As with The Bard's Tale, play begins in the Adventurers Guild where your party is created, or imported from the previous game or made up from a default band of sterling adventurers.  This time however, you are no longer in Skara Brae, a city of no escape, but in the city of  Tangramayne and you are free to leave to explore the wilderness or visit other cities at any time.

This game introduces a novel concept.  In each of the critical dungeons at the final stages, the game switches into realtime mode - if you don't solve the final puzzle before your time is up - your "times up" !!!!!
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