Neat little things

[MeTekillot]

flip coin

flip coin
Sorry, you cannot do that here.

[Cutthroat]

Drop one obsidian coin on the floor.

>flip coin

If it does not work, you are not standing. You will need to stand.

For other 'coin' objects that are not obsidian coins, you can keep them in your inventory.

[musashi]

There really should be a helpfile on this.

[tortall]

I've noticed only a few people using this, so....


() means the emote comes BEFORE whatever you're doing

[] means the emote comes AFTER whatever you're doing.


Nothing looks odder to me than: Near the woman, the man sits at the bar.

When this looks so much better: The man sits at the bar, neat the woman.




Or maybe that's just me....


Just a little something to add a bit extra to your emoting while doing an action. :-D

[Dan]

I am so guilty of misusing () and I never even realized! Thank you!

[tortall]

Some non-lazy person should go through this thread and make a list of everything so we have put it all somewhere useful. So new people don't have to hunt through 7+ pages of.... Crap.

[tortall]

I decided to not be lazy. I know some of these seem obvious, but for newer players, they're invaluable. Also, I know this is long and you're probably wondering why not just let them read through the 9 pages? Trust me. I cut out a LOT of chatter.

I've tried grouping them accordingly, and not just in the order they were posted.

-   OMG TDESC!!!!

-   help BRIEF

-   empty bag chest     Will empty everything in that bag into the chest. Can also empty bags onto some tables/mats/rugs/carpets.

-   pour skin knife     To clean your weapon of poison.

-   behead

-   help locdescs

-   In certain bars with NPC bards...... List song

-   SNIFF     Rooms and people.

-   assist

-   sit WITH person

-   look <person>'s [item]

Exa: Look halaster's sword

- look <item> table      Will give you a mdesc of the item. This works on –some- tables

- look <character>'s (bodypart)             To see tattoo/scar descriptions

-   look with an echo

Exa:

You can look east (squinting) and it will echo.
Same with look <item> (emote), or look in <item> (emote).

-   Can sit on odd items, such as chests, footlockers.

-   Can sit ON some bars.

-   roll dice table       Everyone sitting at the table will be able to see what you rolled.

-   look dice table      To see what the dice was rolls as on the table.

-   Keyword. Invaluable tool. Especially when trying to find hidden lockers/FOOTLOCKERS/chests/trunks/cabinets/closets/cupboards/shelves/ect

-   key <item> (container)

-   count <keyword> (container)

-   pull quiver       Pulls an arrow out of your quiver and equips it in your hands automatically.

-   pull branch     Can get bark off some bracnhes and even logs(pull log)

-   Light/Extinguish commands

-   pagelength

-   list (merchant) [keyword]      Such as list (merchant) black. All the items with black in their sdesc.

-   guard/scan/listen status

-   salvage        There are SO many things you can salvage. Try it out some time.

-   shake tent

-   taste and sip

-   asses –v

-   stop

-   change objective (see: help change)

-   clean room broom   (Can sweep up sawdust in the room with a broom in your equipemt)

-   Multiplier keywords: get red.feather simple.chest

-   help arrange

-   

-   drop bag (wincing as it slips from the edge of ~table) contents spilling out onto the floor, ~ lies on its side beneath a small table.
-   
-   Wincing as it slips from the edge of a small table, you drop your large bag.
-   Shown to the room as:
-   Contents spilling out onto the floor, a large bag lies on its side beneath a small table.
-   
-   Oh, and so long as it's a save room it will retain the sdesc until you pick it up.
-   

Anything you're wearing you don't have to put into your inv. You're wearing silt horror helm? Want to put it in a chest to quickly change into your silks?

put helm chest

[You remove a black-visage helm]
You put a black-visage helm into a simple wooden chest.

Observing room descriptions can lead to the discover of shelves, hearths, closets, desks,
Using @ in an emote makes it more complex
      ex. emote Lifting ^@ hand slightly, @ looks around the room, annoyed.
            will produce: Lifting his hand slightly, the tressy-tressed, muscular man looks around the room, annoyed.

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brief [all|off|room|combat|ooc|songs|novice]


Brief room has saved me lots of grief, especially when I was just beginning. I wish there was an easy way to look at the nonbriefed room on demand, though. Perhaps by an "Examine room" command, or such.

l room

emote can be replaced with :
say can be replaced with '

() means the emote comes BEFORE whatever you're doing

[] means the emote comes AFTER whatever you're doing.

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>help teapot
Stills and similar objects are used in conjunction with brewing. Anyone can use
Them, with or without the brewing skill. Stills, teapots, etc. will typically
Require ingredients in order to be used effectively, and there are several
Commands that work differently when with one.
To use a still, you must first 'pour' a liquid to start from into it. Note that
You cannot pour a liquid into a still if the still already has something in it.
To empty a still, you 'open' it. Stills will also usually require ingredients,
For instance, a fruit. You 'put' ingredients into a still, but once you do, you
Cannot get them back out again. Finally, when everything is in place, you 'use'
The still, and it will create the appropriate liquid, from which you can then
Fill your containers.
Examples:
> open still
You open up the still, draining its contents from it.
> pour flask still
You carefully pour the contents of a flask into the still.
> put fruit still
You carefully prepare the fruit, placing it in the still.
> use still
After adding the last of the ingredients, you close the still, leaving it to process its contents.

[Gunnerblaster]

Awesome, Tortall.

[daedroug]

-   help teapot

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> help teapot
There is no help on topic 'teapot'.


[tortall]

Fixed the list to include the helpfile of help teapot. If the imms wish this removed, there is another post in this thread that I took it from. I will gladly remove that section if asked, but PLEASE don't delete the whole thing. That took me 3 hours to sort through.

[UnderSeven]

Did I just see Tortall looking at Halaster's sword?

[Lizzie]

Another neat little thing:

flip

There's no help file for it. It has extremely limited use. But the syntax is:

flip (item)

[FantasyWriter]

Yes.  I try to "flip" every new item I come across.

[Nyr]

Yes.  I try to "flip" every new item I come across.

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>flip wagon

[Manhattan]

To add to the use of @ in your emotes. It's neat to include VNPC's (as long as you don't include speech).

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>say This is my daughter.
>You say, in sirihish:
      "This is my daughter."
>emote the little blue eyed girl giggles as she hides behind one of @'s legs
>The little blue eyed girl giggles as she hides behind one of the bearded, middle-aged man's legs.

[Rhyden]

Nice work tortall. Should be stickified or maybe moved to that 'other stuff' document in general information.

[Manhattan]

Nosave.

It'll save your ass. But it's kinda confusing with its double negative logic. "Nosave climb, okay so that means I will NOT save myself with a climb check when I fall...okay, so I will RESIST climb checks...okay, what?"

[Cutthroat]

Another neat little thing:

flip

There's no help file for it. It has extremely limited use. But the syntax is:

flip (item)

It's important to keep in mind that flip doesn't work in combat yet. Instead, use the 'use' command. This is equivalent to flip. Yeah, strange.

[FantasyWriter]

Another neat little thing:

flip

There's no help file for it. It has extremely limited use. But the syntax is:

flip (item)

It's important to keep in mind that flip doesn't work in combat yet. Instead, use the 'use' command. This is equivalent to flip. Yeah, strange.

That drove me crazy for weeks before when I had a flippable weapon.

[Yasbusta]

Did I just see Tortall looking at Halaster's sword?

lol at UnderSeven, I saw that too and burst out laughing, funniest thing I've seen in a while. Go Tortall the magnificent god like peeker of swords

Some pretty amazing tips, thanks guys

[tortall]

I took it from another post in the thread! I'm fairly certain that's in the help files somewhere, but it's not under "help look"

Glad I made you laugh though 

[nihilist]

Semote/hemote. Use them.
http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,37299.0.html

[Uberskaapie]

"Sniff"

I sniff -everything- in the hopes that it will return smell data, and when it does it's amazing. It doesn't echo so you won't look all pervy when you're sniffing templars. I wish more rich people wore perfume.

[AmandaGreathouse]

key .

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key .
In the room:
  1.. - the tressy-tressed pc
In Inventory:
  2.. - a tandu sausage

  3.. - a waterskin
In Equipment:
  4.. - a leather swordbelt

  5.. - a newbie collar

  6.. - a rough canvas backpack

  7.. - a white cotton vest

  8.. - a newbie cap

  9.. - a pair of rough canvas pants

10.. - a pair of grey hide boots

11.. - a knife

12.. - a duster sewn from the souls of the damned

13.. - a knife

In the room:
16.. - a circular table

It'll also show items on tables and bars under the items in the room as their own seperate header with the items below each.

[Zoltan]

Good one, Amanda.

>key -- it's a life-saver in the storeroom.