Creating a Character

Once you have connected, follow the instructions on the welcome screen. In brief, to create a new character you should already have a basic character appearance and history in mind. IE, why is your character coming to this universe? Ballybran is not the only planet on the MUSH, so you don't actually have to become a Heptite Guild Member to play. We currently have a dozen or so active planets that could use regular inhabitants.

To actually create the character on the MUSH, use the command

create CharacterName Password

For example, to create a new character named "Joe" with a password of "fooey" you would use the command

create Joe fooey

The character you have just created is totally blank. You will want to add a description of how your character appears to others. We encourage you to provide a physical description of your character. However, historical information and subjective information, which is generally useful, looks silly in a player's physical description, so we have provided a spot for this information in locally-defined +info and +finger commands. Also, provide enough detail in your physical description to allow others to subjectively decide if your character is handsome or beautiful, don't simply state the fact. (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all.)

Using Joe as an example:

@desc me=This fellow looks rather young but handles himself quite well. A tall, athletic build is topped by blond hair lopped short, piercing blue eyes, and an easy smile. He's wearing a subsistence-level paper jumpsuit that looks just a bit worn.

@sex me=male

&planet me=Harpo

&pos me=Internplanetary hitchhiker

&info me=Joe is a young man from Harpo who scraped together every credit he could to escape it, bored and disgusted with the endless pranks and pratfalls, not to mention the fardling off-key squeeze horns! He's been working his way across space looking for something to do with himself ever since, but stopped off on Shankill to earn some more credit before continuing his career search. He's pretty level-headed and rarely panics.

Once you have created your basic character, you can leave the birthplace room. We strongly encourage you to read all the items in News, +jobs, +bb and +computer for more information about the MUSH universe. You can get +info on the planets which are available via +shuttles.


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