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New Adventure: SwordQuest
Jan. 21, 2018
The latest adventure is a quest in none other than Camelot! Morgan le Fay, the sorceress and King Arthur's half-sister, has stolen his magical sword, Excalibur!
This is a well-written adventure by prolific 1980s Eamon author Roger Pender. It has a well-constructed castle with many rooms and artifacts to find to complete the puzzle. There is combat galore, but most of the monsters aren't very hard, except one. Better find a way around the dragon without fighting, or you'll be toast.
SwordQuest is one of the better designed puzzles in Eamon, and it got consistently high ratings from reviewers back around the time it was written. Give this one a try!
New Adventure: Revenge of the Mole Man
Jan. 17, 2018
Your old nemesis, the Mole Man, is back, and this time he has abducted an entire village. Not just the people. The entire village. Off to Marewood Forest to see if you can find the Mole Man's lair once again.
This adventure is a sequel to Assault on the Mole Man, written by John Nelson, a prolific Eamon author from the mid-1980s and one-time head of the National Eamon Users Club. It's mostly a dungeon exploration, with a few decoy monsters, a couple keys and secret doors to find, and one big, well-executed special effect.
New Adventure: Demongate
Jan. 15, 2018
This week's new arrival in the adventures category is Eamon #213, Demongate by Hoyle Purvis. Hoyle is the author of eight adventures dating from the early 1990s.
In Demongate, you go to visit your friend Lorin at the Abbey of Light, which is being besieged by the undead forces of the Dark Lord. No sooner have you arrived than the fortress comes under attack by zombies, skeletons, and their allies, the orcs. You manage to survive the attack which kills nearly everyone else in the abbey. Now you have to avenge your friend's death and recover the magic ankh which the dark forces will use to open their evil portal.
This adventure has a fairly straightforward quest, with plenty of combat and plenty of hints along the way. It's an interesting setting, especially the looming shadow wall that you must traverse to hunt down the evil doers. It reminds me of something out of a Stephen King novel or your darkest D&D campaign.
In converting Demongate to Eamon Remastered, I kept the plot and map the same, with only a handful of enhancements to the descriptions. Most of these were to make it easier to tell what was going on, and to describe some of the room connections that were not described in the original. The only other liberty I took was to change the healing scroll to a healing potion, because it's easier to deal with in the code, and it saves confusion with the other, more important scroll present in the game.
There are lots of embedded artifacts in this one, so read the room descriptions carefully. Hint: things like torches, candles, and potions mentioned in the room descriptions are things you can get.