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Hi! There should be a manual in the docs folder.

As for altars, you sacrifice items on them. Generally corpses, but other valuable items should work too. I'm pretty sure you can identify by dropping items on altars. If you're illiterate, praying might uncurse any cursed items you've got equipped.

There's not a lot of differences between the deities right now. They're underdeveloped, and a long way from eg DCSS. Key stats for witchlings are I think int/will/cha, and the Magic skill as well as Primordial and Cantrips.

Thieves don't start with Literacy. Some races do, so if you play a thief of one of those races, you should be good.

Tiroq5 years ago

Thanks for the reply. For some reason I thought the guide was the same as the online gameplay basics. D'uh Doy. It was exactly what I was looking for. Even better that I remember. If you could clarify a couple points. Both characters and altars have alignments right? Does using an opposite aligned altar piss off your god? Does it effect the outcome? Bless or curse items? I had an evil character drop 4 things on a good altar and they were all cursed. Just bad luck or effect? Also, is being aligned good like the a virtue system? Good characters get bad karma from attacking things w/o provocation?

I really like this world you've created. It feels lived in/populated in a way that I haven't found in other RL's. As for the thief question. I played a human thief and he couldn't read. I had just assumed since humans are very resourceful that they would/should be able to read. Just food for thought. Thanks again for your reply.

Julian Day5 years ago

Altars only display the b/u/c status if they're co-aligned. If you go dropping items on altars that aren't your alignment, the deity is annoyed with you and curses your item. So, as you guessed, four in a row isn't bad luck in your case.

Each deity has their own list of likes and dislikes. For the good deities, these are things like attacking friendly creatures, cannibalism, grave robbing, and desecrating good-aligned altars. The neutral-aligned deities are less consistent (Vedere has similar restrictions as the good three; Voros only dislikes graverobbing and desecrating neutral altars; the Trickster relaxes the restriction on attacking friendlies), and the evil deities are the most permissive. They just don't like you desecrating their altars.

Humans don't start with literacy by default. The only race that does are gnomes. There's a quest in Isen Dun that'll grant it. I probably should have added a similar one to Carcassia. I'll look at doing that for the next release.

Julian Day5 years ago

I just double checked the code, and the behaviour is:

- Drop on aligned altar: bless (burns some piety)

- Drop on non-aligned altar: curse

You can identify item statuses via scrolls of identify, or by playing a PC with the Lore skill (merchant, minstrel, pilgrim, sage, wizard, witchling). The Lore skill has a one-time chance to identify an item on pickup.

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