Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School: Adventuring 101, Quest for Glory

so THAT'S what the second image is.

As someone who loves to see the differences between different versions of games, I'd love to see both versions in action.

Damn it people, quit living in the past!

Isn't that the entire point of retro LPs?

Once you hit sixteen colours, you've gone too far.

First class watch this short introductory video on the class and all the people who worked hard to make Adventuring a reality for you and thousands of others:



For the curious these are the different starting statistics for the three different classes.

Fighter:



Magic User:



Thief:



Brand new adventurers get 50 points to distribute (5 points at a time) amongst the various skills. The hero of Spielberg was a magic using thief and had studied extra hard in order to get magic (I sunk our hero's points into magic, stealth, lockpick, luck, intelligence and of course magic) Don't worry about not sinking points into a skill we can raise it at any point in the game by practicing it. Except for skills you have a zero in.

Oh? What was that? What was the hero of Spielberg's name? Uh, the stories aren't too clear on that but our oldest and most trusted sources say his name was:



Yup, his name was Garcon Perseii Jackson Danar Seepgood (this way almost everyone is happy, right? Right?)

Okay, okay now open your textbooks to page 1 we'll start with the heroes entry into Spielberg:

Okay let's stop here and review a basic adventurer's tool kit, shall we? Before an adventurer even starts adventuring he has several skills and abilities that you'll want to get the hang of before you rush out there and get eaten by a cheetaur:



These right here will give you basic commands and information about the game



These are probably your most important tools. With these an adventurer can remember with perfect clarity his current state and then return to it if s/he ever needs to. Why is this important? Well because dummy if that saurus I mentioned gets ahold of you this is your only chance to not end up dino poop!



An adventurer can also slow and speed up time to some degree as well as control how acute his hearing is



These are the most basic of skills a hero can use, that third one being especially important!



Lastly, we have your sack of goods, your ability to see just how great a hero you are, your innate ability to tell what time it is, and some other useul tasks. Please be aware that you will not be able to pass this correspondence course and become a licensed adventurer without knowing this material backwards and forwards pupils! Okay let's resume



With his introduction to the town of Spielburg and its Sheriff over the hero explored the rest of the town:





Being a magic user himself our hero went right inside:



Shows what she knows!

Well, that was nice of her to tell us! Let's buy one of those scrolls, but which one is the most useful? Or rather which one is the cheapest? How much money did the hero start off with anyway?



If I recall correctly there are 10 silvers to a gold, Garcon picked up the open spell:



After reading the scroll arcane images and symbols were seared into the hero's mind and the scroll crumbled.
Seeing as he was now too poor for anything else the hero continued searching Spielberg, his next stop? The Adventurers' Guild:



Now class do you know what the Hero of Spielberg did first? Of course you do! It's what all adventurer's do everytime they enter a new guild!





Let's hope one day all of you have such nice penmanship... The hero took in all the sights the Guild Hall offered:

man, this brings a tear to my eye.

The hero knowing that Guild Masters are a wealth of information inquired of the gentleman by the fire:

It certainly did look like Spielberg needed a hero, it had a ton of problems! Persii was up for the task though! But before he could embark he still had the rest of the town to discover:









Next, was the general store for basic goods!

Okay, only one place left in this part of town:

I guess we know why the butchershop and bakery are closed. I'm going to guess that sad sack at the bar is the barber?



Friendly... The hero notes in his journal that the bar in Spielberg reminded him of a "Den of thieves" which of course gave him a brilliant idea, adventurers who wish to enter the burgle business pay attention!



[qoute]show thief sign[/quote]



He of course didn't know it at the time, but he did know he had located the local thieves guild. As he was walking out the door he noticed a small crumpled paper by one of the empty stools:



With that he left the bar and headed to the Inn next to the Sheriff station:



The hero took a few minutes to sit down, relax, meet the Katta's wife, eat some food and get to the know the two strange creatures and found out that one of their old friends was in town:



Good to know. With that though Jackson headed out into the country:



Next time Chapter Two: Exploring the wilderness, completing quests, and making money the quick and easy way!

The score bar indicates you did this out of order. What's with that?

Also, order the dragon ale

I'm not taking questions at this time!

I kind of jumped around in Spielberg as the game came back to me but it makes more sense to present each area separately without bouncing back and forth between them.

Ah, got it. I was trying to track what gave you points (you start the game with 1 point?) and quickly came to the conclusion that screw it.

sorry about that! I can put up a points sheet later. If people really want to see one.

I am disappointed in everyone who voted for EGA. If only I got here sooner...

Don't go through the trouble on my account! If I get really curious, I'll just replay the game. Or heck look it up if I'm feeling BORING.

Flirt with the fruit seller!

Dude, she's horse from the waist down.

I had the same thought

She could be donkey, ready to be tapped!

I imagine there's some sort of centaur pecking order, and donkeytaurs rank pretty low (but still slightly above muletaurs).

Running low on funds. Go smack some goblins around for loose change.

Kill things and take their stuff!

Thats what adventuring is all about

I squirt my lunch through my nose. Thanks a LOT, you soppy dog owner, you.

But you do aim to please!

OK, it's obvious we need more money. What's the easiest way we can get some?

By the far the easiest way is to redistribute some of the more well off members of Spielberg's wealth to myself.

Adventurer's tax them into poverty, it is the only honorable thing to do.

Garcon Perseii Jackson Danar Seepgood? Holy crap, that's 37 characters including the spaces. You were lucky if you got six to eight spaces to name your character in most (console and handheld) RPGs. O.O

Anyway, I support anything that involves stealing or losing from epic failure at stealing.

Yes do this, I never played as the thief back in the day, so I want to see what kind of nonsense you can get in to.