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== Useful Commands ==

 say x (or "x)
 pose x (or : x)

Say and do things those in the same room can see.

 ws

'WhoSpecies', summarizes everyone in the same room as you.

 look
 look x
 lookat x y

`look` looks at the room you're in and shows you everything inside. `look x` shows you the description of an object, player or action you can see. `lookat x y` lets you read the description of a `y` in `x`'s inventory!

 wa #dir

'WhereAre' lists public areas where people are congregating, and directions to get to those areas. Will also teach you about 't/teleport', 'rose' and 'luge'.

 whisper x=y
 page x=y

Tell `x` a message in private. The only difference is whisper requires you to be in the same room.

 msummon x
 mjoin x

Teleport directly to people across long distances.

 spoof x

Prints a message ( in brackets ) not tied to your character. Use `spoof #recent` to learn who did recent spoofs.

 ooc x
 ponder x (or tb x)
 sing x
 dosign x

These are like say but print other kinds of messages.

 verbatim
 verbatim x

After using this command, write and send as many paragraphs of text as you like, then send `.end` on a new line to send it. `verbatim` sends it to everyone in the room you're in, `verbatim x` sends it to the player `x` only.

== Explore The World ==

http://www.spindizzy.org/map/ (the map of Spindizzy's overworld!)

 map

Shows a map of where you are. (Not always implmented, but it works on the overworld and in Patashu Industries for example).

 help
 @globals (or globals #list)

Non-exhaustive list of commands and topics. If you want help on a specific command, try `help x`, `x #help`, `look x` and `@view x`. Hopefully one of them works.

 holidays

A list of Spindizzy's holidays.

 +read
 rpread
 cread

Global bulletin boards with information about Spindizzy policy/OOC events, upcoming events and technical information on how to make things respectively.

 homefinder

Lists all public housing in Spindizzy - but if you like you can just @dig your own!

 wadir

If you don't remember the name of a public area, use this. For example `wadir spaceport`.

== Express Yourself ==

 @set me=C

Turns on ANSI colour vision. New characters still start with it off!

 editplayer

A program that lets you modify your own appearance.

 morph #help

Swap instantly between different saved appearance.

 help pronouns

If you use a custom gender, this will set up your pronouns. Otherwise they'll default to your name.

 editroom
 editzombie
 editvehicle
 look #edit

Make rooms, zombies, vehicles and 'looktraps' (invisible keywords that can be `look`ed at, usually hinted by putting the keyword in []s)

 @create name

Make a new blank object.

 @dig room

Make a new blank room.

 @set here=_whereare:describe room here
 @set here=_wherearedir:write directions here


Make a room public (visible on wa/wadir).

 @set here=J
 @set here=_tel/allow?:yes

Allows teleporting to a room.

 sge exit

Gives an exit reasonable default messages. (NOTE: Will erase any custom succ, osucc, desc, drop or odrop you set up!)

 @find x
 @owned

List the dbref of a thing you know - then you can @tel #dbref=me, ex #dbref, etc. @owned just shows you all your stuff.

 ex x

Display properties of a thing, e.g. try ex me. continue with ex me=/ and so on to explore subproperty trees. to change a property, try `@set me=/species:Awesome`

 fa

Shows everyone on the muck and what room they're in, a wa alternative.

 showme
 hideme

Hide yourself or a zombie from things like wa.

 pman #reg
 pman #unreg

Use this as a zombie to allow it to interact with globals.