Character Creation

When you first connect to Samsara, you will begin life as an orphan. To continue on, you will need to visit the museum in Freedom City to enter Dreams of Before. From there, you collect your skill items, and proceed into Dreams of Below.

Life as an orphan

As an orphan, you can screw around in the game world without any serious repercussions. Even if you die, you'll respawn back in the Orphanage without penalty. This is a good way to learn the world layout and combat basics. The downside is that you cannot gain any IP or XP, or do any fun journals.

When you think you have a grasp on things, go to the Freedom City Museum to the west of the crack mansion or, if you still have the flyer in your inventory or took one from a poor scrub, follow flyer to automatically walk there.

Dreams of Before

The Dreams of Before are exactly that, a dream about the way things were before the nuclear bombs hit and destroyed society as we once knew it. This is also the Samsara character generation stage, where you collect up to 4 items representing skills and up to two items representing fetishes (The playboy and playgirl magazine) which determine your starting skills.

The items you pick up will give you a raw in the skill they would associate with, and decrease the cost of learning that skill throughout the game. After picking up the items you want, type wake.

The item locations are listed below. The first time you will need to navigate to the starting spot to use the location guide. Everytime the dream starts after that, you will start in that spot and can follow the directions. You will not lose the items in your inventory unless you drop them. Note that to get into the Attic and Mom and Dad's room, you need to search.

A detailed map with descriptions can be found here.

Skill	Item	Location	Core Stat(s)
Appraise	City Times	Sunny Sidewalk, 1 east from where you wake.	Brain/Senses
Blades	Pocketknife	Abandoned Boxcar, 3 west of where you wake.	Cool/Reflexes
Bombs	Batch of firecrackers	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Cool/Brains
Chemistry	Chemistry Set	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake.	Brains
Climb	Birds Nest	Top of the Tall Tree, 1 east, 1 south, 1 southeast and 1 up from where you wake.	Reflexes/Endurance
Clubs	Baseball bat	Vacant Lot, where you wake up.	Brawn/Reflexes
Craft	Tube of Glue	Suburban Bathroom, 3 east from where you wake, in a medicine cabinet.	Brains
Fish	Fishing Pole	Down By The River, 1 east, 1 south and 1 southeast from where you wake.	Cool/Endurance
Fists	Inflatable Boxing Gloves	In the River, 1 east, 1 south, 1 southeast and 1 east from where you wake.	Brawn/Endurance
Flails	Cup-and-Ball	Vacant Lot, where you wake up.	Brawn/Senses
Fuck	Pair of panties	Attic, 2 east and 2 up from where you wake. You will need to search your room to find the entrance to the attic.	Endurance/Senses
Hack	Unix Book	Public Library, 1 east, 2 north and 1 west from where you wake.	Brains
Locksmith	Fireproof Lockbox	Mom and Dad's Room, 2 east and 1 north from where you wake. You will need to search the room to find a stepstool to get into the room.	Brains/Reflexes
Medic	First Aid Kit	Suburban Bathroom, 3 east from where you wake, in a medicine cabinet.	Brains
Persuade	Dale Carnegie book	Mom and Dad's Room, 2 east and 1 north from where you wake. You will need to search the room to find a stepstool to get into the room.	Cool/Brains
Pilot	Toy Airplane	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Brains/Reflexes
Pistols	BB Pistol	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Cool/Reflexes
Quickdraw	Pistol holster	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Cool/Reflexes
Repair	Socket Wrench	Abandoned Junction, 2 west and 1 north from where you wake.	Brains
Ride	Bicycle helmet	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake.	Cool/Reflexes
Rifles	Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine	Your Room, 2 east, and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Cool/Reflexes
Scavenge	Metal Detector	Bottom of the River, 1 east, 1 south, 1 southeast, 1 east and 1 down from where you wake.	Endurance/Senses
Science	Glass beaker	Bedroom, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, on the floor.	Brains
Sneak	Ninja Mask	Attic, 2 east and 2 up from where you wake. You will need to search your room to find the entrance to the attic.	Cool/Senses
Spears	Broken Shower Rod	Dead End, 1 east and 1 south from where you wake.	Endurance/Reflexes
Swim	Pair of Swimming Goggles	In the River, 1 east, 1 south, 1 southeast and 1 east from where you wake.	Endurance
Teach	Paradise Lost book	Public Library, 1 east, 2 north and 1 west from where you wake.	Brains
Throw	Chewed-up baseball	Spot's doghouse, 2 east, 1 south and in from where you wake.	Brawn/Senses
Torture	Brass Zippo Lighter	Abandoned Boxcar, 3 west from where you wake.	Cool/Endurance
Track	Scout manual	Public Library, 1 east, 2 north and 1 west from where you wake.	Senses
Wrestle	Luchador mask	Your Room, 2 east, and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Reflexes/Endurance
Whips	Lil' Indy Leather Bullwhip	Your Room, 2 east and 1 up from where you wake, in a toy chest.	Reflexes , Senses

Fetish	Item	Location
Men	Playgirl Magazine	1 east, 2 north, 1 west, and 1 down from where you wake.
Women	Playboy Magazine	1 east, 2 north, 1 west, and 1 down from where you wake.

Dreams of Below:

This is the section of your life underground and is where you allocate your stats. All of your stats start at 8, and by using the following items you will gain a raw in the related stat. you get 14 points to allocate between them. Put points toward what your skills use. (Ex; If you use blades, add reflexes and cool, if you use whips, add reflexes and senses)

A detailed maps with descriptions can be found here.

First Room

Brains: Go board

Senses: Magic Eye

East of the First Room

Brawn: Weight Bench

Reflexes: Speed Bag

North of the First Room

Endurance: Stove

Cool: Droid