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Seeing someone named "George" mentioned on the WHO, a new player decides to type "+finger George" and see what else he can learn about this Character. How much information have you chosen to make available to him? There are obviously two different types of information here - the info which represents IC information such as anyone could probably be presumed to have learned by asking a few questions around town, and the info which is only useful for OOC purposes such as communications or simple amusement.
The purely IC information could include:
Full name
Gender
Age
Title
Organization
Nationality
Short-desc
The OOC frills might include:
E-mail (this should be clearly labeled in CharGen as optional - the Player should not feel obligated to publicize his e-mail address)
Webpage location (this attribute is often called WWW or URL, for obvious reasons)
Alts (lists other characters this Player also controls - again, filling this one out might well be optional)
Quote (this one could be either an IC Quote (Abraham Lincoln's Quote might be, "A nation cannot exist half slave and half free.") or just some amusing/thoughtprovoking phrase that the Player wanted to present to other people, for whatever reason).
Plan (like Quote, this can be an IC motivation, to help people understand your character's reasons for existing, or just some OOC comment to inform people of things you think they should know).
For example, if someone was running a character called George, based on General George Patton of World War II fame, his finger might look like this:
Full name: George C. Patton
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Title: Major General
Organization: U.S. Army
Nationality: United States of America
Short-desc: White-haired. Uniformed. Fierce-looking.
E-mail: gpatton@hotmail.com
WWW: www.warhero.com/~georgepatton/index.htmlAlts: None
Quote: Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war by helping the other guy die for HIS country.
Plan: To win the war in Europe and get more glory than that British fellow, Bernard Law Montgomery. For more details, see the movie about me, called PATTON, with George C. Scott playing my role.
This is more of a quick footnote than a fleshed-out chapter, but here goes:
It has come to my attention that some of the WoD mushes offer a selection of several IC languages for their players to speak (English usually being the default). If two PCs who were approved as speaking "French" get together, they can use a special command to communicate verbally in that language. Their messages are plainly understood by one another (in the original English as it appears on their screens) but any non-French-speaking PC who is listening will only see that they are speaking, but will not know what is being said. The coding for this is apparently the result of a heavily modified "mutter" code.
I have no personal experience with that sort of thing, and a quick attempt to see if such code was archived on the web was unsuccessful (though it may well be hidden in some archive I didn't get around to), but if your mush contains two or more distinct IC "languages" as a thematic matter, you might want to look into it.
[TO BE CONTINUED - If I happen to run across a site on the Web where such code is already archived, for instance. So far, no dice.]