Tutorial

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There is an extensive in-game help system that you can use by typing “help” or “help index” at the prompt.

Introduction Message:

Grafenberg Hotel Lobby:

Every time you enter a room you will see its name, a map of your immediate surroundings and the room description (including obvious exits, smell, noises, people and items). You should read this information carefully as it may contain hints. You can examine some things in the description by using the command ‘examine’ which can be abbreviated to ‘exa’ if you are lazy.

It seems as if there are other survivors and that they are gathering in the nearby asylum.

Since you are not trained in hand-to-hand combat you should ‘take knife’ or ‘get knife’. You will pick it up and put it into your backpack. Use ‘inventory’ or just ‘i’ to see the contents of your backpack.

Use ‘wield knife’ to ready it as your weapon. You can also ‘unwield’ it when you find a better weapon.

Now it is time to investigate that scraping noise near the staircase to the north. To move around, type in the direction you want to go (‘(n)orth’, ‘(e)ast’, ‘(s)outh’, ‘(w)est’, etc).

Ouch. You ran into a closed door. Type ‘open north’ to open the door to the north. Some doors are locked and require a key to be unlocked.

Hotel Staircase:

There is a weak infected in this room that should be easy to kill. Use ‘(k)ill infected’ to start your attack and watch the outcome.

You will get better and better at knife fighting or any other skill the more you use it. You will also gain training and advancement points that you can use to further improve your attributes, skills and other perks with. To see an overview of your stats, skills and other vital information type ‘stat’.

Have you noticed that you have stats for ‘Food’ and ‘Drink’. While you don’t really need to east or drink regularly you will heal much faster if you are well fed and do not suffer from thirst. Wasn’t there some water and food lying around in the hotel lobby? After going south again we see that there is a chocolate bar and a bottle of water there. We need to take them and then ‘eat snickers’ and ‘drink water’.

This concludes the basic tutorial. Please keep in mind that there are many help files available in-game. You can see them by using the command ‘help index’ or just ‘help’. Please let me know of any mistakes or about your feedback on this tutorial by posting on the forums.