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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9615699" data-attributes="member: 7737">[Alternate timeline in which we use Enchant an Item from our traveling spellbook.]167We remember the manticore “quill” we gathered and decide that now is our chance to use Enchant an Item on our already poisoned darts. We remove the “stiff spike” from “the top pocket of our jerkin” and open our traveling spellbook to the parchment leaf “containing the spell [we’ve] been studying more than any other for the past month.”We “begin” to translate our father’s Wizard’s Scrawl using our permanent Read Magic. “At the instant each word is read, it vanishes from the magical parchment as if it were a scroll spell.”The sorcerer must have fashioned the intended object from as fine ingredients as are available. His work must continue without interruption for at least forty-eight hours until the….Forty-eight hours! We don’t have forty-eight minutes! We smack ourselves in the forehead as we realize we’ve wasted one of our father’s most precious spells “by destroying its first two lines.”An anguished cry from Dalris rips through our dismay. We hear a scuffle in the fen up ahead and run blindly into the noxious fog. We catch a glimpse of Dalris being lifted into the air by a giant humanoid hand!(170) to attack the hand with our poisoned darts, or(188) to save our darts and instead use our enchanted quarterstaff.</blockquote>