chapter 1 "Basics" The first thing to do is to pick a decent character. The best all-around choice for a beginner is a human mage, so for the purposes of these cheat sheets, pick human when you create your character. Once your character is created, begin the game by typing: enter town You should now be in the main village of the game, where you can find shops, pubs, a bank, and most everything you'll need. Get familiar here with the basic commands: look look at tower go north go south smile You can also type them in a shortened way: l l tower n s smile Now, learn a little about yourself. Type: score stat (Note that you will have to hit to get to the second page of the stat command.) These commands tell you some things about yourself, like how much food you've eaten, what skills you have and how good you are at them, and other attributes, like how strong you are how smart you are, etc. In the game you will need to do some fighting against monsters, and these pieces of information will help you decide the best way to fight which enemies. For now, since you've chosen human, you are probably smart but not very strong. Let's try to fix that, because fights usually go better if you are strong. Every new player has 15 customization points when they join (this only happens once), so make yourself stronger by adding customization points to your strength, for example: customize strength 5 If your intelligence is below 50, you definitely need to increase it too, if you're going to be a mage. You usually want a strength of at least 30 and an intelligence above 50, preferably above 60, for casting spells. Ok, next, let's get you equipped for exploring. If you're lucky, someone has left stuff in the church bin. Go to the church: go west, go north (or w for west, and n for north) From this point, directions will be given like this: 1w, 1n Meaning, in this example, go west once, go north once. Now: look in bin Hopefully there is a bunch of stuff in there but if someone else got there first, you will need to get equipped on your own, without the church's charity. For the purpose of this guide, we'll assume you didn't find anything there. Let's get started with your first quest: Cave Explorer I Go from the church to the Adventurers' Guild: 1s, 2e, 1s This is where you go to get info on questing and other stuff. There is a charity bin here too, check it for helpful items. The important thing to do here, though, is: read list This tells you the list of quests available. Did you see Cave Explorer I? We're going to go solve that one right now! 1n, 5w, 26n, enter cave You'll notice that you walked through a big forest just then. Don't try to explore the forest yet, you could get lost. Just go straight north, and go fast, because if you accidentally run into an orc, you do *not* want to hang around and wait for him to start hitting you. If you goof up here and do get killed by an orc, well, we might as well talk about death now. Death takes away a few of your experience points, which isn't good because you need them to go up in levels. Definitely avoid death. You can avoid losing those experience points by being resurrected, but that takes getting the help of another player and we can discuss that another time. For now, just know that if you get killed, you need to: regenerate And you will rematerialize in the start room. Anyway, hopefully you did not die and you are now inside the secret cave in the forest, and you have completed your very first quest. That was easy, right? You might even have automatically advanced a level or two. Congratulations! The next quest will be harder, and it is the Orc Slayer quest. By the way, if that room was too dark to see, come back later with a flashlight or a torch. There is interesting writing on the door, and on the wall. And, of course, a powerful and convenient teleportation device sitting right there on the floor.