User Guide

Treasure Chests
Chests usually have traps on them and this is where your Thief (or Ninja) comes in
handy. When you are confronted with a chest, you will have the following options:
O)pen the chest, blindly hoping that there is no trap on it.
I)nspect the chest for a trap, praying that you don't set the trap off in the process.
C)alfo (priest spell) the character performs a magical inspection of the chest's
trap.
D)isarm the trap, assuming you think you know what it is.
L)eave the chest alone, and give up the goodies.
For each of these options, you will have to specify who is to perform the operation.
Normally this will be your Thief (or your Priest in the case of casting Calfo). If you
attempt to Disarm the trap, you will have to type in the trap's name. Spelling counts!
Needless to say, your Thief or Ninja is much better at inspecting and disarming than
anyone else. Even so, when just a novice, the character will be pretty inept and things
will blow up in his or her face fairly often. Fortunately, most of the traps on the first
level won't kill characters outright unless they are already hurt.
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