Notes From BatMud

  Introduction: How Ferries are Used in Batmud: At one time, all of Batmud resided on one giant continent. While this was simple, it caused problems as traveling between areas took a long time. This went double if your character didn't have the hiking skill and a small number of hit-points (cough, mages, cough). To simplify things, the Badmud wizards caused a giant cataclysm that broke Batmud up into five different continents. Laenor: The starting continent for new players. Most (but not all) low level areas are here, and the outerworld monsters tend to be a bit tamer. Desolathya: This will likely be your next most traveled continent as you level up. Truth be told, this continent has a bit of an identity crisis as there are some very early (as in less than player level 20) newbie areas as well as tougher areas. Lucentium: Lots of good areas as your character get closer to player level 40. Be warned, this is one of the wilder continents with lots of different creatures wandering aro

Continent:  Laenor Description: A good newbie (as in players lower than level 20) area The area quest rewards a decent amount of money (around 15k gold) which can be repeated once a day. The red rockets dropped here are a popular way to shout messages to the rest of the mud Note: Many of the bullies don't leave corpses which makes it less interesting for guilds that need corpses. Quests: Area Quest: Scouts Note: This quest is not listed on the bat.org website Equipment: Orc scout field guide Sells for around 3.5k gold so it is worth picking up even if you can't use it. Reward for finding the orc scout treasure Supposedly if you wield this then it will grant you a bonus to your consider skill I suspect there is a level limit to this item as it did not do anything for my Level 27 character Red Rockets These allow you to send a message to the entire MUD Only the first 31 characters will be displayed Use "message %" to set the message the rocket should say Next drop rocke

Continent:  Laenor Description: Area based on the Monty Python Holy Grail movie There seems like a few things in this area which make it feel half-done. As in the wizard coding it got tired and said "good enough" For example some of the path descriptions have a generic title with a number after it Also the characters don't respond to questions. Instead you need to "say" things. Also there are typos. Such as the Castle Arg being referred to as the Castle Anthrax. Quests: LQ44: Holy Grail One of the easier "high level" level quests. The final French Knight Captain hits very hard, but I can see better geared players being able to solo them. That being said, it can only be completed by male characters which is a poor design decision. If your character has a different gender you will need a temporary sex change operation. This can be done for 500 gold in the Arelium hospital Equipment: N one that I know of.  Special Explore Rooms: The entrance to the Castle