SKALD: Against the Black Priory Update – Demo and Contest

The Holiday season is here, and that apparently means a festive development update for Scape-IT’s retro RPG SKALD: Against the Black Priory. The update directs us to the game’s new Steam demo and mentions a holiday contest that invites us to play through the demo, solve a mystery of some description, and get a chance to win a game from the Raw Fury catalogue.

More on that:

Ho ho ho!

That special time of year is descending upon us and uncle Andy’s coming in hot with red cheeks and smelling vaguely of Christmas schnaps. He’s also bringing gifts!

DEMO UPDATE

By the time you’re reading this, we should have updated the demo online. This is a pretty chonky update that more then doubles the amount of content. It includes a bunch of never before seen areas and narrative content as well as a new recruitable NPC.

It also adds in a lot of new features, like the option to build your own character. We only have a handful of the classes, feats, portraits and backgrounds available yet but this still adds a lot of variety so go nuts!

Needless to say, we’ll be adding a ton more of everything in the final product so no need to worry.

THE QUEST FOR THE SANTA FURY

Adventurers and treasure hunters have been searching for her ever since. None have succeeded. Lately however, a rumor has begun to spread in dockside taverns and brothels:

The Santa Fury has been located. The rush to recover her is on. Will you partake?

Yes we hid an entire ship in the latest demo and you get to go on a real treasure hunt FOR REAL TREASURE!

How to enter

• Download the demo and start playing. You’ll soon enough find someone who’ll tell you the legend of the Santa Fury and you’ll be off!
• Once you find the treasure and see the phrase “amorphous shape of eyes, mouths and tentacles” take a screenshot.
• Amble over to the Skald Discord and DM the screenshot to our lovely community person, Fiona (Discord name “Feeona#0001″) . Do NOT post the screenshot in one of the public channels.
• Contest is open until January 9th and once it closes we’ll draw five winners who’ll receive a free key to a game of their choice from the Raw Fury catalogue!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL

I’ll be lurking a bit and seeing how the contest is going but I’ll also try to take a few days off. In other words, I’ll see you all on the other side of the year in what will surely be the year of Skald!

I’m so grateful to have been given the opportunity to pursue my passion and I hope this is a project that will bring joy into people’s lives for years to come. Be kind to each other and please be mindful of those who find the holidays difficult. A kind word or gesture might go a long way.

What remains is to wish you all a very happy holidays and good luck on the hunt for the Santa Fury.

Love you all,

AL