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  STICKER BOOK 
  Written by  
  Allen Sharp 
  Illustrated by  
  John Storey 
  Copyright © 1985 Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 
  This edition published exclusively 
  for Marks and Spencer p.l.c.  
  by Purnell Books  
  a Division of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 
   Greater London House  
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  NW1 7QX 
  ISBN 0 361 06851 4  
  Published 1985  
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  1 
  Welcome to the Magic World  
  of Dungeons and Dragons. I  
  am your Dungeon Master. 
  I have just welcomed six young 
  friends who often visit this place. 
  Their names are Sheila and Diana, 
  Bobby, Presto, Hank and Eric. 
  I have had to tell them that they 
  come at a worrying time. Kelek, who 
  is an evil sorcerer, has stolen THE 
  FORCE! THE FORCE is a strange 
  power held within a star-shaped 
  crystal. It is the magic which makes 
  this world possible by separating it 
  from the other world which you  
  know outside. Without it, the two 
  worlds would come together. I dare 
  not think what terrible things might 
  happen if the creatures of this world 
  were to be released into your world. 
  Already, the power of THE FORCE 
  is weakening. I have asked my young 
  friends to help find the crystal. 
  Their task will not be an easy one. 
  Kelek is both evil and cunning. I 
  believe that he has broken the crystal 
  into several pieces and hidden them. 
  More than that, he has used his  
  magic to change the appearance of  
  the pieces so that they may look like 
  something quite different. Only by 
  finding all the pieces and putting  
  them back together can THE FORCE 
  be restored. 
  You are strangers to this place and  
  I would not ask that you also perform 
  this dangerous task—but I do ask  
  that you help my friends. 
  I can give you only the help I have 
  given them—a map (which you will 
  find in the centre of the book), and 
  one clue. Kelek can change the shape 
  of the pieces of the crystal, but he 
  cannot hide the magic which shines 
  from each of them. 
  Hurry, and you will catch up with 
  the others. You will see when and  
  how you can help them as you begin 
  your own adventure. I can only wish 
  you good fortune. 
  Now begin reading on the page 
  opposite. 
  
   
  2 
  The six children were only a little 
  way ahead and had stopped to look at 
  the map and decide which way to go. 
  A small bleat from Uni made them 
  look up. A short distance off, and 
  standing on some rocks above them, 
  was a figure they recognised. 
  „It‟s Zarak!‟ said Bobby, „the leader 
  of the Orcs. It can‟t be our money he 
  wants. We have none!‟ 
  The Orc had heard him. 
  „Not your money, young barbarian,‟ 
  Zarak sneered, „but something which 
  will make me rich, just the same! I 
  heard what the Dungeon Master told 
  you. He would give a handsome 
  reward for the return of the magic 
  crystal.‟ 
  „Well, if we find it,‟ shouted Hank, 
  defiantly, „we won‟t be giving it to 
  you—or asking a reward!‟ 
  „It is I who intend to find the 
  crystal,‟ the Orc replied, „with the 
  help of one of you. They say, “set a 
  thief to catch a thief”. You have a 
  thief among you—the girl, Sheila.‟ 
  Eric drew himself up to his full 
  height. He was afraid of the Orc, but 
  was determined not to show it. 
  „Then, if you want her,‟ he said, 
  „you‟ll have to deal with us first!‟ 
  The Orc laughed loud and long. 
  „You think I can‟t?‟ he scoffed, 
  raising one hand as he said it. There 
  was a flash of light and Sheila was 
  gone! A second later the others saw 
  her standing next to the Orc! 
  Bobby began to run forward, 
  brandishing his club. Hank drew his 
  bow—but dared not fire for fear of 
  hitting Sheila. Presto took off his 
  magician‟s cap and tried hard to  
  think of a spell which might save the 
  situation. Eric had not moved. Diana 
  grabbed his arm. 
  „Come on!‟ she cried. „We have to 
  help . . .‟ 
  She didn‟t finish. Suddenly, Bobby, 
  Hank and Presto had all vanished.  
  Diana hesitated. As she did so, a  
  great crack opened up in the ground,  
  too wide even for Diana to leap  
  across. She looked towards the Orc  
  and Sheila, expecting still to see them  
  on the other side. They were gone! 
  Diana was angry. She turned on  
  Eric. 
  „If you had done something . . .‟ 
  „We should probably both have 
  vanished like the others!‟ Eric said.  
  „At least we are still here to search  
  for them!‟ 
  „Search where?‟ asked Diana. 
  „Where else,‟ Eric replied, „but in  
  the Valley of the Orcs? If I remember 
  rightly, it‟s that way.‟ 
  Turn to page 3. 
  
   
  3 
  The path towards the Valley of the 
  Orcs was narrow and led between the 
  high rocks where they had first seen 
  Zarak. It got narrower and narrower 
  and there was nothing to see but the 
  rock walls on either side of them. 
  Diana was hoping that Eric was 
  taking them in the right direction. At 
  every few steps, she found herself 
  glancing nervously upward in case 
  some creature might be lurking above. 
  Eric secretly shared the same  
  doubts as Diana, but he said nothing. 
  Then, to his great relief, he saw 
  something lying on the path in front  
  of them. It was an Orc dagger. 
  „You see!‟ he said. „We are on the 
  right path. Zarak must have come this 
  way—and dropped his dagger.‟ 
  Diana moved forward to pick it up. 
  Eric was about to warn her that it 
  might be poisoned, when Uni, who 
  had been following them, ran up to  
  the dagger and began to nose it 
  towards a dark corner among the  
  loose rocks. 
   
  Eric and Diana could only stare. 
  The dagger was glowing in the dark! 
  „I don‟t believe it is the Orc‟s 
  dagger!‟ Diana cried. „Remember 
  what the Dungeon Master told us 
  about not being able to hide the  
  magic which shines from the broken 
  crystal—no matter how Kelek has 
  disguised it! We‟ve found the first 
  piece of the crystal which contains
  the power of THE FORCE! Quickly, 
  Eric! Pick it up and hide it under  
  your cloak!‟ 
  You too have found the first piece of 
  the Magic Crystal. Look for the 
  dagger on the sticker pages. Pull it 
  off and stick it anywhere on the 
  coloured map. You will need to 
  move it again—if you can find all 
  the pieces. Now read on. 
  Eric and Diana were delighted at 
  having had their first success so 
  quickly. They hurried on—but not  
  for long! 
  The path took a sudden bend ahead 
  of them. Lying right across the path 
  was a long tail and the back half of a 
  body—the body of a dragon! But was 
  it a friendly dragon? Eric wanted to 
  wait until it had moved on. Diana 
  wanted to get around it by climbing 
  the rocks, but she knew Eric was not a 
  good rock climber! 
  You now decide what they choose to 
  do. In brackets after each choice is 
  the number of the page to turn to, 
  and where to start reading on that 
  page. Now make your first choice. 
  Should Diana wait with Eric (7, at 
  the Crossed Swords), or should Eric 
  take Diana’s advice (5, at the Skull)? 
  
   
  4 
  Eric whispered something in  
  Uni‟s ear and held him up in  
  the direction of the dragonne,  
  still on the opposite cliffs. Uni  
  began to bleat as loudly as he could. 
  The dragonne had not forgotten the 
  meal it had so recently lost. It ran on  
  its hind legs to the edge of the cliff,  
  and stretched its huge head towards  
  the bleating unicorn—but could not 
  reach it. 
  Eric had succeeded in distracting  
  the creature‟s attention away from 
  Diana. But he had no idea what he 
  should do next! 
  Diana decided his dilemma for  
  him. She suddenly jumped on the 
  creature‟s tail, ran up its back and 
  stopped on the very top of its head. 
  Before the dragonne knew what was 
  happening, Diana had taken her staff 
  and launched herself into space. With 
  the extra height for her take off and  
  the shorter distance to travel, Diana 
  landed lightly within no more than a 
  foot of the astonished Eric.  
  Orcs appeared on the edge of the 
  cliff, just behind the dragonne—who 
  raged at the loss of another meal. 
  Was now the time for Eric and Diana 
  to leave while the Orcs could not 
  easily follow them (8, at the 
  Spearhead), or should they wait to 
  see how the Orcs fared with a hungry 
  and now angry dragonne (9, at the 
  Crossed Swords)? 
   
  Eric was half hoping that, on  
  seeing what they took to be a  
  dragon across the path, the Orcs  
  might turn back. It seemed  
  more likely that they would go round  
  it by climbing the cliff. 
  Eric and Diana scaled the crag on  
  the other side of the path and waited 
  among the rocks. 
  As Eric had feared, it was not long 
  before the Orcs appeared on the cliff 
  opposite. He saw them cross to its  
  edge and look down on the still 
  sleeping dragonne. One of the Orcs 
  dislodged a small stone from the edge 
  of the gorge. As it rolled down,  
  others began to roll with it—until it 
  was a shower of stones that fell on  
  the head of the sleeping dragonne.  
  The beast let out one mighty roar! 
  Eric had heard stories of the roar  
  of a dragonne, but never thought to 
  experience it. He and Diana clapped 
  their hands to their ears after Eric  
  had covered Uni‟s head with his 
  cloak—but already the ground was 
  shaking like an earthquake. They 
  watched the edge of the cliff collapse 
  where the Orcs were standing. Then  
  the part of the cliff on which they  
  were hiding also began to crumble! 
  Turn to page 10, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  5 
  But there was nothing for it.  
  With Diana helping him all that  
  she could, Eric began slowly to  
  climb. Leaping from rock to  
  rock Uni scaled the crag with the  
  ease and grace of a mountain goat.  
  As they reached the top of the cliff, 
  they were still too busy watching the 
  Orcs approaching below them to 
  notice what else had been happening. 
  The dragon had also been climbing—
  and was waiting for them on the cliff 
  top. Furthermore, it was not a  
  dragon, but a more feared dragon-like 
  creature, called a dragonne! 
  Diana screamed as the creature 
  lunged forward towards Eric. Eric 
  closed his eyes, fearing his end had 
  come, but all he heard was a roar of 
  foul breath and a terrified bleat. Eric 
  opened his eyes. The creature had 
  poor Uni grasped between its jaws! 
  Eric forgot his fears. He must save 
  Uni! He sprang up, clutching the 
  dragonne by its short, wirey beard.  
  He felt his legs lifted clear of the 
  ground. He loosed one hand and  
  drew out his sword, striking at its 
  scaly neck. The creature swung its 
  head, trying to throw Eric off. 
  Eric‟s sword must have done its 
  work! Suddenly, the dragonne opened 
  its jaws. Eric found himself sailing 
  through the air. He landed with a 
  bump on the cliffs opposite—and  
  with Uni clutched in his arms. But 
  where was Diana? Alone on the 
  opposite cliff with the dragonne! 
  Was there any way that Eric could 
  help her (4, at the Spearhead), or 
  was it all up to Diana? Was her 
  acrobatic skill enough to make the 
  huge leap to the opposite cliff where 
  Eric now waited (8, at the Skull)? 
   
  The dragon didn‟t move. Diana  
  was suggesting that it might be  
  asleep, when Eric beckoned to  
  her to be quiet. They could hear  
  voices echoing along the path behind 
  them. It could be Zarak and the Orcs.  
  The dragon might not be asleep. Eric 
  decided he had to attempt the rocks! 
  With Diana‟s help, the climb was 
  easier than Eric had expected— 
  though, by the time he‟d reached the  
  top he had to stop to catch his  
  breath. Diana went on to where she  
  might see the rest of the dragon. 
  As Eric waited, he saw the first of 
  the Orcs appear, some way off, below 
  him. Diana came back to say the  
  dragon was asleep—except it wasn‟t  
  a dragon! It was a dragon-like  
  creature called a dragonne. Eric had  
  met a dragonne once before. He liked 
  them as little as dragons! 
  But what should they do? Should they 
  go on, knowing that the Orcs might 
  still follow (8, at the Spearhead), or 
  should they wait to see what the Orcs 
  do before deciding (4, at the Unicorn’s 
  Head)? 
   
   
  
   
  6 
  Congratulations! The crystal has been 
  restored and the power of THE 
  FORCE again protects the world of 
  Dungeons and Dragons. Your friends 
  have already left for the world 
  outside—greatly pleased by their 
  success. 
  They do not know that the success 
  was rightly yours—because you made 
  most of their decisions for them. 
  I don‟t think we should spoil their 
  pleasure. 
  We will keep it as our secret—and 
  tell no-one else how it was done. 
  To return to your own world YOU 
  have only to close this book. Farewell 
  from your Dungeon Master—and 
  thank you. 
   
   
  The Orcs had certainly seen  
  them and were moving faster.  
  Eric wished that he had more  
  time to think how best to get  
  around the dragon. Should they try 
  creeping up on it—or make a dash  
  for it. Suddenly it was decided for 
  them. Uni galloped ahead, stopped  
  for a moment at the dragon; then ran 
  out of sight around the corner. Eric 
  and Diana waited, breathlessly. Then, 
  Uni reappeared, obviously unharmed 
  and wagging his tail. The dragon was 
  either friendly—or asleep. Eric and 
  Diana moved towards the dragon, 
  hurrying, but trying not to make too 
  much noise. 
  The dragon was not a dragon, but a 
  dragonne—a dragon-like creature, but 
  just as dangerous. It was asleep! The 
  Orcs would not have the advantage of 
  a unicorn to do their scouting for 
  them. They could be some time in 
  following. 
  Should Eric and Diana take their 
  chance to escape (8, at the 
  Spearhead), or should they wait to 
  see if the Orcs follow (9, at the 
  Magician’s Hat)? 
   
  
   
  7 
  They decided it was too risky  
  for Eric to attempt the climb.  
  And so, they waited. They  
  seemed to wait for a long time,  
  but the dragon showed no sign of 
  moving. Eric was beginning to  
  wonder if he would have to try the 
  rocks after all, when they heard 
  footsteps running down the path from 
  the direction they had just come. 
  Three Orcs appeared from around a 
  bend in the path. It sounded as if  
  there might be more behind them. 
  Zarak was not among them but, from 
  the way they held their drawn poison 
  daggers, Eric and Diana knew that 
  they meant business! 
  There were too many to fight.  
  There were still the rocks, but Diana 
  doubted whether Eric could climb 
  them in time. They might get past the 
  dragon—but only if it was, indeed, 
  friendly! The decision was Eric‟s! 
  Should Eric still try to climb the 
  rocks with Diana (5, at the Crossed 
  Swords), or was it too late? Must 
  they try to sneak past the dragon (6, 
  at the Skull)? 
   
   
  Turn to page 9. Read on at the  
  Skull. 
   
  
   
  8 
  Eric and Diana started to run,  
  with Uni following close behind.  
  The Orcs were no longer in  
  sight—but nor were any of the  
  landmarks which Eric or Diana 
  recognised—except one—the Fire 
  Mountain. 
  Then Eric spotted a dark shape,  
  moving across the sky towards them.  
  It was Venger mounted on the  
  terrible horse Nightmare. Was he  
  looking for them, or was Kelek using  
  him to guard the pieces of crystal  
  which he had hidden? 
  There were only two ways of  
  keeping from his sight—they could  
  hide in the caves beneath the Fire 
  Mountain—home of the Hook 
  Horrors (11, at the Crossed Swords),  
  or flee towards the Bottomless Bog 
  through the trees by the Black Lake  
  (10, at the Unicorn’s Head). 
   
  Eric could see that Diana was  
  not going to attempt the near 
  impossible leap to the opposite  
  cliff. 
  Helpless, he stood there. The 
  dragonne moved towards her. Orcs 
  appeared behind her over the edge of 
  the cliff where they had climbed, 
  moments before. 
  Then Diana began to move—not 
  away from the dragonne—but  
  towards it! The huge beast was slow, 
  while Diana moved like lightning. 
  Before the dragonne could turn,  
  Diana was behind it and had given its 
  tail an almighty whack with her staff. 
  The dragonne turned, Diana leapt 
  easily over the whipping tail—but not 
  the Orcs! Caught, totally unawares, 
  three were swept off the edge of the 
  cliff by the great tail! 
  More Orcs had appeared. Seeing 
  what had happened to their 
  companions, they ran along the cliff 
  edge to face the dragonne. 
  Diana at once repeated her trick. 
  Three more Orcs were swept off the 
  edge. The dragonne was now truly 
  angry. It let out a great roar! 
  Eric had heard tales of the roar of a 
  dragonne. He had never thought to  
  see the effect. He clapped his hands  
  to his ears. Diana also had her ears 
  covered—but it would take more  
  than that to save her. The very earth 
  was trembling! 
  Eric watched the opposite cliff  
  begin to crack apart. Suddenly, Diana 
  and the dragonne were hurled down 
  into the valley on the tumbling rocks! 
  Cracks appeared in the rocks by 
  Eric‟s feet. The roaring became  
  louder. Eric felt the cliff sliding away 
  beneath him! 
  Turn to page 10, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  9 
  The Orcs knew that they were  
  trapped. The dragonne could  
  reach them before they had any  
  chance of escaping down the  
  cliff they had climbed. 
  Little good can be said of the Orcs, 
  evil, ruthless assassins that they  
  are—but they do have a skill and 
  courage which is difficult not to 
  admire. As the dragonne began to 
  advance, they stood their ground. 
  As each saw his opportunity, they 
  began to dart forward, striking at the 
  dragonne with their poisoned  
  daggers, then leaping aside as the 
  creature fought back. 
  In a few moments, several of the 
  Orcs lay dead, or dying. The rest 
  fought on, though they must have
  known that their dagger blows could 
  do no more than prick the dragonne‟s 
  tough, scaly skin. 
  They were doing no more than 
  making the creature more and more 
  angry—an anger which suddenly  
  burst forth in a terrifying roar! 
  Eric and Diana covered their ears. 
  Uni bleated in terror. 
  The earth had begun to shake.  
  Great cracks appeared in the rocks. 
  The cliff broke away, carrying Orcs 
  and dragonne down with it. Now the 
  place where Eric and Diana were 
  hidden had begun to slide, as the 
  ground opened beneath their feet! 
  Turn to page 10, at the Spearhead. 
   
  Eric and Diana climbed the  
  cliffs to a spot where they  
  would see the Orcs—whether  
  they sneaked around the  
  sleeping dragonne, or used the cliffs  
  to climb around it. 
  Eric was expecting them to use the 
  cliffs, or turn back, when he saw  
  Diana pointing directly below them. 
  There were the Orcs—and Zarak was 
  amongst them. They had not counted 
  on Zarak‟s magical powers! 
  Already they were past the sleeping 
  dragonne. Zarak had simply deepened 
  the dragonne‟s sleep until they were 
  safely beyond it. Now they were 
  moving off again along the path to  
  the Orc Valley. It might be too easy  
  to meet them again! Eric and Diana 
  must choose a longer way to reach  
  the valley. 
  Should they go by way of the Fire 
  Mountain (13, at the Crossed 
  Swords), or the Black Lake (10, at 
  the Unicorn’s Head)? 
   
  The power of THE FORCE is  
  gone! The creatures from the  
  world of Dungeons and Dragons  
  have escaped into your world! 
  But perhaps all is not yet lost. As 
  Dungeon Master I still have some  
  magic left to me. I can put back time  
  to where this has not yet happened 
  —time enough for you to try again  
  from the beginning! 
   
   
   
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  10 
  What happened in the next few 
  seconds, neither Eric nor Diana  
  could recall clearly—except that  
  they were sliding downward  
  amidst tumbling rocks and a cloud of 
  choking dust. 
  Eric, little more than bruised and 
  still coughing from the dust, was the 
  first to get to his feet and call Diana‟s 
  name. There was an immediate  
  answer. Through the clouds of still 
  settling dust, Diana appeared. It 
  seemed she was not badly hurt. 
  Apart from the settling of the loose 
  rocks, there was no sound. It looked  
  as if the Orcs and the dragonne had 
  been completely buried by the 
  landslide. But where was Uni? 
  The dust had almost settled. Eric 
  turned, giving a sudden gasp as he  
  did so. A unicorn‟s head was sticking 
  out from among the rocks. Its eyes 
  were closed and there was no sign of 
  movement. 
  Before Eric could speak there was a
   
  loud bleat behind them! They swung 
  around. There was Uni, very much  
  alive. Eric turned back . . . 
  „Look closely!‟ he cried. „It‟s just a 
  model of a unicorn‟s head.‟ They both 
  realised in the same moment that it 
  could only be the second part of the 
  magic crystal! 
  (Find the Unicorn’s Head sticker 
  and add it to your map.) 
  They also realised that some of the 
  Orcs— or even the dragonne—could 
  still be alive. Eric and Diana had to 
  move on. The path might no longer  
  be safe. There were two ways— 
  Should they go by the Fire Mountain 
  (13, at the Crossed Swords), or by the 
  Black Lake (12, at the Skull)? 
  The tall dark pines came right  
  down to the edge of the waters  
  of the Black Lake. They were  
  spaced well enough to make  
  walking easy, but still give good  
  cover from anything watching from  
  the skies. 
  They were hurrying on, when  
  Diana realised that Uni was not with 
  them. They turned around. Uni  
  seemed to be admiring his reflection  
  in the lake. Diana called him, but he 
  didn‟t come. Eric went back and  
  pulled him away. Uni moved—but  
  the „reflection‟ didn‟t! Eric bent down 
  and put his hands into the water. Out 
  of it, he pulled a carving of a  
  unicorn‟s head! 
  They had found the second piece of 
  the crystal! (Find the Unicorn’s Head 
  sticker and add it to your map.) 
  Diana was looking up through the 
  trees at a dark shape in the sky. They 
  were being followed by the scheming 
  Venger, riding the fearsome flying 
  Nightmare. 
  „We have one chance!‟ Eric shouted. 
  „Beyond the lake is the Bottomless 
  Bog. It gives us no cover, but the 
  flying horse is too heavy to land upon 
  it. If we can cross the bog to the lair  
  of the good Bronze Dragon, we are 
  safe! Stay here and we will surely be 
  destroyed!‟ 
  Turn to page 14, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  11 
  Just a little way ahead was the  
  opening to one of the caves in  
  the mountain. The opening was  
  narrow and Eric saw that even  
  if Venger wished to follow them, the great 
  horse could never get past the narrow 
  entrance. 
  Little light could enter the cave but, 
  once inside, even in their gloomy 
  surroundings, Eric and Diana felt 
  safe—at least for the moment. 
  Uni trotted further into the cave to 
  do his own exploring, and it was 
  several minutes before either Eric or 
  Diana missed him. 
  A little way in from the entrance,  
  the cave narrowed and turned a  
  corner. Beyond the corner, it was 
  darker still—but there was enough 
  light to see that the cave forked into 
  two passages. Uni could have taken 
  either of them! 
  Eric and Diana agreed that they did 
  not want to separate, and that they 
  must find Uni. 
  Which passage should they try 
  first—the one on the left (19, at the 
  Crossed Swords), or the one on the 
  right (16, at the Skull)? 
  No-one had any idea where they  
  might find the other pieces of  
  the crystal, but they were all  
  agreed that the first task was  
  to put some distance between 
  themselves and Kelek‟s castle. 
   
  With Bobby still grumbling about 
  his lost hat, they began walking. But 
  no matter how long, or how far they 
  thought they had walked, the castle 
  seemed no further off! 
  „We must be walking in circles,‟ 
  Diana suggested. 
  Eric was quite sure that they were 
  not, but he said nothing to the others. 
  It was while the argument went on 
  about which direction they should try 
  next that something even stranger 
  began to happen. 
  Whichever way they looked, the 
  landscape had a kind of fuzziness 
  about it—the kind of thing that 
  happens in a heat haze—except that  
  it wasn‟t hot! Eric was looking at 
  Kelek‟s castle when it vanished 
  completely. 
  More things began to vanish—until 
  it felt like standing in the middle of a 
  mist in which nothing was visible—
  except there was no mist! All that  
  they could do was stand, and watch,  
  in frightened silence. 
  It was Bobby who broke the silence. 
  „I can see something!‟ he shouted. 
  „So can I!‟ cried Sheila. 
  Things were certainly beginning to 
  reappear—but no longer things from 
  the land of Dungeons and Dragons.  
  It was their own world—but what  
  was a dragon doing in it? What the 
  Dungeon Master had feared, had 
  happened. 
  Turn to page 7, at the Unicorn’s Head. 
   
   
  
   
  12 
  Diana had nothing to protect  
  her but her speed and agility.  
  Eric had his sword and shield.  
  He could not move far because  
  of the bog which surrounded him. He 
  stood himself on a broad rock—and 
  prepared to die bravely! 
  Tiamat was closer now, its red, fire-
  breathing head sweeping a wall of  
  flame before it. Where the flame was 
  hottest, the bog began to boil sending 
  great clouds of steam into the air. So  
  thick did it become that the dragon  
  was lost in the clouds! 
  Eric peered anxiously into the 
  thickening mist. There was a sound  
  above him. The dragon, seeing that  
  its own weapon might let its victim 
  escape, was about to change its  
  method of attack. 
  Eric saw a white head bending  
  down towards him. He lifted his  
  sword, but was immediately  
  enveloped in an ice-cold breath. His  
  arm seemed to freeze where he held  
  it, and ice now covered the rock 
  where he stood. He felt himself  
  slipping! 
  The dragon, seeking to finish its  
  victim, shot from the mouth of its  
  blue head a crackling bolt of  
  lightning. Eric was falling, helplessly.  
  The bolt struck the polished surface  
  of his shield and was instantly  
  reflected back into the air. 
  Eric heard a half-human cry  
  above him. The dragon‟s bolt had struck 
  Venger! Eric found that he could  
  again move his limbs. He began to 
  clamber back onto the rock when a  
  great flash of light passed before him.  
  He heard Diana‟s voice—„The good 
  knight, Strongheart, is coming—and 
  riding the Bronze Dragon!‟ 
  Turn to page 13, at the Magician’s  
  Hat. 
   
  The tall dark pines came almost  
  down to the edge of the Black  
  Lake. They were well enough  
  spaced out to make walking  
  easy while still giving cover from 
  anything watching from the skies.  
  As they left the cover of the trees,  
  Diana pointed to the sky in the  
  direction of the Fire Mountain. It was  
  the scheming Venger, riding the  
  fearsome flying horse, Nightmare. It 
  might not be Eric and Diana that he  
  was seeking, but there could be no  
  worse place to be caught than on the 
  Singing Sands. They must cross the  
  bog. The terrible horse was too heavy  
  to land on the bog and—if they could 
  reach the other side, they would be at  
  the lair of the friendly Bronze  
  Dragon. 
  Turn to page 14, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  13 
  The Fire Mountain was a bleak  
  and frightening place, with a  
  plume of black smoke rising  
  endlessly from its volcanic  
  crater. Only the Hook Horrors lived 
  there, in the caves and passages deep 
  below the ground. They were strange, 
  half human, half bird-like creatures 
  with claws and beaks which could  
  tear with the power of giant vultures. 
  As Eric and Diana hurried across  
  the lower slopes, something appeared 
  from the cloud of smoke above them. 
  It was Venger riding on the back of  
  the terrible flying horse, Nightmare! 
  There was a narrow gap in the  
  rocks before them. Eric grabbed  
  Diana and swiftly pulled her inside, 
  hoping that they had not been seen by 
  the evil horseman! 
  Turn to page 16, at the Skull. 
   
  Bolts of lightning flashed again  
  and again across the still- 
  swirling clouds. The air was  
  split by shrieks of pain from the  
  five-headed Tiamat. Gradually the 
  cries retreated into mist. The mist itself 
  had begun to rise. 
  The Bronze Dragon and its rider 
  stood alone, its body gleaming like 
  copper-gold, its nostrils still smoking 
  from the heat of the deadly 
  thunderbolts which it had hurled at  
  its enemy. 
  The dragon had dropped its wings  
  to its side and Strongheart was 
  beckoning to Eric and Diana. 
  „I believe,‟ said Diana, „that he 
  wants us to climb onto the dragon‟s 
  back!‟ 
  They clambered up the dragon‟s tail 
  and sat astride its neck behind 
  Strongheart. 
  The great wings spread and they 
  were into the air. Land flashed  
  beneath them—and then the dragon 
  began slowly to circle downward. 
  They landed on the top of a turret  
  of a castle. Standing on the turret, 
  looking at them, was Presto! 
  Presto explained that this was 
  Kelek‟s castle! 
  „We‟re all here,‟ he told them. 
  „Sheila gave Zarak such a bad time by 
  stealing and hiding everything he  
  had, he decided to cut his losses by 
  selling us all to Kelek as servants. I‟ve 
  been trying to get us out of here by  
  my magic but—up to now, I‟ve only 
  been able to transport myself to a 
  different part of the castle! Maybe if I 
  used both my hands to cast the spell 
  into my magic hat . . . Perhaps one of 
  you would hold the hat? Who‟s a  
  good hat holder?‟ 
  Who should hold the hat? Should 
  it be Diana (17, at the Crossed 
  Swords), or should it be Eric (16, at 
  the Skull)? 
   
   
  
   
  14 
  Eric and Diana had left the  
  trees which skirted the Black  
  Lake and stood by the edge of  
  the bog. Looking up, they could  
  still see Venger on Nightmare  
  circling in the air above the trees. He 
  seemed to be coming no further. 
  „He knows he cannot land the horse 
  on the bog!‟ Eric said. 
  As he spoke the words, they saw 
  Venger turn and begin to move off 
  towards the Fire Mountain. It was as 
  the horse turned that a shaft of  
  golden light shot skywards, just 
  missing the horse and rider. It was 
  followed by a second—and a  
  third—the last so close that the horse 
  reared in the air to avoid it! 
  The golden shafts of light were 
  coming from somewhere within the 
  trees through which Eric and Diana 
  had just passed. 
  „What is it!‟ exclaimed Diana. 
  „Hank!‟ Eric replied. „Only Hank 
  has a bow which fires magical golden 
  arrows!‟ 
  In their search for the pieces of the 
  crystal, Eric and Diana had almost 
  forgotten that they still had to save 
  their friends from Zarak, the Orc.  
  Had Hank escaped? Were the others 
  —Sheila, Bobby and Presto—with 
  him? 
  Diana began to run back towards  
  the trees. 
  „Wait!‟ shouted Eric. „Hank is a fine 
  shot. Why did not a single arrow hit  
  its target? Venger could have taken  
  off at great speed, lifted his horse  
  high into the air—even cloaked 
  himself and his horse in dense  
  fog—yet he did none of these!‟ 
  Diana stopped running. 
  Should they go back to the trees (19, 
  at the Magician’s Hat), or go on, into 
  the Bottomless Bog (15, at the 
  Crossed Swords)? 
   
  Presto‟s magic was not quite as  
  good as Diana had thought.  
  Only Bobby was meant to go  
  back. Instead all six of them  
  found themselves inside Kelek‟s castle 
  again. Only Bobby was happy. He‟d 
  got his hat! 
  The others waited while he put it  
  on. He immediately took it off again. 
  „That‟s funny!‟ he said. „It doesn‟t 
  seem to fit properly. I dropped it when 
  Zarak was bringing us here. It rolled 
  away, but I found it—and carried it the 
  rest of the way in case I lost it again. I 
  hadn‟t tried it on again „till now. It 
  must have got bent!‟ 
  „It‟ll have to stay bent!‟ Eric said, 
  getting very impatient. „Now get us out 
  again, Presto—and fast!‟ 
  Presto recited his spell again—and 
  nothing happened! 
  „That‟s fine!‟ Eric said. „So now 
  we‟re stuck here—with time running 
  out and no chance of finding the rest of 
  the crystal!‟ 
  Bobby hadn‟t been listening. He 
  took off his hat and threw it in disgust 
  onto the floor. 
  Turn to page 16, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  15 
  The arrows had stopped and  
  Venger was still moving off.  
  Diana was worried that it might  
  be Hank whom they had left  
  behind in the trees, but she thought 
  that Eric was right. It could be no  
  more than a trap—set by Zarak—or 
  even Kelek. They would never know. 
  Diana used her stout staff to test 
  each step of the way across the bog. 
  Having often to leap from rock to  
  rock, or to use tufts of grass where 
  their feet would begin to sink almost 
  as they touched it, progress was slow 
  and tiring. They stopped to rest. 
  Eric, who was looking back to see 
  how far they had come, let out a  
  groan. Diana turned. Venger could  
  not land Nightmare in the bog—but  
  he had returned—with something 
  whose great, spreading feet and 
  winged body could move easily  
  across the treacherous ground. It was 
  Tiamat, the five-headed dragon— 
  most feared of all its kind! 
  Turn to page 12, at the Spearhead. 
   
  In the next moment, the  
  earthquake felt as if it might be  
  over. Relieved, Eric and Diana  
  pressed on, glad to have made  
  the right decision—deeper into the 
  caves. Eric, who was leading the way 
  stopped. They had come to a dead  
  end. As he turned around the floor 
  began to tremble again. A little way 
  down the passage from where they  
  had come, rocks began to fall from  
  the roof. They kept on falling until  
  the passage was completely blocked. 
  Eric and Diana were trapped! 
  They were startled by a voice  
  behind them. It was the Dungeon 
  Master! 
  „How . . .‟ Diana began to ask, but 
  the Dungeon Master cut her short. 
  „No time for questions!‟ he said. „As 
  THE FORCE fails, so does my magic. 
  There is only one way left that I can 
  save you. I can turn back time—not 
  far, but far enough to let you go back 
  and try again.‟ 
   
   
  
   
  16 
  Hank, Bobby and Diana sat  
  down on the floor. Presto kept  
  trying with his hat—but with  
  no success. Eric and Sheila  
  paced back and forward. 
  Lying on the floor in one corner  
  were the three pieces of the crystal  
  and the map given to them by the 
  Dungeon Master. 
  Uni began to push the pieces of the 
  crystal around on the map with his  
  nose. It was a game he seemed to  
  enjoy. Seeing the hat which Bobby  
  had thrown away, he added that to  
  the pieces he could push about. 
  Sheila gave a sudden gasp.  
  Everyone looked. Lying on the map  
  was a complete twelve-pointed  
  crystal! 
  „How did Uni do it?‟ asked Diana 
  excitedly. 
  „I saw how he started,‟ answered 
  Sheila, „—with the Unicorn‟s head.  
  He laid it so that the eye was over
  the “Y” in “EYE OF THE WINDS”  
  and the point of the horn on the last  
  “T” of “LAIR OF TIAMAT”. Then  
  he fitted the other pieces round it.‟ 
  (Find the sticker of Bobby’s Hat and 
  you can do the same as Uni.) 
  „Well, we have the crystal,‟ said  
  Eric, „but we‟re stuck here. How can  
  we return it to the Dungeon Master?‟ 
  „Wait!‟ said Hank. „Look at the  
  points of the crystal. Each points to a 
  letter in one of the names on the  
  map—and they spell out a message!‟ 
  If you have put your stickers  
  together carefully (the clear edges  
  may overlap a little) and positioned 
  them correctly on the map you too  
  can read the message and follow its 
  instruction. 
  Until you succeed you are trapped in 
  the world of Dungeons and Dragons! 
   
  In the tunnel they found  
  themselves in, Eric and Diana  
  could see nothing but darkness,  
  but there was a sort of soft  
  scraping and shuffling. „Is anyone  
  there?‟ Eric called. There was no  
  answer. He pulled the dagger-shaped 
  crystal from beneath his cloak and  
  held it up high. 
  The glow from the dagger lit the  
  rock walls of a cave. Back in the  
  shadows were small groups of tall 
  creatures, looking like half birds and  
  half men. The light seemed to disturb 
  them. Eric turned to see that the  
  creatures were all around them. They  
  were in one of the caves of the Hook 
  Horrors beneath the Fire Mountain! 
  Several passages led from the cave,  
  but the creatures had shuffled across 
  them, blocking the exits—except one! 
  Eric grasped Diana by the hand and 
  began to run for the one remaining  
  way of escape! 
  Turn to page 18, at the Spearhead. 
   
   
  
   
  17 
  While Diana held Presto‟s hat,  
  Presto began to wave his hands  
  towards it and mutter strange  
  words. All three were too  
  interested in the spell to notice that 
  something was happening. When they  
  did, it was to find that they were now  
  in a large, gloomy room—but not an 
  empty one! In front of them stood  
  Sheila, Hank and Bobby! 
  „Well, at least we‟re back together 
  again,‟ said Diana. 
  „We‟re not!‟ Bobby exclaimed. 
  „Where‟s Uni?‟ 
  Diana laughed and turned slowly 
  around. Hanging onto her back, his  
  front legs gripping her shoulders, was 
  Uni—who‟d been there since they‟d 
  begun their crossing of the bog. 
  „So we are all here,‟ said Eric, „but 
  haven‟t we forgotten something?  
  We‟re looking for pieces of a missing 
  crystal. And from what the Dungeon 
  Master said, there is little time. So  
  far, we‟ve found only two pieces!‟ 
  He took out the dagger and  
  Unicorn head from under his cloak. 
  „Three!‟ said Sheila. „Zarak had  
  found one—so I stole it! He did say  
  he wanted me because I was a thief!‟ 
  She held up a dragon‟s head. 
  „Well done!‟ said Eric. „Now how  
  many more pieces do we have to  
  find? One thing is certain, we won‟t  
  find them here. Presto! You have to  
  get us out!‟ 
  Perhaps Presto‟s recent success had 
  given him more confidence. He had 
  hardly begun to mutter his spell when 
  they all found themselves standing  
  outside the castle. 
  „Let‟s go!‟ said Eric. 
  „We can‟t!‟ said Bobby. „I‟ve left my 
  hat! I can‟t fight dragons without it!‟ 
  „You‟ll just have to!‟ Eric snapped. 
  „Let him have his hat!‟ Diana  
  pleaded. „It need only take a second  
  to go back.‟ 
  First, add the Dragon’s Head sticker  
  to your map. Then decide whether  
  they should leave Bobby’s Hat (11,  
  at Magician’s Hat), or go back for it 
  (14, at the Skull). 
   
  In the cave where they had first  
  met the Hook Horrors, the light  
  from Eric‟s dagger seemed to  
  have kept them at bay. But here  
  it no longer frightened them. It did  
  not need to—they were far more  
  terrified by the earthquake. 
  Eric was banking upon that same  
  fear to get Diana and himself past  
  them without the Hook Horrors  
  deciding to attack them. If they did,  
  then Eric knew that both he and  
  Diana would be torn to pieces. 
  He gritted his teeth, took Diana‟s  
  hand firmly in his, and pushed his  
  way into the moving, squeaking mass  
  of nightmare creatures. As he did so,  
  he closed his eyes, not opening them 
  again until the squeaking had faded 
  behind them. They were through and  
  both he and Diana were unharmed. 
  They stopped running to regain  
  their breath. Was the glow of the  
  dagger getting brighter, or was  
  something much stranger happening?  
  Not only was it getting lighter, but  
  the very walls of rock seemed to be 
  vanishing in front of their eyes! 
  They were looking at their own  
  world again—but with a dragon  
  standing in the street! 
  The power of THE FORCE had run  
  out! What the Dungeon Master had 
  feared, had happened! 
  Turn to page 7, at the Unicorn’s  
  Head. 
   
   
  
   
  18 
  Before the creatures could move  
  again, Eric and Diana were out  
  of the cave, and running. They  
  turned into side passages,  
  squeezed through narrow openings  
  but, each time they stopped, they  
  could still hear the shuffling footsteps  
  of the Hook Horrors behind them! 
  Eric had noticed that the floor of  
  the passage was always sloping down  
  and he knew they were getting  
  deeper and deeper into the mountain.  
  The thought frightened him! 
  Suddenly, the floor beneath them  
  began to shake. Cracks appeared in  
  the walls and rocks began to break  
  away and fall from the roof above. 
  „It‟s an earthquake!‟ cried Diana.  
  „We could be trapped—or crushed— 
  or buried alive!‟ 
  Eric didn‟t need telling. The sounds  
  of the Hook Horrors were still behind 
  them, but now they had begun to  
  make their eerie, squeaking  
  cries—cries of fear and panic. 
  Should they go on, with the danger  
  of being trapped becoming greater  
  (15, at Unicorn’s Head), or turn and 
  face the Hook Horrors (17, at the 
  Magician’s Hat)? 
   
  Around the corner of the  
  passage ahead of them, there  
  seemed to be a light—not  
  daylight but the kind of glow  
  which had come from the dagger  
  shaped crystal. As they turned the  
  corner, there was Uni. 
  „But he‟s got two heads!‟ exclaimed 
  Diana. 
  Eric laughed. Only one of the heads  
  was Uni‟s. The other, he was carrying  
  in his mouth—and it was glowing! 
  „He‟s found the second part of the 
  crystal!‟ said Eric. 
  Diana went forward to take it from  
  him, but Eric held her back. 
  „No!‟ he said. „Uni looks as if he‟s 
  using it as a lantern—and he seems  
  to know where he‟s going!‟ 
  Uni trotted ahead with Eric and  
  Diana following. They were  
  wondering if the passage would ever  
  end, when daylight suddenly  
  appeared. They were out of the  
  passage. Through the trees that  
  bordered the edge of the shore, Eric 
  recognised the waters of the Black  
  Lake. He turned to speak to Diana,  
  but she was looking upward through  
  the trees. Venger had, somehow,  
  followed them. 
  Then, as they watched, from  
  somewhere in the trees, shafts of gold 
  began to shoot upward. Several came  
  near to Venger and his horse. They  
  saw him turn back towards the Fire 
  Mountain. 
  „It‟s Hank!‟ Diana exclaimed. „Only 
  Hank fires golden arrows. He must  
  have escaped from Zarak. I wonder if  
  the others are . . .‟ 
  Eric stopped her. 
  „Hank is a fine bowman,‟ he said.  
  „He does not miss with so many  
  arrows! It‟s a trick to stop us going  
  on to the bog. Venger cannot land his 
  horse there. Nightmare is too heavy.‟ 
  Diana looked unsure. 
  „Trust me!‟ said Eric. „If we can  
  cross the bog to the lair of the Bronze 
  Dragon—then we are safe!‟ 
  Turn to page 15, at the Crossed  
  Swords. 
  But first find your Unicorn’s Head 
  sticker and add it to your map. 
   
   
  
   
  19 
  The light in the passage was  
  almost gone, but it was just  
  possible to see that it had  
  widened out again and that  
  there were several other passages on 
  either side of it. They moved on.  
  Eric and Diana hoped that Uni had  
  gone straight on. Suddenly, both of  
  them spoke, together— 
  „I thought I saw . . .‟ 
  „One at a time!‟ said Eric. „You  
  first.‟ 
  „I was going to say,‟ said Diana,  
  „that I was sure I glimpsed Uni in  
  one of those side passages.‟ 
  „You must be right!‟ said Eric. „So  
  did I. I didn‟t see all of him, but I‟m  
  sure I saw his head. What I‟m not  
  sure of, is which passage. It‟s so  
  dark. I only caught a glimpse and  
  we‟d passed it before I realised what  
  it was. It was one of those, back  
  there, on the left.‟ 
  „That‟s impossible!‟ replied Diana.  
  „I‟m not sure which passage either 
  —except I know that it was on the  
  right!‟ 
  Eric was puzzled. There was such  
  a maze of passages. Uni might have  
  found some other way of getting from  
  one side to the other—but he  
  couldn‟t be in two places at the same 
  time! Who was right? 
  All that they could do was to try  
  some of the passages on both sides  
  where each thought they‟d seen Uni. 
  Should Eric choose the first passage  
  to explore (16, at the Skull), or  
  should it be Diana’s choice (18, at  
  the Skull)? 
   
  The mysterious archer had  
  stopped firing before Diana and  
  Eric reached the trees—but  
  Venger seemed to be moving  
  off! The arrows may not have hit  
  him—but they seemed to have 
  discouraged him. 
  Diana was certain of the direction  
  from which the arrows had come and  
  led the way, with Eric following. 
  „It was about here!‟ she said. 
  Almost as she said it, they stepped  
  into a clearing. The figure facing  
  them was not Hank! It was Kelek, the  
  evil sorcerer! 
  „You children are getting in my  
  way!‟ he said. „You cannot foil my  
  plans, but I think it would be safer to  
  put you somewhere where you will  
  be a nuisance to no-one!‟ 
  He raised the oddly-shaped staff  
  which he carried. It began to glow  
  with a light, so bright, that Eric and  
  Diana were almost blinded by it. 
  Turn to page 16, at the Skull. 
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
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