You can see things with the look command. If you use this command by itself, you will look at the room your Player is in. You can also specify other Players, Exits, or Things. For example, if you are in the OOC Train Station and want to look at the library, type look lib and you will get this response:

You see a weather-beaten door set into the station's brick facade. The door is dark wood with a tiny diamond-shaped window and a brass plaque that reads "The Library."

Like many of the other basic commands, the look command can be abbreviated to one letter. In the above example, l lib would produce the same result.

Meeting Room A large, brightly lit room with comfy chairs around a long table. The east door leads to the OOC Club, and the southern door leads out to the train platform. Obvious Exits:     Train Station <out>    Club Room <clu>

From this room, you can go to the Train Station by typing out or to the Club Room by typing clu. What is not obvious is that you can also go to the Train Station by typing: Train Station <out>, ooc train station, train station, train, station, tra, or out. Most exits are created with more than one way of using them, as a convenience to the players.

One other convention we use is that every room has an out exit. If you are lost, or uncertain of how to get back to a familiar place, you should be able to type out repeatedly until you arrive at that Realm's Train Station. From there, you should be able to get anywhere else on the server.

Name Type Idle Cam Realm Room ------------ ----- ---- --- ---------- ------------------------ ArgoGM GM 7s No Argo Argo Soundstage Eddy OOC 9s No Argo Argo Soundstage NachtMusikGM GM 47s Yes NachtMusik NachtMusik Soundstage Rosenstern IC 7s Yes NachtMusik NachtMusik Soundstage Shateishael IC 1m Yes NachtMusik NachtMusik Soundstage Taygeta IC 1m Yes NachtMusik NachtMusik Soundstage Thessaloniki IC 17s Yes NachtMusik NachtMusik Soundstage Bob_Admin STAFF 1m No OOC Bob's Office Bob OOC 6s No OOC Club Room Pip OOC 56s No OOC Club Room Eowyn OOC 9s No OOC Club Room Fitz OOC 30s No OOC Club Room Will OOC 16m No OOC Club Room Phil OOC 22m No OOC Screening Room 1 Jon OOC 29m No OOC Screening Room 1 James OOC 8m No OOC Screening Room 1 Dast OOC 3m No OOC Screening Room 1 Linnea OOC 1m No OOC Screening Room 1 Marc OOC 47m No OOC Screening Room 1 Matt OOC 2m No OOC Screening Room 1 Dobie OOC 44s No OOC Screening Room 1 Kenaran OOC 10s No OOC The Stopgap Shuttle Gala'madred IC 2m Yes Oloth The Garden of Dammerung Rokhan IC 1m Yes Oloth The Garden of Dammerung Alois IC 5m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom Tinuviel IC 3m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom Kern IC 1m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom Eimi IC 1m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom Safix IC 1m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom Xarlen IC 1m Yes Oloth Wandering Path - Taproom OlothGM GM 57m No Oloth Oloth Realm SandboxGM GM 12s No Sandbox Sandbox Train Station ZargleGM GM 13s No Zargle Zargle Soundstage Zoot IC 15s No Zargle Zargle Train Station 34 players are connected. (Max was 45)

This example shows at least two games in progress (you can tell they're gaming because there is an active cambot in the room), collections of people in the OOC Club Room and Screening Room 1 (probably watching the game in the Wandering Path), and a few other small gatherings in other places.

say Howdy folks!

will show the room:

Bob says, "Howdy folks!"

You can also abbreviate the say command to just a double-quote:

"Howdy folks!

will show the room:

Bob says, "Howdy folks!"

If your Player is in a game and a cambot is recording the scene, you can say things "out-of-character" and the cambot will not record what you say. Use two double-quotes to do this:

""Howdy folks!

will show the room:

(OOC) Bob says, "Howdy folks!"

whisper collie starlight = The rain in Spain falls mainly on the ground.

will show this to only Collie:

You whisper, "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the ground." to Collie and Starlight

If you wish to send a message to a Player that is on-line and not in the Room with your Player, you will need to use the page command. By itself, the page command will simply notify someone that you are looking for them. If you type:

page collie

You will see:

your summons to Collie.

The other Player will see:

You sense that Bob is looking for you in the Moonlit Bower.

page collie=The moon is full and bright.

You will see:

You page, "The moon is full and bright." to Collie.

The other Player will see:

Bob pages, "The moon is full and bright." to you.

The page command has a multitude of options. If you are interested in seeing them all, use the page #help command to begin viewing them.

:raises an eyebrow.

Everyone in the room will see:

Bob raises an eyebrow.

This command also lets you combine actions with words. If you type:

:raises an eyebrow and chortles, "Well, that was different..."

Everyone in the room will see:

Bob raises an eyebrow and chortles, "Well, that was different..."

If the cambot is on, you can use a double-colon to prevent the cambot from recording the action. If you type:

::waves his hands and intones, "By the Power of Anchovies, I banish thee from my presence!"

Everyone in the room will see:

(OOC) Bob waves his hands and intones, "By the Power of Anchovies, I banish thee from my presence!"

You can use whois or wi, when typing in the command. The simplest way to use it is to type:

whois <name>

This will give you that person's full name, OOC character name, public email address, the names of all IC characters that person plays, and what realms they are played in. For example, if you typed:

whois JonH

(OOC) Jonathan Hixson (JonH) jhixson999 at aol.com (OOC) IniziiGM in Inizii (OOC) Xarlen in Oloth (OOC) Rechan in Paradon (OOC) Hazmat in Tamashii

As you can see, JonH is the GM of the Inizii realm. If you wanted to know who played in his game, you could use the whois command for that also. The basic format of the command to do so is as follows:

whois #realm <realm>

and for Inizii itself you'd type:

whois #realm Inizii

and you'd get on screen something like the following:

(OOC) IC Name Player's Name OOC Character (OOC) ---------- ----------------- ------------- (OOC) IniziiGM Jonathan Hixson JonH (OOC) Bodan Dastyni Loksa Dast (OOC) Kaz James Ball James (OOC) Kyrel Walter Loy Walter (OOC) Vane Ian Hutzel Ian (OOC) Derleth Greg Downing Greg

The one thing the whois command cannot do is tell you if a game is still running, or if someone has left any particular game or not. For example, JonH is listed as being in the Inizii, Oloth, Paradon, and Tamashii games. However, of those four games, at this point in time, Inizii is running, Oloth and Tamashii are retired, and Paradon is on temporary hiatus. This state of affairs will, of course, be constantly changing as games and players come and go.

There is one final thing the whois command can do for you -- it can list all the realms we have on Reality Fault, and the associated GMs. To do this, just type

whois #realms

and you'll get something like the following:

(OOC) Realm Name GM's Name OOC Character (OOC) ----------- ----------------- ------------- (OOC) NachtMusik Ian Hutzel Ian (OOC) Guardians Greg Downing Greg (OOC) Tamashii (no name set) TamashiiGM (OOC) Fey Philip Hightower Pip (OOC) Paradon Dastyni Loksa Dast (OOC) Idlewild Ariel Matthews Ariel (OOC) Gypsy Ian Hutzel Ian (OOC) DNAnimals Jon Compton Jon (OOC) Scar Matthew Balaun Matt (OOC) Inizii Jonathan Hixson JonH (OOC) Claymore Marc Willner Marc (OOC) Birthright Eowyn Cenek Eowyn (OOC) Argo Bob Simpson Bob (OOC) Heartwood Mike Naylor Mikkel (OOC) Indigo Louis Erickson Lou (OOC) Zargle Bob Simpson Bob (OOC) Weston Jai Cummins Jai (OOC) Starfall Walter Loy Walter (OOC) Sandbox Bob Simpson Bob (OOC) Oloth Jai Cummins Jai (OOC) OOC Collie Collier Collie