Hawk the Hunter, by Jonathan B. Himes

Description: You awake groggy outside your family's Keep, aware only that the Mindsword has been wrenched from you by a powerful Warlock. 

Author Statement: An RPG/parser homage to the sword & sorcery classic Hawk the Slayer, a 1980 film by Terry Marcel and Harry Robertson.  After forty years, I have created a fan fiction sequel in this mode, using only words to fire the imagination. As Tolkien said, works of literary fantasy proceed not from ready-made pictures but rather "from mind to mind" with well-chosen words; a text adventure therefore seems an appropriate medium for the Bearer of the Mindsword.

System: Quest
Entered In: Main Festival 
Tags: sword & sorcery, parody, lots of puzzles, combat, 80s nostalgia, long game
Download: https://www.springthing.net/2020/stories/HawkTheHunter/HawkTheHunter.zip (345 KB)
 

This story was entered in the 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. More info is available at http://www.springthing.net/