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He is a manof great power and knowledge andhe may be able to help with 1 about the situation. 1 `(B "" "2 1 You must find Tolan. 1 YOUR SINCLAIR for permissionto use the brilliant 'Samsynth'routine. It's, er, MEGA alright."''" 1 Tolan's part in overcoming theinvaders and capturing Matcherseemed to give him new life. Heexperimented with new twines,and began visiting the prisonerin Skelvullyn Castle. Matcher'spersonality seemed to fascinatehim. He spent hours alone withthe former general. Seven weeksbefore the days dealt with inyour adventure the longest suchsession had taken place." 1 The river with the slight"; 1 The conviction grows that it 1 The Sun River dried up."; 1 TO TURN A PAGE 1 Special thanks to Tony Samuelsand 1 SKELVULLYNTWINE 1 SKELVULLYN TWINE"; 1 SKELVULLYN TWINE is dedicated toRose, with love. She has a lotto put up with."''" 1 SKELVULLYN TWINE 1 PRESS ANY KEYB 1 PRESS ANY KEY": 1 PRESS '1' TO QUIT, '2' FOR MENU 1 Once both of these things aredone, you will still need to getback home again."'" 1 Many thanks to Gilsoft for THEQUILL, THE ILLUSTRATOR and THEPATCH, without which I would bewhite haired and the adventurewould be in BASIC!"''" 1 In the Greylands eighty miles tothe west, the princelings of thedozens of tiny states were too busy forming alliances againsteach other to bother Kilver."'"Fifty miles to the east, on thegreat inland lake called the Seaof Sunlight (or Sun Sea) the oddpeoples of the woodlands of the"; 1 In fact, you might find 1 In your role of Tam Wold youmust attain two main objectivesto finish your 1 But some strange things have"; 1 But every three months the darkdays were recalled as a party ofvolunteers rowed down the tunnelthat carried the Sun River intoKilver, relieving the guard over"; 1 B$="TO TURN A PAGE" 1 A daunting path lies before you- you will need all your skilland judgment if you are to seethe end of it." 1 ="y")+(700 1 ="7")+(800 1 ="5")+(700 1 ="4")+(600 1 ="3")+(500 1 ="2")+(750 1 ="2")+(400 1 ="1")+(300 1 <f<`bb``bb 1 ;a$;" ";b$ 1 ;"years before by some"; 1 ;"unaffected." 1 ;"that single, brooding"; 1 ;"rule of tyranny." 1 ;"rain water - remained"; 1 ;"quickly established a"; 1 ;"prisoner of Skelvullyn"; 1 ;"placid of people." 1 ;"outside world." 1 ;"nearer bank and the"; 1 ;"its way to the people." 1 ;"had been abandoned many"; 1 ;"fallen civilisation." 1 ;"fact they were the most"; 1 ;"deserts of the farther"; 1 ;"bank led very private"; 1 ;"almost unknown in the"; 1 ;"Your SKELVULLYN TWINE adventureis divided into three separateprograms. The first program iscalled 'BOOK ONE', the second is'BOOK TWO' and the third - well,you've got the idea."''"You can play BOOK ONE simply byLOADing it up, but the other twoare accessed by passwords givenon completion of the previouspart." 1 ;"Where the tales are told and thesongs sung about the exploits ofTam Wold, we often hear of Tam'shomeland as the 'great land ofKilver' and of the 'mighty SunRiver' that flowed through it. Such phrases may conjure imagesof a vast kingdom bisected by amile-wide torrent, but 1 ;"SAVE and LOAD allow you to saveyour position in the game to ablank tape and load it backlater."''"You can also save a positiontemporarily to RAM without thebother of using a tape. To usethis type STORE to save andRECALL to load back."''"QUIT allows you to end the game." 1 ;"ON (48k Only)" 1 ;"HAPPY ADVENTURING!" 1 ;"7 CREDITS AND QUIT" 1 ;"6 GETTING STARTED": 1 ;"4 A SKETCH MAP" 1 ;"3 YOUR PART"; 1 ;"2 OF TWINES AND TOLAN"; 1 ;"1 OF THINGS HISTORICAL"; 1 ;"-THE INTRODUCTION-" 1 5 TURN SOUND": 1 1986 Peter G. Pointon WS1 3EH 1 0777000H `DDDDPPP 1 . Reading the descriptionsof the locations carefully andusing the command 1 ,q;"your small land just stopped"; 1 ,q;"you as the Prefect. Thus you"; 1 ,q;"yellow tint to its water and"; 1 ,q;"with its prisoner,"; 1 ,q;"who worked from the woods by"; 1 ,q;"which touched every life in"; 1 ,q;"was no sign of Tolan." 1 ,q;"was a woman or a man. It did"; 1 ,q;"villagers. For three days he"; 1 ,q;"villagers begin to feel the"; 1 ,q;"two muddy wells." 1 ,q;"to government or officialdom"; 1 ,q;"to Skelvullyn Castle. Guards"; 1 ,q;"the village of Skerrig."; 1 ,q;"the populace the prefect's"; 1 ,q;"the fire engine and"; 1 ,q;"the big mistake of becoming"; 1 ,q;"the Prefect you are a prime"; 1 ,q;"the beginning of a drought."; 1 ,q;"that was in the river water."; 1 ,q;"that he had spent many hours"; 1 ,q;"tempers shortened even more"; 1 ,q;"target for abuse, and much"; 1 ,q;"sources of water had ever"; 1 ,q;"so time has obscured whether"; 1 ,q;"six years in office you have"; 1 ,q;"shut himself in his house,"; 1 ,q;"sensation of rage"; 1 ,q;"river Kilver folk longed for"; 1 ,q;"river that no alternative"; 1 ,q;"returning with him reported"; 1 ,q;"relied so absolutely on the"; 1 ,q;"problem for Kilver (Tolan"; 1 ,q;"prefect is elected by common"; 1 ,q;"prefect for the village of"; 1 ,q;"pets could be found. There"; 1 ,q;"overhear a whisper that you"; 1 ,q;"onerous as they sound. In"; 1 ,q;"one of Tolan's twines to"; 1 ,q;"on you. The truly horrifying" 1 ,q;"not occur to Kilver folk to"; 1 ,q;"nobody knows now whether Tam"; 1 ,q;"never been a cross word have"; 1 ,q;"needed at the time, getting" 1 ,q;"marriage according to sex,"; 1 ,q;"life, all because you made"; 1 ,q;"leaves it for you to decide!" 1 ,q;"lately come back 1 ,q;"lack of the pacifying agent"; 1 ,q;"is razing the crops." 1 ,q;"is expected to act as judge,"; 1 ,q;"in some way." 1 ,q;"in return free use of"; 1 ,q;"have 'done away' with Tolan"; 1 ,q;"haunt you forever." 1 ,q;"had once left for many years"; 1 ,q;"frustration has been vented"; 1 ,q;"frightened people turned to"; 1 ,q;"found yourself organising"; 1 ,q;"flowing." 1 ,q;"first real crisis of your"; 1 ,q;"exhausted." 1 ,q;"especially so, because as"; 1 ,q;"emerging completely"; 1 ,q;"duties are usually not as"; 1 ,q;"driving away all visitors."; 1 ,q;"disappearance coincided with"; 1 ,q;"director of public works,"; 1 ,q;"digging, producing"; 1 ,q;"could imagine happened:"; 1 ,q;"constable or whatever may be"; 1 ,q;"consent in each village, and"; 1 ,q;"by the village hall you even"; 1 ,q;"by the searing sunlight that"; 1 ,q;"bring down the rain." 1 ,q;"been happening recently and" 1 ,q;"been found. In Skerrig, the"; 1 ,q;"been brawling in the street,"; 1 ,q;"be it work or child raising,"; 1 ,q;"as can be found in Kilver."; 1 ,q;"arrested only a drunk monk."; 1 ,q;"apportion anything outside"; 1 ,q;"an embalming grant." 1 ,q;"alive within you may"; 1 ,q;"You too feel these effects -"; 1 ,q;"While hauling water from the"; 1 ,q;"Tolan seemed ill to the"; 1 ,q;"Then the worst that anyone"; 1 ,q;"The thaumaturgist had only"; 1 ,q;"Thanks to the good nature of"; 1 ,q;"Tam was male or female. This"; 1 ,q;"Tam Wold, a timber merchant"; 1 ,q;"Skerrig." 1 ,q;"Prefects are as near a thing"; 1 ,q;"Panic soon set in. People"; 1 ,q;"On the fourth day only his"; 1 ,q;"Now the crisis worsens as"; 1 ,q;"Normally this would not be a"; 1 ,q;"It is a curious fact that"; 1 ,q;"In SKELVULLYN TWINE you are"; 1 ,q;"Folk between whom there has"; 1 ,q;"First, Tolan went missing."; 1 ,q;"Every seven years or so one"; 1 ,q;"As you pass along the street"; 1 ,q;"As Tam you are facing the"; 1 ,q;"(and paying for) well"; 1 'Kemp's Jig' and 'Lovely Joan' are traditional tunes. 'Tolan'sTheme' is one what I wrote." 1 "how to restore the river and" 1 "What Tolan remembered was allthat Tolaw and Anis knew abouttwines. By his eighteenth yearhe was a working thaumaturgistin complete control of his craft,and the people of Skerrig tookfull advantage of him."'" But Tolan had been left with amission, as well as skills, andone day he left Kilver to searchfor an apprentice to carry hisknowledge to another generation." 1 "Tolan did not return for thirtyyears. What happened during histravels all over the Motherworldand whether he found a suitableapprentice may be recorded someother time."'"He took up residence in Skerrigonce more, and led a quiet lifeuntil the invasion by OverlordMatcher and his men twelve yearslater." 1 "To control the adventure entersimple English sentences, suchas WEAR JERKIN. Movement is byentering compass points and UP-DOWN instructions. It's best toenter these in abbreviated form:N,NE,NWS,SE,U,D etc." 1 "Thus Kilver folk could return totheir old self-sufficient lives,tending the good loam and woods,never fighting or killing."'" 1 "There was no sleeping in Kilverthat night. The mountains aroundTow Cop were flaming with lightmore brilliant than sunlight. Itdid not diminish until dawn, andthen it was ten hours before thebravest of Kilver folk climbedto the ancient stones. What theyfound was completely unexpected."'"There was no sign of either Anisor Tolaw, but a tiny baby lay inthe centre of the stone circle." 1 "Their leader, Overlord Matcher,watched in horror as the bulk ofhis men subsided into behaviourhe described as 'namby pamby'. He struggled to understand whythey should be so subdued whilehis own personality and those ofhis personal guard - a gang ofascetic cultists who drank only"; 1 "The reason for their good naturewas a singular property of theSun River, from which all drewtheir water. The river rose inthe Sun Sea, where the water wasloaded with yellow algae, which(besides providing a reason forits name) engendered a powerfulpacifying drug that duly found"; 1 "The presence of this drug in thewater 1 "The formation of the guild endedthe magical pranks but its ruleson the selection of apprenticesalso brought about the gradualdecline of the magical art."'"Each thaumaturgist was allowedto train one apprentice - but itwas so hard to find pupils whocould pass the guild's stringententrance test that some nevertrained any. The result was thatnumbers dwindled down the years." 1 "The child was taken in by thepeople of the nearby village ofSkerrig. Given the name of Tolanhe was raised by the communityas a whole, like all children inKilver. The boy was a wonderf 1 "So what is a twine?"'"Later and lesser magicians useda poor relation of the twine inpreparing spells - all of that'eye of newt and hair of dog'stuff. A twine is a combinationof objects or conditions whichis as bizarre and contradictoryas nature itself. Thaumaturgistsmoulded the mysterious energyreleased by contrary situationsinto miracles." 1 "SKELVULLYN TWINE" 1 "Kilver was a tiny country, justtwenty miles across, occupyinga circular depression in theTared mountain range. The 'greatSun River' that watered its richsoil averaged twenty feet acrossin full, languid flow."'"Kilver's rock-walled locationmade it barely accessible and"; 1 "Kilver folk, once the freest ofpeople, became little more thanslaves. They expected help fromTolan, the magician living amongthem, but he went into hiding. The situation seemed hopeless,but as time went by there was anotable slackenening of the gripof the invaders." 1 "It took a special sort of personto learn the craft of twisting- and great care had to be takento ensure that the secrets werenot passed on to those who wouldmisuse them. Some of the weirderfeatures of our Motherworld werea direct result of a time whenthaumaturgists had no guild torestrain them from 'experiments'- the peculiar properties of theSun Sea, for example." 1 "In these days of 'reason' and'logic' we have lost the arts ofmagic practiced so ably by thegreat thaumaturgists among theancients. Indeed, it is commonnow to scoff at the very idea ofthe study of the twine, althoughonce it was first among sciencesand to become a thaumaturgist'sapprentice first among honours.": 1 "For most of its history then,the only contact Kilver folk hadwith the outside world was viatransient pedlars and mendicantmonks."'"Human nature being what it is,you might expect their isolationwas no guarantee against Kilverfolk fighting each other, but in"; 1 "Do you really want to quit?": 1 "By the time Matcher realised theconnection between his problemand the river it was too late. Tolan the thaumaturgist seizedthe chance he had been awaitingand came out of hiding, leadinga bloodless coup with a subtleblend of illusory pyrotechnicsand fake martial potential." 1 "At last only two thaumaturgistssurvived, a woman and a man ofgreat age called Anis and Tolaw.Noone can be sure exactly whathappened, but it seems that somesort of pact was made betweenthem, designed to preserve theirknowledge. All that is certainis that their frail figures werelast seen climbing painfully upa rock slope to Tow Cop, a groupof standing stones in Kilver." 1 "Although the remnants of hisarmy scattered in the mountains,Matcher himself was captured. Left with the problem of what todo with a prisoner they couldn'tunderstand, the Kilver Counciltook Tolan's advice and took himto Skelvullyn Castle, a fortresson the edge of the Sun Sea that"; 1 "A great poet once wrote 'Withoutcontraries is no progression' - and as if to confirm it crossedit out again. The thaumaturgistsused twisted conjunctions of allkinds to attain their aims - theprocess known as 'twisting' or'binding'. Some of these twineswere infinitely complex, otherssimple. A master could destroy amountain with a speck of sparrowdown." 1 "><8<"><B~ 1 supply proved providentialwhen, fourteen years before theaction of your adventure takesplace, one ofthe few 'events' inthe history of Kilver happened."'"Fleeing from plaguelands in theeast, a small army of maraudingsoldiers stumbled on Kilver and"; 1 ppppqqppp 1 from a trip"; 1 a lotshould see you through." 1 8(( (hh 8 1 (((0(h0((((