Welcome
Alatia is what is known as an LPmud, a type of multiplayer roleplaying and adventuring game, usually with an emphasis on swords and sorcery. The game is structured as a number of 'rooms' through which players move, described by paragraphs of text. Actions and activity are described by sentences that will be displayed on your screen, and all commands are standard English words or abbreviations. Basically, the idea of the game is to run around, explore, kill monsters, solve puzzles, and complete quests, in whatever order you prefer. Many people also log on to Alatia just for the pleasure of talking to other Alatians.
As your character gains experience, it will become more powerful, and gain access to new and more interesting areas of the game. Many of these are in other worlds than Velaria (your starting world). Should you play long enough and successfully enough, you will become a High Level Player (HLP), and eventually a Hero, the rarest and most powerful kind of adventurer, with access to abilities, items, and treasures that others can only dream of.
You can connect to Alatia at: telnet alatia.com 2000
Or to just try it out, you may use our Web interface.
The Story
Long before written history there was a world known as Alatia.
It was a place of stunning beauty and terrifying evil. It was a land where legendary heroes did battle against impossible odds. Creatures long since disregarded as myth and lore were commonplace. Alatia was much more than a single land however, it was a nexus of realities.
Existing within Alatia's vast world was a doorway, a doorway like none other. This doorway was a gate to an infinite number of worlds and dimensions. Lands of shadow and lands of mythology were accessible through this gate. Once again this gate has appeared in reality, it is your entryway to adventure, to magic, to glory, you need only to step through...
A blue, swirling mist appears and begins to crackle with energy as you slip the portal pass into the slot on the stone sculpture. You see in front of you vague swirling pictures of other worlds, some strange and beautiful, some obscene and grotesque. Pictures range from floating cities to stone huts. You suddenly realize this world you have mastered is just the beginning, just a start. The stone arch throbs with energy. You have found the Gateway... many other worlds await you...