Welcome to the lands of Elysium! Elysium is a living world, where, set against a background of medieval fantasy, you can fulfil your every dream, becoming a mighty hero, a wise sage, or a wealthy noble, or any other of countless roles. It is the aim of Elysium to provide a realistic and enjoyable simulation of this world, an environment where your only restriction is your skill and wits. When you enter Elysium, you become one with this world, free to guide its path as fate guides you. In this way, Elysium will grow and develop as you do, constantly changing and providing new challenges and aims. The world of Elysium is a complex one, and your presence can easily sway its path. As such, each person who enters Elysium has the opportunity to change it in some way, be it by rising to power in the cities, becoming a feared and reviled warlord, protecting the weak and young, or simply healing friends or offering advice to their fellows. When you begin your life in Elysium, you will be a common citizen in one of the cities of the land, from which seed you can grow to great power, working your way up the pile of guildmasters, ministers, emperors, priests and gods, all with their own aims and powers. Perhaps you will be the one to rise above all others, and take your position in legend and lore. There are nine cities in the lands of Elysium, spread out across three continents. Each of these cities was built by one of the nine major sentient races of Elysium, although many now choose to forsake the homelands of their ancestors and seek a new life in one of the other cities. These bastions of civilization are led by the emperors, men and women of supreme power who proved their worthiness and took control of an empire. Under the emperors toil the ministers, appointed by the emperor to serve their citizens. But the emperors do not control everything; Within and around the cities, guilds teach their lore and skills to willing initiates, led by their guildmasters, who, when leading a particularly large and important guild, can be more powerful than the emperors. The religious orders of the world are also beyond the powers of the emperors, the gods ruling over their loyal followers through their priests. When you first log on, you'll be in an introduction area which teaches you the basic commands you'll need to live and thrive in the world of Elysium. While in this introduction, you are able to regenerate your random description, or delete your character and pick a different race, though once you leave it your race and description will be fixed. If you don't need this basic introduction, or after you have completed it, you'll want to call for a guide by typing 'guide'. This guide will give you some more information about the world, focussing on the race you selected, then will take you to the academy in the city of your people. Although it is optional, completing the tasks given to you at the academy will give you a good grounding in the world of Elysium, revealing further systems and gameplay mechanics, and giving you a taste of the world's themes. You can also earn some basic rewards that will make your first few days easier, and some lessons to unlock your first skills. To communicate with people within Elysium, type 'tell ' and they will receive a private message from you, or you could 'shout ' and everyone within Elysium would hear your message. To show emotion, you can type commands such as smile, grin, frown, sigh, sniff, nod and shake These will display appropriate messages to all those in your location, to convey your feelings. If you wish to target your emotions at any particular individual, you can add a player's name to the end of the emotion, such as 'smile Oudreas'. You will start your adventues in Elysium in the home city of your race. To see who else belongs to this city and is currently online, type 'cwho' (short for citizen who). They should be the first people you should go to if you need assistance. If you wish to see your current condition, type 'status'. This will list your health, mana, city, order, guild and many more things... You can list your inventory by typing 'inv', 'inven' or 'inventory'. At first you won't have many items, just some starter equipment given to everyone, though completing the academy will earn you more items, and other equipment can be earned or bought once you start venturing out further in the world. Finding shops that are selling food, drinks, light sources and clothing is an important early objective; You will also find market stalls where you can eat and drink. Fortunately, each city has seen to it so that the first 10 meals and drinks that a newcomer needs are given to them for free, but only if you are on the streets of your own city when you become so hungry or thirsty that you would start to take damage. To see a map of your city, type 'help map' i.e. 'help tylorusmap' if you like in Tylorus. This will show you the basic layout of the city. The shops are likely to be on a road which suggests trade of some kind. You can recognize a shop when you enter the same location as one by seeing; a fat merchant eyes you up and down Type 'goods' and you will get a list of the items that the shop sells. If a particular item takes you fancy, such as a barrel of water, then type 'goods barrel' to see how many the shop has in stock, and the price for the barrel. When you have some money, you can type 'buy ' or 'buy ' if you want to be specific. Let's find some money now. Upon your continent there are quests which give you money as a reward. The best way to get gold as a newbie is to find the tinker which resides within each city. This is a good time to introduce the 'directions' command, which can tell you where to go to reach certain waypoints, including the local tinker. You can also use this to find routes between cities, or back to your home city if you get lost outside the gates. Once you have found him, type 'greet tinker' and he will ask you to retrieve three items for him. Each time you bring him one of those items he will give you some gold. Many non-player characters (NPCs) within Elysium, such as the tinker, respond to the 'greet ' command. Upon greeting them, you will be informed whether there is anything you can do for them. All of the items can be easily found either within the city's academy (which you will have been in if you followed the newbie guide (type 'guide' to summon a new one if you wish)) or just outside the city gates. If you are asked to retrieve a pine cone, or a cherry seed or something similar, then you will want to search out a tree which grows these items. Once the appropriate grove of trees has been found (i.e. you'd find pine cones in a pine grove) then you should type 'pick seed'. Once you have the item that the tinker asked you to get for him, then return to the tinker and type 'give to tinker' to receive your reward. Another way is to kill creatures outside the city gates, and carve their corpses into carcasses which can be sold to a city to feed their populace. To attack a creature, type 'hit ' as many times as is required to kill it. Combat in Elysium works on a balance system - You can't just type 'kill ' and wait for it to die, each time you want to hit your opponent you need to send the command again. You'll get a message when your balance recovers, which means you're ready to use another combat or skill command like hit. Hitting is a weak attack, and so you should only attempt to kill creatures which look quite small and harmless i.e. do not attempt to kill a small wyvern, for the odds of you winning such a fight would be very small indeed. You will learn more potent attacks once you join a guild. Once the creature is dead, type 'carve' to carve the creature's corpse into carcasses, and take the carcasses. With the carcass slung over your shoulder, you should try to find the tradesman in any city (preferably your own city). The tradesman is an NPC who purchases commodities, such as carcasses, from you if the city who owns him is willing to buy them. You should be able to use the 'directions' command to find the local tradesman if you're struggling. Once you have found him, you may type 'goods' to list what he is buying and selling, and for what price. If he is not purchasing carcasses then type 'shout Who wishes to purchase carcasses from me?'. You are likely to get a response from someone high up in one of the cities. If you're selling through a player, rather than the NPC, make sure you have quite a few carcasses (at least 10), otherwise it would not be worth their time purchasing such a small amount from you, if they have to travel far to reach you. Other people you meet may be able to tell you of more ways to make money. There are various quests which are more difficult, yet give you larger amounts of money in return. To eat any food you have purchased, say a steak, then you simply type 'eat steak' and to drink from a barrel full of water type 'drink from barrel'. Once you have a source of income, you will want to join a guild. It is within a guild that you learn a profession. Type 'help guilds' and 'guildlist' to find out more about how guilds work, and for a list of the guilds available respectively. Typing 'help guildlist' will give you a list of guilds which have further information available about them. You should approach the guildmaster of the guild you are interested in, and ask him some questions about it. The guild you chose is not permanent, yet will influence the way you act and do things in the future... it is not a decision to be made up on the spot. If the guildmaster is not online (type 'who' to see who is online) then you might wish to either wait for them, or mail them by typing 'mail '. Mailing costs 10 gold pieces, and the instructions on how to use it are explained once you type the command. Elysium is a roleplaying game, and as such you will be required to roleplay your character. That means no shouts about what is on TV and no shouts containing the lyrics to your favorite song. You should read the help file for your particular race and decide what you would like to accomplish in Elysium and then roleplay towards that goal. Act like your race. If you are a goblin, be cunning. If you are an Orc, be aggressive. When you join a guild, and possibly a religious order, your roleplaying fun will increase. Do not take things personally here - roleplay and you will enjoy your time a lot more. If you do want to talk to people about out of character things, you can use the handy 'ooc' command to chat with the other players. The following is a list of the commands in Elysium as of 3rd February 1999. The same information can be found on our website at www.hakarren.mudservices.com in the 'manual' section. Movement, Your Surroundings and Actions --------------------------------------- n,s,e,w,ne,nw,se,sw,up,down,in,out - Moving between locations. enter - enter something. brief on - only shows room names and exits. brief off - show full room descriptions (default). follow / - following an npc or a player. lose - lose the person you are following. lose - try to stop following you. look - taking a look at your surroundings wake - try to wake up when asleep. sleep - try to fall asleep. meditate - go into meditation to regain mana. struggle - struggling out of binds board - board a ship. leave - leave the bridge of a ship. enter tunnel - enter the tunnel when dead. glance - lets you know the terrain type of your location. claimant - find out who owns the land you tread on. claim - claim unclaimed land. unclaim land - release land from your ownership. setalias - make it so that when you type in future, is issued instead. setalias - remove that word from your set aliases. aliases - list existing set aliases. ! - repeat last command typed in. greet - attempt to start a conversation with an npc. Item Manipulation ----------------- get /all - taking objects on the floor within your location examine // - looking carefully at something. drop /all - drops an object onto the floor within your location put into - attempts to put one object into another get from - get an object from another object. give to - gives an item to another within your location. wield in right/left hand - wielding an item in one of your hands. unwield - unwielding an item you are carrying. drink from - drinking liquids within an object eat - attempts to eat the object empty - empties a container of liquid. pour into - pour the contents of one container into another. wear - wearing clothing, armour and jewellery. remove - taking off a piece of clothing, armour or jewellery. apply - rub a herb into your skin. open - open an object. open door - opens a door in direction. close - close an object. close door - clse a door in direction. lock door - locks a door if you have the key. unlock door - unlocks a door in direction. mount - attempt to mount an npc. dismount - climb off of the back of an npc you are riding. wash - attempting to wash yourself in your surroundings shave - attempts to shave using your currently right wielded item skin - skin the corpse of a long furred creature, for its coat. carve - carve a corpse into a carcass, ready for storage. batch - batch commodities on the floor into a batch of commodities of size split - splits a batch of commodities into groups. keydesc - encarves a description into a key. write in book/' - start writing into a book you carry. id here - list the id numbers of all objects on the floor in your location. id inv - lists the id numbers of all objects in your inventory. Combat ------ hit / - hit out at someone or something with your hands. swing / - swing at someone or something with the weapon wielded in your right hand. *** Note: The majority of combat related commands are only available to members of a guild, and so are not listed here. Communication ------------- say - says to all those in your location. shout - shouting things to everyone in Elysium. tell or - sending a message to someone, regardless of location. emote - displays ' ' to all those in your location. ems - displays ''s ' to all those in your location. wish - make a wish to the gods. pray - pray to a God. ask oracle - ask for help on a subject (newbies only). languages - list the languages you know. speak - speak in a language you know of. mail - post a message to a player, costing 10 gold, whether he is online or not. checkmail - check for mail sent to you. readmail - read a mail you have received. deletemail - delete a message. tell off - stop listening to tells. tell on - start listening to tells (default). tell ignore - ignore tells from player. tell listen - listen to the tells of someone you once ignored. tell ignore list - list those that you are ignoring. Gaining Information About Yourself and Others --------------------------------------------- who - lists those currently within Elysium status - gives information about your character inven - lists everything you are carrying, wielding and wearing skills - lists the skill groups you have ability in. skills - lists what commands you know in that skill group. quests - lists the quests you are currently on. cwho - lists those online in your city. owho - lists those online in your religious order. gwho - lists those online in your guild. fwho - lists the 10 most famous mortals online. listcitizens - lists all members of your city, online or not. ordermembers - lists all members of your order, online or not. guildmembers - lists all memebers of your guild, online or not. positions - lists the Emperor and Ministers of a city. time - estimate the time within Elysium. diagnose - make a basic diagnosis of your condition. guildlist - lists the guilds and guildheads within Elysium. diplomatic status - lists the feelings of that city towards the other cities within Elysium. relations - lists the feelings of all Elysium's cities towards you. rwho - lists all those online that your city either hates or loves. consider - gives you an idea of how your skills compare to another. Creature Loyalties, and Ordering Your Entourage ----------------------------------------------- nickname as - give a creature a nickname. nickname as none - remove the nickname a creature has. order as cowardly - orders npcs to run away when attacked. order as passive - orders npcs to not attack unless attacked. order as hostile - order npcs to attack anyone but yourself. order as enemy / - orders an npc to attack a specific player or npc. order as following - order npc to follow a person. order as following none - order npc to stop following. order as protecting - order an npc to protect you. entourage attack / - orders your entourage to attack a player or npc. entourage passive - orders your entourage to be passive. Learning and Teaching Abilities ------------------------------- study - enter a session of study with a player. stop - stops studying with someone. teach from - teaches an ability from a skill to someone you are studying with. learn list - in the presence of your guildtutor npc, list what abilities you can learn in the skill you specify. learn from - learn an ability from a skill from a guildtutur npc or a player. forget - forget a skill, so that you might learn others. Joining or Leaving a City, Guild or Order ----------------------------------------- join city - accept an invitation to join a city. (ask the Emperor of a city if you wish to be offered an invitation) join guild - accept an invitation to join a guild. (ask the guildhead of a guild if you wish to be offered an invitation) join order - accept an invitation to join a religious order. (ask the God of a order if you wish to be offered an invitation) leave city - leaves the city you are a citizen of, giving up cityrank. leave guild - leaves your guild, giving up guildrank. leave order - leaves your religious Order, angers the God you betrayed. Grouping With Others In Combat ------------------------------ join group - join a group of adventurers if offered an invitation to join a group. group form - form a group of adventurers to lead. group leave - leave the group you are in. group members - list the members of your group. group invite / - invite a player or npc into your group. Bulletin Board Commands ----------------------- bb - enter the bulletin board. check - lists the current status of the bulletin board. next - goto the next message in the section you are reading. previous - goto the previous message in the section you are reading. post - post a message to the section you are reading. read - reads a message in the section you are reading. generalbb - switch to the General BB section. newsbb - switch to the News BB section. citybb - switch to the City BB section. guildbb - switch to the Guild BB section. orderbb - switch to the Order BB section. Citizen Commands ---------------- vote cityrank - give your vote to a citizen for cityrank promotion. store - store a commodity within your city's warehouse. cwho - list those online in your city. listcitizens - lists all members of your city, online or not. cityenemy list - lists enemies of your city. vote rebellion emperor/rebels - give your support to either the Emperor or the rebel forces in a revolution. start - start a revolution. Government Commands ------------------- *** Ministries are: state, justice, war, trade, and unknown treasury - lists the treasuries you have access to. cdeposit - deposits money into your ministry's treasury. cwithdraw - withdraw money from your ministry's treasury. cwithdraw /city/royal - withdraw money from another ministry. cdeposit /city/royal - deposit money into another ministry. tax - set the tax rate. appoint /none - appoints someone in your city as Minister, or removes them. citizen - invites player to join your city. uncitizen - removes player as a citizen of your city. stock - lists the city's warehouse stock. store - stores a commodity on the floor, into the warehouse. retrieve - retrieves of from the warehouse, and places it onto the floor. prefix - gives a player a prefix. suffix - gives a player a suffix. assemble wearing - assembles a legion wearing armour. build shop - builds a shop for a player, with the stockroom being . That stockroom must be an existing room. build door - builds a door in that direction, within your city. A key will be created and placed on the floor. build lamp - build a lamp for a room inside your city buildings. build security - build a security machine for your shops. build sign - places a sign in your current city location. write on sign - write onto a sign in your location. wipe sign - wipes the sign in your location. construct list - lists buildings available for construction. construct - builds a building in your current location. declare - declares your city's feelings towards a city. listarmy - list the army of your city. listnavy - list the navy of your city. promote to - promote a army or navy member. demote to - demote a army of navy member. decommission - decomission a player from the army or navy. recruit into army/navy. buildship caravel/merchantman/frigate/galleon/manowar - build a ship. repair - make repairs to a damaged ship. makebounty - make a bounty poster. removeshop - remove a shop in your location. removedoor - remove a door. cityenemy add - declares player as an enemy of your city. cityenemy remove - removes a player from your city's enemy list. pardon - Forget your city's bad feelings towards a player. favour - give a player your city's favour. condemn - condemn the actions of a player. discount - set a discount for shops in your city for those who are in your city's favour. research status - shows the status of your city's current research. research topic - start research on a topic. research funding - pour money into a research topic. research supply - supply a research program with the materials it requires. research list - list what is currently available to research. research history - list what you have researched in the past. Industry Commands or Related ---------------------------- Type the name of the industry to see the syntax. Note: For warehouses, just type warehouse swing tree - chop down a tree if carrying a woodcutter's axe. pick fruit/seed - picks a fruit commodity or seed from a tree. plant acorn/pine/apple/pear/cherry - plant a grove if you have the seed on the ground. plough - plough a plot, ready for planting. sort - attempt to get the seeds from a commodity, for replanting. plant - plants a plot to grow the commodity specified, if seeds are on the floor. harvest - harvest a plot. change ownership to - handover an industry to another. industrylist - lists all the industries that you own. industry maintainance - lists maintainance costs for all your industries pay maintainanace - add gold to your industry's maintainance treasury. upgrade industry - upgrade an industry in your location. Guild Commands: --------------- gwho - lists online members of your guild. guildmembers - lists guild members, whether they are online or not. inguild - offer a player an invitation to join your guild. outguild - throw a player from your guild. nominate - nominates someone to be entered into the guildrank elections. challenge guildhead - attempt to become guildhead of the guild by starting a guildhead election. vote guildhead - vote for someone in the guildmaster elections. vote guildrank - vote for someone in the guildrank elections. initiate - promote someone from the probationary rank to the second rank. guildstatus - gives you information on your guild. unpatron guild - removes the God patroning your guild. Order Commands -------------- owho - lists online members of your religious order. ordermembers - lists members of your order, whether online or not. assemble fanatics wearing - assembles a legion of religious fanatics wearing armour. privileges - list the powers that your patron has bestowed upon you. orderranks - listing the Order ranks of the various religious orders. ordertell - tell a message to all in your Order. Shop Ownership Commands ----------------------- value here - lists all the prices set on objects on the floor. value here - lists all objects, of object type, and their set prices. value - find out about the price set on an individual item. value inv - lists the prices set on objects in your inventory. value set - set the prices on all objects of type on the floor. value set - set the price of a specific item on the floor. shop access add - add a player to the list of those who your security machine will not attack. shop access list - list those who are not to be attacked by shop security. shop access remove - remove someone from the list of those not attacked by the shop's defences. change ownership shop to - give a shop to another. view shop ledger - list the sales the shop has recently made. wipe shop ledger - wipes the shop's sales ledger. Ordering Troops --------------- command - attempt to take command of a legion. handover to - give command of a legion to another. battlelook - examines the current battle situation. order to fire - orders a legion to fire missile weapons in the direction specified. order to charge at - orders a legion to charge another legion in a direction (moves two locations for mounted units). order to engage - orders a legion to begin attacking another legion. order to march - orders a legion to march in a direction. order to flee - orders a legion to flee in a direction. order to be hostile - orders a legion to attack archers and enemies of their city. order to be alert - orders a legion to attack archers, and ignore city enemies. order to be passive - orders a legion to ignore archers and city enemies. order to capture - orders a legion to begin capturing an industry. order to capture land - orders a legion to begin conquering its location. order to destroy guardtower - orders a legion to attempt to destroy a guardtower. order to destroy - orders a legion to attempt to destroy an industry. order to destroy - orders a legion to remove a crystal on your land. order to destroy door - orders a legion to remove a door. order to form group of - splits a legion into two, one group of size the other the remaining troops. order to group with - order two legions to merge. order to halt - orders a legion to stop taking industries, land and guardtowers. order to board - orders a legion to board a ship. order to leave ship - orders a legion to leave the bridge of a ship. Ship Commands ------------- checkwind - check the wind's direction. *** The following commands work only onboard ships: launch - launch a ship from the docks. change ship name - change the ship's name to change sail colour - change the sail's colour. change sail symbol list - list the symbols available to put on the sails. change sail symbol - change the symbol on your ship's sails. change sail symbol colour - change the symbol's colour. change figurehead - change the figurehead of your ship. change flag pirate/city - change the ship's flag between the jolly roger and the ship's city's flag. ship access add - give player access to your ship. ship access list - list those who can captain your ship. ship access remove - remove player from those who can captain your ship. ship status - gives you an overview of the ship's status. view - survey your surroundings. steer right/left - steer your ship to the left or right. raise anchor - raise the ship's anchor. raise sails - raise the ship's sails. lower anchor - lower the ship's anchor. lower sails - lower the ship's sails. grapply port/starboard - attempt to grapple another ship. ungrapple port/starboard - ungrapple yourself from a ship. board port/starboard - board a ship you are grappled to. telescope - gain information about nearby ships. astrolabe - use the astrolabe to find your location. cannons starboard/port - fire the ship's cannons. Miscellaneous Commands ---------------------- passwd - changing your password prompt 1 - gives you the default prompt. prompt 2 - whenever you get a prompt, you are also shown your health. idea - suggest an idea to be implemented in Elysium. bug - report a bug found in Elysium. guide - summon a new guide. ansi on - turn ANSI colour on. ansi off - turn ANSI colour off. email
- change your email address. setdesc - change your description to one which describes your existing description in your words. Do not add clothing, and do not expect yourself to gain the description you request for at least a week.