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Hello, Internet. I'm raymi and thi is my lets play of powder
it is a rogue-like, available at
www.zincland.com/powder
we're going to start off with the tutorial.
"Welcome to POWDER!
"Your goal is simple:
"Dive to level 25 of the dungeon to reach Baezl'bub,
"slay him,
"and return to the surface with his black heart.
plenty of nasty monsters stand in your way, however.
fortunately the dungeon is littered with useful equipment."
[mumbles] okay...
"Welcome to POWDER! you see a ladder up."
now, i've... played around a little bit with this game,
ah..
just in this tutorial,
ah..
this tutorial is somewhat
procedurally generated so
be layout of the rooms i-enemies and items all change
so, here we go...
"you see a signpost."
"Welcomed to the tutorial.
"Press up and down to scroll through this message. Faster scrolling can be done with
"Page up and Page down.
"you've read it all when the arrows dissapear at the bottom.
"Keypresses written side square brack--"
ah..
"Keypresses ARE written inside square brackets.
"Note that the case matters -- to hit...
"for swap, you must use shift-s.
"POWDER can also be played entirely with the mouse--"
however, i'm not going to fiddle with that, 'cuz...
that's not as much fun in my opinion.
so, the arrow-keys move, which is
basically the only useful thing this sign says
ah..
this sign, hyeah...
"While you start the adventure not wearing anything,
"that doesn't mean you are empty handed.
"You have some equipment in your inventory.
"Hit [i] to bring up the inventory screen.
"Use the cursor to target the chainmail.
"Hit [Enter] to bring up the context menu.
"Select equip, target the body slot,
"and hit enter to put the chainmail on your body."
[mumbling] chainmail... equip... body...
"You put a +0 chainmail over your body."
"Look! some earlier adventure has left an item
"on the dungeon floor.
"All the better to equip yourself with!
"Walk over the long sword,
"hit [g] to pick up the sword,
"then use [i] to bring up your inventory
"and to equip it in your main hand."
and we don't need mouse...
[g] to pick up...
[i] to open inventory... [Enter]... equip.
"You see a signpost."
"Doors...
"Passages in the dungeon can be blocked by simple wooden doors.
"Opening is straight forward:
"Walk into the door and you will try and open it.
"If at first you don't succeed try, try again."
alright, so...
we open the door... "Combat!
"Behind this door is a fearsome foe.
"Attacking with an em--"
"Attacking an enemy with your equipped weapon is simple:
"Just walk into it.
"Note that tame, or friendly creatures won't be attacked this way --
"you will instead swap positions"... okay...
so, we got a rat. die. hey, it died!
"You see a rat corpse,
"a gem encrusted wand"...
gonna pick that up,
and... [mumble] you can hit [e]
to eat corpses, so ima...
go ahead, eat this rat corpse...
open this door, this is a boulder. "Boulders...
"Boulders are too large to pick up,
"but can be pushed through the dungeon.
"If you get yourself stuck behind a boulder,
"you can swap places with it.
"First, remove your equipped items using the inventory screen.
"Hit... shift-s.
"After choosing the direction of the boulder,
"You will swap places with it.
"Note that you can also swap with friendly monsters."
so this thing you can sort of just... push around... a little bit...
through this door, we have...
"Three different items are here. What sort of items is a mystery.
"They could be beneficial, or dangerous.
"The easiest way to learn is by trial! :D
"Pick up the items by walking over them and hitting [g].
"Use [i] for the inventory,
"and select the items with enter.
"Try to drink the potion, to zap the wand,
and to read the scroll.
uh... scroll of README, picking it up;
purple wand, picking it up;
and a cyan potion, picking it up.
first, i think i'm going to read the scroll...
"You read a scroll of README.
"You learn that an evil scroll of README is an evil scroll of fire. a pillar of file-"
"-fire engulfs you.
"You burn yourself."
okay, so that's...
not good...
uh...
i'm going to...
zap this wand-
zap it down that hallway... "Nothing happens." okay...
i'm also going to zap this wand i got off that rat...
"You zap a gem encrusted wand."
"The cave troll appears out of thin air.
"The cave troll feels tame.
"You learn that a
"gem-encrusted wand
"is a wand of create monster.
so, i've just successfully created a uh, friendly
cave troll. okay, cool.
Cyan potion.
i'm going to quaff that...
"You drink a cyan potion. You learn that an...
"evil cyan potion is an evil acid potion.
"An evil acid potion burns you." Ouch... about... that...
What happens if I zap that wand again...