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The following are some basic commands for customizing your character: Command Description ----------- ----------- +join join a culture +restart change your species @sex set your character's gender @email change your registered email address @describe set the text that players will see when they look at you examine view your character's information @name change your character's name @password change your password @set toggle certain options "on" or "off" @lock/page stop someone from being able to page you For help on more sophisticated character-customization techniques than those listed above, type "HELP TOPICS" and "HELP COMMANDS". Users seeking more comprehensive help may also wish to download Amberyl's MUSH guide from: ftp://ftp.tinymush.org/pub/mud/tinymush/docs/ The first four commands in the list, "+join", "+restart", "@sex", and "@email", are commands that you have already heard about from when you were in phases 1 and 2 of character creation. If you decide that you want to join a particular culture, for example the Gondorians, you would type "+join gondorian". That will put you in touch with the nearest Gondorian Local Admin who can help you. If you decide that you want to pick a different species, just type "+restart" and it will return you to phase 1 of character creation. Typing "@sex me=Male" or "@sex me=Female" will change your char- acter's gender. Finally, typing "@email me=<email address>" will tell us your new email address, if it changes. The next command, "@describe", allows you to specify the text that other players will see when they use the "look" command to look at you. For example, type, "@describe me=You see an enthusiastic new player." and then type "look me". The "examine" command is what you can use to check the settings of all the different customizations you can make to your character. Try typing, "examine me". You should see your name, your description (if you've set one), your email, and your gender, along with a bunch of other information, some of which will make sense to you and some of which probably won't. Explaining everything that you see there is beyond the scope of this intro- ductory text, but near the end of this discussion we'll touch on what the "flags" and the "locks" are (both listed near the top). The "examine" comm- and can be abbreviated as "ex". New players often need to change their names to something more Tolkien-like once they get to the point where they want to start actually playing the game. You can do this by typing "@name me=<newname> <password>". So for example, if you want to name yourself Zippy and your password is benjamin, you'd type, "@name me=Zippy benjamin". Changing your password on a regular basis is also a good idea. You can do that by typing, "@password <oldpass>= <newpass>". So if your password was benjamin and you wanted to change it to franklin, you'd type "@password benjamin=franklin". Note that passwords ARE case-sensitive. There are a variety of options, called "flags", that can be toggled "on" or "off" using the "@set" command. To turn a flag "on", you type "@set me= <flagname>". To turn it off, you type "@set me=!<flagname>". The complete list of flags is quite large, but the following four are of particular interest to new players: Flag Effect, if switched "on" -------- -------------------------- ansi display certain text in hilights, if your computer supports it color display even more text in colors, if your computer supports it opaque do not allow people who look at you to see what you are carrying nospoof display extra info in front of messages you hear so that players cannot send you messages anonymously By default, of the four flags above, only the "ansi" flag is set on new players. If you are seeing the symbols "[1m" and "[0m" appearing everywhere, then that means that your computer does not support ansi. You should turn it off by typing, "@set me=!ansi". Otherwise you may wish to try typing "@set me=color" to get the full range of text colors. Unless you set the opaque flag on yourself, other players will be able to see a list of all the objects you are carrying when they look at you. If you don't like that idea, you can type "@set me=opaque" to stop that. Finally, there are many commands on the game which allow players to send an anonymous message to another player. Except in the case where this is an accepted part of the game play, sending anonymous messages is considered impolite and unethical. You can defend yourself against this sort of mis- treatment by typing "@set me=nospoof". This will cause anonymous messages to be prefixed by some information telling you who sent the message. Some people don't like this because there are a lot of routine anonymous messages that you see all the time (like messages that the game sends you) and some players find all the extra information tacked on to the front of these messages annoying. If you decide that you don't like getting that info, you can turn it off again by typing "@set me=!nospoof". The last command in the list, "@lock/page", is a way to stop someone who is annoying you from sending you any more messages. Elendor is not generally a place where players maliciously pester each other. Usually you should be able to stop someone from talking to you merely by asking them to stop. And if this ever does not work, you are strongly encouraged to tell a Local Admin or game administrator who will correct the problem immediately. But if you wish to block communication from another player yourself, type the following: @lock/page me=!$*player where "player" is the name of whichever player is bothering you. You can later unset the page lock by typing, "@lock/page me". Type "help <command>" for more extensive help on any of the commands covered in this text. Type "help intro" to return to the main list of quick-start topics.