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. See Help:Look for more information.

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. See Help:Emote for more information.

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 2487 His face is oval-shaped and features dimpled cheeks.