You are Prollen the mercenary. The people of Yarm have offered you 1000 gold coins to get rid of Fordel the evil wizard.
Fordel is the leader of a vicious clan. He is known as the elite leopard lord. He is totally evil and will let nothing stand in the way of his ambition to rule the world by bringing forth a demon from the nether pits.
The reward is raised to 10,000 but you are still reluctant to help.
Then you hear that Braneth, your friend and mentor, has been captured. He is to be used in the ceremony to summon the demon. He will have his heart torn from his living body. The ceremony takes place on Midsummer's eve.
Tonight is Midsummer's eve.
Colin Appleby created a replacement for the missing NewBrain version of this game by porting the Oric 1 version.
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The awfully clunky description was taken straight from the game. The parser is fairly lousy as well. Give it a miss.
In the Spectrum version the reward is raised to 1500 only. Clearly Spectrum-based mercenaries are cheaper. :)
By the way, the game has an obvious bug: a critical in-game hint is written wrong, naming the three objects you need to defeat Fordel but repeating one of them instead of the correct third. It does not affect the game logic, but it is easy to fix. The following corrects the bug in the Spectrum version: POKE 31274,65: POKE 31275,82: POKE 31276,77: POKE 31277,79: POKE 31278,85.