THE RAD BOIS

The lanterns of Thornwick burn low. Something stirs upon the moors.

The Rad Bois is a text adventure you play with your friends: a dark fantasy world of moors, crypts, haunted woods and wrecker-haunted cliffs, all described in words. You play it in your web browser or in Mudlet, fight with a sword or a spell, hunt treasure, learn a trade, and band together against things that should have stayed buried.

This guide teaches you how to play and tells the story of the realm. The game itself is at play.theradbois.com.

New here?Get an invite, make a character, and survive your first hour. How to playFighting, healing, dying, training and grouping up. Choose a pathTen professions, from Warrior to Occultist. CommandsEvery command in the game, with examples. The worldTowns, regions and what hunts in them. LoreThe seven gods, and the king who would not die.

The realm in one paragraph

Three hundred years ago, King Corvane of Vael refused to die. He fed his kingdom to the hunger beneath his barrow and lived, while the green land withered into the grey Greyveil Moors. The gods' champions sealed him beneath his throne behind seven locks. Now the survivors' town of Thornwick keeps its lanterns lit every night, the dead walk the moors in greater numbers every year, a cult prays openly to the Hollow King, and the cold air breathing up from beneath the barrow is getting colder. Read the full history.

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