Lantern Caravan Game

Each night Grandmother tells a new desert tale, and you hold the lantern. A small caravan walks to the city at night, and creatures come out of the dark for its crates. You aim the lantern. Its beam burns them a little, but above all it shows them to your archers, who can't shoot what they can't see. Light a creature far out in the dark and the arrows hit harder and it drops more coins. When they get too close, a burst of light pushes them all back. Every 1,000 m there is an oasis. Take one of three gifts and keep going, where the pay is better and the creatures are tougher, or make camp and keep every coin. At camp, spend your gold on a brighter lantern, more oil, stronger crates and more archers, then set out again from the farthest oasis you reached. At 8 km a creature from the old tales of the Arabian Peninsula waits at the city gate: the Si'lwa, Umm al-Sa'af wal-Leef or Abu Fanous.…