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+# Welcome to Evennia!
+
+This directory is your game directory, set up to let you start with
+your new game right away. 
+
+You can delete this readme file when you've read it and with the
+exception of the `server/` directory you can, if you want, re-arrange
+things in this game-directory pretty to suit your own sense of
+organisation. See the readme's in each sub directory for more
+information.
+
+Your game's main configuration file is found in
+`server/conf/settings.py` (but you don't need to change it to get
+started). If you just created this directory, `cd` to this directory
+then initialize a new database using 
+
+    evennia migrate
+
+To start the server, `cd` to this directory and run 
+
+    evennia -i start
+
+This will start the server so that it logs output to the console. Make
+sure to create a superuser when asked. By default you can now connect
+to your new game using a MUD client on localhost:4000.  You can also
+log into the web client by pointing a browser to
+http://localhost:8000. 
+
+# Getting started
+
+It's highly recommended that you look up Evennia's extensive
+documentation found here: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/wiki. 
+
+Plenty of beginner's tutorials can be found here: 
+http://github.com/evennia/evennia/wiki/Tutorials.