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I want to mention this here as I find it very crucial to the game until you are fully lawful. As you walk around the town, pick eartheternal gold up as much junk (letters, meat, lamps, lanterns, armors, weapons, etc.). Just make sure that your weight does not go over 50%.

I would suggest picking up or sending yourself as many letters as you can since they don't take up much if any weight. You will want a lot of these, probably around 70-100. You are probably thinking that this sounds really stupid, but here is the point.

If you are not full lawful (32,767 alignment points) and you die, you will drop an item from your inventory. By carrying so many letters, you will usually drop a letter rather than the important item you don't want to lose.

Note that this does not guarantee that you will drop one of the items you want; it just improves the statistics of you not dropping it.

If you look in your inventory window (press the Tab key), you will see a map of Hidden Valley, a leather jacket, a dagger and 2 candles. Put on the leather jacket by double clicking on it, and then do the same with the dagger. The candles can be used at night when it is dark.