Nanvaent - Some basic guidelines

When you first enter Nanvaent it will probably appear muddling, so here's a few things that might help you out if you're a newbie (newbie is the term for people that are just starting out, so if someone calls you a newbie it's not meant as an insult). Nanvaent is huge, and I've been playing for quite a while and I still haven't explored the whole place. Nanvaent village is where you start in, and is a safe haven for everyone (and the main meeting point), there are quite a few other villages/towns/cities within the MUD, but Nanvaent village is seen as the central point of the MUD.

who	Shows you who's on
newbie / chat #message#	These are the main communication channels
consider all	When you are in the same location as a NPC, or PC (non-player character / player character) this command will give you a rough indication of their strength to you. (I emphasise rough)
kill mall	When this is entered, your PC will only attack NPC's (pretty useful).
sc / score	sc gives you a brief view of hit points, guild points, etc / score gives a more detailed description of your character.
commands (guild/race)	This will show all the commands available for your guild, or for your race.
I	Everyone will probably know this, this is for your inventory.
skills	View your current skill levels.

If you need assistance the best way to go around things is to use the newbie channel, e.g. newbie can someone help me out please?

If you enter @ after a channel name you emote, e.g. chat@ cackles madly to himself this will show as Chat: Clawz cackles madly to himself

Each character has skills available to them, you can view what your skills are at by entering skills. You will see that they're all at 0. Each guild uses one of these skills, fighter uses fighting mainly, thieves use other, clerics use faith, and mages use spells. But this doesn't stop you from advancing your skills in other professions. Fighting can be advanced by anyone, although the cost of advancing it is greater for those guild members outside the fighting profession. Other can also be advanced by anyone as it contains skills like climbing and swimming.

NB fighting.points will advance hit points for all guilds, #skill#.points (where you advance your guild skills) will increase your guild points.

There are a few professions available to your character, and you should really know about them before you mess about with stats and races (as you want to suit your character as best as they can get to the guild they're going to join). The main guilds in Nanvaent are Fighter, Thief, Cleric, Mage, Bard and Wolfpack. There are sub-guilds within these guilds that you can join, but you usually have to be a certain skill level. To view more information on the guilds go to Nanvaent's Info Page. Once you join a guild a channel will come available to you, that only members of that guild can view (thieves get a thief channel e.g. thief #message#)

When you first enter Nanvaent, you can get yourself a free race / stat change (you have average stats, and are human (average race) when you first enter). To view what your stats are you type in the command score stats. This will show the five stats; Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence and Wisdom. You will see that they are all the same. To view all the races available to you (in the same location as you start) type list races. To view information about a specific race, you would type info #race#. Some races have better stats than others, and you'll notice that there's a vision stat (races will excellent vision will be able to see in most dark places, thus they won't have to rely on torches). It will also show what guilds they are most recommended to be in, this is explained in the guild section. To choose a race, you enter the command become #race#. Now enter score stats, and you'll see that you're stats have changed. You can now choose to alter them slightly, by typing rearrange stats.

These probably play the most important part of Nanvaent. These are shortcuts to commands, so rather than having to type out a long string of commands, you can alias it to one letter.

*Alias*	*Shortcut key*	*Command that takes place*
alias k kill mall	k	kill mall
alias ca consider all	ca	consider all
alias ga get all from corpses;get all	ga	gets everything from corpses and the location that the player character is standing in
alias mc meditate on prayer of cure serious wounds	mc	Clerics only; saves the hassle of typing out the command all the time
alias Nanv-Sham s;s;s;…..etc	Nanv-Sham	Why not set-up an alias to places within Nanvaent (Sham = Shamaroth)

Nicknames are similar, but for use for people's names; so for example you want to create a nickname for me, Clawz, you'd enter - nickname c clawz

This means that when you want to talk to me you can type tell c #message#. Or grin c to grin at me. Simple…

There are various MUD clients around that have the option to enter aliases into in client, but Nanvaent has the ability to store aliases up as well, it's up to you to decide (Some clients also have the trigger ability (like Zmud) and are very useful for some guilds; but I'll leave you to play around with them (just email me for some help).

Skills			Level	Ability	Skills				Level	Ability
Fighting			11	very poor	Faith				35	good
	\| combat		12	very poor		\| Prayers			36	good
		\| unarmed	20	good			\| offensive		37	good
		\| blunt	10	very poor			\| defensive		35	good
		\| sharp	10	very poor			\| healing		35	good
		\| range	10	very poor			\| misc		35	good
		\| thrown	10	very poor				\| area	35	moderate
		\| special	10	very poor		\| Symbols			25	moderate
	\| dodging		8	feeble			\| staff		21	moderate
	\| firearms		5	feeble			\| wand		25	moderate
	\| points		15	poor			\| scroll		27	moderate
Magic					Performance