Valhalla

Карта Valhalla

Карта Valhalla

Карта Valhalla

Карта Valhalla

Играйте в Valhalla без эмуляторов прямо на сайте. Ролевая игра, опубликованная в Великобритании в 1983 году творческой группой Legend [1], которую разработали Movisoft, Richard Edwards, Graham Asher, Charles Goodwin и Andrew Owen [1].

A game where you’ll have a lot of fun controlling characters and enjoying an engaging gameplay. You’ll embark on six thrilling adventures, each requiring you to find a special object hidden in the game world. The objects: Ophnir (key), Drapnir (ring), Skornir (shield), Skalir (sword), Felstrong (axe), and Grimnir (helmet) can only be discovered in a specific sequence. Prior to starting the first quest, it’s important to arm yourself with necessary items like weapons, helmet, food, key, and ring, and explore the game world by creating a map. Each location has its unique features, and the presence or absence of specific objects or characters can grant access to various places.

Valhalla

Publisher: Legend

Author: Legend

Year: 1983

Description: An adventure roleplaying game.

Instructions

Please see the inlay card text.

Inlay card text

Valhalla

A legend production (c) 1983

Production team – Graham Asher, Richard Edwards, Charles Goodwin, James Learmont, Jan Ostler, Andrew Owen, John Peel.

The screen

Think of the screen as three windows.

The top window is the picture. The middle window, which has a white background is the information window. The bottom window, which has a black background and a flashing white cursor is where you type in your commands.

The keyboard

If you are not familiar with the Spectrum keyboard, consult Chapter 2, page 8 of the Spectrum introduction manual.

You communicate with the game and with the characters using the keyboard to type in your commands. Your own actions are also typed in as commands

Having typed in a command you must always press ENTER.

Examples – get food ENTER

Thor get axe ENTER

where ENTER

jump ENTER

Note – There will sometimes be a delay of several seconds after you press ENTER before your command is interpreted. This is because, as a character in VALHALLA, you have to take your turn along with all the other characters. This means that if Loki has just attacked Thor, you will have to wait until the fight is over before your command is carried out.

Typing a command can be done in any combination of capitals and lower case letters. Punctuation is optional. The easiest way of entering a command is therefore to use lower case letters and no punctuation.

For example – get sword.

You can edit text, as you type it, using the Spectrum edit commands. CAPS SHIFT 5, 6, 7, 8, move the flashing cursor in the direction printed above the keys, and CAPS SHIFT 0 deletes the character to the left of the cursor. For further information see page 8 of your Spectrum Introduction manual. CAPS SHIFT 1 will delete anything you have typed into the bottom black window. CAPS SHIFT 2 is used to pull you last entry back into the black input window.

Spelling mistakes are dealt with in two ways. If you make a minor mistake or miss out a letter – for example ‘ge sord’ instead of ‘get sword’ – it will automatically be corrected. Sometimes the command system will approximate or try to guess what you mean, but it might not be exactly what you intended.

There may be times when the command system is completely unable to understand what you have entered. The part that is causing problems will be highlighted in red and you can edit in the usual way and press ENTER.

Note – The command system has three ways of dealing with things ENTERed that it cannot understand – by printing ‘This doesn’t make sense or what?,’ or by totally ignoring your entry. However none of this happens if you enter commands accurately.

The quests

As you will discover, you can have great fun simple watching VALHALLA and issuing commands to the characters. However, there are six adventures awaiting you in VALHALLA. Each of these adventures is a quest for a special object hidden somewhere in the game world.

The six special objects can only be discovered in order –

Ofnir (key): cannot be used as an ordinary key

Drapnir (ring): cannot be used as an ordinary ring

Skornir (shield)

Skalir (sword)

Felstrong (axe)

Grimnir (helmet)

Before you can seriously start on even the first quest, you will need to do two things – equip yourself with basic useful items such as helmet, weapon, food, key and ring; and familiarise yourself with the layout of VALHALLA’s world. The best way of doing this is to start to make a map. Even though some locations may look similar, each is unique.

There will be occasions when having, or not having a certain object or character with you, will allow you access to a location. You could try using ‘where’ or ‘help’ if you need inspiration, but don’t be surprised if you’re not told all you need to know…

Clues

Ofnir – Darkness in Midgard.

Drapnir – So many choices – you could sink into the pits of despair.

Skornir – A peculiar start – a difficult decision – the bald man needs defence.

Note – If you are serious about solving the entire sequence of quests, it is essential that you plan what you are going to do with the quest objects once you obtained them. Remember that when you die, Ofnir and Drapnir will be taken from you – and of course you cannot carry Felstrong at the same time as Skalir.

Note – When you die, the objects that are taken from you are randomly distributed throughout the game world. This means that if you are unfortunate enough to die with Ofnir or Drapnir amongst your possessions, you will have to reload the program and start the entire sequence of quests from the beginning.

If you die from hunger or fighting you reappear in an area of hell. You will lose all your possessions except for your helmet, sword or axe, and money, if you had them when you died. You will keep any special objects that you had, except for Ofnir and Drapnir which you will lose.

When any other character dies, from hunger or fighting, they will also lose all of their possessions including Ofnir and Drapnir, but again excluding their weapons.

You can only have one helmet and one shield at any time, and can only carry one sword or one axe but not both. This, of course, means that you cannot carry the quest objects Felstrong (the axe) and Skalir (the sword) at the same time.

Felstrong, Skalir, Skornir (the shield) and Grimnir (the helmet) can all be used in the same way and with the same effect as any other axe, sword, shield and helmet. However, the quest objects weigh more than ordinary objects. This means that you will get weaker when you carry these objects and will therefore need to eat and d