HOO Manual

Introduction Eobet Repooc shot another desperate glance at the scattered papers on the table, took one last lingering look at the torch in his hand, and sighed heavily. His chin hit his chest as he tossed the torch toward the fireplace, eyes still on the floor. He missed. As the curtains burst into flames, the council elder scooped up his cat and ran. Well, accidents do happen, he rationalized. He stole a look over his shoulder, watched his problems literally vanish in a puff of acrid smoke, and kicked open the front door with an agility that belied his eighty years of age. Outside, he found a crowd beginning to form near the house. His wife stood at the front of the group, gardening trowel in one hand, dirt smeared across her face. “What have you done this time?” she shouted. Smoke had begun to pour from the windows. “Beryth is solvent once more!” he announced, triumphantly raising both arms in the air. The cat, who knew when to abandon a dicey situation, seized her opportu- nity to run for the cool safety of the garden. The crowd considered this news for a moment. “Does this mean we don’t owe the king anything?” someone asked. “What happened to those bills you were shouting about during the last council meeting?” queried another, who had sat next to Eo- bet during said meeting. “Can we keep the treasure we’ve stockpiled in the town 1 square?” wondered a third. “Yes; they’re taken care of; and yes!” Eobet replied. He hadn’t smiled like this since the night his wife told him that her mother had passed away. “So now we can pay to brick up The Glowing Portal of Really Bad Things That We Should Have Bricked Up a Long Time Ago?” Eobet’s fellow council elder asked. “Sure! Why the—” His smile flipped and what color he had in his face drained away. The cat decided it was time to take up residence elsewhere. In the distance, out by the windmill, The Glowing Portal of Really Bad Things That We Should Have Bricked Up a Long Time Ago had come to life. Something green- skinned and brutish emerged from the swirling vortex of energy contained with- in. And then another something. And another. And still even more. Eobet decided that for once in his life, he should follow the cat’s lead. 2 The Hordes Have Arrived May the fates treat you better than they treated Eobet. Hordes of Orcs is a tower strategy game in which you must stop a marauding army of the brutes before 20 of them make it from one portal to another, at the other side of which lies an in- nocent village. Use walls to guide the orcs in specific directions and place different towers at the right spots to inflict maximum damage. Four spells help you when all else fails. To install the game, simply insert the disc in your Mac and drag the Hordes of Orcs file to yo…