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You are about to enter a strange and fantastic world of

long ago. Weird creatures, mysteries, dangers and

magic abound. As an adventurer of some experience, you are

strong, wise, courageous and agile. You will need all of these

qualities if you are to succeed in your next quest. You may

also need a little luck!

Before you begin the quest take two dice, a pencil and a few

sheets of paper on which to map your progress. As you will

have to fight many battles along the way, you must first

determine your level of dexterity and strength.

Dexterity and Strength

Roll one dice, add six to this number and make a note of it.

This is your Dexterity score and shows your skill in

swordsmanship.

Now roll two dice, add twelve to this number and make a

note of it. This is your Strength score.

These scores will alter as you go along. You may, for

instance, lose strength points in battle. You may restore your

strength by eating a meal. One meal restores five Strength

points. You must remember though, that your Strength and

Dexterity Scores must never exceed their initial value

determined by the throw of the dice at the beginning of each

adventure.

choose or be forced to fight. Each will have its own Dexterity

and Strength scores given in the text.

To resolve a battle:

1. Roll two dice and add this to you opponents Dexterity

Score. This is its Fighting Power.

2. Roll two dice and add this to your Dexterity

Score. This is your Fighting Power.

3. If your Fighting Power is greater, you have scored a

blow and wounded your opponent. Subtract two points from

its Strength Score. If your opponent’s Fighting Power is

greater, it has wounded you. Subtract two points from your

current Strength Score. If both scores are the same, you have

parried each other’s blows. Neither loses points.

The next round of battle proceeds in exactly the same way.

Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 until either your score or your

opponent’s is zero. A zero means death.

Losing and Gaining Points

Sometimes you will be awarded extra points during the

adventure. Add these to your score but remember you can

never exceed the initial value set at the beginning of

the adventure . You may also lose points due to some

difficult activity. Simply deduct these from your current

score.

Replenishing Strength

As you read on you will discover what weapons, additional

equipment, money and rations you may take on your

journey. There will be sufficient food for a set number of

meals. Make a note of each meal you eat, each piece of gold

you spend and each object you find. Use your rations, money

and equipment wisely. You have a long and difficult road

ahead.

Rules for Fighting

On the way you will meet people and creatures you may

The low-beamed room is filled with smoke from the log

fire and the sound of many voices talking and laughing.

Occasionally voices are raised aggressively but soon die

down. People are too tired to quarrel for long for it is late, or

rather it is early. This inn is still open in the early hours of the

morning.

You sit in a darkened corner occasionally taking a drink

from the tankard in front of you, wondering how much

longer you will have to wait. Where is the messenger you

have come to meet?

You look around you. It is a rough and ready sort of place,

but you could hardly expect better in such a small

community on the edge of the wild lands. This is the only inn

in the little village of Dalgolath. You cautiously study your

companions in the inn. Is one of them the messenger? Your

fame as an adventurer has spread far and wide, even as far as

this remote little kingdom of Garrangar. You have received a

summons – no, hardly that – a plea for help, from a member

of the Royal Household of Garrangar and are now waiting

for contact to be made.

A figure in a dark cloak approaches you and stands silently

by the table. You reach for your tankard, making sure that

the signet ring on your finger is clearly visible. It had been

sent with the letter that brought you here.

“Well met friend,” says the cloaked stranger in a muffled

voice. Motioning you to follow, the stranger slips

unobtrusively through a side door. Outside you follow the

swiftly disappearing figure up a small hill behind the inn.

“We shall not be overheard here,” says the messenger.

“How may I be of service to the Royal House?”

For a time there is silence and then the messenger speaks.

“This was once a fair and prosperous kingdom; just laws,

decent inhabitants, a kingdom of contentment. That was

before the Havarines came. They are a crazed people. They

brought the madness with them. The king himself is now

infected with their dreadful affliction. Where once he was

wise, he is now foolish. From a good and just man he has

turned into an unpredictable tyrant. His tyranny is

destroying our country.” The messenger pauses briefly.

“Sometimes he seems sane for a while and pleads for help

which none can give. Then he will have wild raging fits and

terrifying dreams. . . .”

Suddenly the door of the inn below you bursts open

and in the light from the doorway you see a figure stumble

out into the night, howling and screeching and tearing up

earth and stones with his fingers. “Get away! Get away!”

the poor creature screams in a frenzy, fighting off nothing at

all.

“You see how it is with them,” says the messenger,

“There are many in Garrangar like him.”

“Is there no cure?” you ask, horrified.

“There is a wise-man – Zermahaar he is called. He is said

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