May 1622 - Day 2

Martti wakes up hungry, but full of plans for gold and glory. First let us see what starting items he got! An easy way to check the items balances is to take the Main Menu (3 bars icon on the upper left) and Agora Marketplace from there. Then click button View My Items:

2,000,000 * M
500 * CAN (Green Herbs)
200 * MEAT (Meat)
200 * BEER (Beer)
1 * WOS-G (Peasant Brown Clothes)

Oh wow! I have my clothes and the 500*CAN taken with me from the country because it is easy to transport (both are starting items given to each new character hopefully within 24 hours of register). But not only that - The Prince of Soul did give his promised gift and anonymous donators gave strong and healthy foods.

Before planning any further, let us have a look at the Health Challenge. It is a main character management feature in the game when we don't yet have skills, trades, etc. Keeping yourself in good health is important because otherwise you die, losing all the immaterial things, while assets remain in the estate and can be transferred.

Martti clicks item MEAT, which takes him to a trading view. Meat is currently offered for sale at 5,250 m and bought at 5,120 m. A quick calculation makes this gift to be worth ~1 mil! At this point Martti has learned that the townspeople use the word "mil" to refer "million units of currency", which is the same value as 1 XMR (about $0.50 atm).


Here is a command box, the main method of asking things to happen in the game. Command HEALTH gives the health report, which for a 15-year old boy looks like this:

COMMAND RESULTS
You may still eat 200 units, drink 200 units and use 200 units of wisdom this year. Your remaining health challenge is Severe. Your overall health is Excellent.
There is a recent guide on the health challenge basics, and also an advanced one. For Martti, it is sufficient to understand that he does not eat meat every day (it is expensive) nor drink beer (same).

Even the 500*CAN that Mother so carefully packed in the brown pouch, is not foremost meant for consumption but to be sold to the market and bartered for other more urgently needed items. CAN is excellent for transporting value, because 1 kilo of CAN has approximately the same value as 20 kilos of foie gras, 200 kilos of meat, 1 ton of vegetables, or 100 tons of building stone.

Severe is actually 'good news' as regards Health Challenge (the other option being Brutal, which is worse. To give good thoughts to the benefactors, and alleviate the hunger, Martti decides to feast the best he has ever done - 50*MEAT, 50*BEER, 50*CAN and think about other things after this invigoration. CONSUME MEAT 50 (and similarly for others) is the command, and the final consumption report is:

COMMAND RESULTS
The eating/drinking felt Satisfying. I feel the remaining health challenge to be Severe. I could still eat 150, drink 150 and use 150 units of wisdom this year.

The remaining health challenge stays Severe after quite a time, and should not be left such in the end of the year. The better ratings after Severe are all acceptable depending on the circumstances. There is plenty of quota left.

Many things await for to be explored, but we will take a break here and let's go to the functions of the market tomorrow!