Restructuring the code so it looks more like the updated resulting code in the original post of intfiction.org forum. I'm going to just copy the result in to the master branch and continue the post-by-post commits in a "prehistory" branch.
Eleas - the harbor and beacon
Eleas: kataphraktos
Eleas: memscribing
Dannii - the wind
matt w - cave entrance and crack
matt w - going inside in perilous perch
Neil - new description of child
Eleas: edit beacon, add "waiting during overture"
Horatio_s: the obsidian cat
ZUrlocker: Summoning, Sgt. Duffy, neutral/friendly/angry persons
Eleas: the blade, the perch (closed passage)
Eleas: The cat, the cave and the glow - reworking how the cat makes the brand lit (rather than the location)
Eleas: doing anything other than examining the harbor, instead of jumping in Rocky Ledge or jumping in Perilous Perch
matt w: instead of going southwest in Rocky Ledge
MTW: every turn while in Perilous Perch...
Felix Larsson: improvements regarding the obsidian cat and summoning logic
Eleas: improving summoning, the child, the brand, and adding  a skeleton to the cave entrance
MTW: understand knife as the blade.
UnwashedMass: blocking movement in the dark when the brand is not lit