			Hex (The legend of Vianna)


Another game I found while raking about in my Electron's box...

Well, this was a really good adventure game by Larsoft.
(orginally tape but transferred)

The packaging included a tarot card, "Le mot", and had a stylised (b/w)
picture of a witch on the front, with a seaside town and bats etc behind her..

It also had the attached story on the inlay card.

Andrew de Quincey
adq@tardis.ed.ac.uk

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Hex
(The Legend of Vianna)

Whilst on a hiking holiday in Cornwall you find yourself in Padstow during the
Hobby Horse celebrations. These take place on May Day when the hobby horse
dances through the crowd grabbing at and bumping into the watching crowd.

After the celebrations you become engaged in conversation with a couple of the
local Cornishmen in one of the taverns. When you inform them of your interest
in legend and folklore they start to mention the local legend of a witch named
Vianna who lived by the coast between Padstow and Bude, farther North.

A couple of hundred years ago the woman, Vianna was accused of being a witch
and was put to death.
The people say, however, that at certain times she returns to stalk the night
along with various demons and familiars wihch she conjures up to help her in
whatever diabolical deeds she performs.

Now that King Edward has succeeded to the throne people are less likely to be
alarmed by the ghost stories and witchcraft in these modern Edwarddian days.
However, in recent years there have still been a number of respectable people
reporting eerie occurrences. Why, only last year a local doctor reported
hearing the sound of voices and the whinnying of horses on the moors whilst
there was no sign to be seen of anybody.

These days, however, Vianna is more euphemistically referred to as Vi and many
scoff at the mention of witchcraft.

One of the men to whom you are talking mentions that he is driving, in the
morning, to Bude and that he will happily offer you a seat on his carriage so
that you can visit the village where Vianna lived.

So it was, that the following day, the man drops you off after a journey of
about an hour or so and continues on his way Northwards.

"If you should meet the old witch, give her my regards", he laughs as the
carriage is driven away.

Now, is it my imagination or is it just a little bit more chilly that it was
a moment ago? ................







