Mudde Pathetique help files

CONSIDER

This command will compare your Level with a monster's level. You will then receive a rough estimate, which is by no means exact, of the difficulty of terminating that monster. Consider does not take hitpoints/special attacks/damage into account, except insofar as those special abilities are reflected in the monster's level.

Example:

> consider fido

CONDITION

This command tells you the condition of the specified monster; that is, how close to maximum hit points it is. If you're actually in a battle, you can use "condition" without specifying a monster name; it then means your current opponent.

EXPERIENCE XP

Whenever you kill a monster or a player, you earn experience points. When enough experience points are earned, you rise a level. Things you should know about experience points:

When damaging a monster, you get experience points.
When you kill a monster, your group gets some experience points. If you are operating solo, you get all the points for yourself. You are told the number of experience points you get for this.
If one of the monster's attackers is of very high level, the experience for the kill is less for the lower level people. The moral is: team up with people of equal or lower level to get full experience.
If you kill a monster of higher level than yourself, you get bonus experience points. If killing a monster of lower level you'll gain fewer experience points.
When you die, you lose one half of your experience points, up to a maximum of 500,000 points.

GROUP

If you are a group member, then you will share experience points for killing monsters among the group. Experience points will only be shared among group members that are in the same location, at the time of the killing blow. Sharing is regardless of whether the group members have been participating in the fight. If you're grouped with a person of much higher level than yourself, your experience points are scaled down. Stick with people at around your own level.

Group with no argument shows a list of people with whom you are grouped.

To make a group, a "leader" must be selected. All members of the group must then "follow" the leader using the follow command. The leader should NOT follow anyone at all! The leader can now toggle group membership for each player in the group, by using "group ". The leader should remember to include himself in the group.

Example:

Quifael: > "follow dragon"
Redferne: > "follow dragon"
(Dragon should be following no one but himself)
Dragon: > "group dragon"
Dragon: > "group redferne"
Dragon: > "group quifael"

Later when Dragon gets upset at Quifael (because he is sleeping all the time) he types: "group Quifael" to kick Quifael out of the group.

See Also: XP EXPERIENCE, GTELL, GCONDITION , SPLIT.

GCONDITION

If you are in a group, this command will tell you the condition of all the group members that you can see. It's equivalent to having done "condition X" for each X in your group.

Example:

> gcondition

GTELL

If you are in a group, "gtell" will tell a message to every member of the group, as though you did "tell X message" for each X in your group.

Example:

> gtell Let's do the dragon first.

SPLIT

If you are in a group, this command splits the specified amount of gold equally between all the members of your party present.

Example:

> split 10000

QUAFF POTION POTIONS

Quaff is used to "drink" a (magical) potion.

Example:

> quaff red

RECITE SCROLL SCROLLS

Is used to "read" a magical scroll. Target can be an object, character or nothing (which may be yourself).

Examples:

> recite identify sword
> recite recall

USE WAND STAFF STAFFS WANDS

Using staves will automatically target all living things in a room, except yourself. Therefore staves are naturally very powerful, and yet may be very dangerous to use around other players (or creatures, for that matter). Staves and wands must be equipped (normally held) prior to use.

Most wands require that you point it at a target, which can be either a character or an object. If you use a wand *with* a target when it doesn't require one (or vice versa), a charge is still used.

Example:

> use wand on orc

"ARMOR"

Usage: cast 'armor' [victim]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 24 Hours

The Armor spell will improve your AC by 2.

"TELEPORT"

Usage: cast 'teleport' [victim]
Save: Versus spell for no effect.
Duration: Instant

Teleport (with error) will instantly transfer the target of the spell to another location in the world. This location is random, and thus there will always be a risk of landing in a fatal location. Some parts of the world cannot be so escaped, however.

"BLESS"

Usage: cast 'bless' [victim | object]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 6 Hours, permanent for objects.

Bless on a victim will improve the victims saving throw versus spells by 1, and furthermore improve the hitroll by 1.

Bless on an item currently has no defined action. It is only possible to bless non-evil items, and the object blessed may weigh no more than five pounds per level of caster.

"BLINDNESS"

Usage: cast 'blindness' [victim]
Accumulative: No.
Duration: 2 hours.

Blindness will blind a victim failing its saving throw. A blinded person will have -4 penalty to both hitroll and AC. See Also: AC, CURE BLIND

"CONTROL WEATHER"

Usage: cast 'control weather' [better | worse]
Accumulative: Yes
Duration: -

This spell will change the "course" of the current weather.

"CREATE FOOD"

Usage: cast 'create food'
Accumulative: -
Duration: Instantaneous

This spell instantly creates an edible magic mushroom. The mushroom will provide filling for the next (5+level) hours, up to a maximum of 24 hours.

"CREATE WATER"

Usage: cast 'create water' [drink container]
Accumulative: No
Duration: Instantaneous

Expect disastrous results if cast upon a drink container which contains another liquid than water. Empty or water containers will be filled depending on the level of the caster.

Double amount of water will be created if it is raining (or worse).

"CURE BLIND"

Usage: cast 'cure blind' [victim]
Accumulative: No
Duration: Instantaneous

This spell will cure a person blinded by the " blindness" spell, it cannot remove blindness caused by for example cursed items.

"CURE SERIOUS"

Usage: cast 'cure serious' [victim]
Accumulative: -
Duration: Instantaneous

This spell cures 2d8+1 hitpoints of damage.

"CURE CRITIC"

Usage: cast 'cure critic' [victim]
Accumulative: -
Duration: Instantaneous

This spell cures 3d8+3 hitpoints of damage.

"CURE LIGHT"

Usage: cast 'cure light' [victim]
Accumulative: -
Duration: Instantaneous

This spell cures 1d8 hitpoints of damage.

"CURSE"

Usage: cast 'curse' [victim | object]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 7 Days, permanent on objects.

Curse cast on a person that fails the saving throw, will reduce the hitroll by one, and reduce the saving throw versus paralysation by one.

"DETECT ALIGNMENT"

Usage: cast 'detect alignment' [self]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 5 hours per level

Detect alignment will allow you to see the red aura surrounding evil items and beings, and the white aura surrounding good beings. Neutral beings show no aura.

"DETECT INVISIBILITY"

Usage: cast 'detect invisibility' [self]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 5 hours per level

This spell enables you to see invisible items and players.

"DETECT MAGIC"

Usage: cast 'detect magic' [self]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 5 hours per level

This spell will let you see the magical aura surrounding magical objects. It will also tell you what spells and spell-like effects that people are under.

"DETECT POISON"

Usage: cast 'detect poison' [victim | food | drink]
Accumulative: No
Duration: Instantaneous

Cast on food or drinks (drink containers) you will be able to sense if it is poisoned.

Cast on a person you will be able to see if that person is poisoned. Note: this aspect of the spell is now mostly useless, since "detect magic" will show poisoning on people.

"ENCHANT WEAPON"

Usage: cast 'enchant weapon' [weapon]
Accumulative: No
Duration: Permanent

This spell will enchant non-magical (non-modifying) weapons only. By non-modifying weapons we refer to weapons that might alter any ability such as for example damage. The only way to know if a weapon is suitable for enchantment is to fully identify it.

The enchantment will modify the weapon as:

Level          Hit Roll        Damage

 0..17             +1             +1
18..19             +2             +1
20+                +2              2

"HEAL"

Usage: cast 'heal' [victim]
Accumulative: No
Duration: Instantaneous

Heal will heal all the hitpoints from a person, except 1d4 points. Maximum 100 points can be healed.

"INVISIBILITY"

Usage: cast 'invisibility' [victim | object]
Accumulative: No
Duration: 24 hours, permanent on objects.

Attacking while invisible will immediately break the spell. Naturally invisible creatures do *not* become visible in combat, although anyone attacked does automatically counterattack.

"LOCATE OBJECT"

Usage: cast 'locate object' [object]

Accumulative: -

Duration: Instantaneous

If possible you will know exactly where an object is, or the name of the person using it. If more than one object by the same name exists, you will get a listing of several objects. The maximum number of objects you can simultaneously locate is your level divided by 2.

25 March 1995 - - - stenor@zeemud.org