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The People enjoyed a special relationship with both the gods and the dwellers of other planes; they were permitted to take the shapes of these distant beings for short durations, as they permitted the others to take on H- uman form. This exchange worked for both the benefit of both The People and the fantastic creatures from the other planes. The People used it to acc- omplish tasks that were otherwise beyond their powers, while the fant- astic creatures used it do things only the human from permitted and to use the shape's strength to compensate for another's weaknesses. The gods gave the gift of morphing to the most worthy of The People. Enjoying as they did the gods' favor and the special powers this enta- iled, The People built a magnificent civilization and enjoyed a great and peaceful time under their rulers. Trusting the wisdom of the gods to select the most worth individuals, those who had the greatest morp- hing abilities were chosen to lead The People. Not all The People appreciated this arrangement. Most notable among these were those to whom the gods had declined to give the gift of mo- rphing in any form. These formed a subcaste and were generally regar- ded (and treated) as less then People. To these Malkor, the outcast god, appeared and promised power and ric- hes if they would worship him and follow his ways. Members of this s- ubcaste eagerly followed Malkor, who provided a different and evil va- riation on the gift of morphing. Followers of Malkor would capture animals, People, and the fantastic creatures and slay them in horrific, painful rites. Through these ri- tes, they acquired the power to change into the shape of those they d- estroyed. Flaunting their new powers, the most powerful of Malkor's minions were given positions of power over The People. The manner of the gods' ch- oosing had always been a private affair -- the fact someone had been deemed worthy was evidenced by the shapes they received and not any d- ivine announcement. As the Evil One's followers grew in number and p- ower, slowly The People came under the control of their least worthy and most evil members. At a great feast to honor the gods, Riodn, the great holy man, reveal- ed the practice of the evil rites -- and named the ones who were foll- owing Malkor. At this feast, Veste, leader of the evil People, killed Riodn, and the Kin Murders began. In the course of the civil war that followed, the morphing powers were used to destroy The People, their city and the civilization they had created. In the final battle, the followers of Good drove Veste and his servants into a temple some distance away form the city. There Veste mocked them and vowed to return to bring final doom to The Peop- le. He then closed the temple doors so that none could enter. The forces of Good had won, but a what cost? The People were virtual- ly destroyed and their great city turned into a haunted ruin. The go- ds, appalled by the slaughter, turned their backs on The People. The gift of morphing was intended to be used for the benefit of all, but The People had instead used it to establish a class of rulers and ser- vants. In this, they had gone against the will of the gods. One god, Tovason, did not entirely abandon The People. If they kept watch against evil, he promised them they would eventually return to their former greatness. The People built a village around the temple and kept guard against Veste's return. Through the years they mingled with other tribes and the gift of morphing slowly faded away. Eventu- ally, only two of The People carried this gift. They were wed and bo- re a child they named Kirt. At his birth, the old gods gathered. Malkor had been growing in power and down every path the gods could see lay their ruin and destruction Malkor triumphant and all the lands enslaved. But, down the path Kirt would travel, the gods could see nothing. It was as if he cast a sha- dow over the future of the worlds. Kirt was given the name Shadowcaster. In him resided the hope of The People and the ancient gods. but Malkor and his followers learned of this hope. One moonless night the doors of the temple flew open and Veste, somehow alive after centuries after he had fled, raided the vi- llage. He attacked the house where Kirt lay sleeping and slew his mo- ther and father. But Tovason had been watching the child. Just before Vests and his b- eats entered the child's room, Kirt, under the care of the last Holy One, was sent to a faraway land where magic was little known and less respected. There Kirt grew into maturity under the guidance of a man he called Grandfather. Grandfather kept close watch over Kirt, for he knew the Evil Ones were searching everywhere for him.. One night a storm arose in which Grand- father recognized the power of Malkor. On that night, Grandfather to- ld Kirt of his heritage and sent him back to The People, just ahead of the rending claws of Malkor's slaves. Kirt, with little knowledge of this new world, acquires the power to change shape by touching an obelisk that puts him in contact with the gods. He fights his way through the ruined, cursed city of The People to cleanse it of a great evil, and discovers a war to the temple at t- he center of The People's village. By the time he gets there, Veste, warned of Kirt's escape from the wo- rld Earth, has struck again. He has carried off the last remaining P- eople, and has left Kirt a trail to follow through a series of danger- ous worlds where evil creatures wait to destroy him. The trail is clear, but can Kirt defeat the successively more powerful servants of Malkor -- and defeat Veste in a showdown of Virtue versus Despair to restore The People to the favor of the gods? Starting the Game ================= 1. First, install Shadowcaster on your hard disk. If you haven't already done this, refer to the Install Guide included in this package for instructions. 2. Select the drive on which the game is installed. (For example, if you installed the game on your C drive, type C: [ENTER].) 3. Select your Shadowcaster directory. (If you used our default directory type CD/SHADOW [ENTER].) 4. Start the game (by typing SHADOW [ENTER].) An introductory sequence begins with ORIGIN PRESENTS -- RAVEN SOFTWARE GAME. If you haven't played the game before (or have never "saved" y- our previous adventures), the game proceeds to the Introduction. This provides background information you need to complete your adventure. If you have not already saved a game, immediately following the Intro- duction you begin a new game. (If you have already seen the Introduc- tion, you can press [SPACEBAR] or [ESC] to bring on the following scr- een.) Option Screen ============= The left side of the screen holds up to four small SAVED GAME VIEW WI- NDOWS for saved games. The middle of the screen holds the OPTIONS. The upper right of the screen holds a larger VIEW WINDOW for the curr- ent game of the currently selected saved game. Below this is a SCORE BAR that contains you total current score, and below the Score Bar is the TEXT BOX. The Text Box holds text showing either the first line for each saved game (when no saved game had been selected), or the te- xt you entered for the currently selected saved game when you saved it. The lower right of the screen contains the TEXT BAR. When you select OPTIONS, prompts may appear here to tell you what to do next. NEW. Starts over at the beginning of the game QUIT. Returns you to DOS without saving your current game. RETURN. Sends you back to the game you were playing when you chose to enter the Option Screen. (This option is grayed out and cannot be se- lected when you do not enter the Option Screen from a game in progres- s.) LOAD. Returns you to a previously save game. Select a saved game by clicking on its Saved Game View Window. This causes a larger version of this View Window to appear in the top right of the screen and the additional information you entered about the game to appear in the TE- XT BOX at the bottom right. Once you have selected the game you want to load, click on LOAD. SAVE. Stores the current game. Select SAVE, choose a Saved Game View Window by clicking on it, and enter up to eight lines of text (Save I- nfo Text) about the game being saved. When you have finished entering this information, press [ESC] to complete the save. The Save Info Te- st helps identify the saved game. You may then click on RETURN to co- ntinue. After saving a fame, one of the four boxes on the left of the screen displays a small View Window foe that game, and the first line of each Save Info Text is shown in the Text Box. ( the save options is grayed out and cannot be selected when you do not enter the Options screen f- rom a game in progress.) SOUND. (Speakers Icon) Toggles music off and on. When music is on, the icon had a red border. DIFFICULTY. (Weight Lifter Icon) Adjusts the difficulty of the game. There are five different difficulty levels; the game is preset to the third level. When you select this option, a screen appears that allo- ws you to set the difficulty level from wimp (easiest) to hero (harde- st). The amount of points you are awarded is tied to the difficulty level. The game is much easier to get through at the wimp level than at the hero level, but if you can make it through the game at hero, y- our score is much higher. You select an option by moving the cursor over it and left-clicking. Tutorial Walkthrough ==================== NOTE: This tutorial walks you through the beginning of your adventure. If you would like to use keyboard commands to supplement the mouse co- mmands we give here, see your REFERENCE CARD. The first time you play the game you are places in the situation described below (after the I- ntroduction). Since the game starts with you being attacked by a slobbering beast, you may want to read the MAIN GAME SCREEN, MOVEMENT and COMBAT sectio- ns of this tutorial before you actually begin play. Main Game Screen ================ The game begins in Normal Mode -- the screen you see most of the time. In the upper left is the VIEW WINDOW -- the world as you see it. Look below the View Window to see the six icons of the Selection Bar. To the right of the View Window you find the PORTRAIT PANEL. Your Portr- ait is at the top of this panel, and to either side of it are purple SIZE GEMS to control the size of the View Window. (We'll discuss Size Gems later.) Look below the Portrait -- the horizontal gray bar is t- he SCORE BAR. Eight INVENTORY BOXES are just below the Score Bar. The ninth, gold-outlined box is the INVENTORY OVERVIEW BUTTON. Finally, at the very bottom of the right side are more ABILITY ICONS. Dependi- ng on your current shape, there are up to six of these. Now look abo- ve the View Window. There is a blue bar on the left, a small box in the center showing the letter E, and a red bar on the right. The blue bar is the POWER BAR, which shows your current power reserves. The s- mall box is your COMPASS, and i now shows that the direction you're f- acing is east. The red bar is the LIFE BAR, and is shows the life en- ergy of your current shape. To either side of the View Window are bo- rders with small purple ALTITUDE GEMS in them. These gems show your altitude -- an important feature when you are swimming or flying. Be- neath the Selection Bar is a blank area that displays text throughout the game -- the TEXT BAR. Movement ======== Try moving your mouse around the screen -- but don't press any buttons yet. As you move the mouse in the View Windows, the mouse curs or as- sumes arrow shapes corresponding to its position in the window. When you move the cursor outside the View Window, it becomes gray cross-ha- irs. Two rules govern movement: RULE 1. While your cursor is inside the View Window, ITS POSITIONS DETERMINED THE DIRECTION IN WHICH YOU MOVE if you left-click-and-ho- ld the mouse button. when the cursor is an arrow, its shape indica- tes direction. When it points right, you travel to the right; when it points upward, you travel forward, and so forth. RULE 2. The speed at which you move depends on how far your cursor is from the center of the View Window. When the cursor is centered, you don't move at all. As you move the cursor closer to any edge of the View Window, you move more rapidly. During the course of the g- ame, you gain the ability to morph into the forms of other races. You get their abilities and their weaknesses, as well as their meth- od of movement. Some of your metaforms can fly, others can swim. To change altitude while flying, floating or swimming, click on eit- her of the Altitude Bars -- the two thin columns to either side of the View Window with the purple gems. To dive, click at the very b- ottom of an Altitude Bar; to surface, click at the very top. To go higher, click above one of the small gems. To go lower, click below one. Combat ====== You begin the game in human form, locked in an outdoor "room." Before you can explore, you have to dispose of the monster that is rapidly a- pproaching. In the Selection Bar (below the View Window) are six ico- ns. Two of these look like hands and one looks like a foot. To hit the monster, left-click on one of the HANDS icons. This now outlined in white to show that it is active. Move the cursor back into the Vi- ew Window until it is over the monster. Now right-click. Note that the cursor changed to a red cross when you selected the hand. This r- ed cross appears whenever a hand (or appropriate appendage) is select- ed, except when an object is cursor-grabbed. When you hit the monster a small star appears where you hit the creature and you hear the sound of an impact. When a monster hits you, you are pushed back (unless y- ou are against a wall), you make a grunting sound and your Life Bar d- ecreases. If you are unable to hit the monster, you are probably too far from i- t. Place the cursor at the top of the screen above the monster and h- old down the left mouse button while attacking. This keeps moving you toward the monster and helps to offset changes in distance caused be you and the monster pushing each other back. If you have difficulty holding down the left mouse button while clicking the right mouse but- ton, try holding down the left mouse button while pressing [SPACEBAR] to attack (instead of right clicking). To use the kick attack, click on the FOOT icon. The HAND icon loses its white border and the FOOT icon gets a white border. (Note that t- he cursor has changed to an orange circle. This cursor appears whene- ver one of the first two Abilities are chosen.) Attack the same way you did for the hand -- place the cursor on or above the monster and right-click or press [SPACEBAR]. When you defeat the monster, it collapses into a small shape on the f- loor. Look at your Score Bar -- you see that it is no longer 0. Win- ning a combat increases your score. Life Bar ======== Being hit by a monster decreases your Life Bar. Click on the Life Bar to find out exactly how much life energy you have left. A message in the Text Bar appears, giving both your current Life and potential ma- ximum Life. Later in the game, when you acquire additional metaforms, notice that while the amount of current and maximum Life varies from one metaform to another, the percentage of current Life remains const- ant. For example, if the Caun (with a maximum possible Life of 30) h- as a current Life of 5, then the Grost (with a maximum Life of 200) h- as a current Life of 50 -- Life is at 25% of maximum in both instances. Don't worry too much about losing Life, though. There are three ways for you to regain Life. Given time, in human form, you slowly heal on your own. Also, a metaform that you acquire later in the game -- the Caun -- heals very rapidly. The Caun also have an Ability to turn Po- wer into Life. A third way to regain Life is to drink a healing poti- on. Power Bar ======== Power is tracked across metaforms as a single number. If one form ha- s a current Power of 30 and a maximum Power of 50, then all forms have a current Power of 30 and a maximum Power of 50. Only as a human can you naturally regain Power. If a metaform runs out of Power you will morph back to a human NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU ARE DOING. The maximum amount of power you can generate depends on your score. In addition to the score you earn while as a human, your human form g- ets a percentage of the scores earned by the non-human forms. Power is used to morph to metaforms, and also to use certain metaform Abilities. Picking Things Up ================= Now to take a stroll around the courtyard, explore a little, and noti- ce the objects on the ground. One of these is a vial containing a re- d-coloured liquid. To pick up the vial, approach until you are close to the vial (the vial is visible at the bottom of the screen). Move the cursor over the red vial and right-click (or press [SPACEBAR- ]). If you are close enough to the vial, you can pick it up. See how the cursor becomes the vial. If this does not pick up the vial, you are too far away. Move closer to the vial until right-clicking picks it up. Note that you don't have to hold the mouse button down to move the vial. You can also "grab" items that are in a hand or inventory box by moving the cursor over them and right-clicking. Putting Things Down =================== Go ahead and right-click again to put the vial down. If you still ha- ve a hand or a foot selected, you might make an attack-like movement In this case, left-click on the selected icon (the one with the white border) to deselect it. If your cursor is near the ground (at the bo- ttom of the View Window), right-clicking drops the vial. You could a- lso drop the vial into a hand or inventory box by moving it over the hand or inventory box and right-clicking. If the hand or inventory b- ox already contains an item, you "cursor-grab" that item when you "cu- rsor-drop" the item you are currently holding -- a simultaneous excha- nge. You can only put things down by right-clicking IF NO OTHER OPTION IS SELECTED (no icon is bordered in white). Now is a good time to practice. Right-click on the vial to pick it u- p. Move it over to an empty inventory box and right-click again to p- ut it in the box. Using Things ============ Look around until you find a wand with a green tip. Pick it up and p- lace it in an inventory box. To use most things, you need to be actively holding them. In other w- ords, a "cursor-grab" is not enough -- they must be in a hand (or app- ropriate appendage) and that hand (or appendage) must be selected. Now pick up the wand from the inventory box and move it over a hand. Right-click to put it in the hand, and then activate it by left-click- ing on the hand. (A quicker method is to left-click on the object in your inventory -- it appears, selected, in the right hand.) Now move the cursor to a far wall and right-click. You see a blazing fireball come out of the wand and hit the wall. Don't do this too often -- you have a limited number of fireballs. Manipulating objects is an important skill to master. Try left-click- ing on an empty inventory box. The wand appears in that box. The ha- nd which held the wand is now empty, but it is still active (has a wh- ite border). Left-click on the hand to deselect it (white border goes away). Now click left-click on the wand. The wand appears in the ri- ght hand and the hand is selected. Now left-click on the red vial. The red vial appears in the hand which remains selected. The wand is now in the inventory box, and the vial appears in that box. The hand is again empty, but remains selected. Deselect it (left-click). The- re are a number of different items in the game. Things such as armor provide benefits to your metaforms as soon as they are placed in your inventory. Some items can only be used by particular forms. To use a weapon, put it in a selected hand/appendage, then click in what you w- ant to attack in the View Window. Eating and Drinking =================== Right-clicking with an item on your Portrait is how you consume things The only reason for you to eat or drink is to heal or get special pow- ers. You don't get hungry or thirsty during this game. One more thing. Pick up the red vial, move it over your Portrait and right-click. If you were hit in combat, some or all of your missing Life is restored. Morphing ======== In the center of the room is a green obelisk with a red tip -- you ca- n't have missed it. In the course of the game, when you find an obel- isk like this one and right-click on it, you are granted a new metafo- rm as the obelisk disappears. Click on it now. The metaform you have just been granted is for the Maorin -- a six le- gged cat. You can now see the icon for the Maorin shape in the Abili- ty icon area in the lower right of the screen. Select this icon. The Portrait Panel is briefly taken over by an animated sequence showing the transformation from human to Maorin. When the transformation is complete, the side panel goes back to its original state, with the new Maorin portrait. Look at your Power Bar, and notice that is had de c- reased somewhat. This is because it costs Power to morph into a non human form -- as well as to maintain that form once you have assumed it. If you run out of Power while a non-human, you automatically mor- ph back to human. If you happen to be at the bottom of a lake of fly- ing over quicksand at the time, this spells certain death. So be car- eful with your Power -- when you need it, you don't want to be running low. Click on the Life and Power Bars and watch the Text Bar. Now click on the HUMAN icon in the lower right of the screen. You see the animati- on morph in reverse. When you click on the Life and Power Bars you s- hould notice that the Power remains unchanged, but the Life is differ- ent between human and Maorin. Once again, click on the MAORIN icon. Abilities ========= When you look at the Selection Bar, notice that some of the icons have changed. The HANDS icons are now PAW icons. (If you select one of t- hese and right-click in the View Window, you see the Maorin's double pawed claw attack.) Also, the FOOT icon has been replaced with an EYE icon. Each metaform has at least two abilities (the rightmost icons of the Selection Bar). For the Maorin these abilities are Jump and Cat Sigh- t. Selecting an icon turns its border white. Select the CAT SIGHT i- con. Right-click in the View window; a number of things happen. The border for the icon turns red -- telling you that an Effect has begun. The red border remains around the icon until the effect goes away. You now have Cat Sight, the View Window takes on a reddish cast and s- ometimes items which were hidden can be seen -- cat Sight can be used to find hidden symbols and traps. It works for a limited amount of t- ime, and then your sight returns to normal. If you were watching the Power Bar when you right-clicked, you saw it decrease. This is becau- se Cat Sight costs Power. Other metaforms in the game give you other Abilities, either in the S- election Bar or under the Inventory Area. Use them the same as you d- id Cat Sight -- select them and then apply them by right-clicking in the View Window. Some of these abilities cost you Power and some do not. If the Ability is an attack, you must right-click over the targ- et for that attack, the same as you would if you were using any other weapon. Select the JUMP icon and right-click in the View Window. The screen image dips as you jump up and forward. Now try moving ahead and simu- ltaneously right-clicking in the View Window to leap farther. Because you are in a confined place, it is difficult to use the Jump Ability now. Later in the game, however, jumping over or on top of t- hings may be important. Option Screen ============= The leftmost icon on the Selection Bar is for the Option Screen. Sel- ect this icon (left-click on it) to bring up the Option Screen. GOING INTO THE OPTION SCREEN PAUSES THE GAME. You saw this screen when you started the game. This is where you: o SAVE a game, o QUIT your current game, o RETURN to an existing game, o LOAD a saved game, o toggle SOUND off or on, o toggle MUSIC off or on, and o set your DIFFICULTY level. Refer to STARTING THE GAME for more information on how these work. S- elect the RETURN option to continue your game. Inventory Overview ================== You can see all your available forms and what they have in their inve- ntory and hands (etc.) by clicking on the gold-outlined Inventory Ove- rview Button (at the bottom right of the inventory boxes). This caus- es the Inventory Overview Screen to appear. The red line under the M- aorin's icon on this screen shows that he is the currently active form. Click anywhere to resume the game. Automap Screen ============== Between the OPTION SCREEN icon and the LEFT PAW icon there is a button that looks like a piece of parchment -- the AUTOMAP icon. When this is selected, the Automap Screen appears. Left-click on this icon. The LOCATION ARROW in the DETAILED MAP shows where you are and what g- eneral direction you are facing. The upper right of the map shows an OVERVIEW MAP that represents a larger, less detailed area. By left-c- licking different areas on the Overview Map, you change what the Deta- iled Map is showing. THE AUTOMAP ONLY SHOWS WHERE YOU HAVE ACTUALLY B- EEN AND NOT NECESSARILY WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN. At this point, that's not much. You can get an idea of your relative position in the larger ar- ea by looking at the map in the upper right. The blinking red dot sh- ows where you are located. Below the small map is the RETURN BAR. Below this is a small VIEW WI- NDOW of what you saw when you entered the map. Still lower is a COMP- ASS that shows the direction you were facing when you selected the au- tomap -- it is more precise then the LOCATION ARROW. Once you've map- ped multiple levels, clicking the LEVEL INDICATOR arrows will change maps. Select the Return Bar to return to your game. View Window Size ================ You have a fair amount of control over the View Window. Try clicking on the SIZE GEM to the left of the Portrait. The size of the View Wi- ndow shrinks. Click on this gem several times until the View Window reaches its minimum size. Shrinking the size of the View Window speeds up the frame rate in the game, making things move more smoothly. This option is recommended f- or people who have 386 systems. Now click on the Size Gem to the right of the Portrait. As you might have guessed, this causes the View Window to get bigger. When the Vi- ew Window has reached its apparent maximum size, click one more time. This puts the game into Mega Mode. Mega Mode slows the frame rate and is only recommended for people using 486 (or faster) systems. In Mega Mode, the left side of the screen from top to bottom becomes the View Window and takes up approximately 80 percent of the screen. The Text Bar only appears when there is a text message. Obviously, in Mega Mode there is not room for all icons, etc. to be on the screen at once, so there are two side panels. To toggle between the two side panels, left-click on the Portrait. In Mega Mode, the L- ife and Power Bar appear to either side of the Portrait. When you mo- rph, the change is shown in the Portrait window only. There is only one View Window border in Mega Mode -- between the View Window and the side panel. At the top of the border is a small gem. click on this gem now to return the game to Normal mode. Opening and Closing =================== When you clicked on the obelisk, you unlocked the door on the east wa- ll. Save the game and then open the door (right-click on it) and emb- arks on your adventure. Right-clicking opens and closes doors and ot- her barriers (if they aren't locked). Cursors ======= There are four different types of cursor in the game to help you reme- mber what is currently selected: o WHITE ARROW inside View Window. No icon is currently selected a- nd you can up/put down items or open/close things by right click- ing. o BLACK and RED CROSSES. A hand appendage is selected. o ORANGE and BLACK CIRCLES. One of your two Abilities from the Se- lection Bar is selected. o GLOWING BLUE CROSS. One of your Abilities from under the invent- ory boxes is selected. Continuing to Play ================== This walkthrough should have provided enough information to get you s- tarted. At some point you should read the rest of this document, whi- ch includes information about the metaforms you eventually acquire and other useful information. Some things to keep in mind: o When you see a black sparkling floor, step on it to teleport. o You are strong enough to take out almost any individual evil cre- ature you might encounter (unless you have been damaged already). o Evil creatures like to attack in groups. Very evil creatures li- ke to attack just after some other evil group. o Conserve your Power. Death ===== Unfortunately, sometimes the Life Bar decreases to zero. When your L- ife is gone, you die and the Option Screen appears. At this point you can load a saved game or start a new game. You cannot return to the game you were just playing, since that game ended with your death. It is a good idea to save whenever you have acquired something valuable or accomplished something important (four save game slots are provided for this purpose). Otherwise, you risk losing all you've achieved in an untimely, unexpected demise. Your Character ============== Your character is either in human form or one of six non-human forms. Each metaform has different abilities. In some metaforms, you can se- lect one or more Abilities from the icon under the inventory area. W- hen an Ability such as the Caun's Light is selected, the blue cross c- ursor appears. Forms also have different amounts of Life depending on what type of creature they are and how high their score is. Score is tracked sepa- rately for each. Because of this, it is possible to concentrate on a metaform and make it disproportionately powerful. Kirt ==== Kirt is a seemingly normal human who was raised in a large, modern Am- erican city. In reality, though, he is one of the few survivors of a race of shape morphers. Kirt has studied the martial arts and has re- cently been sent back to his native world to save his people. Kirt has the ability to morph his shape. He gains the power to assume more metaforms as he progress through the game. MORPHING COSTS POWER, AND SO DOES MAINTAINING A METAFORM. ALSO, USING MOST OF THE ABILITIES OF DIFFERENT METAFORMS DEPLETES YOUR POWER. When he runs out of Power Kirt reverts back to human form. Only in his human shape can he rega- in Power. Kirt has the Ability to jump. as well as a superior Kick Ability. Se- lecting any metaform's icon morphs him to that form. Maorin ====== The Maorin are a six-foot tall, six-limbed cat race. In his Maorin f- orm, Kirt weighs 400 pounds, runs faster, can stand more punishment a- nd can deal out much more damage than a human can. Maorin have the Ability to see things normally hidden to human sight. They also have the Ability to jump. Maorin dislike water and drown q- uickly. Caun ==== Caun are a two-foot tall, approximately 40-pound humanoid race with p- ointed ears. As fighters they are fairly ineffective, but Caun heal much more quickly than human. Caun have the Ability to jump. They also have a Heal Ability, but th- is costs Power. Caun can create light, create a special shield which makes it difficult for enemies to harm them, and can make it difficult for enemies to locate them. Caun have the Ability to reach out and g- rab things that are some distance away. This includes grabbing things that are on the other side of bars. Lastly, Caun can cause a number of small creatures to swarm over their enemies in a stinging cloud. Opsis ===== Opsis are large, floating orbs with tentacles. They are not built for physical combat, but have a number of other abilities. Opsis can throw cold blasts, cause their enemies to flee in fear or m- ake then move in slow motion, plus create missiles and fire them at e- nemies. They can also kill foes outright. Moreover, Opsis can incre- ase the range of the automap. Normally you can only map where you ac- tually have been, but when a Opsis is using his automap power, things that were not actually seen in the View Window are mapped. As you mi- ght guess, this often provides very useful information. Kahpa ===== Kahpa look like large, green frog-people. They are surprisingly tough can breathe underwater and are good in hand-to-flipper combat. Kahpa can create an electrical shock (extra damaging when used in wat- er) and a sonic attack (also extra damaging in water). Ssair ===== Ssair have no legs and a pointed tail. They can both take and inflict enormous damage, and look like flying red dragons. Their tail attack is very powerful. They can also breathe fire, at t- he cost of Power. Grost ===== Grost look like stone giants. They can punch through some stone walls, are almost impervious to physical attacks and can survive in extremely hot environments. Grost can stamp their feet to cause earthquakes, and can paralyze with a touch. BANDIETO [PTG\NT] BTW, I guess you can see that when we say FULL DOX we mean FULL DOX !! 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