Question: What is the name of this role playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984, which were covered by the Cretan Chronicles?
Context: An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface.  Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of "MUD1", which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs.  Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.  Over the years, games have used TELNET, internet forums, IRC, email and social networking websites as their media. MerpCon is an acronym for "Middle-Earth Role Playing Convention", a role playing game convention dedicated solely to role-playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.  The event is held annually on the last weekend of July and runs for 3 days from Friday, through to the end of Sunday (and sometimes a little into the following Monday morning).  To date MerpCon has been held each year in Spokane, WA, USA.  Beginning in 2009 MerpCon began to transition to being called Tolkienmoot as this convention's venue began to expand to include more Tolkien-related activities, events, and guests beyond just role playing in Middle-earth. The Aethra Chronicles - Volume One: Celystra's Bane or The Aethra Chronicles (also known as Aethra for short) is a classic 1994 MS-DOS shareware computer role playing game.  The game was based on the Rolemaster game system, a Pencil & Paper role playing game.  It was developed mostly as a one-man project by Michael Lawrence with some help from others for the graphics and sound/music. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (MHRP), is the fourth role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, published Margaret Weis Productions under license from Marvel Comics.  It was a fast playing game using the Cortex Plus system, with the first volume published in early 2012.  In early 2013 Margaret Weis Productions announced they would not be renewing their license. FTL:2448 is a science fiction role playing game, created by Richard Tucholka, and published by Tri Tac Games in 1982, about faster-than-light (FTL) travel with alien races.  In 1985, there was an expanded edition, and in 1990, a two-volume version of the game was released.  Book One covered character creation, alien races, combat, equipment, and some scenarios.  Book Two included the extensive Star-System-generation system, several campaign setups, and more background information on the overall campaign.  The 2000 PDF Edition includes an additional 100 pages of new material as well as starship blueprints, The Art of FTL, and additional material. Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book (ISBN  ; ISBN  ).  The game is set in a 16th to 17th century British setting - the Tudor Period and the Elizabethan era - although the rules can be adapted to other locations or time periods.  Firearms (readily available in Europe at this time) are conspicuously absent from the setting, mentioned only in passing in the initial rulebook. The Cortex System is a generic RPG system based on the "Sovereign Stone System ", and was developed by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd for the Serenity Role Playing Game.  It was subsequently used for their licensed "Battlestar Galactica" and Supernatural RPGs, and brought out as a stand-alone system in the "Cortex System Role Playing Game" book (also called the "Cortex Classic System Role Playing Game").  Serenity, using the Cortex System, was the 2005 Origins Award Gamer's Choice Role Playing Game of the Year. Cretan Chronicles is a trilogy of single-player role-playing fantasy gamebooks written by John Butterfield, David Honigmann and Philip Parker, and illustrated by Dan Woods.  The Cretan Chronicles were published by Puffin between 1985 and 1986 under the Adventure Gamebooks banner, which also covered the more popular Fighting Fantasy and the related "Sorcery! " series, as well as the one-off Shakespearean-era role-playing game Maelstrom. Reveal Fantasia (リーヴェルファンタジア～マリエルと妖精物語～ , Riberu Fantajia Marieru to Yousei Monogatari ) Is a Fantasy role playing video game released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 console by Victor Interactive Software, Inc. in Japan.  The game involved an innovative concept of a role playing game involving no battles or fighting.  Its game play shows some influence from dating simulation games.  The game was never released outside Japan. The DL series is a series of adventures and some supplementary material for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" role playing game.  These modules along with the "Dragonlance Chronicles" trilogy of novels, which follow one possible adventure series through the modules, were the first published items that established the "Dragonlance" fictional universe.  The original "DL" series was released from 1984 to 1986, with the final two modules added to it in 1988.  In the 1990s these roleplaying adventures from the original series were collected and revised for 2nd Edition "AD&D" as the three "DLC Dragonlance Classics" modules.  There were also versions of the module series released in 1999, 2000 and 2006.
Answer: Maelstrom