A Bug's Muck Commands

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A Bug's Muck Command Guide

by Silver of A Bug's Muck Orienting yourself in a muck and getting used to all the commands can be a lot to learn. The learning curve is even more challenging when you have lots of new terms, acronyms and odd emoticons thrown at you at the same time. This glossary is meant to explain and de-mystify such things so you can get on with mucking. Although written for new visitors to A Bug's Muck, much of this guide is applicable to other mucks as well.

Muck commands often take variable components called parameters. I'll indicate the parameter portion like this: <xyz> where 'xyz' indicates the sort of thing you should type in place of <xyz>. For example, the 'look' command expects you to give it an object to look at: look <object>. You would actually type something like: 'look flower'.

Many commands have help. Type '<command> #help' to see if a command has help. For example: look #help.

Contents

Moving Yourself Around

Looking At Stuff

Communicating

Moving Things Around

Miscellanous Handy Commands

Status Settings

Creating Your Own Stuff

Moving Yourself Around

General movement

<OOC>Main Complex<OOC>
   Welcome to the Main OOC Complex. Home of the public message board. Center for discussing new
ideas and promoting constructive activities. And best of all, there's plenty of square footage
for staging general mayhem.
   The walls are randomly splashed with a variety of colors, suggesting many a paint balloon
fight. Much of that is mercifully covered up by several promotional posters for Pixar movies,
though one wall has been reserved for a large map of sorts. Tables and chairs are scattered
about alongside cushions which look as if they were made from roadside rugs. Even the ceiling is
fairly accomodating: In addition to a few comfy chairs bolted up there for bugs who prefer
relaxing upside-down, there's a big chandelier for swinging on.
 
 Other places:  [T]ourist [C]enter, [W]izard's [W]ing, [St]ory Board Lounge, [R]ec [R]oom ...
 
  Contents:
Muck Map                              Public Board

Global exits

oocc		Takes you to the main OOC complex
goisland		Takes you to the center of Ant Island
gocity		Takes you to Bug's City's main square
hive		Takes you to the guest chamber

Going home

home

gohome

gohome #help

@link me=here

Jump

jump <character name>

jump silver

jump #2675

Looking At Stuff

look

look <object>

look flower

look Flik

look

look #help

lookat

lookat Silver's labcoat

read

read

Communicating

The say

"<message>

"Hello!

Lily says, "Hello!"

The pose

:<pose>

:sits down

Lily sits down.

The spoof

spoof <message>

spoof A breeze whispers through the trees overhead.

A breeze whispers through the trees overhead.

spoof "Yes, I agree," says Silver. "Let's head that way."

The page

page <player>=<message>

page locus=How do you log off?

Silver pages, "How do you log off?" to you.

page #mail <player>=<message>

page #mail

The whisper

wh <player>=<message>

wh locus=You're a looney.

Silver whispers, "You're a looney." to you.

The think

think <message>

think :<message>

think Hi!

think :waves!

think #help

The +ooc command

+ooc

+ooc :

Moving Things Around

Taking things

take <object>

get <object>

take flower

Dropping things

drop <object>

drop flower

Your Inventory

inventory

Handing things to another character

hand <object> to <player>

hand flower to Gem

hand #on

hand #help

Putting objects in other objects

place <object> in|on <container object>

place pebble on shelf

place #help

Removing objects from container objects

remove <object> from <container object>

place #help

Miscellanous Handy Commands

Quitting your MUCK session

QUIT

Requesting a new character

@request

Changing Your Password

@password <oldpassword>=<newpassword>

Find

find

find <playername>

find silver

Laston

laston <playername>

Who

who

Pfind

pfind

Time

time

timeall

time #help

Pinfo

pinfo <playername>

pinfo #help

Watch

watch #on

watch <playername>

watch #help

Set your 'Doing' message

@doing me=<mssg>

@doing me=Mucking about!

@tel

@tel me=<location dbref>

Status Settings

Sometimes people are busy role-playing and aren't available for general chatting, and sometimes people are away from their keyboard in real life and can't respond to messages. Status is an easy way to signal these things to other players. Many things reveal status, including the 'find' command. You can set your status by typing a simple two or three letter command. Here are the status commands and their meanings:

OOC		Out Of Character. Used when present on the muck but not role-playing. Players spend most of their time OOC.
IC		In Character. Used when present on the muck and actively role-playing.
IOC		In/Out of Character. Not really role-playing, but your character's fictional role-play persona is in effect. Sometimes used to trigger a different description using MPI.
AFK		Away From Keyboard. Set as a courtesy when online but temporarily unable to respond to muck events.
IDL		Idle. Interpretation varies, but often means the player is doing something in another window and may not see muck events in a timely manner. AFK is generally more widely understood.
IIC		Invite In Character. A way to indicate that you are currently open to role-play. Asking someone to role-play will give better results than going IIC. Rarely used as most role-play sessions are pre-arranged or spontaneous.
ZZZ		Indicates the player is offline. This status is set by the server and cannot be set by hand.
EDT		Indicates the player is doing something in a program, often the lsedit program. This status is set by the server and cannot be set by hand.

Creating Your Own Stuff

Once you get used to moving around the muck and looking at all the things other people have built, you'll probably want to start making your own rooms and objects. This will help you get started.

Making objects

@create <newobjectname>

@create hat

Making rooms

@dig <newroomname>

@dig Silver's home

Silver's home created with room number 1961.

jump <dbref>

@tel me=<dbref>

Building Rooms

Describing things

@desc me=<your description>

@desc me=A short but pleasant looking blue ant with lavender freckles.

@desc <room or object name>=<description>

@desc here=This is Gem's secret room, where every corner is piled high with toys.

@desc hat=A small green hat made from a tiny curled leaf.

Deleting things

@recycle <object>

Renaming things

@name <object>=<newobjectname>

@name book shelf=book shelves

That's all, folks!
Created 2004/08/07