The Guide to SumuMUD
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I. Introduction
SumuMUD is a multiuser online game based on a fantasy medieval genre.
The game introduces a world filled with places to adventure and explore.
As you are born into the world of Sumu, you meet different kind of
adventurers and confront many creatures on your journey.
The world of Sumu has many races to choose to born into and paths
to choose from. Examples of the paths that an adventurer can take
are that find the secret organization of thieves and learning their
secrets while also training the mystical arts of magic.
The path you decide is all up to you where you lead your own way.
You might take some lessons with the fighter trainers to learn
how to swing that big old rusty sword you inherited from your
father just a day before he got eatern by orcs or head down to
small study rooms to unlock the secrets that old scroll you found
from somewhere.
Magicians and sorcerers - the robed guys with pointy hats that
wave their hands and shout strange words and conjure fireballs
to fry the deadly orc next to them. The mysterious warlocks who are
specialized summoning demons and use of destructive force or the
strange grave yard shifts of the necromancers who control the forces
of the undeads. You might have an eye for a gold and shiny items, the
guild of thieves would cladly take you in and train you in the arts
of nimble fingers and sneaking in the shadows or perhaps you enjoy
a good music and are a natural born tale teller - then you can find
your kind at the guild hall of the merry bards to sit down around
the campfire to sing and dance. These are just examples, there are
many more guilds to choose from and join to.
As you travel and explore the world of Sumu, it is wise to equip
yourself with armors and weapons and pack your backpack with, food,
torches to see in that dark cave of the nasty goblins and other
general items needed in adventures.
You can buy some general armors and weapons from the shops and
sometimes might get lucky and get a magic armor or a weapon from
the shopkeeper for a cheap price! As you grow in your adventures
you confront creatures and monster which are holding magical items,
weapons or armors. As you have gathered your hard earned armors and
weapons you can store them in a locker room rental place found in
many cities or another adventurer can rent or sell you a room from
their huge castles. You can also buy a castle of your very own, but
as everyone knows, the castles are pricy and takes a lot of money
to hire your own personal guards to keep the intruders away and
set traps to protect your treasure chests.
The adventures will take you places where you encounter very tough
monsters and if you are lucky you might just be able to get around
them unnoticed or escape just before they are about to slay you.
As you meet up with other adventurers you might ask them to share
your adventure with you and come to help you to slay the horrifying
monster you had an encounter with.
The violence towards fellow adventures is allowed in certain limits,
however, a cold blooded murder is not a thing that is taken lightly
unless the killer had a valid and good reason for his act of violence.
Otherwise the world of Sumu is is a complex place where you act as
you would act in real life in similar environment.
If you liked what you read, please continue reading the following
topics, that will BRIEFLY explain you the basic systems:
II. Start
You enter the world as a shapeless spirit, looking its new form
to born in the world. You are floting in a place next to a portal
which leads to the mortal realm. From there you must first choose
the race and a gender which you will appear as you enter to the
mortal world. You have also an option to choose your personal
alignment either you want to born as a servant of evil or a follower
of good or just take a neutral point of view to the events happening
around you. As you have chosen your mortal form you are ready to
step through the portal and enter the world where you appear in
the temple of all gods. The temple will serve as your starting place
when you enter the world of Sumu. You may change your default
starting place with a command 'start' (help start).
As now that you stand in the halls of the church of the all gods
there is a guide to give you a small tour around the place and
some basic information.
After the tour you have some information about the city of Aquilonia
and it is time to advance a few levels for you in the Adventurers' guild.
As you have advanced a couple levels it is time for you to get some
basic training; head east from the advancement room and look at note
which would explain the physical and mental training after you choose
how to build up your physical and mental abilities you can find a few
basic trainers from the adventurers' guild who will teach you a few
tricks from their sleeves.
The file 'help newbie' lists some suitable areas for newbies.
III. Commands
'help' shows the verbose list of available commands and is a good way
to try out and see what you can do.
NOTE: 'help builtin' shows so called builtin command-aliases, for
example you don't have to type 'look at sword', but instead can type
the short-hand version: 'la sword'. You can also use the command
'command' to specify your custom command-aliases, and the command
'alias' for specifying nicknames.
IV. Channels
Type 'channels' for a list of the global chatting channels. 'mud' is
the general channel for mud related gossip, where you can politely ask
help from other players. There are also other channels for other
topics, also including non-game related topics, such as 'chat' for
common small talk and 'tv' that lists the currently running programmes
on Finnish nation-wide television.
V. Races
SumuMUD offers many different races, and each race has it's own
charasteristics. See 'help races' for the list, and 'help race
<name>' for detailed information about the desired race.
VI. Experience
As you explore and kill monsters in your adventures in the world you
gain experience, which you use to advance levels, train skills and
study spells. There are rumours about some mystical places where you
can use your experience also for gaining physical and mental
enchantments for your character.
VII. Guild system
There are many trainers which are either independed or belong under
some guild organization. The ones in with organization might ask
you to donate some money to their organization first before they
will teach you. Also the independed trainers might ask high prices
to teach their strange ways to you.
You can advance levels in Adventurers' guild, found e,n,e,s of the
temple, that serves as the generic starting location for new heroes.
A word of advice: you may save experience by completing quests that
are set for some levels, for more information on the quests, see the
'quest room' which is upstairs of the Adventurers' guild.
Some of the guild connected trainers can be found inside the
city, and you may find command 'map' useful.
VIII. Skill & Spell system
We have Universal Skill and Spell system here. Depending in the
trainers and their organization you might have found, you may *train*
skills or *study* spells in the presence of the trainer.
Universal skill & spell system means, that different trainers can
share same spells and skills.
If you have followed the helpfile from the beginning, you
probably already know that you use the experience points gained from
killing monsters for 'buying' skills and spells at your selecte
trainer who offer skills and spells to you.
You can list all available skills by typing 'all skills' and all
spells by typing 'all spells'. For information of a certain skill
type for example 'help skill strike' or in a case of a spell, 'help
spell doom bolt'.
IX. Player killing
Player killing is allowed within certain limits. See 'help player
killing' for more information.
X. Items & Equipment
You can gain magical equipment and weapons and other items from the
big monsters. Adventurers usually band up in a party together to kill
these tough monsters.
The equipment can be stored away between sessions in a rented locker
room, or in a custom-built castle. Basically this means that you
won't lose any equipment if you don't want to.
XI. News system
This mud has a few bulletin boards, but the main information base is
the news system. See 'help news' for more information, or go ahead
and type 'news read' to launch the news reader.
See also: 'help newbie', 'help rules', 'help mud history'
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