It has been a pretty long time since there was a post here but some incredible work by Huw Williams has promoted me to dust off the old email account and share the following. Huw relates the following:
Recently an old box of assorted floppy disks auctioned off at eBay revealed a hidden treasure: three previously unknown Eamon adventures that had eluded the clubs and the official catalog for nearly 45 years! The unearthed adventures are titled Castle Danger, The Jester's Court, and The Trapster's Maze.
Castle Danger was written around 1982 by Pat Hartman, a member of the Apple Corps of San , and has some interesting custom features, most notably several pieces of colorful computer art by Hartman that show locations in the story. The Jester's Court and The Trapster's Maze are even older, created around 1981 when Eamon was still radiating out through the nation's Apple II user groups. What makes these two especially remarkable is that they were written by none other than the young Raymond E. Feist, who would later go on to become a best-selling fantasy novelist and creator of the popular Riftwar Cycle. Reached for comment, Feist remembered the adventures, recalling that he made them "for grins and giggles" back before he had any expectations of being a writer or game designer. Writes Feist, "It's good to know they're still floating around out there somewhere and a few folks may still get a giggle out of them."
All three adventures are simple outings with straightforward layouts, representative of the earliest Eamons. In "The Jester's Court", the adventurer's friend Felinah has taken a wrong turn on her way to Krondor and instead winds up in the clutches of the nefarious Jester, so the adventurer sets out to free her. In "The Trapster's Maze", the Guild sends the adventurer and a handful of companions on a quest to locate and return the legendary Chalice of Ubarzee. "Castle Danger" has no explicit quest and is simply an exploration of a forbidding stone castle.
These three rarities have been converted to DSK, mapped, and are now available as adventures 281, 282, and 283 in the Eamon catalog.
