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Copyright (c) 2024 Elwynor Technologies
You will travel to the world of Kyrandia, a fairy tale land of magic and mystery, realm of the beautiful and powerful goddess of Kyrandia, Tashanna, the "Lady of Legends." Here, you begin as a young apprentice from a small village who seeks to grow in knowledge, wisdom, and power, with high hopes of being granted the title of "Arch-Mage of Legends" -- the mightiest wizard of Kyrandia! To achieve your goal, you must cross the lands of Kyrandia, face unknown perils, solve mystical enigmas, battle rivalrous mages, and conqueror your own mind, body, and soul.
Time has stood still for too long on Kyrandia -- now is the time for one mage to rise above and master the powers of sorcery and magic.
Kyrandia (Fantasy-world) is a multi-player interactive game in which many players can adventure with each other in the same simulated adventure world. Players can help one another, engage in battle, trade information, or just "shoot the breeze."
Kyrandia takes place in the world of Kyrandia, the realm of the goddess Tashanna. In many ways, Kyrandia is the culmination of learning and growth by the authors after building the Peyennuu-based games (Quest for Magic, Quest of the Alchemists, Alchemy II: The Hangover, Quest for Sorcery, and Quest for Sorcery II a/k/a Sorcerer's Isles).
The object of the game is to grow, solve puzzles, and become the first "Arch-Mage of Legends" on the system.
To move about in Kyrandia, type the direction you want your character to go (north, south, east or west). You can speak with other players using action verbs. For example, if you were to type "say hello there", other players at the same location would see "hello there." You may pick up objects and do things with them. You can look at your current surroundings or other players. Almost any mundane action you can think of can be performed.
However, the world of Kyrandia is much, much more. The underlying theme of the entire game is the use of magic. Similar in concept to the popular role- playing game "Dungeons & Dragons," players are "magic-users" who start at level 1 (Apprentice) and advance to higher levels and more powerful magic.
Spells are magic cast by players, sometimes at objects or other players. To cast a spell a player must first have it memorized. He must also have enough spell points to cast it, and must be of high enough level for certain spells. Also, some spells require the player to have certain components (objects) to cast them. To actually cast the spell, a player must type "cast" and then the secret incantation of the spell to be cast; sometimes, a direct object must be included as well, such as "at the elf".
The physical strength and endurance of a player is determined by his "hit points." A player's hit points increase as he gains levels or by magical means. It is through hit points that most players battle each other; when a player's hit points reach 0, he is killed, and must start from scratch at the beginning again.
To see what spells you have memorized and how many spell points you have, type "spells". To see how many hit points you have, type "hits". To see what objects you are holding, type "inv". And if you need it, type "help".
Simply unzip the archive to your Major BBS server directory, add it to your menu, configure the MSG file to your liking, and start Major BBS! It's that easy!
Kyrandia has three message files. Within ELWKYRM, you can define the key required to play the game, and decide whether to allow users to exchange Kyrandia gold for BBS credits. There are also some solution strings in level 4, and general text blocks in level 6. The other two files customize location text (ELWKYRL.MSG) and SysOp editor text (ELWKYRS.MSG).
Kyrandia was one of a series of 7 text-based adventure RPGs written by Scott Brinker. It is the culmination of work begun with the Quest for Magic game, which itself was based upon Fazuul by Tim Stryker, which at the time, was mired in copyright issues as it was written pre-Galacticomm for a client. It is set in a new world and had far more complexity than its predecessors. It was a very popular module throughout The Major BBS era from version 5 through Worldgroup. Toward the end of the Galacticomm era the focus on add-on modules waned.
The game was the focus of legal controversy. A licensee of the module was affiliated with Westwood Studios, a video game company. In 1992, that company released a game The Legend of Kyrandia, followed in 1993 by Legend of Kyrandia Book Two: The Hand of Fate and in 1994 by Book 3 Malcolm's Revenge. The games clearly took the name and some of the solutions (changing gem names, end target to King, etc.). Galacticomm initially hired legal counsel, but as it dragged on, with Galacticomm's financial situation deteriorating, the suit was dropped due to the cost. Very disappointing as the games were successful (and rather good!) but Galacticomm, Scott Brinker, and Richard Skurnick received nothing despite the obvious theft.
Kyrandia was acquired by Elwynor Technologies in 2005 along with the rest of the Galacticomm intellectual property. It was fully ported to Worldgroup 3.2 in April 2021, and ported to The Major BBS v10 in April 2023.
This project is licensed under the AGPL v3. Additional terms apply to contributions and derivative projects. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.
We welcome contributions from the community. By contributing, you agree to the terms outlined in the CONTRIBUTING file.
If you create an entirely new project based on this work, it must be licensed under the AGPL v3, assign all right, title, and interest, including all copyrights, in and to your fork to Rick Hadsall and Elwynor Technologies, and you must include the additional terms from the LICENSE file in your project's LICENSE file.
This is a Worldgroup 3.2 / Major BBS v10 module. It's compiled using Borland C/C++ 5.0 for Worldgroup 3.2. If you have a working Worldgroup 3.2 development kit, a simple "make -f ELWKYR" should do it! For Major BBS v10, import this project folder in the isv/ subtree of Visual Studio 2022, right click the project name and choose build! When ready to build for "release", ensure you are building for release.
The DIST folder includes all of the items that should be packaged up in a ELWKYR.ZIP. When unzipped in a Worldgroup 3.2 or Major BBS V10 installation folder, it "installs" the module.