In this game, you play as "Cardinal Chang", an assassin for hire. Soon after the game begins, you are hired to murder Colonel Arthur Trapping. You are told he is an ambitious fool, a louse, and the brother-in-law of Henry Xonck, the wealthy arms manufacturer.
This game and Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Celeste Temple were created to promote the novel Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist, published by Random House.
Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Cardinal Chang was created with Inform 6 and has IFID ZCODE-1-060711-A32C. To play a work like this one, you need an interpreter program: many are available, among them Zoom for Mac OS X and for Unix; Windows Frotz for Windows.