A post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey from a novelist you've never heard of...The Pilgrimage is a parser-driven text adventure by a deranged man who decided that the best way to expand the non-existent audience of his obscenely intricate fictitious world was to write a computer game from scratch.
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph...Enter, the Pilgrim: A lone adventurer, vagabond...
tourist. Last night, our intrepid hero arrived in the holy monastery town of Firesend, to begin his pilgrimage, to visit the shrines, to pray and reflect, to find enlightenment, and perhaps to find atonement for a dramatically unspecified and narratively compelling shadowy past...
...Of course, first he stopped off at the pub. And that's about as far as his sepia-toned memory gets before it turns to purulent purple, and fades to black amid a blur of booze and bad choices.
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