This is a weird adventure, a short parody of Melbourne House's The Hobbit, coded entirely in MS-DOS batch files. If you try running it under Windows, the shell variable names may not be accepted; if so, try using DOSBox or a similar program. It failed for me under WinXP, but ran fine under DOSBox. The following walkthrough is not minimal, but nearly so. If you already know what you're doing, you can shorten it by three commands. examine chest examine thorin examine gandalf ask gandalf about map e wait n take sword s e ask elrond about map n enter raft examine dragon cut cigar w w