Messages: mail types, usage, commands

The Dream Land has a mail system for players to communicate with each other.

note -- ordinary messages about anything story -- stories, tales, poems, written in the name of CHARACTERS in a literary style questnote -- quest announcements published by the gods news -- news and world changes published by the gods change -- world changes published by the gods penalty -- announcements of penalties for violating Rules published by the gods dream -- dreams (help dreams)

READING ALL MESSAGES When you enter the world, you are informed of unread messages and any messages you are currently editing that have not yet been sent. unread: shows all unread mail unread next: read the next unread message from each mail type in chronological order

To mark all messages as read at once, type readall.

READING A SPECIFIC TYPE OF MESSAGES All examples below use the note command; other message types work the same way. For filtering and searching messages see help note list. note list : displays a list of all messages (unread ones are marked N). note read : read the next unread message note read number: read the message with the specified number note read-all : mark all messages of this type as read note unread : mark messages of this type as unread note unread number: mark as unread all messages starting from the given number note delete number: delete a message you wrote

WRITING MESSAGES When writing a message, you must first specify the recipients and the subject.

note to: specify the recipient of the letter note to player name -- to a player note to clan -- to all players in that clan note to immortal -- to immortals note to all -- to all players note to race -- to all players of that race note to class -- to all players of that class note to coders -- to coders note subject : subject of the message

You can copy a letter you have already started editing, or duplicate an existing sent message. note copy : copies the current draft into the editor note copy number : copies an existing letter into the buffer note fwd number : quote the specified letter (forward)

Afterwards it is convenient to open the web editor (webedit) and write there. When you are done, press the Save button and paste the content from the editor into the letter. webedit : opens the editor note paste : transfers the editor text into the letter

Before sending it is useful to check that everything is in order: note show : shows how the message will look note send : sends the message! note clear : erases everything you just wrote

You can also edit and write messages without the web editor: note + line : appends a line to the end of the message note - : deletes the last written line from the message