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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9595064" data-attributes="member: 7737">Commentary:…the handsome man introduces himself as Garn of Ristling…What is with these names, Morris Simon?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Marla Delling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Carr Delling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arno</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Garn</li> </ul>That’s enough “arrrrr!” sounds for International Talk Like a Pirate Day.Well, we do know this area has a history of piracy and named the strait of water that separates the mainland from Seagate Island as Pirates’ Alley, so….Garn informs us that "less than two months ago", the archcleric met with "a visitor from Seagate Island…Less than two months ago, you say? I shall note that down for future rant purposes.… introduced the cult of Pazuzu to the Knights of Blessed Dyan.And, yes, everyone knows Pazuzu is a demon.In my recollection of this book, the name Pazuzu was introduced but the characters didn’t know who that referred to — my recollection was of a separation between character knowledge and player knowledge. (Because surely all good AD&D players had scoured the Monster Manual and were familiar with all the named demons!)But nope! Garn tells us that Arno introduced the cult of Pazuzu and in the very next sentence uses the word “demon”.This raises many, many questions about how Arno and Pazuzu pulled this off… but I’ll save those for a later section.We surmise that must mean they have also forfeited their supernatural powers to combat evil. Garn agrees this is a reasonable assumption, "but a false one," because he has seen them use evil magic more powerful than the holy power they used to possess.Huh? This is a weird response. It's like…Carr: They must have given up their anti-evil powers.Garn: Wrong, Carr. They now use evil powers.Carr is not wrong here. The paladins have given up their anti-evil powers. They now have anti-good powers instead. They are anti-paladins.Unless the implication is that the paladins must have given up ALL their powers, period, rather than replaced their anti-evil powers with anti-good powers. That's not how it's phrased in the book, though.(193) to reveal our identity to Garn, or(21) to "try" hiding it.Way to put your finger on the scale, gamebook. We can be honest in front of this paragon of virtue or we can "try" to lie.</blockquote>

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