Pop-Tart Clock's lost his copy of Flash, and it's the last day of the Fourth Annual Flash Flood! Can you help him find it before it's too late?

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Thiiiiiiiiiis might be my first multi-sentence description all month. SIT DOWN AND I'LL TELL YE A TALE:

So, this started off as a homage to an old Amstrad CPC game called Bored of the Rings. I started this almost right after I became a Clock, and wanted to have it finished to celebrate the publishing of Fergus McNeill's first novel, Eye Contact. McNeill is the guy who made a lot of old interactive fiction games, but I only ever played BotR.

ANYWAY, everybody thought a LotR clockflash was a bad idea. I mean -everybody-. Oh well, screw them. I'll make it anyway. I start talking to my artist friend (the top half of the Flash was meant to show where you were, who/what was there, and simple animations), he says it's a good idea and says he'll help with the character drawings. IN FACT, he does five AMAZING drawings in under five minutes, and assures me he can draw many more also in under five minutes. Well, I ask for more, but he's busy. The next month, busy. The month after that, still can't find five minutes. Mention that, he gets angry, then feels bad and says he'll make them during Christmas vacation. DURING CHRISTMAS VACATION he forgot. He's busy again.

So yeah. Sorry Mister McNeill. Your story was cool, and WOW you sure can convey frustration and anger in just a few short words, but that might just come with being Scottish. I'll be buying the next two, but definitely won't be making any texty-games to celebrate them... at least, not any with graphics.

(wow that makes it sound like the artist's fault. Niet, I was just already pretty discouraged to begin with, the CC usually eggs you on for anything, then that happened and I just stopped giving a shit about it. I might make a 2D RPG out of it, some day. I still have the maps I drew)