One thing that can trip you up is if you aren't using a fixed-width font like Courier in whatever application (see 'help client') you use to play the game. If you're using a font (like Times New Roman) where different letters have different widths, the columns won't line up properly, and it'll look like a mess.

Quite a number of maps are available cheap in either the Academy, or the map shops in the larger towns. In addition, you can use the outfit command to recoup your basic set of maps, which will include the 'large-scale' maps of eastern and western Thera that show how areas connect.

If you're still having trouble getting from place to place, 'help newbie3' and 'help galadon guild' are full of handy directions for low-level characters.

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