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+# Isle Bot
+### _A bot for a private server._
+## Features:
+
+- Card Rolling
+- Turn Based Combat
+- _more to come..._
+
+#### Setup
+1. Clone the repo
+2. create a venv `python -m venv venv` and activate it `venv\Scripts\activate.bat` or the ps1 variant for powershell
+3. install requirements with `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+4. create a `.env` file with the following contents:
+```ini
+TOKEN=your_discord_bot_token_here
+```
+5. Run `start.ps1` or `start.bat`
+6. Invite the bot to your server
+7. profit!
+
+##### Notes
+The bot is provided as is and is not guaranteed to work. If you have any issues, please open an issue on the github repo. I might or might not fix it.
+You're welcome to fork the repo and make your own changes, but I do not guarantee that I will be accepting your pull request.
+
+This just a pet project and as such it might get abandoned at any time.
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+.\venv\Scripts\activate.ps1
+python .\main.py