Message 2386 : A BN newbie guide II (Spined)
Written on Sun Jun 22 02:09:11 1997

F- CLASSES
G- USE OF SPELLS
H- SPELLS AND LIMITS
I- HISTORY

F- CLASSES ----------
Dont play a BN who dont have wisdom enough to practice BOB, wis 13
newbiestat as MU, wis 12 newbiestat as thief or warrior. A MU can
practice bob at level 12, a warrior at level 15 and a thief at level
20. 

Dont play a cleric who cant fireball, int 19 as newbie if you dont
have extremly good stats. If you as cleric want two offensive spells
and store you will not afford dodge, track and sneak.

A magicuser need wis 16 newbie for sanct. I dont have it. You can
live without it but its very nice to have not only when pkilling. 
Some supermobs need a sancted buffer. 

G- USE OF SPELLS ----------
First spells to learn are invisibility, create food, create light and
armour. Later you decay what you dont need. 

When you learned about backfire and DEPRESSION you might think its a
good idea to learn 5-15 mana spells to at least 31% and 20-100 mana spells
to at least 51%. You get depressed when you die and when you backfire. Your
maxmana is lowered and your wilpower. Type 'help backfire'.

TELEPORT only works in evil zone and in the zones where Saurons darkness
prevail. Type 'map darkness' and you see darkness and evil zones, '-' on map.

SUMMON is nice to have to 71% and summon a horse or a fellow BN who just
have prayed. Its alot of fun to summon and kill/charm warhorses.

DARKNESS can really save other player, tport to a troll out in nowhere just
before day, cast darkness at a trap if orcs/trolls are around. This spell is
very hard to afford to prac though.

You can only learn CURE SERIOUS to about 55%. You will backfire alot.

When you TELEPORT you make the one who tracks you lose the track. 

PORTAL is extremly handy if you support a group.

If you dont like when whities use CALL LIGHTNING then learn it yourself.
They will start to spam 'better weather'.

H- SPELLS AND LIMITS ----------
This changes all the time.

Cleric master do NOT teach:
heal, harm, hold, break door, fear, black breath, word of recall, cure light,
detect evil, bless, protection from evil, curse, divination, dispel evil, 
transfer, raise dead.

MU master do NOT teach:
colour spray, silence, find the path, control weather (orc can practice
control weather and we can practice call lightning).

Max % on some spells:
bob 91, sanct 91, blid 97, summon 77, cure serious 56 (my cleric).
enchant 80, charm 80, id/store/offensive damage spells 102.

H- HISTORY ----------
We had permanent nightvision, 200+ mp and we could buy food at Bree grocer.
Despite this life sucked real hard as no legend. We was hunted down like
dogs with old locate life, find the path and teleport with no jetlag. Later
we could do about the same except for ftp. Many newbies got stuck s.w. of
Bree when they prayd to Path around a hill. Butcher corpse was not 
implemeted. Return after crash was not Hidden Island but your last save. Alot
of levels was lost because of unlucky saves.

The orc cave that time at Abandonded Tower was not a good xp area. BNs had
to follow an orc and drop link to get inside, not considered as abuse. The
Golden days to xp was when orc cave northeast of Rivendell was opened. You 
had to learn that cave trolls and demon wolfs are citizens there and where
the orc assassin wanders. Blasted Furnace accepted receipts from BNs and
troll players, orc mended and gave us receipt. But life should not be to 
easy so now we are not welcome there any more.

Hardened rangers was created to whack those of us who picked on low and
midlevels on Road to Fornost down to Tharbad.

The very first orc cave, before we was created, was at Nen-in-sul. To hear
a narrate 'elf at old orc cave' is rather confusing, Nen-in-sul cave/AT cave/
orc cave east of Rivendell (built before Rehorn Cave)/Redhorn Cave (can be
considered as a moved AT cave), which one is it?

Good luck!

-Spined


Message 2500 : Re: A BN newbie guide II (Spined)
Written on Sat Dec  6 18:21:31 1997

I will update the Guide when mume7 is implemented. There are some errors
and changes (posted in news by the Gods).

- dont try to enter Orc Cave, alot of orc mobs are agg to BN now, i almost
  died when i went down from Slag Pit and officer hit me, fleeing btw
  slave master and him
- Eoghha teach envenom
- Tortyre master in Redhorn Cave and the beast down from him are BN agg
 ...orc slave agg to
- we can learn silence

-Spined