SORCERER'S CAVE is a simple game of exploration, magic, and adventure, based on the author's popular card game.
An evil Sorcerer has created an ever-changing labyrinth in which to hide his stolen treasures. The entrance is easy to find, and many are the adventurers who try their luck within the Cave's winding passages. Some return with their lives, and a few with riches; but many more have cause to remember the warning of the poet Vergil:
The descent to the underworld is easy:
By day and night the door of the Dark One stands open.
But to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air
There is the trouble, there the toil.
Object of the Game
You form an exploring party, explore the Cave, and attempt to return to the surface with as much booty and as many allies as you can acquire. Extra points are gained for slaying Dragons or the Sorcerer. You don't get any points if your party fails to return to the surface.
Much of the challenge of the game lies in finding a return route to the surface when your party becomes trapped. Sometimes you will find yourself in a confined part of the Cave from which there is absolutely no escape. When this happens you have to abort the game, and you score no points.
Time and Morale
There is no fixed time-limit on exploration, but eventually the members of your party get tired and want to go home. The current morale is reflected by the bar graph on the right side of the main window. Once the bar turns red (after half the starting morale is gone), there is a chance that members of the party will start to desert. The likelihood of desertion increases as morale drops further. When morale drops to zero, the remaining members of your party all perish.
Morale drops as time passes, and there is nothing you can do to raise it. However, the rate of drop depends on what you are doing
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