Palaces and Pyramids

This is the journal for the playthrough begun in Part 1. This makes a bit more sense as a read. The numbers are the prompts from the game (25.2 would be the second prompt for number 25).  Journal 3.1 Sumitra is alive! She finds me in a camp near Dhara, where she has been a captive, a wife, a widow. She wishes to find a healer for me, but the bleeding means nothing. I cannot stand the daylight, though I see nothing. She gives me a wooden bowl for gifts of food, though nothing given will sustain me. As she begins to understand more, she lets me know where the soldiers carouse. I take of them what they once took from my people. 4.1 The healers would not leave me to my peace, and I am driven from the city by holy incantations. Sumitra wraps me like a bundle of cotton cloth and leads Sarantugala north by night. We arrive in the old capital of Udabhandapura, now under the sway of a sultan . I can tell without sight that the people here ride well. My songs are well-liked here, and I am ca...

This is a typewritten version of a playthrough of Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings. In part 2 I will add the journal, but that's an optional part of the game. All the mechanical elements are here. This was an interesting experience that took about two weeks of play to complete. Characters Sumitra , my reckless sister, a sorceress. Babaka , a swordsman and bandit. Vamadeva , a fellow conscript. Asadhi (i), a Deva who pitied me. Lomaharsana , who claimed the fields of my father. Arik , my ward from Samarqand who followed me to the eastern Khanate. Baram (i), the mendicant whose hunger made me a vetala. Soojin (i), a scholar-official who knows the stars well whose being I made as my own.  Nasif , an ecstatic in thrall to my songs who is alive again with a demon in his shadow. Darma Bansin , a Dutch colonial and descendant of Arik, my former ward. Satook , a brigand and eunuch. Absolom Bansin , a grandson of Darma, devoted to my destruction.  Jangye , a decrepit monk...