How to Play

This is a guide containing many of the commands you will use to play Untold Dawn.

Basic Movement

To move around, you can type the cardinal direction you which to move through. A room may have any one (or multiple) cardinal directions available to move through. North, south, east, west, northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast. For example:

north

n

west

w

northwest

nw

Look

It's important to know that you can look at the room, and you can look at objects or characters. (Help:Look)

look (or l) - look at the room you are standing in

look <target> - look at the object or character you desire

look

look man

look east

look me

Emoting

Emoting is the most important aspect of roleplay. In Untold Dawn, you can emote both in speech and out of it. (Help:Emote)

The targetting style for emotes is inspired by the same emoting style in other games such as Armageddon MUD. You can emote like this:

emote smiles.

Others will see: The newbie smiles.

emote smiles at ~man.

Target will see: Newbie smiles at you.

emote With a grin, @ nods at ~man.

Target will see: With a grin, the newbie nods at you.

You can also emote in speech, with the following syntax:

say (with a broad gesture) Welcome to Artemis!
tell man (pointing a finger south) The cryo-pods are that way.

Here is a reference list for targeting different pronouns in emotes (credit to ArmageddonMUD):

              <Symbol    Reference                  Target Sees
              ------    ---------                  -----------
                ~       (sdesc)                    you
                !       him/her/them               you
                %       (sdesc)'s                  your
                ^       his/her/their              your
                #       he/she/they                you
                &       himself/herself/themself   yourself
                =       (sdesc)'s                  yours
                +       his/hers/theirs            yours

Describing Your Character

After you go through chargen, you will be able to set a short description and your main description. (Help:Bodyparts)

However, you can also describe each bodypart individually; for example, you can describe your eyes and if you wear sunglasses, that part of the description will be hidden.

If you type BODYPARTS, you will see a list of all the bodyparts you have and can describe.

For example, you might get something like this:

<bodyparts
You have a face (#2478). It is visible if not covered by anything. It can be described.

You have a neck (#2475). It is visible if not covered by anything. It can be described.

...

You can then optionally provide a description for each bodypart with the following command:

bodyparts describe 2478 His face is oval-shaped and features dimpled cheeks.

Go ahead and feel free to play around with these descriptions; you can use them at will. This is completely optional. You can not use this system if you desire.

Another tip is to describe ONE foot (use the right - rfoot) as both.

bodyparts describe <id> Two feet, with ten toes are well kept and clean.

Postures

Postures are how you can pose your character in a room. See Help:Stand or 'help stand' in game to view this helpfile while you play.

• Positions Available: stand, stand at ease, stand at attention, squat, sprawl, slump, sit, prostrate, prone, lie, lounge, lean, kneel
• Modifiers Available: in, on, under, before, behind, around

Most positions have default modifiers. For example, typing sit on <object> will attempt to sit on the object.

Voice Customization

You can set the sound of your voice with the VOICE command. Talking after customizing your voice will add the descriptor words you choose each time. See Help:Voice for more details.

• voice range <range> - Set your vocal range.
• voice accent <accent> - Set the geographic or cultural reference for your accent.
• voice adjective <adjective> - Sets an arbitrary adjective for your voice.

Your QC Chip

The Quantum Communications chip (which was implanted upon your acceptance to the Artemis program) allows you to access the QC network, a low-level augmented reality network. There are various software in the QC chip and you can access their respective helpfiles through the following commands:

• qc group help - Group management.
• qc wallet help - Currency wallets.
• qc time - Shows the current game time.

See Help:QC for more details.

Other Commands

You can view the Category:Helpfile for more details on any of these commands, and more!

Stand/Sit/Lie down/Squat/Kneel	See HELP STAND for further info - many postures are available.
N, E, S, W, NE, NW, SE, SW, U, D	Cardinal movements for travelling through the world
Health	This will show you your character's current health
Score/Profile	Will show you your score sheet, stats and skills
Who	Shows the current player count
Look/L	Looks around, or at something targetted
Turn	Turn switch on, Turn switch off
Input	Some devices when looked at, will instruct you to INPUT commands.
Mine	When holding the appropriate equipment, will use it.
Diagnose	This will show you the diagnostic tests your character can run.
Treat	This will show you the medical treatments your character can offer
Hold	This will put something from your inventory, into one of your hands
FH	Free hands will move things from your hands, into your inventory
Get	This will get something from the room and put it in your hand
Drop	This will drop something in your hands, to the room
Get X bag	This will get something from your bag container (cannot be worn)
Put X bag	This will put something from your hands into your bag container (cannot be worn)
I/inventory	This lists your wearables, things in your hands and your general inventory.
Anatomy	This lists your anatomy descriptions and how to edit them.
Permit	Permit <name> Medical: This will give someone permission to administer medical treatment to you
Story	Entering 'Story' will give you ongoing story updates.
Think	Think will allow you to sink into your characters thoughts.
Feel	Feel will allow you to sink into your characters feelings.
Shout	Louder speech which echoes to nearby spaces.
Follow	Follow Bob wil have you follow Bob.
Rent	This will allow you to rent rentable spaces.
Wear/Remove	Wears/removes items.
Xhelp	Contacts staff for help.
QC	This will bring up the QC chip information
Attack	Does what it says on the tin.
Disengage	Pulls you away from attacking. DISE can be used.
OOC	Speaks ooc locally. Use= OOC HI!
Quit	Quits you out the game, leaving your character's body asleep in the world.