Laxius Power - Random Story

LAXIUS POWER ~ INSTRUCTION MANUAL Please read carefully those instructions, it may contain the answers to problems encountered with this game

GAME INFORMATION
Game : Laxius Power ~ Random Story (v1.2 "Ultimate Version")
Author : Damianzeking (DZK), also known as Indinera Falls
Emails : laxiuspower@wanadoo.fr or laxiuspower@fr.st or laxiuspower@caramail.com
Choose the 1st one preferencely to contact me.
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Game Release Date : May 30 2002 (Laxius Power "Ultimate Version"), October 2001 (Laxius Power)
Status : Freeware (Complete RPG, 50-100 hours long)
Rate : 16 years old and more (contains adult material and language)
Documents : Introduction to the World of Laxius Power
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Official Website : www.laxiuspower.cjb.net (Add-ons, Art, Information...)
Website Mirrors : www.ifrance.com/laxiuspower and laxiuspower.fr.st
LP Help and Discussion Board : World of Laxius Power
Internet Partner : www.vault76.com
Vault76 is a general games website that nicely offers hosting of the LP files.

STORY (SHORT SUMMARY)
"Random Story", the 1st part of Laxius Power, features the adventure of Random, a young swordman, and his friends. Gifted with awesome powers a sword in the hand, Random gets bored of his training courses, and decides to make it to SankT Leona, a huge city where a famous tournament is about to take place. The young man just has enough time to get prepared, raise his skills and travel up to the faraway city. But simultaneously to Random's dreams of glory, a threatening order grows in the depth of dark caves and creepy towers. Its name : the Dark Order. Its location : everywhere. Its goal : raising the ultimate army, the most powerful army ever, full of fiends and overboosted creatures, in order to control as quickly as possible the unaware country. Why all these efforts and agitation ? Within 2 years, a millenary cycle - forgotten by everyone but the necromancers - must happen, and bring back antic Over Demons to proceed to the Global Annihilation, and the Dark Order wants to unite with them instead of endure them.
Will the reign of terror win ? The story tells the adventure of Random and how he'll deal with the terrifying events that are about to happen. Also, discover the love story of Random and his elf girlfriend, Sarah, and live their burning passion through dramatic events and scaring enemies. Mythology, adventures and secrets are to be discovered in the world the story takes place. Laxius Power is also a thought about the quest of glory, and the important things in life.
>>> FULL PRESENTATION OF THE GAME

FEATURES
Game style : Laxius Power is rather an "old school" RPG (ie 16Bits systems).
The battles are common random encounters, and the menus are basically those of any RPG. If you usually play games to experiment original systems, this game isn't really for you. But if you are interested in long, deep and challenging games with much interaction, where plot and interest are more important than graphics, where there are "things to do" without a single bug, then this game is for you.
Most commercial games aren't as long and intricate as this one.
Astonishing numbers :
Characters : 9 ~ Monsters : 290 ~ Items : 400
Maps : 425 ~ Heroes' spells : 95
30 sidequests
Neat graphics full of details and animated settings
Tons of items, monsters, secrets and dungeons
Original Art and spells
Questbook, Change Party, Change Menu Window
Contribution Counter
Relics and Artifacts to discover
Additional XPs given to non-fighting characters, making them more useful

CONTROL & GAMEPLAY
Control >>>>>
0/ FONTS PROBLEM : If necessary...
Copy the fonts included in the 123_LP_Instructions folder, and paste them in the C:/Windows/Fonts directory.
This should solve the problem usually encountered by players who don't have the RTP (messed fonts).
1/ Double-click on RPG_RT.EXE to run the game. DO NOT change it or edit it, unless the game may not work anymore.
RTP Users DO NOT delete RPG_RT.EXE or replace it by a default RPG_RT.EXE !
2/ Press F4 to run the game in full screen.
3/ Press F5 to run it in windowed screen.
4/ #Egress allows to escape a dungeon.
5/ #Teleport allows to travel instantly in particular points of the country. To obtain new Teleport points (added to "Rillian Plains"), you must find Teleport Mages and ask them to set a Teleport Point for you.
6/ (a text written between bracks is either a comment or something that is not said orally, just thought)
Informations related to the Battle System, the Conditions or whatever are available in the
full presentation of the game.
7/ Battles, time passed in the menus and in the dialogs aren't included in the HQ chrono.
8/ Melee allows to see monsters' weak points and, most of the times, helps winning the battles easily and levelling up.
For any question, contact me by email.
Gameplay >>>>>
Laxius Power features a non-linear quest filled with action, sidequests and bosses. Your main goal is to reach SankT Leona, but many other paths are possible on the way. All the quests featured in this adventure are finishable. The game is considered difficult, and has plenty of secrets in intricate dungeons. Exploring it completely would probably take a long time, so I recommend patience, caution and wisdom. Keep in mind the game is tens of hours long. Don't rush it, or you may die quickly. Raise your party, save regularly, make back ups, and don't save on one file only.
The Hard Game >>>>>
Is Laxius Power hard ?
Sarah, Random, Luciana and the others' skills are full of power, if well-used. Knowledge is definitively the key.
Know your characters, enemies and dungeons. Wisely build up your party. This game can be finished with very little levelling up. 3 Modes of Difficulty are featured in this game, though Normal Mode is advised.
Bugs >>>>>
This game was tested entirely and no major bug was found.
However, due to the randomness of PC systems, some games or files may encounter problems that are independant to my will. If you find one, please email me or warn people in the forum.
If you find a minor bug you can email me aswell. Accurate help will be provided. The only "bug" I know of is related to fights you're forced to lose or may lose without having the Game Over screen. Sometimes, strangely, RPG MAKER doesn't do what is planned and shows the Game Over screen. Places where this might happen : fighting Aethyne in the Tangar Mountains, fighting Tamara, fighting the wolf in Sarah's room at the inn, fighting the Blazers, and fighting the 3 wolves in the hospital. The occurance of such annoyance has been reduced a lot, so do not be afraid.

CREDITS
AUTHOR & PROGRAMMER : Damianzeking
BETA-TESTOR : Karks (the world's best bugtester !!! ;)) and Damianzeking
CG ARTIST : Katachi
SPECIAL THANKS : Patrice, Chris from Joypad, Kamau, Railk, Bakaoji, Mike from Vault76, Gereth Graystone, Merak, Paladin33, Doc Holday, ReverendD, Gustav XIII and Sir Beoulve from RPG Corner.
ADDITIONAL THANKS : All players and website visitors.

COPYRIGHTS
October 24th 2001
Any original material in Laxius Power including :
"Laxius Power", "Random Story", Laxius Power Art Pics,
Laxius Power Musical Themes, Storyboard, Events & Heroes
Characters, Spells, Towns, Locations, Monsters, NPCs, Gods & Items names,
Maps, Dungeons, Houses, Systems, Original spells' effects etc...,
Website content, Laxius Power Instructions,
any LP-related document, text or release
is COPYRIGHT © Damianzeking (laxiuspower@fr.st)
and cannot be taken without permission, even partially.
Other copyrights include :
RPG MAKER 2000 © ASCII and © Yoji OJIMA
Translated by Don Miguel
Fire Emblem © Nintendo (heroes' facesets)
Shining Force series, Phantasy Star series, Dragon Force (Facesets, icon) © SEGA
Breath of Fire series © Capcom
Final Fantasy series (a few MIDIs) © Square
"Duchess" (Intro theme), "After the Ordeal", "Firth of Fifth" © Genesis (most wonderful band ever !)
Satoshi Urushihara Facesets (great drawings of breasts, man ! ;))
Internet Artists & Makers (for charsets, chipsets or monsters) :
MED, Mac and Blue, Sovan Jedi, and more.
Other copyrighted materials are property of their respective authors or companies.
Top drawing : "Sarah in the Indinera Lakes", by Damianzeking, CGing by Katachi, February 2002
Thank you reading, enjoy the game, and visit us at www.laxiuspower.cjb.net !
Laxius Power © Damianzeking, All Rights Reserved, 2001,2002.