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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9617201" data-attributes="member: 7737">76We take the fragment of blessed leather from one of our magical pockets and "rub it on the palm of our left hand" [oh dear] while we recite this phrase in High Elvish:"Mibra dogi, mibra hade;Koton feernar chopis lade."We're surrounded by a soft green dweomer that causes our skin to feel slightly numb, a side effect of the Armor spell.Satisfied that we're ready for the ambush by the "intelligence" that Rufyl sensed, we slog through the dense fog. We can barely see Dalris but catch some light glinting off her sword.Then the fog intensifies and the ground shakes! We freeze and try to see Dalris, but the haze is too thick. We hear a scuffling sound and take a step forward.Rufyl tell us to stay here because there's something "too terrible to fight" up ahead. His telepathic plea "carries such fear and sorrow that [we] panic for Dalris's safety."We forget our magic and rush blindly into the swirling fog, clutching our quarterstaff in one hand while "fumbling" for our poisoned darts with the other hand.Dalris cries out that there's something here and that it looks like -- "Holy Brigit! Help me!"We burst through the fog just as a giant hand "encircles her slender waist" and pins her arms to her sides. It's "lifting her struggling figure into the thick cloud of sulfuric fog!"We can't cast a spell but we "might" hit the creature's arm with(170) one of our darts or(188) our enchanted quarterstaff.---Commentary:…we slog through the dense fog……the fog intensifies……rush blindly into the swirling fog…[The hand is] "lifting [Dalris's] struggling figure into the thick cloud of sulfuric fog!"Previous sections as well as the first three statements here clearly establish that the fog is at ground level, yet we've been able to navigate through it and breathe in it.The last statement makes it seem like Dalris is in extra danger from being lifted into the "sulfuric" fog. Why would the fog well above ground level be more dangerous than the fog at ground level?… clutching our quarterstaff in one hand while "fumbling" for our poisoned darts with the other hand.I should've made a drinking game for every time the word "fumble" (or a variant) is used. We'd be super drunk by now because this is yet another way in which the author portrays OUR Carr Delling as incompetent.</blockquote>

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