Add 4 SKILL points

A friend came round for dinner last night, and we reminisced about the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks which had sunk up many hours of our childhoods, and which are sitting on the bookshelf by the kitchen table (where most of my children's books are currently stacked). The Warlock of Firetop Mountain? Deathtrap Dungeon? You remember. We ended up going through The Shamutanti Hills, which is the first one of Steve Jackson's Sorcery series. Ee, we made our own fun!

I played with these books constantly as a kid. I didn't so much play the games - which I didn't find all that much fun, too much tedious dice-throwing and whatnot - and instead spent long hours drawing illustrated maps. Does that count as fanfic?

I also read the start of Pestilence, by Edward Jarvis, which the_wild_iris has promised me is one of the worst books ever written (the other being Maggots by Edward Jarvis 'author of Pestilence' - yes, it says that on the cover). Judging from just the opening two pages, Mr Jarvis has a very strong claim. Deduct 3 STAMINA points.

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