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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9581397" data-attributes="member: 7737">Well, that's the choice. Do we take the sceptre with us, or do we leave it behind in (what the gamebook strongly implies to be) safety?I would not put it past Larian Studios to have traveled back in time to 1986 to start promoting a game they would release 37 years later.Fun fact: it is only in relatively recent times that books bounds in human skin became considered icky and gross. There is much debate over how widespread the practice ever was, but apparently "book bound in human skin" was at one point considered no more remarkable than when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham#Death_and_the_auto-icon" target="_blank">Jeremy Bentham wanted his body and head preserved after his death, for public display</a>. (And man, do I someday want to go see it, because WTF!)The podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff have a fun segment in <a href="https://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/episode-570-perhaps-im-wrung-out/" target="_blank">episode 570</a> where they talk about anthropodermic bibliopegy, which is a super fun phrase to write and to say.Yes, this is what any normal, sane person would do in any circumstance. But somehow it has become a trope within almost all fiction that supposedly allied characters will keep critical information secret until the last moment "because you never asked."To me it has always been comedy tinged with horror. The image of Thayne grabbing the sceptre, a burst of light, and then he's dead with sightless eyes staring upward and his fingers on the table still close to the object of his demise -- that has haunted me for DECADES.guffawchortleAnd thus the perfect defensive system to have been devised by the WIS 3 Delling family.When we get to the point in this gamebook at which we have to decide where to go, I'll do a close reading of what we know about Arno's whereabouts and location. You will not be surprised to learn it is both opaque and maddeningly illogical.snorts milk out noseOr was it? Stay tuned for an upcoming scene that will call our ancestry into question yet again.Over the years I have become an elf hater, particularly the twinky AD&D 1st- and 2nd-edition Elf Master Race elves. At this point, the more elves are being cast down and belittled, the happier I am.I'm a dwarf guy through and through. Dwarves are stoic, hard working, noble, industrious, clever, and honorable.belly laugh</blockquote>

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