This is a humorous text adventure which forms a spoof of the original Pawn adventure by Magnetic Scrolls. First released for the Sinclair QL home computer by Talent computer systems of Glasgow, it was written by Mert (Martin Hopkins) who was well known for producing witty well written adventures.

You play the role of a Prawn who was scooped up in a trawler net and you end up on a strange land, wearing a copper tail-band, which must have been placed on you during your sleep because you cannot remember how it got there. Apart from noticing that you can now move about on land nearly as easily as you could in the Sea, you have an odd sensation that you have been here before..

Many features of this game are similar to the Pawn, although not all of the puzzles can be solved in the same manner. There is a philosopher, an itinerant salesperson, a magician who arrives on a giant pop bottle top, a castle with gardens to explore, a mountain with a cave, an Ice Tower guarded by a shrimp and even a tree stump!!

This adventure comes in three parts (King's Keep, The Ancient City of Laros and The Badlands. Much larger than the original Pawn, this should keep you occupied for many a long evening.

Do not worry if you have never played the original game The Pawn, as this spoof is self-contained and contains enough explanation for you to perform all the tasks without reference to the original adventure.

If you are looking for the original PAWN (by Magnetic Scrolls), unfortunately, the Sinclair QL version of this program will not currently work from disk and is still copyright. However a Magnetic Scrolls interpreter for various platforms can be downloaded from here and you can also download the files needed to play a version of Pawn and many other Magnetic Scrolls adventures. You will however, need the original adventures as the games remain copyright.

NOTE: You can download a demo of the Windows version from this website - this is the full adventure but is limited to 3 sessions of 20 minutes playing time.

We would also like to find the program Funfear by Martin Hopkins if anyone has a copy.