[projectaon] Fire on the Water - Query
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Date: 08:03:51 on Thursday, June 29, 2006
Subject: Fire on the Water - Query
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Hullo again,
I've just finished Fire on the Water (Lone Wolf book 2) and I have a query
about it.
On two occasions you come across weapons but the text doesn't give you the
usual option to pick them up.
The first opportunity is having slain Parsion, the would-be assassin in the
town of Gorn Cove (Paragraph 220) when you find his black steel Helgedad blade
on his body.
The second is if you rifle through the belongings of the impaled Helghast
(Paragraph 320) and find an evil looking dagger with a black blade.
I think this is probably deliberate on Joe Dever's part: The weapons are
tainted or Lone Wolf is simply too horrified and scared to pick them up. But I
thought i'd check anyway as this book does forceably strip you of your weapons
at an earlier point, and you may not have bought anymore by the time you find
these Helgedad blades.
Perhaps it warrants another of those helpful footnotes that you've included, to
explain whether or not players should be allowed to pick them up?
Regarding your errata about paragraph 299 (Where you have a rather unforgiving
choice about whether to hand over your magic spear to Lord Rhygar or not)... I
didn't actually find it helped any.
I tried that part of the book both with and without the magic spear and the
results were the same every time. You still need to have either the magic
spear, or the animal kinship discipline to have any hope of survival.
I always did think that this book was one of the most unforgiving in the series
as I almost never have animal kinship at this point.
This means my only option is to ignore the advice of the Szalls, act like a
thug and scatter them, then foolishly pull the spear out of the helghast's
body, then selfishly refuse to hand over my spear to Rhygar for his last stand
in order to make it through the book. Harsh!
Thanks for listening, and keep up the good work!
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