Pocket Guide to Hell - Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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1. e eere ener 18 Minor Demon s Guide to the Armor of Hell ee eene 21 Layer CR ATO AT f a GETTING STARTED About This Manual This manual was written for IBM or IBM compatible computers If you re using another type of computer some commands and features described in this manual may be different or unavailable on your computer system If you re using any computer other than an IBM or IBM compatible computer please read the Command Summary Card for information specific to your computer Hardware Requirements To play Escape From Hell you need an IBM compatible or Tandy personal computer with e a minimum of 512K random access memory 640K if using MCGA graphics or a Tandy personal computer with 16 color graphics e a graphics adapter Hercules CGA EGA VGA or MCGA e at least one disk drive e MS DOS Any version from 2 1 to 4 0 The program may perform correctly with later versions these are the versions the program was tested with Installing Escape From Hell Before playing Escape From Hell you must install the original disks Hitt t ygi PES f a Li Yeas Name Sitting bull Place of Torment Hex E m Giver p rofession edicine Man a Favorite Torment Eating Custard mE y t Date of Death 1 8907 his E y by using the Install program on Disk 1 You can install the original disks to e a hard drive fou2. In the United Kingdom contact Electronic Arts Limited P O Box 835 Slough SL3 8XU UK Phone 44 753 46465 In Australia contact ECP EA 4 18 Lawrence Drive Nerang Gold Coast QLD 4211 Phone 75 963 488 Limited Warranty Electronic Arts EA provides to the original purchaser of the computer software product for a period of ninety 90 days from the date of original purchase the Warranty Period the following limited warranties Media EA warrants that under normaluse the magnetic media and the packaging provided with it are free from defects in materials and workmanship Software EA warrants that the software as originally purchased will perform sub stantially in conformance with the specifications set forth in the packaging and in the user manual 22 Name Tom i Place of Torment The Bock House Sin Flunked SAT Profession gnome Advisor Favorite Torment Evading Truth Date of Death 1992 Warranty Claims Tomake a warranty claim under this limited warranty please return the product to the point of purchase accompanied by proof of purchase your name yourreturn address and a statement of the defect OR send the disk s to us at the above address within 90 days of purchase Includeacopy of thedated purchase receipt your name your return address and a statement of the defect EA or its authorized dealer will at our option repair or replace the product and return it to you postage
3. ability to hit with close range weapons and ability to defend Stamina enhances potential Hit Point increase for each increase in level Stealth enhances ability to hide Evasion enhances ability to defend Comprehension Perception and Psychic Force enhance magic item effectiveness Passive skills Displays a list of passive skills A character either has these skills to begin with or develops them during the game You don t need to use these skills They are all combat skills that will enhance the character s effectiveness with a particular weapon or type of combat 16 Dueling ability to use swords Marksmanship enhances character s abil ity to use long range weapons in general Fist Fighting effectiveness with no weapon Martial Arts this skill enhances melee combat ciui x range combat effectiveness Acrobatics enhances melee combat in general Melee Weapon enhances melee combat with hand held weapons Pistol Combat enhances ability to hit with a pistol Rifle Combat enhances rifle combat Automatic SMG enhances automatic weapon and subma chine gun combat Rocket Lncher rocket launcher Active Skills A character either has an active skill or learns it in the course ofthe game These skills are necessary in a particularsituation You ll know when trust me The following active skills appear in the game Swimming Electrical Hacking Bluffing Bureaucracy Parachuting Pick Lock Chemistry Explo
4. ESCAPE E R O EV ara om b cA gt x vem Paving the Road with Good Intentions This is a story about Dick and how Dick went bad without even knowing it As Dick was growing up his parents tried to teach Dick to share If they gave Dick some candy while his friends were around they would say Dick be sure to share with your friends As a child Dick didn t like sharing sharing meant that he had less for himself But eventually Dick learned to enjoy making his friends happy by sharing with them He would have less but they would be happy and he liked to see his friends happy So Dick grew up to be a generous person He would share everything he owned Eventually like all good smart people Dick bought a computer and some really cool software He made many copies of his cool software and gave the copies to his friends because this made his friends happy The software companies that made the cool software Dick copied had to raise their prices to cover their costs because they weren t selling enough software As a result all of the people who were not Dick s friends had to pay more for their cool software Within a couple of years Dick s generosity put several small software companies out of business Don t be like Dick Escape From Hell was produced through the efforts of many people The costs of developing the program can only be recovered through software sales If you duplic
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6. acters are created equal Name Lisa Takit Place of Torment New Pork Sin Prostitution Profession Entertainer Favorite Torment Celibacy Date of Death 1979 r Not everyone is friendly eventually you ll have to fight Pressthe first letter of the action you want to take If you en counter more than one group and attack also press the letter USE Wa m WEEE PA for the group vou want to at P tack The letter to the right of the monster group S M or L m ara indicates their distance from you Shari Mer TON If y you want you can initiate combat by pressing C on the keyboard This gives you a chance to see whether or not the person you are approaching is hostile and if they are you can sometimes attack before you are within range of their weapons HHUA PAR EE Name Weapon Try to avoid this It s not pretty Get in the healthy habit of saving your game when you are in good shape and in a safe place Press Control S to save Every time you load the game all of the monsters are restored to life soyou don t wantto save the game immediately after killing them If you needed to fbad your saved game you would Dava to fight allof those monsters again Remember save when you are healthy and in a safe place 2 odes A Restarting the Game The Restart from beginning option works just like the Load last saved game option except that it loads your party s last saved stateand places the
7. ate Escape From Hell without authorization you raise the cost to all legitimate users Copying Escape From Hell for any reason other than making backup copies for your personal use is a violation of federal copyright law Electronic Arts as a member of the Software Publishers Association supports the industry s effort to fight the illegal copying of personal computer software Thank you for joining us in this effort TABLE OF CONTENTS Getting Started RR M 1 Hardware Requirements 44 eese eere eee eee roe en e eee en nno e esta sos s e snas ee HHH HH He 1 Installing Escape From Hell 4 4 s se e seeecsoseccoscessse sesesesseeocsecoss 1 Playing from a Hard Disk 4 5 5 lt s esse c so e5 c56 ses see esec s40o0e 008 eoa 606 3 Playing from Floppy Disks s es ssseosoeeseesessesacesesces eee sev nonas 3 Starting Features s sce s sssesssesoo oo eee eee eee eve oeoeoonoeooeooooooooeono neo ooo ose neas esee eee eee se Ae 4 Hell Is Nota Picnic sasnsnznsnenenzzenntiriiiazzunintesnzzzonsenzansiiiiika ia ee w Se ela RAMS 5 Pocket Guide to Hell 44 eee eee eere ee eere e ette o eaae n eee sese season esas 6 GOL DIC A dis sane TT A A QOIS LLL 9 Choosing Options e c ee eene eee en eee evare senan cen Hen ene A enn H HEK HHH HH HHH HHHH HEK oan 9 Special Commands Save Load Qui
8. d another directory name type that in place of ESCAPE 3 Type ESCAPE and press Enter 4 Whenthetitlescreen appears press the spacebar to step through the successive screens Note you can press the Esc key to skip the opening screens entirely 5 When you reach the last of the start up screens you ll be shown a character and asked to identify something about it Find the matching character in the manual type the correct response exactly as shown and press Enter Playing From Floppy Disks Note You can t play the game with the original disks You must first install the game 1 Put your installed Disk 1 in a drive and make sure you are at that drive s prompt For example if you put the disk in drive A type A and press Enter 2 Type ESCAPE and press Enter 3 When the title screen appears press the spacebar to step through the successive screens Note you can press the Esc key to skip the opening screens entirely 4 When you reach the last of the start up screens you ll be shown 3 Name Sisyphus Place of Torment Boulder Colorado Sin Manipulation Profession Rock and Roller Favorite Torment StonesConcert Date of Death 554 a character and asked to identify something about it Find the matching character in the corner of the manual type the correct response exactly as shown and press Enter Starting Features When you start Escape From Hell the program automatically detects the best grap
9. de tells you basic information on how to get around Getting out is your problem Fat ca pe ero en You wander about and find stuff Use either the cursor keys or the keypad to move your character The keypad is best since it lets you move diago nally Some places you can get to only by moving diago nally You meet interesting people to talk to When you bump into some one you sometimes have an interaction with them Choose an option on the Interaction screen by press ing the first letter of the op tion A gt Strength A ect n y t Ne ret D PERDET p HP Weapon 1 GI m A gt Fist Fighting If you re smart you ll get someone to join you When a Non Player Charac ter NPC joins your party his name is added to the list below Richard Some will offer to join you without prompting Others require a more significant interaction first Know thyself Check the Character Summary now and then It tells you how you and your NPCs are doing Press F1 F2 or F3 to display the Character Summary for each of the three possible characters To activate one of the options on the left press the first letter of the option For example press e to acti vate the Equip option Character Information lets you know how you are taking the heat Info and Passive skills tell you what you and your friends are good at Be sure to check the skills of your NPC s Not all char
10. e quickly and thus heal faster If your party is close to death and needs to heal over one hundred hit points put something heavy on the spacebar key and come back later Of course you ll want to do this in a safe place otherwise you re just standing around waiting to be attacked 18 AntiTank Rifle Assault Rifle Auto Pistol Automatic Rifle Baseball Bat Battle Axe Bomb Bomb Mark II Bow Bowling Ball Bowling Pin Broad Sword Chain Chainsaw Cleaver Club Crossbow Crowbar Dark Axe Dark Pistol Dark Rifle Demon Bow Devil Crossbow Dueling Sword Dynamite Elephant Gun Evil Axe Fire Hose Fists Flail Flame Thrower Flaming Fork Frving Pan Name Place of Torment Sin Profession Favorite Torment Date of Death Napoleon The Black House Entered Politics Test Underwear S 2 helling Peanuts 001 Damage Defense Attacks Range 19 PRN N N N N AAD long long long long all all long long long long long long roup long group group Uses 12 20 40 40 Bu gt 8885 10 30 Name Place of Torment Sin A Grenade Heavy Bone Hell Sabre Hoe J Mart Hose Knife Mac 10 Mace Metal Bat Nail Gun Nasty Cleaver Pick Pistol Pitch Fork Police Special Power Sword Reload Shotgun Rifle Rocket Launcher Sacrifice Blade Shot Gun Shovel Sledge Hammer Sleep Grenade Spear Spiked Bat Throwing Axe Throwing Star Tommy Gun U
11. he landscape is not saved when you save the game instead it is saved and updated every time you leave a location enter or leave a city or building Buffering keyboard turn on or off Control B The default setting is for buffering to be off Sound on or off Control O The default is for sound to be on Quit Control Q Increase or decrease delay of combat text Press the key on the keypad to increase the delay between text lines in combat Press the minus key on the keypad to decrease the delay between lines of text Note that you must use these keys when you are not in combat for them to have any effect Interaction Screen 5 DES PS TEGEBAT ka af IV yd SN NA pe Interaction with 1 Ploaner ji xitla Pe TA T Se er TA Tre T Bim IU tilt MAS HOT a ice BA v 2 PR XE tee Pb S Hi E DH Y R Te E TARI B Las vU The interaction screen appears when you bump into another charac ter or group Ifthe other group is hostile you may be thrown directly into combat without stopping at the Interaction screen The Interaction screen gives you four options Talk Choose Talk to talk to the individual or group Not everyone will talk to you 10 Attack Choosing this option displays the Combat Screen Status Choosing this option displays the Character Summary for Richard You can then move to an other character s summary by pressing the appropriate key F2 or F3 or choose an option from the Character Summa
12. hics mode for your computer and starts the game in that mode However if you wantto start the game in a different graphics mode you can do so by adding a character called arguments to the start command Be sure you have one space between Escape and the letter for the graphics mode you want You must type the argument letter in lower case EXAMPLE Let s say you want to load the game with EGA graphics mode You d type Escape e and press Enter These are the arguments you can use Loads game in CGA mode Loads game in EGA mode Loads the game in Hercules graphics mode Loads the game in MCGA mode Loads the game in Tandy graphics mode g8 ron HELL IS NOT A PICNIC amp You thought hell would be a cool setting for an adventure A a game You would romp across the jis ea terrain of TENER the underworld and meetsomeof the nastiest charactersin history Sort of like Dante only with UZI s You imagined ghouls and demons tending the flames of eternal damnation You imagined politicians and lawyers begging for mercy at the hands of devils and taxpayers You would sprinkle in facts about Lucifer himself to give the game realism Alan would do the art and the research you would do the programming This would be a fun project and you looked forward to your design meetings But Alan disappears and your girlfriend vanished almost before your very eyes If you can believe that voice on the telephone Alan is in hell your girlfriend is i
13. less ofwhether or not a character accepts the item you give them the item is removed from your list and disappears from the game completely Don t just go handing over things on a whim you can t get them back Hint If a character wants something they will imply it in what they say to you If someone tells you to put an item on a table you use the Give command to do it Make sure you are standing next to the person or table when you use the command or they won t get the item Trade Use this option to give an item to a character in your party Press T to activate the Trade option then press the letter for the item iS Name Pepe Leps Li Pd Cafe Place af Torment Brainde d Sin Taking Drugs Profession Search amp Seizure Favorite Torment Torten amp Shoutin Date of Death you want to trade The program will ask which character you want to give the item to Press the function key F1 F2 or F3 for the character you want to give the item to Drop Use this option to remove an item from your inventory Warning When you drop an item it is gone forever so be careful about what you drop Info Displays a list of your personal attributes The following personal attributes might apply to a character Strength enhances attacks using weapons that require strength Intelligence Adds to overall ability to use long range weap ons and ability to hide Piety enhances all capabilities Agility enhances
14. mbat screen unless you want to go beating up on friendly souls Affects speed with weapons and order of attack Amount of damage that can be absorbed from a hit Current vitality Overall ability to hit Surnmari Maximum vitality Character Summary F1 F2 F3 or 1 2 3 Pressing the function keys F1 F2 or F3 or the number keys 1 2 or 3 displays the Character Summary for the respective character 13 Name Prof Katz Place of Torment Dog House Sin Kitty Abuse Profession Immigrant FavoriteTorment Greasing Kitty Date of Death 2010 f Richard is character one and you display hissummarv with F1 When this summary is displayed the game is paused so nothing moves on the landscape The Character Summary displays several types of information as shown in the figure Name The name of the character whose summary you are looking at Level The character s level Level affects the character s overall abilities and most importantly the character s ability to hit The higher the level the more effective the character will be in combat in general Speed This affects the character s speed with weapons and thus the order in which they attack in combat The character with the highest speed rating will strike first Defense The amount of damage that can be absorbed by the character s defensive armor Hit Points The character s current vitality Max HP The character s maximum vitality Invent
15. n hell and this dreadful place you are in right now is hell It s hot But what did you expect The telephone receiver becomes slippery in your hand as you sweat the cold sweat of fear It s almost refreshing but itwarms quickly You stand for a moment to gather your wits Ifyou aren t lucky you ll feel the hot sweat of panic Hell no longer seems like the place for an adventure You resolve to be virtuous for the rest of your life and you hope that it doesn t end here You look for a way to protect yourself and you find some help in a chest nearby A parting gift from your guardian angel Now you know you really are alone in this Is there anyone down here you can trust You ll have to choose the best of the bad and work with them You have to find Alan and Alison without getting killed in the process You can see that you ll have to go deeper before you ll get out so you gather your wits and head for the gate Your guts say vou ll be meeting the Big Man of Hades before this is all over You hope all those horror films you ve been watching lately have prepared you for this Name Joe Clown Name Al Bino Place of Torment Unholywood Place of Torment A Hot Place Sin Abandoning Bonzo Sin Rivals Casper Profession Cannot Remember Profession Surf Nazi Favorite Torment ranging Bones FavoriteTorment Shake And Baking Date of Death Date of Death 1975 POCKET GUIDE TO HELL You re in Hell and you can t phone home This pocket gui
16. nholy Mace Unholy Sword UZI SMG Vapor Grenade Wrist Rocket Profession Favorite Torment Date of Death Jill rr p Gothim City pice of Lust Actre Getting Old 1983 Damage Defense Attacks Range 25 7 15 10 ONNEN group group medium long group long long all groups long long medium group group group long Uses 1 40 70 50 30 Name Ben Jammin Place af Torment On The Green Sin Necrophelia Profession Being Grateful Favorite Torment Tun ing Date of Death 968 Minor Demon s Guide to the Armor of Hell Obtained from a Minor Demon with insufficient armor The following is a list of defensive armor The Defense number indicates the the maximum amount of protection each item can provide against a blow Unfortunately Minor Demons are not permitted to wear some of the more specialized armor of hell so this list is incomplete Items not on this list may provide special protection then again they may not Defense Defense Asbestos Suit 5 Hockey Mask 2 Battle Jacket 6 Leather Jacket 5 Bullet Proof Suit 13 Metal Gloves 2 Bullet Proof Vest 9 Motor Cycle Helmet 4 Construction Helmet 3 Police Shield 3 Demonic Shield 5 Spiked Shield 3 Dry Suit 4 Super Sombrero 3 Flak Jacket 6 Superiors Cloak 11 Garbage Can Lid 2 Trench Coat 8 Heavy RainCoat 2 Welding Visor 3 A Word About Fairy Dust You were warned when you picked this stuffup use it only in dire need It s grea
17. ory The number of items you can carry is limited If your inventory list is full ten items you can t pick up anything else If Richard s list is full but you have another character in your party with space on their list that character will receive any items found Get used to dropping stuff but make sure you aren t going to need the item again once you drop an item it is gone from hell forever Sort of makes you wish you could pick yourself up and drop yourself 14 da tte i Character Summary Options Equip Equip or Unequip an item Press E then L SWE press the letter of the item that you want to equip AIO TA unequip Notethat grenades orbombs such as sleep grenades with a special characteristic must be Used in combat for their special characteristic to take effect s gt Use This command applies to items like potions or weapons with a special characteristic To use an item press U to activate the Use command then press the letter for the item you want to use If using an item has had any significant effect a prompt will tell you what happened If you use an item that has no special characteristics nothing will happen Give Use this option to give an item to a character that is not in your party To give an item press G to activate the Give command then press the letter forthe item you want to give Ifthe character accepted the item a new text message will appear Warning Regard
18. party at the gates of hell where the game began Use the Restart option if you find yourself overpowered and just can t escape any other way If you want to start a completely new game you need to reinstall the program to restore all of the original conditions of the landscape contents of chests etc REFERENCE GUIDE TO HELL Choosing Options Throughout the game you choose options by pressing the key forthe first letter of the option For example ifyou want to talk to someone at the Interaction screen you press t Press Esc to back out of a command without completing it Press any key to continue from a More or Done prompt in the text area Special Commands Initiate Combat C If you are close enough to another group you can enterthe Combat Screen by pressing C This lets you see whether or not the group you are approaching is friendly and if they are not you can sometimes attack them before you are within range of their weapons Save game Control S Saving the game saves only the status of your characters and their inventory of items Load last saved game Control L Loading your last saved game will restore the condition of your characters and their inventory but may not restore the contents of chests or ot her item on the landscape The 9 Name Attila The Hun Place of Torment Central Europe Sin Waging War Profession Scourge of Hell Favorite Torment Bubble Baths Date of Death 453 status of t
19. prepaid or issue you with a credit equal to the purchase price To replace defective media after the 90 day warranty period has expired send the original disk s to the above address Enclose a statement of the derte name your return address and a check or money order for 7 50 THE FOREGOING STATES THE PURCHASER S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY BREACH OF WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT Warranty Exclusions EA EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRA WITH RESPECT TO THE MEDIA AND THE SOFTWARE INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ANY WARRAN TIES IMPLIED BY LAW ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE WARRANTY PERIOD SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON THE DURATION OF AN IMPLIED WARRANTY SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WAR RANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE Limitation on Damages EA SHALL NOT IN ANY CASE BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY CLAIM UNDER THIS AGREE MENT EVEN IF EA OR ITS AGENTS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES SOMESTATES DO NOT ALLOW THEEXCLUSION ORLIMITATION OFINCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THEABOVELIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU Unless indicated otherwise all software and documentation is 1990 Electronic Arts All Rights Reserved IBM is a registered trademark of International Business
20. r 5 25 inch 360K floppy disks two 3 5 inch 720K floppy disks one 5 25 inch 1 2 megabyte high density floppy disk one 3 5 inch 1 44 megabyte high density floppy disk Note to Floppy Disk Users Format the disk s you will install to first See your DOS manual for information on formatting disks Make sure that the formatted disks do not have any bad sectors by using the CHKDSK command or you may not have enough space on the disks to install Escape From Hell Label the disks Disk 1 Disk 2 etc up to the number of disks you will need Note to Hard Disk Users The game will be installed in a directory of your choice If you don t enter a directory name Escape From Hell will be installed to a directory called Escape To Install Escape From Hell 1 Insert the original program Disk 1 into drive A or B typeA or B whichever drive you put the disk in and press Enter 2 Type INSTALL and press Enter 3 Follow the on screen prompts to install your disks If you are installing to floppy disks follow the prompts carefully you may be asked to insert the same disk more than once you must insert the disk requested by the screen prompt 2 Playing From a Hard Disk x A N r x p Jf 1 Type C and press Enter we re assuming your Qe hard drive is C if it isn t type the appropriate letter 2 TypeCD ESCAPE and press Enter Note ESCAPE was the default directory when you installed the game If you use
21. ry screen Leave Exits the Interaction screen without interacting with the individual or group Combat Screen The comhar screen wa appear whenever you are attacked or choose i ift 22706 to attack a group You can choose to attack a group at the Interaction Screen orby pressing C on the keyboard when you are within range for an attack At the Combat Screen you choose how each character will respond to a hostile encounter M you ve just engaged in The AMT VIE Oreo screen lists all groups that are close enough to you for an Stouter and tti Richard H Mns d es kd NE Y T 45 9 how many individuals are in the group who is in the group Guards Moaners etc whether the group is friendly or hostile and the distance to the group Short Medium Long 11 Name Ann Orexia Place of Torment Hungary Sin Self Denial Profession Diet Consultant Favorite Torment Starvation Date of Death 1986 f The names ofthe characters in your party appear one at a time above alist ofoptions fortheir response To choose an option pressthe first letter of the option you want To exit the Combat Screen choose Run If you are facing hostile groups you may be pursued see Run below Attack Choose attack to attack Duh If there is more than one group within range of your party also press the letter for the group you want to attack You attack with your currently equipped weapon Note that grenades or bombs
22. sives Steal To use an active skill press A to display the list press the letter that corresponds to the skill and press Return Leave Exits the Character Summary screen 17 Name Hecate Place of Torment Salem Sin Seduction Profession TV Spokes Model Favorite Torment Dating the Dead Date of Death 1692 Hell Guard s Guide to Weapons of Hell Obtained from a disgruntled Hell Guard who wishes to remain anony mous The following section lists the weapons you are likely to encounter in hell Where appropriate additional information is provided The following definitions apply Damage The normal upper limit of damage a weapon can inflict in one attack Defense The normal upper limit of defensive protection the weapon will provide Attacks The normal upper limit for the number of attacks you can make before the opponent strikes back Range The range ofthe weapon Ifno range isindicated the weapon affects only one individual at short range Note that some weapons are effective against an entire group or all groups of opponents Uses The normal number of times you can use a weapon before it is used up or breaks down Dr Faustus Quick Cure If your party has just taken a severe licking from some overzealous Hell Guards you probably would like to beable to heal those wounds a little faster Dr Faustus Quick Cure can do the trick By holding down the spacebar on your keyboard youcan make time pass mor
23. such as sleep grenades with a special characteristic must be Used in combat for their special characteristic to take effect Defend Choosing Defend reduces the amount of damage the character will receive from a hit The damage will always be reduced somewhat but Defend works as a random percentage sometimes the damage is greatly reduced other times it is barely reduced at all If your opponent packs a real wallop you probably should Hide instead of Defend since any percentage of a big hit is still significant Status Displays the Character Summary for the character and lets you choose one option If you need to equip a different weapon or use an item choose Status Hide Choosing Hide reducesthe chancethat you will be hit by your opponent If you are attacking a group at long distance and some characters don t have long range weapons those characters would be wise to hide Run If you choose run as the option for any member of your party the whole party runs You can t split your party up To run choose 12 the Run option and then hold down the cursor key for the direction you want to run in Your party won t move until the first opportunity for an action In the mean time vou ll be pummelled bv the bad guvs Also itislikelv that guards will chase you when you run soyou may be running for a while to get away W Note Ifyou are in the combat screen and have defeated all of the hostile groups choose Run to exit the Co
24. t sssssssesnznnsnnannasnzsnnsansansansnnsanzansensentes 9 Interaction Screen ecce eee eee eee 4o 6o6 eee nas eee 600600006060060 eee ose esos eese se cocos 10 o m Y J M dea k ne 10 iid ENS A DIN IRI PN NR KBK 11 GEES usssuyeley n n ewe jon ekk e k s nn n nee d w sade ci AAA KAS RN A uN GERE G J WURA KERA 11 ET G dy 1e ansekuse de lakwe E x seen sad k sa e dda saa cite st se sates 11 Combat Screen s ac sexuike e s eee ea see s 80 06060 P0 e Pao SS e EKE PPP Sene Pe PPS Pep veneno e SEES Nee 11 DACE A SNN N ra 12 DIQ A EVA O w KE DE KEKE KU EK SAN DURAM 12 SU A as s n se z k n ses sen wak sek RA RAN KA RES EK A G GAS S KANE KARAR ERE Kee E 12 Dodo A TA ART C UE 12 A 12 Character Summary e eee eee eee ene ooo oa ono tono o sea ee eee ea eee e eene enses esse se ee ee ees 13 Character Summary Options eee eene eee nennen eerta tnn nennen cen eee aant nnno 15 Equip M KHK HA 15 LISE Qi ses ses 15 CAB A KK Dw _ w 15 O PO WO ew Ru w we pesi besa MT a 15 Drop TTS 16 A 16 Passive SIS a csscccdccctesacacsnavesticcssenccsessnncssaenansesesonsusctessnovesiseressseecons 16 Active SIAIIS connsensescesaskaiscsissaucsansndiensenscaticsnscnnsesenananecnnsnaanseensesssssoes 17 Pm M 17 Hell Guard s Guide to Weapons of Hell
25. t for escaping a tight situation but if you use it indoors you might wind up in an undeveloped section of hell Worse yet you might materialize in stone which means instant bye bye If you find yourself in an undeveloped section of hell try a few things to get out Things like walking around to find a door back to where you came from or using the Fairy Dust again If none of this works it s time to reload your saved game 21 Name Tantalus Place of Torment Unknown Sin Over Indulgence Profession Doorman Favorite Torment Being Buried Date of Death 1972 Technical Support If you have questions about the program our Technical Support Department can help If your question isn t urgent please write to us at Electronic Arts Technical Support P O Box 7578 San Mateo CA 94403 7578 Please be sure to include the following information in your letter e Productname Type of computer you own e Any additional system information like type and make of monitor video card printer modem etc e Type of operating system or DOS version number e Description of the problem you re having If you need to talk to someone immediately call us at 415 572 ARTS Monday though Friday between 8 30 am and 4 30 pm Pacific Time Please have the above information ready when you call This will help us answer your question in the shortest possible time If you live outside of the United States you can contact one of our other offices
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