AN INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Land of Fairlight. You are about to enter a world of wonder and
magic. Fairlight represents the 'state of the art' in 3-dimensional graphic
adventures. What makes Fairlight rather special is a programming environment
called The 3-D Worldmaker Technique'.
Objects and characters in general have 'real world' features, such as weight,
momentum and sometimes a degree of intelligence, too. Although, for instance you
(as the hero 'Isvar') have 5 'pockets' to carry things in, you may not be able
to carry as many as 5 - what you can carry also depends on the weight of the
objects. Many objects have, well, 'magical' uses. All is not as may first meet
the eye.
FAIRLIGHT 1. A Prelude: The Light Revealed
A dying land
It did not happen overnight. The Land of Fairlight had once been a beauteous
place, peopled by a fair race, led by mighty and worthy Kings and Queens. But
the beauty had faded. The leaders had grown weaker and weaker. The Light had all
but gone.
The history books written by the Elders of days long gone by, talked almost
solely of a land of peace, a land of music and jollity. A land where it seemed
the sun shone brightly everyday, in clear blue skys. A land in which magic was
everywhere, in everything and in everyone...
No one could explain exactly what had gone wrong, although there was no shortage
of village storytellers more than willing to try. Only the Castle Avars stood
alone and silent on the plains of Avarslund - the last dwelling place of a King
of Fairlight, the King Avars, who some say was king when the Land was still full
of magic, before the fall-As long as anyone could remember no one had succeeded
in gaining entrance to this last vestage of the land as it once was.
As Isvar, you have accidentally gained entrance to the castle - or was it an
accident? A voice has spoken within you. It claimed to be the projection of
Segar the Immortal, Wizard of Light, held captive in a tower within. "Go", the
voice had said, "Seek the Book of Light within these walls, and bring it to me,
that I may be free to bring Light back to the land again...."
FAIRLIGHT 2. Trail of Darkness The Undoing
In this, the sequel to The Light Revealed' your quest is to locate the lost Book
of Light, stolen by the Dark Lord.
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Soon, if you cannot act to stop him, the Dark Lord will be able to harness the
power of the book and turn it to his own evil ends. Gone will be the last
fragments of Light in the Land. Gone will be the fading power of magic for
ever...
LOADING
Consult the labels on the cassette itself to see which side contains the program
you want to load.
SPECTRUM                      COMMODORE                                     AMSTRAD
LOAD"" ENTER                SHIFT/RUN STOP                 CTRL/small ENTER
The Spectrum version of Fairlight 2 loads in two parts. Load the first part and
stop the tape, then, if you get far enough into the game, you will be prompted
to load the second part. If you then fail in your quest, you will, in order to
restart, have to load in the data for Part 1 again. This is found on the second
half of side 1 of the tape. To find it quickly, keep a record of the tape
counter setting at the point on the tape where Fairlight 1 ends.
CONTROLS
All versions can be used with a Joystick (Spectrum version requires Kempston
interface; Commodore version requires joystick in Port 1). The joystick controls
movement, with the FIRE button used to FIGHT. There are keyboard controls for
these and all the other facilities....
	COMMODORE	SPECTRUM	AMSTRAD
UP/RIGHT	Yto@	YtoP	P
DOWN/LEFT	GtoL	HtoL	L
UP/LEFT	QtoT	QtoT	Q
DOWN/RIGHT	Ato F	AtoG	S
JUMP	/ or right SHIFT	SYM or SPACE	SHIFT
FIGHT	Nto.	Bto M	SPACE
PICK UP	XtoB	XtoV	6
DROP	left SHIFT or Z	CAPS or Z	7
OBJECTS/POCKETS	1 to 5	1 to 5	1 to 5
USE	7 toO	6 or 7	8
PAUSE	RUN/STOP	SYM/SPACE	CTRL
RESTART	RESTORE	any key	TAB/ESC
The Spectrum version of Fairlight 2 contains a further facility whereby you can
save your current game onto a blank tape and load it back in later. First PAUSE
the game, then press S to Save. To Load a saved game, PAUSE the game, then press
L to Load. When loaded RESTART the game.