Zenobi Software
Adventures

LASKAR'S CRYSTALS
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Over the years you had encountered many strange and unexplicable 'legends' but
the one that had intrigued you the most had always been that of strange alien
creatures being the first to colonise the Earth. You had come across variations
of this 'theme' in such places as southern India, darkest Africa and deepest
Peru and ... until now ... shrugged off each and every one of them with the same
disregard. However things were about to change and your contempt for all things
alien was about to be replaced by a sense of wonderment concerning the
'explorers' from the stars that had made journeys to the most primitive parts of
this globe. Journeys that made your own trips of exploration seem nothing more
than a stroll across your own home street.

They had arrived in fantastic machines, capable of speeds unknown to mankind,
and guided by a technology that man was yet to hear of. They had brought little
more than the barest necessities of life with them, adapting themselves to suit
the conditions they found on Earth and relying on their own 'life-support'
systems to allow their natural body functions to operate as near to 'normal' as
possible. Such a system was responsible for keeping alive the alien creature
that you were to encounter on your latest trek in the rain-forest of the central
Amazon basin.

So you packed up your equipment and headed for the safety of your camp-site.
Once there you settled down to write up the day's notes and to catalogue your
various findings. The night was warm and muggy and your head felt heavy with
approaching sleep when a gasp of breath caused you to arise from the small
trestle table at which you were sat and to peer out of the small opening in the
wall to your left. What you saw lying on the ground was something that was about
to cause you to embark on your greatest adventure yet ......

Spectrum 48K/128K+2

NOTES:
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As usual this game will accept such standards commands as ... GET, EXAMINE,
SEARCH, CUT, DROP, ENTER AND PUT. However it will also respond to such commands
as INSERT, SHAKE, CHOP, FIT, EXTINGUISH and even PRISE, though it will be up to
you to find out just where exactly it is that you will need to use such
commands.

The game will also recognise such commands as RAM SAVE and RAM LOAD so use these
to store a game position to MEMORY. However always use the standard SAVE and
LOAD to commit a position to the more permanent medium of TAPE. Also use the
following abbreviation for the more commonly used commands .... G = GET,
X = ECAMINE, L - LOOK, I - INVENTORY, QQ = QUIT.

HINTS:
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Check out the boat before leaving it - even tomahawks can be blunt - a good
substitute for oil could be wax - if it will not fly then why not give it a hand
and throw it .....
