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Welcome to the Demise 'tutorial'. This section was designed to
walk you through creating a character, buying the proper items in a store,
entering the dungeon, and dealing with your first monster.
Starting
Out
Important: It's a good idea to always keep your Int. and Wis. no lower than 10, so your character can use any Tomes they might find (items to raise stats which require 10 Int. and 10 Wis. to use). Now, click the Finish button. Once your character has been created, the game will return you to the Main Menu Screen. To begin playing, select Play Game. Overview
of Stats
The other buttons located in this window are for other types of character information. If you want to look in the current area to see what other characters are around (after you have created more than one), you can click on the 'Area Look' button, the compass in the bottom center of the screen, which will display the current characters in the 'room' or 'area'. You can look at resistances, character skills, buffers, etc. You'll learn all of these buttons as you become more familiar with the game and read the Game Screen section of this On Line Information System. The screen in the top right is the City/Dungeon view. Next, we have the Party/Companion window (bottom left). This is where all the characters in your party are shown. Since you're by yourself, you only see the information on the one character. Later on, as you venture into the depths with an organized party, the other characters will be displayed in this window. This window is also useful for keeping track of your character's hits & status when a button other than the 'stats' button is showing in the main Info window! The Messages window in the lower right corner is for various messages (click on the lips in the lower right corner) that will be displayed during the game. It is important since messages about significant events will be displayed here. The lower right corner also contains your buffer information if you click on the books. Finally we have the Spells, Automap & Items Window (bottom center). The City
Outfitting your Character - the Store
NOTE: Your new character comes pre-equipped
with the following items:
Let's first focus on how to browse and purchase items from the store. See the section of items to the right? This is the Store Inventory: The top row is the class of items; the hands are for the Weapon class, the next one is Armor and the third one is Shield; while the individual item types for the selected class are shown below. To the right of the shield are arrows that you can use to view more item classes. Click on the first item, the Bronze Dagger. As you can see, the dagger costs 12 gold pieces. When the item is not aligned, or if the store only has one alignment in stock, you will immediately see the cost. As you find items and sell them to the store, the price will be displayed differently. For instance, if you click the class arrows and move right to the waist protection (click on the icon), there will be a Leather Girdle there. If you click on it - to the right of the large picture you will see "STORE ITEM, Leather Girdle, SELECT AN ALIGNMENT”, instead of a price, and "Leather girdle 1(g) 1(n) 1(e)” below the Store Inventory. This means that there are a total of three types of these girdles in inventory - 1 good, 1 neutral and 1 evil. So to find the price, or buy a leather girdle, you will notice the buttons in the center of the screen that say Good, Neutral, or Evil, click on the alignment of your character after which you can see the price and "Buy” the item (it is suggested to buy this item before you venture into the dungeon). If you find an Evil Tome of Might and sell it when there is none in the store, the listing would then read "Tome of Might 1(e)”. Also, the store charges a price that corresponds to the number of items in stock, for example if Iron Sword was 2(g) 9(n) 4(e), Neutral iron swords would be cheaper than either Good or Evil Iron Swords. It is also helpful to note that Unaligned items can be used by characters of all alignments. Now, let's look at the Leather Girdle information. Click on the Info button next to the Exit button (if you already bought the girdle, select the item in your inventory to bring up this button). The Misc button in the main Info window automatically pops up with the information. This button shows you all of the information that the store has on the item - how it affects attack & defense, what the class of the item is, how many hands it takes to use (if any), what guilds are allowed to use it, etc. Depending on the item, additional information may also be shown, such as the number of 'swings' that a weapon provides, or what spell an item casts. For more information, see The Game Screen Section of this On Line Information System. When you find an item in the dungeon, bring it here and click "ID” to identify it, you will frequently not know everything about the item. Some items will require more than one identification stage, which usually, but not necessarily, means they are more valuable. Also, you can click the Info button after every ID process and you will see how the information becomes more detailed. Once you have bought the Leather Girdle, right click on it in your inventory and select "Equip” (or double click on it). Protective items won't do you any good unless you actually wear them! Let's run through the other services of the store. Select an item in your inventory. You can use the "Uncurse” button to remove items that your character equipped that were either cursed or had an alignment that was the opposite of your character's alignment. Your character may find items of any alignment in the dungeon, and while "Neutral” characters won't run the risk of equipping an item that is oppositely aligned, there are also items that are downright cursed. That's why it's not a good idea to equip anything that's not completely identified. You will know what an item is after you have completely identified them. If you have a character whose alignment is "Good” and equip an Iron Sword that's "Evil” (e), your character will LOSE instead of gain fighting ability, A/D, etc. - plus you will have to pay to have the item uncursed before your character can unequip the item or change guilds. The "Combine” button is used for combining like items (i.e. 2 potions of curing with 3 charges each into 1 potion with 6 charges). This feature is free and it allows your character to be better organized and carry more items. Items must be fully identified and of the same alignment before they can be combined. The risk is that if a combined item is lost or stolen, you lose more. If you "Sell” an item, the store will pay you the Value shown. If the item isn't completely identified, you will see an "ID cost”, and next to the Sell button there will be an "ID” button that you can use to identify the item. When you find items that are aligned, you have the option of realigning it by using the item realign services of the store. However, the store extracts a hefty fee for this service. If you have a good item and want to realign it to evil, select the items and click on the Evil button and you'll be told how much it will cost to realign it. The reason a character may wish to realign an item is to be able to use it. If a Good character finds a Neutral (n) or Evil (e) item, equipping the item will not benefit the character as much (and become cursed if it's oppositely aligned), so the character can bring the item to the store and realign it to their actual alignment so they can equip and use the item and receive the full benefit of the item's abilities (added attack, defense, etc.). In order to identify, realign, uncurse, or sell any items, you must first select the item in your inventory and the options will appear in the store. You may notice, in starting out, that things appear very expensive. The average Tome costs over 50 to identify for just the first stage. Initially the best way to go about this is to sell the first item you find without identifying them and use that money to identify other found items as far as you can and then sell those until you have enough money to identify everything you find and make a profit from it. Items that aren't completely identified will not bring their full value when sold, while other items may be less valuable (i.e. cursed items) when fully identified. For more information on the Store, be sure it read the City Store section of this On Line Information System. The Bank
For more information on the Bank, be sure to read the City Bank section of the On Line Information System , which will describe the Party options (for single player mode) in more detail (for when you need them). The Guilds
Let's move on! You will see a total of four options on the Guilds screen. These four are Library, Change, Donate and Exit. The first option is the Library, which is a branch of the guilds that will become very useful later. The second button allows you to change to another guild other than your current guild (by selecting another guild book at the table). Go ahead and press F4 or type "/g” and you'll see a message (in the message window) stating how much experience you need to make the next guild level, in this case level 2. When you make levels, your hits points go up and often your A/D increases as well. To gain experience, you need to go down into the dungeon and slay some monsters. When your character has enough experience and gold to 'make level', return to the Guild and use the "Level Up” button to increase your characters skills. You will sometimes find items in the dungeon that are guild specific. When you do, Donate the item to the guild and you might be in for a surprise. The Morgue
The
Confinement
The
Billboard
Lord Gherrick
The Dungeon
For more information on these and other commands, see the Commands section in this On Line Information System. Go ahead and press the Left arrow to go toward the stairs to level 1. Press the Up arrow until you walk up the stairs and then follow the path right, left, right until you are facing a set of doors. Once you pass through them, you start your venture into the dungeon proper. It is recommended to explore level 1 for your first few guild levels. Combat
Well, wasn't that fun. If you got hit go back to the city (back up the main stairs and through the double doors). When you enter the city, you'll see that your hits still aren't back to normal. Go to the Fountain, and click on on it for quick heal for a fee. Presto! back to full health. If you don't go to the fountain or make a level in the guild, you will heal with aging when you re-enter the dungeon (which is recommended until you can afford to pay at the fountain). Now you're ready to take out whatever it was *gulp*. You may be wondering why the monster(s) were able to swing at you even though you didn't do anything besides run in and out. This is because Combat in Demise happens in real time - whether you're ready or not - the monster(s) are always ready. Combat takes place in approximately 2 second rounds. You get to swing, then the monster does, or visa versa and so on. Fortunately, you can run away and save your hide, allowing you to return to the city and recover your hit points before doing battle once again with the nasties. You may use this as your main 'weapon' in trying to survive the first few levels - that's why you learned it first! This is going to be your main advantage in staying alive for the first few levels. Now, if you feel up to it and you're all healed up, go back into that room and nail those monsters! Since your character will automatically begin fighting a creature if they are at war and in range, all you need to do is walk in and watch the fight (unless they are 'peaced', in which case you will want to hit 'f' to begin fighting). Keep in mind that if the monster hits your character, you'll probably want to turn around and go back to town to heal up before continuing the fight. Even though your character may start automatically fighting, it's up to you to get them out of there if things turn bad! So, Go for it! If you were successful, you killed the monster(s), if you weren't - you're probably dead. If you're really having a tough time, try creating a Giant with maximum Strength and Dexterity by taking points away from Charisma and then Intelligence and Wisdom. That'll be one hard character to kill. Now, if you killed the monsters, you'll notice you have some experience points and probably found some gold (unless they had a chest). If they had a chest, it's sitting there, waiting to be opened (unless it's "Magically Sealed”). If it's not "Magically Sealed” you will see the trap description in one of a few colors. That tells you how good you are at identifying and disarming traps. For more information, you'll need to read the Help Lesson - heck, you'll end up reading it sooner or later anyway. If there's a chest, press ‘o’ to open it. Gold! Neat! Did you find an item? If so, you can take it back up and try to identify it (if you have enough gold) or sell it. Follow
up
As mentioned above, your character will automatically begin fighting if they enter a room with hostile monsters (or the monsters become hostile). You can change this by clicking on the Options button in the Party window and modifying the action for each character in the party (right now, there's only one) to carry out during a combat situation. Even though this little 'tutorial' got you started, it's recommended that you go ahead and read the entire On Line Information System You'll need to anyway to find out what guilds are available, their abilities, and what races can join them. Demise is a very large game - easy enough for the beginner, and complex enough for the serious player. As you become more familiar with Demise, you may want to organize a Party to explore the depths below. To do this, simply press the 'a' key to ask a character who is in the current area to join you! Well, you should be able to figure it out from here! Good Luck! |