1 1.1 cgd 5 Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem. 2 1.1 cgd Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies 3 1.1 cgd seem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must 4 1.1 cgd try to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. 5 1.1 cgd Perhaps here is the solution you need. 6 1.1 cgd 7 1.1 cgd It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself 8 1.1 cgd Polinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus 9 1.1 cgd retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the 10 1.1 cgd creation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel 11 1.1 cgd an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that 12 1.1 cgd here he met his demise. 13 1.1 cgd 14 1.1 cgd The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design, 15 1.1 cgd and contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a 16 1.1 cgd journey into these caverns. 17 1.1 cgd 18 1.1 cgd 19 1.1 cgd Good Luck! You're going to need it! 20 1.1 cgd 21 1.1 cgd 22 1.1 cgd 23 1.1 cgd 24 1.1 cgd [4mHelp File for The Caverns of Larn[m 25 1.1 cgd 26 1.1 cgd h move to the left H run left . stay here 27 1.1 cgd j move down J run down Z teleport yourself 28 1.1 cgd k move up K run up c cast a spell 29 1.1 cgd l move to the right L run right r read a scroll 30 1.1 cgd y move northwest Y run northwest q quaff a potion 31 1.1 cgd u move northeast U run northeast W wear armor 32 1.1 cgd b move southwest B run southwest T take off armor 33 1.1 cgd n move southeast N run southeast w wield a weapon 34 1.1 cgd ^ identify a trap g give present pack weight P give tax status 35 1.1 cgd d drop an item i inventory your pockets Q quit the game 36 1.1 cgd v print program version S save the game D list all items found 37 1.1 cgd ? this help screen A create diagnostic file e eat something 38 1.1 cgd (wizards only) 39 1.1 cgd larn ++ restore checkpointed game 40 1.1 cgd larn -s list the scoreboard 41 1.1 cgd larn -i list scores with inventories 42 1.1 cgd larn -n suppress welcome message when beginning a game 43 1.1 cgd larn -h print out all the command line options 44 1.1 cgd larn -<number> specify difficulty of the game (may be used with -n) 45 1.1 cgd larn -o<optsfile> specify the .larnopts file to be used 46 1.1 cgd larn -c create new scoreboards -- prompts for a password 47 1.1 cgd [7mSpecial Notes[m 48 1.1 cgd 49 1.1 cgd When [7mdropping gold[m, if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped. 50 1.1 cgd In general, typing in '*' means all of what your interested in. This is true 51 1.1 cgd when visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars. 52 1.1 cgd 53 1.1 cgd Larn may need a [7mVT100[m to operate. A check is made of the environment variable 54 1.1 cgd [7m"TERM"[m and it must be equal to [7m"vt100"[m. This only applies if 55 1.1 cgd the game has been compiled with "VT100" defined in the Makefile. If compiled 56 1.1 cgd to use [7mtermcap[m, there are no terminal restrictions, save needing cm, ce, & cl 57 1.1 cgd termcap entries. 58 1.1 cgd 59 1.1 cgd When in the store, trading post, school, or home, an [7m<escape>[m will get you out. 60 1.1 cgd 61 1.1 cgd larn -l print out the larn log file 62 1.1 cgd 63 1.1 cgd When casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type '[7mD[m' as 64 1.1 cgd the first letter of your spell. The available list of spells will be shown, 65 1.1 cgd after which you may enter the spell code. This only works on the 1st letter 66 1.1 cgd of the spell you are casting. 67 1.1 cgd 68 1.1 cgd The Author of Larn is Noah Morgan (1982-3), Copying for Profit is Prohibited 69 1.1 cgd Copyright 1986 by Noah Morgan, All Rights Reserved. 70 1.1 cgd [7mBackground Information for Larn[m 71 1.1 cgd 72 1.1 cgd Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem. 73 1.1 cgd Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies 74 1.1 cgd seem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must 75 1.1 cgd try to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. 76 1.1 cgd Perhaps here is the solution you need. 77 1.1 cgd 78 1.1 cgd It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself 79 1.1 cgd Polinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus 80 1.1 cgd retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the 81 1.1 cgd creation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel 82 1.1 cgd an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that 83 1.1 cgd here he met his demise. 84 1.1 cgd 85 1.1 cgd The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design, 86 1.1 cgd and contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a 87 1.1 cgd journey into these caverns. 88 1.1 cgd 89 1.1 cgd Good Luck! You're going to need it! 90 1.1 cgd 91 1.1 cgd 92 1.1 cgd 93 1.1 cgd [7mHow to use the .larnopts option file[m 94 1.1 cgd 95 1.1 cgd The file ".larnopts", if used, should be in your home directory (see -o). 96 1.1 cgd A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options. 97 1.1 cgd 98 1.1 cgd Word Meaning 99 1.1 cgd 100 1.1 cgd bold-objects select bold display of objects 101 1.1 cgd inverse-objects select inverse video display of objects 102 1.1 cgd no-introduction do not display intro message 103 1.1 cgd enable-checkpointing turn on periodic checkpointing 104 1.1 cgd no-beep disable beeping of the terminal 105 1.1 cgd male choose your sex to be a man 106 1.1 cgd female choose your sex to be a woman 107 1.1 cgd name: "your name" choose your playing name 108 1.1 cgd monster: "monst name" choose a name for a monster 109 1.1 cgd savefile: "save-file-name" define what the savegame filename will be 110 1.1 cgd 111 1.1 cgd Your name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and may 112 1.1 cgd be up to 34 characters long. Longer names are truncated. Anything enclosed in 113 1.1 cgd quotation marks is considered one word, and must be separated from other words 114 1.1 cgd by whitespace. 115 1.1 cgd 116 1.1 cgd [7mExplanation of the Larn scoreboard facility[m 117 1.1 cgd 118 1.1 cgd Larn supports TWO scoreboards, one for winners, and one for deceased 119 1.1 cgd characters. Each player (by userid or playerid, see UIDSCORE in Makefile) 120 1.1 cgd is allowed one slot on each scoreboard, if the score is in the top ten for 121 1.1 cgd that scoreboard. This design helps insure that frequent players of Larn 122 1.1 cgd do not hog the scoreboard, and gives more players a chance for glory. Level 123 1.1 cgd of difficulty is also noted on the scoreboards, and this takes precedence 124 1.1 cgd over score for determining what entry is on the scoreboard. For example: 125 1.1 cgd if "Yar, the Bug Slayer" has a score of 128003 on the scoreboard at diff 0, 126 1.1 cgd then his game at diff 1 and a score of 4112 would replace his previous 127 1.1 cgd entry on the scoreboard. Note that when a player dies, his inventory is 128 1.1 cgd stored in the scoreboard so that everyone can see what items the player had 129 1.1 cgd at the time of his death. 130 1.1 cgd 131 1.1 cgd 132 1.1 cgd 133 1.1 cgd 134 1.1 cgd 135 1.1 cgd 136 1.1 cgd 137 1.1 cgd 138 1.1 cgd 139 1.1 cgd 140 1.1 cgd 141
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