JESTER QUEST
(Zenobi Software)

Spectrum 48K/128K+2


This is the tale of a fat little chap by the name of
Jeremy, by trade a jester, by nature a brainless fool.
There were some who said he was the "best" jester in
the land but there were also others who said he was
the ONLY jester!

One day whilst "exercising" his "eldest" joke to the
court of King Bawd the second, accompanied by the
usual cacophony of snores and yawns, his career took
a sudden turn for the worst as the courtroom doors
were flung open and in burst a rival jester!!! It was
Userper the great jester of the Southlands, come to
claim the position of court jester as his own. With
a barrage of quick-fire jokes he soon had the court
rolling about in fits of laughter, leaving poor old
Jeremy broken-hearted and unemployed. For in a trice
the King, his eyes watering with mirth, shouted at
Jeremy, "You're fired!" and clicking his fingers at
two guards, had him "politely" escorted to the nearest
window and promptly flung out of it.

Jeremy picked himself up and began to brush off the
dirt from his trendy jester-suit, when a passing
Pixie asked him "You alright?". Jeremy replied "Of
course I am, I landed on my head didn't I?" before
heading in the direction of the "Prancing Odour"
tavern to drown his sorrows and contemplate his next move.

Whilst drowning his sorrows in several large flagons of
best "Troll's water", Jeremy suddenly noticed a pink
elephant wearing a tutu appear before him. "Fear not little fat chappie," said the pink
elephant, "I am your fairy godmother and I have come to tell you how to get your job back.
First of all you will need to give your jokes the extra boost of the "Secret of Laughter".
This you can obtain from Smurkin the Warlock of the Northern Hills ... in exchange for
his daughter Xel ... currently held captive within Grizelda's lodge ... and the collection
of necessary Ingredients. Her is a list of the ingredients you will need to find but
you will have to rescue Xel all by yourself." So saying the pink elephant thrust a tatty
bit of paper into Jeremy's hand and vanished as quickly as it had arrived. Jeremy gazed
at the paper and prepared to set off on his less than historic quest.


NOTES ... This game will accept all the standard commands but it also supports some of
the more unusual ones  such as ...

OOPS ... Take back one move.   AGAIN ... Repeat last command.   LAST ... Will move the
player back to the last room they visited.   FONT ... Use this in conjunction with the
letters A, B, C or D to select the font of your choice.   TELL JOKE ... This is Jeremy's
ultimate weapon, one of his terrible jokes, but not everybody will succumb to them.

This game will also respond to such commands as GET ALL, EXAMINE ALL and DROP ALL.

Use RAMSAVE or RAMLOAD to store a position to memory but always use the standard SAVE
and LOAD to make a more permanent record on tape.

TEXT will turn the graphics off and PICTURES will turn the graphics back on again.
