Light on Quests Mountain (1983) has a Keith Parkinson cover that always intrigued me as a kid. Surely that woman doesn’t have two head and four arms, right? Spoilers: she does! Unfortunately, she only appears in one bad ending, and I am not sure exactly what happens in it. So much for an iconic villain?

This is a Gamma World Endless Quest, the only one, I think. The protagonist is a teen who sets off with his friends — a lizard person and a monkey person — to find out the source of the titular lights. Despite the lights being the goal, there are actually (I think) five possible adventures to go on, each with a successful ending but only one reveals the mystery of the lights. The lights are probably the most satisfying questline, though, and involved tech from before the apocalypse. Which, the fact that this is post-apocalyptic fiction adds a lot to the proceedings, a kind of background gloom that tempers the otherwise rather cheerful narrative. And the companions are well-developed and a massive improvement over the usual talking animals and whatever.

Easily the best of the non-D&D entries so far, and honestly one of the best EQs generally, top three for me with Brookmere and Pentegarn. Solid interior art by Steve McAfee, who I am not really familiar with. I dig the flatness of his work, though.