Neat little things

[Redheart]

The <key .> discussion has ran on long enough, please take it to another thread and move this one back on topic before it gets locked and we loose a very valuable tool for noobs and veterans alike.

Edit: My neat little thing that is way too under used.

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Sniff                                                             (General)

   Sniffing is the act of inhaling something, for the purpose of either
smelling, or gaining the pleasurable effects of the inhalant. On Zalanthas,
there are many things one can sniff, the most prevalent being the addictive
spices (of which House Kurac is the foremost dealer in the Known World).
You can sniff people in order to see what they smell like, as well. Some
rooms have scent descriptions "sniff room" will present these to you.

Syntax:
   sniff <object>
   sniff <person>
   sniff room

Example:
   > sniff zharal

   > sniff templar

[boog]

Oh good, I am not the only person who is a habitual sniffer.

[HavokBlue]

I sniff <name> when I can't remember which name goes to which sdesc. 

[Cindy42]

i sniffed a weird smell off of someone one time, for seemingly no reason other than (ic-sensitive), when i was indirectly taught about the sniff command, a RL month ago. until then i thought they were joking or that that group of people in that place were all RPing it and i just didn't know (ic-sensitive).

Everyone else smells like dust and sweat. I would like to ask wtf they smelled like (ic-sensitive) but i'm gonna have to wait eleven months.

[Marshmellow]

There are multiple means to change your odor in this game.  Find them in game. 

[FantasyWriter]

Non-IC-sensative (read:common sense) ways to change your smell: purfume, spice, being piss drunk, handling poo.

[Chettaman]

I always get excited whene someone posts in this thread.

>forage spice
What the heck?! When did they add this? I bet I'm the only dumbass that actually rides around and looks for this stuff.

[Xeran Van Houten]

11/11/2010: Spice deposits may now be foraged in silty areas, primarily near the Eternal Sea -- Tiernan

[Mooney]

edited, wrong section.

[DesertT]

DISCUSS!!

discuss npc hi

discuss npc topics

WOW!!

[DesertT]

SHUFFLE DECK RESET!!

Resets ALL the cards back into your deck.

Including the ones that have been JUNK'd!!

Wow, I've wasted SOOOO many decks of Kruth cards...

[My 2 sids]

DISCUSS!!

discuss npc hi

discuss npc topics

WOW!!

Cool!

[Marc]

DISCUSS!!

discuss npc hi

discuss npc topics

WOW!!

Cool!

Works with "talk" too

Talk npc topics

talk npc hi

This, of course, can lead to random talk's at the table you're sitting at. 

Discuss > talk

[Reiteration]

Beep    (General)
You are able to cause another player's terminal to audibly beep (if their terminal has such capability). This can be used to check that another player has not gone link-dead, as may be the case if they have not indicated (via the ooc or gone commands) that they are occupied in real life, but also have not performed any visible actions with their characters for some time. Use this command very sparingly, if at all.

Syntax:
beep <character name>
Example:
beep savak
See also:
gone, ooc

[Praetorian]

Beep    (General)
You are able to cause another player's terminal to audibly beep (if their terminal has such capability). This can be used to check that another player has not gone link-dead, as may be the case if they have not indicated (via the ooc or gone commands) that they are occupied in real life, but also have not performed any visible actions with their characters for some time. Use this command very sparingly, if at all.

As I recall, this beep sounds much like the 'BEEP!' - Mantishead death combo, so if your friend is just tabbed out quick browsing something and you beep them it might lead to rapid heart palpitations as they frantically switch back to their mud client to see who died.

[Marshmellow]

Beep    (General)
You are able to cause another player's terminal to audibly beep (if their terminal has such capability). This can be used to check that another player has not gone link-dead, as may be the case if they have not indicated (via the ooc or gone commands) that they are occupied in real life, but also have not performed any visible actions with their characters for some time. Use this command very sparingly, if at all.

As I recall, this beep sounds much like the 'BEEP!' - Mantishead death combo, so if your friend is just tabbed out quick browsing something and you beep them it might lead to rapid heart palpitations as they frantically switch back to their mud client to see who died.

Good!  Means they'll get back to the mud window that much faster! 

[Synthesis]

Heh, my system alert sound is a scream followed by the "zombie getting gibbed" sound from Quake, so that's what I hear every time I kill something.

[Majikal]

I once beeped someone while hidden with a raider to make sure I wasn't doing anything to a linkdead pc.

the player did a 'flee self'. Apparently in a panic, which is funny because if he beeped that would have meant his pc was already dead.

Still smile thinking about that one.

[Reiteration]

I once beeped someone while hidden with a raider to make sure I wasn't doing anything to a linkdead pc.

the player did a 'flee self'. Apparently in a panic, which is funny because if he beeped that would have meant his pc was already dead.

Still smile thinking about that one.

They fled because of a beep? Seems a little... against the rules no?

[Marshmellow]

IC reaction without IC cause.  I'd say that's pushing the limits at the least.  I would trust the player of that character less in the future.

[Drayab]

Just to play devil's advocate, if a player only understands the beep as something very IC (i.e. - the grim face of death), then I think tucking tail and running with nary a look back is a reasonable response when you hear a beep and can't even tell where it is coming from. For all they know, it could be an unfamiliar aspect of magik. One could equate it with 'Someone rustles in the bushes nearby' but even more sinister.

[brytta.leofa]

Moreover, if they literally typed "flee self," they were probably being funny/roleplayish.  "ru;n;e;n;e" is far more efficient amirite.

[Potaje]

Moreover, if they literally typed "flee self," they were probably being funny/roleplayish.  "ru;n;e;n;e" is far more efficient amirite.

Till your off the shield wall or over a cliff.

[Synthesis]

Moreover, if they literally typed "flee self," they were probably being funny/roleplayish.  "ru;n;e;n;e" is far more efficient amirite.

No, you're not right.  Whoever did that knew exactly what they were doing.

[Marshmellow]

I'm with Synthesis.