Your first stop in the village is the armor shop. Type "s" to go south. Type "look" to find out what you see in the shop. Type "list" to see what is available to buy in the shop. Buy all of the items which are free. You may do this by typing "buy <item>" i.e. "buy padded helm". It is important to buy armor. Armor affects your armor class, which is how hard it is for monsters to land blows on you when you are in combat. The better your armor, the harder you are to hit. Once you have purchased your armor, you need to actually wear it to obtain its benefits. To do this type "wear <item>" i.e. wear padded helm.

At any time you may check to see what items you are carrying and where they are. Type "i" to see that you are wearing your armor.

Your next stop should be the weapons shop. Type "n" to go north until you reach the weapons shop. Use the same procedure that you used in the armor shop to see what is there and what items are available. Buy whichever free item you can use. Type "wear <weapon>" so that weapon will be in your hand ready to use.

Exit the weapons shop by heading south once. Then head west once. If you have the ability to use spells you will want to go to the spell store. Check your Mana by typing "st". Mana is roughly translated to be your life force energy. This can be used to cast spells. This energy is depleted as you cast spells but you can type "rest" and you will recover this energy so that you may cast more spells. If you would like to buy some spells, head north one. Use the same procedure in the spell store that you used in the armor shop to look around and see what items you can get for free. Once you have purchased a scroll with a spell on it you will want to "read <scroll name>" in order to know how to cast that spell. Once you learn a spell you can cast it as often as you wish as long as you have enough Mana. If you want to cast a spell type "cast, spell name, target" i.e. "cast magic missile kobold"

The adventurers store is south of the magic store. If your character doesn't have night vision, you will want to buy some torches here. You may type "help class" to see whether or not you can see in the dark. To use a torch in a dark area simply type "use torch".

Move west and type "Look down". This is the arena where you will go to fight monsters when you are ready.

Right now, however, you should move north to the trainer. Type "exp" and you will see that as a brand new character you have no experience. You gain experience by fighting and killing monsters. When you have enough experience you can move up a level by coming to the trainer and typing "train". Every time that you move up a level you obtain additional lives( you start with nine) if you need any, as well as more hit points which help you stay alive longer in combat. Hit points are like your physical mana, the state of your health and the physical strength that you have available. You lose hit points in combat and regain them by typing "rest".
The only reason that you as a new character need to visit the trainer is if you haven't already allocated all of your character points which you obtained when you first generated your character. You may do this by typing "train stats".

Move south and west to the healer. Type "read sign". If you would like to buy a healing spell, type "buy <spell name>" i.e. "buy minor healing". These spells will give you back your hit points faster than you could regenerate them by resting. Always watch your hit points! If you get down to zero hit points and you have no friends around to help you, you will die!

Now that you have had a brief tour of New Haven, you will want to start fighting some monsters so that you can gain experience and start to move up in level. Move back to the arena. You may also want to review the combat help file by typing "help combat". Before you go down into the arena check to make sure that you are wearing your armor (not just carrying it), have your weapon in your hand ready to use, and that you know the spells that you may want to cast. You may want to practice your magic, if you have Mana, by casting a blur spell on yourself before you enter combat. This spell will make you harder to hit. You will also want to try using the magic missile spell.

If you are a class or race with stealth, you'll want to practice sneaking by typing SN, type it again if it tells you you don't think you are sneaking. Once you think you are sneaking type D for down, and then type BS MONSTERNAME (i.e. bs kobold). BS stands for backstab. If you don't successfully sneak or backstab, you can always go back up and try again.

If you are a mystic, you have special attacks listed in the help combat screen. JU MONSTERNAME (i.e. ju kobold) to jumpkick, or PU MONSTERNAME to punch.

If you are not a class or race with stealth, and you are not a mystic or magic user, you will type A MONSTERNAME (i.e. a kobold) to attack. You do not need to type any adjectives in front of the name of the monster. For example, if you are attacking an angry giant rat you only need to type A RAT.

Go down into the arena. A monster will appear for you to fight. Don't wait for the monster to attack you! Go get 'em! Watch your hit points. If you find that you are getting close to zero type "up" to get out of the arena. Don't worry if you get killed the first time. You have eight more lives and can always create a new character if you want to. Once you have killed a monster, you should check your hit points to see how many you have lost. If you have only a few hit points left you might get killed by the next monster which appears, so you will want to go up out of the arena and rest until you regain your strength. If you should be killed by a monster you will start again at the healer with nothing, and you will need to go back to the various shops to get more armor, weapons etc. You will retain knowledge of any spells that you know before you were killed.

Occasionally monsters will drop money when they are killed. This money is yours if you can get it without getting killed by the next monster that appears. Simply type "get" followed by the quantity and type of coin, i.e. "get 8 silver". This money will come in handy when you want to buy better weapons or spells.

Remember to check your experience and go to the trainer when you have enough points to go up a level.