A Fighting Fantasy Journey
Book Nine: Caverns of the Snow Witch
Ian Livingston is back for this outing to the frozen north of Allansia and the ice finger mountains. This adventure feels like one as we go from hunting a yeti as our quest to finding out about the snow witch. The dungeon section of the story has some hard characters to fight but the witch is a bit easy if you have the right items. As a vampire we stake her. But she comes back as a spirit in a crystal Ball and we kill her by playing a version of rocks paper scissors. Then the story becomes s road trip with two companions and as usual they die off. I think it was a bit unfair that the dwarf is called Stubb. We head past deathtrap dungeon and firetop mountain linking the world. We end up at stone bridge making this a prequel to forest of Doom. 
We start our journey with the caravan run by Big Jim. The same name as a character in Chaplin’s Gold Rush set in Alaska. Not sure if that’s a coincidence. The book ends with a trip to find the healer after being cursed. I like the journey this book takes you on and makes you feel a part of a larger world. The snow witch mini is nice but an odd choice as we only see her face in the book. I would like to have a mini if the yeti.
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