AUCTION, CHAT, MUSIC, QUESTION, ANSWER, SHOUT & YELL
Answer, Shout & Yell Syntax: auction messageThese commands send messages through communication channels to other players.
SHOUT sends a message to all awake players in the world. To curb excessive shouting, SHOUT imposes a three-second delay on the shouter.
AUCTION, CHAT, MUSIC, and QUESTION and ANSWER also send messages to all interested players. '.' is a synonym for CHAT. The QUESTION and ANSWER commands both use the same 'question' channel.
YELL sends a message to all awake players within your area.
You can use the CHANNELS command to hear, or not hear, any of these channels.
GTELL, REPLY, SAY & TELL
Syntax: gtell messageAll of these commands send messages to other players.
GTELL sends a message to all of the characters in your group, wherever they are, even if they are sleeping or stunned or dying. ';' is a synonym for GTELL.
SAY sends a message to all awake players in your room. The single quote ' is a synonym for SAY.
TELL sends a message to one awake player anywhere in the world.
REPLY sends a message to the last player who sent you a TELL. REPLY will work even if you can't see the player, and without revealing their identity. This is handy for talking to invisible or switched immortal players.
CLASS CHANNEL
Syntax: buildtalk messageBUILDTALK is the channel for zone builders and immortals. '=' is a synonym for BUILDTALK. IMMTALK is for immortals. Its synonym is ':'.
FTALK is the founder talk channel for imms, clan founders and various other characters. It is invite only by the immortals.
PRAY, HOWL, MAGE, VTALK are the class channels belonging to demons, werewolves, mages and vampires respectively.
Syntax: channelsWith no options, CHANNELS shows you your current channels. With a plus or minus sign and an option, CHANNELS turns that channel on or off.
OTHER COMMUNICATION
NOTE
Syntax: noteNOTE LIST lists notes which you can read. NOTE READ reads one or all notes. NOTE on its own will show you the next unread message.
NOTE SUBJECT sets the subject line of a new note. NOTE TO sets the list of recipients. The recipient ALL means all players, and the recipient IMMORTAL means all immortals. Use NOTE + to write message lines onto the note, one line at a time.
NOTE SHOW shows your note in progress; NOTE CLEAR starts over.
NOTE POST posts your note for reading. Posting is not automatic.
NOTE REMOVE removes the entire note if you are the sender, or just removes you from the to-list if you are a recipient.
BUG, IDEA & TYPO
Syntax: bugThese commands will take your message and record it into a file as feedback to the mud implementors.
EMOTE, POSE & SOCIAL
Syntax: emote actionEMOTE is used to express emotions or actions. Besides EMOTE, there are several dozen built-in social commands, such as CACKLE, HUG, and THANK. For a full list of the built-in socials, just type 'socials'.
POSE is a variant of EMOTE.
N_SOCIALS & X_SOCIALS
Syntax: n_socialsN_socials are a small list of name socials.
X_socials are the xrated socials and can only be performed on the person you are mud married too. To use these socials both parties must 'consent' each other.