OldCW's Germ-Free Clan

Level 1

Basics

If you just started the game, there is a lot to do for you. Explore the map. It is mostly empty yet, but as you grow older and gather experience, more areas will show up for you.

Everything works just by clicking on things, links or buttons. Only in a very few cases you will have to do some extra clicks to verify that you are really sure you want to do what you're about to do, but in general, a click means an action, and there is no Undo.

Some actions are absolutely harmless, for example, you can click on any item you see, and it will just result in a popup showing you this item's description. This works no matter if you look at your inventory or if you just finished a fight and the monster dropped the item in question. If you look at your inventory, you'll find the same item then. If it has a number in brackets next to it, this shows you how many of the item you have. No number = 1 instance of this item.

In other places, on the map, a name with a number in brackets (usually 1) means, clicking there will cost you an adventure. Adventures, that's the time unit that counts in the Kingdom. You can spend a lot of hours looking around on the map, or you can go straight to spending your adventures, but once your adventures (also, "turns") are used up, the day is mostly over for you.

Chat

Yes, the Kingdom has a chat. To be able to enter it, go to Seaside Town, find the Altar and solve the tasks you get there.
Can't pass them? Well, then there won't be any chatting for you.
Passed them? Perfect? At the top of the right pane, there should be a link to the chat now. Click it and enjoy the company! If you wish to do some research first on how it works, have a look at the Chat Guide.

A little detail to make chat life easier, go to your account menu (there is a link in the top pane to it) and find the line Enable Right Click Menu: which you click. A list of checkboxes and options will appear. Any option in it that you tick here will be available in chat, whenever you right-click on a player's bolded name. As you explore the Kingdom, more and more of these options will make sense to you, but for now, I'd recommend to tick at least the first 3 and the last 4 options and hit the Enable Right Click Menu Options button. Those are the bare minimum for easy communication. Of course, there is nothing that would keep you from just activating all of them already and find out what they do later.

TL;DR?
Well, just go to the mountains and check out Mt. Noob. The Toot Oriole will give you your very first quest and explain some basic things to you in the process.

Been there, done that?
Good. You may or may not need some levelling now. Before you do that, go around in Seaside Town and talk to everyone who doesn't take adventures. Someone may have something to do for you.
Now, besides the Mt. Noob, there are mostly 3 areas available at level 1. Each of these is dedicated to 1 of the 3 stat types. Stats? Look at the left side, at your char pane. Muscle, Mysticality and Moxie, those are the stats in question.

At this point, I recommend to go to your account menu and scroll down to the Interface Options. There, you will see a coupe of links that you can click to open up a list. Toggle progress bars on left pane: is the one we want right now - tick all the check boxes and click Change Visibility to submit the change. Now you will see how every single combat affects your stats and growth. Nifty, isn't it? (Well, if not for you, for me it still is, after all these years.)

Areas

Now, stats and levelling. If you want to focus on a certain stat, here are the areas of choice:

• The Sleazy Back Alley is an area that trains very well your moxie - you will need it to keep your meat together!
• The Haunted Pantry is full of all kinds of strange enchantments - use your brain to become their master!
• The Outskirts of the Knob is where you find a bunch of Knob Goblins to beat up.

Each of these has a few special adventures. One gives a good increase to the area-specific stat, another one gives you a mini quest, and the third yields an item for the Pretentious Artist. You did talk to him earlier already, didn't you?

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