# 鹿鼎天下II / Deer and Cauldron World II

> slug: `ldtxii` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40176`

A sibling release to this project's ldtx, sharing the same Century/adm-single architecture family but with mostly independent content rather than file-level duplication -- genuinely themed around Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron, with 48 files referencing characters and factions like Wei Xiaobao, the Divine Dragon Cult, and Emperor Kangxi (the login banner and BBS links are just leftover "Xiongba Tianxia" engine-template boilerplate and don't reflect the actual content). Beyond the core storyline the map adds a Killer Tower assassins' faction (d/shashou/) and a marriage system, and sect apprenticeship is real and playable: joining the Quanzhen sect gets a character turned away by Ma Yu but accepted through Wang Chuyi/Qiu Chuji's line, while joining Shaolin gets accepted on the spot as a lay disciple by the nun Qingwei. The city also runs a working money-changer's bank (deposit/withdraw with a stacking currency system, NPC Qian Yankai) and a dice-betting gambling hall where real money changes hands on the roll. Death is a full faint-then-revive cycle: a knocked-out character is briefly locked out of commands, then automatically resurrected at the Wumiao (Yue Fei) temple with the cause and count of past deaths recorded on their sheet.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

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

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/ldtxii/ldtxii.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/ldtxii
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ldtxii/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/ldtxii/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 `ldtxii.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/ldtxii/`).
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 `127.0.0.1:40176`.

- Admin / wizard login: `fluffos` / `Mud2026Adm`
- 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/ldtxii/llms.txt