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The Metal Sentinel can be eliminated by using a Dispel Illusion scroll in the original Word document version, but when I try the same strategy in the website's version, I'm told that the spell failed. Is this something to shake things up for people by adding some new difficulties, or am I just doing it wrong?

Please, no apologies! If a player had weathered Hellfire, then they should know to expect the unexpected in ROTS! It took me a few gambles to figure out what I needed to do, but I got there. (I will admit, however, that deep deep into the game I used my IE Explorer 'history' cache to "redo" certain areas so as to maximize my chances of completing the game. For instance, if I was already high on Skill and relatively-speaking okay on Stamina I would pour all I could into battling the Vampires and Sabretooths of the world to gain as many teeth as possible.. especially if it garnered me relatively little in the way of Stamina loss.) Sure, I know that can be construed as "cheating", but I was so very eager to complete the game!

Also, by that time I'd realized that not every scenario that garnered you a letter in the Messenger's D-E-A-T-H countdown was absolutely necessary to complete the game.. but by then my Stamina was on fumes and prayers! ;) Thank the Lord for IE History.

By that juncture of the game I knew it was relatively safe to use my final 'ask Triny' at practically every move and turn.. and I used it before, during and after my encounter with the God-headed Hydra! Thankfully, the final Trinitour 'call' wasn't encumbant on the player's discretion. (By then you'd felt like you went through a 12-round boxing match!) :)

The fairies were to do with the fairy dust you must avoided earlier on because if you didn't then you would have had this reference: 370 Without warning the Fairy on your shoulder spits in your face! Then all of the others begin to boo you. “What's wrong?” you ask, “What have I done?” The Fairy on your shoulder flies above you and joins his brothers in circling around you, “You have walked through that disgusting fairy dust haven't you?” You hold your hands up and say defensively, “So what if I have? That shouldn't offend Fairies.” There is more booing before one of them flies right in front of your face, “We are not Fairies though, we are Fallen Angels.” Your eyes widen in shock, your heart leaps into your mouth and you struggle to free your sword from its scabbard. This just causes the Fallen to jeer and laugh at you, “Pathetic human scum!” they start to sing. At last you free your sword from its scabbard, but not before your tormentors cast some sort of spell over you, causing your actions to become incredibly slow and your joints to turn stiff till they freeze up. A few moments later and you can just about some up the strength to move your eyes downwards, where you notice, in a moment of stark horror, that your legs have turned to stone! It's not long before the rest of you follows. “Put it with the others.” says the leader of the Fallen...

There is a passage where you encounter some fairies, shortly after the mushrooms have switched your skill and luck levels. They shout 'Warrior!', until one of them says 'sadly' something to the effect of 'we have no business with you'. Is there something the player can do beforehand to avert this response, or is that just part of the story? I know, it's not an intrical part of completing the story, but I was just curious.

As for asking the Trinitour for help..*grinning evily at you*.. do you know how many times I died before I just started asking for his help at just any ol' junction! I was saving those "asks" for what I felt was going to be deep, deep into the game.. little did I know that I was supposed to use them practically right out of the gate! Clever, you.... You must've known that most FF players were practically 'hoarders', and would save anything they could (spells, provisions, et al) until the "Final Boss".. and would never "waste" something so inherently important to finishing the game at Junction One. ;)

Though very difficult, I don't think too much was unreasonable. Solving the girl's riddle.. well, to be honest, I wouldn't have been able to complete the game without reading your hints to a previous reader years ago. I don't recall seeing a response to that question, come to think of it.. in the text version, is there a hint or an option as to guessing the solution to the riddle?

As per the Timespell, it took me a few times to realize that I should be using it at the junction before the acid river, not right at it.

I liked your inclusion of the necessary 'red herring' towards the end of the story.. but only after I'd finished it! It was only then that I could appreciate your humor, as I'd been through a few (including the long one going through the sweet smelling tunnel on until the secret-divulging cyclops.. if you'd taken that path, you couldn't finish the story! ;p)