VENOM
(Mastertronic)

(c) Mastertronic Limited 1987
Designed and Written by Softec


THE GAME

You take the part of Rikka, a friend of Arrel, the Ruler of Armosin, the
Lost Land of the Argonath. You have arranged to meet Arrel and his other
friend Beris in the Dancing Drayman Inn which is where you commence the
adventure.
	The Land of Armosin is beset with peril by the evil one, Traklan
and his Hordes, who infest the Mines of Australis in the Miraasyn Abyss.
You must take great care as you journey around the Land. More will
become clear as you do so. Be sure to read the pocket history of the
Land as it contains many clues.

CONTROLS
Kempston or Cursor joystick, or keyboard using the cursor arrows to move
and 0 to select.

FEATURES
1. If you select the SCROLL option, the verbs in the window below will
   change to give you more options.
2. Any characters present (including yourself) will be displayed in the
   window immediately below the verb window (ie. the window marked
   PRESENT).
3. A special command, TALK, enables you to converse with any of the
   characters present. For example, selecting TALK places SAY TO into
   the scrolling window. The first character in the list highlights and
   you can move up and down the list. Pressing fire places the high-
   lighted character into the scrolling window, building up the sentence
   to read: SAY TO PERSON. Control then returns to the verb window; ie.
   the verb that represents the action you wish the character to perform
   eg. if this is GIVE, you then select the character to give to and the
   objects then scroll in. Move left and right to select. Therefore a
   typical command might be: SAY TO HARG GIVE TIRLAN SWORD. Some
   characters are friendly, some are not. Some will only help you if a
   certain action has been performed. Full use should be made of the
   TALK command if you are to progress in the game.
4. Many locations have graphics; those that don't feature a pocket
   history of the land you inhabit (many clues are scattered here).
5. There are three examine commands:
   	EXAM - to examine objects in the text
   	LOOK - to examine people in the game
   	VIEW - to examine any objects being carried
   If you wish to see what a character is carrying use the TALK command;
   ie. SAY TO HARG INVENTORY or SAY TO HARG VIEW SWORD.
6. L'SAVE allows access to LOAD and SAVE to cassette, disk or quicksave
   to memory. Any save to memory overwrites any previous save to memory
   and any load from memory destroys the current position and replaces
   it with the last saved position.
7. FIGHT is a special command to allow combat between any of the
   characters.
8. MOUNT is a special command for getting on and off your horse. You are
   astride him at the beginning of the game.

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
Type LOAD "" and press ENTER