Darbonne, a multi-user dungeon (MUD) game is a Mordor-based role playing game.  It incorporates many of the Tolkien lands  and characters. Its MORDOR MUD code is the backbone for such games as Isengard, Oceancrest, Moosengard, Atlas, Chaos, Castlenet, Lands of Stone...

DARBONNE, THE FLOATING CITY

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Tips for Solving Quests and Finding New Items/Places

Exploration and solving quests is a rewarding experience for most players.  To be successful at this, consider the following guidelines:

1. Understand how to talk interactively with a monster.  Not all monsters speak interactively, but you should always try.  For example:

talk mage (alternative is "ask [monster]" )
The healer mage says to you, "you look to be in need of my spells. I can heal almost anything."
ask mage heal
The healer mage says to you, "that's my specialty."
The healer mage casts a heal spell on you.

** look for keywords in the monsters response after talking to it, then look for keywords to ask the monster for interactive chat.  Not all monsters talk interactively.

2. When mapping out new areas, walk around invisible (find the pickpocket near the pawn-shop, and kill it.  It drops invisibility potions...

3. Always carry a white hazy potion (use hazy   puts you on the cloud of life)

4. When exploring, try as often as you can to type: search  (to find hidden objects, monsters, or exits)

5. When exploring, have the following spells cast on you: detect-invisible, levitate.
Many things are invisible, and many rooms have traps in them.

6. Read the room descriptions and use common sense.  Sometimes, the rooms tell you the answer to an important question, or give the name of an exit otherwise impossible to find.

7. Try to group.  Exploring is three times more effective with a group partner.

*Some* Early Quests:
1. Find your training area.
2. Find the rainbow.
3. Explore Alith's Temple, where there you can learn the history of Darbonne.
Ideally, experienced players will not give you all the answers (but will give you some of them), and instead  will help point you in the right direction; hopefully you will enjoy the game more that way.

*Some* Intermediate Quests:
1. Assist Alith's Temple with their spells-predicament.
2. Find some of the witches.
3. Acquire the spells essential to becoming effective in the game.
4. Solve the Barracuda Quest to get an important item to bring to Anglessey

*Some* Advanced Quests:
1. Solve Loki's Climb (hint: ask the waif)
2. Help the Greenwood Elder (hint: city leaders will also be of help)
3. Solve the Island of Anglessey quest. 
4. Find the dark parchments
5. Solve the runes quest 

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Darbonne is a multi-user-dungeon game, commonly known on the internet as a mud.