Take part in the amazing journey through the realm of Avalon. Explore enchanted forests, cursed graveyards, sunken ruins, deep catacombs and haunted dungeons. Solve riddles and mysteries, master obstacles and challenges, and fight ferocious creatures and dragons to find hidden treasures. Experience the magic of Avalon.

 

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The "Catacombs of Avalon" is a scripted interactive adventure quest inside the virtual 3D environment of Second Life®. The game mechanics are similar to a classic point and click adventure, where you have to find quest items and use them on objects, e. g. find a key and use it on a locked door to unlock it. Another aspect of the adventure are the riddles. You have to find combinations of levers, search for hidden mechanisms and many more. Another feature are mechanics from jump'n run games, that require some experienced handling of your avatar, like jumping over logs or balancing on ropes.

In the end of the first episode of the adventure, you will face the end boss, a dragon in the lair on the last floor of the Catacombs. The dragon battle is scripted and similar to end boss battles of many MMORPGs (PvE - Person versus Environment). Equipped with a sword and shield, you will have to defend yourself against dragon attacks, like firebreath, bites and claw slashes, while you look for a gap in the dragon's defenses to attack it with your sword. The required sword and shield you will find on your journey. Your and your oponent's health points are shown on your HUD.

If you succeed to defeat the dragon, you can plunder the dragon's hoard and get many rewards. You will also aquire the title of the "Avalon Dragon Slayer" and one kill on the dragon slayer scoreboard, which is located inside the stronghold. The dragon battle is repeatable. For a specific number of kills, you can choose a rideable dragon mount as reward. Here is a list of the available dragon mounts.

If you die during the quest, you will be resurrected on one of three available resurrection locations. You will have to make your way through the catacombs again. The only binding point is at the last floor of the dungeon (5th floor), before you face the dragon. Once you reach that binding point, you will be able to return there anytime, by clicking the 5th floor teleport skull at the graveyard entrance.

Of course, like in classic MMORPGs you can team up with other players for the quest, and up to three players for the dragon battle.

You can see the pictures of the adventure in the flickr gallery.

 

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When you arrive the first time on Avalon, you find yourself on a bridge in front of a stronghold. There, you see an introduction book with the story about how you arrived on Avalon. There is also an introduction book to the Catacombs at the entrance to the graveyard. It is advised to read those books to learn about the background story and the Catacombs dungeon.

 

Inside the stronghold, there are three portals. The left one leads to a trap-spiked labyrinth, the middle portal leads to the graveyard, where your adventure begins, and the right one to the store. To enter the middle portal to the graveyard, you have to join the "Order of Avalon" community group and have it active as tag (shown under your avatar's name). To play the adventure, you have to get the Avalon HUD. It's advised, to get a DEMO HUD to try the game, before you purchase the full version of the HUD. The Avalon HUD pillars, with a rotarting dragon above, are located next to the main portal inside the stronghold and at the entrance to the graveyard.

 

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The adventure begins at the entrance of the graveyard. After reading the introduction book and solving some basic quests, you advance into the hidden Catacombs beneath, a large multi-level area spiked with traps, hostile creatures and roaming ghosts. The Catacombs are an immersive, dark, gloomy dungeon experience and will require a lot of exploration and puzzle-solving by the player. On the way to the final encounter, a ferocious dragon, you have to face many dangers and riddles, forever facing down death as you quest their way to their final objective.

Mercurio, the First Knight of Avalon, wrote this journal about his journey within the Catacombs, "The Journal of a Fallen Knight".

The second episode of the adventure, after you defeat the dragon, is mainly oriented on an intelligent NPC (non player character) communication / dialogue. You have to travel through the realm of Avalon, exploring new locations, caves and dungeons, resolving puzzles, travelling through time into the past, and finally face the evil necromancer.

 

If you want to visit Avalon and take part in the role play or play the rpg adventure, you have to register at www.secondlife.com. Download the latest Firestorm viewer from here, log in with your account name and password.

Use following SLURL (Second Life® link), to teleport to Avalon: Avalon SLURL.

Second Life® and the RPG adventure on Avalon are free to play*.

* InWorld a one-time purchase may be required to experience the full adventure.