DDST Game Instructions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your Character ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you fist started the game, a list of Character Attributes appeared on the screen. Hopefully you paid attention and tried to create a character with the highest attributes possible. This will really help your chances in the game. The attributes are simular to other Adventure type games that you may have played on your ST. Character Menu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Main Menu: Takes you to the Main Menu 2) Your Profile: Shows you your Character Profile. 3) Game Instructions: The file you are presently looking at. 4) Whats Going On?: Another small file to give you some info. 5) Create New Character: Just as it says... The Character Menu is really self explanatory. You can view your Character profile. This will show you which items you are presently carrying, and also your gold and any ancient artifacts that you may have found. Any weapons or armour that you are wearing will be shown too. The instructions are what you are presently reading, and if you would like some background info on the Game, read "What's Going On?" for a little background info to start you off on the game. If you don't like your character, you can create a new one in this menu. Just select the Create new character and you will be able to start over. Main Menu ~~~~~~~~~~ The main menu is accessible anywhere in the game, as you will have to come back to save your game position while you play. The commands are listed below and really need no explanation. 1) Character Menu: Gets you to the Character Menu. 2) Hall of Champions: Player list, see how others are doing. 3) Lord's Keep A list of the Winners from this game. 4) SAVE: Saves your Character Position. 5) RESTORE: Restores your Character if you screw up. 6) QUIT: Quits the game. 7) Inverse video: Inverts screen. We recommend a Black Background. Hitting Return with no entry will take you into the Adventure. THE ADVENTURE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you first enter the Adventure, you will be shown a map of the Land of Eridor. The legend for the map is on the lower right of your screen. The upper Right Hand corner will show your time remaining for the day. Since DDST is a Doors game, and sysops don't want you to play the game all night, you are limited to 20 minutes a day. If you don't use up all of your time during your turn, you may reenter the game to continue. Under the Map on the Left side is shown a small menu. The arrow keys will move you around the screen and you can return to the Main menu by hitting M. If you have any healing potions, you may take them by hitting P. The I key will send you to the Items Menu, where you may inspect the items that you are carrying or change your armour or weapons. Town Menu The menu in the all of the towns shows the following: 1) Visit Inn: Takes you to the Inn Menu 2) Blacksmith: Takes you to the Blacksmith Menu 3) Marketplace: Here is where you can buy or sell Items 4) Bank: Lets you save your money. 5) Profile: Same as your profile in the Character Menu 6) Oracle: Visit the Oracle and get the Scrolls 7) Read Scrolls: Lets you read the Scrolls you obtain 8) Main Menu: Takes you to the Main Menu The Inn Menu Eat, Drink, and Rent a Room: Restore your hit points Inquire a job: Get money for Weapons and Armour Exit Blacksmith Menu You can buy your armour and weapons here. You can also unload your old armour on him, but don't expect much for it. Use the Market instead. Marketplace You may buy and sell items in the Marketplace. Just select what you would like to do. You will be finding items all over the place after encounters with monsters, so you can sell them here. You can also buy a few items that you may think that you may require in the game. Fighting the Monsters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Eriadoris under seige and there are many monsters running amok over the land. You will most likely encounter these creatures as you travel over the countryside. When this happens, the small menu at the bottom of the map will change to the fight routine status menu. This menu will allow you to either use your weapon, (you did buy a weapon now didn't you?) or run away, as you might be killed. This menu will also show you the monster type that you are fighting, the number of monsters, the hit points of the current monster you are fighting, and the hit points that you presently have left. These will be updated as the fight continues. After you choose what you want to do, you will see a report line appear, telling you what happened during the current round. You may continue by pressing any key and then hitting 1 or 2 to continue the fight. Watch out, as the monsters will not wait for long for you to make up your mind to fight them. If you are successful, you will be shown the amount of experience points and gold that you get from battling the monster. If you were not successful, better luck next time, as you will be allowed to either Restart or Restore (Did you save your position?) the game. Dungeons ~~~~~~~~ There are several dungeons in the game. If you come upon a dungeon from the Map of the Land, you will be asked if you wish to enter. If so, you will then see a large hidden map ( we can't show you everything). The dungeon map will be uncovered as you travel through it. Each dungeon level is different and you will find secret passages, traps, treasure and maybe even an ancient artifact. You will also find many monsters too, so be prepared for the worst. You may also find healing potions with the treasures in the dungeon to keep you from dying. Hints for Playing DDST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get a character with a good dexterity. This will help your armour class quite a bit. Go out and fight the monsters!! This is the only way that you are going to end the game successfully. Try to collect all the scrolls as they will help you in the game.