You can sail the high seas to distant ports. Your journeys will bring you foes and friends, danger and triumph, fortune and fame - and more adventures than you thought.Īmass wealth, honours and power that will take you on voyages to uncharted regions. Retrieve the golden net of the gods from the Repulsive Ones deep beneath the sea - and use the rewards of your victories to travel beyond the boundaries of the known in the world of Harkuna. Descend to the sewers of Yellowport to defeat the vile rat-king. Use fighting skills or sorcery, bribery or skulduggery to survive the assassins in city backstreets. You can join forces with the king to restore his throne - or look for profit in the pay of the dictator. With hundreds of quests and locations to explore, the choices are all yours.
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Undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or remain a free agent and choose your own objectives. Buy ships, goods, and townhouses, join a temple, risk desperate adventures in the wilderness, or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. Be anyone you want: explorer, merchant, priest, scholar, thief, wizard, or soldier of fortune. This double CD, with better sound than the later Collectables single discs, is the best way to discover the Red Krayola the merely curious may want to end their search here as well.The original Fabled Lands gamebooks, written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, and beloved by many, have been transformed into an epic, digital adventure of interactive fiction with a massive game world. Surprisingly enough, some of the songs are downright catchy the opening "Say Hello to Jamie Jones" moves along on a hushed Thompson vocal and a perky Cunningham bassline, sounding for all the world like a post-punk experiment from late-'70s London. The 20 tracks, ranging from the four second (no kidding) "Listen to This" to the comparatively expansive "Green of My Pants," which just barely breaks the three-minute barrier, are simple enough that the utter weirdness of Thompson's lyrics really shines through. God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It, recorded as a simple trio with new drummer Tommy Smith, is a much more straightforward album, and it's actually better than its more renowned predecessor. Of those songs, the almost punky "Hurricane Fighter Plane," with a squalling organ solo by Erickson, and the plain freaky "Pink Stainless Tail" are the highlights, but the whole thing is a sonic onslaught that makes Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, its nearest point of comparison, sound downright normal. Originally released on Lelan Rogers' fabled International Artists label (home to the 13th Floor Elevators and Bubble Puppy, among others), these albums are uncompromisingly weird artifacts that move right beyond psychedelic into "freakishly strange." Parable of Arable Land is the better-known of the two, having been recorded in a legendary one-day session where the core band (including singer/guitarist Mayo Thompson, bassist Steve Cunningham, and drummer Rick Barthelme, who would later gain considerably more fame as novelist Frederick Barthelme) invited a group of fellow travelers, including the Elevators' Roky Erickson, into the studio to record the "Freeform Freakouts" which appear between the proper songs.
These two albums, recorded in 19, are the cornerstone of the Red Krayola legend and two of the most famous records in avant-garde '60s rock.
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