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= Experience =
Once you've gotten to the hang of playing your character, it's time to start improving him. You can train skills or study spells depending on you choice of guild. Training is accuired by spending a bit of your experience and money with your guild tutor. At start you have some money and a bit of experience to start with. The exact amount depends on your backgroud.

To see in which skills and spells your character is proficient with, type skills and spells, respectively. Besides the normal skills you might have, skills -bg and spells -bg reveal bonuses arising from your background.

At this point it's good to take a break and read help guilds and help experience.

== Advancement Points ==
Advancement points are used to improve your statistics. You can gain and spend them in the Adventurers' Guild. It can be found in the city of Vaerlon. Use the map command to find it; it lies not far east from the Central Square.

In the guild you can advance a statistic with the advance command. Before you do that, it's a good idea to look at the plague in the guild, and decide upon a statistic you want to improve. For details, read help points.

== Training ==
It is a good idea to train or study as much as possible right at the beginning. The better your skills or spells are, the better is your chance of survival.

You can try to ask your fellow players for their advice on what to study or train. Again, channels are best for this, especially your guild-channel. Each guild has its own channel to which only the member of that guild can listen to.

== On With the Game ==

When you are done shaping your character, you can go explore the city, if you haven't done so already. You can get experience by exploring new areas. When you enter a special room for the first time, you're revarded experience. There are several such rooms in the city, so looking around does pay off. Be warned though! Many beginning adventurers have made the mistake of thinking killing innocent citizens would be an easy way to gain experience. However, the guards in Vaerlon are not gentle with troublemakers. If you want to kill something, find an area suitable for you. Some areas suitable for beginning players are revealed by reading help newbie areas.

The city explored, a true adventuring life awaits you. It's time to move on to adventuring big time, and learn about living in Icesus. You should read [[living|help living]]. More is explained there.