By Stephen Hand

Skill: 9

Stamina: 19

Luck: 9

Pretty average scores there then.

In this book I am a bounty hunter tasked with tracking down an evil general who committed atrocities in a recent war.  I don’t do this for financial gain, this is personal! I am given some options of how to conduct my investigation by Guard Marshal Bennet.  Sadly at the end of our conversation, someone has thrown a dagger through the window into his back.  I try and help him but nothing can be done.  I am told the knife is made by a chap called Lugosh though which might be useful later. 

I decide then to see if I can go after the assassin.  I see him from the window so jump out and follow him.  He briefly talks to someone in a carriage so I decide to investigate that instead.  It speeds off so I jump onto the top and fall inside.  I am now unable to get out and it seems I am trapped as it crashes into a river.  Thankfully I have the sleight of hand skill so I can make my escape.

When I reach the river bank, I am greeted by an old beggar.  She asks for gold, which I decide to give to her and she tells me about a pub and gives me a vial of liquid which is apparently the antidote for something.  I leave but hear a scream so I decide to give chase..  I can’t catch up with him but notice that there is a lose manhole cover so this could be how he gets around.  Could be useful information later.

I now decide to head for Craven Asylum.  I decide to put on a disguise so I slay a Troll guard for his uniform (maybe could have just knocked him out?) and am given a choice of rooms to explore.  I decide to go one market “Wipefeet”.  I arrive at a room inhabited by the deputy director.  He insults me..  Thankfully I have my disguise and am able to con him out of some keys.

Next I head to Nosh where I am promptly arrested and chucked in a room.  It is a room that contains a doctor and his mother, which it turns out is actually his mother’s brain in a body that has been patched together with bits of old bodies.  I am attacked by this monster and it is much stronger than me so I die.  And become the new host for the doctor’s mother’s brain.  At least I am doing some good after I die…

I did not get far but this book has potential. It reminded me a bit of Appointment with FEAR with the special skills and the clues.