User Guide
To use the kick attack, click on the FOOT icon. The HAND icon loses its white
border and the FOOT icon gets a white border. (Note that the cursor has
changed to an orange circle. This cursor appears whenever one of the first
two Abilities are chosen.) Attack the same way you did for the hand — place
the cursor on or above the monster, and right-click or press z.
When you defeat the monster, it collapses into a small shape on the floor.
Look at your Score Bar — you see that it is no longer 0. Winning a combat
increases your score.
LIFE BAR
Being hit by a monster decreases your Life Bar. Click on the Life Bar to find
out exactly how much life energy you have left. A message in the Text Bar
appears, giving both your current Life and potential maximum Life.
Later in the game, when you acquire additional metaforms, notice that while
the amount of current and maximum Life varies from one metaform to
another, the percentage of current Life remains constant. For example, if the
Caun (with a maximum possible Life of 20) has a current Life of 5, then the
Grost (with a maximum Life of 200) has a current Life of 50 — Life is at
25% of maximum in both instances.
Don’t worry too much about losing Life, though. There are three ways for
you to regain Life. Given time, in human form, you slowly heal on your own.
Also, a metaform that you acquire later in the game — the Caun — heals
very rapidly. The Caun also have an Ability to turn Power into Life. A third
way to regain Life is to drink a healing potion.
POWER BAR
Power is tracked across metaforms as a single number. If one form has a cur-
rent Power of 30 and a maximum Power of 50, then all forms have a current
Power of 30 and a maximum Power of 50. Only as a human can you naturally
regain Power. If a metaform runs out of Power you will morph back to
human no matter where you are or what you are doing. The maximum amount
of Power that you can generate depends on your score. In addition to the
score you earn while as a human, your human form gets a percentage of the
scores earned by the non-human forms.
Power is used to morph to metaforms, and also to use certain metaform
Abilities.
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