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30 .\" @(#)larn.6 5.5 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
37 .Nd exploring the caverns of Larn
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!
58 option restores a checkpointed game after it has died.
62 option sets the hardness of the game.
66 option suppresses the welcome message at start up, putting you directly
71 option prints the command line options.
75 option specifies a different options file than
79 These are the movement commands:
80 .Bl -column " print program version" " give present pack weight"
81 .It h move to the left H run left . stay here
82 .It j move down J run down Z teleport yourself
83 .It k move up K run up c cast a spell
84 .It l move to the right L run right r read a scroll
85 .It y move northwest Y run northwest q quaff a potion
86 .It u move northeast U run northeast W wear armor
87 .It b move southwest B run southwest T take off armor
88 .It n move southeast N run southeast w wield a weapon
89 .It ^ identify a trap g give present pack weight P give tax status
90 .It d drop an item i inventory your pockets Q quit the game
91 .It v print program version S save the game D list all items found
92 .It ? this help screen A create diagnostic file e eat something
98 may be used to set a few options for
100 A sequence of words terminated by whitespace is used to specify options.
102 .Bl -tag -width "savefile: xxsave-file-namexx" -compact
107 Select bold display of objects.
109 Select inverse video display of objects.
111 Do not display intro message.
112 .It enable-checkpointing
113 Turn on periodic checkpointing.
115 Disable beeping of the terminal.
117 Choose your sex to be a man.
119 Choose your sex to be a woman.
120 .It name: Dq your name
121 Choose your playing name.
122 .It monster: Dq monst name
123 Choose a name for a monster.
124 .It savefile: Dq save-file-name
125 Define what the savegame filename will be.
128 Your name and monster names must be enclosed in double quotation marks and may
129 be up to 34 characters long.
130 Longer names are truncated.
131 Anything enclosed in quotation marks is considered one word, and must be
132 separated from other words by whitespace.
136 if you type '*' as your amount, all your gold gets dropped.
137 In general, typing in '*' means all of what you are interested in.
138 This is true when visiting the bank, or when contributing at altars.
140 You can get out of the store, trading post, school, or home by hitting
143 When casting a spell, if you need a list of spells you can cast, type
145 as the first letter of your spell.
146 The available list of spells will be shown,
147 after which you may enter the spell code.
148 This only works on the 1st letter of the spell you are casting.
150 .Bl -tag -width "/var/games/larn.scores" -compact
151 .It Pa /var/games/larn.scores