So we do have an easy way to know how many time the magic was used.Also, the way that drunk ranger died is comedy-gold.I don't buy that the defensive magic is used each time the sceptre is used. It would have been quickly spent whenver LANDOR held his shaft firmly into his hand, which is something we know he was doing all the time. It would be a very bad defensive system.Right now, I am too stunned by his stupidity.I thought Arno was in Saven, convincing the Archcleric of doing something nefarious?No... Honestly no. We were explaining that with shouldn't wiggle our sceptre willy-nilly in public, and someone didn't listen. This is totallary unrelated to Arno.Thanks for an earlier explanation of after-school special! Yeah... "If you drink too much, you might end up with the bulbous end of someone's shaft in your hand and regret it..." This is a fine lesson.There is, however, there is a subtler lesson to be had about "When meeting someone from an ethnic minority, especially a mixed origin one, making fun of his physical characteristics can hurt them, it's plain wrong and don't do this". It happened so much to Thayne that he tried to drown the misery of his existence, being constantly reminded of his ancestry as a mongrel, half Kandian, half ugly, inferior human, in alcohol, with a deadly result. The strange part is that the insult was delivered by a pureblood... human, not elf. WIS 3 Carr has interiorized the racist discourse about elven superiority soo much.The books we're reading are tough for elf-lovers. Either they are soul-less, uncreative creature of a deceptive nature, forced to flee the civilized villages because of their irrational fear of bells, or they are blatantly racist in the way of the worst 19th century writers.Note: Dalris probably also fell for the supremacist elven ploy, since she insists she's an elven princess. While it was OK when she was 6 years old, it's quite worrying at 25, and she still can't explain her beauty except by pertaining to the master race of elves, and not being a ugly human... Sad, so sad. She'll be shocked to discover the truth about her parents.I vote no. We barely knew this guy, and there is absolutely no reason to waste a 1,000 gp diamond on him.Why exactly? He'll be resurrected by her adoptive father (and WIS 3 as we are, we'll be covered the expanse by saying lucre 250 times in a row).I still fail to feel any kind of anguish at this developments, either Thayne's self-blasting or the obvious need of further consolating Dalris by the prospect of demonstrating how deft we are at using our rod.But I guess that the logical result of the demonstration that taking our sceptre out of our pant...ry leads to bad outcome, which is to keep it where it belongs, will lead to a Your Quest Ends Here section, possibly turned into a squirrel by an angry Darlis and then stomped to the death by her for our insensitivity.</blockquote>

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