⚔️ The Waiting Game - Player Guide

Your first 5 minutes:

1. (Multi-Character Players) Use chars to select your active character
2. Talk to the Guide: talk guide → Get your first gold!
3. Check your stats: stats → See your character
4. Visit the Terminal: terminal → Unlock with your gold
5. Create your bot: namebot <name> → Name your bot
6. Explore options: terminal → Deploy or prepare

Stamina is your LIFELINE. Manage it or you will die.

What Costs Stamina:

• Movement: -2 stamina per room
• Combat: -1 stamina per turn
• Events: -1 stamina per chest/corpse

How to Restore Stamina:

• Bread: Restores 20 stamina. Use eat bread or just eat
• Portal/Scroll: Return to Limbo for full restore
• Rest: rest in Limbo Hub (30 gold, full restore)

Stamina Penalties:

Stamina Level	Penalties
50 (Yellow)	-20% attack, -25% agility
25 (Orange)	-35% attack, -50% agility
0 (Critical)	-50% attack, -75% agility, -20% defense, 1% HP drain per step

Survival Strategy:

1. ALWAYS carry 10+ bread before entering dungeon
2. Monitor stamina constantly
3. At 50 stamina: Eat bread immediately
4. At 25 stamina: Consider returning to Limbo
5. At 0 stamina: Get food or escape NOW!

Limbo Hub (Center)

• Guide of Limbo: Talk for first gold (talk guide)
• Bot Terminal: Train bot, farm gold (terminal)
• Portal: Enter dungeon (enter dungeon or ed)
• Inn: Rest to restore HP & Stamina (rest - 30 gold)

Market Room (North)

• Merchant: Shop interface (shop)
• Buy potions, scrolls (buy <#>)
• Sell loot for gold (sell all)

Bank Hall (South)

• Banker Spirit: Manage accounts (bank)
• Deposit/withdraw gold (bda / bwa)
• Buy Prestige levels (prestige levelup)

Other Locations:

• East - Karma Sanctum: Karma shops
• West - Hall of Chronicles: Leaderboards & achievements
• Up - Arena Lobby: Arena & guilds

Starting Combat:

• attack <monster> - Begin fighting
• Combat is automatic once started

During Combat:

• pot - Use Health Potion (33% heal)
• gpot - Use Greater Health Potion (66% heal)
• spot - Use Superior Health Potion (99% heal)
• run or flee - Escape (based on Agility)

Monster Types:

• Normal: Standard threats
• Elite: Rarer, stronger (run if unprepared!)
• Miniboss: Guard important loot
• Boss: End of floor, required to unlock next floor

Rewards:

• XP: Experience (increases your level)
• Loot: Equipment drops (sell or equip)
• Karma: Alignment (only source!)

Safe bot simulation with no real death risk!

Basic Commands:

• terminal - Access bot interface
• deploy <floor> - Send bot to fight (costs 5 bread)
• botinfo - Check bot stats
• upgradebot - Upgrade bot stats

Bread System:

• Bread fuels bot missions
• claim - Get 1 bread every 5 minutes
• No inventory limit - earn and spend freely!

Strategy:

• Use bread first (it's free!)
• Deploy with retry for extra runs using gold
• Bread regenerates every 5 minutes, gold doesn't
• Farm gold safely while building prestige

Equipment Slots (10 total):

• weapon (1), offhand (2), armor (3)
• head (4), hands (5), feet (6)
• ring1 (7), ring2 (8), amulet (9), cloak (10)

Rarity Tiers (weakest to strongest):

• Gray - Common
• Green - Uncommon
• Blue - Rare
• Purple - Epic
• Orange - Legendary

Equipping Gear:

• equip # - Equip item by inventory number
• equip <item name> - Equip by name
• eqbest - Auto-equip best items
• inventory or inv - See what you have
• equipment or eq - See what's equipped

Unequipping Gear:

• unequip <slot> - e.g., unequip weapon or unequip head
• unequip # - e.g., unequip 4 (head slot)
• unequip <item name> - e.g., unequip iron sword
• unequip all - Remove all equipped items

Selling Gear:

• sell all - Sell all unequipped items
• Gold from sales funds prestige!
• Good strategy: Sell low-rarity items frequently

⚠️ Status effects are currently dungeon-only!

🔥 Burn (Fire Damage Over Time)

• Lasts until extinguished with roll command
• 5% max HP damage per tick
• roll has 35% success chance, costs 1 stamina

❄️ Freeze (Immobilized)

• Cannot act, move, or dodge (agility/dodge = 0)
• Lasts 10 turns OR until hit (whichever comes first)
• Being attacked breaks freeze and deals 2x damage

⚡ Stun (Paralyzed)

• Cannot act, move, or dodge
• Lasts 5 turns (no break on hit like freeze)
• Target is completely helpless

☠️ Poison (Damage Over Time)

• Tier I: 20 turns, 2% max HP per tick (40% total)
• Tier II: 50 turns, 2% max HP per tick (100% total)
• Tier III: Continuous until cured, 2% max HP per tick
• Reapplying poison has 15% chance to escalate tier
• use antidote or ant - Cure poison (300g from shop)

When you die in the dungeon:

You LOSE:

• ✗ Level and all XP (reset to Level 0)
• ✗ All equipped items (destroyed forever)
• ✗ 50% of gold in hand
• ✗ All stat allocations (re-allocate at respawn)

You KEEP:

• ✓ Prestige levels (permanent stat points!)
• ✓ 100% of banked gold (in Bank Hall)
• ✓ Knowledge & experience (you learned the dungeon)

Strategy:

• Bank your gold regularly
• Prestige is your permanent progression
• Each prestige level gives permanent stat boosts
• Use prestige to fund future runs

Banking System:

• bank - Access your bank account
• bda - Deposit all gold
• bwa <amount> - Withdraw gold
• Safe storage of your wealth

Prestige System:

• Permanent stat boosts that persist through death
• prestige levelup - Buy prestige level (costs gold in Bank Hall)
• Each level gives permanent stat increases
• Required to progress to higher floors

Passive Income (Allowance):

• Earn gold per hour from prestige, arena rank, guilds, titles
• Check with stats command
• Accumulates while you're offline

Character Management:

• chars - View and switch between your characters
• stats - View character stats
• inventory or inv - View items
• equipment or eq - View equipped gear
• equip # - Equip item by number
• equip <item name> - Equip by name
• unequip <slot> - Unequip by slot (e.g., unequip head)
• unequip # - Unequip by slot number (e.g., unequip 4)
• unequip all - Remove all equipped items
• eqbest - Auto-equip best items
• look <character> - Inspect other players' stats and equipment

Dungeon Commands:

• enter dungeon or ed - Begin exploration
• attack <monster> - Start combat
• run or flee - Escape from combat
• pot, gpot, spot - Use potions
• roll - Extinguish burn (35% success, costs 1 stamina)
• portal - Return to Limbo (at entrance, FREE)
• use scroll - Teleport to Limbo (works anywhere, 1000g)

Shop & Banking:

• shop - View shop interface
• buy <#> [qty] - Purchase items
• sell all - Sell unequipped items
• bank - Access bank account
• bda - Deposit all gold
• bwa <amount> - Withdraw gold

Bot System:

• terminal - Access bot interface
• deploy <floor> - Send bot on mission (costs 5 bread)
• botinfo - Check bot stats
• upgradebot - Upgrade bot stats
• claim - Claim generated bread

Communication:

• say <message> - Speak to everyone in the room
• guild say <message> or gsay <message> - Speak to guild members
• emote <action> or :<action> - Perform an action (e.g., :smiles)
• pose <action> - Similar to emote

Information:

• guide - In-game guide (detailed version)
• help - General game help
• hint - Contextual guidance
• leaderboard - View rankings