Newbie Guide
From Hypercube
Death, wimpy, and consider Page 1
IMPORTANT: You can lose levels by dying. If you die, your corpse stays where you died. If you complete this tutorial, you will get a token that you can give to a friendly immortal in exchange for them recovering your corpse. Spend it carefully - you only get one! See Death.
Use CONSIDER to get more information about whether you can kill a creature. Setting WIMPY makes you automatically try to FLEE if you drop too many hit points.
To set WIMPY, type: WIMPY
Movements, weather, dates, and landmarks Page 2
Movement commands are NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, UP and DOWN. Like most commands they can be abbreviated: N, S, E, W, U and D. Moving around costs MOVEMENT points. FLY spells make movement cost less. Difficult terrain and WEATHER can make it cost more. Having a MOUNT also makes movement easier.
To see how the WEATHER is, type: WEATHER
To see what month it is, type: DATE
To find famous areas, use the TRACK command to locate LANDMARKS.
Attributes Page 3
ATTRIBUTES are the physical and mental qualities of your character that dictate how good you are at various activities. There are ten attributes: STRENGTH, DEXTERITY, REFLEX, CONSTITUTION, STAMINA, INTELLIGENCE, INTUITION, PERCEPTION, PRESENCE and WARFARE.
To learn what they do, type: HELP ATTRIBUTES
To learn what your attributes are, type: ATTRIBUTES
Practice, gain, and train Page 4
When you have enough experience to raise a level, not only can you wear more powerful items, you gain one train, and several practices. Trains are spent to improve attributes, improve mana, hit points and movement points, or GAIN new skills or spell groups. Practices are spent to improve your ability at skills or spells, or can be saved and converted into trains. You can only spend trains and practices in the presence of masters, but you can check your abilities anywhere. To see a list of your spells, type: SPELLS To see how good you are at skills and spells, type: PRACTICE To see this information in graph form, type: PRACTICE GRAPH
To learn more on these topics, including the best stats to train, type: HELP PRACTICE HELP TRAIN HELP GAIN
Scores, prompt, report, and worth Page 5
SCORE shows how much experience you've gained, how many trains and practices you have, what your current hit points, mana and move are, and various data. WORTH shows just a few key stats, and REPORT reports this to other players in the same room. PROMPT is customizable to show as much (or little) information as you want to keep current.
To learn how to customize your prompt, type: HELP PROMPT
Food, drink, rest, and sleep Page 6
Being hungry or thirsty makes you recover more slowly. Resting makes you recover more quickly. Sleeping makes you recover quickest of all but makes you the most vulnerable. Usually sleeping on a bed or blanket, or even at a sacred flag, makes you recover faster also.
Skills and spells Page 7
Casting spells costs MANA. When you first get a spell it costs a lot of mana. As you gain levels it costs less until it reaches minimum cost. For more information see help CAST and help SPELLS. Also, type: SPELLS
Skills have individual helps. To read them type: HELP skillname, such as HELP BASH, HELP TAN or HELP DODGE.
Alignment, churches, and portal Page 8
If your god is specifically good or evil, you must take care to not drift further than IMPARTIAL alignment or you may find your spellcasting and skills failing. Also, if you are a warrior or cleric, you always require a holy symbol to cast spells.
Once you leave the newbie area of the Academy, you recall to your church. Your church has very important portals to the center of the city of Bel Arethuse and the Holy Grove, where you TRAIN. It also has a DONATION area. Be sure to explore your church very carefully as often things are not as straightforward as they appear. Sere's church, for example, is in the back rooms of a restaurant.
You may EXAMINE a portal to see what is on the other side. Finally, a portal may be any object, it is not necessarily called "portal". It may be, for example, a ring of fire.
Money and banks Page 9
Gold and silver are heavy, and easily stolen. You can PILE it to hide it in a bag, or DEPOSIT it in a bank. In Bel Arethuse, you can track a landmark at First Isevain Interplanar.
One of the easiest ways to get money is to SELL items to a shop. Bel Arethuse has over a hundred shops, with wide ranges of weapons, armor, food and magic items.
Channels Page 10
Syntax: gossip <message> Syntax: yell <message>
Hint is a one-way channel on which you receive hints about how to play the mud. Type HINT to turn it off or on.
Gossip is a global channel into which you can enter a message which will be seen by anyone else in the game with the channel on. '.' is a synonym for gossip. Gossip is a general purpose channel for any and all purposes. Roleplay is permitted on gossip, but the Declaim channel should generally be used.
Q/A or the question/answer channels are where all questions of any sort should be directed. Questions do not belong in gossip!
Grats is where you should notify people that you have levelled or otherwise increased your abilities, or congratulate them for such an increase. Gossip is not a suitable location for such!
Yell sends a message to all awake players within your area. Try to use it sparingly/within reason.
Music is exclusively for the purpose of quoting parts of songs.
Rules Page 11
No cheating.
No harrassment.
No multiplaying.
Minimal clean language, politeness and common sense will be enforced.
Subrule:
This is not a democracy. This is a Tyranny. You are owed nothing.
Player-run organizations and having your own base Page 12
Any player who reaches level 10 may pay 100 gold for permission to build personal areas. See help EXPANSION for details on further costs.
Any player who reaches level 15 may found an order. See help ORGANIZATION for details and limitations.
Map of the school hedge maze Page 13
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Map of East Bel Arethuse Page 14
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* Detailing Shops in the Area *
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Map of West Bel Arethuse Page 15
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* A Map of Bel Arethuse *
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* Detailing Shops in the Area *
* And Other Points of Interest *
* Month of Maple, year 2293 *
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1. The Red Knife (bar)
2. The bar at the Nightingale's Song restaurant
3. The Nightingale's Song restaurant
4. Outside the Nightingale's Song restaurant (tall woman)
5. The Singing Siren Nightclub
6. Mitchell's Coffee Shop
7. Taylor Barracks (not a shoppe)
8. The Three Pearls Nightclub
9. A Bel Arethuse City Guardpost (not a shoppe)
10. The Sleepy Sylph
11. The Yawning Portal Inn (wine)
12. Findar's Stable and Smithy
13. The Bad Badger Tavern
14. The Widow Rohls' Bakery
15. Ginger's Sweets
16. Jenny's Jams
17. Mouquin's Coffees
18. The Sandwich Shoppe
19. Rumpchunk's Butchery
20. The Fish Market
21. Harry's Produce (fruit)
22. The House of Cheese
23. Marcia's Exotics (herbs)
24. Sarah's Spices
25. Nadon's Overwear
26. Narcissa's Flowers
27. Skywhite's Bath Emporium
28. The shop of Orlon Dechamp, Master Daggersmith
29. Dara's Vanity Shop (hairpins, ribbons, earring, beads)
30. Patrice's Parasols
31. DeAnna's (silk scarves)
32. Endicott Books
33. Melancholy's Maps
34. Chaulker's Silks (handkerchiefs)
35. Nettleton's Jewellery
36. Sweets for the Sweet
37. Argosy Books
38. Madeline's on Craftsman (boxes, purses, cigars, jewels)
39. The Bookmark
40. Irilia's Nightwear
41. Richard Fitzpatrick Books
42. Russet's Pet Shop
43. Bron Arvo's Armory
44. Marcella's Millinery (hats)
45. Wellington Footware
46. Grathe Bros. Tailors
47. Clayworker's Ceramics
48. Dorcas Colver's Ladies Tailoring
49. Blades by Tor
50. Red Earth Leatherworks
51. Angelhair Writing (books)
52. Milly's (hats, unusuall)
53. The House of Pride
54. Gritch Hariad's Jewels
55. Langwellan's Luminaries
56. A Frozen Moonlight shop (ices)
57. Sensual Scents
58. Megan's Delicacies (underthings)
59. Maeana's Musicks
60. Cerlian's Coppery
61. Opal's Stationery
62. Gillian's Fantasies in Wax (candles)
63. The Flower Shoppe
64. D'Angelo's Winery
65. Milrose Brewery
66. Bormo's sidewalk cafe and deli
67. Sausage wagon
68. Cafe de Cheesecake
Appendix I:Commands Page 16
Read helps on each of these for more information.
BASICS
Commands: lists commands available
Help: the most important command!
Who: lists visible players logged in
Whois: lists a specific visible logged in player
Rules: gives a list of rules
Save: saves your character. You can save anywhere. The mud also automatically saves you every 15 minutes.'
Quit: saves and logs out your character
Delete: permanently removes your character from the game FOREVER!
Score: list various information about your character It weighs less than a pound.
Gain: spend trains to gain new skills or spells
Train: raise attributes or stats
Practice: improve your skills or spells
Recall: brings you to part of the newbie area if you are below level 6, or to your church if you are 6 or above.
Sleep: become more vulnerable, but regenerate faster
Wake/stand: stand so you can move
Rest: recover faster than standing, but slower than sleeping
Open: open a door or container
North/south/east/west/up/down: move a certain direction
Heal: if a professional healer is available, ask them to heal you
Cast: cast a spell
ITEMS
Remove: remove an item and return it to your inventory
Inventory: see what you are carrying
Fill: fill a drink container with liquid
Eat: eat food from your inventory
Drink: drink from liquid in your inventory, or a fountain in the room
Equipment: list what you are wearing
Get/take: pick something up
Wear/hold: use an item
Enter: enter a portal
Give: give an item to someone else
Sacrifice: give an item to your god in exchange for a small amount of money
Put: put an item in a container
Recite: use a scroll
Zap: use a wand
Use: use a wand or staff you are wearing but not holding
Quaff: use a potion in your inventory
INFORMATION
Compare: get information about whether one item or another is better
Look: shows the visible contents of a room
Attributes: shows you your stats
Armor: shows how armored different parts of you are
Skills: list your skills
Spells: list your spells
Groups: list your spellgroups
Worth: shows gold, silver, and experience to next level
Affects: shows what spells you are affected by
Examine: show any extended information available
CHANNELS AND GROUPS
Deaf: turn off tells
Emote: show actions to others in the same room
Pmote: better emote
Action: show actions to others throughout the world
Tell: send someone a private message
Reply: respond to a tell
Socials: list all preset emotes
Follow: automatically follow another character or creature
Order: tell a charmed creature what to do
Split: split some money within your group
Group: make a player part of your group
SHOPS
List: list items for sale in a store
Sell: sell an item
Buy: buy an item
Value: ask a shopkeeper what they will pay for an item
AUTOMATICS
Noloot: only you can take items from your corpse
Autolist: lists your auto settings
Autoassist: you will automatically assist group members
Autoexit: shows all visible room exits and opened doors
Autogold: you automatically take all gold when you kill
Autoloot: you automatically take all items when you kill
Autosac: you automatically sacrifice the corpse when you kill
Autoall: toggles commonest settings on or off
Nofollow: prevents people from automatically following you
Nosummon: prevents players from summoning you
COMBAT
Kill: attack an opponent
Consider: guess if you can kill an opponent
Wimpy: sets a hit point value at which you will automatically try to flee
Flee: dash headlong from combat
Escape: if you have the skill, leave combat in a specific direction
Backstab: if you have the skill, initiate combat with extra damage
Bash: if you have the skill, knock an opponent down
Mount: if you have the skill, ride a mount
Berserk: if you have the skill, fight harder but be more vulnerable
Dirt: if you have the skill, blind someone by kicking dirt in their eyes
Disarm: if you have the skill, knock someone's weapon from their hand
Kick: if you have the skill, kick someone and harm them
Trip: if you have the skill, trip someone and stun them
Sneak: if you have the skill, move stealthily
Hide: if you have the skill, hide from danger
