Three He made and gave them to His daughters,
Beautiful nymphs, the goddesses of the waters.
One to bring good luck and simple feats of wonder,
Two to wash the lands and churn the waves asunder,
Three to rule the world and purge the skies with thunder.
In those times great wizards were known and their powers were beyond belief. They could take any object from thin air, and, uttering the word `su' could disappear.
In those times men were known for their lust for gold and desire to wear fine weapons. Swords and coats of mail were fashioned that could withstand a laser blast.
But when the darkness fell, the rightful reigns were toppled. Swords and helms and heads of state went rolling across the grass. The entire fleet of battlestars was reduced to a single ship.
take --- take an object
drop --- drop an object
wear --- wear an object you are holding
draw --- carry an object you are wearing
put on --- take an object and wear it
take off -- draw an object and drop it
throw <object> <direction>
! <shell esc>
>-: take watermelon
watermelon:
Taken.
>-: eat
watermelon:
Eaten.
>-: take knife and sword and apple, drop all
knife:
Taken.
broadsword:
Taken.
apple:
Taken.
knife:
Dropped.
broadsword:
Dropped.
apple:
Dropped.
>-: get
knife:
Taken.
Notice that the "shadow" of the next word stays around if you want to take advantage of it. That is, saying "take knife" and then "drop" will drop the knife you just took.
.Bstar
in your home directory by default.
You can recover a saved game by using the
-r
option when you start up the
game, or by giving the name of the saved file as an argument.
Save files will be saved to and restored from your home directory unless a
path is specified - i.e.,
``
battlestar
-r
savedgame
''
will look for
savedgame
in your home directory, but
``
battlestar
-r
./savedgame
''
will look in the current directory.
``
battlestar
-r
''
will look for the default file,
.Bstar
in your home directory.