MUSH Survival Guide: MUSH Basics

Welcome to Chapter 2. If you're looking at /this/, you should be in the following situation.

1: You should have a telnet client running, and know what that even means.

2: You should have an open connection to PersonaMUSH running.

3: You should have just typed 'connect guest guest', and a bunch of text should have just scrolled at you.

If this doesn't describe your situation, please go back to Chapter 1 now, or nothing after this will make sense.

What just happened

Alright, what you just saw was a metric boatload of text, a staggeringly small amount of it is important right now. Ignore the babbling about yelling at gods personalizing files, and there being no place like home.

Let's look at a sample of what the 'OOC Lounge' might look like. This text looks like this.

Velvet Room - OOC Lounge

        The Velvet Room is a comfortable, yet strange place outside space and time...     

That above us is a snippet of the 'description' of the room. Basically, it's what the room would look like were you in it. While roleplaying, presumably your character is inside the room, so act accordingly. Of course, this is an out of character room, so it's not too important, but it's nice flavor text.

Ryotaro Dojima [U] <None>              Suggestion Box <SB>                    
Deidra Doyle [SEES] <Xuanzang>         Fortune Teller                         
Maki Sonomura [NWO] <Matsu>            Anzu Momonoki [NWO] <Ailuros>          
Mitsuru Kirijo [SEES] <Penthesilea>    Shinjiro Aragaki [DS] <Castor>         
Will Dent [KDA] <None>                 Yosuke Hanamura [KDA] <Jiraiya>        
Shiori Hibiki [SEES] <Pheme>           Naoya Toudou [DS] <Seimen Kongo>       
Ran Itoh [SEES] <Verthandi>            Yuzuriha Hatsumi [KDA] <Hattori Hanzo> 
Natsuko Choukawa [S] <Ofnir>           Eriko Kirishima [KDA] <Nike>           
William Blazer [NWO] <Golem of Prague> Baofu [DS] <Odysseus>                  

This is a list of the people currently in the room, plus a couple 'Objects'. We'll get into objects later. For now, let's examine, at random...

Yosuke Hanamura [KDA] <Jiraiya>

Yosuke Hanamura is this dashing fellow's name, he is in the KDA faction, and his current 'Persona' is Jiraiya. The last part isn't too important to remember right now.

<W>est:                   Demon Artist's Gallery - Meeting Room
<N>orth:                  Nameless' Piano - Quiet Room
<E>ast:                   Elizabeth's Corner - Free Code Room

These are examples of where you can 'move' to, by typing 'n', 'w', or 'e'. You can also type north, west, or east, if you enjoy writing words.

The absolute last thing 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 be connected to. Depending on when you connected, people may be frantically greeting you or some such enthusiasm. To reply, consider one of the following:

+g Hello! +g :waves hello!

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!