User Guide

Experience and Loot

Everyone receives 42 experience points for surviving the encounter. Ah, the monsters

were carrying a treasure chest. Well, Snatch, here's your chance to pull your weight.

Snatch examines the chest and says that he thinks it is a poison needle trap, very nasty.

Derf pushes him aside and inspects the lock. He thinks it's a crossbow bolt trap. Prior

Sebastion looks at it and says no, it's not trapped at all. When he gets more

experienced, the good prior will learn that CALFO spell, which will allow him to

magically determine the nature of a trap. Each of the others inspect the trap.

Gabriella agrees with Derf, Thomas the Fair with Prior Sebastion, while Alfredo thinks

it is a gas bomb trap. What to do? Well, I decide to trust Snatch this time, after all he

is trained (somewhat) in the nimble arts, and it is his neck when he tries to open it.

Snatch tries to Disarm the chest for a poison needle trap. No luck. He tries it again.

No luck. He tries it again. Still no luck. On the fourth try, he is a shade too clumsy

and trips the trap. Sproong! It was a poison needle, so Snatch was right after all.

Small consolation as he now shows " - " (for poison) next to his status. Well, there

were 36 gold pieces in that chest, so everyone gets 6 gold pieces, and we're all still

alive, but we better get back to the Castle real quick and unpoison Snatch! For now,

each step I take carries the real possiblity that Snatch will lose a hit point!

Running for home

Turning right around in the doorway (pressing the down cursor key or [X] to do a 180

degree turn), not even willing to risk the chance exploring the rest of the room, the

team kicks back through the door and turns right. As they trudge down the corridor, I

quickly press (S)tatus to check on Snatch. He already had lost 3 hit points from

poison. Hope he makes it. There, on the corridor floor is the special pattern that

marks the stairs (or other special areas). Snatch has only 1 hit point left. I fling the

team onto the stairs and pray...Snatch makes it! That was too close. Poison is really

nasty down there. If ever any of your people get poisoned, drop everything and run

back to the Castle. They are automatically cured when they surface from dungeon,

but oh those last few steps to the stairs can be agonizing.

Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord