Editing A1-4: Scourge of the Slave Lords (section)

==The Slavers' Stockade==
Five chapters in and we're at A2, ''Secret of the Slavers Stockade''. Started by Harold Johnson and finished by [[Tom Moldvay]], they say because Johnson was a full TSR employee so had editorial duties on other projects and couldn't get back to this one. In the stockade the party learns The Princess Is At Another Castle. This speedbump in the narrative justifies itself in a fine sultry BDSM villainess - Markessa - and lots of body-horror. (Johnson was young n' horny back then.)

The PCs can be Taken here too. OH NOT THE WHIP. Also note "the party" can be split, a leftover from the tournament days when there were two parties doing their own simultaneous separate thing.

[[Palace of the Silver Princess|Knowing Moldvay]], we can only speculate as to what other help he provided in toning down Markessa's kinks and dropping silly monsters. Unfortunately the [[cloaker]] survived Moldvay's white-out, hiding among the mothballs. Many errors and typoes survived with it although they did get fixed in the trade-paperback.