Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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This is a Class C (bronze star) article.
Not to be confused with The Quest for the Holy Grail.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Eamon adventure #160
Author Nathan Segerlind
Released September 1988
Revised 29 August 1988 (DOS)
20 March 1993 (ProDOS)
EAG number 160
EDX number 08-07
EDX set The Nathan Segerlind Adventures
Native format Apple DOS 3.3
Files Eamon 160 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail.dsk
Eamon 160 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (ProDOS).dsk

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an Eamon adventure written by Nathan Segerlind and released in September 1988. It is the second adventure to be based on the 1975 comedy movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the other being Evan Hodson's The Quest for the Holy Grail (c. 1983).

Premise

In keeping with the Monty Python film, the introduction to Segerlind's adventure is repeatedly interrupted by silly Swedish subtitles. Ultimately God himself appears and confers the quest upon the adventurer: to find the Holy Grail.

The adventure loosely follows the plot of the film, incorporating many of the key scenes and characters as the adventurer wanders through Medieval Mercia.

Full introduction

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monte Python und da Hole Grail

by Nathan Segerlind
bie Nathun Segerlund

Inspiration by Monty Python
Inspurashun bie Monte Python

Technical aid from the bug stomper
How about da holidae in Sveden?

Eamon game system by Don Brown
See the loveli lakes

V6.0 MAIN.PGM by John Nelson
See lots uf furre animals

Distribution by the Eamon Adventurer's Guild
Inkluding da majestik moose

Dumb comments by Ryan Cooper
A moose bit mye sistur once

Animation by John J. J. Schmidt
Reallie! She vas trieing to carve hur initials in da moose with a knife when

Those responsible for the subtitles have been sacked.

Moose routine by S. Teneyck
Moose text file by Will Stark II
Moose's nose wiped by T. Wilson

Those responsible for sacking those responsible for the subtitles have been sacked.

MOOSE!

We have switched to a new system of doing credits at the last minute.

Starring
350 brown llamas
201 Peruvian llamas
80,000 battery-powered llamas
-2 ninja llamas
2.333 liberal llamas
95 Republican llamas
13 unlucky llamas

Oh heck! The saga begins...

One day, you were riding about the countryside, when all of a sudden your steed halted without warning. Annoyed, you glanced up, and there was God himself!

Thoroughly and utterly humbled, you knelt in a praying position and started confessing at breakneck speed. Annoyed, God demanded in a huge, all-powerful voice, "Will you be quiet! Every time I talk to somebody, it's 'Forgive me for this,' or 'Forgive me for that,' or 'I'm unworthy of your presence.' Now quit sniveling and listen! In these dark times, the people need a hero to unify and enlighten them. You have been chosen to do this. And your quest shall be that of the holy grail."

With that, the heavens shut with a thunderous clang.

You feel as if you are being transported in time and space, and faintly, but still powerfully, you can hear God saying... "My blessings are with you, and that's no small offer."

Walkthrough

Adventure map by Frank Black
⚠️ A walkthrough is needed for this adventure.

Author's notes

The adventure's ProDOS version notes the following modifications:

  • The text files EAMON.ARTIFACTS and EAMON.MONSTERS were combined into the variable file FAST.START. Use the programs MAKE.FAST.START and MAKE.ARTS.MONS to convert from one form to the other.
  • The save routine was changed to use the SAVE and RESTORE commands.

Trivia

  • The Australian philosophers named Bruce are one of the few elements drawn from the TV series instead of the film: the "Bruces sketch" appeared in episode 22, "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body".

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