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- 5 Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem.
- Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies
- seem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must
- try to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity.
- Perhaps here is the solution you need.
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- It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself
- Polinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus
- retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the
- creation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel
- an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that
- here he met his demise.
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- The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design,
- and contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a
- journey into these caverns.
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- Good Luck! You're going to need it!
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- Help File for The Caverns of Larn
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- h move to the left H run left . stay here
- j move down J run down Z teleport yourself
- k move up K run up c cast a spell
- l move to the right L run right r read a scroll
- y move northwest Y run northwest q quaff a potion
- u move northeast U run northeast W wear armor
- b move southwest B run southwest T take off armor
- n move southeast N run southeast w wield a weapon
- ^ identify a trap g give present pack weight P give tax status
- d drop an item i inventory your pockets Q quit the game
- v print program version S save the game D list all items found
- ? this help screen A create diagnostic file e eat something
- (wizards only)
- larn ++ restore checkpointed game
- larn -s list the scoreboard
- larn -i list scores with inventories
- larn -n suppress welcome message when beginning a game
- larn -h print out all the command line options
- larn -<number> specify difficulty of the game (may be used with -n)
- larn -o<optsfile> specify the .larnopts file to be used
- larn -c create new scoreboards -- prompts for a password
- Special Notes
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- When dropping gold, if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped.
- In general, typing in '*' means all of what your interested in. This is true
- when visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars.
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- Larn may need a VT100 to operate. A check is made of the environment variable
- "TERM" and it must be equal to "vt100". This only applies if
- the game has been compiled with "VT100" defined in the Makefile. If compiled
- to use termcap, there are no terminal restrictions, save needing cm, ce, & cl
- termcap entries.
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- When in the store, trading post, school, or home, an <escape> will get you out.
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- larn -l print out the larn log file
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- When casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type 'D' as
- the first letter of your spell. The available list of spells will be shown,
- after which you may enter the spell code. This only works on the 1st letter
- of the spell you are casting.
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- The Author of Larn is Noah Morgan (1982-3), Copying for Profit is Prohibited
- Copyright 1986 by Noah Morgan, All Rights Reserved.
- Background Information for Larn
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- Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem.
- Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies
- seem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must
- try to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity.
- Perhaps here is the solution you need.
-
- It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself
- Polinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus
- retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the
- creation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel
- an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that
- here he met his demise.
-
- The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design,
- and contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a
- journey into these caverns.
-
- Good Luck! You're going to need it!
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- How to use the .larnopts option file
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- The file ".larnopts", if used, should be in your home directory (see -o).
- A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options.
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- Word Meaning
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- bold-objects select bold display of objects
- inverse-objects select inverse video display of objects
- no-introduction do not display intro message
- enable-checkpointing turn on periodic checkpointing
- no-beep disable beeping of the terminal
- male choose your sex to be a man
- female choose your sex to be a woman
- name: "your name" choose your playing name
- monster: "monst name" choose a name for a monster
- savefile: "save-file-name" define what the savegame filename will be
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- Your name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and may
- be up to 34 characters long. Longer names are truncated. Anything enclosed in
- quotation marks is considered one word, and must be separated from other words
- by whitespace.
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- Explanation of the Larn scoreboard facility
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- Larn supports TWO scoreboards, one for winners, and one for deceased
- characters. Each player (by userid or playerid, see UIDSCORE in Makefile)
- is allowed one slot on each scoreboard, if the score is in the top ten for
- that scoreboard. This design helps insure that frequent players of Larn
- do not hog the scoreboard, and gives more players a chance for glory. Level
- of difficulty is also noted on the scoreboards, and this takes precedence
- over score for determining what entry is on the scoreboard. For example:
- if "Yar, the Bug Slayer" has a score of 128003 on the scoreboard at diff 0,
- then his game at diff 1 and a score of 4112 would replace his previous
- entry on the scoreboard. Note that when a player dies, his inventory is
- stored in the scoreboard so that everyone can see what items the player had
- at the time of his death.
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