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I was a child when Prince Mondain slew his father Wolfgang, when he began to walk the land, spreading evil and death. He opened one of his damned pits in our back forty, destroying half our crops, the fell beasts that issued forth destroying the other half. I remember the last of the clean rains, and the first of the blood rains. I became a man in hiding, learning the way of the axe and shadow the way my fathers took to plow and scythe. I knew fear the way they knew prosperity.

When the Champion of the White Light arose to challenge the darkness, I was not initially impressed. He differed from the others that had raised arms only in his foreign origins. Some said he came from another world entirely, but by that time I'd seen so many come and go that it scarcely even seemed to matter. Even after rumors of his continued victories came to the refugee camps, I remained behind as more and more flocked to his banner.

I wish I could say that I was one of his disciples. That I was one of the first. That I'd had more faith. But I was one of the last, present for only that last battle on those blood-soaked plains, there the day that British finally defeated Mondain. I saw him, his sword of light, his steed of red steel, and heard the shriek of the dark lord as he fled.

Akalabeth's Age of Darkness has ended. The Age of Revival has begun.

There is yet work to be done. British - now Lord British, granted half the kingdom out of the people's gratitude - has put forth the call for would-be heroes to serve at his behest. While Mondain has fled, the darkness he spread remains a stain upon Akalabeth. Dungeons lie like festering sores throughout the land. Those who prove their worth in cleansing them will earn themselves a knighthood.

So now I seek his castle, though I've never set foot there myself. Not like I remember how to farm.

Here we are in Akalabeth!



We're the + in the middle of the screen. The five squares above us is a town. The mass of lines above us and to the left are impassible mountains. The X to the right is a dungeon. The square below and to the right are trees, which have no function whatsoever.

Not pictured: Lord British's castle, which is a box with an X in it. It's... somewhere... in this 20x20 grid, and our first goal is to find it before we run out of food and starve to death.

Important to note: Every dungeon and town is otherwise identical. Once we've found the castle, there's no real reason to travel too far from it. All we need are the castle, a dungeon, and a town in close proximity to each other.