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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9627404" data-attributes="member: 7737">We pause at (92) long enough to wax poetic about the spirit of collaboration among academ -- no; sorry. I still can't type that with a straight face.This time we came to College Arcane by way of Delmer, so at least we don't die stupidly to a Fire Trap. Instead we comment that we know that "Pazuzu's great power has infested all of Seagate, including College Arcane. If it were just a matter of Arno's evil designs, the other magic-users would have kept him under control. I suspect they did do just that, until old Haslum vanished a year ago."Dalris says that must be when Arno summoned Pazuzu, "if he didn't summon himself." Either way, "the combined talents of every magic-user in College Arcane would not have sufficed to contain the awesome powers of a demon prince."Dalris advises that we "suspect anything and everything" and suggests we avoid the front door. We scale the tower with Spider Climb [*and die on a low roll, but this isn't our real path*], end up inside, pass a rot-grub infested corpse, go to the scrollery, read about the Crown of Aerdie and learn that Estla has it, and then die because we can't get out of the tower.---Commentary:"Pazuzu's great power has infested all of Seagate, including College Arcane."Has it, though? College Arcane is sealed with one Fire Trap and one Wizard Lock. No matter who cast those spells, I wouldn't say the college is "infested". Unless this means "infested with rats and rot grubs"."I suspect they did do just that…"Ouch. That is one seriously tortured phrase. How about: "They did exactly that." This avoids both tedious uncertainty and the awkward doubled verb."... until old Haslum vanished a year ago."When he read a scroll of Gate and chose to bring in a demon rather than something nice.---If we do NOT heed Wendel's warning about the dangers of College Arcane, we're dead no matter what. The only thing that remains to determine is whether we die by muffing our Spider Climb spell or die from thirst and starvation inside the tower.If we DO heed Wendel's warning, then we get back on the One Truth Path towards Thayne's people.However… we should untangle our fingers from the book and go all the way back to the boat to follow the path where we asked Shanif the One True Question and learned about the royal hats.</blockquote>

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