                         RISKY WOODS  -  COMPLETE DOCS


THE OLD MONKS WERE WISE ....

In fact it was the monks who guarded the wisdom of the lost land. That is,
until Draxos and his evil legions showed up. They turned the monks into
statues - now evil has taken over, rotting corpses roam the woods, children
aren't safe, and the world is a scary place for the good and righteous.

Fortunately, you - the young warrior Rohan - have arrived to deliver
death and justice to the evil hordes. With weapons in hand you must enter
the Risky Woods and free the monks from the petrified captivity. Only when
youve set the monks free and sent Draxos back to hell will wisdom be
restored for good.


LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<Pointless typing in these as the manual provided is the Amiga one. There
 is a seperate file called ADDENDUM.DOC with the PC Loading docs there!>

CURRENT STAGE SCREEN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The current stage screen shows you which stage you are abouut to play.

Press Joystick or Space to begin.

THE GAME SCREEN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|            +------------+ +--------+  +--+                              |
|            |     (A)    | |        |   \/      +---------------------+  |
| +--------+ +------------+ |   (C)  |   /\(E)   |_________B___________|  |
| |        | |     (D)    | |        |  +--+     |_________F___________|  |
| |   (M)  | +------------+ |        |  3:20     |_________G___________|  |
| |        |  STAGE : 3 (H) +--------+           |         J           |  |
| +--------+                     0 (K)  XX (L)   +---------------------+  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Key:

 A - Strength of Guardian.
 B - Lives Left.
 C - Eye Key.
 D - Guardian Name.
 E - Time Left.
 F - Life Remaining.
 G - Score
 H - Current Level
 J - High Score
 K - Coins in your possession.
 L - Monks on this level.
 M - View of Guardian.


LIFE
~~~~

You begin the game with 3 lives. Each life is made up of 11 notches.
Whenever an enemy strikes you or you fall off a platform, you lose a
number of notches off your current life. Lose all 11 notches and you lose
a life.

COINS
~~~~~
Whenever you kill a monster it may drop its milk money on the ground.
(It pays to stay). Pick up as many coins as you can - youll need them to
buy weapons, power and life in Ye Olde Shoppe.

FREEING THE MONKS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your mission is to free the old monks who are trapped in stone. When you
come across a statue, throw weapons at it until it shatters.

The monks that appear in black and white represent the number of monks
you must free in this stage. The monks that appeat in colour represent
the number of monks that you've already freed.

CAREFUL! There are evil monks hiding in some of the statues. You can
recognise them by the evil energy they release - and the damage they inflict,
when you free them. Remeber where they are and avoid shooting them the next
time round.


EYE KEYS AND EYE DOORS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Along the way youll find halves of eye keys. Always pick them up (Once
youve grabbed them they appeat on the scoreboard). When you get two halves
they form a complete eye key.

Occassionally, youll encounter vigilant eye doors that will bar your way.
The only way to get past an eye door is to unlease the power of a completed
eye key. To use and eye key press AND hold down the joystick button or
space bar. NOTE: Unleashging the power of an eye key destroys it.

You can also use an eye key as a weapon (as long as an eye door is not
currently in view). Press and hold down the joystick button or space
bar to kill all enemies on the screen.

STAGES AND GUARDIANS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You have to battle you way through four zones, each with two stages
of combat. In each stage you must free the monks and reach the end
before time runs out. If you dont free all the monks youll have to
repeat the stage.

At the end of each zone is a cave leading to the next zone. Each cave
is protected by an ugly guardian with foul breath and and lifelong
hatred of your young warrior guts. Either you kill him or he kills you.

While your figthing the current strength of the guardian is indicated
on the scoreboard. These guys are pretty strong so before you take one
on stop by Ye Old Shoppe to increase the power of your weapons.

YE OLD SHOPPE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Keep and eye out for the SHOPPE icon at the end of each stage. This takes
you to Ye Olde Shoppe, where you can buy more powerful weapons and get
life. The Shoppe isnt a charity organisation - youll have to pay for

lives and weapons with the coins you gather.

To enter the Shoppe, simply stand in front of the SHOPPE icon (And if you
dont want to enter, dont stand in front of the icon).

WEAPONS
~~~~~~~
You have an unlimited number of knives on you, but sometimes youll want
to pick up more powerful monster crushing devices. Use the joystick or
cursor keys to move the highlighted box to the weapon you want to bouy.
The price of the item appears in the top left corner. To select the
weapon press the fire button or spacebar. If you want to increase the
power of the weapon you just bought, press the joystick button or
spacebar again. You can double (2*) or triple (3*) the power of any
weapon, providing youve got enough cash for it.

NOTE - If you lose a life 1* is subtracted from the power of your weapon.
For example, if your using a 3* axe and you lose a life, the axe will
drop to 2*.

If you choose a weapon and then decide you want a different weapon, you can
exchange it without losing money. Just select the new weapon - the computer
will automatically add or subtract the difference.

Each weapon is more effective against certain opponents and in certain
zones - experiment to find the best places to use each one.

CHAIN (60 coins) -
Chains do bone-crushing damage to your enemies. When
you throw them they travel in a straight line.

FIRE (70 Coins) -
Fireballs are faster than chains and do more damage. Like chains,
they fly in a straight line.

AXES (90 Coins) -
Axes can be hurled upwards - they fall in an Arc on opponents heads.

BOOMERANG (160 Coins) -
The weapon you never lose! Ideal for when your completely surrounded.

ENERGY
~~~~~~
Every notch of life costs you 20 coins. Use the cursor keys or joystick
to move the highlighted box to ENERGY. Press Fire or Spacebar for each
notch of life you want to buy.

SCORING
~~~~~~~
Your main goal is to get points. Lots of points. Preferably more than
the other guy. (Note: you get an extra life for every 1000 points you
earn). The game doesnt save your hight scores to disk so take a picture
of it if you have something to prove!.

GAME OVER
~~~~~~~~~
Theres a good way and a bad way to end the game. The good way is to make
it through all four zones and kill Draxos. The bad way is to lose all
your lives (bad for the obvious reason that your dead!).

Once the game has ended the enter name screen appears.

Use the cursor keys or joystick to move the box and highlight letters -
press Fire or Spacebar to enter the letter. Select SP if you want to
enter a blank space or RB if you want to delete a character or ED when
your done.

After you enter your name youre asked if you want to play again. Use the
Joystick or cursor keys to highlight YES or NO and fire or spacebar to
select.

QUITTING THE GAME
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To quit the game turn off your computer or re-boot (helpful eh?).

ICONS
~~~~~
Youll often find bags or chests. Strike them with a weapon and they
explode, emptying their contents of icons and coins. You can then
pick up the following items in the same way you pick up the coins:

APPLE - 10,000 points or puts you to sleep (you lose time!).

ARROW - 10,000 points or backtracks you to an earlier point on the level.

STAR & MOUTH - 5,000 points.

CROSS - 10,000 points.

RING & JEWEL - 50,000 points.

HEART - +3 Notches of energy.

POTION- +6 Nothces of energy.

SKULL - Lose 6 notches of energy or stands the world on its head.

SANDGLASS - +1 minute of time.

THUNDERBOLT - Temporarily makes you immune to damage.

FIREBALL - Sends a fireball that follows you around for a while and
           kills enemies.

CONTINUE - Occasionally a miniature Rohan springs out of the chest. Try
           to pick him up. If you manage to trap him three times, you get
           an additional life and get to continue playing once the game is
           over.



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SPECIAL GREETS TO MY C00L FRIENDS:

TRC, SECTOR 9, THE WITCH KING, STINGRAY, BLACK SPYRIT, DeViL, SKOL, Brynn
Rogers, HYDRO, JACK HI.T and all of /\/ RaZoR /\/.

Thanks go to ELITE for putting this doc in one of their doc disc files.
Hope you don't mind us using it....... EFFEAD