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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9628438" data-attributes="member: 7737">145[We've arrived here either from our trek across Seagate Island's southern coast or from Delmer after we spoke with Wendel.]Our trek into "the rugged highlands of Seagate's interior plateau" takes us "nearly a week". Along the way we encounter wagons of wounded gnolls and "orcish halfbreeds", but Rufyl's telepathic warnings give us ample time to hide off the trail.Dalris comments that fighting must be fierce, and we respond that we knew Thayne's people wouldn't give up easily because "they're much too proud of the High Elvish heritage."Mid-morning of the sixth day, Rufyl once again warns us about trouble ahead. We take cover in the thick forest and peer out to see a "strange drama".A mounted paladin wearing "glimmering plate armor with visored helm" trots along, "unsuspecting". His scarlet surcoat "bears the crossed-logs insignia of Blessed Dyan."[ATTACH=full]401522[/ATTACH]Lying in ambush in the bushes by the trail is a short, gnarled demihuman, dressed in a black leather tunic guarded by overlapping rings of bluish-white metal. The small creature's ugly head is completely bald except for bushy gray eyebrows which contrast vividly with his dark brown skin. The gnarled little fighter's only weapon is a war-dart held poised in his hand.Dalris wants to know what kind of creature it is. We don't know, but we think he must be either brave or stupid to confront an armored paladin with a single war-dart.(184) to intervene in the ambush;(212) to wait and see what happens.---Commentary:Our trek into "the rugged highlands of Seagate's interior plateau" takes us "nearly a week".I'll assume this "nearly a week" includes the time it took to get from the coast to the high desert. Either that or I'll add another tesseract to my map.Thayne's people wouldn't give up easily because "they're much too proud of the High Elvish heritage."They were Wood Elves in the previous book. And yes, those are distinctly different races in AD&D.Lying in ambush in the bushes by the trail is a short, gnarled demihuman…… with a description so lovingly detailed, he MUST be someone important.(184) to intervene in the ambush;(212) to wait and see what happens.I am torn: in book 1 we were taught not to intervene (it gets us <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9545728" target="_blank">killed by a mob when we try to save Wendel</a> and it gets us <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ad-d-gamebook-sceptre-of-power-kingdom-of-sorcery-book-1-of-3.709391/post-9546322" target="_blank">dragged into a swordfight when we try to save a sailor</a> from being press-ganged). But this NPC is clearly relevant to our interests.Oh, heck: the series won't KEEP punishing us for intervening, will it?</blockquote>

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