To set your Gender, you can use @set me=sex:<gender>, or you can use the pedit program, and type sex <gender>. Your species is much the same. This is done either via @set me=species:<species>, or by entering pedit and then typing species <species>. For more information on the pedit command, see Appendix C III: Using Pedit.
Character Setup
While we do not require you to have your character
approved by anybody, we do require that you have some basic setup
before venturing IC. No one will grade your setup; in fact, no one
need even see it. The IC entrance is simply coded to check that you
have these things set, so don't be too worried if you're not up to
writing a novel just to look around a little. Many of our characters
will set something very basic, and then come back and write a more
detailed description or background once they're had a chance to look
around the world, or interact with people.
If you plan on having 'morphs', you will need to set your gender, species, and description differently than described on this page. Please see Appendix C IV: Using Morph for more information.
Gender and Species
The first things you'll want to set will be your
Gender and Species. This will allow others to get a quick run down of
you sex, species, and special by using the whospecies command.
Description
Your description exists to inform other people of
what you look like. This is particularly important in a world where
you can look like anything. Remember to include all the pertinent
bits when describing your character. Height, width, color (skin hair
and eyes), clothing, and anything your character may carry around with
them quite often. The description does not have to be three pages
long, in fact, most people would prefer if it wasn't, but it should
include enough to make a mental picture of your character.
You can set your description in a few different ways. By far the easiest way to set your description would be to simply type @desc me = <description>. Take note, however, that this will not allow you to have things like multiple lines, formatting, or a description longer than about 2048 characters. In order to do any of that, you'll need to use another way of describing yourself.
One alternative is to enter the pedit program, and
then simply type desc. This will drop
you into what is called the list editor. If you're not familiar with
the list editor, see Appendix
C V: Using the List Editor for information on how to work with it.
You can type in your description, using multiple lines and formatting,
and then type .end to exit the editor
and save your description.
You can also accomplish this manually. Simply use lsedit me=<list name> to enter the list editor for the named list. The name can be anything you like, though 'desc' is fairly standard. Once you have finished entering the description in the list editor as described above, use .end to exit the editor, and then type @desc me={list:<list name>} using the name you used before.
Player Information
Your player information consists of two things, an
IC background for your character, and optionally, some OOC information
that people who role play with you may need to know. The only thing
you are required to have is an IC background. Keep in mind that this
does not need to be a novel, or even some great accounting. This is
simply a few sentences detailing where your character is from,
possibly some sort of event or quest that would be important to them,
and any other information you feel might be pertinent.
You can set your player info in one of two ways. The easiest is to type setpinfo char=<info>. This, of course, doesn't allow for multiple lines, etc. To accomplish a longer or formatted pinfo, you'll need to use setpinfo char which will drop you into a list editor as described above for description.
To see someone's player info, type pinfo <name>.
Judge Notes
Judge Notes, or jnotes, are superseeeeekret
notations about your character that only you, Wizards and Staff can
see. They are optional, but are extremely helpful to the roleplay
staff and the gods, and we encourage all players to set jnotes and
keep them up to date. Please see info
chargen/jnotes for more information, and +jread #help for the applicable commands.