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<title>The Blades of Exile Screen - Blades of Exile Guide</title>
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<noscript>Javascript required for the navbar.</noscript>
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<div class="content">
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<h1>The Blades of Exile Screen</h1>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <!-- Do not float this, it's hugegantic -->
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<img src="../img/terscr.gif">
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<p>Figure 1: The main Blades of Exile screen, with the six sections marked.</p>
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</div>
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<p>You will now be looking at the main Blades of Exile screen. This screen has six
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distinctive parts.</p>
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<h2>Terrain Screen</h2>
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<p>When outside or in town, the person in the middle represents your party. Around you
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will be the flora, fauna, and miscellaneous stuff of the surface or underworld.</p>
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<p>To move around, move the cursor into the terrain screen. Move it around. It will turn
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into an arrow. Click the mouse button when the arrow points in the desired direction. When
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looking, picking locks, etc. (all described below), to select the item to look at (or
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whatever) click on it.</p>
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<p>The border of the terrain screen is also something to click on. When looking, aiming a
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missile, or targeting a spell, clicking on the terrain screen border will shift the view
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of the terrain screen in the appropriate direction.</p>
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<h2>Text Bar</h2>
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<p>This bar contains information about what's going on. When in combat, it tells you who
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is active and how many action points they have remaining. Outdoors or in town, it tells
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you where you are. It also lets you know about certain status effects that affect the
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whole party, which show up as a small icon at the far right of the text bar.</p>
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<h2>Buttons</h2>
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<p>These change depending on your location. What the Outdoor/Town/Combat buttons do is
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described in the relevant sections.</p>
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<div class="figure">
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<img src="../img/pcbtn.gif"></p>
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<p>Figure 2: PC Status Screen Buttons</p>
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<h2>PC Status Screen</h2>
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<p>This lists the characters in your party, and tells you their current health or status.
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There are several things you can click on or find out about here.</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>Character's Name</dt>
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<dd>When not in combat, clicking on a character's name makes that character active. The
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name of the active character appears in italics. The Mage Spells and Priest Spells menus
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list the spells for the active PC.</dd>
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<dt>Health and Spell Points</dt>
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<dd>Click on these numbers to be told the maximum number of health or spell points the
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character can have. Health is shown in red if it's below the max, green if it's at the
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max, or orange if it's above the max (which is usually not possible). Spell points are
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shown in pink if below the max, blue if at the max, or teal if above the max (which again
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is usually not possible). If the character is not alive and present, these numbers are
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replaced with an explanation of what happened to them (such as "Dead" or "Fled").</dd>
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<dt>Trade Places Arrows</dt>
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<dd>To have two characters trade places in the roster, click on the arrow button to the
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right of the first character, and then of the second.</dd>
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<dt>Character Info Button</dt>
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<dd>To see a window giving detailed information about the character's spell, statistics,
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etc., click on the '?' button to the right of the character's name.</dd>
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<dt>Gold/Food/Day</dt>
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<dd>At the bottom of this window, you can see your parties current gold and food totals,
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as well as what day it is.</dd>
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<dt>Help Button</dt>
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<dd>Clicking the button with the '?' gives you help for this area.</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>By each PC's name will occasionally appear a symbols representing that character's
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status. To find out what these mean, click the '?' in the PC status area.</p>
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<h2>PC Inventory Screen</h2>
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<p>This area lists the inventory for the current active character. There are several
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things you can do here:</p>
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<div class="figure">
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<img src="../img/invenbtn.gif"></p>
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<p>Figure 3: Inventory Screen Buttons</p>
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</div>
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<dl>
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<dt>Equip/Remove Item</dt>
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<dd>An equipped item's name appears in italics. To wear an item, click on its name. To
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remove it, click again. Equipped weapons appear in red, armor in green, and everything
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else in blue.</dd>
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<dt>Use Item</dt>
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<dd>Click on the 'U' button to use an item.</dd>
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<dt>Drop Item</dt>
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<dd>To drop an item, click the 'D' button, and then click the space to drop it in (if in
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town) or say you definitely want to drop it (when outdoors). Items dropped outdoors are
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lost forever.</dd>
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<dt>Give Item</dt>
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<dd>To give an item, click the 'G' button, and select a recipient.</dd>
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<dt>Item Info</dt>
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<dd>Click on 'I' for a detailed description of an item.</dd>
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<dt>Identify Item</dt>
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<dd>When you visit a sage, this button will appear. Click it to pay the sage to identify
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the item for you.</dd>
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<dt>Sell Item</dt>
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<dd>When you visit a shop, this button may appear. Click it to sell the item for
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gold.</dd>
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<dt>Enchant Item</dt>
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<dd>Occasionally you may find someone willing to enchant your weapons. When you do, this
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button will appear; click it to pay to enchant.</dd>
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<dt>PC Buttons</dt>
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<dd>Click on the numbered buttons at the bottom of this window to make this character
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active (in town or outdoors) or see this character's inventory (in combat).</dd>
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<dt>'Spec' Button</dt>
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<dd>Clicking this button brings up a list of the special items you've obtained. Most of
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these (such as keys) are used automatically when needed. Others, such as maps, are used by
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clicking the 'U' button to the right.</dd>
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<dt>'Jobs' Button</dt>
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<dd>Clicking this button brings up a list of active quests (the button is called "Jobs"
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instead of "Quests" partly because it's an Exile III relic and partly because "Quests"
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would not fit).</dd>
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<dt>Help Button</dt>
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<dd>As always, clicking the button with the '?' gives help for this area.</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2>Text Screen</h2>
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<p>This area gives you a running account of what's going on. If you miss something, use
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the scroll bar. Sometimes you'll also see this area referred to as the "transcript".</p>
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