| Important Information The following information will be of help in using and enjoying the Chronicles of Arborell. It is a bit haphazard but I believe it will be helpful. If you have any questions regarding this book feel free to contact the author using the email address provided. This book is an online interactive adventure gamebook. As many readers may not have experienced the enjoyment of this type of fiction it is important that I first explain what adventure gamebooks are and how they should be played. Gamebooks are sometimes known as choose-your-own adventures, you commence reading them as you would a normal book, but are given options and choices that you can make to influence the outcome of the adventure. Thrown into this mix is combat, the need to keep inventory of items and articles found, and on many occasions a good helping of luck doesn't hurt either. Read all the instructions, with this information you will succeed where others have failed. Goodluck. Now for the boring stuff. This work of on-line fiction is the intellectual property of the author, Wayne Francis Densley, and all the usual rights associated with the ownership of intellectual property are reserved by me. All text, illustrations and graphics are my property. I wrote the words and I made the pictures, do not steal them. Having said that the reader has full permission to use this gamebook, download a copy for your personal use, print off any pages that are necessary for the purposes of playing and generally enjoy it. I would ask that if you like it enough to give it to a friend please ask them to visit my website at www.shoal.net.au/~densleyw/ so that I may have a better idea of how many people are reading it. To best view these pages, and to take advantage of the illustrations and other graphics provided it is important that you use an 800X600 screen resolution. Any higher resolution destroys the formatting of the pages and severely hampers the readers ability to enjoy the story. (If possible don't use 640X480. Its not a pretty sight at all.) Although most ebooks are designed to be downloaded and then printed as hardcopy, this is not the case with this adventure gamebook. It has been designed specifically to be used on-screen with only the character and combat sheets being printed for use during the game. Try it this way, I guarantee you will enjoy saving a few trees. This gamebook has been designed to mirror much of the gameplay that came with the original paper-based gamebooks. The use of dice and paper stats recording may appear somewhat unusual considering this is an online piece of interactive fiction, but I have tried to keep some of the fun that has always been a part of the old gamebook tradition. I would very much like to hear from readers about how this went and any suggested improvements that might be made. Just a short note for American readers. You will find in this book some spelling which may appear incorrect. I can assure you that this is only due to the differences that can be found between American English and British English. As an Australian I use the latter. That's it really, except for this last thought. As this is a piece of interactive fiction I would appreciate hearing from interactive readers regarding their views on it. If you have any comments please email me at the address below or visit the official "Chronicles of Arborell" website at www.shoal.net.au/~densleyw/. Regards, Wayne Densley __________________________________________________________ Titlepage | ReadMe | Instructions | Inhabitants | Map of Northern Kalborea Quick Find Page| Email | Book Two - Earth and Stone