The Best of Select: Games 9/CD_1.iso/dosgames/fleece/readme.txt

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   Welcome to The Fellowship of the Fleece.

   This game is in the time-honoured  tradition of text-only adventures, the
   concept behind which being that your mind is capable of painting far more
   vivid pictures than mere computer graphics could achieve.

   YOU are the central figure in the story, and you will be presented with a
   series of  problems & puzzles in your course to the final solution. These
   problems will frequently require you to possess  certain  items  obtained
   from elsewhere in the game and to use them in a particular way. It  would
   be unwise to assume that any single item has only one use!
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   As an indication of how you are progressing, you will be  presented  with
   a regular update of your score and the number of moves made so far. This,
   however, is only a general guide, and should not be taken too  seriously.
   Points will be awarded for obtaining certain items and for  solving  some
   problems, but remember that the final objective is to complete the game -
   you will be in no doubt when this has been achieved!

   At the risk of stating the obvious, you  would  be well advised to draw a
   map.  Read all text carefully, and examine  all objects, as in many cases
   the information you receive will be helpful in indicating your way ahead.
   There are often clues in the descriptions of locations and objects  which
   can provide valuable pointers.

   THE PARSER
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   The parser in The Golden Fleece is certainly as sophisticated as any  you
   will have come across in previous adventures.  You  communicate  with the
   game by typing in your entry in plain English when you see the  prompt >,
   finishing with the <RETURN> key.

   To move around, just type in the desired direction, remembering that from
   any location there may be the eight compass directions: NORTH, NORTHEAST,
   EAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEST, NORTHWEST, plus UP and DOWN  and
   IN and OUT. These can be abbreviated to N,NE,E,SE,S,SW,W,NW,U,D, although
   IN and OUT have no abbreviations.  The  commands can be expressed in many
   ways - thus, NORTH could be typed in as `NORTH',  `GO NORTH',  `GO TO THE
   NORTH' or simply `N'.

   With certain verbs you are able to use multiple objects. Thus if you find
   yourself in a location in which  you  wish to acquire several items,  you
   could type in `TAKE THE LAMP THE SHOTGUN AND THE LOG'.  Note that `THE' &
   `AND' are understood, but not required,  and the above command could just
   as easily be `TAKE LAMP SHOTGUN LOG'.

   The use of the words `EVERYTHING' OR `ALL' can be useful.  Thus you could
   enter `TAKE ALL' or `GET EVERYTHING' in which  case  everything available
   to be taken in your present location would be acquired.

   The exception facility `EXCEPT' or `BUT' is also useful in that you could
   type   `TAKE  EVERYTHING  EXCEPT  THE LAMP AND THE BALL'.  Note that this
   command could also be expressed in several different ways such  as  `TAKE
   ALL BUT THE LAMP AND THE BALL', `GET ALL BUT NOT THE LAMP OR THE BALL' or
   `TAKE EVERYTHING BUT NEITHER THE LAMP NOR THE BALL'.

   Please note that you may come  across certain  situations where an object
   is hidden either inside, on, behind or under another object. In this sort
   of situation you have to specify exactly from where you  wish to  acquire
   the item. Thus, if you are in a room which contains a box  (or indeed are
   carrying the said box) and the box contains an  emerald, typing  `GET THE
   EMERALD' would not work - you would have to  enter  `GET THE EMERALD FROM
   THE BOX'.  Examining any container will tell you whether or not it  holds
   anything of interest.  Extrapolating from  the above, you could enter the
   command `TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE BOX',  or if there were some things you
   wished to exclude this could become `TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THE BOX BUT NOT
   THE EMERALD OR THE DISK',  `GET ALL BUT THE EMERALD AND THE DISK FROM THE
   BOX', or even  `GET ALL FROM THE BOX BUT LEAVE THE EMERALD AND THE DISK'.

   Multiple commands are available within one entry by separating each comm-
   and with either a full stop or the word THEN.  Illustrative  examples  of
   this follow:

   `TAKE THE HELMET FROM THE BOX THEN PUT THE EMERALD ON THE CHAIR'

   `KILL THE TROLL WITH THE AXE THEN PUT ALL BUT THE DISK INTO THE BOX'

   `OPEN THE DOOR THEN GO THROUGH IT'

   Or in shorter form:

   `GO NORTH.DROP ALL BUT LAMP.GET DISK.RING BELL.WAIT'

   While really lengthy instructions could be entered as follows:

   `N.N.E.U.NW.E.OPEN DOOR.E.N.GET ALL.WEAR COAT.READ SIGN.D.N.N.NE'

   SAVING AND RESTORING
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   It's not giving too much away to say that  at certain  points in the game
   you will do something which unfortunately results in your untimely death.
   As this can happen without warning, you are advised to save your position
   from time to time. This is done by entering the single-word command  SAVE
   whereupon you will be prompted for a filename for the position. Enter the
   filename and hit the <RETURN> key.

   To restore the game from any saved position, type the command RESTORE and
   enter the appropriate filename when prompted followed by <RETURN>.

   To restart the game from the beginning enter the command RESTART followed
   by <RETURN>.

   SOME SPECIAL ONE-WORD COMMA