THE PILGRIMAGE
ENTER THE PILGRIM; A LONE ADVENTURER, VAGABOND... TOURIST
Last night our intrepid hero arrived in the ancient monastery town of Firesend to begin his pilgrimage, and promptly drank himself into a stupor. Today, he has awoken in the pub to find that he owes the landlord money... that he has none, that fate seems to want to drag him into mysteries and adventures that are really none of his business, and that the narrator doesn't seem to think too highly of him.
It could be worse. And before the day is out, it probably will.
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A work of interactive fiction, The Pilgrimage is a parser-driven text adventure, released on Steam and itch.io. The Pilgrimage features traditional RPG dialogue trees, a parser replete with recognition of multiple nouns, prepositions and adjectives per command, and a branching storyline with multiple solutions to every predicament. Solve puzzles and uncover mysteries with the aid of traditional adventure game tropes, and keep track of quests with the aid of a slightly less traditional dynamic journal.
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Forgoing traditional episodic releases, The Pilgrimage is tale that will grow in the telling. Play Chapter 1 now, for free!
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CHAPTER 1: THE PORCELAIN CROWN OF REGRET​
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We join our fated hero the morning after, with his face in a puddle of filth, besieged by the cruel sobriety of the coming day, and the voice of a landlord laying claim to a debt. He has no money, he has no memory, he... frankly has no hope of avoiding the impending consequences of his actions. But when you hit rock bottom, the only way is up... right?
With a key in his pocket, and high hopes for a shower and a change of clothes, he sets off with a lurch in his stride and a pain in the back of his head.
So begins his grand journey through the trials and tribulations of a foreign town at the crack of dawn.
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