MOOs are made up of objects called rooms that are linked together by entrances and exits. A room is not necessarily enclosed by four walls and a roof, it could be a garden, a matchbox or a staircase, but generally rooms are areas that are recognisable as geographic locations. Rooms can contain characters. When you are in a room, you can speak to the other people who are in the room with you. There are several different ways to move to another room.
One of the advantages of using the enCore Xpress interface is that you can use the hyperlinks in the right hand pane to move from room to room. Simply click on the links (underlined words in blue or purple) which have the signpost graphic next to them.
You can also use a typed direction to move from room to room. These directions can be found in square brackets after the description of the room you are in. Simply type the direction into the text box and your character will be moved to the room the direction links to. Don't forget to have your radio buttons set to 'Normal'
Since most MOOs are large and rather sprawling, moving continuously using just links or directions can be a time consuming process -- not to mention the ease with which you could get lost. If you know where you're going, or the name of the character you wish to join, you can go straight there using the teleportation commands.
E.G.@go soap bubble You view Soap Bubble... DragonFly arrives @join JediKnight You view Linen Closet... You teleport into Linen Closet... DragonFly arrives
You may want to first of all find out if the person you are joining is online, or whereabouts they are. To do this, you can use the @who command.
It can be quite disconcerting when you first arrive in a MOO, so you might want to first of all find out who else is about, where they are, find out more about the room you are in, about objects in the room, or objects you are holding.
To find out who else is online, type @who in the text box. Don't forget to set your radio buttons to 'Normal' first. You will see a list of anybody else who is currently on line scroll up on your screen. The list contains information about how long they've been connected and where they are. You can now use the @join command to join them, or the @go command to go to their location.
Along the top of your window you will see a row of buttons. If you click on the who button, a new window will pop up with the same information. The locations in this window are hyperlinked, so you can click on the link to be moved to the location. The names are also hyperlinked. Clicking on these will give you more information about the person.
One of the most useful commands in the MOO is 'look'. Used on its own, you will be given a description of the room you are in, used in conjunction with a character or object name and you will be given a description of that person or thing.
E.G.look JediKnight You view JediKnight... He is awake, but has been staring off into space for 14 minutes.
The description of the person or object you looked at will be visible in the right hand pane of your browser. You can also click on a linked name of a person or object to see their description.
If it is an object you're wanting more information about, you might want to use the @examine command to find out if there are any useful verbs to use.
E.G.@examine ball ball (#9999) is owned by JediKnight(#999999). Aliases: ball You view ball... Key: (None.) Obvious Verbs: g*et/t*ake ball d*rop/th*row ball gi*ve/ha*nd ball to present ball to v*iew ball dis*play ball connect ball to ball @webpref*erences ball
Now you know that you can throw the ball
E.G.throw ball You throw the ball in a clean clear arc through the air.
More information about interacting with objects can be found in the Tools & Objects section
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