More of the same. The heroes finally begin their quest with the magic statue and promptly have it stolen and have two silly adventures trying to recover it and yet they don't. The end. No more books in the series and even worse (at least to me), the book ends with an evil lich driving the heroes' wagon through a farmer's field and the horse dies. Apparently his lich status is weak as he doesn't just raise a zombie horse to pull the wagon tirelessly but goes off in search of another horse. Everybody knows that liches are masters of raising undead servants in any fantasy realm so this is inexcusable, at least in a book with no conclusion. I knew I was in trouble when I got the book in the mail and peeked at the last page to see if it said 'The End' and it said 'The, um, Intermezzo'. Dammit Jim, I'm a game designer, not a writer! This book was published in 1995 so I guess there is still a slim chance that more stories will be upcoming, but I have a feeling that a Monty Python reunion to make a movie of this story is about as likely, and it would be a good Python bit too. ( )