Absolute Beginner's Guide to MUSHing - Revision history

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‎Home

Lauren: /* Before We Begin: What's with the + and @? */

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‎Before We Begin: What's with the + and @?

Lauren: /* Pose Order/Three Pose Rule */

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‎Pose Order/Three Pose Rule

Lauren: /* Game Culture */

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‎Game Culture

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‎Credits and Sharing

Lauren: Created page with "So, your buddy has invited you to join an online text roleplaying game. Except it's not on Discord, or an MMORPG, or social media, or even an old school forum. It's a MUSH (or..."

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Created page with "So, your buddy has invited you to join an online text roleplaying game. Except it's not on Discord, or an MMORPG, or social media, or even an old school forum. It's a MUSH (or..."

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 ===Home===
-Typing "<code>home</code>" will instantly transport you to whichever room you've designated as your character's home. If you're a new character, this will usually be automatically set as one of the OOC rooms. If you get your own in character home room on the grid, you can change it using a command called @link. To do this, stand in the room you want to designate as your home, and type:
+Typing "<code>home</code>" will instantly transport you to whichever room you've designated as your character's home. If you're a new character, this will usually be automatically set as one of the OOC rooms. If you get your own room on the grid representing your in character home, you can change it using a command called @link. To do this, stand in the room and type:
 <blockquote><code>@link me=here</code></blockquote>

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 A lot of the following commands start with + or @, and you're probably wondering why.
-Firstly, '''if you're playing on an Ares game, you need to get out a big shaker of salt to take this section with'''. On Ares games, these commands ''don't'' start with those special characters, and sometimes have different names entirely. Should you skip this section entirely? Probably not. Ares is based on MUSH, in theory though not actual code, and so many of the basic concepts are the same. What you should do, though, is check the help for your individual game.
+Firstly, '''if you're playing on an Ares game, you need to get out a big shaker of salt to take this section with'''. On Ares games, these commands ''don't'' start with those special characters, and sometimes have different names entirely. Should you skip this section? Probably not. Ares is based on MUSH, in theory though not actual code, and so many of the basic concepts are the same. What you should do, though, is check the help for your individual game.
 With that out of the way:

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 ==Pose Order/Three Pose Rule==
-Pose order is the order in which people will pose, and it goes around in a circle. For example, John may pose first, followed by Susan, followed by Mary, at which point it's John's turn again. Keeping to a pose order ensures that everyone gets a chance to pose, and that faster writers aren't effectively "talking over" those who take longer to type. The actual order usually arises organically in a scene. Generally speaking, it's rude to cut ahead, but there are exceptions.
+Pose order is the order in which people will pose, and it goes around in a circle. For example, John may pose first, followed by Susan, followed by Mary, at which point it's John's turn again. Keeping to a pose order ensures that everyone gets a chance to pose, and that faster writers aren't effectively talking over those who take longer to type. The actual order usually arises organically in a scene. Generally speaking, it's rude to cut ahead, but there are exceptions.
 One of these is large scenes. A common way of dealing with this is something called the "Three Pose Rule," or 3PR. Basically, you have to wait for three other people to pose before you pose again. This prevents speedy typists from dominating the scene while still allowing things to move along.

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 Every player has their own ideas of what constitutes good roleplaying: how long poses and descriptions should be, how they should be formatted, how long is reasonable to wait between poses, should you switch into writing poses in the second person when there's just one other player in the room, how much OOC chatter is desirable in a scene, etc. Some games have players with wildly differing answers to these questions. When this happens, it's usually not a problem: players will adapt and/or self segregate with others who match their playstyle. On such games, however you choose to play, you can probably find others who will either match or accept your chosen playstyle.
-Some games, however, have a culture that tilts in particular directions. You may have a harder time here if your play doesn't match their expectations. While this is no excuse for other players to be outright rude to you, it might make them reluctant to play with you.
+Some games, however, have a culture that tilts in particular directions. You may have a harder time here if your play doesn't match their expectations. While this is no excuse for other players to be outright rude, it might make them reluctant to play with you.
 How do you know what you're dealing with? Well, it never hurts to ask, but for many of these aspects of play, observing works as well or better. (In my experience, reading descriptions to see what length is typical is much more useful than asking how long a description has to be. The latter usually gets you something unhelpful like "however long it needs to be.") Have scenes with a variety of people, and see what - if anything - is usual for the game you're on.

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−	This guide was written by Rusalka, aka Lauren@Modern Nights. Feel free to copy and modify this guide as you please, no attribution needed.	+	This guide was written by Rusalka, aka Lauren@Modern Nights - except for the jobs section, which was written by Batty and lightly modified by Rusalka. Feel free to copy and modify this guide as you please, no attribution needed.