1*36989Sbostic5 Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem. 2*36989SbosticYour daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies 3*36989Sbosticseem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must 4*36989Sbostictry to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. 5*36989SbosticPerhaps here is the solution you need. 6*36989Sbostic 7*36989Sbostic It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself 8*36989SbosticPolinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus 9*36989Sbosticretired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the 10*36989Sbosticcreation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel 11*36989Sbostican attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that 12*36989Sbostichere he met his demise. 13*36989Sbostic 14*36989Sbostic The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design, 15*36989Sbosticand contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a 16*36989Sbosticjourney into these caverns. 17*36989Sbostic 18*36989Sbostic 19*36989Sbostic Good Luck! You're going to need it! 20*36989Sbostic 21*36989Sbostic 22*36989Sbostic 23*36989Sbostic 24*36989Sbostic [4mHelp File for The Caverns of Larn[m 25*36989Sbostic 26*36989Sbostich move to the left H run left . stay here 27*36989Sbosticj move down J run down Z teleport yourself 28*36989Sbostick move up K run up c cast a spell 29*36989Sbosticl move to the right L run right r read a scroll 30*36989Sbosticy move northwest Y run northwest q quaff a potion 31*36989Sbosticu move northeast U run northeast W wear armor 32*36989Sbosticb move southwest B run southwest T take off armor 33*36989Sbosticn move southeast N run southeast w wield a weapon 34*36989Sbostic^ identify a trap g give present pack weight P give tax status 35*36989Sbosticd drop an item i inventory your pockets Q quit the game 36*36989Sbosticv print program version S save the game D list all items found 37*36989Sbostic? this help screen A create diagnostic file e eat something 38*36989Sbostic (wizards only) 39*36989Sbosticlarn ++ restore checkpointed game 40*36989Sbosticlarn -s list the scoreboard 41*36989Sbosticlarn -i list scores with inventories 42*36989Sbosticlarn -n suppress welcome message when beginning a game 43*36989Sbosticlarn -h print out all the command line options 44*36989Sbosticlarn -<number> specify difficulty of the game (may be used with -n) 45*36989Sbosticlarn -o<optsfile> specify the .larnopts file to be used 46*36989Sbosticlarn -c create new scoreboards -- prompts for a password 47*36989Sbostic [7mSpecial Notes[m 48*36989Sbostic 49*36989SbosticWhen [7mdropping gold[m, if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped. 50*36989SbosticIn general, typing in '*' means all of what your interested in. This is true 51*36989Sbosticwhen visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars. 52*36989Sbostic 53*36989SbosticLarn may need a [7mVT100[m to operate. A check is made of the environment variable 54*36989Sbostic[7m"TERM"[m and it must be equal to [7m"vt100"[m. This only applies if 55*36989Sbosticthe game has been compiled with "VT100" defined in the Makefile. If compiled 56*36989Sbosticto use [7mtermcap[m, there are no terminal restrictions, save needing cm, ce, & cl 57*36989Sbostictermcap entries. 58*36989Sbostic 59*36989SbosticWhen in the store, trading post, school, or home, an [7m<escape>[m will get you out. 60*36989Sbostic 61*36989Sbosticlarn -l print out the larn log file 62*36989Sbostic 63*36989SbosticWhen casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type '[7mD[m' as 64*36989Sbosticthe first letter of your spell. The available list of spells will be shown, 65*36989Sbosticafter which you may enter the spell code. This only works on the 1st letter 66*36989Sbosticof the spell you are casting. 67*36989Sbostic 68*36989SbosticThe Author of Larn is Noah Morgan (1982-3), Copying for Profit is Prohibited 69*36989SbosticCopyright 1986 by Noah Morgan, All Rights Reserved. 70*36989Sbostic [7mBackground Information for Larn[m 71*36989Sbostic 72*36989Sbostic Welcome to the game of Larn. At this moment, you face a great problem. 73*36989SbosticYour daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remedies 74*36989Sbosticseem to have any effect. You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you must 75*36989Sbostictry to save her. Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. 76*36989SbosticPerhaps here is the solution you need. 77*36989Sbostic 78*36989Sbostic It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himself 79*36989SbosticPolinneaus. Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus 80*36989Sbosticretired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to the 81*36989Sbosticcreation of magic. Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel 82*36989Sbostican attacking army in a forest some distance to the north. It is believed that 83*36989Sbostichere he met his demise. 84*36989Sbostic 85*36989Sbostic The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design, 86*36989Sbosticand contain much magic and treasure. One option you have is to undertake a 87*36989Sbosticjourney into these caverns. 88*36989Sbostic 89*36989Sbostic Good Luck! You're going to need it! 90*36989Sbostic 91*36989Sbostic 92*36989Sbostic 93*36989Sbostic [7mHow to use the .larnopts option file[m 94*36989Sbostic 95*36989SbosticThe file ".larnopts", if used, should be in your home directory (see -o). 96*36989SbosticA sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options. 97*36989Sbostic 98*36989Sbostic Word Meaning 99*36989Sbostic 100*36989Sbostic bold-objects select bold display of objects 101*36989Sbostic inverse-objects select inverse video display of objects 102*36989Sbostic no-introduction do not display intro message 103*36989Sbostic enable-checkpointing turn on periodic checkpointing 104*36989Sbostic no-beep disable beeping of the terminal 105*36989Sbostic male choose your sex to be a man 106*36989Sbostic female choose your sex to be a woman 107*36989Sbostic name: "your name" choose your playing name 108*36989Sbostic monster: "monst name" choose a name for a monster 109*36989Sbostic savefile: "save-file-name" define what the savegame filename will be 110*36989Sbostic 111*36989SbosticYour name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and may 112*36989Sbosticbe up to 34 characters long. Longer names are truncated. Anything enclosed in 113*36989Sbosticquotation marks is considered one word, and must be separated from other words 114*36989Sbosticby whitespace. 115*36989Sbostic 116*36989Sbostic [7mExplanation of the Larn scoreboard facility[m 117*36989Sbostic 118*36989Sbostic Larn supports TWO scoreboards, one for winners, and one for deceased 119*36989Sbosticcharacters. Each player (by userid or playerid, see UIDSCORE in Makefile) 120*36989Sbosticis allowed one slot on each scoreboard, if the score is in the top ten for 121*36989Sbosticthat scoreboard. This design helps insure that frequent players of Larn 122*36989Sbosticdo not hog the scoreboard, and gives more players a chance for glory. Level 123*36989Sbosticof difficulty is also noted on the scoreboards, and this takes precedence 124*36989Sbosticover score for determining what entry is on the scoreboard. For example: 125*36989Sbosticif "Yar, the Bug Slayer" has a score of 128003 on the scoreboard at diff 0, 126*36989Sbosticthen his game at diff 1 and a score of 4112 would replace his previous 127*36989Sbosticentry on the scoreboard. Note that when a player dies, his inventory is 128*36989Sbosticstored in the scoreboard so that everyone can see what items the player had 129*36989Sbosticat the time of his death. 130*36989Sbostic 131*36989Sbostic 132*36989Sbostic 133*36989Sbostic 134*36989Sbostic 135*36989Sbostic 136*36989Sbostic 137*36989Sbostic 138*36989Sbostic 139*36989Sbostic 140*36989Sbostic 141