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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9585455" data-attributes="member: 7737">OUR Carr Delling says "We'll just have to choose one [place to land] and hope we're lucky." But we can do better than that.We know that ultimately we want to investigate the College Arcane at Freeton. However, we also know that our only possible ally there, Haslum, got his dumb-ass killed by a demon he summoned. Quantum-uncertainty-Arno either is or is not still at the College Arcane and may or may not have summoned his own bad evil thing.That's two possible evil summoned things, plus both Arno and not-Arno at the College Arcane. So to go directly to Freeton seems risky.Based on book 1 and OUR Carr Delling, we did not learn magic from Thayne nor spend time with his people in the highlands. OUR Carr Delling never met Thayne's <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9572059" target="_blank">aunt Estla</a>, the blind and therefor virtuous aura-reading elf who definitely does not remember anything about the events of 200 years ago nor has any living relatives old enough to tell us first-hand information from the fall of Bhukod 500 years ago, even though that was early middle-age for them.Therefore to show up in Thayne's village and drop the info that he is dead seems unlikely to endear us to the elves.That leaves Delmer. Which has the potential for <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9545095" target="_blank">a run-in with Ulrik</a> at which time we can show off our magical mojo. And once we are finished with our petty display of power, we can talk to <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9545721" target="_blank">Wendel the shaman</a>, our only friend from those sheep-herding and stale-bread-eating days, who provided funeral rites to our mother Marla and also seemed to know more about the Archcleric Oram situation than he let on in book 1. Given Oram's renewed relevance to the story, we should hear what Wendel can tell us.We also know there is a path from Delmer to Freeton because <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9546319" target="_blank">OUR Carr Delling took that path in book 1</a>. Presumably, that path will be less well guarded than the seaward approach to Freeton's docks. So after we show off to Ulrik and talk to Wendel, we can leave Delmer and go to Freeton to figure out what's up at the College Arcane.</blockquote>

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