How to read/play this Story The rules of the gamebook.

Health points:

Your Health points represent your stamina, your vitality. If they drop to zero during your adventure, it means you are dead.

Skills:

There are four skills that enrich your personality and will be useful during your adventure. These skills are :

Ability: Ability determines your reflexes, manual dexterity, speed, and general physical ability.

Stealth: This skill determines your ability to move silently, to move without being noticed, whether it's to approach an enemy and surprise him, to get past him without being spotted, to lose him or to steal something. It also allows you to find your way back or follow a trail.

Willpower: This is an important skill. It shows your will to live, to reach your goal and to move forward, but also your will to learn or to discover. It is your faith in yourself, your morale and your desire to succeed. It will be useful in many circumstances to overcome an obstacle, to overcome your fears, but also to learn (an art, a foreign language or other...).

Charisma: This last skill determines how others perceive you, how sympathetic you are, how attractive you are, your aura in a way. Charisma will be useful to you to convince an interlocutor or an audience, to speak in public, to seduce, to bargain... It also translates your natural authority. Will you be a poor speaker or a leader of men?

Gold, equipment and provisions:

Gold is hardly used in the lands you will cross, where bartering remains the main basis of exchanges. Your equipment is reduced to the minimum, because as you will soon discover, you start this adventure as a fugitive: a simple short-sleeved tunic tightened at the waist by a belt where your sword is hung. You carry a pouch with your food on one side and a goat skin bottle on the other. Your feet are shod with soft skin boots. The sword you carry causes + 3 extra points of injury in combat.