STANDARD DEV1ATIONS GgB: GRIM GAUNTLET BENEATH

STANDARD DEV1ATIONS GgB: GRIM GAUNTLET BENEATH

It is the year 971-an age of peril and plunder. Man has ceased his journey on the path to creation, and has instead begun dismantling the past.

Beneath the shattered city of Vaelthorne, past the sundered gates and broken spires, lies the Grim Gauntlet Beneath-a labyrinthine underworld of cursed vaults and horrors unchained. None know who built it, nor why its halls refuse to stay still. Some say it was a prison for gods; others claim it was a treasury for an empire that suddenly collapsed into ruin.

All agree on one thing: for those who enter it, it is a tomb.

Step forth, bold adventurer. Step forth and venture into the Gauntlet with naught but your steel, your wits, and your life. Beneath, death lurks. But so too does wealth beyond reckoning, relics of forgotten kings, and powers that defy mortal understanding.

Many have tried. Most have perished. Will you be the latest to gain riches and glory from the GRIM GAUNTLET BENEATH?

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CONTROLS

Input	Keyboard	Controller
NEXT	Enter	Button Face Button (A)
BACK	Backspace	Right Face Button (B)
INFO	I, F9	Left Center Button (Select)
HELP	H, F6	Right Center Button (Start)
BASH	B	Left Face Button (X)
MAGE SPELL	M	Left Bumper
CLERIC SPELL	C	Right Bumper

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STANDARD DEV1ATIONS is inspired by the CRPGs on the PLATO system, most notably pedit5, which it is is a clone of. pedit5 is likely the first CRPG to have been created, and it is certainly the oldest one to have survived. You can play it for yourself with a PLATO emulator. I recommend pterm.