Another reason I'd like to have the Bravery not decrease on first encounter (where you run away) is so that when I'm running back and forth between the base and lower levels selling items, I don't want to be bothered with monsters where I have a greater chance of getting killed (sometimes I'm carrying nothing leaving room for items to sell), when my plan (at least for portions of gameplay) is to simply run around selling items without fighting.

Wow!!

I've been wanting to play this game again (I was addicted) but I haven't dialed into a BBS in a loooong time.

I tried the telnet operationoverkill.com and I must say I am impressed.

I've already created a character and I'm going to try this out for awhile to see how I like it.

Keep up the good work.

Now I'm curious about how the backend is run for this game (ie.  How does this run (linux, etc)).