OOC Parser Tricks for New Players

[Rosalind]

I've noticed that there are little tricks I've learned over the years to make CM simpler in an OOC sense. Here are some tricks at request of new players. I by far do not know them all, and even after four years could do to learn more. Please post them as you think of them!

Guestroom Door:

If you type "Pull ______ Door" you can enter your room without typing "Open ______ Door, Enter _____ Door" or whatnot.

Looking Into Rooms Without Entering Them

If you type "Look Space" from the Dining Hall, you can see who is there without actually entering. The same is true for many places.

From the Guestroom level of the Outer Bailey, you can type "Look Courtyard" and see who is in the Courtyard.

From the Bowling Lounge, you can type "Look Bowling Alley" and see who is in the southern area without going into it.

Disclaimer: These are OOC tricks, not secret passages. They should not affect the role-playing of the game, just the ease of use.

[Diedra]

Also, some other things you should see and be able to use but may not know about:

On the guest hall level, at the railing and also at the south end of the art gallery, type:
> l courtyard

In the Bowling Lounge, Office of Royal Orders, and Lecture Hall, there are windows:
> l courtyard

In your room, you can:
> l window

> l mirror

If you want to bow / curtsey only to the people in a room, and not the npc's (guards, pages, couriers) type:
> bow pcs

If you want to see how you look to other people when they look at you, type:
> inventory
The way people see you is the first paragraph.

[Rosalind]

Oh yes.

I = Inventory
L = Look
N = Makes your character move North.
NE = Makes your character move Northeast.
E = Makes your character move East.
W = Makes your character move West.
SW = Makes your character move Southwest.
S = Makes your character move South.
SE = Makes your character move Southeast.
NW = Makes your character move Northwest.

They don't have to be capitalized. They are shortcuts you can use without having to type out the whole word.

[Lucus]

From the OB Guest Rooms you can type "look battlements" to see the Western Battlements. Not many people seem to know that when I tell them, perhaps it's because the battlements aren't targettable as "view" when you try to look at a view (view of mountains, view of sky, ect.)

Also, "@page allow <name>" will make it so you don't have to type "@page accept <name>" every time they send you a page. The same works with "@consent allow all". However, if you want to remove someone from your consent list, don't type "@consent deny <name>" as that will make you automatically deny them. Instead type "@consent unallow <name>".

Yeah, I hope that vaguely resembles English to at least some of you.

Lin

[Namida]

Look pcs (=player characters)
bow pcs
look humans (=all human characters, including guard, couriers etc)

curtsy 1st pc (the last pc who entered the room) [my trick to curtsying so fast ]

bow charming to females
curtsy teasing to males

look view
read my purse' 1st scroll, 2nd scroll etc (no need to take them all up to find that one you look for)
take blank scroll from my pouch

Uhm - enough for now

[Viceran]

You ladies sure are turning a lot of tricks in this thread.

[Namida]

We can find more

unlock door with my purse' keys :P

[Kvalhion]

One of my favorites is to use 'here' when bowing, gazing, etc.

i.e., in the Outer Bailey Courtyard:

bow here

Would show 'You bow to the Outer Bailey Courtyard'

If you are not sure how to spell a verb or adverb, you can use a partial word to either have the parser automatically fill in the rest (if there is only one match) or give you a list of possible words.

For instance, if you wanted to bow deferentially, you could type:

bow deferent

.. and yes, I have been bored enough to type: say a
which gives me a complete list of adverbs that start with a.

[SC Skylar]

Originally posted by Diedra
Also, some other things you should see and be able to use but may not know about:

On the guest hall level, at the railing and also at the south end of the art gallery, type:
> l courtyard

In the Bowling Lounge, Office of Royal Orders, and Lecture Hall, there are windows:
> l courtyard

This "Look <exit>" is being added to every doorway/door/exit in the castle. When a door is open, you will be able to "Look at door" and see what's in the room connecting.

It's not complete yet, but something our StoryBuilders are working on.

[Diedra]

*swats Darby* Brat

Ah, not yet mentioned is the infamous and constantly used her/him - like the 'here' mentioned above. Just like was said about the last person who enters the courtyard in Namida's post, the last male you interact with is targetable as 'him' and the last female you interact with is targetable as 'her.'

Therefore:
>smile at joe "Good day.
You smile at Joe, "Good day."
>bow to him also
You bow to Joe also.
>wave to John "Hello!"
You wave to John, "Hello!"
>smile at him happily
You smile at John happily.

Just be careful for the inevitable typo when you mean to type:
'bow to here partingly'
and accidentally type:
'bow to her partingly'

Also, the ability to look at objects does work 'deep' like Nam was saying.

If you have two purses in your hands, two pouches in the first purse, and different colored scrolls in it, you can, for example:
> read my 1st purse's 1st pouch's 1st cream scroll

Also remember item collection categories. Say I want to look in my wardrobe for what kind of burgundy clothes I have.

>l wardrobe's burgundy clothes

You can also take them, for instance:
>take ivory things from small box

Additionally, last in first out applies in general.

If you are holding ten scrolls and walk by a courier that hands you a scroll, that last one is always the first in your stack, so you can:
> read my 1st scroll

Oh! On scrolls, this is absolutely a big thing for me:
> take scrolls from my purse
You take 30 scrolls from your purse.
> put my blank scrolls in my purse
You put 10 plain scrolls in your purse.
> l my scrolls
You see 10 cream scrolls, 5 white scrolls, and 5 plain scrolls.
> put my cream scrolls and my white scrolls in my purse

Or... say I'm just looking for a blank plain colored scroll...
> take blank plain scroll from my purse

[Kenderaela]

Here is my two cents!

MACRO ADD BSC bow smilingly to courtyard
MACRO SAVE

bsc=You bow smilingly to the Courtyard

So many options!

Sherri

[Diedra]

Originally posted by Kenderaela
Here is my two cents!

MACRO ADD BSC bow smilingly to courtyard
MACRO SAVE

bsc=You bow smilingly to the Courtyard

So many options!

Sherri

On that note, Zealous (Firefox users) works different. Anyone on Zealous can just type:
MACRO ADD pyd pull yellow door

But... after logging in and out it won't be there because its not saved, and MACRO SAVE doesn't work for Zealous.

Here's a post with a response from Age that explains how:
http://forum.skotos.net/showthread.p...threadid=43407

[Stacy Elizabeth]

Curious thing that used to help me alot --

Is there a compiled list of all the available adverbs and verbs somewhere? I know there used to be, but that was years and years ago.

Anyone know?

[Diedra]

Originally posted by Stacy Elizabeth
s there a compiled list of all the available adverbs and verbs somewhere? I know there used to be, but that was years and years ago.

I keep one here: Parser Lists

[Lucus]

Originally posted by Diedra

But... after logging in and out it won't be there because its not saved, and MACRO SAVE doesn't work for Zealous.

I have MACROs saved for Firefox, I think the command is CONFIG SAVE or CONFIG STORE or something like that, I'll have to check it out when I get on a computer with Mozilla on it.

Lin