First Steps

From LSWiki

Apologies in advance if this starts out too simplistically for you; it's probably worth skimming over anyway, but also contains material designed to aid players who have little or no experience with this kind of game.

The very first thing you should do in Lost Souls is introduce yourself over the Neophyte channel. To do this, type the following:

neophyte hi

Many new players never use this channel; however, it lets other players know that you are actually a real person and not a cabbage or something. There is also an organization within the game called the Wardens, whose sole purpose is to aid new players in gaining experience. They are rewarded for this task, and so it's mutually beneficial; they will in general be happy to give you free stuff and lead you around the game merely for the opportunity to guide you ('guide' being the command they would use to initiate this process).

Your First Character

Is a half-elf, a respectable race with the advantage of nightvision and a good learning rate (experience multiplier), who has skills we've determined to be useful to a very-first character, like the common tongue Anglic, and skills to ease your ability to navigate and maneuver.

Starting Out

Lost Souls is an extremely flexible hack and slash game. We have non hack and slash elements, and we don't always intend to remain a primarily hack and slash game, but that's what we are for now.

As such, the goals the game encourages are gaining experience and developing your skills. The goals we, the developers and experienced players of the game, encourage are exploration and interaction with other players and your environment.

Because we strive to be flexible and interesting, there is something of a learning curve; what you need to now immediately is:

Don't kill anyone in Losthaven.

There are consequences to your actions. In Losthaven, which is where your first character, a half-elf, will start, most of the guards and shopkeepers will summon help, and are probably tougher than you anyway. They will also put a persistent bounty on your character for making trouble. The sewers are OK.

The common tongue is Anglic.

If you cannot speak Anglic, a Warden can still communicate with you, and you can communicate over general channels. However, you will find it much harder to interact with NPCs and group with other players.

It is easy to get lost.

The Orienteering skill and your compass enable you to navigate the map with the command 'determine location.'

You need to 'keep' things you want

If you logout, you will drop any items that you aren't keeping.