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Cities - There are 7 major cities that I know of. Some cities are large with over 150 rooms while others are smaller with < 50 rooms. Within most cities you will find places to buy & sell clothing, weapons, armor & many misc items.
You can also own your own shop and stock you own items for sale for other players to buy. You set you own prices and the tents or cabins have a fair amount of space to stock most everything you might want to put on a table for sale.
Most cities have banks and you can access your bank account from any other city that has a bank.
There are post offices to mail letters to people within the game.
We also have mentor rooms where newbies can go to for help.
A mentor will show you the ropes of the game and help you with any roleplaying problems you might have.
Most cities have town boards where you can leave messages about anything you want. Advertising for your shop. Ask someone for help in learning the newest techniques in whittling. Or perhaps you would like to hire yourself out as a guide to help people find the lost gold of "Catmandu"
It's a place to let everyone know about the coming festival or to warn everyone about the man with dim dark eyes who robbed you the day before while you were traveling in the mountains.
Other special places - There are a great number of special places in the world of Terrinor. Some are very large and mysterious. Other are small and deadly. Always watch your back and never explore without light. You just never know what you might find.
Creatures of the land - We have some basic creatures that you all should be familiar with, but a bunny rabbit in the Accursed Lands can be as deadly as any demon you might face.
Normal (Rabbit, squirrel, rat, cat, dog, wolf, deer, fox, bear, snake, crocodile, spider, lizard, vulture, raven, hawk, owl, jackal, mink, tortoise, monitor lizard, etc etc.)
Others (knifespider, snake demon, rock demon, pit demon, lurker demon, skeleton, (various animal skeletons), black blood, ooze, bracal, molok, giant bee, tarantus, etc etc.)
These are by far not all the creatures, but just the few that came to mind as I wrote this.
NPC's - Our npc's have been very well crafted and at times have been mistaken for actual players. You can have a conversation with them and learn a great deal of information about the land by asking them questions as you would another player. They have advanced brains and I've been told from other people that they are some of the most advanced npc's that they've seen.
Health & Combat
Health:
body: in perfect health.
head: in perfect health.
left arm: in perfect health.
left leg: in perfect health.
right arm: in perfect health.
right leg: in perfect health.
When I type health, this is what I see. All of my limbs, head and body are in perfect health.
Accursed Lands uses different descriptions to indicate how damaged an object or body part is. Here are the damage descriptions in order from the most serious to the least serious.
BODY | OBJECTS
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in perfect health | in perfect condition
barely wounded | in nearly perfect condition
slightly wounded | in good shape
hurt | slightly used
badly hurt | moderately used
injured | slightly worn-out
broken | moderately worn-out
completely destroyed | badly damaged
| very badly damaged
| falling to pieces
| almost totally destroyed
Combat - It can last a very long time (I think the record is 2 hours for a single fight) or can be over in less than a second.
Most fights last anywhere from 1 second to 3 minutes depending on your fighting style and what you are fighting and of course what you are fighting with.
We have bows & arrows, slings & stones for ranged combat. Swords, axes, clubs, daggers (in so many types and styles I couldn't name them all)
We have a system of style settings that you can alter while you are in a fight.
Combat Style
Aim | * | Control
Offensive | * | Dodge
Daring | * | Parry
Power | * | Speed
Attack | * | Defense
You can aim for your opponents head or any other body parts they have. The more you focus your settings on aim, the less you are focusing on control. Control is your abilty to control a shot away from one or more areas of your body.
Daring is used to get passed opponents weapons.
The others are self explanitory I think.
The faster you move, the less powerful your hits are.
You can adjust these settings in small increments (5 moves left or 5 moves right) so you can truly personalize your own combat fighting styles.
A small example of the end of a fight.
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A young male snake-demon with red scales slips through your guard and grazes your left leg with his teeth!
A young male snake-demon with red scales just barely dodges your iron longsword.
You slip through his guard and poke his body with your iron longsword!
You rush forward and graze his left foreleg with your iron longsword!
A young male snake-demon with red scales dodges to the side and pokes your left leg with his teeth!
A young male snake-demon with red scales quickly evades your iron longsword.
You sneak past his defenses and nick his tail with your iron longsword!
You force past his defenses and slice his left foreleg with your iron longsword!
(My health)
Health:
body: barely wounded.
head: hurt.
left arm: slightly wounded.
left leg: slightly wounded.
right arm: hurt.
right leg: hurt.
health demon
Health:
body: slightly wounded.
head: injured.
left foreleg: broken.
right foreleg: broken.
tail: slightly wounded.
A young male snake-demon with red scales gets inside your guard and nicks your left leg with his teeth!
You feint to the left and shave his body with your iron longsword!
You sneak past his defenses and gash his head with your iron longsword!
A young male snake-demon with red scales' head is crippled!
A young male snake-demon with red scales slumps to the ground.
A young male snake-demon with red scales's body goes limp.
You hit a young male snake-demon with red scales, who is unconscious, with your iron longsword.
A young male snake-demon with red scales' head is ripped off!
A young male snake-demon with red scales dies right before your eyes.
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