This brief walkthru will guide you through the first few areas of the game and get you up and running. Note this guide is for hints and the first few quests. This is not a help article describing game play. The in-game help screens describe the game play. The Tyre website will also contain instructions for playing the game. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE AND ENJOY!

I. GETTING STARTED, NORTHERN PASS PLATEAU

You wake up in a strange room. A man named Rodan is there. He found you unconscious in the snow nearby and nursed you back to health. Talk to him and he gives you his wooden sword, wooden armor, and 10 healing herbs. You cannot use the staircase to leave the room until you have talked to him and gotten your gear. The area you are in is called the Northern Pass Plateau.

Leave Rodans house and head east until you come to the "Quick Stop Item Shop" (QSIS). The sign out front lets you know you've found it. The shopkeeper buys and sells items. He offers a lifetime guarantee on all his items so if you want to return an item he'll buy it back for the same price you paid, which comes in very handy. Browse his goods so you know whats for sale and how much it costs.

Inside the shop is a local guard named Fern. He lives in Acacia, a small town to the south. He asks you to deliver a letter to his wife there if you are going that way. You now have his sealed letter in your inventory, but its not polite to read other peoples' letters so you should not open it. If you do you won't get the reward from his wife later, but you will at least learn how Fern really thinks of you.

Leave the shop and follow the road south 2 screens until you see a staircase and a man. He is the tollkeeper and requires a one-time fee of 250 gold to enter the tunnel. Looks like you'll need to either fight some monsters or find 250 gold coins. You may want to sell items you find after battles to raise the 250 gold, but be careful and don't carry too much gold since you lose 25% of it everytime you die.

Follow the road back north past the item shop until the road ends (from toll tunnel its up 3 screens, then right 1 screen). When the road ends go north two screens and find Ian. He has been robbed by a thief and asks you to help him get his gold back, and gives you 2 healing herbs as thanks. If you examine him (using the magnifying glass icon) it says "he has gold coins strewn about all around him". Search the ground around him and you will find 25 gold. Go left one screen and you'll "feel a presence" like someone is watching you. Talk to the white tree and it turns out he is alive! He's one of the treefolk, but he doesn't have much to say except to talk to other tree folk. According to legend they are located throughout the land but very few people have ever talked to a tree folk.

Go south and follow the wall west and then north till you can't go any futher north. There are pigs walking around inside the wall but there is no way to get inside..for now. Go left 2 screens (past a sign and Jonathan - talk to him). and you'll find a girl named Katia. She is lost and needs directions, but you don't know where to lead her either. Luckily there happens to be directions lying around near the toll tunnel. You can talk to the pig walking around in this room too.

Go south until you see the water. The white tree in this room is a treefolk too but he doens't have much to say either. Go south one more screen and talk to the young boy Andy. He is hopelessly lost and gives you 4 healing herbs as thanks for agreeing to look for his family. Go east until you hit a hedge row that you cannot pass. You cannot enter the area inside the hedges..for now. Follow the hedges up and to the right and you will find yet another white treefolk (from Andy's screen it is right 1, up 2, right 1). Talk to this one because he starts you on a quest to find his lost sapling and gives you 4 healing herbs. Take the road south 1 screen and you are back at Rodan's house.

If you have already talked to Ian, the thief that robbed him is located 2 screens south of Rodan's house. He can be pretty tricky to fight without a good supply of healing herbs. Be sure to heal yourself after every 1 or 2 attacks or you'll die. One screen to the east is Botanist Bob, who only shows up after you have talked to the treefolk who asked for his lost sapling. Bob is a tough boss to beat, and you may want to hold off fighting him till later when you have better gear.

You do not need to fight Botanist Bob or Ian's thief for the time being, but both quests should be completed once you are strong enough. Go back to the toll tunnel and there is a piece of paper on the ground. It is Katia's toll directions, search the ground (using the radar icon) and pick up the directions and 15 gold. Go east 1 screen and there is another note on the ground. It is a riddle leading to Jimmy's Treasure. HINT - the treasure is south on the other side of the toll tunnel so don't waste your time looking for it around here. Return to Katia and give her the toll directions. She says "don't forget to remind me to give you your reward" Talk to her again and she rewards you with 2 healing salves and 15 gold. The healing salves can be sold for 100 gold at the item shop since they are stronger than you need until you have more health.

At this point you should have either 250 gold or enough extra items that you can sell them for 250. If not fight some monsters until you get enough gold/items. You will need a torch to enter the toll tunnel, so be sure to buy some at the item shop. You should ALWAYS take at least 2 torches when going in a tunnel so that you can re-enter the tunnel from the other side. The sign next to the toll tunnel is a warning advising you to always carry an extra torch. Be careful walking around with the 250 gold in your pocket since you will lose 25% of it if you die. Pay the tollkeeper and he disappears. Enter the tunnel. The exit is south 1, west 1, south 1 screen. Leave the tunnel - you are now in the area surrounding Acacia!