Ravenskull

Your task is to save the village of Austburg from imminent devastation.

You must enter Ravenskull Castle and retrieve the silver crucifix which the evil Baron Strieg has stolen.

Your quest is not an easy one - only with time, experience and a little luck will you unravel all the mysteries within Ravenskull Castle.

Playing Instructions

Ravenskull Castle consists of four levels, each 64 times the size of the screen. To complete the adventure, you work your way through the four levels collecting treasure and assembling the mystical silver crucifix. Each level holds one part of the crucifix; pick this up only after you have found all of the treasure on that level.

You are able to pick up various objects throughout the castle. Most are helpful to you, but some are a hindrance and are even deadly! After picking up an object, you may attempt to utilise by following this procedure:

1. check the object is positioned in your hand by using RUN keys;
2. press RETURN to use the object.

Some items may only be used in certain locations. You must logically deduce where and when you should use each item.

Castle Objects

Ravenbees
The deadly castle guardians.

Acid Pools, Spiked Disks, Man-Eating Plants
Contact with these is fatal.

Spiked Gates, Cell Doors/Bars
Some of these can be opened with a key.

Wooden Casks
They may be pushed, but only after the player has read a Strength Scroll.

Time Door
An enchanted door which opens and closes by itself regularly.

Time Shaft
A special area on the final level. The last part of the crucifix has been carefully hidden by Baron Strieg in another dimension. By pushing four wooden casks into its four alcoves, the time shaft can be opened, revealing the last part of the crucifix. Other castle objects include: coffins, earth, stone pillars, and the treasure.

Quest Objects

These objects may be picked up, used and dropped as explained earlier. The quest objects include: keys, pick-axes, dynamite, detonators, scythes, spades, hand-axes, bows and arrows, bells, food and wine (Beware! It may be poisonous or have strange side effects), magical scrolls and potions.

Magical Scrolls

1. Strength
   Reading this scroll allows the player to push wooden casks.
2. Time Chime
   Synchronised with the time door.
3. Lightning Strike
   This scroll is fatal!
4. Enchanted Door
   Causes a door to open somewhere in the castle.
5. Teleport
   The player is instantly teleported to another otherwise inaccessible area.
6. Super Speed
   An interesting scroll which allows the player to run about five times faster than normal.
7. Energy Drain
   Another dangerous spell.
8. Dispell
   This scroll simply dispells the effect of the last scroll used.

Magical Potions

1. Speed
   Drinking this enables the player to run twice as fast as normal.
2. Slow
   Causes the player to run four times slower than normal.
3. Poison
   This is a powerful poison which is fatal, instantly.
4. Strength
   The player increases his health by drinking this potion.
5. Loser
   Causes the player to lose all of the objects he is carrying.
6. Dispell
   Dispells the effects of the last potion.

Game Controls

Z - West, X - East, * - North, ? - South
P - Pick up an object (You cannot carry more than three objects at a time)
RETURN - Use object, D - Drop object
S - Select status screen (BBC only), ESCAPE - Restart game
COPY - Freeze on, DELETE - Freeze Off
TAB (BBC) - Kill Yourself
1 (Electron) - Kill Yourself

On Status Screen

BBC: Z - Move hand left (to select object)
X - Move hand right (to select object)
E - Examine object
J - Jump level (only available after completing the previous level without losing a life)
W/Q - Sound On/Off, A/S - Music On/Off, SPACE - Return To Game

Electron: < - Move hand left (to select object)
> - Move hand right (to select object)
E - Examine object
J - Jump level (only available after completing the previous level without losing a life)
S/Q - Sound On/Off

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