# Elona players, help!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 28, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547 "2008-08-28T13:58:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547/1 "2008-08-28T13:58:34Z")

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Elona is a strainge but cool Rogue-ish game made by some crazy Japanese guy, but it’s very large in interesting. I know there’s some poeple on this board who play it, but the thing seems to have no manual and I can’t quite figure out the controls.

This makes playing the game just a _leettle_ awkward.

How do I pick up items? The guy at the start gives me an Identify scroll, but what do I do with it? I seem to be able to “read” it, but then it vanishes from the ground, doesn’t appear in my inventory, and I can’t seem to pick it up again,

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547/2 "2008-08-28T20:31:16Z")

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Shameless Bump

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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547/3 "2008-08-28T23:02:16Z")

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Here is the list of controls:

> **[Controls](https://elona.fandom.com/wiki/Controls)**
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> The hotkey list can be viewed in-game by pressing ? (Shift+/); the first option in the help menu is the key list. The default controls are set up so that the game can be played with one hand with access to z, x, c, and Shift, and the other with...

I don’t know anything - I haven’t downloaded the game. It looks like it doesn’t have the Moria “.” command (go in this direction until something interesting happens) which is a pity

Brian

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elona-players-help/461547/4 "2008-08-28T23:11:02Z")

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Thanks!