WHAT IS MAJOR MUD?

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                        MajorMUD - Realm Of Legends
                      Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1995
                           West Coast Creations

                           All Rights Reserved

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Introduction

MajorMUD is an interactive, text-based adventure game which evolves around 
puzzle solving and character building. The game begins in the city of 
NewHaven where beginners can practice their skills. They then venture out 
to Silvermere and the world beyond.

Users start by choosing one of several races, and one of many classes. 
Their character then becomes an adventurer in the Realm, each with special 
skills and abilities. Beginning in the city of NewHaven with no money and 
limited weapons and equipment available, the user is free to try to advance 
his character and make his fortune.

Users advancement happens many ways. A user can fight his way through 
hordes of monsters, or traverse the realm looking for puzzles to solve and 
wealth to find.

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Table Of Contents

1) Creating a Character
2) Commands
3) Customizing your Environment


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1) Creating a Character

Before creating a character, you should determine which race and class
you wish to be. Use the online help or this document to find out
more information about each race. Once you have determined this, merely
enter the game from the main MajorMUD menu. You will be given a list
of races after which you enter the number of the race you wish. You
will then be given a list of classes after which you enter the number
of your chosen class.

You will then be put into a full-screen editor to enter the remaining
pieces of information about your character: 

First Name - You must enter a first name. This name must be unique among all 
other MajorMUD players on your bbs, all monsters in the game, and all game 
commands. Make sure you like the name you choose, because YOU MAY NOT CHANGE 
YOUR FIRST NAME WITHOUT REROLLING.

Last Name - There are currently no restrictions on your last name except for 
the fact that it must be one word without punctuation. Your sysop may 
request that you change this if they find it offensive. By taking your 
character to an appropriate training hall, you may change your last name by 
typing TRAIN STATS (which will take you back to the full screen editor).

Stats - You will be shown the base values for your stats and will be given 
a certain number of character points to assign to these stats as you choose. 
Once you raise a stat and then save it (by exitting the full screen editor 
and choosing SAVE) then you MAY NOT LOWER IT AGAIN.

You may, however, leave your Character Points waiting to be used until you 
know where you wish to place them. Note that your character will be at a 
disadvantage if you have not used all of your character points. 

Appearance - You may use this screen to change your hair length, hair colour, 
or eye colour at any time (by typing TRAIN STATS in an appropriate training 
room for your class)

Once you save your character, the game will verify that your first name is 
appropriately unique. If it is not, you will be prompted to enter a new name. 
This will repeat until you enter an appropriate name.

You will then be shown your stat sheet and will start out in the town of 
NewHaven where you start your adventure.

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2) Commands

There are many commands available to you in MajorMUD. Not all commands are 
documented here. The rest you will have to figure out as you play the game 
(Some commands will be specific to certain rooms). If you cannot find the 
information you need in this document, please use the HELP command in the 
game to try and find help on whatever you are looking for.

north south east west northeast northwest southeast southwest up down spells 
light use rob list buy attack help look map status health inventory whisper
keys eat drink get drop track cast give join broadcast suicide ready wear
unready follow reroll quiet verbose leave talk scan stock smash killblow
sneak picklock hide search disarm remove rest brief profile withdraw deposit 
bankbook open close break aid bash kick equip invite uninvite backrank 
frontrank stash arm wield train party page lock set jumpkick powers invoke 
read feedback broadgang ask greet sell forgive midrank quit share wealth 
action disband topten backstab drag exits statline punch experience

Please refer to the online help for more details about the usage of
these commands.

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3) Customizing your Environment

There are a number of customizable features which each user may change to 
their liking. These settings will stay with you even if you reroll and start 
a new MajorMUD character. At any point in the game, you may type PROFILE to 
see your current profile settings.

The following are the available profile options:

Display Mode:  
 This will control the amount of description you get everytime you enter a 
 room. There are two options:

 Brief - Only display room header, items, people, monsters, exits
 Verbose - Display all of above, plus full text description of room

StatusLine:  
 This option controls the style of the statusline which you see
 as a prompt while playing MajorMUD. There are three options:

 Off - All you see as a statusline is ">"
 On - You will see your hit points and mana or kai (if applicable)
 Full - As for 'on', but if you press ENTER, you will also receive a brief 
 room description.

Broadcast Channel: 
 This is the in-game broadcast channel which you are on. Using the 
 BROADCAST (BR for short) command, you can send messages to everyone who 
 has the same channel as you. If your bbs does not already have the ' key 
 or the - key assigned to a global command, then you can precede a line 
 with either of those characters to broadcast to this channel as well. A 
 broadcast channel can be in the range of 1 - 255.

Talking Speed:
 Your talking speed determines if you have to precede every line of text 
 which you want to say with a character. There are two options:

 Fast - You do NOT need to precede your line with a character. Just type 
 whatever you wish to say and it will be said to the room.
 Slow - You must precede all talking with a character (defaults to .)
 if you want to speak to the room. If . does not work, it is because your
 sysop has changed it. Type HELP TALKING to see the character which your 
 sysop has chosen.

Follow Mode:
 When you are in a party, you will automatically follow the leader of
 your party. When in this mode, often you do not wish to actually see
 any room descriptions as you move from room to room. There are two
 options for this mode: 

 Blind - All you will see is the direction that you are moving  
 Normal - You will see room descriptions as though you had moved yourself

Attack Interrupts:
 If you are calling the bbs using a slow modem (less than 14.4) then there 
 are times when you may experience a backlog of text. This means that the 
 action in the game is going on, but you still haven't seen it happen yet 
 because your modem is not fast enough to get it to you. Some people have 
 been known to take advantage of this by sending LOTS of data to you and then 
 attacking you. By the time you even see the first attack, there is a good 
 chance that you will already be DEAD. To get around this problem, you can 
 turn attack interrupts on. This will cancel all text going to you as soon as 
 someone attacks you and send you a message informing you of the attack. Note 
 that you may miss out on important messages this way, but at least you see 
 the fact that someone is attacking you. There are two options for this 
 setting:
 
 Enabled - Your output will be interrupted to display the attack message
 Disabled - No attempt will be made to interrupt your output when attacked

Receive Items:
 Another technique which some users will do to attack you unfairly is to
 give you a lot of useless stuff and then attack you (often they will use
 a macro to do this as fast as possible). The result of this is that they
 will greatly increase your encumbrance which will then slow you down if
 you try to run away or fight back. You can use this option to stop
 people from giving you anything. There are two options:

 Enabled - You will accept anything you are given
 Disabled - You will not accept anything you are given

Warn on Evil:
 There are a number of actions in MajorMUD which will cause you to earn evil 
 points. As your number of evil points increases, the game will start to 
 punish you by sending guards, bounty hunters, or even lightning bolts after 
 you. If you wish to be stopped from even accidentally performing an evil 
 action, you may use this setting to stop you. 

 On - You will be warned before taking any evil action and stopped from 
 performing the action
 Off - You will not be warned and will earn evil points as usual.

Allow Telepaths:
 There are times in the game when you do not wish to be disturbed by anyone 
 else in the game. You can use this setting to stop people from telepathing 
 to you.

 On - Anyone can telepath messages to you
 Off - Nobody can telepath messages to you

Block Entrance Message:
 There are certain global messages which are sent to everyone who is playing 
 the game. These include (but are not limited to) messages indicating that a 
 player has left or entered the realm. If you do not wish to receive these, 
 turn this option on.

 On - You will not receive any global game messages
 Off - You will receive global game messages as normal

Keep Some Experience:
 When you die your last life, or reroll your character, you have the option 
 of either starting fresh with 0 experience, or keeping some of the 
 experience of your current character in your new character.

 On - You will keep some experience in your next character
 Off - Your next character will start at 0 experience again.

 NOTE that your sysop may, at his/her discretion, disable this option on a 
 system-wide basis.

Message Level:
 This option applies to those callers on lower speed lines as well as those 
 who just don't want to be bothered with all the messages about things 
 happening around them. There are three settings for this option. You will 
 have to experiment with them to find out which one is best for you.

 High - You will see all messages about anything that happens around you
 Medium - You will not see as many messages as at high 
 Low - You will only see important messages that pertain to you

Paging:
 You may control two aspects of pages (or any bbs global messages)
 being sent to you. First, you may turn them on or off:

 On - People may page you or send you bbs global messages
 Off - People may not page you or send you bbs global messages.

 The second option is the frequency at which you can be paged (or telepath'd). 
 You may specify the maximum number of these global messages which you wish 
 to receive in a 3 second interval.

Talking Responses:
 When you are talking, there are two possible responses which the
 game can give to you. They are as follows:

 Brief - The game will merely say 'Well spoken.'
 Verbose - The game will respond with 'You say, "whatever you  said"'

Colour Palette:
 There are currently 4 different colour palettes in the game (0,1,2,3)
 which you may choose from. The colour palette affects the colours which
 are used in numerous places in the game. You will have to use trial and
 error to determine which palette is best for you, but in general palette
 0 is medium brightness, palette 1 is dim, palette 2 is the brightest,
 and palette 3 is a combination of 0 and 1.

Suicide Password:
 To help prevent accident suicide or reroll (as well as preventing
 your friends from doing it while your back is turned), there is a suicide
 password option which you may set. Once set, you must enter it before
 you will be able to suicide or reroll.

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