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i do agree we need to be careful with it about how much control we give it but it would be stupid to just throw away such a gift

That's the thing; we don't know how much controll we give it by putting it on. I'm not keen on finding that out, myself.

We don't know the piper. We know he has an intrest in money, and that he knows his way around here well enough to smuggle pretty much anything. I don't think I'd trust him with gauntlet relating information; he might know about teneborsus. Now that I think about it, we might not want to sell him those glasses.

I see someone (AfellowDwarf)is over thinking everything,

Eh, we'll never get Brewster out of this hole while he's comfortable. I scheme on account of scaring his behind out of here. The gauntlet almost killed us, it's better to take precautions against the anomaly of a kobolt vampire (would fish and unobsidianised artifact out of the sea, no doubt.) then to encounter one unprepared. And how are we going to get hippos between us and crossbow bolts if we don't ally ourselves with the elves?

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Also, if we tell them where we went, someone might take us for the same Nerin, LotGC that visited the mayor today. We didn't wear that disguise for nothing, and giving up that distinction now that the mayor wants us dead is less then smart. My 'conspiracy theory' allows us to implicate the mayor without implicating direct contact with him.

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Any option that isn't the honest simplicity would at least not make us a bigger target for the mayor's goons.

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Honest simplicity it is, it seems. We should buy a guard animal to wake us up when we're visited by the mayor's little helpers. Or maybe something poisonous that'll kill them.

As for the Artifact of Doom... I think we are going to have to tell some of these people about it sooner or later if we stick with them, but not everyone here is necessarily going to be a part of our next step.

If we manage to destroy it soon enough, we won't need to tell anyone. We could melt it down and turn it into floodgates that nobody will equip, or perhaps try to decrease its power by turning it into stacks of coins or crossbow bolts.

We can retrace our rocks later and cover angryspoon in wafers. Reënforce it to the point where it's just light enough to wield.

Whatever spirit lives in it, we already kicked it's ass once.

We took it by suprise. It knows our 'trick' now. If it takes over for five minutes, it could bring us into all kinds of trouble.

On the gauntlet:  testing does seem appropriate, but it is imperative that we do not give the gauntlet to somebody else.  We should simply test it on a weak creature:  a kitten, or a chick.

Bah. If we must test it, we should make a monkey on a chain wear it. No need to do it ourselves.

We have an axe. He has no helmet.

Good point. But we're the major's enemy, and we still need fixing up. If someone spots us lodging an axe into someone's brains, we're done for. And depending on his wrestling/dodging skill and how 'alive' he is, we might not want to fight him.