Walkthrough 1: Basic information ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: This is just a small draft. Still needs a lot of work. ------------------------------------------------------------ MUD, what's it all about? ========================= Basic: MUD = Multi User Dungeon This is a text adventure in a fantasy setting where you control your hero. Explore the world, find weapons, armors and other items that you can have use for, kill monsters to gain "experience" which will increase your "level", making you more powerful. In mud there is no storyline to follow and no goal to reach, except whatever goal you set for yourself. However, the game revolves around battle. Most of your time will probably be spent fighting. You share this world with other users, so you can talk with them, trade items, team up to kill a tougher monster together, etc. The main object is to kill stuff. Kill animals, citizens, monsters, ghosts, dragons, and any other living beings you find. When killing something, you gain "experience" which will make you more powerful, so you can kill tougher creatures giving you more experience. But there is also a big element of role playing - interaction with other players, who might treat you very differently depending on your and their race, alignment, guild belonging and other things. Note: You can kill other players and be killed by them. New players are normally treated nicely, though, and no high-level player will stoop to attack you without major provocation, and probably not even then. But as you grow, the danngers of others might increase. Connect to Genesis ================== Putty, homepage-link, telnet, clients ...