@Crashmaster, I can't jump the pit at all as I said. I edge towards it on the gravel, sometimes I step quickly and fall in sinse it doesn't seem like exactly two steps, but however close I am I always jump, hear a land sound and plummet to my doom. This is the very first pit in the autumn terrace level, the first obstacle in the game.
I can only assume either I am doing something wrong, or the game is not playing correctly. I'm a little disappointed, the game sounded awesome and I enjoyed the first audio sequence, then again only the original Airic demo and the later kirtwolf demo worked properly for me. If this is an xp issue, as I believe the airic one was, I wish it could be fixed sinse there are lots of people who are still using xp as microsoft did such a cruddy job with all the later windows versions interms of backwards compatibility and layout.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)