History Literature / ThePortOfPeril

* {{Cyclops}}: One named "Cy" works as a blacksmith in Chalice and is incredibly skilled, making swords worth 25 Golden Pieces at least. He can sell you a Demon Dagger, a well-balanced and sharp but non-magical dagger. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Just don't try to go for]] a FiveFingerDiscount.

* RainbowPimpGear: You can find a real medley of different types of armor throughout your adventure and wear all of it simultaneously. You can obtain chainmail from a human skeleton, a bronze dwarven shield, some old magical elven boots, a winged helmet that belonged to an Elf Lord, and the gauntlets of a Chaos Warrior. Pretty typical for Livingstone's style, but also considering the reader's character starts the book digging in rubbish bins for food, they're probably eager for any chance to improve their arsenal.

** Literature/IslandOfTheLizardKing: You can encounter Mungo in Port Blacksand and have a talk with him.
** Literature/{{City of Thieves|1983}}: Unsurprisingly, since this book is a sequel to that adventure. You get to visit Port Blacksand again before departing to fight Zanbar Bone, but this time the visit is shorter.

* DePower: As in the previous book, Zanbar Bone can only be taken down after his evil power is broken through magical means. The question being how?

* DeathTrap: Almost as bad as Deathtrap Dungeon. Good luck finding the safe passage to the treasure chest in Skull Crag! Heck, even Hakasan gets in on the act - she's rigged a hidden tripwire before she meets you. If you decide to attack her upon first meeting her, her little trap will end you.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The rules of the game and what's described in the story seem to disagree with each other in a few important places:

* CollectorOfTheStrange: There are a lot of unusual objects to pick up in this book, such as the jagged knife from a Dark Elf which you keep as a good luck souvenir.

* RainbowPimpGear: You can find a real medley of different types of armor throughout your adventure and wear all of it simultaneously. You can obtain chainmail from a human skeleton, a bronze dwarven shield, some old magical elven boots, a winged helmet that belonged to an Elf Lord, and the gauntlets of a Chaos Warrior.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Or possibly "gamebook generosity" - whenever you're rewarded with an unusually large sum of gold, it's often just enough to buy an important item you'll need later on.

* TouchedByVorlons: Yaztromo knows how vital your quest to find Nicodemus is, so he powers you with his magic. If you choose Stamina, he just heals you back a fair sum. But if you choose Luck or Skill, he'll change your maximum initial stat of your choice to 12.

You are a hungry and down-on-your-luck adventurer looking for a job or food in Chalice, where you stumble on a treasure map marking a treasure hidden in Skull Crag somewhere in the Moonstone Hills. You welcome the opportunity, but soon enough, it becomes clear that this story is not so straightforward as it seems: the chest is empty, and an encounter with the ninja tracker Hakasan Za and a fatally-wounded mason reveals that Allansia is threatened by a great evil: Zanbar Bone, the infamous Night Prince, thought to be gone when a [[Literature/CityOfThieves1983 a mysterious adventurer destroyed him and his tower]], has returned from the dead and wants to conquer Allansia by corrupting the stone tower of the great wizard Yaztromo of Darkwood. Only with the help of the wizard Nicodemus and his lost Ring of Burning Snakes can this threat can be overcome. As Yaztromo's tower grows blacker, you must find a way to save Allansia from the return of this undead fiend.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Chalice, you can be hired by a worker to help him and his Ogre to do some heavy lifting, but he refuses to pay you and has the Ogre threaten you. You can kill the Ogre to force him to pay you.

* WeaponOfXSlaying: The Venom Sword is enchanted to give a big bonus against demons, just like the guy selling it says, replacing a big combat malus with a big combat bonus.

* WeaponOfXSlaying: The Venom Sword is enchanted to give a big bonus against demons, just like the guy selling it says.

* AlmostDeadGuy: Horace, the Mason who informs you of Zanbar's return, is mortally wounded when you find him, half-crushed by the gigantic vault key he made for Zanbar, and lives long enough to tell you his story and warn you of Zanbar's return before succumbing to his wounds. You have to [[TearJerker break the news to his widow later on.]]