> Listen to me.

> You can't change today, only hope tomorrow--

> verb second_word [optional_third_word]

> Each stage you progress in the chapter...

>> <-- ...will show more of these arrows.

> If there are fewer arrows for an input than you expect, enter the same input again. It will catch up. I want you to see everything.

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Chapter 3 Manual

> Inputs in the command line must be 2- or 3-word combinations that you've pulled from the prompt for the chapter, shown above (with verbs highlighted in bold; every valid input combination will start with one of those verbs).

> Every input should look like this: verb second_word [optional_third_word]

> For example, if your initial prompt is "you can't change today, only hope tomorrow," valid inputs could be "cant only change," "cant hope," "cant tomorrow you," "change hope," "change today tomorrow," "hope change only," or "hope only you," among many others (different 2-to-3-word combinations of words from that initial prompt).

> Inputs with too many or too few words or words that are not from the prompt are invalid, and the terminal will tell you that there is nothing that it can do with the input.

> When you enter a valid input, it will generate an output that will subtly help guide you toward the correct input. That correct input will move you to the next stage within the chapter (or to the next chapter).

> Your inputs will always have a ->~ icon in front of them by default (but don't type that icon yourself), and the terminal's outputs will always have a > icon in front of them, like this:

->~ input

> output

> When you enter a correct input, you'll know that you've reached the next stage because you'll see an extra > icon in front of the terminal's outputs in that stage, like this:

>> Output in Stage 2.

or

>>> Output in Stage 3.

*****

> When you enter a correct input, the verb you entered as the first word will be locked. You will no longer need to use that verb to progress to the next stage.

> Here's an example. Assume this is your prompt:

> enter whatever word you choose

> If your input is:

->~ choose whatever you

>> And it turns out to be the correct input, as the two >> icons to the left of the output demonstrate, you will no longer need to enter an input with the verb choose to get to the next stage, and every time you enter a valid input that begins with choose, it will simply generate its output from the previous stage(s).

> The goal is not to overwhelm you with duplicate inputs and to make it a little easier for you to choose the correct input as the chapters get more complex.

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> An input might generate fewer > icons in the output than you expect.

> Read the output you receive--to help you follow the story--then enter the same input again, and re-enter that input until the number of > icons in the output catches up to your current stage.

> That inconsistency between stage number and the number of > icons simply means that you never entered a particular input on a previous stage.

> Keep in mind that each stage in a chapter generally stands on its own, and an output from an earlier stage usually won't help guide you to the correct input of a later stage.

> But every output is there to help tell Tera's story.

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> Type "clear" to clear the output history from the screen.

> Type "full text" if you get lost or prefer to read the chapter as a story. It will show you all of the chapter's inputs and outputs. It might take some time for the full text to load due to the complexity or length.

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Detailed Example

> Let's look at an example that will help to demonstrate Terminal's input-output logic.

> We'll assume that our example chapter's initial prompt is:

> choose the correct input to survive and advance

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->~ help

> choose the correct input to survive and advance

> verb second_word [optional_third_word]

->~ survive to input

> This input is incorrect, but its output should help guide us to the correct one. The clues in the output aren't nearly this transparent, though. Let's enter another input.

->~ choose input to

>> Correct, as the extra > icon to the left of this output demonstrates, and we're on to Stage 2. You don't have to keep entering inputs that start with choose in order to progress to the next stage, but you should enter them, anyway, to get a fuller experience of the Terminal story. Remember that inputs that start with choose are now locked in Stage 1, so you'll keep getting the same output every time you enter them. If you re-enter that input, you’ll get the same output.

->~ choose input to

>> Correct, as the extra > icon demonstrates, and we're on to Stage 2. You don't have to keep entering inputs that start with choose in order to progress to the next stage, but you should enter them, anyway, to get a fuller experience of the Terminal story. Remember that inputs that start with choose are now locked in Stage 1, so you'll keep getting the same output every time you enter them.  If you re-enter that input, you’ll get the same output.

->~ survive and

> There is still only one > icon here, because we haven't entered “survive and" until now. This is Stage 1's output for "survive and."

->~ survive and

>> Now we've caught up to Stage 2's output for "survive and." At the same time, we know that it's not the correct input for Stage 2, because otherwise we would have jumped to Stage 3 and seen three > icons to the left of this output.

->~ survive the

> This is another new input, so we're seeing its output for Stage 1. It could still be the correct input for Stage 2, though. Let's enter it again.

->~ survive the

>>> "survive the" is the correct input for Stage 2. We're on to Stage 3, as we can see from the three > icons on the left. Outputs that we haven't seen in previous stages are still available to us, though, even if they do not help use to determine the correct input for Stage 3. Let's try another new input to see.

->~ survive to

> We already know that "survive to" is an incorrect input for Stage 1, but remember that we haven't gone backward--we're still on Stage 3. All outputs from previous stages will appear first. The goal is not to trick you but to help you learn more about Tera.

->~ survive to

>> We know that it's also an incorrect input for Stage 2, but we're catching up. When we entered the correct input for Stage 2--"survive the"--Terminal locked its verb survive in Stage 2. Now we only have one verb left from our prompt that can generate the correct input in Stage 3: advance.

->~ advance and correct

> Here's its output for Stage 1. "advance and correct" is a new input, so there is the single > icon representing Stage 1 to the left. By now, you're probably following Terminal's input-output logic, so we won't test too many more examples.

->~ advance and correct

>> Here's its output for Stage 2. If we enter it again, and it's incorrect, the terminal will show us an output with three > icons next to it. If it's correct, we will be on to the next chapter. Let's enter it again and see.

->~ advance and correct

> It's correct, and the next chapter's prompt will pop up.