# Dead Souls I / Dead Souls I

> slug: `dsI` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40225`

An early, distinct generation of the Dead Souls object library -- several in-file headers self-identify it as 'Dead Souls V'/'the Dead Souls r1/r2 Object Library' (1996-98 vintage), structurally closer to Nightmare IV than to the later 3.8.6-era Dead Souls this collection already hosts as ds386/deadsouls_fluffos (only 2 domains versus the other two copies' 8, no estates/powers/std/open directories, a roughly 1/3-the-size master.lpc). A genuine first-boot admin-installation wizard walks a fresh connection through name/password/gender/display-name/email/real-name, then a race-selection step offering 17 races (list/help RACE/pick RACE) before the mud's ordinary login/registration flow self-installs in its place. The built world is small but real: a starting domain plus one example town, Ylsrim, with a pub, an armoury, a weaponry, a jar-and-lightning-bug minigame object, and a couple of deliberately 'broken' disease-item teaching examples. Makes a genuine outbound Intermud-3 connection to a real nameserver a few seconds after boot -- don't sweep this lib into high-frequency automated re-boot loops.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsI/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsI/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsI/dsI.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/dsI
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsI/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/dsI/NOTES.md

## Run natively with FluffOS

1. Build a current FluffOS driver from https://github.com/fluffos/fluffos
   (native `build` / `build-debug`; see that repo's docs).
2. Download and unzip `dsI.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/dsI/`).
3. From the unzipped lib directory, ensure `config.fluffos` points
   `mudlib directory` at this tree (the checked-in file may contain a
   maintainer-local absolute path — edit it to your extract path).
4. Start the driver:

```bash
/path/to/fluffos/build/src/driver config.fluffos
```

5. Connect a UTF-8 MUD client to `127.0.0.1:40225`.

- Admin / wizard login: see this lib's README (no seeded account recorded)
- If you host this on a public network, change the published default
  admin password before opening the port.

## Machine-readable catalog

- Site-wide catalog: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/games.json
- Site-wide LLM overview: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/llms.txt
- This file: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/dsI/llms.txt