Newbie

**Interacting with your body:**

Your character in this land acts as your surrogate body.  You, on the other side of your monitor act as the brain of your body.  You, as the brain, must tell your body what to do.  You do this by typing simple 'commands'.  Most commands can be worded exactly as they are in the English language. Remember, you're telling your body what to DO.  So each command begins with a verb such as `"say"`, `"get"`, `"walk"`, or `"look"`.

**Naming:**

When you first meet a person, you don't know what their name is.  If they happen to tell you though, you can give them a name.  Once you give that person a name, then you'll see him described that way from then on. Try:

`name third man as Elija`

`name golden eyed man as Lathander`

If you find that you have named someone the wrong name, you can `"uname"` them.

**Movement:**

If you want to wander south, just type "south" or "s" for short.  This works for all compass directions, as well as "up" and "down".  You may run across a door and you will want to "enter door".  If there is more than one door in the room, you may need to be specific: "enter green door".

Examining your environment:

If you want to see the room you're in, and its contents, "look", or if you want to look AT or IN something, use "look at/in".

**Communication:**

`say Hello`

`shout Help!`

`newbie Can somebody tell me how to do something?`

Want something? Then `"take" i`t.

Don't want in anymore? Then  `"drop"` it.

Other actions are often defined for particular situations or objects, like `"tie rope"`, `"pull lever"`, `"kill monster"`. For more in-depth help on how to refer to and manipulate objects, type "help actions".

**Emotions (emotes):**

Are you happy and damn proud of it?  Then `"smile"` or `"smile mary"` if you are happy with her.  (type `"feelings"` to see what you can do).

**Help:**

Use the help command first to see if there's some information on what you want to know.  Its a good idea to read all of every single help file before you begin to play.  There's a lot of tips and pointers in them there files. Overall, if you're confused, ask around, someone's bound to help. People are generally friendly and social, and everyone was once totally new to this mud too.

**Role Playing:**

Separating things said while you are in character(IC) and while you are out of character(OOC) is important to maintaining the environment here.  Please refer to "help roleplaying" for a detailed explanation of what make good versus bad role play.

**Rules:**

As a player here, you are responsible for knowing the rules.

**Mentor:**

If after a reasonable amount of time and effort, and after you have read the help files, you are still very lost, you may request a mentor (help mentor for more details).

Some quick abbreviations to save time:

`s,n,e,w,ne,nw,se,sw,u,d         (Moves you in the compass directions.)`

`i                               (Lists your inventory)`

`x <something>                   (Lets you look at, or Examine <something>)`

`'hello                          (Means "say hello")`

`:smiles.                        (Makes everyone see "Lathander smiles.")`

`(type alias to see what else you might be able to abbreviate.)`

See Also: actions, fighting