Spawn naked, Keep dying, Dont know how to cast spells

[Jimjam]

Welcome!

When you create a new character you will have some food and drink (these help you regenerate hp/mana), a weapon and perhaps a couple of spells in your inventory.

Press 'I' to open your inventory. To equip your weapon, simply click it and then click on your primary slot.

To scribe your spells into your spell book type /book, click the spell scroll in your inventory and then click a slot in the book. Your book has room for 50 pages of spells, which is far more than you need.

At any one time you can memorise a choice of up to 8 spells. To memorise a spell open your book again (/book as before), click the scribed spell you are interested in, then press alt-1 to alt-8 to save it to spell gem 1-8.

To cast that spell stand up and again press alt-1 (or 2,3 ...8: whichever slot you memorised it to).

When you die you will lose everything you have equipped and in your inventory, but you will retain your spell book. To get your things back you need to go back to the place you died, where you will find a corpse containing all your belongings (right click to loot, only you can loot your own corpse). If the body is near an aggressive monster or in a dangerous place, try getting close and typing 'corpse' to summon the body a short distance to yourself.

If this all seems pretty daunting, consider rerolling as a monk. Monks don't use spells, which makes learning the basics more simple, and they are effective at unarmed combat, so perishing and losing your corpse isn't really a big deal.

When it comes to combat, use 'consider' to check the level of a mob (target it and press 'c', or simply right click). If the text is green or blue it is below your level. White matches you, yellow and red mean the mob is higher level than you are (a risky proposition).

Try to fight in places where your enemies won't be able to call on assistance from friends. If you get in trouble you can strafe-run and jump to try make some distance, hopefully getting to a zoneline or guard for safety.

Don't be afraid to ask questions in game. Typing "/ooc I'm new and I've lost my corpse, can anyone help me retrieve it?" will broadcast the message, "I'm new and I've lost my corpse, can anyone help me retrieve it?" to everyone else in the zone.

If you want to fine tune your controls, and see what other controls are available, alt-o opens the options window.

[Lysander]

There is a wiki for this game that is quite helpful that I recommend you get familiar with: http://wiki.project1999.com/.

There is a newbie guide on the wiki, but I personally don't think it's very helpful. But it's something to get started with since you seem like you are quite new. :http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:...eep_killing_me.

Look for the spell bar on your screen somewhere, and just drag the spells from your book to the bar. That's a more intuitive way to mem your spells. Try and make your way to the newbie yard of whatever town you're in to make sure you're actually killing monsters at your level instead of killing random things (make sure you use consider like suggested above).

If you give more details about what character you are and what city you are starting I am sure people could offer you a lot more help. If you pick a popular, high traffic starting area like Freeport, there will be lots of people going in and out who will be willing to help you if you ask. West Freeport also has lots of weak trash mobs for you to kill with high density.

Some other useful commands you might want to know are /who or just / to know who and what zone you are in.

Honestly the best advice I can give you is to just start in freeport, and /ooc that you are new. There are lots of very, very nice people in P99 who would gladly assist you.