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chapter 5 "Communication"
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There are many ways to communicate with other players. If
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you're in the same room as your intended listener, you can just
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use the "say" command, like this:
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%^GREEN%^say hi, crat%^RESET%^
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If the message is secret, you can "whisper":
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%^GREEN%^whisper to cratylus are you idle?%^RESET%^
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If you want to say something that everyone in the mud can
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hear, use the "shout" command (at the cost of a lot of stamina):
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%^GREEN%^shout hey crat, wheredya go?%^RESET%^
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Or, if it's an important secret and the target is not in the
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same room as you, you can use the magical "tell" command:
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%^GREEN%^tell cratylus are you mad at me or something?%^RESET%^
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There are also special communication lines on the mud that are
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class or role-specific. For example, if you type:
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%^GREEN%^newbie does anyone know what's up with cratylus?%^RESET%^
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All people who are tuned into the newbie line will get
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your message. To see what lines are available to you, type:
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%^GREEN%^lines%^RESET%^
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To see who is listening to the newbie channel:
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%^GREEN%^list newbie%^RESET%^
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To see who is listening to some other channel on some other mud:
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%^GREEN%^list otherchannel@othermud%^RESET%^
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To enable or disable a line, just type the name of it with no message.
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To see a brief history of the past few messages on a line (in
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this case, the newbie line), type:
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%^GREEN%^hist newbie%^RESET%^
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Spamming lines is rude and probably dangerous to your character, so
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be sure you comply with your mud's rules on lines.
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Your mud may be on the intermud network. To find out, type the
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command:
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%^GREEN%^mudlist%^RESET%^
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If a list of muds comes up, you know your mud is probably
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on the intermud3 communication network. Dead Souls by default restricts
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players from access to intermud channels, but you can "tell" to
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players on other muds, if you want. If you think your friend Xyzzy
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is online on a mud on intermud3, you can issue this command:
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%^GREEN%^locate xyzzy%^RESET%^
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If he's logged into a mud on i3, you will get something like:
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Xyzzy was just located on Frontiers. (idle 00:03:17) [status: inactive]
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You can then tell to him:
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%^GREEN%^tell xyzzy@frontiers dude, what's the deal with crat lately?%^RESET%^
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Sometimes a player or NPC does not understand your character's
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native tongue. For example, if you are en elf, your native tongue is
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not English, it is Edhellen. If someone talks to you in English, you
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might see something like this:
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Xyzzy says in English, "leka mifahmam, potong-hwa."
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Since your character doesn't speak English, what you see is gibberish.
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If you find a language teacher, your proficiency in the language they
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teach you will allow you to understand more of the words you hear.
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Suppose that your elf character is now 100% fluent in English.
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If you greet a human player named Xyzzy by typing:
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%^GREEN%^say hello there, xyzzy%^RESET%^
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Xyzzy will probably see something like:
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Noobie says in Edhellen, "pericolo temak, forshtor."
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Instead, if you want to speak to a human, you'll have to type:
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%^GREEN%^speak in english hello there, xyzzy%^RESET%^
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To find out what languages you speak, type:
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%^GREEN%^language%^RESET%^
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