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Nobody arrives in Alora knowing the way. Here is how to start, what to do when you are lost, and where to ask.

Start playing

The game runs in your browser, on a computer or a phone, with nothing to install. Create your first character here, with every choice explained, then step into the game and make your account.

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Or look around first: play a ready-made character straight away, with no account. You can keep it later.

When you are lost

Everyone is, at first. Any of these will help.

  • Ask the players. Type newbie and your question. Every new character can use the newbie channel, and helpful players listen there.
  • Ask the game. Type help and a word, in your own words: help died, help stuck, help fight. help newbie gives the first steps.
  • Ask on Discord. Players and caretakers are there, even when you are not in the game: see below.
  • Lost your way? look shows the room you are in, and exits the ways out.
  • A fight going badly? Type flee. If you die, type depart: you come back at your home, and help death tells you how to get your things back.
  • Time to stop? Type quit. It saves your character, and next time you start where you left off. You cannot quit during or right after a fight.

Where help is

The Discord

Players old and new talk on the Dark Legacy Discord. Ask anything there. News is posted there first, and the caretakers, who keep the peace, can be reached there.

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The help on this site

Every help file in the game is on this site too, to read before you play or beside the game: commands, combat, crafting, the laws.

The game’s first steps

This is what help newbie shows in the game, word for word.

Your first hour in Dark Legacy, step by step.

Welcome to Dark Legacy! Work through these steps in order. Each one names a HELP word if you want to know more.

1. LOOK AROUNDLOOK (or L) shows the room. EXITS shows the ways out. Walk with N, S, E, W, U, D, NE, NW, SE, SW.
2. KNOW YOURSELFSCORE shows your character. INVENTORY (I) shows what you carry, EQUIPMENT (EQ) what you wear.
3. GEAR UPGET <item> picks things up. WEAR <item> puts them on. COMPARE <item> tells you if it beats what you wear. Then PRACTICE your weapon skill at the trainer: an untrained weapon barely hurts. (HELP PRACTICE)
4. FIND A PLACEAREAS <your level> lists areas that suit you.
5. FIGHTKILL <target> starts a fight, but you do not attack on your own: keep typing JAB (or THRUST, LUNGE, CAST) until the enemy is dead. Going badly? FLEE. (HELP COMBAT)
6. RECOVERREST or SLEEP to heal faster, then STAND. Constructs heal with REPAIR instead (HELP HP).
7. GROWEach level brings practice sessions; SLIST shows new skills. QUEST talks to quest givers; JOURNAL tracks quests.
8. ASKnewbie <question> reaches helpful players.
9. IF YOU DIEType DEPART. HELP DEATH explains how to get your things back.
10. STOP SAFELYSAVE, then QUIT. You cannot quit during or right after a fight.

Please read HELP LAW: the rules everyone plays by. When you are ready for more, HELP CONFIG sets up the game the way you like it, and HELP CHANNELS shows who you can talk to.

The same on its own page: help newbie

Screen-reader mode

The game has a mode for people who play by screen reader or braille. It leaves out the maps and pictures drawn in text, gives you a prompt that is easy to listen to, and quiets messages you do not need. It is set for your whole account and stays on until you turn it off.

In the browser

When you make your account, tick I use a screen reader, and the mode is on from your first step.

In a MUD client, or later

Making a new account, the game asks Would you like screenreader support (y/N)?: answer y. Already have an account? At the menu where you pick a character, type s and press Enter. The same s turns it off again.

The game’s own help file: help screenreader

Players who use a reader have played in MUSHclient and in VIP Mud. Nobody who plays with a screen reader has tested the browser client for us yet. If you try it, let us know on Discord so we can share your experience with others!

Worth knowing early

A few things the game’s first steps leave out.

  • A weapon. Your first quest gives you one. Fists work too, but they rarely get through armour at low levels.
  • Practice sessions. You get one each level, and the ones you do not use are kept.
  • Loot. After a kill, get all corpse takes what your enemy carried; config +autoloot does it for you from then on.
  • Where to go first. The game’s own suggestions, from the easiest: the Newbie Academy in Tarsonis, Pixie Forest, Shattered Refuge and the Dwarven Mine Shaft (help levelling).

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