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The Roguelike Omega also has an additional, "put yourself in the game" mode. In addition to not climbing mountains, I shouldn't explore orchid hedges or jump into pools of chaos!

I don't want to cheat... I think I'm going to have to get into better shape to play Wilderness.

Survival Kids is really fun, actually. I spent a morning playing it and really enjoyed it.

This Wilderness game looks fascinating. The realism is just going to get me killed faster, though. My heart rate is like... 63.

I think there's less effect... I never fully experimented with it, but you have less to lose as an orphan than a full player. Maybe an admin can correct me on this!

Edit: By which I mean you can't gain experience or get better at things. If you stab somebody to death, they'll die.

who was the guy who was letting us stay at his "safe apartment"?

That was Dakk here, or Kaleh in game. He has two, I think.

I always find it funny in open-ended games like Dwarf Fortress and HellMOO, that at no time does the game say "your mission is to murder the world with lava!" or "you must butcher every orphan into fine, thin strips!" ... people end up thinking of doing it on their own. XD

I just went nuts in the Orphanage. Oh if I can only say the things I did to little Tommy there... It was glorious.

I have a feeling you're going to have a lot of Torture IP.

Well my character is 17 and I have definitely not been playing for more than 4 months.

Mutations make you age faster, for one thing. I think other things do, too, like dying, but I can't recall. It's possible to lower your age, so if you see somebody very young, don't assume they can't kick your ass.

The only thing I have to stress is update your clone dear god. I was in a corp-mate's apartment last night and one of his dozing roomates attacked me for some reason, and I hadn't updated in a while. It's agonizing despite its ease to avoid!

You'll have to forgive the PCs. I think sometimes they don't know when they're killing an NPC orphan or a player orphan. I'm pretty sure this is an intentional, hilarious feature.

For instance:

I can hang around you and make sure no PCs try to mess with you, if you like.

Anyone, feel free to PM me with questions while I'm on, with 'Julian Huzzah!

Yeah, they take a lot of time to get used to, a lot like ASCII roguelikes. Sadly, the experiences didn't overlap for me, and each took a long time.

EDIT: If I don't respond, spam the hell out of me. Sometimes it gets lost in the information flow, or I'm AFK.

Tahin: It's pretty unique... also, I saw you for a second (I'm Julian) and you were also found dead once!

Trorbes: You'll probably need to eventually, or at least make your own with only you in it. Corps can get contracts, contracts pay you for doing things or killing things. The fact that corporations still rule the world is true in the fact that almost every player is in one and works for one.

But you can still make your own and get contracts that way. You *could* do without them entirely, but that closes some doors, and you can't get into corpclave.

Broose: I'm not sure how much it'd cost in money or XP, but you can find out. Type 'sc' and look under "Improve" -- that's how much free XP you require to learn it up a rank, if I recall. You can also see how much free XP you have from that command.

Khol: Oh. @_@

Broose: Hum. I guess that depends on who was punching you. What's your fighting style? It ranges from pacifist, cautious (I think), normal, aggressive, berserk. Type "fight x" for one of them. If something charges up for a power attack, time a 'dodge' to avoid it. Make use of 'feint' on sentient opponents to stun them; this works if you have higher brains than they do. High brains characters can feint well!

We could probably get you some armor without much trouble.