Murkon's Vengeance: Instructions

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Murkon's Vengeance

Instructions

Important Differences From Murkon's Refuge

Murkon's Refuge and Murkon's Vengeance are very different games, but a few of the mechanical details work similarly. If you are a former Refuge player and want to plunge into Vengeance without wading through all the instructions, feel free to do so, but you should take note of the following details, lest you make some incorrect assumptions based on how Refuge works.

In Murkon's Refuge, you can move freely back and forth between levels. In Murkon's Vengeance, you go up only. You can't backtrack, so make sure you explore each level fully before leaving it.
In Murkon's Refuge, you have to acquire keys and the like in order to obtain access to certain parts of the labyrinth. Typically, once you secure a key, one of your characters keeps it around indefinitely. This is NOT necessary in Murkon's Vengeance. In Murkon's Vengeance, it is safe to drop a key (or similar object) once you've left the level where you obtained it. You can, of course, continue to carry it around with you, but it won't do you any good. If you accidentally drop an item like this prematurely, there will always be a way to get another one, so don't worry that the game could become unsolvable.
In Murkon's Refuge, escaping monsters by running away is not a guarantee. Sometimes the monsters are able to outmaneuver you and keep you engaged in the fight. This never happens in Murkon's Vengeance (although, especially when you have low agility, you might get attacked before you get a chance to make a break for it). Remember, you're playing the badguys now, and just as there was nothing you could do to keep a monster from running away in Murkon's Refuge other than killing it first, so also will nothing prevent you from escaping a combat situation you'd rather avoid.
There is a caveat, however. When you run away from combat, your monster companions won't follow you; they'll be left behind to be slaughtered by your enemies. Murkon has no moral compunction about abandoning his minions to certain doom, but before you direct Murkon to run away from combat, make sure this will not be a strategic error.
The other important thing to know about running from combat is that -- unlike in Murkon's Refuge -- you always run back in the direction you came from.
In Murkon's Vengeance, injuries sustained in combat by either Murkon or his monsters will be automatically healed after the battle is left. This is not true of the adventurers, who only get to heal from their wounds if you hit a checkpoint.
When you die in Murkon's Refuge, you get transported back to the last town you visited and have to find a means of getting resurrected from the dead. Things work differently in Murkon's Vengeance: thanks to the convenient fact that the space-time continuum is allied with Murkon, time will be rewound whenever he dies. More precisely, time will be rewound to the point when Murkon reached the last checkpoint. A checkpoint is a spot in the labyrinth (visible as an orange flag in the top-down view) that, when Murkon lands on it, will secure the progress he has made so far. If he gets killed later on, time will only be rewound to when he hit the checkpoint.
A checkpoint will disappear once you run into it, so you want to space out your usage of any available checkpoints so that you don't run out of them. Also note that if there are parties on the level that are partially wounded but still alive, they'll get a chance to restore themselves to full health if you hit a checkpoint.

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