Your character
Speaking and roleplay
Words carry only as far as a real voice would. Speech carries less far indoors, and voices are muffled by walls and closed doors.
| How | What it does |
|---|---|
say anything | Just type: you speak aloud, heard up to about 15 m outdoors and 10 m indoors. |
/s text | Shout, heard up to about 25 m. |
/low text | Speak low, heard up to about 4 m (/lower: very low, 2.5 m). |
/w player text | Whisper to someone right beside you (within 2 m). People nearby see that you whisper, but not what you say. |
/me action | An action in the third person: /me draws a knife. |
/do description | Describe the scene or the result of an action: /do The door is barred from inside. |
/b text | Local out-of-character chat (about 15 m), shown over your head too, with your number and name. |
/pm player text | A private out-of-character message. |
/pma admin text | A private message to a staff member on duty (once every 30 seconds). Once a staff member has written to you - for example about your report - you can also answer them with /pm. A message from a staff member on duty also shows as a sealed letter at the top of your screen, even with the interface hidden (F5): answer it there with Reply, or Close it (hold Left Alt for the cursor). |
/createscene time text | Leave a floating scene where you stand for others to roleplay around - /createscene 2h The palisade is scorched and cracked here. Everyone within a few paces sees it, with your name, for as long as you set (10m to 7d). You can have three at most; /scenes lists the ones around you and /removescene takes yours down. A scene belongs to the world it was set in: one set inside a home or any other separate world is seen only there. |
/yell announcement | At a town's herald - a townsman who cries the news; if you use the command away from one, the nearest is shown on your compass - pay 300 groschen to announce your news to the whole realm, in everyone's chat and on their screen. One announcement a day (24 hours apart). The Early Supporter pack gives 5 a day at 25% off for a month, the Early Founder pack 10 a day at half price for three months. /yell on its own tells you how many you have left. An announcement advertising another game server is refused, and its author is banned for good. |
Your voice
Voice chat is push-to-talk on V: people near you hear you, as in real life. Walls, floors and closed doors muffle it - a word behind a closed door is heard, but not clearly - so a quiet talk in a back room stays private.
Typing...
While you type in the chat - a line, OOC, /me or /do - a … shows over your head to the people within the chat's reach, so they know an answer is coming. It goes when you send, close or empty the line, or after 30 seconds without a key. Settings (F8) > Show that you are typing turns it off.
Describe yourself
/describe sets what others read when they look you over with /examine (or F2 > People around me > Look them over). Examine also shows what is plain to see: wounds, bleeding, drunkenness, bound wrists, the Watch's colours, a fresh bandage, a brand on the hand.
Chance and fate
/try action lets fortune decide, with a 50% chance. /chance 1-99 sets your own odds. /dice, /roll and /flipcoin are for games. Everyone nearby sees the result.