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