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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Features


1.

Character's Status Window


HP:

HP refers to the health/life of your character. When your character's HP becomes "0", your character will die. Before the HP drops down to "0", HP can be restored by using HP Restoration Items/Potions or by taking a rest.


MP:

MP refers to the spirit consumed when utilizing your character's skills. If the MP is insufficient, your character will not be able to use their skills. Just like your HP, your MP can be restored by using MP Restoration Items/Potions or by taking a rest.


SP:

SP refers to the strength needed when doing attacks. Continuous attacks will consume more SP. A player won't be able to attack if the current SP is insufficient. Your character's strength can be restored by using the SP Restoration Potion or by taking a rest.


EXP:

EXP refers to the Experience points (in %) your character acquires during the game. EXP can be gained by successfully battling your enemies and accomplishing missions. When your EXP bar reaches 100%, your character will advance to a higher level.




2.

Tools Shortcut Bar


  • Register all desired consumable items in the Tools Inventory Window, for immediate use.
  • Use the left mouse button to select all the consumable items in the Tools Inventory Window, place it in the Tools Shortcut Bar to complete the registration to a shortcut key. Once registered you can just press the appropriate key/s to use a specific consumable item immediately without accessing your inventory.
  • There are six shortcut keys available. These are the Q, W, E, A, S, D keys.
NOTE: To cancel the registration of a specific consumable item from the Tools Shortcuts, just right click on the desired tool's shortcut key.




3

Skills Shortcut Bar


  • Register all the skills acquired from the Skills Window into the Skills Shortcut Bar for immediate use. (Only Initiative Skills are allowed here; Passive skills need not to be registered to the Skills shortcut bar.)
  • Use the left mouse button to select all the skill/s your character acquired in the Skills Window, and place it in the Skills Shortcut Bar to complete the registration to a specific shortcut key.
  • There are ten shortcut keys available. These are the 1-0 keys of your keyboard.
NOTE: To cancel the registration of a specific skill assigned to a specific Skills Shortcut, just right click on the respective tool's shortcut.




4.

Compass and Grid Reference


  • The Compass and grid reference indicates the character's current position. It consists of maps and grid reference information. The current game's date and time are shown in the bottom part of the compass.



5.

Chat Window


  • The Chat Window is intended for input/output of chat messages.
  • This display interface allows players to communicate and interact with other characters in the game during game play.
  • Use the [Enter] button or Right Mouse Button to activate the Chat Window and key in the messages you would like to display.
  • Press the [Enter] button to send out the messages and display it in the Chat Window.
NOTE: Repetitive entries to the Chat Window will prompt a message constraining you to continue using the chat function for 30 Seconds.




6.

System MENU/Window Menu List


  • This panel displays the diagram list and system settings MENU in each window
  • System MENU includes four (4) selections These are the (1)Exit or Move to Server Selection Menu, (2) Game Options or System Functions, (3) Help or On-Line Guide and (4) Game Over or End Game.
  • The Window Menu List includes the Tools Inventory Bar (I), Character (C), Skills (K), Party (P), Gang (G), Missions (T), Friends (F), Map (M), Bank (B), and Run/Walk (R).

The Beginning

The Omen began 18 years ago. A terrifying solar eclipse engulfed the skies above Asia. From this gaping darkness, a vicious torrent of meteors hurtled down, leaving a wake of smoldering rubble and scorched earth.

Chaos and paranoia swept over Asia, forcing the rest of the world to quarantine the continent, an island onto itself.

Two years later, from this apocalyptic wreckage, a clandestine organization known only as the Sacred Financial Group ascended to power, shrouded in myth and mystery, brimming with untold wealth and influence.

The Group would found four schools, each one unique in its own way: Sacred Gate, Mystic Peak, Phoenix, and Leonair Campus.

Only the smartest, strongest, fittest students were recruited to these institutions. Yet beneath its quiet façade of learning and academia, an unsettling truth began to surface. These were no ordinary schools. Their infrastructures, rising menacingly above all others, were strange and alien in design, as if echoing an ominous, inescapable fate.

Suspicion grew. Where these sports institutions meant to breed a new generation of genetically-enhanced athletes? Where they military centers meant to recruit and train bio-engineered soldiers?

Soon, rumors began to spread about the alarming activities conducted within the four campuses. Students, they said, were being trained in cryptic, deadly forms of combat beyond the understanding of even the military’s most accomplished intelligence agencies; they were studying forbidden scrolls and texts believed to hold incomprehensible, supernatural power—power to create as well as destroy; and being taught the use of weapons exiled long ago for their genocidal role in the Ancient Wars.

The question was: Why? Why train these students in such brutal arts?

The answer would arrive with startling implications. A dimensional riff some attribute to the meteor storm had opened the gates to a demonic realm, poisoning the living and possessing the dead.

Only the four schools proved immune to this paranormal plague. Force shields were believed to protect the boundaries of the four schools and its students, keeping them safe within the schools’ borders.

The shields, however, were beginning to show signs of weakness. There were reports of creatures infiltrating school grounds and of students being taken almost daily, never to be seen again.

It was only a matter of time…

Leonair in the East was the first of the four to fall, its entire student populace devoured seemingly overnight, the campus left a graveyard of memory.

Of those who have attempted to brave the haunted campus grounds of Leonair since, few have returned, and those that have, speke tremulously of a presence so dark, so evil, it would in time, come to destroy all mankind.

So many questions remain unanswered. What caused the meteor shower? From what dimension did this supernatural evil originate from? How did the Sacred Financial Group know of the storm’s destructive, malevolent power?

Today, everything is calm and peaceful at the three schools, even as they wonder which of them is next.

When will their time come? How long will their shields hold?

For now, the students continue their studies. Waiting. Training. Praying...

Campuses

Mystic Peak Campus

Mystic Peak is the second campus to be created by the Sacred Financial Group. For strategic reasons, the campus is located on the Northern area of RAN world. Although the curriculum of Mystic Peak is similar to that of the other schools, its dedication to the arts is what sets Mystic Peak apart. This classical approach has helped make Mystic Peak the most picturesque of the schools. Classrooms are surrounded by lush, verdant greens and trees, fields of blooming flowers and plants that add color and vibrancy to an already scenic campus. Stained glass windows frame the campus buildings with an air of solemn grandeur.

A grand staircase in the center of the campus offers a tremendous view of the flora and fauna that envelops the inside of this campus.


Phoenix Campus

Phoenix campus is the third educational institution of the Sacred Financial Group. Its campus is located in the Southern area of the RAN world. Together with the other two schools, Phoenix comprises a solid defense system against , with Phoenix catering mostly to the students of high society families. Phoenix is renowned for its advanced engineering curriculum, offering the engineers and scientists of tomorrow access to the most expensive and advanced technology, free to test out their theories and experiments.

Sprawling with large classrooms and various futuristic activity centers, Phoenix is most proud of its ever-expanding libraries and science facilities. To some, it is a rich and fertile breeding ground of knowledge and learning, but to others, it is a cold, mechanical place, where the mind is valued above everything else.


Sacred Gate Campus

Sacred Gate Campus is the first educational institution built by the Sacred Financial Group. On the surface, all looks normal, but there are troubling undercurrents that lay beneath its design. Rumor has it that supernatural experiments are being conducted below Sacred Gate’s underground facilities. From the outside, the school’s veneer seems to reflect the Sacred Financial Group’s commitment to time-honored values, with its traditional, oriental architecture, brick-lined walkways, pagodas, florid gardens and exotic fountains.
I
n the middle of the school, running through its main walkway, a long and winding stone dragon weaves below and above ground, its head looming over Sacred Gate’s main reflecting pool. Awe inspiring and serene, Sacred Gate Campus is the epitome of Eastern calm.

Or is it?


Leonair Campus

The last of the campuses founded by the Sacred Financial Group, Leonair lays to the East, but due to a yet unexplained accident, the campus no longer exists. It lays in ruins, a haunting tomb that serves as a terrifying reminder of a reckoning long past. Strange, supernatural occurrences at the campus are being reported everyday. Some students, curious about the events surrounding the enigmatic campus, have ventured to Leonair, never to return. Those that do make it back, tell shuddering tales of a giant lion statue standing menacingly in the darkness, where trees hang withered and dead like skeletal hands, and where the surviving plant life has mutated into a savage species that prays on the humans foolish enough to venture into its path. Once proud and majestic, Leonair is no more, a black hole, where only nightmares thrive.