larn/larn.6

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  30 .\"     @(#)larn.6      5.5 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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  32 .Dd December 30, 1993
  33 .Dt LARN 6
  34 .Os
  35 .Sh NAME
  36 .Nm larn
  37 .Nd exploring the caverns of Larn
  38 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  39 .Nm larn
  40 .Op Fl r
  41 .Op Fl H Ar number
  42 .Op Fl n
  43 .Op Fl h
  44 .Op Fl o Ar optsfile
  45 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  46 .Nm
  47 is a fantasy games in which your child has contracted
  48 a strange disease, and none of your home remedies seem to have any effect.
  49 You set out to find a remedy in a limited
  50 amount of time, and to collect gold along the way of course!
  51 .Pp
  52 The options are:
  53 .Pp
  54 .Bl -tag -width flag
  55 .It Fl r
  56 The
  57 .Fl r
  58 option restores a checkpointed game after it has died.
  59 .It Fl H
  60 The
  61 .Fl H
  62 option sets the hardness of the game.
  63 .It Fl n
  64 The
  65 .Fl n
  66 option suppresses the welcome message at start up, putting you directly
  67 into the game.
  68 .It Fl h
  69 The
  70 .Fl h
  71 option prints the command line options.
  72 .It Fl o
  73 The
  74 .Fl o
  75 option specifies a different options file than
  76 .Pa ~/.larnopts .
  77 .El
  78 .Sh COMMANDS
  79 .Pp
  80 These are the movement commands:
  81 .Bl -column " print program version" " give present pack weight"
  82 h move to the left      H run left      . stay here
  83 j move down     J run down      Z teleport yourself
  84 k move up       K run up        c cast a spell
  85 l move to the right     L run right     r read a scroll
  86 y move northwest        Y run northwest q quaff a potion
  87 u move northeast        U run northeast W wear armor
  88 b move southwest        B run southwest T take off armor
  89 n move southeast        N run southeast w wield a weapon
  90 ^ identify a trap       g give present pack weight      P give tax status
  91 d drop an item  i inventory your pockets        Q quit the game
  92 v print program version S save the game D list all items found
  93 ? this help screen      A create diagnostic file        e eat something
  94         (wizards only)
  95 .El
  96 .Sh OPTIONS FILE
  97 .Pp
  98 The file
  99 .Pa ~/.larnopts
 100 may be used to set a few options for
 101 .Nm .
 102 A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options.
 103 .Pp
 104 .Bl -tag -width "savefile: xxsave-file-namexx" -compact
 105 .It Sy  Word
 106 .Sy     Meaning
 107 .Pp
 108 .It bold-objects
 109 Select bold display of objects.
 110 .It inverse-objects
 111 Select inverse video display of objects.
 112 .It no-introduction
 113 Do not display intro message.
 114 .It enable-checkpointing
 115 Turn on periodic checkpointing.
 116 .It no-beep
 117 Disable beeping of the terminal.
 118 .It male
 119 Choose your sex to be a man.
 120 .It female
 121 Choose your sex to be a woman.
 122 .It name: Dq your name
 123 Choose your playing name.
 124 .It monster: Dq monst name
 125 Choose a name for a monster.
 126 .It savefile: Dq save-file-name
 127 Define what the savegame filename will be.
 128 .El
 129 .Pp
 130 Your name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and may
 131 be up to 34 characters long.
 132 Longer names are truncated.
 133 Anything enclosed in quotation marks is considered one word, and must be
 134 separated from other words by whitespace.
 135 .Sh SPECIAL NOTES
 136 .Pp
 137 When
 138 .Sy dropping gold ,
 139 if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped.
 140 In general, typing in '*' means all of what you are interested in.
 141 This is true when visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars.
 142 .Pp
 143 You can get out of the store, trading post, school, or home by hitting
 144 .Aq Sy esc .
 145 .Pp
 146 When casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type \fBD\fP
 147 as the first letter of your spell.
 148 The available list of spells will be shown,
 149 after which you may enter the spell code.
 150 This only works on the 1st letter of the spell you are casting.
 151 .Sh AUTHOR
 152 .An Noah Morgan
 153 .Sh FILES
 154 .Bl -tag -width "/var/games/larn.scores" -compact
 155 .It Pa /var/games/larn.scores
 156 Score file.
 157 .It Pa ~/.larnopts
 158 Options file.
 159 .El