Convolution

Advanced Xoru

Background
  

Welcome to the splendors of Advanced Xoru....

A distant land where your inventiveness and skill are
the "tools of the trade" for unravelling devious, mysterious
puzzles, guarded by ugly and ferocious beasts.  Only by the
grace of Fortune and your own ingenuity, by exposing secrets
that hold the land hostage, would your life be spared; even
in a style befitting none but the greatest of kings!

Play of the game usually requires a bit of exploration
in the beginning, to gain familiarity with the new, bizarre
surroundings.  On discovery of a number of items, the clever
player will understand similarities between unrelated areas,
or things which ought to be made "right."  Of course, here
and there a clue may be carelessly dropped, so there is a
reward for vigilance.  If you outsmart the horrible Enslaver
Titan of Xoru, the puzzle-crafter and dweamor-weaver of this
huge subterranean safe, you will be highly rewarded!  You
will fight the Titan himself, to the very death, in an
ultimate puzzle of his choosing.

Advanced XORU is a role-playing adventure game which
allows the computer to "come alive" for a moment,
interacting with you in a fantastical pseudo-medieval world.
With its natural-language interface, Advanced Xoru allows
the player to communicate with the game and its environment
using common, everyday English sentences.  The story unfolds
in a variety of vivid scenarios, depicting lavishly arrayed
dungeon chambers, evil drooling monsters and mysterious
treasures.  All such joys are within the grasp of the
courageous, worthy adventurer.



Game Play


When you are at the little square prompt (or chevron on some
remote terminals), you are ready to play the game.  At this
point, you can interact with the computer, commanding it to
lead you throughout the adventure before you.  Additionally,
you can influence the environment of the game by telling the
computer what you want to do.

These commands follow previous adventure games' conventions
and let you explain things in common English phrases.  You
can get help from the computer by typing, simply, HELP
(pressing the  key afterward.)

Most of the game involves getting around, so typing such
sentences as "WALK NORTH", "CLIMB THE STAIRS" or whatever
lead you into new areas, describing them in a detailed
fashion for you to explore.  You can do other interesting
things by typing your request, verb action-word first, nouns
and modifiers following.  Some examples of valid statements:


                 CLIMB DOWN THE LADDER
                 TAKE THE RING
                 EAT THE BERRIES
                 BREAK DOWN THE DOOR
                 CLIMB THE WALLS
                 SCREAM AND RUN IN CIRCLES
                 KILL THE BUGBEAR
                 CAST GULVOYEUR
                 INVENTORY
                 WALK NORTHWEST
                 NW
                 EXITS
                 VERBOSE
                 SAVE GAME
                 EXAMINE THE STATUE
                 TAKE THE RING AND THE CLOAK
                 DROP ALL BUT THE KEY
                 INSERT THE KEY IN THE LOCK
                 TAKE TWO RINGS

To leave the game, type QUIT
When checking your status, type STATUS
To change your terminal settings, you can usually type
"EMULATE"