~name{~enUS{communication,communications,comm,comms}} ~desc{~enUS{ help talking Speaking to the room you're in help chat Chatting with players elsewhere in the MUD help locale Changing the language you perceive the MUD in help channel Turning channels on and off }} ~name{~enUS{abbreviations,abbreviation,abbrev,abb, punctuation,symbolic,symbols}} ~desc{~enUS{ The following commands have symbolic abbreviations: ' say (single forward quote) : emote (colon) }} ~name{~enUS{talking,talk,say,tell,ask,yell,shout,'}} ~desc{~enUS{ Some commands let you talk to other players and NPCs. say This commands say something to the room you're in tell Tells or asks a particular character something The command "say" can also be abbreviated with a single quote. See also 'help chat' and 'help emote' }} ~name{~enUS{emote,:}} ~desc{~enUS{ The emote command lets you do free-form emotes. It can be abbreviated with a colon. For instance, "emote chuckles" will give output like "Sam chuckles". }} ~name{~enUS{out-of-character}} ~desc{~enUS{ The chat command broadcasts a message to everybody listening to the out-of-character channel. Note that people needn't listen to the chat channel (see 'help channel') if they don't want to. The channel should be used only for out-of-character messages. Some things that are explicitly forbidden are how to solve in-game puzzles, trading equipment, asking directions to MUD locations, objects or NPCs, asking where another player is located, forming a group, asking for item properties, or asking about how a particular NPC acts or fights. Some things that you explicitly *can* use OOC for are greeting players when you enter or exit the MUD ("howdy, all!"), discussing out-of-game things like MUD clients, and asking about game mechanics and features like how particular commands work. If you do both acceptable and unacceptable things -- for instance asking how a command works on a particular NPC -- we'll make a judgement call. It's usually pretty obvious when you're just trying to get away with something, so don't. You don't get to argue with our decisions. See also: ooc, harassment } ~esUS{ Fuera De Personaje } } ~name{~enUS{channel,channels,subscribe,unsubscribe,sub,unsub}} ~desc{~enUS{ The channel command is used to play with channels, such as the ooc channel (see 'help ooc'). It can be used in several ways: channel This, by itself, lists the channels available channel XXX on Subscribe to channel XXX channel XXX off Unsubscribe to channel XXX channel XXX Queries whether you're listening to channel XXX, and whether it's available here. Note that not all channels may be available in all locations or to all people. You may subscribe to a channel that isn't available where you're standing at the moment. You may not subscribe to a channel that isn't available to you in *any* location. } } ~name{~enUS{locale,locales,language,languages}} ~desc{~enUS{ To list available locales, type "locales". To set your locale, use the command locale <locale> For instance, "locale english", "locale enUK" or "locale spanish". }}