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Where do
I go to get a "client" to play on?
There are many fine
clients out there. Many of the immortals use Zmud
which we have found easy to use and work with.
What
Should My Name Be?
When choosing a name,
please try to choose one which is both medieval and unique. Good
names help add to gameplay and will allow you to forge an identity
for yourself. Simply put, your name should NOT be:
- Nonsensical, unpronounceable
or ridiculous.
- Profane or derogatory
as interpreted in any language.
- Futuristic or
common, such as 'Jill' or 'Laser'.
- Similar to that
of any Realms Immortal, major mob, or equipment.
- Significant in
history, mythology, or any religion, such as ‘Santa’
- Comprised of various
capital letters, such as 'BrACkkA' or 'CORTO'.
- Comprised of ranks
or titles, such as 'Lord' or 'Master'.
- Composed of singular
descriptive nouns, adverbs or adjectives, as in 'Heart', 'Big',
'Flying', 'Broken', 'Slick' or 'Tricky'.
- Any of the above
in reverse, i.e., writing Jade as 'Edaj'.
- Any combination
of singular descriptive nouns/adverbs or adjectives, as in 'Metaljacket
Heartbound Earthstone or Softheart'
If you choose an
unacceptable name, an Immortal will nicely ask you to choose a different
one and we will rename your character. There will be no need to
restart your character.
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Is
Roleplaying Required Here?
Role-playing is defined
as trying to put yourself in someone else's place and decide what/how
that person should act or respond in certain situations. In the
case of our mud this 'someone else' is your character. While you
sit behind your keyboard, you are allowed to see our world through
the eyes of your particular character. You see when this person
becomes hungry/thirsty, gains power, or suffers losses and problems.
This is all designed
to help make it easier for you roleplay your character more and
more accurately. As stated before the world here is heavily based
on AD&D, which is a very famous roleplaying game. This means that
during normal play you decide things that your character should
say and act out, which can be seen by other characters online at
that time, and to which they may choose to react to in various ways,
including talking, emotes, socials or even violence.
When you as a player,
use the majority of channels within the mud, excluding the OOC(out
of character) one, the other players will assume that what you say
and do is your style of role-playing. Unless otherwise stated it
is valid to assume that someone is always roleplaying when not using
the OOC channel. This means that insults chides and comments made
on the other channels will be interperated in this light.
Keep this in mind
as you watch and respond to other things that other players do and
say. Even though we do not force people to roleplay on our mud,
it is the prefered method of playing. Although two people may have
drastically different opinions on methods or actions taken by various
characters, since they are simply that, opinions, and we do not
force roleplaying onto players, neither is any better or worse than
the other.
While you may feel
the need to criticize someone else's style of playing, be mindful
that this does not become open harassment, as we DO enforce laws
concerning that. As usual if you have any questions regarding anything
to do with laws about this or other subjects, please feel free to
ask an immortal for clarification.
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How
Do I See My Commands?
When you enter the
MUD, simply type commands to see what all the commands available
to you. If you have a question regarding a command, type Help <
command >. We have an extensive help system and are always adding
help files. If for some reason, You find a subject that does not
have a help file or you do not understand a help file, please ask
an Immortal that is on, or if you cannot find an Immortal write
a note and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
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How
Do I Write A Note?
Simply type "note
write" (without the quotations " ) while in the MUD and a note will
appear in your hands and you will be pushed into a buffer. Whatever
you type while in this buffer will go into your note. When you are
done, just type /s in order to exit the buffer. If you wish to know
how to move around while in the buffer, ie. correct mistakes, etc,
just type /? While in the buffer. For further information type Help
Note while in the MUD.
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How
Do I Practice?
Each race begins
the game in its own homeland town, encampment, or city. The first
thing to do is find a mobile who will teach you in your skills.
To see a list of possible skills and/or spells to learn, type practice.
To see what you skills you will be able to learn in the future,
type slist. Once you have found a mobile to practice at, you must
be in the room with it and type practice < skill/spell >. The
mobile will teach you once in each skill/spell, and from then on
you must use the skill in order to gain proficiency in it. For any
further questions, please type Help practice while in the MUD.
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How
Do I Move Around?
Once in the mud,
you should be able to see any visible exits at the bottom of the
room description. If you cannot, you may need to configure your
screen. Simply type config +autoexit in order to fix this. By typing
north (n), south (s), east (e), or west (w), you are able to move
in any direction you would like. Sometimes exits are hidden or need
to be searched out. To find these, look carefully in the room descriptions
for clues and then try to look at various things in the rooms. Sometimes
you will be able to see these things which may give you clues to
puzzles within the rooms. They will not be in every room, but in
some you may find special exits. In some rooms you may need to search
for an exit. To do this, simply type search < direction >, if
you succeed in finding an exit not readily apparent, you will receive
a message saying so. Once again, if you have any questions, please
feel free to write a note or ask someone that is on the MUD at the
time.
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How
Do I Communicate With Other Players Or An Immortal?
When you begin playing,
you have the option of Saying, Telling, or Newbie Chat.
- to use say, the
person you want to talk to must be in the same room, just type
SAY
- to use tell, the
target person may be anywhere within the Realms, just type TELL
- newbiechat is
seen and used only by level 1 characters, members of the Newbie
Council, and Immortals.
- To see this message
while in the MUD, simply type Help Channels
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How
Do I Follow An Imm?
We have decided that
in order to avoid favoritism and other problems that are associated
with devoting to actual Immortals, to create a deity system that
one is able to devote too. If you type deities while in the MUD,
you will be able to see a list of deities available for you to devote
to. You may also type Help Devote while in the MUD for more information
on devoting.
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What
Is The Best Class/Race?
We have designed
this MUD so that each class and race has its own inherent abilities,
and skills to bring to any grouping. The hope is that each are good
in their own way. It all depends on what one is looking for. Some
classes are designed for a more advanced player because they are
more difficult but generally the patience and skill that is required
to play these pays off in the end because they are so powerful at
higher levels. We cannot say that there is any one best class or
race, each is unique and the only way to find which is best for
you is to try playing each of them.
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How
Do I Get A Quest?
Quests are run at
random times for different groups of players within the realms.
They may involve anything from a scavenger hunt, to solving riddles,
to killing mobs that threaten the Realms. Quests are an excellent
way to meet other players, and enhance roleplaying throughout the
realm. Different quests will result in different awards. Awards
are up to the discretion of the immortal running the quest.
Some things to remember
while questing:
- We are volunteers,
and choose to run quests. If you have criticisms of the quest,
or the person running the quest, please be constructive and vent
your concerns in an appropriate forum- a note or personal chat.
- Do not ask when
the next quest will be, or if there is a quest. Just pay attention
to channels and what is going on around you. If something out
of the ordinary is going on, there's a good chance it might be
a quest.
- Unless explicitly
stated, Multi-playing is NOT allowed during quests. IF you are
caught multi-playing, you will forfeit any reward, and most likely
have a temporary ban from questing placed on the characters involved
Any Immortal below
level 109 is not allowed to give quests unless they have received
special permission from an upper level immortal.
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How
Do I Set Up Triggers?
When setting up a
good trigger, it is important to make sure that it does what you
want, when you want it. This is a list of common triggers. These
triggers are going to be assumed to be part of zMud operations.
These are setup by going into the triggers and by typing into the
field key what you want the trigger to be fired from. These are
my suggestions for some useful ones.
An autoloot trigger:
(If your mud doesn't have one configured automatically) in the field
type in: You receive then for the result you should type in get
all corpse. This will prevent you from accidentally looting corpses
like if you typed "is dead!" for your trigger and told it to get
all corpse.
A disarm trigger:
In the field type in: you are DISARMED! For the result, type in:
get sword (or staff or whatever); wear sword. You must use the semicolon
in-between get sword; wear sword.
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What
If I Have A Question About Something?
We have an extensive
help system compiled here.
First, we recommend
that you try to find a Help File on a subject that you have a question
about, or a related subject. Sometimes things are not worded exactly
as you ask them, ie. Asking about quests and the help file is for
questing. We have tried to make things as easy to access as possible
but sometimes little things do slip through the cracks.
If there is an Immortal
or another player on that is available and can help you with your
question, go ahead and try to ask them.
If after this, you
cannot find what you are looking for, or do not understand what
you have read, please write a note to an Immortal and we will try
to get back to you as soon as possible. Oftentimes we are busy and
not able to get right to your question so forgive us in advance
if we do not respond promptly if you OOC your question while you
are on the MUD. Writing a note allows us to have a permanent reminder
that there is something that requires our attention.
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How
Do I Avoid Dying?
There are several
ways to do this, but inevitably, at some point you will die and
have to start from your beginning point once again. In order to
lessen the number of times you do end up dying, here are a few hints.
Be sure to Consider
mobs that you want to kill. By doing this, you will be able to see
how they compare to you in levels, and strength. Depending on your
equipment and your level, you may wish to decide to wait on killing
a particular mob or go ahead and give it a try. Dying is not something
to fear, you lose minimal experience for it, and we have made it
so that you will not lose a level no matter how much experience
you may lose.
It also helps to
group with other players that may be playing. Please type "Help
Grouping" while in the MUD to see how grouping works.
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Why does it take
so long to die sometimes?
Sometimes there is
a wait on dying in order to allow other players to aid you if they
are around. This feature has been debugged and should allow you
do die much faster once you reach –6 in hitpoints.Although this
makes dying slower, it often lets players have the opportunity to
cheat death and regenerate hit points, in the case of trolls etc.
We just suggest that you take a break and grab a soda while you
wait to die. It really isn’t that long of a wait, it just seems
long.
However, IF you remain
at 0 hp for an extended period of time, please note an immortal
and we will try to fix that. This should not be happening any more.
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What are my options
when I do finally die?
(answered courtesy
of Garmrir)
So little one, you
have died and no longer have your pathetic corpse given to you for
free. Glory be to me, Garmrir,
Lord of Death, Decay, and Corruption! But I suppose letting you
continue on and die even more would serve my goals better than letting
your corpse simply rot. Here are some things you can do to retrieve
that lost corpse of yours.
First, get off your
freshly slain arse and get it yourself! Nothing like walking back
to where you met your end to take back what is yours.
Second, get one of
your mortal companions to pick up your corpse and bring it to you.
Disgraceful as this may be, it is better than losing everything.
Next, you can try
to supplicate for your corpse. Devoting to a deity ('help deities'
in the game for more info) and earning favor ('help favor' in game
for more info) for that deity allows you to supplicate for your
corpse ('help supplicate' in the game for more info).
And finally, if you
are so
pathetic that none
of these options are within your power, you can beg for an immortal
to get your corpse for you. Be warned, there is a cost to such weakness
on your part. One of your best pieces of equipment will be taken
as payment for an immortal retrieving your corpse. You do have the
right to ask what item will be taken as payment before your corpse
is retrieved, however. But which is worse, losing one of your best
items or losing all of your puny items?
Now that you have
back your equipment, go forth and slay all who stand in your way.
All glory be to the
Lord of Death!
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