Lethe Flow Phoenix: a Flight of Fantasy
(release 1, August 1995)
(release 2, September 1995)

Hi!  This is my first game, written in TADS (The Text Adventure Development
System).  To play it, you will need at least version 2.2 of the TADS
run-time interpreter, available from ftp.gmd.de in the
if-archive/programming/tads directory.  There are two versions of this game
available there.  "lethe.zip" uses the file i/o features available in TADS 2.2
to read and write to a file in which it will save options from game to game,
and the other one ("lth-noio.zip") has been compiled without file i/o.  The
one with file i/o is rather more convenient, so you should try and use that
first.  If it doesn't work on your system (and I've had at least one person
not be able to use it), you should get the other game file without file i/o
and try that.  If you use the version with file i/o, you must have the file
"lethe.cfg" in the same directory as the "lethe.gam" file, or the game will
become quite confused.  More help is available in game.  New users should type
"SETUP" and "HELP" after starting the game.
...Enjoy!

[For this version, without file i/o, there is no automatic options set-up.
The default options set by the game are female character/short intro/verbose
room descriptions.  This means that you won't ever see the long intro when
you start the game.  The way to see it is either to type "INTRO LONG" from
in-game, or type "SETUP" to set options and then "RESTART".  In general,
it would be a good move to type "SETUP" upon starting the game and tune the
options to ones you like.]

[Release 2 notes:  Well, this was really just a bug-fixing release.  Most
notably, the big parser problems with the chain, and with the magnet, have
been fixed.  Nothing else is especially noteworthy, except that water is
handled a bit better, and you can pour it from container to container and so
forth.  Thanks for those who pointed out bugs.]


                                            -- Dan Shiovitz
                                               (scythe@u.washington.edu)
                                               September 18th, 1995