Artisan's Tomb, The

Dead Seagull 1993

Language:: English
Authors:: Dead Seagull
Systems:: AGT
Platforms:: Atari ST
Genres:: Based on literature , Fantasy, misc.
Entered by:: Garry, Strident
Added:: 12-01-2026
Edited:: 20-02-2026

Synopsis

You are sitting by your campfire late in the evening when a spirit approaches you. He tells you that his name is Jutzuka and he was once a great artisan. He fell in love with a beautiful woman and made her a beautiful vase to win her heart, but when he gifted it to her, he learned that she was already promised to another. In shame and fear, he went to her house to steal the vase back and destroy it, but he was discovered by one of the guards and shot with an arrow.

His ashes were placed in the vase he had made and buried in a nearby tomb. He can't pass on to the afterlife until the vase containing his ashes is destroyed. He can't do it himself, as he is barred from his own tomb, so he asks if you can destroy the vase for him.

Notes

This runs on the Atari ST, but the compiled files will not work on MS-DOS.

This game is based on the AD&D module The Artisan's Tomb, which was written by Matthew Maaske and published in issue 10 (vol. ii, no. 4) of Dungeon magazine, dated March/April 1988, pp.9-11. The introductory text is verbatim. The map, room descriptions and objects borrow heavily from the article.