Achaea Guide: Quick Start Guide:

Intro: The Trial of Rebirth

Every newcomer to Achaea experiences The Trial of Rebirth. The Trial is a quick interactive introduction to Achaea that can take as few as ten minutes, or as long as a few hours, depending entirely on you. Twenty minutes or half an hour is a fairly common time for those completely new to Achaea.

In the Trial, you'll gain a few useful things for your life in Achaea (clothing, a vial of healing potion, a backpack, and a bit of gold), an introduction to commands, and a few levels of experience to get you started.

You also choose a race for your character (which we call an adventurer) and may optionally choose a home city and a class.

Trial Commands:

HINT: to be reminded of what you should be doing
HELP TRIAL: Lists trial commands and other helpful info
SPEEDUP(or SLOWDOWN): to speed or slow the Trial
HINTSON(or HINTSOFF): to start or stop hints
NEWBIEON: to turn on the newbie channel to ask for help
NEWBIE<text>: to ask for help on the newbie channel
...

Commands

Commands are the way you get things done in Achaea. These are a few of the most important that you should learn right away:

- Moving Around
- Looking Around
- Communicating
- Info About Yourself
- Fighting
- Healing and Recovery

Moving around is a simple matter of entering a direction, like this:

NORTH (or N); NORTHEAST (or NE); SOUTH (or S); NORTHWEST (or NW); EAST (or E); SOUTHEAST (or SE); WEST (or w); SOUTHWEST (OR sw); Up (or U); DOWN (or D); IN; OUT