![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unless you are a complete land lubber you should find it pretty easy to salvage most of your ship plus a few of your crew if you are lucky. As you brave a fierce storm you suddenly sight land. Pilot of the last ship from a fleet of five, you struggle across wide seas with a pitiful crew, most of them dead, the rest dying. ![]() Until now the Portuguese have had the Japanese sewn up by controlling the seas to the west of them, the way east being miles of uncharted ocean which only a madman would cross. Spanish and Portuguese and English and Dutch men have been blowing each other out of the water for years now, each protecting the valuable trade routes. Times are hard - there is a religious war brewing in Europe and on the sea no one can hear you sink. Wonder no more, for now Infocom has provided you with a ticket back to the 12th century as a pilot aboard a Dutch trader, the Erasmus. Did they really bath that often? Were they really that fanatical? And what about the women? FACE it, reader-san, ever since you read the book, saw the TV series (again) and decapitated next door's cat with the sword, you've been wondering what it was really like to be an Englishman abroad in the newly- discovered Japans. ![]()
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