Beserkers start with very little, typically just some food, an animal skin and a weapon (which we, as Trolls, have forsaken for now.) Beserkers are the ultimate kill it first though because they don't split their skills between armour and damage. They hunger fast but their amazing strength and ability with claws makes trolls very powerful early. On our race and class, we're a Troll, monstrous humanoids who rip and tear but not much else. Also in the picture we can see the end of our vision, things outside of this are not updated and unseen. The special type of stairs up that only appears on D:1, using those ends the game, either retiring your character or ascending if you have the Orb of Zot. The darker, gray tiles are floor, obviously. That's the wall, a rock wall at that, we'll be seeing other types, but rock walls are the most common and are our best friend early. That's us, you can customize the tile for your character, but I don't bother, it does change based on what you're wearing, so once we find more suitable garments, the tile will change a bit. The spells tab is above that, but we don't have any, our 3 int and Trogs hatred of spellcasters means we probably never will. Our inventory, two scrolls we just picked up, two meat rations, and an animal skin. The message window is where the game tells you what happens in between inputs ∿oo misses you, You feel uneasy, whatever. Other colors, like red for enemies, are also used. This is our minimap of the level we're on, the white dot is us, blue dots are stairs out, yellow dots are decoration. I'll go over things like AC and Evasion in a future installment, but for now, know that we're not half bad.
This is your general information screen, has our name and title, followed by race, god, and piety level (1 asterisk is one level.) Next is our hitpoints and magic, then our primary stats (Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity) with our defensive stats (armour class, Evasion, and Shield, higher is better) then our experience level, how much experience we have gained towards the next level and where we are (Dungeon:1 is the same as D:1.)Gold count, turn count, weapon, and Quivered item are self-explanatory. Let's take a gander at the stats displayed and learn a bit about Testy. If we were to read them, we could find out, but doing so consumes the scroll, so we'll just hold on to them for now. We'll start by picking up two scrolls and.what a sham, we don't know what they do. (The first screenshot didn't take for some reason, but all we missed was picking up two scrolls we could see from the start.) So, we'll be starting off with a pretty simple combination, TrBe (Troll Beserker, there's a shorthand for every race and class), lets see what we start with.