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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 opponent’s 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.

Battles against more than one opponent:

Sometimes you will have to fight two or more foes at

the same time. To do this you will normally be told to

fight one and hold off another. The procedure then is as

follows: you throw the dice for yourself and the first

opponent as normal, and adjust Strength scores

accordingly. Then you also throw for the creature you

are holding off. If his Fighting Power is greater than

yours in this round of fighting, he has scored additional

damage points to you. If his Fighting Power is the same or

less you have successfully defended against him (though

not wounded him), and sustain no damage.

The battle now continues, with each round of fighting

conducted as above until there is just one creature left.

You then fight him as normal until the battle is over.

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.

ou 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!

Make a careful note of all information learnt, however

trivial it may seem at the time , during your quest. Your

success, or even your survival, may depend on a chance

overheard remark or good powers of observation.

Testing your Fate: Your Initial Fate/Fortune score is

decided at the beginning of your adventure by rolling one

dice and adding 6 to the score. During the course of your

quest, you may lose or gain FATE points-you add or

subtract these to whatever your current Fate/Fortune

score is. When you “Test your Fate”, you throw two

dice: if the score is the same as, or less than your current

Fate/Fortune score, you have been lucky. If the numbers

add up to more than your Fate/Fortune score, you have

been unlucky. In the text, you will be told which section

to turn to in either case.

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.

Rules for Fighting

On the way you will meet people and creatures you may

The drums! The drums! The devilish jungle drums beat-

ing a tattoo of madness deep into your brain! All about

you the hostile jungle night steams with menace, and

ominous forms, dark and sleek, splash close by your

fragile canoe. It seems an age since you and the loyal

remnants of your adventurous crew left your ship, Drag-

onchaser , and set off upriver in the narrow dugout canoe.

The foetid smells of the river stink in your nostrils. No

one volunteers the thought that you should all land and

make camp for the night; the river holds menace, what

menace the banks hold is another thing entirely. The

paddles make soft splashing noises and the river runs

gurgling past the canoe and the damned drums thump

and thunder through the sticky heat of the night. The

smell of mud and rotting vegetation mingles with the

sweat that clings to everyone’s skin. This expedition to

pursue Corelli the Butcher and take back the treasure he

stole from you is proving a nightmare.

As you round a bend jolly Jim, the Bo’sun, points.

“Look, cap’n. We’ve got company.” A cluster of lights

appears on the right batik and as you draw nearer you see

hundreds of torches streaming orange reflections across

the black water.

In the next instant many canoes surround your dugout

and hands grasp the gunwales and long barbarically-

barbed spears threaten you. Your dugout is drawn to the

bank and the massed torches show you a mass of clus-

tered people drawing close. The place is muddy, stinking

and filled with a tense feeling of terror. You are dragged

out in front of your crew before a grandiose two-storeyed

hut where an immensely fat man sits on an ebony throne.

You are web aware that a wrong word or grimace, a

misunderstood gesture, could spell your death. He lifts

an ivory wand and glowers at you and demands to know

what you are doing paddling up his river at night like

thieves.

You put on a stern yet lofty countenance and say you

are not a bunch of thieves. You say you are following

Butcher Corelli to bring back what he stole from you.

This brings an astonishing response. Everyone bursts

into howls of anguish.

“Butcher Corelli!” screams the king. Suddenly his fat

face sags and he slumps back in his throne. A chant like a

dirge begins among the crowd and huge tears roll down

the king’s cheeks. Wailing and sobbing counterpoint the

chanted dirge.

“The Mountains of Forever!” shrieks a bone-thin man

dancing about in a frenzy, monkey tails whirling from his

waist, skulls rattling against his shins. “The Mountains

of Forever are Taboo to us and we may not go there!”

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