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A MUSH is comprised of four main components: Characters, Rooms, Exits, and Objects A Character is an alternate personality created by you to role play with much like an actor in a movie plays a character. Characters are uniquely named objects through which you can connect to the game via a client or telnet. These characters are often similar to a character you would play in a table top Role playing game. They can have descriptions, possessions, motivations and anything else you can picture a character being and having. A Room is a place inside the game world. It can be a cantina, road, apartment, ship or any other physical space a character can enter into. These rooms have descriptions which shows how room appears, and describes just what kind of room it is. Exits are links between rooms which allow Players and sometimes Things like droids, to move between Rooms. Exits typically appear at the bottom of your client window, informing Players the options of where they can go. For example, a Player may be standing on a street (a room) and see something like 'Cantina Objects are things within a game. Objects can be droids, blasters, bags, bantha's, or almost any other imaginable item. Typically objects are used to enhance the role play experience much like props are used to enhance a live play. Some MUSH objects such as blasters have mushcoded commands associated with them to activate or use them. This MUSH is a game centered around a Star Wars theme based on the popular Star Wars movies and books. The game administrators are the ones responsible for defining just how much of a movie or book is included within the game. |
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| Logging On | |
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Here's some helpful step-by-step instructions to help you get started using
some of the more popular MUSH clients. Logging On With SimpleMU 1. Click on "Connections" on the menu, then "Add/Edit sites" 2. Click on "Add New" 3. Type in "Star Wars: Ways of the Force MUSH" then hit OK. 4. File in the Host IP address and port number. [swwfm.net port 4201] 5. Click Close. Now, any time you want to go on the MUSH, click on "Open" on the toolbar, then "Star Wars:Ways of the Force Mush". When the window opens, the box on the bottom of the window is where you would type: connect YourCharacterName YourPassword Logging On With MUSHClient 1. In the File menu, select "New World" 2. Under World Name, type "Star Wars: Ways of the Force MUSH", and then fill in the IP address and port number boxes. [swwfm.net port 4201] 3. Hit OK. 4. You should automatically connect. When the window opens, the box on the bottom of the window is where you would type: connect YourCharacterName YourPassword As you disconnect, you will be asked if you want to save the new world. Select Yes, and type in "Star Wars: Ways of the Force Mush" as the file name. |
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| General MUSHing Commands | |
Listed below are some of the more common global MUSH commands and the explanations of what they do. Replace the words that are italicized with the appropriate information.say or "
- The say command can be used to talk to someone in the same room. A shorter syntax to use is "message.pose or :
- The pose command is used to show an action, for example: Boba sneaks around through the shadows, unseen by all.. A shorter syntax to use is :action.page PlayerName=message
- The page command sends a message to anyone connected, and the message is considered out of character. Omitting the PlayerName will send the message to that last person you paged. Posing using ':' also works with this command. For example: p PlayerName=:waves, "Hi there" (A single P in place of page is a shorter version of page that works on most but not all MUSHes)ooc message
- This allows you talk about out of character things to whoever is also in the room with you. It is useful for discussing things and letting others what you will be doing in character. Posing using ':' also works with this command.@chan/on ChannelName
- This command lets you join a channel. A channel is a general out of character chat room you can talk on.@chan/list
- This list all the available channels that you can join.+ChannelName message
- Typing this in lets you communicate on one of the channels you've joined. Acts similarly to a "say" command. The channel name can be shortened, for example, typing +pub Hello sends a "Hello" message to the public channel. Posing using ':' also works on channels. For example: +pub :waves, "Hello" will send a message to the public channel that you waved and said Hello.look object
- This lets you see a description of a person, room, or object inside the room you're currently in. You can just use look to view the room you're in, you don't need its name.+finger PlayerName
- This allows you to see information about player, such as race, faction, webpage, e-mail, and a note or away message.who
- This show all the currently connected players, along with their doing message and connection time.+ooc
- This sends you to the Welcome Center, where you can talk and discuss without worrying about in character concerns.+ic
- This returns you back to the original spot your character was before going out of character.NEWS
- This gives you a list of NEWS files that will help any player new to the MUSH learn about the MUSH policies, tips on going through Character Generation, and how things are specifically done on the MUSH, etc.EVENTS
- This gives you a list of EVENTS files that will help any player new to the MUSH learn about the MUSH theme, kinds of ships, factions etc.+HELP
- This gives you a list of +HELP files that lists the global +commands for the mush, along with an explanation of what each +command does.QUIT
- This logs you off the MUSH, it needs to be in all Caps to work.
Tip of the Day - When speaking to people, whether OOCly or ICly please try to capitalize the first word of your sentences, and use proper spelling and punctuation. It makes it easier for people to read and enjoy!
