THE JADE STONE

Amora, daughter of Lord Senidea, had lived a gentle and peaceful life
for as long as she could care to remember and now that she had finally
consented to marry her childhood sweetheart Amanton, nher circle of
serenity seemed complete. However off to the east an evil sorcerer, by
the name of Mallumo of Kradoom, was planning a campaign of hate that
would soon bring Amora's peaceful world crashing down around her.
Hearing of Mallumo's battle plans, Amanton and a small band of
warriors set off with the intention of bringing a halt to these evil
schemes, only to be quickly overpowered and cast into deep and dismal
dungeons.

Days pass without any news of the small band and then finally a weary
messenger stumbles into sight, bearing a ransom note from Mallumo ....
"Give me the hand of your daughter Amora or her beloved will die at
the hands of my executioner" reads the note. Lord Senidea shakes his
head and continues to read .... "Failing that, you may grant me the
rights to ALL of your kingdom and in return I will waive my demands
for your daughter." Crumpling the the note in his fist, Lord Senidea
summons his master-at-arms and bids him to assemble his army and to
prepare them to march upon Mallumo within the hour.

Turning to his beloved Amora and clasping her hand gently in his own,
Senidea smiles and says .... "I refuse to part with either YOU or my
land and Mallumo shall perish for even daring to ask such a thing of
me." With that he turns on his heels and heads off to lead his band of
warriors against Mallumo.

Sajo, Lord Senidea's faithful old advisor, shakes his head at the
sight of the army heading into battle and turns to Amora and whispers
..... "The JADE STONE is the only thing that is powerful enough to
stop Mallumo and that has been lost in the mists of time for many a
year now." Then with a shrug of his shoulders he turns to gaze
forlornly at the sight of the disappearing army.

Assist Amora to locate the 'JADE STONE' and thus discover the means to
destroy Mallumo.

NOTES
Use the commands TEXT and GRAPHICS to swap between the 'Text-Only'
display or 'Graphics' display. To list all available exits just type
in the command EXITS and to alter the size of the character font
simply type in M or MODE. The command OOPS will restore you to the
'game position' you were at BEFORE you typed in the very last command.

This game features such commands as GET ALL, RAMSAVE, RAMLOAD, etc and
can handle such complex commands as TAKE THE KNIFE FROM THE BROWN BAG
AND CAREFULLY CUT THE MEAT WITH IT, though normal VERB/NOUN input is
usually sufficient to carry out most actions. To converse with any of
the characters, simply enter speech in this form .... ASK SAJO WHERE
IS THE STONE or SAY TO SAJO HELLO or ASK THE PRISONER ABOUT MALLUMO.