Jewel of Yara
| Jewel of Yara | |
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| ◄Eamon adventure #232► | |
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| Author | Hoyle Purvis |
| Released | September 1995 |
| Revised | 8 June 1995 |
| EAG number | 232 |
| EDX number | 17-19 |
| EDX set | Classic Eamon Adventures, Vol. 5 |
| Native format | Apple DOS 3.3 |
| File | Eamon 232 - Jewel of Yara.dsk |
Jewel of Yara is an Eamon adventure written by Hoyle Purvis. It's based on the 1933 short story "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard.
Premise
The adventure's full introduction:
While on a quest to free the people of Arenjun from an evil priest named Yara, you were beset in your sleep by a band of thieves. Chained and beaten, you endured several days of misery when you saw your chance. Your chains, which you had weakened by rubbing against the steel tire of the wagon wheel to which you were chained at night, finally broke. You smashed the first guard with the chain and grabbed your armor which lay in the cart. However, the alarm had been sounded and a dozen armed men rushed out. Wolf-dogs trained to track and kill are unleashed. You have no choice but to run! And run you do. For two days you had run over hills and mountain, unable to stop for the dogs on your trail. Alone and unarmed, the adventure begins.
Walkthrough
Source material
Hoyle's adventure faithfully adapts the key parts of the Conan the Barbarian story "The Tower of the Elephant", written by Robert E. Howard and published in the March 1933 edition of Weird Tales:
Conan and the master thief Taurus together infiltrate the tower of the evil wizard Yara in the city of Arenjun with the aim of stealing the precious stone known as the Heart of the Elephant. They kill a guard and several lions in garden near the base, then scale to the top of the tower and enter the uppermost chambers where they encounter an enormous spider which kills Taurus and nearly defeats Conan. Exploring further, Conan discovers both the gem and the elephant-headed alien Yag-Kosha who has been tortured and imprisoned by the wicked Yara, and who begs Conan to help him get vengeance on his tormentor. At Yag-Kosha's instruction, Conan cuts out the being's heart and puts its blood onto the gem, then finds Yara and presents it to him. The gem magically draws the wizard inside where he's slain by the spirit of Yag-Kosha. With the wizard's power broken, the tower collapses as Conan escapes.
The side-quest in Hoyle's adventure — journeying to an abandoned city far to the east to recover additional gems — is not part of "The Tower of the Elephant" but seems to be an original embellishment using some of Howard's common tropes.
External links
- Wikipedia: The Tower of the Elephant
- EAG Online: Master List
- The Interactive Fiction Database: Jewel of Yara
- Interactive Fiction Reviews: Jewel of Yara
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