| Genre: | Adventure; Role-Playing |
| Publisher: | Triffid Software Research |
| Cover Art Language: | English |
| Machine Compatibility: | BBC Model B |
| Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
| Available For: | BBC Model B & Spectrum 48K |
| Compatible Emulators: | BeebEm (PC (Windows)) PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)) Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) |
| Original Release Date: | 9th February 1985 |
| Original Release Price: | Unknown |
| Market Valuation: | £11.68 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 96g |
| Box Type: | Cassette Single Flat Clamshell Black |
| Author(s): | M. Latto, A. Crick & A. Lawes |
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A&B Computing
1st March 1985
I prefer games based on reasoning rather than chance and am sick and tired of caves and trolls. However, I think the idea of a series of adventures with a developing character is a nice one and I expect these games will appeal to some. Read Review
Full Instructions
Adventure 1: The Secret River
Your quest of the first adventure in the series is to locate and drink from a magical green river situated in deep underground caves that are rumoured to be heavily guarded by Trolls.
The commands you need to know to start with are as follows:
TAKE or GET
Pick an object up
DROP
Drop an object
NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST
You only need to use the initial letter
INVENTORY
List your possessions
PRAY
Call on your God for help
SEARCH
Search for the secret doors and hidden treasure
STATUS
List your attributes
ATTACK
Engage in combat
CAST SPELL
Use spells
There are many other commands which you will need to complete the adventure. These you will need to find for yourself.
Playing The Game
On side one of this cassette you will find a Character Generator program. You should load this first. You then generate your character, pick your weapons, armour and choose your spells. Then save the character to tape and reload it into Adventure 1.
When and if you successfully complete the adventure, your character will progress in experience. You then load it back into the generator program to relearn its spells and rest up ready for its next adventure, also with the option to spend some of its money found in its travels on better armour.
When your character is generated it will have six attributes:
- Constitution
- Size
- Strength
- Intelligence
- Power
- Dexterity
You will also have other abilities that are all directly related to the above six factors, i.e. High Power = Good With Magic.
Your character will have between 20 and 140 Lunars (Silver Coins) to buy weapons and armour with.
Your character can then choose spells that are fully explained in the generator program. These are:
- Healing
- Repair
- Disruption
- Protection
- Teleportation
- Detect Treasure
- Detect Traps
Your character also has a God that he can pray to if he gets really stuck. Whether he answers or not depends on how high your current power is.
If he does, then he will help you out on your problem, and your power will be reduced permanently by one; if he does not, then your power will still be reduced by one, but not permanently.
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Tape: CHAIN"" (RETURN)
Disc: Hold SHIFT and tap BREAK
Game Credits
Written by M. Latto
Graphics by A. Crick
Artwork by A. J. Lawes
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| Download | What It Contains |
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