UrW (Unreal World) Let's play - 6) Theodgorn enter the cave

Hello and today we're going to do something a little different. We're going to play with an old version of unreal world. This is the first version that was released, back in 1992.

You have to run this randomising program before you can run it, or you'll be playing the same world you played in last time. It's pretty cool. It says it takes 2.5 minutes, and it must have on older computers, but on modern computers it's pretty fast actually.

We're going to make a character, a human hunter. We'll be a boy. What name shall we pick? Theodgorn, okay. Our choices are 1 out of 1. Pretty limited. Our starting stats, no idea if they're good or bad. Now we enter into Ankhyrnia.

"You're about to where sense isn't centre. Caves full of enemies proofing evils sentences to keep strangers away from caves of doom... Where easy succeeding will not loom...

"Few brave guys created a village to place called `Caves of Doom` nearby gruesome Tower and Dark Caves. You`re one of the villagers...

"Rest of villagers are harmless shopkeepers and officers and you're dare-devil adventurer. You have decided to find out what is in that Tower nearby your village..." (oh dear).

"It is said that you'll need three keys to get in to the Tower, and those keys are in Caves of Doom. It's up to you to pass tens of levels in caves to get 'em.

"There is several monsters in caves, angry and peaceful. There is also ancient magical items, weapons, armours and even vagrant shopkeepers and other humans...

"With good luck and skills you can solve quest of the Doom-Tower. Villagers are ready to sell you their goods, and its good to check out your home too. Good Luck!"

All right. So I guess we're the smiley face. We go into our home. In our home we have a bunch of stuff, so we'll pick it up. Throwing spear, small shield, short sword, dagger, helmet, armour. We put the helmet and armour on. Our title is Stranger in the Strangeland.

Let's go into this artisanal/general shop. Sometimes you can steal items so it's worth trying to pick stuff up. Sometimes it lets you if the shopkeeper's not looking. But if he looks he says yeah you have to pay all this money that we don't have.

You jump down from the table. What a pity there isn't a creature under you. You can actually jump off tables onto monsters and that's a way to attack. Even back in the beginning, unreal world was something special, you know? All this detail.

This appears to be a weapons shop. I want a bow. I don't want to pay for the bow! We don't have enough gold. I want to steal the bow because we don't have enough money and we really want a bow. Here's another bow. Pick that up? Even that one's too expensive. Can you hear my cat? He's being noisy, meowing very plaintively.

Go away little shopkeeper, I want to steal this bow. Let's see if we can sell all these weapons that I won't be using because I want to use my bow. 5 gold pieces. 8 gold pieces. This is not a very good get rich quick scheme. Well now we have 54 gold. And now we can steal the long bow! after we've discarded all of our other weapons. Whatever.

You are entering to cave. Oh there’s an apple. hi apple. i pick up the apple. Let's wander around. i like to explore each level before going on to the next because generally the levels get harder as you go down in roguelikes, dungeon crawls and stuff.

ooh what are you? let's examine you and find out! you are a horsey! okay. you can ride horses in this game. that's a functionality that was removed between then and now. where did the horse go? there you are. okay, let's try to ride this thing. he doesn't let me. try again! he still doesn't let me. all right, oh yeah i know what to do. you have to tie the horse. and then you untie it. and after that it becomes your friend. see now it's very friendly and it lets me ride him. now instead of being a smiley face, i'm a err, i don't know what i am.

these green colons are nasty. they shoot gas at you and it can poison you. so now i have to get down off the horse if i want to pick up my arrows. i don't know if there's any advantage to riding the horse actually but hey it's a horse let's ride it. we can't do that in 3.16 so let's do it in version 1.00b. Now i pick up some stuffs and get back on the horse. This is pretty cool.

Those red things are curtains. It seems riding a horse is more annoying that not. The two exclamation points are a bed. They had funny characters back then. Let's open this door. Some money. and furniture of some sort. of course i can't pick up the money while i'm riding the horse so i have to get down and then i get back up again. reminds me of that Chumbawumba song. Got that stuck in your head now i haven't i? you're welcome.

and now there's another green colon let's see what it's actually called. it's a gruechon or something. I don't even know how to pronounce it. let's throw arrows at it until it dies. get off the horse. try to eat the corpse. get back on the horse. now we're going north. there's some more furniture and a potion of some sort and an arrow. a violet potion, and it's a sai. well, it looked like an arrow. i guess they use the same icon for all the weapons. back onto the horse.

just explore a bit more. you can't go diagonally. it's annoying. but if you find a pick axe you can make holes in the walls. there's a Guechon. We're not hungry enough to eat these things so we'll leave them. Pick up the tin because there might be something in it. Ride the horse.

look at the watch. it's 13:19. I don't know what that means in this context or what day it is but it's 13:19. not where i live, but yeah. Okay. it seems there should be some more rooms to the east but i can't see how to to get to them so we're going down. open the door and down.

Wanna enter down? Yes I do I want to enter down. open door. come on. door resisted. that happens sometimes. looking at commands it says there's a command Alt + direction to move to direction until something interesting is found but it's not working so i'm just having to hit the arrow keys instead. keep exploring. looking around. shoot some arrows at the bats. the bats suck your blood in this game.

dismount. again. pick up some gold. try to eat the bat, or bakbak as it's called. ride the horse and we're off. i'm a little bit hungry it says but my hunger bar is only at 1 and that's not enough to eat. there's another smiley face. it's a thunder warrior, but it's not fighting me. it'll tell you if it's fighting you, but it's not. but something else is fighting me. it's a letter g. this g semes to change colours. there's the thundermore. it's shooting light bolts at me.

and we're down to 1 hit point. that's bad. discretion is better part of valour. it's chasing me. it's shooting me. oh noes. i go up and it wont follow me. one of the reasons i chose hunter is if you go to a forest, you can medicate yourself with herbs. so we're going to do that now. go to a forest. have to be careful because outside there are landslides sometimes.

medicate self with special hunter abilities. won't let me because i'm riding horse. why can't i put medicine on while riding horse? i dismount. hope horse doesn't run away. medicate self. now i ride the horse again. you can't zoom in on these trees. not like modern version of unreal world. go down. shoot at the gordon.

now we're levelled up! level 2! before we were stranger in strange land and now we are amateur hunter. i collect these arrows because you have a limited amount of arrows. each character starts with 30. i pick up his items. accidentally wield the corn staff. i take it off. try to wear these armours in case i can but i already have stuff in those item slots, so back on the horse.

there's a bat thing. it's gonna bite me. it spills my blood. oh noes. it's spilling my bloods. down to 4 this is serious. and now it won't let me shoot arrows at it. because i have my long bow in my 2nd weapon for some reason. it switched hands on me. let's try this crossbow we got from the gordon. the arrows disappeared or broke and we're not hungry enough.

we're pretty injured but we'll explore a little more. famous last words. nah we'll be okay. you feel yourself weak, you feel pain it tells me. so how do i wait? i want to wait around a little bit. capital R to wait. I wait around a bit till i'm feeling healthy again. I feel myself strong and healthy. but i'm feeling weak because i waited all that time and then i got really hungry, so i eat the bat or whatever it was and now i get back on the horse. wander around some more. there's another Gordor, those are dangerous. attack it and attack. see it's good we healed up before we explored further. off the horse. pick up everything. wield shield by mistake. pick up some stuffs.

there's a chest or something. i got a dirty cloak. put something in but i dont have anything by my feet so it doesn't put anything in. next to me there is some water. There is Water, Sea, Lake or River here. That is very informative. This is a really sweet game. It's cute.

Let's explore a little more. There's an alter and you can pray for various things but the help doesn't seem to be working. it keeps skipping bits. so i have to draw. see how do i undo what i'm drawing? i know what the figure is supposed to look like but i can't get there frmo here. this doesn't look like anything. this is not the figure ofr justice. let's start over. yeah, i know it's wrong. try again.

Justice is the only thing it shows in full. There's 4 on the bottom and there's a left thing and a right thing. it feels like i'm starting in the middle. I should have made four. yeah wrong figure, i know. one more try. let's try this drawing stuff some more. i'm going to be very careful this time. oh for pity's sake. yeah i know wrong figure. i messed up. I am not good at drawing like this. okay. okay Justice and then virtues. I think there is a help file somewhere that is not in this format. So tar, tar is what i want to pray for. yes. i think. okay we are going to do it right this time. there we go we drew it. look at us. see it's off centre, but it's correct. maybe it has to be written as TAR. because that's too increase and it's wrong. you know what. i give up. we've wasted too much time on this.

here's a thunder warrior. Glory O thunder, believe me. well are you angry? no? he's just talking to us. well down we go. there's a white d, in ADOM That would be a dog. that is a wild dog, okay. and there's a Bakbak I think, a bat basically. it tries to peck me. are you a bat or are you a bird or what? The dog is attacking me too. all right everybody is gone so i get down, i pick up stuffs and try to eat but not hungry. pick up arrow, pick up other arrow. back on horse.

how do I save? This has gone on long enough i think for now. Just trying to save, guys. Try again, read slower this time. Okay, capital Q. let's do that. saving good. now how do i quit dosemu? exit? no? quit? no? shutdown? no? wtf? you know what i'll just kill it. okay bye.