By Daniel O'Malley
"The physique you're donning was mine." So starts the letter Myfanwy Thomas is keeping while she awakes in a London park surrounded through our bodies all donning latex gloves. without recollection of who she is, Myfanwy needs to persist with the directions her former self left in the back of to find her identification and music down the brokers who are looking to damage her.
She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a mystery association referred to as the Chequy that battles the various supernatural forces at paintings in Britain. She additionally discovers that she possesses an extraordinary, in all likelihood lethal supernatural skill of her personal.
In her quest to discover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters someone with 4 our bodies, an aristocratic lady who can input her desires, a mystery education facility the place youngsters are remodeled into lethal combatants, and a conspiracy extra immense than she ever can have imagined.
Filled with characters either interesting and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly creative, suspenseful, and infrequently wry mystery that marks an formidable debut from a promising younger author.
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ATTACK 18 Talons (d6 +1,5 points) DEFENCE 10 Armour Factor 2 MAGICAL DEFENCE 11 Movement: 10m(20m) EVASION 4 Health Points 1d6 + 15 Rank-equivalent: 5th VOLUCRETHS resistant to magic. The common abode of Trolls is fenland or marsh, where they supplement a diet of raw toads and muddy eels with the warm flesh of unfortunate travellers. Glimpsed capering madly along a distant ridge, or loping sullenly in lonely places after the sun has set, a Troll could almost be mistaken for a wiry man. At close quarters, however, this resemblance disappears: Trolls have wrinkled grey-white skin, slimy and Volucreths are a fearsome race believed to inhabit a jungle-cloaked land deep in the tropics.
Each Gnome is able to use the Embog spell once a day; this spell has a duration of 1 -6 hours. GNOMES These supernatural woodland entities are apt to react violently against any they consider to be intruding in their domain. A Gnome will usually tolerate a party of Elves passing through its neck of the woods, but is less lenient towards other races. Gnomes are creatures of the countryside. Their bodies are like the gnarled boles of old trees, their eyes glimmer like dewdrops, they have tangled roots for fingers and their mouths resemble a dank hole in a bank of earth.
He needs to roll 6 or less on d20. He fails. His grip loosens and he plummets down into darkness. . Bracing himself for a bone-splintering impact, Balin is surprised and almost relieved when he hits the icy-cold water of an underground well. Can he draw breath before going under? The GM gives this a difficulty factor of 13. Once again, Balin's fast Reflexes serve him in good stead. Even though he has a lungful of air, Balin is sinking like a stone in his heavy armour. The GM tells him he can survive for as many Combat Rounds as he has Strength points, then he'll drown.
