A solo module for players at the Companion level of BECMI D&D (levels 15 to 25) this could also be easily adapted to be played with a party, and seeing as there weren’t that many Companion Modules available (there were 9 in all, throughout the years) this might have been a good idea. 

As a solo module it’s another one of those “red cellophane” modules, where you get pages which are red and you can only read them by looking through the cellophane to make out the words. This stopped players from spoiling themselves in solo play, but also had the additional side effect of making the module impossible to Xerox as red would come out as black, so it wasn’t just a question of gameplay but also an anti piracy measure. 

The story, as in the case of most solo modules is not very complex, you are an elf who needs to retrieve one of the magic white pearls that protect your town of Tarylon, in order to do this you need to challenge a wizard (the guy on the cool Larry Elmore cover) and pass his riddles and tests. It’s notable that this is one of the very few women written modules of the period, being Anne Gray McCready’s first contribution to modules. She had been hired some years earlier as a Copy Editor.