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== Can I do things now? ==

Now, let's teach you how to hit buttons and influence people!

One of the things you should have seen looks sorta like this, right?

'''<Guests>''' Guest has connected.

<Guests> is a 'channel'. To you WoW players, it is similar to General, or Trade. To you IRC users, consider it a global IRC room people can choose to listen in on. Depending on when you connected, people may be frantically greeting you or some such enthusiasm. To reply, consider one of the following:

'''+g Hello!''' <br>
'''+g :waves hello!'''<br>
'''+g ;'s connection is being a drag!'''

The difference between these two is pretty slight, and hinges entirely on the presence of that colon. Without the colon, the top line looks like this:

'''<Guests>''' Guest says, "Hello!"

And with the colon, the second line looks like this:

'''<Guests>''' Guest waves hello!

With the semicolon, the third line will look like this:

'''<Guests>''' Guest's connection is being a drag.

The difference between a colon (:) and a semicolon (;) is that a colon inserts a space before what you type, while the semicolon doesn't.

Along the same lines, people in the room will likely be interested in interacting with you as well, and doing so is a fairly simple process as well! Consider one of the following:

'''"Hello!''' <br>''':waves hello!'''<br> ''';'s connection is being a drag!'''

This does precisely the same thing as the previous commands, but only displays it to people in the same 'room' as you. That being, in this case, the OOC lounge. (If you're interested, type 'who' to see who is connected to the MUSH as a whole.)