Welcome to the Game

Playing Dungeons and Dragons as a kid, I loved the feeling of exploring and solving the puzzles we found in these make-believe dungeons. My character, Elandil, a half-elven wizard, with his party of heroes, had many years of adventures in the hour and a half after school.

Rearrange the following segments from Elandil’s journal, and decipher the clues to uncover the four digit number that unlocks this box to claim the prize. Don’t worry, it isn’t a mimic, but you may have to search the web for some D&D-specific lore.

While we planned for this day, when we saw the Queen of the Dragons, we weren’t sure we could vanquish Tiamat, and end her destruction. Finn, as spokesman, and Bhudr, as eye candy, had amassed a small army, and distracted each of her heads, as I came up behind. While riddled with arthritis, I cast Imprisonment, banishing her permanently from our world!

“Careful, Balric,” I said, “the large eye of Xabash spews out antimagic, which will remove our invisibility, and I don’t have to tell you than neither of us are strong enough to fight a beholder.” It’s lair was complex, but we found the Spellbook of Num’zix, the Lich, and on the very first page, I found the Imprisonment spell that I needed!

The stench of the catoblepas as great, and my spellbook was small, as all I could do was cast Gust of Wind, to allow Bhudr to run up on it and smash it with his club, leaving only nine teeth left in the skull. The villagers of Stonybrook were relieved that the beast that had laid waste to their…

he shattered the stone bridge we were on with a blast of magic, sending us all into the water, where Sobek’s minions were better equiped to fight. I cast Airy Water allowing me and my friends to breathe, and defend ourselves. The god of the Koa Toa, Sobek streaked through the murk towards us, his three eyestalks and claws for feet, made this giant alligator