The route discussion might be easier to follow while looking at this map.

The starting conditions are:

• all solutions have at least healing, mind blast, and animal kinship, two extra disciplines are selected from the remaining pool
• S money: the starting money, which is extremely important in this chapter
• Start protection: start with body armor or shield
• S shield: start with shield

Other starting item selections are worse on all accounts. The ending states are not too interesting as all solutions end up with the Sommerswerd. As for the choice of animal kinship, I generated a few solutions without it, and you will be able to see that the chances of winning without it are dismal.

Walkthrough

The walkthrough is not very detailed here, as there are a lot of random choices in this book at first. It might be the case that you don't cross one of the chapters mentioned below.

• in chapter 240, shout 'fire' (go to 236)

• in chapter 53, eat with the captain (321), but do not play with him. Instead, go to 197

• there is a branch at 141/78. If you have 14 gold or more, go straight to 337 for branch A. If not, go to 278, and you have 70% chance to enter branch B, at 41, and 30% to still go branch A.

  • branch A (337), where you keep the Seal of Hammerdal and your gold

    • at chapter 337, eat the fruit and head east (27), get down from the tree and flag the wagon (117), ride on the roof (148)
    • choose the West Bank Walk (323), run towards the river (121),

  • branch B (41), you lose everything, but can amass 13 gold and the Seal

    • at chapter 194, go to 86, pick the crowns, then Barnacle street (215), and enter the tavern (4)
    • confront the fishermen (104), chase (231), pick the loot and the precious Seal
    • if you do not have tracking, go to 319, then enter the tavern (177)
    • talk with the innkeeper (342), don't pay (226), and go arm-wrestle (276)

• now if you have enough money (21g), you should pay for the ride and go to 10, or else try your luck at 238 until you have 22g or more. If you don't, you will die a short while after.

• at 346, you'd better pay (280)

• do not fight the trickster at 241

• at 314, do not eat the poisonous food (avoid 36)

• at 200, kill the merchant (60), then avoid the fight (88)

• if you have camouflage, you will get an optional part that you can avoid. In all cases, go to 150

• at 150, right fork is the way (334), then avoid the tower (got to 291). The magic spear is not worth the hassle

• at 47, you don't know the password (307), but can show the Seal (140)

• it is the documents charade! Don't bother with the documents and white pass, show your seal when you can to obtain a red pass, then proceed to 202

• there is a random fork. Avoid chapter 59 until you reach 311

• because you don't have the magic spear, go to 118, and meet the cute creatures

• at 349, do not attack the soldiers but go to 284, and finally get the Sommerwerd!

• at 100, do not jump to the ship, but go swim to another ship (267), avoid fighting to 309, attack the zombie captain at 66, evade to 105, and you are done!

Discussion

Route without animal kinship have not been computed yet, but they will probably involve getting the magic spear, which is avoided here.

This walkthrough differs from what is in the wiki walkthrough, because it assumes perfect knowledge of the book, and doesn't care about story elements. Also, it might be the case that there are bugs :)

The most important difference is at 141, where this solutions identifies that if you are poor, you might want to go the "lose everything" route to gain some gold. This would usually not happen though, because you start with 11-20 gold in addition to what you got from the previous book. So if you collected 4 or more gold crowns, you should never want to go to branch B.

As for solutions without animal kinship, they require getting the magic spear (such as (this solution)[/images/lonewolf20260112/B02/2010SW.MO.CA.AK.6Sg23-Sword-Shield.svg]), which involves a fight you lose 95% of the time.

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Recap

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