Hellfire

You need the gold chalice but, I must warn you, that there's still one more thing you must do after using it and facing him, otherwise he'll be far too strong.

A giant statue with dragon heads through the west exit near the lake. If you've already found this and tried it at the gorge I'm sorry, but when you said "Acid" it popped into my head.

a Reaveal Invisible Spell.

a Time spell and an Open Door Spell. The Time spells returns you to the entrance, where you must use the Open Door Spell to open a door which cannot be accessed otherwise.

You must attack and kill the old women at the start, then take the unidentified spell she has and get the women in the library to identify it for you. This will then become the Dispell Hellfire spell

At the beginning of the book, turning left brings you to a female prisoner, who begs you to heal her. You must kill her instead (and lose a LUCK for it, one of the things I don't like about this particular adventure) so that you can get a scroll of unidentified spell. Later you would meet someone who would asked you if you have an unidentified spell. Once she identified it for you, you would be able to use it to dispel the hellfire.

Sinse the dispell illusion scrolls the wounded woman gives you were of use against a couple of monsters such as the nightstalker, I always assumed I'd made the right choice there.

the passage describing the test of endurance through the elephant door)

s, (after deleting the 'spoiler text here' message).

It's true that the old women at the start holds a secret item that you only get if you kill her and I guess that's a thing that most heroes wouldn't do! However, why should it be that everyone you meet is either an instant trusted friend or a sworn enemy that you have to fight? Surely, even in real life, you'd meet someone (sooner or later) that just blatently lied to you and perhaps even double-crossed you? After all, don't forget that the place the adventure takes place is the Trinitour's dungeon and whose to say there wouldn't be those who were secretly loyal to him?

If you help the old women then she just gives you one item and no spells. Now, perhaps the item then becomes an option to use at the wall of hellfire? Then should you try and use it, you will be killed by the fire, thus leading you to realise that the old women lied to you and should have been killed after all?

Those who have completed the book or at least come close, will have long since realised that, to survive, you should be picking up all the 'wrong' weapons and armour. Now I'll be the first to admit that this is a very unusual thing to be expected to do, but why would you expect the Trinitour to do otherwise? After all, he is a demon and doesn't exactly want your quest to be an easy one. All readers of the book, or at least those who know it quite well, may have realised that he doesn't always tell you the truth and, indeed, sometimes mocks you and even trys to trick you on occasion!

I always thought that, towards the end of the book, things became too difficult, or even much too difficult and I honestly meant to do something about it. Trouble was, I had become rather dissaluioned with the whole thing by that point and just wanted to call it a day and get the blasted thing out onto the Internet! Anyway, had I a second chance and, especially considering the 'weapons and armour' difficulties, I would change the ending thus. Instead of the Trinitour killing you for each weapon or amour you lack, I would perhaps allow a test of luck for each item missed and therefore at least a chance of continuing. Then at least this would let the reader start to have a very good idea about what sort of weapons he should have been collecting all along.

Regarding the 'final door' and the fact that each wrong decision will kill you: I now consider this 'over the top' and simply too tough a price to pay for the poor reader who had struggled this far. Now, instead of that, I would simply have the reader wounded for each wrong choice, but still able to try others (or at least a couple) before he either hit upon the solution or died after all.

Soul