L 7    Welcome to the game of Larn.  At this moment, you face a great problem.N Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remediesN seem to have any effect.  You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you mustO try to save her.  Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. & Perhaps here is the solution you need.  L     It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himselfO Polinneaus.  Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus H retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to theM creation of magic.   Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel N an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north.  It is believed that here he met his demise.   F     The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design,K and contain much magic and treasure.  One option you have is to undertake a  journey into these caverns.     (     Good Luck!  You're going to need it!        >                 Help File for The Caverns of Larn, Prompt Mode  G b  move southwest          B  run southwest            S  save the game C h  move left               H  run left                 .  stay here I j  move down               J  run down                 ^  identify a trap H k  move up                 K  run up                   T  take off armor' l  move right              L  run right + n  move southeast          N  run southeast + u  move northeast          U  run northeast K y  move northwest          Y  run northwest            ^L redraw the screen / c  cast a spell            Z  teleport yourself + d  drop an item            e  eat something - g  get present pack weight P  give tax status J i  inventory your pockets  I  list all items found     ?  this help screen+ q  quaff a potion          Q  quit the game 3 r  read a scroll           v  print program version K w  wield a weapon          W  wear armor               ^L redraw the screen             ?                 Help File for The Caverns of Larn, Command Mode   L b  move southwest          B  run southwest            A  desecrate an altarK c  cast a spell            C  close a door             Z  teleport yourself I d  drop an item            D  drink at a fountain      <  go up stairs or H e  eat something           E  enter a store, dungeon      volcanic shaftK g  get present pack weight                             >  go down stairs or H h  move left               H  run left                    volcanic shaftJ i  inventory your pockets  I  list all items found     ?  this help screenI j  move down               J  run down                 ^  identify a trap F k  move up                 K  run up                   ,  pick up itemL l  move right              L  run right                :  look at object youI n  move southeast          N  run southeast               are standing on C                            O  open a door or chest     .  stay here N p  pray at an altar        P  give tax status          m  move without pickingF q  quaff a potion          Q  quit the game               up an objectL r  read a scroll           R  remove gems from throne  @  toggle auto-pickupM s  sit on a throne         S  save the game            /  identify objects in B t  tidy up at a fountain   T  take off armor              the game+ u  move northeast          U  run northeast  v  print program version( w  wield a weapon          W  wear armorK y  move northwest          Y  run northwest            ^L redraw the screen                  Special Notes   O When dropping gold, if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped. M In general, typing in '*' means all of what your interested in.  This is true 7 when visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars.   N Larn needs the ANSI.SYS (or preferably, the NANSI.SYS) device driver installedJ in your CONFIG.SYS file.  The supplied "termcap" file describes the escapeK sequences to change video modes (see ch 13 of the DOS 2.0 manual).  See the 2 "TERMCAP" section in LARN.DOC for further details.  O When in the store, trading post, school, or home, an <escape> will get you out.   L When casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type 'I' asL the first letter of your spell.  The available list of spells will be shown,L after which you may enter the spell code.  This only works on the 1st letter of the spell you are casting.   L When an inventory list is on the screen from a drop, quaff, read, or similarI command, you can type the letter of the object that you wish to act apon, 9 without having to type a space to get back to the prompt.   ) This version of Larn is by Kevin Routley. 1                         Larn Command Line Options   1 larn ++                 restore checkpointed game + larn -s                 list the scoreboard 4 larn -i                 list scores with inventoriesF larn -n                 suppress welcome message when beginning a game> larn -h                 print out all the command line options> larn -?                 print out all the command line options6 larn -<number>          specify difficulty of the game: larn -o<optsfile>       specify the option file to be usedH larn -c                 create new scoreboards -- prompts for a password3 larn -l                 print out the larn log file + larn -p                 play in prompt mode                     +             Background Information for Larn   K     Welcome to the game of Larn.  At this moment, you face a great problem. N Your daughter has contracted a strange disease, and none of your home remediesN seem to have any effect.  You sense that she is in mortal danger, and you mustO try to save her.  Time ago you heard of a land of great danger and opportunity. & Perhaps here is the solution you need.  L     It has been said that there once was a great magician who called himselfO Polinneaus.  Many years ago, after having many miraculous successes, Polinneaus H retired to the caverns of Larn, where he devoted most of his time to theM creation of magic.   Rumors have it that one day Polinneaus set out to dispel N an attacking army in a forest some distance to the north.  It is believed that here he met his demise.   F     The caverns of Larn, it is thought, must be magnificent in design,K and contain much magic and treasure.  One option you have is to undertake a  journey into these caverns.   (     Good Luck!  You're going to need it!      /             How to use the larn.opt option file   G The file "larn.opt", if used, should be in a directory along your PATH. H A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options.  %     Word                      Meaning <     cursor: lowscan highscan  change the shape of the cursor>     DECRainbow                tell LARN you have that computer<     enable-checkpointing      turn on periodic checkpointing=     graphics: wallc floorc    select graphics maze characters B     keypad                    enable the numeric keypad for movingA     larndir:  directory       the directory to use for larn files 9     monster:  "monst name"    choose a name for a monster 6     name:     "your name"     choose your playing name=     no-beep                   disable beeping of the terminal :     no-introduction           do not display intro messageG     savefile: save-file-name  define what the savegame filename will be =     swapfile: swap-file-name  define the name of the swapfile   N Your name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and mayO be up to 34 characters long.  Longer names are truncated.  Anything enclosed in N quotation marks is considered one word, and must be separated from other words by whitespace.6            Explanation of the Larn scoreboard facility  H     Larn supports TWO scoreboards, one for winners, and one for deceasedJ characters.  Each player (by userid or playerid, see UIDSCORE in Makefile)J is allowed one slot on each scoreboard, if the score is in the top ten forH that scoreboard.  This design helps insure that frequent players of LarnL do not hog the scoreboard, and gives more players a chance for glory.  LevelI of difficulty is also noted on the scoreboards, and this takes precedence I over score for determining what entry is on the scoreboard.  For example: K if "Yar, the Bug Slayer" has a score of 128003 on the scoreboard at diff 0, D then a game at diff 1 and a score of 4112 would replace the previousH entry on the scoreboard.  Note that when a player dies, the inventory isK stored in the scoreboard so that everyone can see what items the player had  at the time of 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