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<h1>Section 1: About Blades of Exile</h1>
<div class="navbar">
<a href="About.html"><li>About</li></a>
<a href="Tips.html"><li>Playing Tips</a></li>
<a href="Intro.html"><li>Getting Started</li></a>
<a href="Screen.html"><li>The Exile Screen</a></li>
<a href="Menus.html"><li>The Exile Menu</a></li>
<a href="Town.html"><li>Getting Around Town</a></li>
<a href="Outdoors.html"><li>Getting Around the Outdoors</a></li>
<a href="Combat.html"><li>Killing Stuff</a></li>
<a href="Misc.html"><li>Miscellaneous</li></a>
<a href="Mage.html"><li>Mage Spells</a></li>
<a href="Priest.html"><li>Priest Spells</a></li>
<a href="Hints.html"><li>Hints</a></li>
<a href="Valleydy.html"><li>Valley of Dying Things</a></li>
<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>GNU GPL</a></li>
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<h1>About Blades of Exile</h1>
<h2>About this copy</h2>
<p>This is Blades of Exile, a huge, highly-detailed Shareware fantasy role-playing system for the Macintosh. This remarkable set of programs contains nearly infinite possibilities for adventure. First, the game itself comes with three full, exciting scenarios, filled with excitement, puzzles, and role-playing. Then there is the Blades of Exile scenario editor, which you can use to make your own role-playing adventures to play yourself or trade with friends. Finally, you can obtain scenarios which other people have made with the scenario editor and play through them yourself. Even when you've finished the scenarios that come with Blades, you've only started to tap the potential for fun this product offers you!</p>
<p>In 2007, ten years after the original release of BoE, the source code of the game was released, and the tedious process of updating the game to modern standards began.</p>
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<h2>System Requirements:</h2>
<p>Blades of Exile for Macintosh requires 3 MB of free memory, Mac OS X (10.4 and newer is supported; it may or may not work on older systems), 7 MB of hard drive space, a 13" screen, and 256 colors. {TODO: This section is probably out of date; update it.}</p>
<p>For Windows users, Blades of Exile will work with systems as old as Windows 98 and 2000, and certain installations of Vista. The specifications are the same as with Macintosh.<!--TODO: Confirm this. That's just my personal experience --w-dueck --></p>
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<div class="navbar">
<a href="About.html"><li>About</li></a>
<a href="Tips.html"><li>Playing Tips</a></li>
<a href="Intro.html"><li>Getting Started</li></a>
<a href="Screen.html"><li>The Exile Screen</a></li>
<a href="Menus.html"><li>The Exile Menu</a></li>
<a href="Town.html"><li>Getting Around Town</a></li>
<a href="Outdoors.html"><li>Getting Around the Outdoors</a></li>
<a href="Combat.html"><li>Killing Stuff</a></li>
<a href="Misc.html"><li>Miscellaneous</li></a>
<a href="Mage.html"><li>Mage Spells</a></li>
<a href="Priest.html"><li>Priest Spells</a></li>
<a href="Hints.html"><li>Hints</a></li>
<a href="Valleydy.html"><li>Valley of Dying Things</a></li>
<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>GNU GPL</a></li>
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<h1>Killing Stuff</h1>
<p>Combat works much like being in town or outdoors, except that you move your party one PC at a time instead of all at once. You will get to move each of your PCs, and then all the other people/monsters move (and maybe attack you). Then the process repeats.</p>
<p>The main difference between normal town and combat mode, of course, is that you're probably trying to kill something.</p>
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<p>Poisoning a Weapon: Using poison poisons your equipped weapon, which can be either a hand-to-hand weapon or a quiver of arrows (not darts or throwing knives). Hitting a monster with it then does a considerable amount of damage, spread out over time. The level of the poison decreases with every blow delivered and every blow that lands. The poison is lost should you change weapons or leave town.</p>
<p>Using poison on an already poisoned weapon gives the weapon a strength of poison equal to the maximum strength of the poison already there and the poison you're putting on.</p>
<p>Enemy Resistances: There are a wide variety of types of damage you can do. Hand to hand weapons do physical damage. Poison is another kind of damage, fire is another, non-fire magic (such as ice bolts or kill spells) is yet another. These sorts of damages affect different monsters differently. Many monsters are resistant to fire. Less are resistant to magic. Very few are resistant to poison, however - keep this in mind when dealing with that pesky enemy mage in the back.</p>
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<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Blades of Exile Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>The GNU GPL</a></li>
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<p>"Blades of Exile" and Spiderweb Software are trademarks of Spiderweb Software.</p>

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<div class="navbar">
<a href="About.html"><li>About</li></a>
<a href="Tips.html"><li>Playing Tips</a></li>
<a href="Intro.html"><li>Getting Started</li></a>
<a href="Screen.html"><li>The Exile Screen</a></li>
<a href="Menus.html"><li>The Exile Menu</a></li>
<a href="Town.html"><li>Getting Around Town</a></li>
<a href="Outdoors.html"><li>Getting Around the Outdoors</a></li>
<a href="Combat.html"><li>Killing Stuff</a></li>
<a href="Misc.html"><li>Miscellaneous</li></a>
<a href="Mage.html"><li>Mage Spells</a></li>
<a href="Priest.html"><li>Priest Spells</a></li>
<a href="Hints.html"><li>Hints</a></li>
<a href="Valleydy.html"><li>Valley of Dying Things</a></li>
<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>GNU GPL</a></li>
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<h1>Credits</h1>
<h2>Original Game</h2>
<p>Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah: Jeff Vogel (SpidWeb@spidweb.com)</p>
<p>Graphics: Andrew Hunter (Wormius@aol.com)</p>
<p>Office Manager, Design Assistant: >Mariann Krizsan (krizsan@spidweb.com)/p>
<p>Office Manager, Design Assistant: >Mariann Krizsan (krizsan@spidweb.com)</p>
<p>Opening Screen Graphic: James Ernest (ernest@speakeasy.org)</p>
<p>Beta Testing: AFA Alice (AOL), BGraceFild, Jeremy Braz, Donald Burke, Chris Gerhard, Don Henson, Farand "Bob" Koo, Seanachai, SerSpense, Och-Med, Edward Spencer, Luke Steele, Jesse Thrall, Christopher Tucker, Jake "Maxx" Wallace.</p>
<h3>Thanks to</h3>
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<p>The Almighty Doer of Stuff (ADoS) - for insight into what is and is not a good idea, and for some new graphics.</p>
<p>Stareye - for early work on the Mac version which will hopefully be merged into the main source.</p>
<p>Thuryl - Extensive help with deciding whether a change would break legacy compatiability.</p>
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<title>Character Editor - Blades of Exile Guide</title>
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<h1>Section 11: The Blades of Exile Editor</h1>
<h2>Section 11.1: What is the Blades of Exile Editor</h2>
<div class="navbar">
<a href="About.html"><li>About</li></a>
<a href="Tips.html"><li>Playing Tips</a></li>
<a href="Intro.html"><li>Getting Started</li></a>
<a href="Screen.html"><li>The Exile Screen</a></li>
<a href="Menus.html"><li>The Exile Menu</a></li>
<a href="Town.html"><li>Getting Around Town</a></li>
<a href="Outdoors.html"><li>Getting Around the Outdoors</a></li>
<a href="Combat.html"><li>Killing Stuff</a></li>
<a href="Misc.html"><li>Miscellaneous</li></a>
<a href="Mage.html"><li>Mage Spells</a></li>
<a href="Priest.html"><li>Priest Spells</a></li>
<a href="Hints.html"><li>Hints</a></li>
<a href="Valleydy.html"><li>Valley of Dying Things</a></li>
<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>GNU GPL</a></li>
</div>
<div class="content">
<h1>The Blades of Exile Editor</h1>
<h2>What is the Blades of Exile Editor?</h2>
<p>This copy of Blades of Exile comes with the Blades of Exile Character Editor, a simple utility for improving your Blades of Exile party in a mind-boggling variety of ways.</p>
<p>The unregistered (i.e. as is) version of the editor can give you unlimited gold and food, heal your party, and do several other useful things (go to the section on menus, and read about the Free Extras menu). The registered version can do much more - give you all sorts of items, complete your quests and give you maps, add as much experience and skill as you want, and more. The registered version comes with Blades of Exile registration.</p>
<h2>Section 11.2: Using the Editor</h2>
<h3>11.2.1 - How to use the editor.</h3>
<h2>Using the Editor</h2>
<h3>How to use the editor</h3>
<p>The Blades of Exile editor is very easy to use. To do so,</p>
<ol>
<li>Run it. It's called Blades Character Editor.</li>
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<li>Select Save from the File menu.</li>
</ol>
<p>To make a change, press one of the other buttons. Their uses are described in the next five chapters. Note, however, if you, in an unregistered copy, selecting any option not in the Free Extras menu prevents you from saving that party.</p>
<h3>11.2.2 - A Serious Warning</h3>
<h3>A Serious Warning</h3>
<p>The Blades of Exile Editor is a powerful utility, and, as has been said, "With great power comes great responsibility." It is not only possible, but in fact quite easy to use the editor to make the game unwinnable. All you need to do is dispose of the wrong item, or rub away the memory of the wrong piece of information. The editor can also correct the damage, of course. But as a rule of thumb, it is best to:
<ol>
<li>Be careful,</li>
<li><em>Always</em> keep an unaltered back-up save file, and</li>
<li>Only do positive things with the editor. It's generally safe to give yourself new information or a new item, but very risky to take things away.</li>
</ol>
<h3>11.2.3 - Using the Main Screen</h3>
<h3>Using the Main Screen</h3>
<p>Once you've opened a save file, you'll see your party displayed on the main screen. One character's button will be blue. This is the active character. Click on another character to make him/her active.</p>
<p>To the right is the active character's inventory. To drop an item, click the 'D' button. To identify an item, click the 'I' button.</p>
<p>To the right is the active character's inventory. To drop an item, click the <span classs="key">D</span> button. To identify an item, click the <span class="key">I</span> button.</p>
<p>To the right are the five buttons you can use to edit this character:</p>
<p><em>Add Mage Spells, Add Priest Spells</em> - Enables you to give or take away the character's ability to cast certain spells. Press the button to the right of a spell to toggle the spell on/off. When the button is lighted green, the party knows the spell.</p>
<p><em>Edit Traits</em> - Enables you to change the character's race, advantages, and disadvantages.</p>
<p><em>Edit Skills</em> - Works like the training window in Blades of Exile, but all training is free. Press the + and - buttons to increment and decrement a skill.</p>
<p><em>Edit XP</em> - Enables you to set the number of experience points the character has. Note that, if you give enough experience for the character to gain a level, the new level won't be awarded right away. The character will get the new level the next time he or she gains experience in Blades of Exile.</p>
<h3>Section 11.2: The Blades of Exile Editor Menu</h3>
<h3>The Blades of Exile Editor Menu</h3>
<p>Most of the Blades of Exile Editor's features are activated through the menus.</p>
<h4>File Menu:</h4>
<p><em>Save</em> - Records the changes you've made. If the editor is unregistered and you've used features not in the Free Extras menu, this won't work.</p>
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<p><em>Add Outdoor Maps, Add Town Maps</em> - When you select one of these options the Automap in Blades of Exile will display all of the town/outdoor section your party is in. Great for finding hidden stuff!</p>
<h4>Item menus:</h4>
<p>These menus list a wide variety of useful items. Select an item to have it added to the inventory of the active PC.</p>
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<h1>Section 12: Hints For Getting Started</h1>
<div class="navbar">
<a href="About.html"><li>About</li></a>
<a href="Tips.html"><li>Playing Tips</a></li>
<a href="Intro.html"><li>Getting Started</li></a>
<a href="Screen.html"><li>The Exile Screen</a></li>
<a href="Menus.html"><li>The Exile Menu</a></li>
<a href="Town.html"><li>Getting Around Town</a></li>
<a href="Outdoors.html"><li>Getting Around the Outdoors</a></li>
<a href="Combat.html"><li>Killing Stuff</a></li>
<a href="Misc.html"><li>Miscellaneous</li></a>
<a href="Mage.html"><li>Mage Spells</a></li>
<a href="Priest.html"><li>Priest Spells</a></li>
<a href="Hints.html"><li>Hints</a></li>
<a href="Valleydy.html"><li>Valley of Dying Things</a></li>
<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
<a href="Licensing.html"><li>GNU GPL</a></li>
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<h1>Hints For Getting Started</h1>
<p>Blades of Exile is not an easy game. The monsters are many, and very unforgiving of error. Gold can often be scarce, and the puzzles are tricky. Fortunately, when the going gets tough, there are plenty of resources available to you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Change the game. Select the Preferences option from the File menu, and select Easier Monsters. Your fights from then on will be a lot less stressful. You can also reduce the number of wandering monsters, but this may not be a good idea, as ...</li>
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<li>Don't forget to take all the stuff in Fort Talrus (in Valley of Dying Things). There's stuff for you in all of the storerooms. Use the Unlock spell to get into the locked rooms.</li>
<li>If you get stuck on a puzzle, look in the next chapter. There's a walkthrough for Valley of Dying Things..</li>
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<a href="Editor.html"><li>The Editor</a></li>
<a href="Credits.html"><li>Credits</a></li>
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<h1>Getting Started</h1>
<h2>Starting Quickly</h2>
<p>Blades of Exile is designed to be as simple as possible to learn and play. If you, like many game-players, dislike reading the manual before jumping into the game, go ahead. It is recommended you read the Introduction (the next section), the overview of the most important commands (the section before), look at the illustrations to see what the buttons do, and, if you plan to design your characters from scratch (eventually a good idea), read the section describing what the skills are.</p>
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<dd>This skill is expensive, but can be a bargain at twice the cost. Its effects are pervasive, subtle, powerful, and sometimes irreplaceable.</dd>
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<p>Eventually, one way or another, you will have a party to control. At this point, you will be returned to the main menu, where you can select a scenario.</p>
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<p>Blades of Exile Game/Editor/Character Editor are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2. This license is shown below.</p>
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<h1>Section 10: Mage Spells:</h1>
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<h1>Mage Spells:</h1>
<p>These are the spells available to your mages. A character starts with most of the first three levels of spells automatically. The higher level spells must be found or bought.</p>
<p>PCs can cast spells on other PCs regardless of the distance between them. Hostile spells, on the other hand, can only affect monsters sufficiently nearby. The number in parenthesis after the name is the cost of the spell in spell points. When there is an R and a number, the second number is the range for the spell.</p>
<h2>Level 1</h2>
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<li>Quickfire: (C 50) Devastating beyond words, this spell creates a space of quickfire, which will sweep over the area killing everyone and everything.</li>
<li>Death Arrows: (C 10, R 6) This spell is like the previous Arrow spells, but strikes each target with a kill spell. The number of arrows increases with the level of the caster.</li>
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<h1>The Blades of Exile Menus</h1>
<p>Blades of Exile’s menus can perform many of the actions in the game, and dispense help and information as well.</p>
<h2>File Menu</h2>
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<h2>Mage Spells, Priest Spells</h2>
<p>These menus constantly list the spells the active PC can currently cast. Select a spell to cast it.</p>
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<h1>Miscellaneous</h1>
<h2>Material Wealth</h2>
<p>There are three sorts of possessions you can come across:</p>
<p>Gold: Well, this isn’t always literal chunks of gold. It’s gold nuggets or silver coins or trade goods or anything else you can give people to get stuff. You start with a small amount, and can get more.</p>
<p>Gold: Well, this isn't always literal chunks of gold. It's gold nuggets or silver coins or trade goods or anything else you can give people to get stuff. You start with a small amount, and can get more.</p>
<p>Food: Preserved giant lizard steaks, dried mushrooms, yummy, tangy lichens, and all the other rich bounty of Exile. Every once in a while you will eat some of it, one unit for each active PC. Not having enough food results in starvation, damage, and bad things.</p>
<p>Items: Each PC can carry 24 objects, such as armor, helmets, tools, weapons, etc. You can do various things with these items. These are described in Chapter 4.</p>
<p>You can only carry so much weight. The amount of bulk you can carry depends on your strength. Armor is very heavy, while potions and scrolls aren’t.</p>
<p>You can only carry so much weight. The amount of bulk you can carry depends on your strength. Armor is very heavy, while potions and scrolls aren't.</p>
<p>When equipping items, you only have two hands, and some weapons take up both of them. You can only wear two rings, and one necklace (too many magic items interfere with each other in bizarre ways). Beware. When you equip a cursed item, you will need to find a healer to take the curse off.</p>
<h2>Magic</h2>
<p>There are seven levels of spells. Your characters begin the game knowing most spells up to third level. They can cast a mage spell of a given level if they have enough spell points, and Mage Spells skill of that level (and the same goes for priest spells). Upon casting, the character loses the spell points, and something neat happens.</p>
<p>Spell effects are cumulative, and build up quickly. For example, if you bless a character twice, the effect will be much more than twice the effect of one bless. When you poison a monster twice, it will do well over twice the damage the first spell would have caused. If one fear spell doesn’t make a monster flee, the next one will have a much better chance of working. Casting two light spells makes the light last twice as long.</p>
<p>Spell effects are cumulative, and build up quickly. For example, if you bless a character twice, the effect will be much more than twice the effect of one bless. When you poison a monster twice, it will do well over twice the damage the first spell would have caused. If one fear spell doesn't make a monster flee, the next one will have a much better chance of working. Casting two light spells makes the light last twice as long.</p>
<p>Mage spells require great delicacy of movement to cast. For this reason, they cannot be cast when when armor with total encumbrance of more than 1 is being worn. High defense skill can sometimes offset this effect, but it never will when any single item has an encumbrance value of more than 2.</p>
<p>Mage Spells and Encumbrance:If you are wearing armor with a total encumbrance of greater than one, you cannot cast mage spells. However, high defense skill can counteract this. If your armor isn’t too bulky, sometimes defense skill will enable you to cast spells (though spells never, ever work when any single item has an encumbrance value greater than 2). If you fail, however, you lose your turn.</p>
<p>Mage Spells and Encumbrance:If you are wearing armor with a total encumbrance of greater than one, you cannot cast mage spells. However, high defense skill can counteract this. If your armor isn't too bulky, sometimes defense skill will enable you to cast spells (though spells never, ever work when any single item has an encumbrance value greater than 2). If you fail, however, you lose your turn.</p>
<p>Priest spells, consisting mainly of prayers shouted very loudly, do not have this limitation.</p>
<p>Multiple Target Spells:Some spells, such as the Arrow spells, have more than one target. When you cast such a spell, click on each target. Click on a target again to untarget it. Should you decide to cast the spell without using all your targets, hit space.</p>
<p>Magical barriers:Some spells create a two space wide barrier of some sort of magical wall. You can rotate this before placing it. Do so by hitting space.</p>
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<p>Fire and Force Barriers:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>These barriers last until they are dispelled. The former damages anyone entering, and the latter prevents anyone from entering at all.</p>
<h2>Summoned Monsters</h2>
<p>Both you and your foes can magically bring forth creatures to aid you. These summoned monsters fight for a short time, and then disappear. If killed, they leave no treasure.</p>
<p>The most (potentially) powerful summoning spells are Capture Soul and Simulacrum. Casting Capture Soul on a monster stores a copy of it in your party’s mind. Later, you can cast Simulacrum to bring a copy of the monster forth. Collect copies of the most powerful monsters and bring them to your aid! You can only remember at most 4 monsters.</p>
<p>The most (potentially) powerful summoning spells are Capture Soul and Simulacrum. Casting Capture Soul on a monster stores a copy of it in your party's mind. Later, you can cast Simulacrum to bring a copy of the monster forth. Collect copies of the most powerful monsters and bring them to your aid! You can only remember at most 4 monsters.</p>
<p>Beware - when you Capture Soul a monster, its copy is stored in a random slot (out of the 4 available). It may copy over a monster you already have.</p>
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<h1>Getting Around The Outdoors</h1>
<p>When you leave town, you will be in the massive caverns that make up Exile or the Empire, or the seemingly limitless expanses of the surface. The things you can do out here are similar to what you can do indoors, but slightly more restricted.</p>
<p>Moving around and casting spells works the same as in town. However, the spells you can cast are a bit more limited. Looking works the same, although there will no longer be things to search (there are still signs to read).</p>
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<p>There will still be combats outdoors. Occasionally, monsters will run up to attack you. When this happens, you will find yourself on a battlefield where you will fight the monsters, much as you would have fought them in town. Finally, certain outdoor combats are automatic. These special combats will happen even when you aren't adjacent to the monsters.</p>
<p>You can drop items outdoors, but when you do, they're gone forever. Should a PC die (of starvation, for example), the PC's items will appear on the ground the next time you enter a town or get in an outdoor combat.</p>
<p>Finally, note that traveling outdoors is very time consuming. Be careful not to do too much of it, until you get horses. See the section in the previous chapter on The Ravages Of Time.</p>
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<h1>Priest Spells:</h1>
<p>As with mage spells, all PCs start with the first three levels of priest spells, and some only work within a certain range.</p>
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<li>Word of Recall: (C 30) This spell returns the party to the town where you began the scenario. Because of the danger of teleporting from narrow, windy tunnels, it can only be cast outdoors.</li>
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<h1>The Blades of Exile Screen</h1>
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<p>Figure 1: The main Blades of Exile screen, with the six sections marked.</p>
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<h1>Section 2: Playing Tips for Beginners</h1>
<>Blades of Exile (Blades for short) is a computer fantasy role-playing game. If you've never played a game of this sort before, much of what's going on will be very unfamiliar to you. This section provides an overview of how to do the most important things, so you don't get too swamped with the details. Don't worry - even though Blades of Exile is a complicated program, once you can get around, you will be able to pick up other things very easily. Also, don't worry if you've never played Exile I-III. Experience with those games is not necessary to enjoy Blades of Exile.</p>
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<h1>Playing Tips for Beginners</h1>
Blades of Exile (Blades for short) is a computer fantasy role-playing game. If you've never played a game of this sort before, much of what's going on will be very unfamiliar to you. This section provides an overview of how to do the most important things, so you don't get too swamped with the details. Don't worry - even though Blades of Exile is a complicated program, once you can get around, you will be able to pick up other things very easily. Also, don't worry if you've never played Exile I-III. Experience with those games is not necessary to enjoy Blades of Exile.</p>
<h3>Starting the game</h3>
<p>In Blades of Exile, you will control a group (or "party") of up to six adventurers (often referred to as PCs, for "player characters"). You will take these six people on adventures, kill monsters, collect loot, and try to save the world. Each person has his or her own skills, abilities, and items.</p>
<p>To start the game, you need to get a group of adventurers. From the starting screen, press Create New Party, and watch the introduction. When you hit the button, you will be at the party creation screen.</p>
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<p>Finally, when you're through with Fort Talrus, walk out of the building you started in, and walk north. You'll eventually leave the town you're in and be outdoors. You'll be standing by a road. Follow it north, and you will eventually find a town called Sweetgrove. Walk into it to enter it. You're on your way!</p>
<p>This is only a brief overview, of course. It says nothing about training, or many important things about spellcasting. It will, however, get you moving, and once you're getting around, you should find the rest falls into place very quickly.</p>
<p>So welcome to the wild world of Blades of Exile! And good luck! Who knows? You may actually be able to make a difference!</p>
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<h1>Getting Around Town</h1>
<p>When you begin the game, you will be in one of Exile's many towns and forts. There are a variety of things you can and should do.</p>
<p>Moving around: To move, place the cursor on the terrain screen in the direction you want to move (it should turn into a little arrow) and click. You will take a step in the direction the arrow points. To move up, for example, move the cursor above the little person in the middle (you). The cursor should turn into an arrow pointing up. Click. You will move up a space.</p>
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<p>People will only buy identified items. To identify an item, go to a sage (such as Axel, in Sweetgrove, in "Valley of Dying Things"). Ask about 'identify' (or, usually, click the Buy button), and ID buttons will appear by your unidentified items. Click this button to pay to have it identified. You will now know exactly what it is.</p>
<p>Finally, a very few people will cast magical spells to strengthen your identified, non-magical weapons. When this is offered, small 'Augm' buttons will appear by items that can be augmented. Press them to buy the improvement.</p>
<p>When you leave town (or go into combat) the buttons will change. The next two sections say what the new buttons do.</p>
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<h1>Section 13: How to Solve Valley of Dying Things</h1>
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<h1>How to Solve Valley of Dying Things</h1>
<p>This chapter contains all the information you need to get to the end of the scenario Valley of Dying Things.It does not contain the solution to every puzzle. For the minor puzzles and quests, you’ll just have to work them out on your own. What this guide does provide are directions for navigating your way through the main storyline, from the first steps all the way to the grand conclusion.</p>
<p>When you get stuck, go to the section on the appropriate scenario. Each section is divided into subsections, each of which describes a specific part of the scenario. The subsections begin with several questions you might be asking about how to get through. Read these sample questions first. If none of them make any sense, back up to an earlier subsection.</p>
<p>When you find the subsection that describes the area you’re stuck in, start reading. Slowly. Eventually, you get to the area you’re having problems with. If the place you’re stuck at isn’t described, the puzzle you’re working on isn’t important to the overall adventure and can be skipped.</p>
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<p>Leave the level to the south (you’ll use the silver key), and you will be in the caves under the school. Fight your way through them to the southeast corner, where you find a cave. Enter it.</p>
<p>You will be inside the Control Rooms. Use the Opening Stone to get inside. Find your way through to the control chambers on the east side. You will find a shade to talk to, who will tell you a lot of things about the situation with the school. Sit in the throne at (34,20), and the controls to clean up the waste will be activated.</p>
<p>Finally, travel back up to the giant cavern between the Upper and Lower halves of the school and enter the Major Waste Depository. Go through the secret passage at (38,39). Walk up to the gate at (29,2), through the gap at (14,15), and through the gate at (18,24) into the center of the repository. Use the Opening Stone to open the glowing gate, and sit in the chair at (23,23). Sit in the chair, flip the switch, and insert the stone. The cleaning process will begin. Walk out to (26,23), and you will be carried out to safety. You’ve won.</p>
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