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This guide is for the player that has played Cyberspace long enough to get a 
feel for the basic commands and is ready to move into more complex activity. 


    Cyberspace is a game that holds with in itself, massive potential. In
Cyberspace, you become King, ruling your own universe, designing it the way
you want it to look. But the program has yet another application. While Cyber
space is itself a game, you can create other games within it's boundries.

     Have you ever played a text adventure like Zork, or read a find your own
path book? Have you ever played a color quest adventure like King's quest, or 
Ultima? Have you ever wanted to be able to write one for the computer, but you
never have done more than dream about it, because you are not a programmer...
The environment of Cyberspace gives you that ability.

     To begin, all the computer quest games, whether in color with a figure 
that you move around the screen, or strictly in text, all were inspired by
Role Playing Games. For those who do not know what a Role Playing Game is, 
let me explain, for those of you who do, please bear with me. Some under
standing of the mechanics involved in an RPG will help you to develope really
fun adventures.

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                          A general overview of RPG's


     RPG's have their start in your childhood with let's pretend. In fact, they
have been called let's pretend for grownups. Children are much more innocent
with their games than grownups however. They will decide to ride horses, spot 
a bunch of bad guys, jump off the horses, and capture the bad guys. Adults will
argue over every little detail. whether the horse can really run that fast, 
whether they can actually hold on to the horse when it spots a snake and rears,
whether they really do spot the bad guys, whether the bad guys spot them, 
whether the good guy with the lasso was really good enough with it to actually
lasso the bad guy, (get the picture?). So RPG's were born. With a live gaming
group, one of the players is the GAME MASTER. this person decides what the 
world looks like, what certain things do, has the final say on whether what
the players are trying to do will work or not. Dice are rolled to keep the
players from "cheating"  ('I jump the log". "No you don't, you're not that good
at jumping" "yes I am, I can jump anything" "no you can't, you've got a broken
leg" "well it's healed now" and so on). By writing certain information down on
a piece of paper, rolling dice when trying to do something and looking at the 
information of the paper about that action to see if it worked, the players
avoid the bickering.

     Computers have been used in recent years to take the place of the GAME
Master and the dice rolls, and with success. The designer of Ultima is a
millionare, and many RPG computer games continue to flood the market. Until 
now, however, the only one that could determine what the universe looked like
and how it behaved was the programmer. Now, because of Cyberspace, anyone can
do just as good a job of creating a fun and challenging RPG, without the
programming hassles. There are no limits to the amount of quests that can run 
side by side in the same Cyberspace game, except for the amount of space on 
the sysops HD. 

*******
     A note to sysops who are running an RPG in the message base on their board
Because of the nature of Cyberspace, it makes an ideal 3d map of the game. As
the party moves along, they can now go into the map and really explore. The GM
of the game would create rooms and objects in those rooms in response to what
the party was doing. Instead of just posting "you see a large blue orc." the
gm would create a room, create the orc, describe the room and the orc, maybe
some other stuff as well. And then when the party had explored it and posted
their moves, the GM would go back into the game, change the description of the
room to match their posts if needed, create new rooms if needed. The party
would never have to ask again what something looked like, they could go and 
see it for themselves. And if they were lost, the GM could redesign the map
so that they were lost in it. No more arguments.


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                   Designing a Basic Adventure


     This section will discuss the designing of an adventure. It certianly is
not necessary that you even consider designing an adventure, Cyberspace is
fun without it, but if you want to, then read on. If you aren't interested
feel free to just skip on down to the new commands.

   This will be a fantasy adventure, because for some reason, that is what
usually comes to mind when RPG's are discussed, but please remember that the
game is limited only by your imagination. You can create a Cyberpunk universe,
with net runners, or an old west town and Billy the kid. Want to send your
adventures roaming through the galaxy in a starship, searching planets for
the key to the universe? Then go right ahead. This is just a demo, and I do
not want you to limit yourself in any way because of it.

     To begin:

         The first thing you should do is decide what you want the goal of
the adventure to be. On going campaigns are fine around the gaming table, and
they work just as well if you are simply building a world in Cyberspace, always
adding something new for people to find, but a quest adventure needs a goal. In
this demo, we are going to use the very worn out, Rescue the princess scenario.

     Now that we have a goal, we need to decide what we want to rescue the
Princess from. A dragon sounds like a good idea, and we'll throw in a witch 
to help the adventurer. Now how does our hero find out about the Princess in
Peril? We will have her father tell them directly.

     Next we decide where the adventure will start, ok, since her father is 
going to be the one to tell the adventurers about her, the obvious place to
have the adventure start is in a throne room. It is not a good idea to have 
the throne room be the room you access when typing /home however, you might 
want to use it for something else later, so let's /dig one room off of the 
/home room and call it many paths to adventure. This will be the room that 
all the quests we design will branch off from. Next we will /dig the starting
room for the rescue the princess game. Call it throne room.

ROOM 1

   We have decided that there will be a king, so describe the throne room 
and be sure to create a throne, a king, a guard or two, a herald. You can also
create the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the tapestries on the walls...it all
depends on how much detail you want in your universe. The more detail, the
richer your story will be, but don't feel you have to create and describe 
every single item in the room.


     In the discription of the room, mention the furnishings and the people,
but not the missing princess. Put that in the description of the king. In his
description, say something like "the old king looks at you and holds out his 
hands in a plea for help. "Please rescue my daughter," he asks. "She has been
kidnapped by a terrible dragon on the hill".

     Now /dig a room out of the throne room and call it fork in the road. /take
the exit back to the paths to many adventures room. The only way back will be
to complete the quest, or type /home and give up.

ROOM2

     This is the room that the adventurer steps into when he or she leaves the
throne room. It is outside, and here the road forks, one fork running to a 
black tower seen in the distance, the other up a steep hill to a dark cave.

     Describe the area as such, mentioning how long the adventurer has walked
and be sure to say that the castle is no longer in sight. (if you want to get
really fancy, you can create several rooms between the throne room and the fork, the first describing the outside of the castle, and each subsequent room 
describing the journey, with the castle getting further and further away.)
Once in the fork room, create a tower, and a cave, describing both as being
faraway and not very well seen. (Here again, you can create rooms between the
fork in the road and the tower or cave, but for this demo, we are going to 
leave them out).

ROOM 3

     We are going to build the witch's tower next, so /dig the tower room
off of the fork room, we will /dig the dragons cave later. Call it The Witch's
tower, and call the exit from it leave tower. Now describe the inside of the
tower, create an old witch, and several different objects that will lend an air
of magic to her tower, like a black cat, a crystal ball on a table, and such
stuff. It doesn't matter how you describe the rest of the objects, but in the
witches description, she should say something about a magic sword, who's name
is dragons bane. Now for the first trick. /dig a room off this one and give
it exactly the same name. Go into it and describe it exactly the same, put the
exact same objects in it, and call the exit from it leave tower, the same as
the first. Now go back into Room 3 and /rename the exit to the carbon copy the same as the swords name. Then /dark(en) the exit. Next, go back into the copy,
and add to the description of the room, explaining how a brilliant light
flashes and the sword appears. Create the sword, and describe it, and for now, keep it with you, you will need it in a little bit. Then change the /go-ok of
the exit from this room to the index number of the fork in the path room.  This
will have the effect of making the sword appear in mid air, the player will
never know they've moved. Now change the witch's description so that instead of
telling them about the sword, she urges them to go kill the dragon.

ROOM 4

      After you return to the fork in the road room, /dig dragons cave. Then go
to the dragons cave. Describe the room as being a large, roomy, smelly cave,
with a big red dragon in the middle of it. Create the dragon and describe him
as being awake and watching you.

    Now we are going to /dig 4 rooms off of the cave. The first will be called
Attack dragon. Now type /inv =v and get the number of that sword you made. Next
type /key attack dragon = <sword's number>. This will prevent anyone from
attacking the dragon without the sword. Now to make it even better, /dig a second room called death. Describe the room as the person being dead and how 
stupid it is to attack a dragon without a weapon. Now /take the exit so that the only way out is to type /home and start over. Go back to the dragons cave and using one of the new commands, type /key-fail attack dragon = <the number
of the death room>. Now, if they aren't carrying the sword when they attack 
the dragon, instead of just standing there, they will be eaten.

     The next exit is called Talk to dragon. The room that this leads to must
be a carbon copy of the cave room, except that the dragon's description changes
so that he boasts about being invincible to everything except a certain magic
sword, and dares the person to attack him. Now look at your inventory. You have
taken a couple of exits, now is the time to use one. /rename one of then attack
dragon, but instead of /digging a room, you are going to attach this exit to an
existing room. After you rename it attack dragon, type /go-ok attack dragon =
<the number of the room the princess is in> this will allow them to talk to the
dragon and then attack. Now /key this exit to the sword like you did to the
other attack dragon, program it with the same /go-fail as you used on the other
attack dragon exit and /drop it in the room. Now they can talk to the dragon
and then attack him. Next change the /go-ok of the exit from the first cave to
the number of the fork in the path room. Now if they leave, they won't wind up
still looking at the dragon.

     Time for the third exit. The exit is called Give up and the room is called
simply Giving up. Go into the room, /rename the exit Go Home, change the /go-ok
of the exit back to the dragon to room 1, the /home room, and in the 
description say something about people who give up or some such. Go into the
carbon copy cave room now, and either rename an exit in your inventory and change it's /go-ok to match or type  /exit go home = 1.

     And finally, the last exit. /dig a room called fleeing in panic and call
the exit to it run away. Go into fleeing in panic, and describe the players
flight from the dragon cave, and their return to the king. /take the exit. Now dig another room, and describe it exactly the same as the throne room, except
change the kings description. Have him plead or order or cry. But have him
encourage the player to go back and rescue his daughter. /rename the exit from this room to match the only exit from the original throne room and change the /go-ok to the forked path room.

THE FINAL VICTORY ROOMS

   Now go back to the dragons cave and go into the room that will be reached 
if the player attacks the dragon while carrying the sword. /rename it cave and
describe the dead dragon. Also describe a small door that his bulk was hiding. 
/take the exit back to the dead dragon. Now /dig the princesses room, and dig 
another carbon copy room to the king. In this new carbon copy room, have the king ask why the player didn't bring his daughter back, and request that they
do so immediately. Leave the exit from this room alone. Go back to the dead
dragon cave, and go into the princesses room. Take the exit from her room to 
the dead dragon, then /dig a carbon copy of the dead dragons room, change the 
description of the room just slightly to include the princess being with you.
now dig the final room. This is the throne room again, but it is definately 
not a carbon copy. The place is covered in flowers, crowds of people are
shouting praise, the king is knighting the adventurer. Create whatever objects
you want, include the king and the princess. /rename the exit back to the dead
dragon to many paths to adventure, change the /go-ok to the path of many
adventures room and you are done. Now run through it all the way, trying out
everything, look at the exits, add descriptions to them, spruce it up some. 
then have a friend who has never played it run through it without any
instructions from you. If nothing goes wrong for them, you are truly finished
and can now turn you talents to creating a really big quest.

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                                ADVANCED COMMANDS



/GO-FAIL <exit> = <room to go to>

     This command is what allows you to teach players that it isn't a good idea
to fight dragons with their bare hands, or walk into the middle of a shooting 
gallery without armor. To use it, you must do two things, dig a room you want
the players to go to when they have the right obect,(and if you wish, a room
that they get stuck with when they don't have the right object). Then you must
/key the object to the exit. If there is no object keyed to the exit the exit
will just function normally. If you do not want to send them to a different room when they do not have the key, then be sure to set the /go-fail link to the 
room the exit is in.
     
   For example: in one room, you describe a tall cliff. The exit you want to 
key is called jump off and it leads to a room called flying in which you
describe the sensations of flying. However, in your universe, people can't fly 
without help, so you make a pair of wings and /key the jump off exit to not 
work unless the player has the wings in their possession. No problem, but
what you really want is for the player to fall to their death if they don't have the wings. This is where /go-fail comes in. /dig a second room and call it die.
Find out it's index and then go back to the cliff and take the exit from the
cliff to it. Next type /go-fail jump off = <the number of the room die>. Now, 
if someone wants to jump without the wings, they will fall off the cliff.



@SAY commands

     These is are part of /describe. You have been describing objects, but
with this, you can add text that the player does not see unless they walk
through the exit, need a key for an exit that is not keyed, or several 
different permissions. 

@say1
     This is the description that is displayed when the user goes through the exit to its /go-ok link. 


@say2
    This is the description that is displayed when the user goes through the 
exit to it's /go-fail link, regardless of whether that link is to a different
room or to the room the exit is in.


@say3
This will allow you to describe an object that is closed.


@say5

     This allows you to print a message when someone pays the money required on
an exit that has a /price. This message will print out as they go through the
exit...just like a regular @say1 for /go-success.

@say6

     This allows you to print a message when someone refused to pay the money
required on an exit that has a /price. This message will print out, and they
will not be allowed to pass through the exit.

@say7

     This is a very subtle command. This will allow you to print a message to
the screen that a user will ONLY see if they pick up a key that belongs to a
lock that is in the same room. It will NOT print out the message if the key is
elsewhere and is brought into the room with the lock.
 
     One possible use of this command is to make an object, it doesn't matter
what and make another object that is to be it's key. Then have the @say7 be a
clue that the user will never receive unless the key is picked up. The best way
to hide the fact that the key is an object they want to pick up, is to make it
look very ordinary, and have several other objects that are maybe more
interesting in the room.

@say8

     This is a special message that will only print to the user when you have
first set a /random <name> = <chance of success> on an object or exit.  However
this message only prints out when the user fails and the /go-fail is activated.
This can be used to describe the fact that the sword they have should have 
killed the evil wizard, but it hit the table and broke instead...or any other 
message you don't want the user to see unless the /random chance of failure
happens.

EXAMPLE OF @SAY1 AND @SAY2:

/describe tree

1. This is a tree       |  The description that is seen with the look com.
2. @say1                |  The command to use the following text when the
                        |  Following text is used.
3. What do you know!    |  Text that is displayed when the exit is used
4. You can walk into    |
5. a tree!              |


If it required you to use a /key to walk through the tree, you would type
something like this:

1.  This is a tree        | The LOOK description
2. @say1                  | COMMAND: use following text with proper key
3. What do you know!      |     text
4. You can walk into      |     text
5. a tree!                |     text
6. @say2                  | COMMAND: use following text without proper key
7. You can't walk through |     text
8. wood dummy!            |     text

(to finish this correctly, set the /go-fail of the exit "tree" to the room it
is in, so they just stay right there this time, instead of sending them some-
where else.)



/GO-DROP <object> = <room number>

   This is a very useful command, for something, but it has the potential of
confusing people. This will return an object to the room you specify. Let's
assume that you have created a magic wishing well, and to use it, you must 
first have a coin. The actual thing would be set up so that there were two 
identical wishing wells from the same exit, one that said to go get the coin. The exit to the other would be keyed to the coin. Once the player had the 
coin, they would automaticly walk into the well where they could drop the 
coin. At that point, the coin would go away, and the exit out of the room 
would be keyed to the coin. However the /go-fail on the exit would take them 
to a fantastic land, so if they walked in with the coin and did not drop it, 
they would just walk out into the mundane world.


BREAKING LINKS : /XX  = 0

    By entering a 0 in the place where the room index should go, an exit or
object that was once linked to another becomes unlinked. You may not really 
ever need it, but if you make a mistake and link the wrong object as a /key,
or the wrong exit, it will be there to solve the problem. Much better than
/kill(ing) both the object and the exit.


/LIST

     This allows you to see everything you have created in all of Cyberspace. 
It will show you the index numbers of those things, where they are located and
whether they are objects, rooms, or exits...but it will not show you anything 
that belongs to anyone else.          


/LIST = R   /LIST <number>     /LIST <number> = r

    This is the /list command...but with a twist. This command will allow you
to list only your rooms. This makes it possible to do away with notes to your
self. You now can stand anywhere in Cyberspace and even though you don't 
remember the index number of a room, you can still successfully create a 
/go-ok link from one of your objects to one of your rooms.  If you are fairly 
certain of the index number, then by typing   /list <number>  or /list 
<number> = r you can start the list of your rooms at that index number, 
instead of having to start the listing at the very beginning and maybe 
sitting through 15 minutes of rooms to find one near the end of the list.



/ANIMATE <object>


     This is the command that will give the objects in your universe a mind of
their own. It is very simple to use...just type /animate <object name>.
Cyberspace will then ask you to tell it how often the object should be
checked...the more often it is checked (every 15 seconds is the minimum) the
more often it will do something. You will then be given a chance to enter
something for the object to say...this can be something like "Hi, my name is
Joe" or "you see the balloon floating high above you". The last thing you 
will have to decide is whether the object will move or not. If it does, 
remember that it will roam all over Cyberspace, however you can prevent 
animations from walking out of an area or someone elses animation from walking 
into one of your areas by doing this:

First make an object to use as a key for all exits you need to prevent
animations from walking through. Next, /key the exits to the object, and
/go-fail link the exits to the proper room...this will allow people to still 
walk through those exits but prevent the animations from moving through them.
Keep this object and just use it for any more exits you need to lock against
animations.


/LOG

     This will allow you to see where all your animations are and how they are 
moving.


/DLOG

     This is also an animation log, but it is mor detailed. It shows then
index number of the object, the index number of the objects location and
what message the animation has to say, if it has one.




/COST <object>


     This allows you to see how many credits, if any, an object is worth...



/BUY <object>


     This is the command necessary to purchase an item that has a price. The
normal /take will not work on such an item. Since the amount of credits
necessary to purchase the item will be deducted from your inventory 
automaticly, it would be a good idea to count the change in your pocket and 
see if you have enough. If you don't, it would be a good idea to go exploring 
and find a few more.



/CLOSE <name>


     This command will allow you to close an exit or object. This means that 
if you have something hidden in an object, the explorer will have to find a 
way to open it, as the objects inside a closed object do not show when the 
object is looked at.


/OPEN <name>


     This is the command to open closed objects and exits. Of course, if the
exit is keyed, the explorer will still have to have the key to get through it.



/UNVIEW <name>

     This simple spell allows you to totally wipe out the color from the named 
thing. To use it, simply type  /unview <name> and if there is an ansi picture 
attached to the thing named, that picture will go away. Very useful when you
suddenly realize that you have attached the wrong ansi to the thing.


/GIVE <person> = <credits>

   This is mostly useful for teams, when several people are working on an 
area, and someone is broke, but the team doesn't want them to take a break 
and go explore long enough to make money. However, it is not restricted to 
teams. This will subtract the specified number of credits from your 
inventory and add them to the named person's inventory.


/DEBUG 

    Now when you have described an object or an exit, and want to see the
hidden descriptions (such as @Say1 or @say2) simply turn /debug on and then 
look at the item. You will see the entire description.




/EXIT <name> = <room to go to number>

   This command is very useful. Lets say you would like a secret entrance from
a room to an existing room. For example, you are building a castle, and you
have built quite a few rooms. Then you decide you want a secret tunnel. First
you dig out several rooms connected in a line to each other, and then you are
faced with this problem: the rooms you want the tunnel to connect to already 
exist. You can't, therefore, just dig them. With /exit..all you do is find out
the index number of the room you want the exit from the secret tunnel to
connect to and create the exit, linking it to that room. If you then want an
exit from that room to the tunnel, you will have to go into that room, and 
make another exit. Exits can only be made to rooms you have created or that 
have been shared.


/PRICE

There are two uses for this command. The first is /price <exit name> and the
second is /price <object name>.

       /PRICE <exit name> = <credits>

    This allows you to make an exit that requires the user to pay to go 
through this might be a toll bridge, or it might be a choice of things to do, 
such as "bribe guard". If the user does not want to pay the price, they will 
not be allowed through the exit.


        /PRICE <object name> = <credits>


     This allows you to put a price on an object, perhaps just to make the 
fruit seller more realistic, perhaps to add a bit of challenge to acquiring 
the one important key to a quest. The <credits> specified will be the amount 
of credits the explorer must have in order to /buy that item. The credits 
will automaticly be deducted from the explorers inventory.


/APPEAR <name>

    This command allows you to decide whether or not a dark item will appear
when someone enters the room carrying the key to it. Or picks up the key in 
the same room as it. Thus you can create a dark oracle that stays dark, and 
only gives out a certain clue when the user picks up the key...or you can 
create a neat twist to the treasure hunt, by having dark objects in rooms 
suddenly show up.



/RANDOM <name> = <% chance of success>

     This command truly makes it possible to have a programmed fight that 
doesn't always come out the same way, or a door that doesn't always lead to
the same room, or a trap that doesn't always go off. To use the command, 
simply type   
   
/random <name> = (% chance of success>

for example:

     Assume you have an exit that you don't always want someone to succeed in
going through. Perhaps a steep cliff. If you wanted them to fall 25% of the 
time, that would mean you wanted them to succeed 75% of the time. You would
type  /random <name> = 75  and then 25% of the time, they would not succeed.
Next, you attach a /go-fail  room to the exit and then, instead of just not
climbing the cliff, they might fall to their death.



/LIGHT  /DARK   <name>

  These commands allow you to decide whether everyone can see the object you
  have created, or just you <and the WIZARD>. /LIGHT turns the light on,
  /DARK turns the light off.

     One thing that this can be used for is hiding exits. Say you have 
created a maze, and the object is to find the way out. If you just pick up 
the exits and put them in your pocket, there won't be any exits to see, but 
there won;t be any exit to find. It is much better to give the exit an obscure
name, leave riddles or hints on signs and in room descriptions that might lead 
others to eventually guess the exit's name, and then /darken it.



/SHARE

    This allows you to grant others permission to manipulate objects or rooms
that you have created. By using /share with a room, as in /share <room name>
you can dig out the start of a universe, and then sit back and watch it
grow. but /share really becomes powerful when you use it with an item. Let's
say you want to design a quest. The object will be to set an old king free
from the tower dungeon he is locked in. You want them to find a certain key
and bring it back to unlock the door. With out /share, the other people in
the game can not pick up items you have created, but if you type /share
<object name> then anyone can come along and pick them up.  Next, you need to
be able to tell the door to the tower not to let anyone into that room with-
out the object. That is where the next command comes in.


/Key

This command is what makes it possible to send people on a quest for the key 
to let out the old king. By the use of this command, you can convince an exit 
not to let anyone in that is not carrying the proper object. The syntax for 
this command is:

/key <exit name or exit number> = <object number>. 

It is important to remember that if you have two exits named too close to the 
same, that Cyberspace will become confused, so in that case it is best to use 
the exit's index number instead of the exit's name.


/GO-OK <object or exit or room name> = <room number to go to>

     This command gives you the ability really have some fun. This is what
changes the room that the exit points to. Basicly, when you /dig a room and
name an exit, the program thinks,  "if type <XXXXXX> then room = <index
number>. This is important because you can make objects become teleporting
items simply by typing   /go-ok <object name> = <room number>, or fix it so
that the room the person walks out of is not the room he walks back into. For
example, let's saw you are building that tower to rescue the king from and
you want to put a couple of traps into it. On the first level, you build a
normal room, called entrance and /dig a room or two out of it. Now one of
these is going to be a trap, perhaps a pit. First, you go into the trap room
and describe the pit, and then, because you are feeling nasty, you decide
that the only way out of the pit is to start over in room 1.  At this point
you need to change the room the exit from the pit leads to, so you would type
/go-ok <exit> = 1. If you really wanted to be nasty, you could type /go-ok
<exit> = -1. and then they would be dropped in a random room when they walked
through it.

     If you decided you wanted to make an object that was a teleporter, all
you would have to do would be type /go-ok <object> = <room number>. In order
for it to activate, you would then only have to type the objects name.

A funny thing to do with this might be thus. In one room you create a bear.
You describe the bear as a mean, nasty critter. Then you dig three rooms.
The first room is called Bears stomach, the second one is called nothingness
and the third is called run away. The exit to bears stomach is called "attack
bear", the exit to nothingness is called ignore bear, and the exit to run away
is called panic. Now, you /take the only other exit from the place, so that
the person  walking into the bear room must deal with the bear in one of 
those three ways. Then go into the room called bears stomach and describe 
what it's like to be swallowed whole and be inside a bears stomach, /rename 
the exit something like new quest, and change the /go-ok of new quest to room 1. Next return to the room with the bear (here is where an object with the go ok of that rooms number would be really useful, you could just type it's name, 
instead of walking back from room one). Go into the second room, and describe 
what happens when you ignore a bear, and how it feels to be dead. Pick up the 
exit and take it away. The only way they will be able to get out is by typing 
/home. Now for the final room. Go into this room and either dig a new room 
off of it or decide on a previously constructed room. If you dig a new room, 
then take the exit back to the bear. If you decide on a previously constructed 
room, then change the /go-ok of the exit to that room. Then describe how the 
person flees in terror from the bear.
   You might also want to create an exit from the bear room called shoot bear.
then create a gun, key it to that exit and drop it somewhere to be found. In 
that case, you should go into the room that shoot bear leads to and describe
what a good shot the hunter is and create an object called dead bear that the 
victorious person can look at and be proud of themselves for solving the
mystery. You might also suggest that they go drop the gun somewhere in
Cyberspace so that someone else can have the fun of one day finishing the 
quest.


/ROOM <name>

   This is an interesting command that allows you to create a room INSIDE a
room. Like the reference section in the library. Or any other area you would 
like someone to see from inside a room.

Take the closet in  The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis, for example. It was a
magic closet that allowed someone to walk from the earth to the planet of
Narnia. In the story, the child who discovered it was hiding from the others,
and as she pushed toward the back of the closet, the fur coats around her
slowly turned into trees, then she found herself standing in the snow under a
brightly lit lamp post, in the middle of a pine forest. To build it, first you
would /dig a normal room, and then type /room closet. Go into the closet and
type /dig darkness. Go into the darkness and type /dig Narnia. Go into 
Narnia and /dig other rooms in the regular manner. Then go back and describe 
the exits from each of the rooms as fur coats, with an @say1 describing how
the fur is beginning to feel prickly as you go in the direction of Narnia, and
how the prickly pine needles are turning furry as you walk in the direction
of the closet.


/KILL <name>

    This permanently deletes objects in Cyberspace, however it is better for 
the sysops HD if you rename them instead. They cost credits to create, and they
can always be reused. Even the exits you take can be renamed, their go-ok 
links changed and dropped where you need an extra exit instead of creating 
one.



/UPVIEW    /VIEW:

  This is a really neat feature of the game, that unfortunately isn't available
to non-ansi users. But for those of us who have ANSI.sys in the config.sys 
file, it allows you to draw an ansi pic of your rooms, and view any ansi 
pics that others have also drawn. This takes Cyberspace out of the realm of a
text adventure game and gives it more impact. Objects that have /views attached to them will appear as purple lettering in the objects box of the room
description. A room or an object that has a /view attached will also have a 
red /VIEW AVAILABLE indicator on the screen when you type look for the 
description.



/INV:

   This will show you how many credits you have, and what items you are 
carrying around in your pocket. If you walk into a room and one of your objects
has disappeared, best to check your pocket. You might have forgotten to drop
it.



/INFO <name>:

   This will show you certain information that is available on the named thing.
This consits of:

The creator of the object
Who the object belongs to
The current location of the object
What kind of object it is
What permissions the object has


/EXAMINE <name>:

   This is a very detailed list of all the commands and links an object has. 
You can only /examine an object you own, or created, unless you are the 
wizard. /Examine shows:

The name of the object
Whether it is a shadow or not
If it has a trigger or not
Whether it is light or dark
If it set to appear
If there are locks
If it is toll
If it is keyed
If it has a /random command
What the /go-ok link is (if any)
What the fail link is (if any)
What the drop link is (if any)
What the /home room index number of the object is
What the /go-put room link is (if any)
If it is tagged
If it is a vehicle exit



/EXPERT:

   Don't use this unless you are VERY familiar with your universe. It turns 
the descriptions of everything off, even if you look right at them. All you 
ever see are the names of the objects and exits in the rooms and their index 
numbers. It primarily is used if you don't want to have to wait for the screen
to scroll descriptions of the rooms as you walk through them, but should be
definately turned off when you go exploring.


/BOMB

You can now declare an object to be a /BOMB.  When a person encounters
a bomb in Cyberspace it will explode, sending them flying back to the
void and destroying all their shadow objects. Bombs also blow themselves up
at the same time and do NOT blow up in room 1. Setting the bomb as a key to an
object will prevent the bomb from going off if the user is carrying the key.
To make a bomb a regular object again, just type /BOMB <object name> a second
time. Bombs will not explode in the presence of their creator or the wizard
and both of these people can pick up and carry a bomb. Also, bombs can be
placed inside of an object, a 'letter bomb' if you will. Since they are
triggered to explode when the description of the place of object they are in
is displayed, they will sit quietly until someone looks at the item. Bombs
cost 200 credits to make.


/Trap <object name>

This is a special type of bomb. It is NOT a one shot. An object that has been
declared a /TRAP will NOT look any different from a normal object in the
object box and will not go away when it triggers. A person that walks into
an area with a /TRAP in it is sent back to room 1 and all their shadow
objects are destroyed. This can be quite a useful tool, if used correctly,
as a punishment for NOT paying attention to the clues and hints in a game.
/keyed traps do not go off at all. Including an @say1 in the /TRAP's
description will print a message to the screen when the /TRAP goes off.
A /TRAP costs 250 credits.


/ABOMB <object name>
   This bomb costs 500 credits and when it goes off, the person that activated
it will be blown to room 1 and EVERYTHING (except shadow objects) is scattered into random rooms all through Cyberspace. Shadow objects simply vanish.
Objects will NOT be blown into /closed rooms however.

NOTE ON BOMBS:
Bombs and traps will ONLY work in a Cyberspace that does NOT have an active filestransfer area. If the file transfers are active, the sysop should make a
second Cyberspace for the actual Cyberspace game and reserve the main
Cyberspace for his messages, files and online games.



/SEARCH <name>

    This command allows you to search a room for an object or person. With
the tag game it is very necessary to be able to find a dark person, in order
to tag them, as well as leave letter bombs in their area, or perhaps find a
dark object that is part of solving a quest. 

If the object is dark /SEARCH will find it and leave it dark, however if
the object is dark and shared, then /SEARCH will make it light.

Say you have a dark shared master key.  You drop a hint that
the master key might be in the room.  /SEARCH MASTER KEY would turn
up the master key and make it light.  If master key is not shared then
the user will know of it's existance but it will still not be light.


/VEHICLE <name>   /VEXIT <exit name>

These commands allow you to make a vehicle of some sort that can be animated
and will drive around Cyberspace. You can ride in it to other rooms, and when
Cyberspace finally becomes multi-user, if someone else is online with you,
they can ride in the same vehicle at the same time. To make a vehicle, first
you must create a room inside the room in which you are standing with the
/room <name> command. Then type /vehicle <inside room>. This will change the
room into a vehicle. Next go into the vehicle and type /vexit <exit name> to
turn the exit into a vehicle exit that will change locations as the vehicle
moves.


/GO-HOME <name> = <index number of room to go to>

  This command allows you to change the /go-home link on yourself so that
instead of returning to room 1 when the command /home is executed, you can
go to any room you choose. This allows you to make a 'lair' if you want, it
can also be set on one of your objects or animations so that when the sysop
types /recover, that object returns to the room you have designated as home
and not to room 1. This prevents the objects from escaping from areas in
Cyberspace that they are supposed to be locked into.



/GO-PUT <object name> = <Room index #>.
    This command allows you to specify a room that objects will be
teleported to when they are put inside of the object with the /go-put link.
This was originally designed for the sysop to use in shuttleing files around
in Cyberspaces that have file transfer areas, but it is open to everyone to
use. Ingenious apprentices will probably come up with a number of extra uses.


/SHADOW <name>
    This command allows you to flag an object so that it will cast copies
of itself. This means that you can create only one key to an exit or only
one magic sword to kill the dragon with, and not have to go back and recreate
then every time someone goest through your adventure. The shadow objects will
function exactly the same as the original object, but when a shadow object is
dropped, it vanishes. Be sure you /drop the object before you shadow it, or
you won't be able to drop it.

     A shadow object makes an ideal teleporter, because only the person
carrying the object can speak it's name and teleport to it's /go-ok link.


/TRIGGER <name> = <flag>

     You can now declare an animated object to be a /TRIGGER.  The usage is
/TRIGGER <object name> = <Flag>.  This will ÍONLYÍ work on /animate(d)
objects. When an /TRIGGER /ANIMATION enters a room with an on-line
person the person will automatically execute the code contained in the
animated object.  There are three flag conditions.

0 = Animation is not triggered.
1 = Animation is triggered if the user is carrying the key.
2 = Animation is triggered automatically.
3 = Animation is triggered randomly.  (10% Chance)

Triggers are quite powerful.  Remember you can program an object to
have all the properties (except tolls) of an exit.  This means you can
assign an object a /key and a /random field.  So you can have a wandering
monster that when it encounters an adventurer will trigger your code
and teleporting the user to another room based on the /key and /random
flags you have set on the object.

If your /DEBUG is on then you are immune to roving animation triggers
even if you did not create the animation.

*******************************GROUP COMMANDS********************************


Cyberspace is a very big, lonely place. And sometimes it's nice to have 
friends. Group commands allow you to choose a party leader, and form a 
exploration party, or a construction team. The commands for the leader are 
as follows:

/GROUP
   
   This is the command that forms the group. The leader MUST be the one to 
enter it. He or she will be told what the group number is. WRITE THIS DOWN as
there is no way to later find out what it is at this time. The leader must 
also choose a password. Both the group number and the password will be needed
for anyone wanting to join the group in the future.

/GPASS
 
   This is the command that allows the leader to change the password. If you
forget what it was, or get an obnoxious member in your group, you can change
the password (and kick the obnoxious person out)

/DISBAND

     At this time, this is the only way to get rid of someone. It get's rid of
the whole team as well, but the group leader can quickly start another group 
and send private mail to the members he or she want's to keep in the group 
with the new number and the new password.


Regular users/group leader commands


/JOIN <group number>

    This is the command that allows you to join a group. You must know the 
group number and password.



/MEMBERS

    This is a group leader command and shows all members of a team. This will
allow you, as group leader to know who is in your group...



/ABANDON <group number>

    With this command, you quit the group.


One thing to note about groups, is that everything they create and /dig is
shared with the others in the group. When the group is disbanded, or some one
abandons the group, the rooms and objects revert to personal property of the 
creator once again.




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                     Sneaky Tricks and Fun Things to do

COLORS in rooms

     Colors can be added to Cyberspace. One place that you can add color is 
when you have dug a room and are entering the exit name, you can also add 
color in the description of things. To do this, hold the control-p key
combination down, then let them go and type a number or letter from the
following list:


Bright cyan           : 1
dark cyan             : 8
flashing bright cyan  : 9
Flashing dark cyan    : a
Yellow                : 2
Brown                 : b
Flashing yelow        : c
Flashing brown        : d
Bright magenta        : 3
dark magenta          : e
Flashing bright mag.  : f
Dark flashing mag.    : g
dark mag. on Cyan bkg : q
Dark mag. on blue bkg : C
Bright white on blue  : 4
Bright green          : 5
Dark green            : h
Flashing bright green : i
Flashing dark green   : j
Green on red backgrnd : w
Bright red            : 6
Dark red              : k
Flashing bright red   : l
Flashing dark red     : m
Bright blue           : 7
dark blue             : n
Flashing bright blue  : o
Flashing dark blue    : p
Blue on cyan          : y
Blue on brown         : z
Blue on green         : A
Blue on magenta       : B
Black on green        : x
Flashing dark grey    : r
Dark grey             : v
Black on white        : D
Bright white          : s
Flashing bright white : t
Flashing bright grey  : u
bright grey           : 0
The color will last for that line only, or until you change it again, which-
ever comes first.



MOVEMENT HELP

To make movement easier, if you name an exit North, South, East, or West, the first letter will work.

TYPING COMMANDS

Control-a  will allow you to retype the last command.
Control-l  will jump you to a new line
Control-g  will cause a beep


ANIMATION SUGGESTIONS

1.  A host to your universe.

       Create an object named host and describe it as a man or woman. Be
detailed because the more detail you put into something, the more enjoyable
it is for anyone playing, including yourself.
    
       Next, /drop the host, and  /animate it. Set it to animate every 15
seconds, have it say something like "Welcome to " and the name of your area
or "Beware the " horrible creature...
       
       Do not let it move...for this robot, it is necessary that it stay in 
one place.


2. Scary monster

       Create a monster, maybe a vampire or a werewolf... describe it in 
detail and have it animate every 15 or 20 seconds...give it something like 
"GRRRRRRRR!" or "You VILL be mine!"
Now place it in a forboding set of rooms, key the exits out of them (there
should be at least 2 rooms in the set for it to walk back and forth in) to an
object and then /go-fail link those exits to the rooms they would normally go 
to. This will keep your monster in it's haunt.


3.  Traffic

     Create a few rooms linked together with a bunch of shops attached to 
them. /key the exits to the shops (and the exit from the area) and /go-fail 
link the exits to the shops (and the area) so that the animations can not 
leave the 3 or four rooms that will be your main street. Now create 15 or 
20 cars..red car, blue sedan, station wagon...etc.. Describe each car and 
then animate it and set it to move from 15 to 50 seconds...try to not have 
any more than 2 or 3 cars animate at the same rate of speed. Have them say 
things like "screech!" "BEEP BEEP" "whine, clatter, clatter" and other such 
car noises. 


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                             SNEAKY TRICKS

   There are many different sneaky things that can be done with in the
environment of Cyberspace, these two are suggested to get you thinking.

TELEPORT TRAP

   Wouldn't it be nice to zap someone sometimes? Maybe lay a teleport trap? 
This is made possible with the use of the /go-ok =   command. to use it, first
find out the number of the room you want the victim to teleport to. This is 
done by first going to that room and then typing   look = v   . This will show
you the numbers of the room, the numbers of all the exits from the room, and 
the numbers of every item in the room.

   Next go to the room you want to use as a trap. type:

  /go-ok <exit name> = <number of room to teleport to>

Now when ever someone types the exit name to leave the room, they will instead
be standing in the other room, somewhere else in Cyberspace. You can not do 
this to an exit you did not create, but if you can find an area in someone 
elses world where they have granted digging priviledges to all by typing /share,you can lay the trap by /digging the room there.

   It is also possible to make an object a teleport trap by typing:
 
/go-ok <object name> = <room number>, but the object name must be typed by
itself for it to work, not with a command such as look or /describe. It's not
nearly as likely that someone will see an object and type just it's name, but
they HAVE to type the exit's name to use it.



SECRET ENTRANCES AND SECRET ROOMS

   This will allow you to create a room that can not be easily gotten into.
First /dig the room as normal, go inside and find out the number of the room,
then go back out and:

/take the exit that leads into it!

Now there is no way in. Next create an object and type /go-ok = <secret room
number>. Now there is a way in...by typing the name of the object. You can
create a castle, and cover it with secret rooms, then create objects scattered
around the castle, or the rest of your world that is the only way into those
rooms.

  You can also use the same thing to create an object linked to a safe room 
that you carry with you. If you ever get into a really tight spot, all you 
have to do is say the name of the item and you will be in the safe spot.




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   A final word: remember, you can not create such a bad warping of
   Cyberspace that you can not fix it. If you suddenly find that
   you have rooms pointing to the wrong places, and no exits in others,
   type /home, and take a breath, then walk into the first room and see what
   needs to be fixed there. Do the same with all the rest. It would be a
   good idea if you were to look = v at each room as you created it and 
   write the index number down. That way, if you ever find you can not get
   back into one of your rooms, you can create an object and give it a
  /go-ok link to that room.

                          


Cyberspace is a huge place and no piece of written work could hope to cover 
all the possibilities. It is my hope that the suggestions in this volume will 
spark your imagination in a way that no ordinary game can, and will allow you 
the pleasure of rediscovering creative thinking, dulled in so many of us by 
that nefarious box in the living room. Remember, the sky's the limit (or the 
space on your drive)

                                                      Crystal Wizard
       
                                              Sysop of Territory Headquarters

                                                  WWIVnet address 1@5296
                                                         
                                                
                                                      
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