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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
- 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 option file to be used
- larn -c create new scoreboards -- prompts for a password
- larn -l print out the larn log file
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- 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 needs the ANSI.SYS (or preferably, the NANSI.SYS) device driver installed
- in your CONFIG.SYS file. The supplied "termcap" file describes the escape
- sequences to change video modes (see ch 13 of the DOS 2.0 manual). See the
- "TERMCAP" section in LARN.DOC for further details.
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- When in the store, trading post, school, or home, an <escape> will get you out.
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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.
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- 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 larn.opt option file
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- The file "larn.opt", if used, should be in a directory along your PATH.
- A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options.
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- Word Meaning
- cursor: lowscan highscan change the shape of the cursor
- DECRainbow tell LARN you have that computer
- enable-checkpointing turn on periodic checkpointing
- graphics: wallc floorc select graphics maze characters
- keypad enable the numeric keypad for moving
- larndir: directory the directory to use for larn files
- monster: "monst name" choose a name for a monster
- name: "your name" choose your playing name
- no-beep disable beeping of the terminal
- no-introduction do not display intro message
- savefile: save-file-name define what the savegame filename will be
- swapfile: swap-file-name define the name of the swapfile
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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 (as identified by his or her name) 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 a game at diff 1 and a score
- of 4112 would replace the previous entry on the scoreboard. Note that
- when a player dies, the inventory is stored in the scoreboard so that
- everyone can see what items the player had at the time of death.
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