Shadow on the Sand (27 page)

1. Add your
   COMBAT SKILL
   to any extra points given to you by your Kai Disciplines.
   
2. Subtract the
   COMBAT SKILL
   of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.
   
3. Pick a number from the
   Random Number Table
   .
   
4. Turn to the
   Combat Results Table
   .
   
5. Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Lone Wolf.)
   
6. Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the
   ENDURANCE
   points of either character falls to 0 or below.
   

1. You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.
   
2. You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only Lone Wolf loses the
   ENDURANCE
   points.
   
3. If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first round of combat or any subsequent round.
   

We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please
contact
the Project Aon Staff.

(
Blurb
) Replaced ‘
SHADOW ON THE SAND
’ with ‘
Shadow on the Sand
’.

(
The Story So Far …
) Replaced ‘mid-winter’ with ‘midwinter’. Replaced ‘king's’ with ‘King's’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘king’ with ‘King’. Replaced ‘Maaken range’ with ‘Maaken Range’.

(
The Game Rules
) Removed ‘ that you will find in the front of this book. For further adventuring you can copy out the chart yourself or get it photocopied’ and ‘ on the last page of this book’. Replaced ‘Combat Skill, Endurance Points’ with ‘
COMBAT SKILL
,
ENDURANCE
points’. Placed ‘or below’ after ‘fall to zero’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘Chart (you’ with ‘Chart. (You’. Replaced ‘Items).’ with ‘Items.)’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘
Action Chart
. (ie, if’ with ‘
Action Chart
(i.e. if’. Replaced ‘of 14.) When’ with ‘of 14). When’. Replaced ‘
ENDURANCE
points.)’ with ‘
ENDURANCE
points).’. Replaced ‘points and Kai Disciplines’ with ‘points, and Kai Disciplines’.

(
Kai Disciplines
) Replaced ‘Kai Discipline section’ with ‘Kai Disciplines section’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘discipline(s)’ with ‘Discipline(s)’. Set the Weapons list in initial capital letters instead of all capitals. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘will be of use’ with ‘may be of use’.

(
Equipment
) Removed ‘ (see the front of this book)’. Capitalized the items in the list rather than setting them in all capitals. Replaced both occurrences of ‘Safe Keeping’ with ‘safekeeping’. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘also they cannot’ with ‘neither can they’. Replaced ‘slung over shoulder’ with ‘slung over the shoulder’. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Rules for Combat
) Removed ‘ on the inside back cover of the book’. Replaced ‘on the page after the
Random Number Table
’ with ‘in the back of this book’. Placed ‘or below’ after ‘reduced to zero’. Replaced ‘reduced’ with ‘possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead.’ with ‘at which point that combatant is declared dead.’.

(
Levels of Kai Training
) Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’. Replaced ‘LONE WOLF’ with ‘Lone Wolf’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series.

(
Kai Wisdom
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘LONE WOLF’ with ‘Lone Wolf’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series.

(
1
) Replaced ‘you must — ’ with ‘you must … ’. Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘minarets and’ with ‘minarets, and’.

(
2
) Replaced ‘fades; and’ with ‘fades, and’. Replaced ‘diseases, or’ with ‘diseases or’. Replaced ‘entered, and’ with ‘entered and’. Replaced ‘Gold Chain and Key’ with ‘Gold Key on a chain’. Replaced ‘the Key’ with ‘the Gold Key’. Replaced ‘the Potion’ with ‘the Oede herb’.

(
3
) Replaced ‘sixty-seven’ with ‘67’. Altered the paragraph breaks to mirror
Section 101
. Replaced ‘dial.’ with ‘dial!’ in harmony with
Section 101
.

(
4
) Replaced ‘Palace Jailer’ with ‘Palace Gaoler’. Replaced ‘If the fight lasts’ with ‘If you win and the fight lasts’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
5
) Replaced ‘half-way’ with ‘halfway’.

(
7
) Replaced ‘bowstring and’ with ‘bowstring, and’. Replaced ‘range and’ with ‘range, and’. Replaced ‘surrounded and’ with ‘surrounded, and’.

(
8
) Replaced ‘efforts and’ with ‘efforts, and’.

(
10
) Replaced ‘wire and’ with ‘wire, and’. Replaced ‘head first’ with ‘head-first’. Replaced ‘Gold Crowns and’ with ‘Gold Crowns, and’. Replaced ‘to your
Action Chart
’ with ‘to your
Action Chart
, but note your lost possessions elsewhere in case you find them again later’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
12
) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
13
) Replaced ‘appalling, and choking’ with ‘appalling; choking’.

(
14
) Replaced ‘urns and all kinds of fruit’ with ‘urns, and all kinds of fruit’. Replaced ‘Weapons and Gold Crowns’ with ‘Weapons, and Gold Crowns’.

(
17
) Replaced ‘subside but’ with ‘subside, but’. Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.

(
18
) Replaced ‘Dahir mountains’ with ‘Dahir Mountains’.

(
19
) Replaced ‘suspiciously, but’ with ‘suspiciously but’.

(
20
) Replaced ‘reins, and’ with ‘reins and’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘turn to 82’ with ‘do not continue the combat but turn immediately to 82’.

(
24
) Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

(
25
) Replaced ‘free but’ with ‘free, but’.

(
27
) Replaced ‘oil’ with ‘Oil’. Replaced ‘Each of the three bottles bear a’ with ‘Each of the three bottles bears a’.

(
29
) Replaced ‘joint and’ with ‘joint, and’. Replaced ‘water, and’ with ‘water and’. Replaced ‘bar and’ with ‘bar, and’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’.

(
30
) Replaced ‘wall, and’ with ‘wall and’. Replaced ‘action, when’ with ‘action when’. Replaced ‘narrow and’ with ‘narrow, and’. Moved the Guardian choice into the first position.

(
31
) Replaced ‘these Items’ with ‘these items’.

(
32
) Replaced ‘prayer and’ with ‘prayer, and’. Replaced ‘end and’ with ‘end, and’. Replaced ‘wrapped in’ with ‘rapt in’.

(
33
) Replaced ‘corroded but’ with ‘corroded, but’.

(
35
) Replaced ‘disgusting and’ with ‘disgusting, and’. Replaced ‘six, silver-handled’ with ‘six silver-handled’. Replaced ‘tunic, and’ with ‘tunic and’. Replaced ‘emeralds and pearls’ with ‘emeralds, and pearls’.

(
37
) Replaced ‘slaves quarters’ with ‘slaves' quarters’.

(
38
) Replaced ‘Half-way’ with ‘Halfway’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
40
) Replaced ‘retch, and’ with ‘retch and’. Replaced ‘tunnel and’ with ‘tunnel, and’.

(
44
) Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’.

(
49
) Replaced ‘climb; and’ with ‘climb, and’. Replaced ‘troops you’ with ‘troops, you’.

(
51
) Replaced ‘pain but’ with ‘pain, but’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’.

(
52
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘Jailer' Keys’ with ‘Gaoler's Keys’.

(
54
) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘traitors and’ with ‘traitors, and’.

(
56
) Replaced ‘shot and’ with ‘shot, and’.

(
57
) Replaced ‘unlocked and’ with ‘unlocked, and’.

(
61
) Replaced ‘open and’ with ‘open, and’.

(
63
) Replaced ‘total, for’ with ‘total for’. Replaced ‘discover the healing’ with ‘discover a healing’.

(
64
) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
66
) Replaced ‘guard, and’ with ‘guard and’.

(
67
) Replaced ‘deep dark’ with ‘deep, dark’. Replaced ‘now extinct’ with ‘now extinct elsewhere’. Replaced ‘shape and’ with ‘shape, and’.

(
68
) Replaced ‘Welcome Northlander’ with ‘Welcome, Northlander’.

(
69
) Replaced ‘crisscrossed’ with ‘criss-crossed’. Replaced ‘free, and’ with ‘free and’. Replaced ‘greedily, and’ with ‘greedily and’. Replaced ‘hospitality?’ with ‘hospitality.’ since the sentence is not constructed as a question. Added ‘(Erase from your
Action Chart
all Weapons, Special Items, Gold Crowns, and your Backpack and all its contents, but note them down elsewhere in case you should find them again later.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
73
) Replaced ‘something and’ with ‘something, and’.

(
74
) Replaced ‘door, and’ with ‘door and’.

(
75
) Replaced ‘Quickly Northlander, I’ with ‘Quickly, Northlander. I’.

(
79
) Moved the Camouflage/Hunting choice into the first position.

(
80
) Replaced ‘ ‘click’ ’ with ‘
click
’.

(
81
) Replaced each occurrence of ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’.

(
82
) Replaced ‘courage but’ with ‘courage, but’.

(
83
) Replaced ‘Vakar mountains’ with ‘Vakar Mountains’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
84
) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
86
) Replaced ‘settling; and’ with ‘settling, and’. Replaced ‘turn round’ with ‘turn around’.

(
87
) Replaced ‘Zakhans, and’ with ‘Zakhans and’.

(
88
) Replaced ‘overturned and’ with ‘overturned, and’. Replaced ‘Kara Kala and’ with ‘Kara Kala, and’. Replaced ‘There is’ with ‘Then there is’.

(
89
) Replaced ‘equipment, and’ with ‘equipment and’.

(
90
) Replaced ‘advice, and’ with ‘advice and’. Replaced ‘water keeping’ with ‘water, keeping’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
91
) Replaced ‘If the fight lasts’ with ‘If you win and the fight lasts’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
93
) Replaced ‘parched and’ with ‘parched, and’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
94
) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
95
) Replaced ‘swim but’ with ‘swim, but’.

(
96
) Replaced ‘rib-cage’ with ‘rib cage’.

(
97
) Replaced ‘booby-trapped but’ with ‘booby-trapped, but’.

(
100
) Replaced ‘semi-darkness and’ with ‘semi-darkness, and’. Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’.

(
101
) Replaced ‘Potion Alether’ with ‘Potion of Alether’. Replaced ‘Bronze Door’ with ‘bronze door’.

(
102
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘Jailer' Keys’ with ‘Gaoler's Keys’.

(
103
) Replaced ‘body, and’ with ‘body and’.

(
104
) Replaced ‘Maouk, ‘but take him alive!’ ’ with ‘Maouk. ‘But take him alive!’ ’.

(
106
) Replaced ‘combat, and’ with ‘combat and’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
107
) Replaced ‘guard's’ with ‘guards'’.

(
109
) Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

(
110
) Replaced ‘strike and’ with ‘strike, and’.

(
111
) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.

(
112
) Moved the Animal Kinship choice into the first position. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
113
) Moved the Healing choice into the first position. Replaced ‘posses’ with ‘possess’.

(
114
) Replaced ‘sensitive and’ with ‘sensitive, and’. Replaced ‘corroded and’ with ‘corroded, and’.

(
116
) Replaced ‘west, then’ with ‘west, and then’.

(
117
) Replaced ‘houses all’ with ‘houses, all’. Replaced ‘first floor’ with ‘first-floor’. Replaced ‘Maouk, ‘or’ with ‘Maouk. ‘Or’.

(
118
) Replaced ‘swell and’ with ‘swell, and’.

(
122
) Replaced ‘Jailer' Keys’ with ‘Gaoler's Keys’.

(
123
) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
124
) Replaced ‘hall and’ with ‘hall, and’. Replaced ‘feet first’ with ‘feet-first’.

(
125
) Replaced ‘slippery and’ with ‘slippery, and’.

(
126
) Moved the Camouflage/Hunting choice into the first position.

(
128
) Moved the Rope choice into the first position. Replaced ‘turn round’ with ‘turn around’.

(
129
) Replaced ‘reenter’ with ‘re-enter’. Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

(
130
) Replaced ‘view and’ with ‘view, and’.

(
131
) Replaced ‘may, or’ with ‘may or’.

(
132
) Replaced ‘corridor, and’ with ‘corridor and’. Replaced ‘distance and’ with ‘distance, and’. Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘
clang
’.

(
133
) Replaced ‘turn round’ with ‘turn around’.

(
135
) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
137
) Replaced ‘strange luxuriant purple’ with ‘strange, luxuriant, purple’. Moved the Tracking/Sixth Sense choice into the first position. Replaced ‘grass, and’ with ‘grass and’.

(
138
) Replaced ‘door and’ with ‘door, and’.

(
139
) Replaced ‘skin, that’ with ‘skin that’.

(
140
) Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’. Replaced ‘hilts and’ with ‘hilts, and’.

(
142
) Replaced ‘strange jelly-like’ with ‘strange, jelly-like’. Replaced ‘sides and’ with ‘sides, and’.

(
143
) Replaced ‘chain-reaction’ with ‘chain reaction’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

(
145
) Replaced ‘away and’ with ‘away, and’. Replaced ‘white or’ with ‘white, or’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘
Baga-darooz
’.