Commands

Abilities are the combat techniques you draw on during a fight: strikes, stances, shields, and movement tricks. Each ability belongs to a cultivation style, and you gain access to it by raising that style's level.

How you gain abilities

• Every ability lists a minimum style level. Once your level in that style reaches it, the ability becomes available to you.
• If the style belongs to your own martial school, its abilities open up for free as you level the style.
• Abilities from a style outside your school require your family to have completed the matching family manual before you can use them.

Is there a skill-point pool to spend?

No. There are no separate "skill points" to save up and spend. What you advance is a martial style's level (also called its rank), which during the alpha climbs from rank 1 to rank 6 (mastery). Raising a style's level is what unlocks its higher abilities.

You raise a style's level in the cultivation interface (cultivate or meditate) by crafting a pill for it. Each pill is a recipe of ingredients bought in the cultivation shop with influence or gold dollars; that is the resource you spend to advance. Fighting and sparring with a style build up training progress on their own, and a higher-ranked sparring partner or a teach lesson builds it faster; this progress is not spent like points, it is applied automatically to make your next rank's pill cheaper. See help cultivate.

Using abilities in combat

• In a fight, the combat menu lists the abilities you can use right now; pick one to perform it on your turn.
• invoke <ability> queues a style ability so it applies to your next roll.
• Each ability resolves at a named speed within the round. See help ability speed.

Learning more

• score shows your styles and the abilities you have learned.
• help <ability name> describes a specific technique, for example help stone fist.
• help <style name> describes a whole style and the abilities it teaches.

Collect every finished commission you have waiting straight into your inventory, wherever you are. This is how you actually receive an item you ordered with commission: you never have to walk back to the workshop that made it.

When a commission finishes you are told it is ready and pointed at this command. Type accept deliveries (or just deliveries) and all of your ready commissions are handed over at once. If nothing is ready yet, you are simply told there is nothing to collect. A ready order waits patiently for you, so there is no deadline.

Use orders (or commissions) at any time to see what is still being crafted and what is ready to collect. Home-delivery orders are handled separately: those are dropped at your home automatically and do not need this command.

Examples

• accept deliveries: collect every finished commission into your inventory.
• deliveries: the short form, exactly the same thing.

Configure screen reader, visual aid, and text-to-speech settings. Without arguments, it opens a form to adjust everything at once.

Looking for a screen reader mode? Yes. Type accessibility mode on to turn on full screen reader mode, which converts visual layouts into linear text and auto-queues TTS narration. If you only want the output simplified without auto-queuing, use accessibility reader on. There is no separate screenreader keyword; these two settings are it.

Settings (each takes on or off):

• accessibility mode on/off — Full screen reader mode, with linear output and TTS auto-queuing.
• accessibility reader on/off — Optimize output for screen readers without auto-queuing TTS.
• accessibility contrast on/off — Toggle high contrast mode for better readability.
• accessibility effects on/off — Toggle visual effects (on is full, off is reduced motion).
• accessibility typing on/off — Pause TTS when you start typing.
• accessibility resume on/off — Auto-resume TTS after typing stops.

For an on/off setting you may also type yes/no, enable/disable, or 1/0. Type a setting with no value to see its current state.

Other options:

• accessibility speed 1.5 — Set TTS narration speed (any value from 0.25 to 4.0, default 1.0).
• accessibility keys — Show replay buffer key bindings.
• accessibility status — Show all current settings.
• accessibility help — Show the in-game command help.

Delves and puzzles

Mode on also adapts delves: the map and status render as plain text, and the carved stone puzzles that block exits no longer require arranging a visual grid. With mode on, solve rolls one of your stats against the puzzle's difficulty to find a way past the mechanism instead. See help delve for the delve commands.

Use the web form (by typing just accessibility) to configure multiple settings at once. Colorblind palettes, dyslexia-friendly fonts, and font sizes live in the webclient settings panel (gear icon).

Manage activities, missions, and tasks available in the game. This command lets you discover what activities exist in your area, start new ones, join ongoing activities, and interact with them through the activity system. Activities are time-limited challenges or cooperative experiences that you can run on your own or alongside other players.

How to take part

Each activity is tied to the specific room where it was placed, so there is no single kind of venue to look for. To take part, follow these steps:

1. Type activity list to see what is running or available in the room where you currently stand. It only shows activities placed in that exact room, so if nothing appears, try other rooms nearby. Each one is numbered.
2. To begin one yourself, type activity start <name or number>. You become the first participant right away, so this works solo. If an activity is already running, type activity join instead to take part in it.
3. Each round you choose what to do, then type activity ready to lock in your turn. When everyone is ready, the round resolves and the next one begins.
4. Type activity status at any time to see the current round, your choices, and the other participants.
5. Type activity leave to step out before the activity finishes.

Subcommands

• activity list — see available activities in your location.
• activity start <name> — begin an activity by name or list number (you can run one solo).
• activity join — join an activity already in progress in your room.
• activity leave — step out of the activity you are in.
• activity status — check the current round, your choices, and the participants.
• activity choose <action> — pick an action for the round by number or name.
• activity qi <0-2> — spend qi for extra dice on your roll.
• activity help <player> — assist another participant so they roll with advantage.
• activity recover — skip your roll this round and regain qi.
• activity ready — lock in your turn once you have chosen.

Round-specific subcommands

Some rounds call for a particular kind of turn. The status display tells you which to use:

• activity vote <number> — cast your vote on a branch round.
• activity heal — recover HP on a rest round.
• activity continue — vote to move on from a rest round.
• activity assess <description> — scout the situation on a free-roll round.
• activity action <description> — describe what you do on a free-roll round.
• activity persuade — make your case on a persuade round.

How it works

Use activity list to see what is available in your current location. Some activities have limits on participants or are only available at certain times. Once you start or join an activity, you proceed through rounds where you take actions and see results. Activities can be solo or multiplayer.

Extend your most recent commission by ordering additional copies of the same item at the identical per-unit price. You'll see the cost before confirming, and you can choose your payment method.

Examples

• addamount 3 — add 3 more copies to your current order.
• addamount 5 — add 5 copies.

How it works

The system finds your most recent active commission and offers to add copies at the same quoted price. This avoids renegotiation if you decide you want more items once production has begun.

Mark yourself as away from keyboard. You can specify a duration in minutes, or omit it to indicate indefinite absence. Others in your room will see a status message. Typing afk again toggles the status off.

Examples

• afk — toggle AFK on or off.
• afk 30 — set AFK for 30 minutes.
• away — alias for AFK.

Your character's activity status is visible to other players in the room. AFK automatically clears if you send any other command.

Plan and manage afterparties that spawn from an active event. Afterparties are smaller, follow-on gatherings created by event attendees. As a creator, you invite people and set a destination room. As an invitee, you can accept, decline, or join once the afterparty is launched. Afterparties auto-launch after a minimum acceptance time or when the creator forces launch.

Examples

• afterparty — open the afterparty creation form.
• afterparty status — see pending or launched afterparties you are hosting or invited to.
• afterparty go — launch a pending afterparty now (as creator).
• afterparty join Bob — join Bob's afterparty if you were invited.
• afterparty invite Alice — add Alice to your pending afterparty.

Tips

• Afterparties only work inside an active event.
• Invitees have a minimum time window before they can be moved (usually a few minutes).
• Once launched, the creator and ready invitees teleport to the destination room.
• Late acceptors can join using afterparty join.

Create a private meeting between an NPC and a player character. You specify the NPC, the player, a meeting location (where the player is invited), and optionally a separate roleplay room where the actual scene takes place. If the roleplay room is omitted, the meeting room is used for both.

Once arranged, the player receives an invitation. Use sceneinstructions to set special instructions for how the NPC should behave during the scene.

Examples

• arrangescene merchant for Alice meeting reception rp office — merchant meets Alice in reception, scene plays in office.
• arrangescene Bob for Carol at tavern — Bob meets Carol in the tavern (same room for both).

During an Auto-GM adventure, you can spend destiny to assert narrative facts about the world. You can introduce NPCs, change the environment, create complications, give gifts to other participants, reveal secrets, or propose story convergences. The GM may adapt your assertion for tone, accept it as-is, or reject it if it conflicts with established facts.

Examples

• assert environment A thick fog rolls in from the sea — change the scene.
• assert npc A merchant arrives with unusual wares — introduce a character.
• assert connection @Alice You and Alice have a shared secret — establish a link.
• assert complication @Bob A rival blocks Bob's escape route — target another player.
• assert complication You are struck by doubt — create self-directed complication.
• assert gift @Alice You find a perfect tool for her — give an advantage.
• assert revelation The artifact is cursed — expose hidden truth.
• assert accept — accept a pending GM adaptation.
• assert reject — decline a pending adaptation or complication.

How it works

Assertions are processed asynchronously. If the GM adapts your assertion, you'll be notified and can accept or reject the revised version. Convergence assertions require multiple participants to agree before taking effect. The system tracks destiny spend separately, so assertions are a resource you manage alongside combat and other actions.

Start a fight with another character or set your target during ongoing combat. If you are already fighting, this command lets you switch targets or prepare to attack without opening a menu. If no target is in combat with you yet, attacking them initiates a new fight.

Examples

• attack — confirm your attack on your current target.
• attack Bob — target Bob and prepare to attack.
• hit goblin — alias for attack.

How it works

Outside combat, attacking another character starts a new fight. Both fighters are drawn into a turn-based combat system and shown a quickmenu with options to attack, defend, move, or use abilities. Inside an ongoing fight, the attack command sets or changes your target and confirms your action for the current round. Switching targets reopens the quickmenu so you can change tactics before the round resolves.

Ending a fight

You do not end a fight with a separate command — there is no flee, stop, or disengage command to type. A fight ends on its own once one side is knocked out, surrenders, or escapes, and you leave combat automatically when that happens. To break off early, choose one of these options from the combat menu (the same menu where you pick Attack each round):

• Flee — run to an adjacent room and leave the fight. This option only appears when you are at the edge of the battlefield next to an exit, and the escape only succeeds if you take no damage that round, so move to an edge first and pick a calm moment.
• Surrender — give up the fight. You become helpless and stop fighting until the battle is over. (This is the menu option, not the surrender command, which is a separate roleplay action.)

Tips

• You can only attack targets in the same room (outside safe zones).
• Safe zones and some political areas may restrict PvP combat; use spar for friendly matches instead.
• NPCs must be combat-configured to be attacked; pure roleplay NPCs cannot be targets.

Propose an action that requires the other person's permission. The target receives a menu with Allow and Deny options. Their choice determines whether your action succeeds. Common uses: asking someone to hug, kiss, shake hands, or any interaction that needs consent.

Both you and the target must be alive and in the same room. You cannot attempt actions on yourself; just do them directly instead. Only one pending request per person at a time.

Examples

• attempt Alice hugs warmly — ask Alice to accept a hug.
• propose Bob kisses on the cheek — ask Bob for a kiss.
• request Charlie gives a high five — ask Charlie for a high five.

View your current wallet (cash on hand) and bank account balances across all currencies. This is a quick status check showing how much money you have accessible and how much is safely stored in a bank. Your total combines both wallet and bank funds.

Examples

• balance — show your complete financial summary.
• bal — alias for balance.
• money — shows the same information.

Tips

• Wallet funds can be stolen or lost; keep important money in the bank.
• Different currencies are displayed separately (Gold Dollar, Silver Li, regional variants).
• Use deposit to move cash into a bank account, or withdraw to bring it out.

Access the bank interface to manage your accounts. This opens a web form where you can deposit cash, withdraw funds, exchange currencies between your wallets and accounts, and transfer money. Only available when you are physically at a bank location.

Examples

• bank — open the banking interface (if you are at a bank).

How it works

The bank interface is a web form that appears as a modal. From there you can perform all banking operations. You must be at a physical bank building for the command to work.

Alias for the notice command. View, post to, or remove from the notice board in your current room.

Cover someone's eyes to block their vision. The target must be helpless (either knocked unconscious or voluntarily helpless via the helpless command).

Examples

• blindfold Bob — blindfold Bob.
• hood Jane — alias for blindfold.

How it works

Blindfolding a helpless character applies a restraint that blocks their vision. They can still move and act, but cannot see. Use the untie command to remove the blindfold. A character can be both tied and blindfolded at the same time.

Remove someone from your event (host or staff only). Once bounced, that person cannot re-enter the event even if they try. If they are currently inside the event, they are ejected immediately. This is a moderation tool for hosts to manage disruptive attendees.

Examples

• bounce Bob — remove Bob from your event.
• bounce troublemaker — bounce someone by partial name match.

Tips

• You must be the event host or a designated staff member to use this command.
• The target must be in the same room as you.
• Bounced players are notified and cannot return to that specific event.

Express respect or reverence to another character through a physical gesture. You specify a degree of bow from 1 to 90 degrees, and can add optional roleplay text to accompany the motion. The higher the degree, the greater the respect conveyed. Kneeling bows (using kbow) show even deeper deference.

Examples

• 45bow Charles — bow 45 degrees to Charles.
• 90kbow the magistrate, presenting your deepest respects — kneel and bow deeply.
• 15bow stranger with a casual nod — slight bow with flavour text.

How it works

The system rounds what observers see to the nearest 15-degree increment, so exact degrees stay in roleplay logs but nearby players get a cleaner experience. The gesture is broadcast to the room and logged for records.

This staff command sends a message to all online players and queues it for offline players to see on login. Use it for announcements, server notices, or important staff communications.

The unified entry point for every building and construction command in the game. Typing build alone opens a menu of everything you can create or modify from your current location. The options shown adapt to where you are and what you own, so you only see actions that actually make sense in context.

The menu groups choices into two columns. Create lists new structures you can put down (a city, a block, a room, a shop, an apartment). Modify lists changes you can make to structures you already own (rename, resize, redecorate, demolish).

Examples

• build — open the build menu.
• build apartment — jump straight to apartment placement.
• build block brownstone — turn an intersection into a brownstone block.

How it works

Each menu option dispatches to the matching specialized command. You can also call those commands directly once you know their names (for instance build shop or build city). The hub menu mostly exists so newcomers can discover the building system without having to memorize the full command list.

Tips

• Some options only appear at intersections; stand at a cross-street to see the full set.
• Modify options only list structures you personally own.

Purchase items from a shop. You can buy by item name, by number (if the shop shows a numbered list), or by quantity. If no shop is present or no item name is given, the shop listing is displayed. Shops at the Floating Market are also accessible via this command.

Examples

• buy leather jacket — purchase a leather jacket.
• buy 3 — buy item number 3 from the shop list.
• buy 2 potions — purchase 2 potions.
• buy — show the shop listing without buying.

How it works

The game checks for a shop in your current room. If an item is out of stock or you do not have enough money in your wallet, the purchase fails. Some shops allow credit (accumulate debt up to a limit). The game deducts payment from your wallet or adds to your credit balance depending on shop settings.

Initiate a vehicle purchase. This command redirects you to the web interface's vehicle dealership where you can configure vehicle options, view pricing, and complete your purchase. All vehicle transactions are finalized through the web, not in-game commands.

Examples

• buy vehicle — open the vehicle purchase interface.

View the festival calendar for your kingdom. By default shows ongoing and upcoming festivals within the next 30 days. Use calendar all to see every festival scheduled for the year. Use calendar <name> to read the full lore for a specific festival.

Examples

• calendar — show upcoming festivals in your kingdom.
• calendar all — list all festivals for the year.
• calendar "Mid-Autumn Festival" — read details about a specific festival.

Festival calendar is kingdom-specific. Different regions observe different celebrations. Some festivals are empire-wide while others are local to your kingdom.

This staff command removes a pending arranged scene before it is triggered. Only scenes that are pending (not yet started) can be cancelled. If you need to end a scene that is already active, use endscene instead.

Examples

• cancelscene 5 — cancel scene ID 5.

Open an interactive menu to play card games with other players in the room. Select from available games or invite other players to join you for a match.

Examples

• cards — open the card game menu.
• card — open the card game menu (alias).

How it works

When you open the menu, you will see all available card games and options to start a new game or join an existing one. Other players in the room can see that you are playing and may join your table.

Lift a helpless character onto your shoulders and carry them. The target must be in a helpless state.

Examples

• carry Bob — pick up and carry Bob.
• pickup Jane — alias for carry.

How it works

Once someone is helpless, you can scoop them up and carry them. Carrying is faster than dragging and gives you more direct control, but the carried character cannot participate in activities or escape. You move together. Use the release command to put them down.

Alter how others perceive your character's identity. You can change your nickname (no cooldown), your forename (with a 21-day cooldown after any name change), or your surname (same 21-day cooldown). Names must be unique, contain only letters, spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes, and be no longer than 50 characters.

Examples

• change name nickname Bobby — update your nickname immediately.
• change name nickname clear — remove your nickname entirely (also accepts none).
• change name forename Robert — change your legal first name (21-day cooldown applies).
• change name surname Smith — change your last name (21-day cooldown applies).

Tips

• Nickname changes are instant and account-wide.
• To drop a nickname you no longer want, set it to clear (or none); you will go by your full name again.
• Forename and surname changes trigger a 21-day waiting period before you can change either one again.
• The first letter of your new name is automatically capitalized.

Send a message to everyone subscribed to a communication channel. If you are not already a member of a public channel, you are automatically added when you send a message. Private channels require you to join first.

Examples

• channel general Hello everyone — send to the general channel.
• + Hi there — quick shortcut for the OOC channel.
• channel ooc What's the best way to reach the north gate? — send to OOC.

How it works

Channels are communication lines that connect people across the world. You can join channels to stay in touch with friends, coordinate activities, or chat out of character. Messages sent to a channel are seen by all online members. Use the channels command to see what channels are available, and use join channel to subscribe to private ones.

Tips

• Use the + shortcut for quick OOC messages.
• Channel names can be abbreviated as long as they are unambiguous.
• You can unmute yourself in a channel by asking an admin if you have been muted.

View a list of all available communication channels, including which ones you have joined and how many people are online in each.

Examples

• channels — show all channels.
• chanlist — alias for channels.

How it works

This command displays every channel in the game along with its type (public or private), membership status, online count, and description. Public channels can be joined immediately; private channels require an invitation. Use this output to find channels you want to join, then use the join channel command to subscribe.

Control your visibility in the where list that shows who is online. You can be visible to everyone, hidden entirely (except from players who have always-visibility permission), or visible only to players who marked you as a favourite. Use this to manage your locatability without logging out.

Examples

• check in — open the locatability menu.
• check in yes — visible to anyone.
• check in no — hidden from where list.
• check in favorites — visible only to your favourites.

This staff command activates abuse monitoring for all players, bypassing the usual 100-hour playtime exemption. Use this during suspected coordinated abuse or when you need global oversight for a limited time. Specify an optional duration (1-24 hours, default 1) and reason. All staff are notified when this is activated. Use checkalloff to cancel early.

This staff command cancels the global abuse monitoring override activated with checkall. After this, players with 100+ hours playtime resume their normal exemption from monitoring. All staff are notified.

Remove all graffiti from a room you own. Graffiti is tagged text written on walls by other players using the graffiti command.

Examples

• clean graffiti — remove all graffiti from the current room.

How it works

Typing this command scrubs away every piece of graffiti in the room. The removal is instant and permanent. If there is no graffiti to clean, you get an error message.

Close the convertible roof of your vehicle. This command only works when you are seated inside a vehicle that has a convertible roof. Once closed, the roof shields you from the elements.

Examples

• close roof — close your vehicle's roof.

Get detailed combat information in a screen-reader friendly format. Inside a fight, use this command to check your status, list enemies and allies with their distances, get a target recommendation, or review available actions. This is useful for accessible or text-only gameplay.

Examples

• combat — show full combat status.
• combat enemies — list all enemies with HP and distance in hexes.
• combat recommend — get a target suggestion.
• combat status — show your HP and round number.
• combat actions — list your available actions.

How it works

Each subcommand returns structured text describing a different aspect of combat. All output is written for screen readers and includes distances measured in hexes, character names, and HP shown as current/maximum. Use this command repeatedly during a fight to stay aware of the battlefield without relying on the visual quickmenu.

How a round plays out (when movement happens)

Combat is fought in rounds. First everyone picks what they will do that round from the combat menu (attack, defend, move, use an ability), and nothing takes effect until the whole round resolves at once. Each round is then played out across a fine timeline: it is divided into a hundred small slices, and every chosen action is placed on that timeline and carried out in order, from the start of the round to the end.

• Movement is spread across the round, not saved for the end. Your steps are dealt out along the timeline, so you close in or back off gradually while everything else is also happening.
• When two things land at the same instant, movement resolves before a strike. If a step and an attack fall on the same slice, the step is taken first. In practice this means you can move into reach and then strike in the same round, and a fighter closing on you may reach you before your blow goes off.
• Backing away and holding distance go before closing in. When several fighters move at the same instant, those pulling back or keeping their distance (including a flee) move first, and those charging in move after.
• Faster actions happen earlier in the round. A quick ability can raise a shield or land a hit before a slow one goes off. See help ability speed for the speed tiers.

Ending a fight

To break off a fight, choose an exit option from the combat menu rather than typing a command. Surrender gives up and leaves you helpless until the fight is over. Flee runs you to an adjacent room, but the option only appears when you are at the edge of the battlefield next to an exit, and the escape only succeeds if you take no damage that round. A fight also ends on its own once one side is knocked out, and you leave combat automatically when it does.

List all available commands, grouped by category. Without arguments, shows category names. With a category name, displays all commands in that category and what they do.

Examples

• commands — show all command categories.
• commands combat — list combat commands.
• commands navigation — list movement commands.

Available categories include: navigation, combat, communication, social, economy, crafting, entertainment, events, info, inventory, clothing, building, staff, and system.

Hire a shopkeeper to craft a design you have created. The shopkeeper examines your design, quotes a price (which may include a discount if they are impressed, or if you are carrying useful materials), and gives you a fabrication timeline. You then choose how to pay and the work begins.

Examples

• commission silk dress: commission a design by name.
• commission my sword design: search by a name fragment.
• commission: with no name, pick from a menu of your designs.

Are designs reusable?

Yes. A design is a reusable blueprint, not a one-time order, so a commissioned item is not one of a kind. You can have the same design made again and again. There is only one limit: while a shopkeeper is still working on an order, that design is marked "in production" and you cannot start a second commission of it. If you try, you will be told the design is already in production. As soon as that order is finished, the design is free again and you can commission it once more. The shopkeeper quotes the price afresh each time you commission, so a later order may cost a little more or less than the first.

Getting several copies at once

If you want more than one copy without waiting for the first to finish, do not run commission twice. Place the order once, then use addamount <number> while it is still in production to add more copies to your most recent order. These extra copies are charged at the same per-unit price as the order you just placed, with no new quote. For example, addamount 3 adds three more to your current order. See help addamount.

How it works

At an ordinary shop the order takes time. When it is ready it waits at the shop for you to collect, and you can keep adding copies with addamount until it is done. At a credit shop (such as the newbie school outfitter) the item is made on the spot, charged to your credit tab, and the design becomes commissionable again straight away.

Manage an animal companion you've created. Summon it to your side, dismiss it temporarily, view its status, or permanently release it. Companions can help carry messages to other characters and add roleplay flavor to your adventures.

Examples

• companion — view your companion's status.
• companion summon — call your companion to appear.
• companion dismiss — send your companion away temporarily.
• companion release — permanently release your companion.

How it works

When you create a companion, it arrives at your side. You can dismiss it to hide it from the room (useful for roleplay), summon it back, or release it entirely if you want a different animal. Some animals can carry messages; you configure this when you create them.

Conceal worn items so they are hidden from other players — the exact opposite of expose. Covered items drop out of your visible appearance and no longer show in your description. This is a subtle action; other players are not told when you cover something. You can cover multiple items at once by listing them separated by commas.

Use it to tuck an identifying pendant under your shirt, button a jacket over the garment beneath, or quietly slip a weapon out of sight. To make a covered item visible again, use expose. This command is also available as unexpose, conceal, and hide.

Examples

• cover dagger — hide a worn dagger.
• unexpose pendant — tuck an identifying pendant out of sight.
• cover weapon, badge, insignia — hide multiple items at once.

Create a new event at your current location. You can quickly create an event with just a name (defaults to starting in 1 hour at your current room), or open a full form to set custom details. Once created, others can view the event with events and join when it starts.

Examples

• create event — open the full event creation form.
• create event Birthday Party — quick create an event named "Birthday Party".

How it works

Quick create defaults to 1 hour from now and public visibility. The full form lets you set description, event type (party, meeting, concert, etc.), private/public status, start time, and capacity. Once created, you are automatically added as an attendee.

Open the cultivation interface where you train your martial arts: learn new styles, advance the ones you know, craft pills, and buy ingredients. The interface shows your known styles and their ranks, the styles you have not learned yet, and a shop where ingredients are bought with influence or gold dollars.

Examples

• cultivate — open the cultivation interface.
• meditate — the same command (so is cult).

Do I need to unlock it, or find an instructor?

Neither. Cultivation is open to every character from the start. You do not have to reach a level, join a sect, finish a quest, or visit anyone to begin: just type cultivate (or meditate) and the interface opens. There is no cultivation instructor NPC, and no special place you must travel to. The system is self-directed and menu-driven; everything you need is inside the interface.

The one way another character can teach you is the teach command, and that is player to player, not an NPC service. A fellow player who is ranked higher than you in a style you BOTH already know can teach you that style while you are in the same room, which speeds your progress in it up to a weekly limit. See help teach. Sect leaders are political figures; they are not cultivation trainers.

How it works

You raise a style by crafting a pill for it in the interface. Each pill needs a recipe of ingredients, which you buy in the cultivation shop with gold dollars or influence (more potent ingredients cost more). When you have the ingredients, craft the pill to learn a new style at rank 1 or advance one you already know by a rank. During the alpha, styles can be advanced up to rank 6 (mastery).

Training progress builds up on its own as you play: using a style in real fights and sparring with it both earn it, and a higher-ranked sparring partner or teach lesson earns it faster. This progress is not spent to buy ranks directly. Instead it is applied automatically when you next advance the style, lowering the ingredient cost of that pill, so the more you practise a style the cheaper its next rank becomes.

There is no separate pool of "skill points". The only thing you spend to advance is ingredients, bought with influence or gold dollars; the only thing you grind is the training progress above, which makes your next pill cheaper rather than buying a rank outright. Raising a style's rank is also what unlocks that style's higher combat abilities. See help abilities.

List all taxi dancers available for hire in the current ballroom or social venue. Each dancer has a tier (beginner, intermediate, master) and charges a fee per hour. Dancers already in session appear marked so you know they're temporarily unavailable.

Examples

• dancers — show tonight's available dancers.

Add a single piece of decoration text to a room you own. Decorations are descriptive details that appear when a player looks at the room, layered on top of the base room description.

Examples

• decorate A plush velvet couch sits by the window. — add furniture detail.
• decorate Vintage posters line the walls. — add wall decor.

How it works

Each use adds one new decoration to the room. You can add as many as you like; they all show when someone looks. Use redecorate if you want to replace all decorations at once with fresh text.

Tips

• Decorations stack; they all appear together in a player's room description.
• Use redecorate to clear all and start fresh.

Delete various items you own. This is primarily used for managing rooms and places you have created. Use "delete bulletin" (replaced by notice boards) or "delete place" to remove a specific place from the current room. You must own the room to delete places in it. Run "delete place" with no place name to see a list of available places to delete.

Examples

• delete place — list places in the current room.
• delete place couch — delete a place named "couch".

How it works

Places are furniture-like decorations you create in rooms you own. Deleting a place removes it from the room permanently. This is different from "trash" which destroys items in your inventory. The delete command is specifically for managing room furniture and decorations.

Explore procedural dungeons with time pressure, fog of war, and hazards. Each delve is a timed adventure into the ruins of southern Zhūwān. You can move through rooms, face monsters, solve puzzles, disarm traps, and collect treasure before time runs out. Delves test your wits, courage, and timing.

Key Subcommands

• delve enter [name] — begin a new delve adventure.
• delve enter deep — begin a deep delve: free to enter, but cultivation supplies are offset two floors deeper.
• delve n/s/e/w — move in a direction (10 sec).
• delve down — descend to the next level.
• delve fight — engage a monster in combat.
• delve grab — collect treasure (free action).
• delve recover — rest and heal to full HP (5 min).
• delve flee — exit the dungeon.

How It Works

You can only enter a delve from within the ruins of southern Zhūwān. Each entry costs 50 energy. Once inside, you navigate a procedural dungeon floor by floor. Traps block movement until you time them correctly. Puzzles require solving or can be bypassed with effort. Monsters roam and may ambush you. You gain qi dice by meditating, which unlock special crossing abilities.

Puzzles

Some rooms hold a carved stone puzzle that blocks an exit until you read its pattern. There are three kinds: a glyph grid (set each glyph once per row and column), a pipe network (rotate the channels so a groove runs from spring to sink), and a pressure-tile matrix (press every tile into its setting). Work a puzzle entirely through text commands:

• study puzzle — inspect the puzzle and read its layout (free action).
• solve [answer] — attempt the puzzle (15 sec). Typing solve with no answer just reopens the layout.
• delve help — spend time to reveal part of the solution as a hint (30 sec).

Joining Another Delver's Run

Delves are private by default. While you are inside one, type delve findable to advertise it as joinable (this toggles the flag; delve findable on and delve findable off set it explicitly). A findable delver is listed on the who list, tagged standard or deep and marked findable.

To join someone, find a findable delver on who, then walk to them by name. Because they are underground, you are routed to the ruin they entered from rather than to their dungeon room. Once you are standing in that ruin, type delve join to join the only findable run there, or delve join <name> to pick a particular delver. Joining costs the normal 50 energy, or nothing for a deep delve, and drops you in at the entrance of the run already in progress. Every new arrival makes the enemy groups nobody has engaged yet tougher; a group already locked in combat is never reinforced mid-fight.

Who Can Find You

Two settings work together. The check in command sets your general locatability: whether you appear on the who and where lists at all. If you are hidden there, no one can reach your delve, because they cannot see you to walk to you. So check in is not the delve setting itself, but you must be at least visible for findable delving to work.

The delve setting proper is delve findable, described above. On top of that you can limit who may find and join your runs with the permissions command, under Findable Delve Access: choose Anyone can find/join, Favourites only, or No one. Set it as a default for everyone, or for a single named player. Favourites only means just the players you have favourited may join. So a delver shows up as joinable when their run is flagged findable, they are locatable on who, and the person looking is allowed by their delve-access setting.

Deposit cash from your wallet into a bank account. You must be at a bank or ATM location. Specify an amount or use all to deposit everything. The deposited funds are then safe in your bank account and cannot be stolen.

Examples

• deposit 100 — deposit 100 (in local currency).
• deposit all — deposit all your wallet cash into your bank.

Tips

• Deposits have a minimum transaction amount.
• You must have a bank account open in that currency (one is created automatically when you deposit for the first time).
• Use balance to see your wallet and bank balances before and after.

Open the character description editor where you customize your appearance. You can set your physical description (height, build, hair, clothing style, scars, etc.) and other personalization details that affect how other players see you in the game world.

Examples

• describe — open the description editor.
• customize — same command with alias.
• desc — shorthand.

The editor opens in a web interface where you can compose your full character appearance in a single form, then save it. Other players see your description when they examine you.

Create and manage your custom item designs (blueprints). You can start a new design, list your existing designs, edit a draft design, or delete one you don't want anymore. Commissioned designs become locked and cannot be edited until the order completes.

Examples

• design — open the new design form.
• design list — show all your saved designs.
• design edit silk dress — edit a draft design by name.
• design delete old jacket — permanently delete a design.

How it works

Designs stay in draft status until you commission them. You can refine a draft as much as you like. Once a design is in production, you can't edit it, but you can still add more copies with addamount once that order completes.

As a host, designate a specific character as an allowed performer for a running performance activity in your society event. Only designated performers can perform in the event.

Examples

• designate performer Mei "Spring Gala" — allow Mei to perform at the Spring Gala.

How it works

You must be hosting the event and there must be a running performance activity for the event. The designated character can then use performevent to perform their saved performances at the event.

Roll custom dice using standard notation. Specify the number of dice, the number of sides per die, and an optional modifier.

Examples

• diceroll 2d6 — roll two six-sided dice.
• dr 1d20 — roll a single twenty-sided die.
• diceroll 3d8+5 — roll three eight-sided dice and add 5.
• diceroll 4d10-2 — roll four ten-sided dice and subtract 2.

How it works

The formula is NdN where the first number is the count of dice and the second is the number of sides. You can add or subtract a flat modifier. The roll result and individual die values are broadcast to the room so everyone can see the outcome.

Tips

• Roll results are public. Everyone in the room sees your total and individual rolls.
• Dice limits: 1-20 dice per roll, 2-100 sides per die.

Move toward an adjacent room in the named direction. On outdoor city streets, this begins continuous directional walking. In other areas, you step into the next room. Cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) and diagonals (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest) are all available. You cannot use direction movement while in combat.

Examples

• north or n — move north.
• southeast or se — move southeast.
• up — ascend to a room above (single step only).

List all public buildings in your current town. Optionally filter by building name or type. This shows shops, taverns, temples, and other facilities you can visit. You can click on a building name to walk there, or use the walk command to navigate.

Examples

• directory — list all public buildings in town.
• directory temple — find temples in this town.
• directory grand — search for buildings with 'grand' in the name.

Configure Discord notifications for offline messages, mentions, and updates. Set a webhook URL to have important game events sent to your Discord server. With no arguments, opens a settings form.

Options

• discord webhook <url> — set your Discord webhook URL.
• discord webhook clear — remove webhook.
• discord offline on/off — notify when you are offline.
• discord online on/off — also notify when you are online.
• discord memos on/off — notify on new memos.
• discord pms on/off — notify on private messages.
• discord mentions on/off — notify on role-play mentions.
• discord test — send a test notification.

Get a webhook URL from Discord: Server Settings, then Integrations, then Webhooks. Create a new webhook and copy its URL.

Hide your true identity behind an alias. Others will see you as the alias you chose until they recognize you (through sufficiently close roleplay or a system event). You can change your alias freely with a new disguise command, and you can drop it with undisguise. The disguise system is a narrative tool for mystery and intrigue.

Examples

• disguise — adopt a random disguise.
• disguise a masked swordswoman — take on a specific alias.

End your current taxi dance session with your partner and stop paying the hourly fee. The dancer departs and is available for hire by other patrons. There is no refund for early dismissal.

Examples

• dismiss — release your dance partner.

Move downward to a room or level below your current location. This works in staircases, elevator shafts, and other vertical passages. It is a single-step move that does not trigger continuous walking.

Examples

• down — descend to the room below.

Pull a helpless character along the ground behind you. The target must be in a helpless state.

Examples

• drag Bob — drag Bob along the ground.
• haul Jane — alias for drag.

How it works

Dragging is slower than carrying but is dramatic and visible to everyone. You move together as you pull them. If you drag someone to a location where player-versus-player combat is enabled, they may be automatically captured as a hostage. Use the release command to let them go.

Put clothing from your inventory onto another character. This requires their consent unless you have explicit dress permission from them. If they grant permission, the item is transferred to their inventory and worn. If they have not granted permission, they see a request and must approve or decline before the action completes.

Examples

• dress Bob with jacket — ask Bob if you can dress him in your jacket.
• dress Alice with hat — dress Alice (if she has given you permission).

How it works

The command checks your dress/style permission status with the target. If you have permission, the item is worn immediately. Otherwise, a quick menu is sent to the target asking for consent. Piercings are handled specially; if the target has exactly one piercing hole, the item goes in automatically; otherwise they must select the position.

Drink a beverage from your inventory. Drinking is a progressive action that happens over a short time. You begin drinking when you start the command, and the beverage is consumed in stages. Aliases let you choose your preferred verb: "sip" for a careful taste, "gulp" for quick consumption, "quaff" for hearty drinking, or just "drink" for the default. Other players see you drinking and see a roleplay message when you finish.

Examples

• drink water — drink water.
• sip wine — carefully taste wine.
• quaff ale — drink ale heartily.

Drive your vehicle to a destination. You must own the vehicle, it must be parked in your current location, and you must not be in combat. Specify the destination by room name, intersection, or landmark. The vehicle carries you there over time.

Examples

• drive to market — drive to the market.
• drive to 5th and oak — drive to an intersection.
• drive home — drive to your home location.

Drop items or money to the room. With no argument you see a menu of everything you are carrying. You can drop specific items by name, amounts of money, or use "drop all" to put down everything at once. When you drop an item, other players in the room can see it and pick it up. put down <item> also drops.

To place an item inside a container rather than on the floor, use put <item> in <container> instead (see help put).

Examples

• drop sword — drop a sword to the ground.
• drop 50 — drop 50 units of currency.
• drop all — drop everything you are carrying.

Dry yourself off using a towel from your inventory. You must be wet and have a towel (or cloth or rag) to use this command. Optionally add an adverb to describe how you dry off.

Examples

• dry off — dry off normally.
• dry off quickly — dry off fast.
• dry off thoroughly — take your time.

Drying yourself off clears the wet status and is visible to others in the room.

Move east to an adjacent room. This is a cardinal direction and works the same as other directional movement. On city streets it may trigger continuous walking; elsewhere you move one room at a time.

Examples

• east or e — move east.

Eat food from your inventory. Eating is a progressive action similar to drinking. You begin eating when you start the command, and the food is consumed in stages. Aliases let you choose how you consume it: "consume", "taste", "swallow", or just "eat". Other players in the room see you eating and observe when you finish your meal.

Examples

• eat apple — eat an apple.
• taste bread — taste bread carefully.
• consume sandwich — eat a sandwich.

Open a form to edit a room's name, descriptions, type, and default background image. All fields are optional except the room name.

Examples

• edit room — open the room editor form.
• room settings — same command, alternate phrasing.

How it works

A pop-out form appears with five fields. Room name is required (up to 100 chars). Short description shows in room lists (up to 500 chars). Long description shows when a player types look in your room (up to 5000 chars). Room type categorizes the space (standard, apartment, shop, etc.). Background image URL sets a visual backdrop (https:// only, max 2048 chars). Fill in what you need and submit.

Perform a roleplay action or express emotion that everyone in the room sees. Lowercase emotes auto-prepend your character name; capital-letter emotes require you to include your name explicitly. You can use adverbs to flavour the action: emote waves happily. Staff can use emit to broadcast a line without self-reference.

Examples

• emote waves hello — auto-formatted as 'Your name waves hello.'
• :smiles warmly — short form of emote.
• pose stretches — synonym for emote.

Tips

• Use emote John looks at the door to include another character's name without mentioning them directly.
• Staff can use emit for Game Master narration.

As the host of a society event, stop a currently running activity such as a dance, performance, or art exhibition. This also triggers the activity's completion logic, such as awarding grants.

Examples

• end activity — end the current activity.

How it works

You must be a host of the event and there must be a running activity. Once you end it, any grants or payouts computed by that activity are processed immediately and distributed to participants.

Terminate an event (organizer only). All attendees are notified that the event has ended. If the event is not yet active or has already ended, this command returns an error. After ending, the event is marked as completed and no one can enter it.

Examples

• end event — terminate the event you are hosting.

Tips

• You must be the organizer (host) of the event to end it.
• All attendees will be notified immediately.
• Once ended, the event cannot be restarted.

End your current arranged scene and return to the meeting location. This only works if you are actively in a scene that was triggered with scene or meet. You will instantly teleport back to the meeting room once the scene closes.

Examples

• endscene — exit the current scene.

Enter a location by name. Specify the building, shop, or room you want to step into. The game searches for a nearby entrance matching your description and moves you inside. This is faster than using cardinal directions when you know what you're looking for.

Examples

• enter coffee shop — enter the coffee shop.
• enter lobby — enter the lobby.

Join an active event at your current location. If the event is scheduled but not yet started and you are the organizer, it will auto-start. Otherwise you enter the event and are listed as an attendee. If the event is full, this command fails.

Examples

• enter event — join an active or upcoming event at this location.
• join event — alias for the same action.

How it works

The game looks for an active event at your current room, or a scheduled event at your location that is about to start (within the next hour). If found, you are moved into the event and other players are notified of your arrival.

Leave the tutorial area and enter the real game world. This command is only available in the Exit Hall at the end of the tutorial sequence. Once you enter the game, you will arrive at Zhūwān Central Train Station or a fallback starting location. A guest room is automatically assigned to you in your kingdom's embassy, and you can return to it anytime with the home command.

Examples

• enter game — leave the tutorial and begin the adventure.

View what you are currently wearing and holding. This is separate from your inventory; it shows items that are actively equipped on your body (worn clothes, jewelry) or actively held in your hands (visible to other players). Items are grouped into two sections: "In Hand" for held items and "Wearing" for worn items.

Examples

• equipment — see what you are wearing and holding.
• eq — shorthand alias.
• worn — alternative alias.

Check your estimated time of arrival during a world journey. This only works when you are actively traveling between locations. The command shows your destination, remaining distance in hexes, current terrain, vehicle type, and how much longer the journey will take.

Examples

• eta — show journey progress.
• arrival — check estimated time of arrival (alias).

View detailed information about an event. Shows the organizer, location, time, description, attendee count, and your options (join, leave, manage). If no name is given and you are in an event, details about your current event are shown.

Examples

• event info — show details about the event you are in, or the nearest event at your location.
• event info Birthday Party — look up a specific event by name.

Tips

• Partial name matches work (e.g., event info Party finds "Birthday Party").
• Shows different actions based on whether you are the organizer, a staff member, or an attendee.

View upcoming events in the game. Filter by all public events, just your events, or events at your current location. This is your calendar of everything happening. You can quickly access event details, join active events, or create your own.

Examples

• events — show the event selection menu.
• events my — list events you are hosting or attending.
• events here — show events at your current location.
• calendar — alias for events.

Tips

• Active events show a bullet indicator in the list.
• Use event info <name> to get full details on an event.
• Private events only appear if you are the organizer or an invited attendee.

Examine your surroundings in detail, or inspect a specific object, character, or feature. Without an argument, you see the full description of your current room, including seasonal details. With an argument, you look closely at a person, item, or decoration to learn more about them.

Examples

• examine — examine the room.
• examine door — examine a door or other feature.
• examine John — examine another character.

Exchange one currency for another at a bank or black market. Specify the amount, from-currency, and to-currency. The exchange rate varies by location and market type (bank rates are official; black market rates include a spread). Conversion is instant and funds move between your wallets.

Examples

• exchange 100 silver li to gold dollars — convert Silver Li to Gold Dollars at bank rate.
• exchange 5 gold to silver li — exchange Gold Dollars for Silver Li (Zhūwān currency).

How it works

Black market exchanges show you the rate and ask for confirmation before completing. Bank exchanges are automatic at the official rate. You need enough of the source currency in your wallet. The destination currency wallet is created automatically if it does not exist.

Display all visible exits from your current room. Shows spatial exits (moving to adjacent rooms) and contained rooms (stepping inside structures like buildings or shops). Each exit shows the direction, destination room name, and distance if available.

Examples

• exits — list all available exits from this room.

Reveal items you have previously concealed. Exposed items become visible to other players again and appear in your description. You can expose multiple items at once by listing them separated by commas. Other players see a broadcast when you expose something.

To hide an item again, use cover (also available as unexpose).

Examples

• expose dagger — reveal a concealed dagger.
• expose weapon, badge — reveal multiple items.

Have a craftsman make an item from a pattern you already carry. Across the Five Kingdoms the trade follows the same rule everywhere: you must be standing in the right workshop for the kind of thing you want made, and the work takes a few hours of an artisan's time rather than appearing in your hand at once. You can wait and collect the finished piece at the shop, have it sent to your home, or check on orders already underway.

Examples

• fabricate silk robe — order an item made from a pattern you own (matched by name).
• fabricate — list your pending fabrication orders.
• fabricate orders — the same listing.
• fabricate pickup 1 — collect order #1 once it is ready (you must be at the workshop that made it).
• fabricate deck — have a deck of playing cards made up from a deck pattern you own.

What you need

You must hold the pattern (the cutting or template for the item) and be inside a workshop suited to it. Each craft has its own shop:

• Garments and accessories — a tailor or fashion studio.
• Jewellery — a jeweller or crafting studio.
• Weapons — a forge, armoury, or blacksmith.

Take a sword pattern to a tailor and the cutter will turn you away; the same goes for any mismatch. A general shop counts as both a tailor and a jeweller, so clothing and jewellery can be made at one, but you will still need a forge for weapons.

How to tell where you can fabricate

There is no map marker or room note that labels a place a "crafting facility" for you, and not every shop is one. Whether a room works is decided by what kind of building it is — a tailor, a forge, a jeweller, a general store, and so on — which is fixed when the building is created. A shop that merely sells a craft is not automatically a workshop for it: a clothing boutique such as the Couture House sells garments but may not be set up as a tailor's workshop, in which case fabricate will turn you away there.

The quickest way to find out is to try: if the room cannot make your item, fabricate names the trade you need (for example, "You need a forge, armory, or blacksmith.") so you know what to look for. To find candidate shops, use businesses (alias shops) to list the trades around you and landmarks to find named buildings further afield, then walk in and ask the shopkeeper. Only staff can change a building into a particular kind of workshop, so if you own a property and want it to serve as one, ask them.

When in doubt, do not hunt for a facility: draw up the item with design (or make) and use commission at any shop whose trade matches it, and the shopkeeper will craft it to order.

How long it takes

An artisan needs roughly two hours for an ordinary garment. Finer or heavier pieces take longer: jewellery runs to about three hours, and a forged weapon to about four. When you place an order you are told the estimate and asked whether to collect it at the shop yourself or have it delivered to a home you own. Pickup orders wait at the workshop where they were made until you return for them.

Alias for the attack command. Initiate combat or set your target during a fight.

Get detailed information about a character, including their name, level, status (online or offline), location, and when they were last active. Also shows how much you have in common with them time-wise, so you can find good moments to meet.

Examples

• finger Alice — look up Alice.
• finger Bob — look up Bob.

If a character is online and in a public room, their location shows. Offline characters show last-seen time. Schedule overlap percentages help you plan when to meet.

Briefly reveal a concealed item to everyone in the room, then hide it again instantly. This is theatrical and eye-catching, allowing you to show off something without permanently exposing it. Perfect for dramatic moments or quick displays.

Examples

• flash badge — flash your hidden badge.
• flash weapon — briefly show a concealed weapon.

Begin following another character as they move. You will trail behind them through the world. The target must grant you permission, either by typing lead (to allow followers) or by their own follow settings. You cannot follow someone who has revoked permission, and you cannot follow while in combat.

Examples

• follow John — follow John as he moves.
• follow the tall man — follow someone by description.

Silence someone by gagging them. The target must be helpless (either knocked unconscious or voluntarily helpless).

Examples

• gag Bob — gag Bob.
• muzzle Jane — alias for gag.

How it works

A gagged character cannot speak or send messages to anyone. They can still move, act, and read. Use the untie command to remove the gag. A character can be simultaneously tied, gagged, and blindfolded.

Pick up items or money from the room. With no argument you see a menu of items on the ground. You can pick up specific items by name, amounts of money (e.g. "get 100"), or use "get all" to collect everything at once. The command accepts partial name matches and shows a disambiguation menu if multiple items match your input.

You can also take an item out of a container with get <item> from <container> — the container can be one you are carrying or wearing, or one resting on the ground here.

Examples

• get sword — pick up a sword from the ground.
• get cigarette from pouch — take a cigarette out of a pouch you are carrying.
• get 100 — pick up 100 units of currency.
• get all — collect every item in the room.

Give items or money to another player in the room. Use the format "give to " or simply run "give" with no arguments to open a menu. You can give items by name, or transfer amounts of money (you can even specify currency names like "give 500 li to Alice"). The recipient receives a private message about the gift, and others see a brief notice.

Examples

• give sword to Bob — give Bob a sword.
• give 100 to Alice — transfer 100 units of currency to Alice.
• give potion to John — hand over a potion.

This staff command teleports you to a specific room or directly to another character. You can target by numeric room ID or by character name (either works). Nearby characters see you vanish from your current location and appear in the destination, with a brief magical shimmer.

Examples

• goto 42 — teleport to room ID 42.
• goto Bob Smith — teleport to wherever Bob is.
• tp Alice — short form, teleport to Alice.

Write text graffiti on a wall in the current room. The text persists on the wall until the room owner cleans it off with clean graffiti.

Examples

• graffiti Kilroy was here — write simple graffiti.
• tag Forever in your heart — tag (alternate command).

How it works

You scrawl text on the wall at your current position. The graffiti is recorded with your character's location and becomes part of the room's visual landscape. Other players see it when they look. Only the room owner can remove it.

Tips

• Graffiti has a maximum length; extremely long strings are rejected.

Grant a specific character permanent access to the room you are currently standing in. You must own the room to grant access. Once granted, they can enter the room even if it is locked. This is useful for sharing private spaces with friends or allies.

Examples

• grant room Bob — grant Bob access to this room.
• grant room access Alice — same thing with explicit 'access' keyword.

Set a getting-to-go status to indicate you are about to leave. Lets others know you have limited time. Optionally specify minutes. Typing gtg again clears the status.

Examples

• gtg — set GTG status (defaults to 15 minutes).
• gtg 30 — set GTG for 30 minutes.
• gtg again — clear GTG status.

Your GTG status is visible to other players in the room, so they know you are about to log off.

Get help on any command, topic, or system. With no argument, shows a welcome message. Use help <command> to learn how a command works. Use help systems to see major game systems, then help system <name> for details.

Examples

• help — show welcome and common commands.
• help look — learn how look works.
• help systems — see available game systems.
• help system combat — read about combat.

The help system includes command documentation, game system overviews, and lore topics. If you ask a question (ending with ?), the AI helper may answer.

Make yourself voluntarily helpless and vulnerable for roleplay purposes. While helpless, other characters can restrain, drag, carry, blindfold, and gag you.

Examples

• helpless — toggle helpless state.
• helpless on — become helpless.
• helpless off — stand up and regain autonomy.
• surrender — alias for helpless.

How it works

Entering helpless state is a roleplay choice that makes you vulnerable to physical manipulation by other characters. You can be tied, blindfolded, gagged, carried, or dragged. You can still move and act independently while helpless unless someone applies a specific restraint. Exit helpless state at any time unless you are restrained.

Tips

• Use this for capture scenes, imprisonment roleplay, or consensual character vulnerability.
• Being helpless does not prevent you from leaving a restraint room (though it may break immersion).

Search the help database for topics matching your query. Returns up to 15 results with summaries. Optionally filter by category (e.g., helpsearch sword navigation).

Examples

• helpsearch combat — find help about combat.
• helpsearch sword navigation — search 'sword navigation' in the navigation category.
• helpsearch look — search for look-related topics.

Use help <topic> on any result to read the full article. Categories: navigation, combat, communication, social, economy, crafting, system, info, inventory, events, clothing.

Hide the description of an item from other players. Your item's custom description remains visible only to you. Other players will see a generic placeholder instead. This is useful if you want to keep an item's appearance private or mysterious. Use "showdesc" to reveal the description again.

Examples

• hidedesc ring — hide a ring's description from others.
• hide description silver necklace — conceal details of a necklace.
• hideitem sword — make a sword's appearance private.

Hire a taxi dancer for one hour of company and dancing. Dancers have different tiers (beginner, intermediate, master) and charge accordingly. Once hired, your dancer joins you on the floor and remains with you until you dismiss them or the hour expires.

Examples

• hire Sūnniǔ — hire a specific dancer by name.
• hire Iaira — use first name if surname is ambiguous.

How it works

Use dancers to see who's available, then hire by their name. The dancer immediately joins you for the session. You'll be billed hourly until you dismiss them. Dancers provide companionship and social color for roleplay scenes.

Take an item from your inventory and hold it in your hand, making it visible to others. When you hold an item, it appears in your equipment and other players can see it. Items can be held from your regular inventory or drawn from a holster if you have one. Holding and pocketing items affects how they appear in your equipment display.

Examples

• hold sword — hold a sword in your hand.
• draw dagger — draw a dagger from a holster.
• wield torch — hold a torch up so it illuminates.

Instantly teleport home to your home location, or walk there if you are not staff. You must have set a home location with the sethome command before you can use this. Non-staff characters will begin a walking journey; staff teleport instantly. You cannot use this while in combat.

Examples

• home — go to your home location.

Manage and control a society event you are organizing. Launch a pre-created event, kick off attendee grouping, or handle other host responsibilities during the event.

Examples

• host society "Spring Gala" — launch a prepared event.
• host kickoff — group attendees into clusters.

How it works

First, prepare your event through the web interface with a name, theme, and activity types. Then use host society to launch it. Once launched, use host kickoff to organize attendees into mixed groups for socializing and activities.

Tips

• You must be in the room where the event is taking place.
• If you have a co-host, they must also be present to launch the event.

Manage active hostages you're holding. You can list your hostages, bind or unbind them, relocate them to a different room, summon them to your side, or release them. Hostages are locked in a designated room until you take action.

Examples

• hostage list — show all hostages you hold.
• hostage bind 12 — bind hostage #12 (restricts movement).
• hostage unbind 12 — remove binding from hostage #12.
• hostage relock 12 42 — move hostage to room #42.
• hostage summon 12 — bring hostage to your current room.
• hostage release 12 — free the hostage.

How it works

Hostages are held in a locked room with a release date. You can bind them to prevent escape attempts, move them to new rooms within your building, or summon them for ransom negotiation. Releasing them voluntarily ends the situation.

Move inside or inward to a room adjacent to your current location. This works like a cardinal direction but moves you 'inward' to an interior or nested room. Use this when entering buildings or stepping into enclosed spaces.

Examples

• in — move inside.

Manage your influence points, family estate value, and financial leveraging. This opens a form to spend influence on charity contributions (which return investment over time), convert offline work energy into money, or liquidate influence for quick cash. Your influence and returns are key to advancing economically.

What influence is for

Influence is a social-standing resource. There are two concrete things you can spend it on:

• Convert it to cash. Liquidate influence for quick money at 5 influence → $1. Only clean influence (not influence already derived from money, such as food or charity returns) can be cashed out. See the Exchange rates section below.
• Buy rare cultivation ingredients. Many of the rarest ingredients in the cultivation shop are priced in influence rather than money. Spending influence there draws on your total influence (both clean and money-derived). See the cultivate help topic.

Influence is also a visible measure of your social standing: your current total appears on your score sheet. Beyond cashing out, buying rare ingredients, and that display, influence does not currently unlock ranks, titles, or special access.

What is estate influence?

Your family estate value (sometimes called estate influence, and the reason estate is an alias of this command) is your whole family's running lifetime total of influence. Every point of influence any family member earns — clean or money-derived — is added to the shared estate value at the same time. The difference from your personal influence is what each is for:

• Personal influence is a spendable balance: cashing it out or buying cultivation ingredients reduces it.
• Estate value only ever goes up. It is never spent or deducted, even when you cash out or spend your personal influence. It is a permanent prestige tally for your family line.

Estate value is a standing/bragging measure, not a wallet. It is shown in the influence form and on your score sheet, and it currently has no other gameplay effect — it does not pay out money, unlock anything, or get spent.

How to earn influence

You earn influence through several activities. Some are money-based (those grants are tainted and can be spent but never cashed back out); others are earned through play and count as clean influence you can later convert to cash.

• Donate to charity (money) — the main deliberate way to buy influence. Run influence, choose the Charity action, and enter an amount in Silver Li (minimum 100 Li). See below for the exact rate.
• Share food and drink in company (money) — finishing food or drink you bought earns influence automatically, but only when at least one other player is in the room with you. Both you and whoever bought it benefit.
• Dress and present well at graded society events (money) — the value of the outfit you wear to an event is assessed and converted into influence.
• Host or attend graded society events (clean) — the quality of your roleplay and presence as a host or attendee is graded and awarded as influence.
• Take part in society-event activities (clean) — performing, making art, fighting in exhibition bouts, and joining games at an event each award influence based on how well you do. Dancing does not pay out on its own; instead, dancing enough at an event boosts the influence you earn as an attendee.
• Go on adventures (clean) — adventures whose reward focus is influence pay it out to participants.
• Complete certain missions (clean) — some kingdom and stealth missions grant influence as part of their reward.

There is no separate one-word donate or earn command — charity donations go through the influence form's Charity action, and every other source above is granted automatically as you play.

Examples

• influence — open the influence management form (then choose Charity and enter, say, 1000 Li to donate ~$1 worth and gain up to 5 influence).
• affairs — alias for influence.
• estate — another alias.

How it works

The form shows your current influence, family estate value, energy, wallet balance, your personal return rates, and the live exchange rates. Choose an action (charity, work, or spend influence), enter an amount, and submit.

Exchange rates

• Offline Work — 5 energy → $1. Energy accumulates over time whether you are online or not; this turns banked energy into cash. Amounts must be a multiple of 5.
• Spend Influence — 5 influence → $1, paid immediately. Only clean influence (not influence already derived from money, e.g. food/charity returns) can be cashed out. Amounts must be a multiple of 5.
• Charity — donate in Silver Li (minimum 100 Li) to gain influence: each 1000 Li ($1) yields up to 5 influence, scaled by your current Charity Return rate.

These rates are designed to balance: roughly 1 energy is worth about 1 influence whether you go energy → money → influence (via charity) or convert directly. Going money → influence → money is intentionally lossy.

Return rates & diminishing returns

Charity and food/drink influence returns start at 100% and fall the more you spend, recovering fully over 4 weeks. The modal shows your current rates and a worked example so you can see exactly what a donation will yield right now.

Display your inventory and wallet balance. This shows what you are carrying (divided into held items and carried items) and how much money you have in each currency. Quantities appear in parentheses for items you have multiple copies of.

Examples

• inventory — view your full inventory.
• inv — shorthand alias.
• i — quickest shorthand.

Invite another character to your Lotus Boat booth. Once invited, they can enter past the curtain to join private conversations and scenes. You must have an active booth rental to send invitations.

Examples

• invite Jade — invite a character by name.
• invite "Jade Chen" — use full name if needed for clarity.

How it works

Standing invitations are added to a list. Invited characters can then enter your booth at will. You can revoke invitations with uninvite if you change your mind. Your booth remains active until you leave session.

Join a society event happening in your current room. You can set your preferences for who you enjoy socializing with when you join.

Examples

• join society "Spring Gala" — join the Spring Gala.
• join society Gathering — join a gathering (single-word name).

How it works

When you join, a preferences panel opens where you can mark characters you like and avoid. The host uses these preferences when grouping attendees for activities, so your input influences who you meet during the event.

Tips

• The event must be launched (status 'launched') to join.
• You can update your preferences anytime during the event using society interactions.

Subscribe to a communication channel so you can receive and send messages on it.

Examples

• join channel general — join the general channel.
• joinchannel OOC — join OOC.

How it works

Public channels let anyone join instantly. Private channels require an invitation from an admin or the channel owner. Once joined, you receive all messages sent to that channel and can send messages yourself. Use leave channel to unsubscribe.

Plan and manage long-distance travel between cities and far-flung landmarks. With no arguments, journey opens the world travel map; give it a destination and it shows a menu of ways to get there — ordinary travel, three kinds of flashback travel, or assembling a party to ride together. Journeys play out over real time and cross terrain and weather along the way. Aliases: travel, voyage, world_travel.

Key Subcommands

• journey — open the world travel map (or show status if you are already travelling).
• journey to <destination> — plan a trip; opens the travel-options menu.
• journey passengers — list everyone aboard your current journey.
• journey invite <name> — invite someone here to your travel party.
• journey launch — depart with your assembled party (leader only).
• journey party — review your party's members and who has accepted.
• journey cancel — disband a party you are still assembling.
• journey return — leave a flashback instance and travel back to where you started (also journey fr).
• journey disembark — step off a journey early, wherever you currently are.

Planning a Journey

Name any city, landmark, or region: journey to Tiě Yán Dù. You are shown an estimated travel time and a menu of choices. Standard Travel sends you by the fastest transport the route and era allow — horse, carriage, car, ferry or steamship, train, or airplane — and some long trips switch vehicles partway (for example train to a junction, then onward by road). Once under way, check progress with eta and see who is travelling with you with journey passengers.

Flashback Travel

Your character banks flashback time whenever you are not actively roleplaying — including while you are logged off — representing downtime your character spends "offscreen". It builds up to a cap of 12 hours and resets the moment you next act in character (say, emote, whisper, and so on). You can spend it to shorten or skip a journey. As long as you have any banked, the travel menu offers flashback options; which of the three forms below appear depends on how much you hold:

• Flashback (Basic) — spend flashback time to shorten the trip, arriving instantly if you have enough to cover the whole distance. You arrive in the normal world, exactly as if you had made the trip the slow way. This is the simplest and safest option.
• Flashback Return (Instanced) — arrive instantly, but in a private instance of the destination; half of your flashback time is held back so the trip home is instant too. It needs roughly twice the journey's worth of banked time, and only appears when you have that much. Leave with journey return.
• Backloaded (Instanced) — arrive instantly spending no flashback time at all, but owe a "debt": the return trip takes double the normal travel time. Useful when you hold some banked time but not enough to cover the trip outright or to reserve a Return. Leave with journey return.

Travelling as a Party

To travel together, choose Assemble Party from the travel menu, then journey invite <name> for each companion standing with you. Each receives an invitation to accept or decline. Once at least one person has accepted, the leader uses journey launch and everyone rides in the same vehicle. Track the party with journey party while assembling, or journey passengers once you have set off.

Arriving, or Leaving Early

• eta — destination, vehicle, current terrain, distance remaining, and arrival time.
• journey disembark — get off before you arrive; you are set down at your current point on the map (a wilderness waypoint, or the nearest street).

Each traveller may disembark independently: the journey carries on for whoever remains and only ends when the last person steps off.

Knock on a door to alert people in an adjacent room. Specify the direction or name of the exit you want to knock on. Characters in the target room hear the knock as a notification but do not see who knocked. You hear your own knock confirmed in the current room.

Examples

• knock north — knock on the exit to the north.
• knock bedroom — knock on the exit called 'bedroom'.

List public buildings across the entire zone, not just your current town. This shows landmarks, temples, markets, and other significant locations that span multiple towns within the region. Filter by name or building type to find specific places. Use walk to navigate to any landmark listed.

Examples

• landmarks — show all landmarks in the zone.
• landmarks temple — find temples across the zone.
• public — alias for landmarks.

Allow someone to follow you, or ask an NPC to join you. Grant a character permission to shadow your movements. If the target is an NPC, the game evaluates their decision asynchronously, and they may accept or decline. You can also revoke follow permission from someone with lead stop <name>. Typing lead alone shows your current followers.

Examples

• lead John — allow John to follow you.
• lead allow Jane — same, with explicit 'allow' keyword.
• lead stop John — revoke John's permission to follow.
• lead Merchant — ask an NPC merchant to follow you.
• lead — show who is currently following you.

Step away from a running dance at a society event. You will stop dancing and exit the dance activity.

Examples

• leave dance — stop dancing and leave the floor.

How it works

You must be actively dancing in a running dance activity. When you leave, you are removed from the dance and are no longer paired with a partner.

Unsubscribe from a communication channel so you no longer receive messages sent to it.

Examples

• leave channel general — leave the general channel.
• leavechannel OOC — leave OOC.

How it works

When you leave a channel, you stop receiving messages from it and others can no longer see you as an active member. You can rejoin at any time if the channel is public. Other members are notified when you leave.

Exit the current event and return to the normal room. You are removed from the event roster and other attendees are notified. You can rejoin later using enter event unless you have been bounced.

Examples

• leave event — exit your current event.
• exit event — alias for the same action.

Tips

• Other attendees see a notification that you have left.
• You can rejoin the event later if it is still active and you have not been bounced.

End your current Lotus Boat booth rental early and settle your tab. The hostesses depart with a bow, the curtain is drawn back, and any active invitations are cleared. You'll be charged for the time you've used.

Examples

• leave session — end your booth rental.
• pay tab — alias for the same action.
• end session — another alias.

Once your session ends, the booth is available for other patrons to rent.

Delete a saved item from your library. This removes a saved picture, video, gradient, or location bookmark. Once deleted, the item is permanently gone from your library, though this does not affect the original media in chat or the actual location in the world. Use this to clean up outdated or unwanted saved items.

Examples

• library delete sunset — delete a saved picture.
• libdelete old gradient — remove an old color gradient.
• library del home — delete a saved location bookmark.

Lie down on the ground or on furniture. You can recline on any seating surface available in the room, or simply lie flat on the floor if no furniture interests you. Lying changes how you appear to others and may affect what actions you can take.

Examples

• lie — lie down on the floor.
• lie on bed — recline on the bed.
• lay down — lie down (alternative phrasing).

How it works

Your stance changes to reflect your position. Other players see you lying down. If you specify furniture, the game verifies there is space available on that item before placing you there.

This staff command lists all arranged scenes, optionally filtered by status. Default filter is pending (not yet triggered). You can also filter by all (recent scenes), active (currently in progress), completed (finished), or cancelled. Each listing shows the NPC, player, meeting room, roleplay room, and current status.

Examples

• listscenes — show pending scenes (ready to trigger).
• listscenes active — show scenes currently in progress.
• listscenes all — show the 50 most recent scenes.

Examine your surroundings, a character, an item, or a piece of furniture. With no argument you see a full description of the room you are in, including exits, NPCs, and objects on the ground. With an argument the game searches the room and your inventory for a match and shows the long-form description of whatever you named.

Examples

• look — show the current room.
• look Bob — examine Bob.
• look at painting — examine a piece of furniture or decoration.
• look Bob's sword — examine someone else's equipment.

Tips

• If you are blindfolded, you will hear voices and sense nearby presences instead of seeing details.
• If you are traveling between towns, the look command shows scenery along the route.

Read, send, and delete memos sent between characters. Memos can be delivered by slow courier (letters) or instant telegraph (telegrams). Both are stored in your inbox and can be read multiple times. A memo reaches its recipient whether they are online or offline: it waits in their mailbox until they read it, so you can write to someone who is not currently logged in and they will find your letter or telegram on their next visit.

Examples

• mail — view your inbox.
• mail read 1 — read memo number 1.
• mail send Bob — compose a memo to Bob.
• letter Alice — shortcut to send a letter to Alice.
• telegram Charlie — shortcut to send a telegram to Charlie.
• mail delete 2 — delete memo 2.

How it works

Letters are delivered by courier and take time to arrive based on geography; telegrams are wired instantly. When you send a memo, you choose a recipient, write a subject line, and compose a body. The recipient is notified when it arrives. Letters and telegrams are rendered with period flavour, with telegrams rendered in uppercase. You can delete memos from your inbox anytime. Your inbox shows unread status, sender, subject, and how long ago each memo arrived.

Mail or msg?

Both mail and the msg command can reach a character who is offline, so neither one requires the other person to be logged in. The difference is the form. Mail is a stored letter or telegram with a subject line that sits in the recipient's mailbox until they choose to read it, and they can keep it, re-read it, reply to it, or delete it. The msg command sends a short direct message that appears in their message stream the moment they are online (or as soon as they next log in if they are away), with no subject and no mailbox to browse. Use mail for lasting correspondence; use msg for quick notes.

Tips

• Use letters for longer, narrative communication; telegrams for quick tactical updates.
• Subject lines are limited; keep them brief and clear.
• Deleting a memo from your inbox also deletes it from the sender's sent folder.

Create things that are not ordinary items: a place to sit or stand in a room, plus events, societies, memos, scenes, companions, letters, and more. The word after make decides what you create and which form opens.

Make a place

make place opens the place maker. You mark a spot on a small map of the room, give it a name and description, choose its size and whether people sit on it or stand at it, pick the word used (sit on a bench, stand at a bar), and add a photo or an emoji. Anyone in the room can then sit on or stand at what you made.

• A place you make lasts 3 days. Each time someone else uses it, its life grows (first by 6 more days, then 12, then 24, and so on), so well-loved spots stay and forgotten ones fade.
• A place you make in your own home is permanent and never fades, for as long as that room stays your home (set a home with make home). If you move home, the old place starts its 3-day countdown again.
• Remove a place you made at any time with unmake place <name>.

Other things you can make

• make or make dress — design an item (clothing, jewelry, weapons, and more).
• make companion — create an animal companion.
• make event or make society_event — open the event builder.
• make letter or make telegram — open the message composer.

Set your current room as your permanent home. You must own the room. You can return to your home anytime with the home command.

Examples

• make home — set this room as your home.
• makehome — same command, no space.

How it works

The game records this room as your home. If you already had a home set, it is replaced. Typing home later brings you back here from anywhere in the game.

Tips

• You must own the room to set it as home.

Apply cosmetic description to yourself or someone else using a description editor. You select which face area(s) to apply makeup to (forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin, mouth) and write a detailed description of the cosmetics. Applying makeup to someone else requires their dress/style permission.

Examples

• makeup me — apply makeup to yourself.
• makeup me eyes — open the editor with eyes preselected.
• makeup Alice lips — apply makeup to Alice (requires permission).

View various maps of your surroundings to understand layout and navigation. The game offers room floorplans, regional terrain maps, city street grids, and real-time battle maps showing hex-based combat positioning. Use map with no argument to see a menu of available types.

Examples

• map — show the map menu.
• map room — view the interior layout of your current room.
• map area — view the surrounding terrain and regional hexes.
• map city — view the city street grid and major structures.
• map battle — view the active combat hex grid (only in combat).
• map mini — toggle a persistent minimap overlay.

Tips

• If you are blindfolded, most map types are unavailable to you.
• The minimap persists on screen until you toggle it off.

Open the Floating Market and see every stall trading today: its wares (materials, secondhand goods, or specialty stalls that buy or sell certain things), its stall code, and its vendor. From the list you walk to the stall you want, then use buy to purchase or sell to offload goods.

Where is the Floating Market?

The Floating Market is a real place you travel to, not a command you can run anywhere. There is one, in the port city of Zhūwān, set on Market Way where the stalls line both banks of the Jīnhé canal. To reach it, make your way to Zhūwān and follow Market Way toward the eastern side of the city, near the overland gate, until you come to the canal with stalls crowding both banks. Both banks are lined with stalls selling food, materials, and odds and ends, and you can also sell used goods into the city's resale pool at the secondhand stalls.

Once you are among the stalls, type market to see the whole market at a glance. The command only shows wares when you are at the market in Zhūwān; run it elsewhere and there is nothing to list. Each stall is its own spot along a bank walkway, so walk over to the one you want before you buy or sell there.

Examples

• market — show every stall and what each vendor is selling today.

How it works

The market is "floating" because its line-up changes from day to day, not because it moves between towns. It stays in Zhūwān; only what the stalls carry rotates. Each stall has a short code (such as west_a or east_c) shown on the current list, a vendor, and a kind of stock. Material stalls sell by the unit at a price that moves with supply and demand, the secondhand stalls turn over as players sell goods in, and specialty stalls buy or sell particular item types. Because the codes and stock change, always read them off the current market list rather than memorising them.

Propose an in-fiction marriage to another character. The proposal is broadcast to the room, and your target receives a menu asking them to accept or decline. They can choose a marriage of true love (affects chemistry mechanics) or convenience (no chemistry effects). Both partners must be unmarried and of opposite legal gender to marry.

Examples

• marry Li Wei — propose to Li Wei.
• propose Mei Ling — alternative phrasing for a proposal.

Display a list of all raw-material stacks in your inventory. Materials are special crafting resources with different kinds and values (gold, silk, jade, and more). This command groups and displays them with their material type and monetary worth. Use this to track what crafting materials you have before undertaking projects.

Examples

• materials — see all your material stacks.

How it works

Materials are tracked as special items linked to the material system. This command filters your inventory to show only materials and displays their kind and worth. It is faster than browsing your full inventory when you want to focus on crafting supplies.

Control media playback, screen sharing, and music playlists in your room. Play YouTube videos synchronized across all viewers, start screen or tab shares, or manage music jukeboxes and their playlists.

Examples

• media — open the media control panel.
• media play — resume playback of a paused video.
• media pause — pause the current video.
• media seek 1:30 — jump to 1 minute 30 seconds.
• media share screen — share your screen or window.
• media share tab — share a browser tab (Chrome: includes audio).
• media player play — start a jukebox playing music.
• media playlist add https://example.com/song.mp3 — add a track to a jukebox playlist.

How it works

Media control has several modes. YouTube watch parties sync all viewers to the host's playback. Screen or tab shares let viewers watch your display. Jukeboxes in rooms with a music player can play playlists of music tracks. Only the host can control playback or stop the session; other viewers can watch and listen.

Tips

• Only one media session can be active in a room at a time.
• Use time format MM:SS or plain seconds for seek commands.
• Playlists require edit permission (typically room owner or staff).

Find the best times to meet other characters based on their activity schedules. Give it two or more character names to see when they are all likely online together. Use meetup me to see your own activity schedule.

Examples

• meetup Alice Bob — when are Alice and Bob both online?
• meetup Alice Bob Carol — when are all three available together?
• meetup me — show your peak activity times.

The system tracks real-world play patterns and shows best overlap times with day-of-week recommendations. You need at least 20 activity samples before predictions are reliable.

Change how your messages are delivered, or send notice board messages via a messenger NPC who travels to deliver them.

Examples

• messenger — show current messenger mode.
• messenger person — deliver messages normally (default).
• messenger companion — have your companion animal deliver messages.
• messenger hidden — send a message without anyone in your room noticing (once per 20 minutes).
• messenger secret — send a message so the recipient's room doesn't see them receive it (costs 250 silver li).
• messenger identify <person> — pay a street messenger 200 silver li to find out who a stranger is; about a minute later they whisper the name in your ear.

How it works

Messenger modes control whether bystanders see you sending a message. Normal mode is visible to everyone in the room. Hidden mode makes your next message invisible to your room but has a 20-minute cooldown. Secret mode costs currency but hides delivery from the recipient's room entirely. Companion mode requires a summoned animal companion that can carry messages. You can also use messenger to send notices to notice boards via an NPC messenger.

Identifying strangers

messenger identify <person> hires a human messenger to discreetly ask around about someone in your room whose name you don't know — refer to them by their description (for example messenger identify masked woman). It costs 200 silver li up front. About a minute later the messenger returns and whispers that person's name to you, and you'll know them by name from then on. You don't need to stay put or keep them in sight; the messenger finds you when they have the answer. Names you already know, and NPCs everyone recognises, can't be looked up this way.

Tips

• Hidden and secret modes are useful for covert communication during sensitive roleplay.
• Companion delivery looks more immersive than text messages and is often preferred for in-character communication.
• Secret mode costs apply per message.
• Use messenger identify when you want to put a name to a stranger without approaching them directly.

Plan, join, and execute stealth missions. You can start a new mission targeting a school (to steal a manual), embassy (to shift trade deals), or warehouse (to shift wealth). Other players can join your mission, and you launch it once your team is ready. Missions can be cancelled by the initiator before launch.

Examples

• mission start school veiled_grace --goal "steal the stepping guide" — plan a school raid.
• mission start embassy lanaris --goal "shift trade to the south" — target an embassy.
• mission join 42 — join mission #42.
• mission join 42 --invest — join and spend energy for extra influence.
• mission launch 42 — start the mission (initiator only).
• mission cancel 42 — cancel the mission (initiator only).

How it works

When you start a mission, the system spends time planning it (typically 1-6 hours). Participants can join and optionally invest energy for a larger share of the rewards. Once everyone is ready, the initiator launches it. Missions resolve automatically and distribute loot based on participation.

Send a direct message to one or more characters, reaching them regardless of location. If you send a message with no recipient, you set MSG mode for quick follow-up messages.

Examples

• msg Alice Hey, where are you? — send a message to Alice.
• msg Alice,Bob Meeting at 5 — send to multiple people.
• msg Alice — set MSG mode for Alice (no message sent).
• text Charlie On my way! — alias for msg.

How it works

Direct messages are private and only visible to the sender and recipient(s). You can message anyone in the game by name, even if they are across the world or offline. If they are offline, the message is queued and delivered when they log in. Setting MSG mode without a message allows you to send follow-up messages to the same target quickly using the reply command.

Tips

• In modern settings where phones are visible, nearby characters see you glancing at your phone when you message someone.
• Separator: use commas with no spaces between multiple recipient names.
• Use the reply command to quickly respond to the last person who messaged you.

Control text-to-speech narration of game text. Toggle narration on or off, pause and resume playback, skip forward or backward, and configure what types of content are narrated (speech, actions, rooms, system messages).

Common options

• narrate — toggle narration on or off.
• narrate pause — pause the current narration.
• narrate resume — resume from pause point.
• narrate current — skip to latest content.
• narrate config speech on/off — toggle narrating character speech.
• narrate status — show all TTS settings.

Narration is queued, so you can pause, skip backward/forward by time, and clear the queue. Keyboard shortcuts available with arrow keys.

Read staff announcements, in-character news, and out-of-character updates. Shows unread counts by category. Read individual articles by ID to mark them as read. Categories are: announcement (game updates), ic (in-character events), and ooc (out-of-character news).

Examples

• news — show unread counts by category.
• news announcement — list announcements.
• news 5 — read article #5.
• news ic — show in-character news.

New articles are marked with [NEW]. Staff uses news to communicate system changes, in-character lore events, and community announcements.

Move north to an adjacent room. The cardinal directions connect rooms based on geographic adjacency, so movement is always available to neighboring spaces if no physical barrier blocks the way. You cannot move during combat.

Examples

• north — move north.
• n — short alias for north.

Move northeast to an adjacent room. Like other cardinal and diagonal directions, northeast movement follows geographic adjacency. This direction is useful for reaching corners and edges of an area when walking straight north or east would take a less direct path.

Examples

• northeast — move northeast.
• ne — short alias for northeast.

Move northwest to an adjacent room. Diagonal movement works identically to cardinal directions, connecting you to neighboring spaces based on room adjacency. You cannot move in any direction while in active combat.

Examples

• northwest — move northwest.
• nw — short alias for northwest.

Read, post to, and remove notices from the notice board in your current room. Notice boards display announcements posted by characters and expire after a set time.

Examples

• notice — view all notices on the board.
• notice 1 — read notice number 1.
• notice post — open a dialog to compose a notice.
• notice post "Meeting tonight" Bring weapons and lanterns. — post with a title and body.
• notice remove — delete your notice from the board.
• notice info — see board rules and limits.

How it works

Notice boards are community message spaces. Anyone can read posted notices. To post, you either open a composer dialog or provide a quoted title and a body. Each board has a maximum number of posts and a policy (public, staff-only, etc.). Notices expire after a certain number of days and are automatically removed. You can only delete notices you posted yourself.

Tips

• Notices shown with an asterisk are fresh (less than a day old).
• Check notice info to see how long notices stay on the board before expiring.
• Some boards restrict who can post; check the posting policy.

This staff command asks any question of an NPC and receives their response based on their personality, knowledge, and current state. The NPC must be online. Useful for understanding NPC motivations, testing AI behaviour, or gathering lore information.

Examples

• npcquery Bob What do you think of the mayor? — ask Bob a question.
• asknpc Guard What are you guarding? — ask a guard about their duties.

Set up continuous observation of a character, place, or room so you see real-time updates about what they are doing. Use observe stop to stop observing. Useful for keeping tabs on NPCs or monitoring a location.

Examples

• observe Alice — watch Alice's actions.
• observe bar — watch a furniture piece or place.
• observe room — watch the current room.
• observe stop — stop observing.

Observed targets appear in a side panel. Your observation continues even if you move away. Useful for roleplay and tracking NPCs during events.

Send a private out-of-character message to one or more players, bypassing the game's in-character communication systems.

Examples

• ooc Alice Hello there! — send OOC to Alice.
• ooc Alice,Bob Hey everyone! — send to multiple players.
• ooc Bob — set OOC mode to Bob (no message sent).

How it works

OOC messages are private player-to-player communication outside the game narrative. Use them to discuss plots, clarify character motivations, or coordinate roleplay. Setting OOC mode without a message targets that player for follow-up messages using the reply command. Some players may require an OOC contact request instead of accepting direct messages.

Tips

• Use OOC to discuss creative intent and collaborate on memorable scenes.
• Some players may have restricted OOC permissions; use oocrequest if they do not accept messages directly.
• Recent OOC contacts are shown if you type ooc with no arguments.

Send an OOC contact request to a player who requires permission before accepting direct messages.

Examples

• oocrequest Bob Hi, would you like to roleplay an assassination scene? — request contact from Bob.

How it works

If a player has restricted their OOC permissions, you cannot message them directly with the ooc command. Instead, you send a request via oocrequest. They receive a notification with your message and can accept or decline. If they accept, you can then use ooc to message them freely. There is a cooldown between requests to prevent spam.

Open the convertible roof of your vehicle. You must be a passenger in a convertible vehicle to use this command. Opening the roof reveals the sky and can change the atmosphere and visibility inside the vehicle. Only vehicles with convertible roofs support this action.

Examples

• open roof — open the convertible roof.
• roof open — alternative phrasing.

View your pending fabrication orders. Shows items you have commissioned from workshops, their current status (crafting, ready, completed), estimated time remaining, and the workshop or shop they are being made at.

Examples

• orders — list all your pending orders.
• commissions — alias for orders.

Tips

• Orders show time remaining until ready if they are currently crafting.
• Once ready, pick them up at the workshop before the deadline or they may be cancelled.

Move outside or outward to an adjacent exterior room. Use this command to exit from an interior space (building, cave, shelter) to the outdoors. It is the opposite of the in command. You cannot move during active combat.

Examples

• out — move outside.
• exit — alternative phrasing.
• leave — another way to express the same action.
• outside — move outside (another alias).

Save, load, and manage complete outfits. An outfit is a named set of worn items and has a class that determines what gets removed when you wear it (full removes everything; top, bottoms, overwear, etc. remove just that category; other preserves everything). Outfits are personal to your character and let you quickly change looks.

At a stash (your home or a storage facility) you can move a whole outfit's real items in one step: outfit stash <name> puts that outfit's items - whether worn or sitting in your inventory - into the stash, and outfit unstash <name> takes them back out and wears them. This differs from outfit wear, which creates fresh copies of the saved patterns; stash and unstash move the actual items you already own.

Examples

• outfit list — see all your saved outfits.
• outfit save Formal top — save current outfit as 'Formal' (top class only).
• outfit wear Casual — change into the 'Casual' outfit (creates the items).
• outfit stash Formal — put the 'Formal' outfit's items into the stash here.
• outfit unstash Formal — take the 'Formal' outfit from the stash and wear it.
• outfit delete Old — delete an outfit.

As the host of a dance activity, pause it temporarily. Dancers will stop moving while remaining partnered, and can resume when you give the command.

Examples

• pause dance — pause the dance.

How it works

You must be the host of the event. The dance activity must be running. Pausing stops the music and all dancers freeze in place. Use resume dance to restart.

Buy a soak at the Mineral Springs Tea House (the Cuìquán Teahouse). Step up to the Front Desk and use pay admission (or just pay). For 2 Gold Dollars, Mistress Sūn stamps you a four-hour pass to the cellar baths and hands you a towel, a robe, and a swimsuit, then waves you down the stairs to the grotto. If you already hold a valid pass, this command just tells you when it expires.

What a soak does

The hot mineral pool is how you mend wounds in town without logging off for the night. Once you are past the gate and settled in the water, the spring water slowly heals you while you stay in the pool:

• It restores your current health (the HP you lose in fights and delves), a little at a time, back toward your maximum.
• It also claws back any degraded maximum health point by point, the lasting ceiling damage that heavy wounds leave behind.

The healing arrives in gentle steps, roughly one point every quarter hour, not all at once, so you will not see your health jump the moment you sit down. Linger a while and it adds up. A soak restores health only; it does not refill energy. For the full picture of every way to recover, see help healing.

Examples

• pay admission: purchase a soak pass from Mistress Sūn.
• pay: alias for the same action.
• pay 2: another alias.

Tips

• You must be at the Front Desk of the Mineral Springs Tea House to pay.
• Your pass lasts four hours from purchase.
• To heal, you must go down to the hot mineral pool and stay in it. Standing at the desk or in a changing room does nothing.
• The healing is gradual, so settle in and give it time rather than expecting an instant refill.

Staff only. Send a private emit (narrative message) to one or more characters in the room, visible only to them.

Examples

• pemit John A chill runs down your spine. — send a private emit to John.
• pemit Bob, Alice You both feel a strange presence. — send to multiple characters.

How it works

Private emits allow staff to send atmospheric or plot-relevant messages to specific players without the whole room seeing them. The message is formatted as a fieldset so it visually stands out. Only characters with staff permissions can use this command.

This staff command makes a puppeted NPC perform an emote. If you are puppeting only one NPC, you can omit the NPC name. If puppeting multiple NPCs, specify which one should emote. The emote broadcasts to the NPC's room as if they performed it themselves.

Examples

• pemote waves hello — (one puppet only) make them wave.
• pemote Bob smiles warmly — make Bob smile.
• pemote = smirks — old syntax, use space instead.

Activate one of your saved performances in your current room, or stop an ongoing performance.

Examples

• perform "My Show" — start performing your saved show.
• perform stop — stop your current performance.

How it works

Use performance to list and manage your saved performances. Once you have saved performances, perform starts one and broadcasts it to the room. Everyone can watch. Your performance continues until you stop it or leave the room.

Tips

• Create and edit performances with performance edit.
• Only one performance per character can be active at a time.

List, view, edit, or delete your saved performances. Performances are choreographed sequences of music and cues that you can activate in rooms or perform at society events.

Examples

• performance — list all your saved performances.
• performance "My Show" — view details of a performance.
• performance edit "My Show" — open the performance editor in a web panel.
• performance delete "My Show" — delete a performance permanently.

How it works

Performances are created through the web interface and contain songs (music tracks) and cues (timed script markers). Use the editor to add songs and set cue timings. Once saved, you can perform them using perform or participate in event performances using performevent.

Tips

• Performances show total duration and number of songs and cues.
• Deleting a performance cannot be undone.

Perform one of your saved performances as part of a running performance activity in a society event. You must be designated by the host as an allowed performer.

Examples

• performevent "My Show" — perform at the event.

How it works

A performance activity must be running in the event, and the host must have designated you as a performer. You then choose one of your saved performances to perform. Attendees will watch your performance for its full duration.

Manage who can interact with you and control your content consent settings. You can set generic defaults or per-character rules for visibility, messaging, leading, dressing, channels, and group-finding preference. You can also block specific players, unfriend others, manage content consent (heavy and dark themes), and set per-player overrides for content types.

Examples

• permissions — open the permissions menu.
• permissions general — set default permissions for everyone.
• permissions Bob — set custom permissions for Bob.
• permissions blocks Alice — block Alice from all interactions.
• permissions consent — manage content consent settings.

Tips

• Block types: dm, ooc, channels, interaction, perception, or all.
• Content consent applies only when all players in a room mutually opt in.
• Use permissions consent override to allow specific content with individual players.

Pierce a body position using piercing-type jewelry from your inventory, or insert jewelry into an existing piercing. The command identifies the position (e.g. 'left ear', 'right eyebrow') and the piercing item. If you create a new piercing, it broadcasts to the room; if you are placing jewelry in an existing hole, it is more subtle.

Examples

• pierce my left ear with silver stud — pierce and wear a stud.
• pierce right eyebrow with gold ring — pierce and wear a ring.

Show a list of all notable places and furniture in your current room. This includes chairs, beds, tables, counters, stages, and any other seating or resting surfaces. Use this to discover what is available before you settle in. The list shows how many people are at each place, so you can tell whether a seat is taken or has room.

Taking a place

There is no "join" verb for furniture. You occupy a place by changing your posture at it with one of these commands:

• sit on <place> — take a seat, for example sit on couch, sit at bar, or sit in booth.
• lie on <place> — lie down on a bed or couch, for example lie on bed.
• stand at <place> — stand at a spot, for example stand at bar or dance on stage.
• kneel before <place> — kneel at a spot, for example kneel at altar.

Each of these also works with no target to change your posture where you are (sit on the floor, stand up, lie down, kneel).

Picking one of several matching seats

When a room holds several places with the same name, such as a row of identical chairs, add a number to choose which one, counting in the order they are listed: sit dining chair 2 takes the second, sit dining chair 3 the third, and so on. The same number works with lie, stand, and kneel.

Leaving a place

To get up and free the seat, type stand (also stand up or get up). Walking away to another room frees it as well.

Examples

• places — list every place in the room.
• sit on couch — sit on the couch.
• sit dining chair 2 — take the second of a row of dining chairs.
• lie on bed — lie down on the bed.
• stand — get up and leave the place you are at.

Start a synchronized YouTube watch party in your room. All viewers sync to your playback, seeing the same video at the same timestamp. Only you (the host) can control playback.

Examples

• play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ — start a watch party.
• play https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ — same, using shortened URL format.

How it works

Paste a YouTube link and the video will begin. Other players in the room can join using the media command. Everyone watches synchronized to your playback. Use media pause, media play, or media seek to control the video.

Pledge an item from your inventory as artwork for a society event's art exhibition. You must be whitelisted by the host to pledge art.

Examples

• pledge art scroll "Spring Gala" — pledge a scroll to the Spring Gala.
• pledge art vase Autumn Festival — pledge a vase to the Autumn Festival.

How it works

The art exhibition activity must be running. The host must have whitelisted you (using whitelist art) to pledge. Once whitelisted, choose an item from your inventory to pledge. It will be displayed in the exhibition and attendees can view it using wander.

Tips

• You must have the item in your inventory.
• The same item cannot be pledged twice to one exhibition.
• Ask the host to whitelist you if you are not yet allowed to pledge.

Put away a held item or sheathe it in a holster. This removes the item from visible display in your equipment. If you have a compatible holster equipped, the item will be sheathed there automatically. You can pocket all held items at once with "pocket all". Pocketed items are still yours but are no longer visibly displayed to others in the room.

Examples

• pocket sword — put away a held sword.
• sheathe dagger — sheathe a dagger in a holster.
• pocket all — put away everything you are holding.

Examine details of an item for sale in a shop before buying. Shows the item description, category, price, and stock status. This lets you verify an item is what you want without committing to the purchase.

Examples

• preview leather jacket — examine a leather jacket in the shop.
• preview sword — look up a sword's details.

Tips

• Partial name matches work (e.g., preview jack finds "leather jacket").
• Shows stock status: "In Stock", "N remaining", or "Out of stock".
• Use buy to purchase the item after previewing.

Toggle private mode to restrict adult content visibility, or perform a private emote visible only to you and your target. In private mode, intimate descriptions become visible when both participants are in private mode. Private emotes allow one-on-one roleplay without room broadcast.

Examples

• private — toggle private mode on or off.
• private Bob winks knowingly — perform a private emote with Bob.
• private to Alice makes a subtle gesture — alternative syntax for private emotes.

How it works

Private mode is a personal setting. Private emotes are one-on-one and sent only to the target, with no room broadcast. Both are logged for records.

View a character's profile, including their name, race, class, level, online status, location, and short description. With no argument, shows your own profile. With a character name, shows theirs.

Examples

• profile — view your own profile.
• profile Alice — view Alice's profile.

Profiles show identity (race, class, gender, age), physical traits, status, and current location. If the character is offline, it shows when they were last seen.

Editing Your Own Profile

To re-edit your profile, open your profile page on the web client and select the Edit Details tab (visible only on your own profile). From there you can change your appearance (nickname, short description, gender, height, ethnicity, body type, distinctive colour and profile picture), your background (personality, backstory, goals and point of view), and your voice settings at any time.

A few choices made during character creation — your age and zodiac, destiny, and martial school and styles — can only be changed during a short grace window shortly after your character is created. Once that window closes they are fixed. Your family ties cannot be changed here, and your stats are reallocated separately (see help stats).

To edit the descriptions of individual body parts and your overall appearance from inside the game, use the describe command (also customize), which opens the in-game description editor. See help describe.

Manage your properties, access permissions, and door locks. View all properties you own, see who has access to what, grant or revoke access, and lock/unlock doors in your rooms.

Examples

• property — open the property management menu.
• property list — view all your owned properties.
• property access — show who has access to your rooms and which rooms you can access.
• property lock — lock doors in the current room.
• property grant Alice — give Alice access to this room.

How it works

The command presents a menu of property actions. List shows all rooms you own, grouped by location. Access shows a two-part report: your properties and their access status, and any properties others have granted you access to. Lock/unlock toggles doors in the room you are standing in (requires ownership). Grant and revoke manage character-level access to rooms (permanent by default).

This staff command takes direct control of an NPC so you can manually direct their actions. Once puppeting, use pemote to make them emote. You can puppet multiple NPCs at once. Use unpuppet to release control when done.

Examples

• puppet Bob — take control of Bob.
• puppet the merchant — take control of an NPC named 'merchant'.

This staff command lists all NPCs you are currently puppeting, including their location, how long you have been controlling them, and whether there is a pending suggestion waiting to be applied.

Examples

• puppets — show all NPCs under your control.

Put an item into a container you can reach. The container can be one you are carrying or wearing (a pouch, bag, or pack) or one resting on the ground here. Use the form put <item> in <container> (the words into and onto work too).

With no container, put <item> simply drops the item to the room, the same as drop — so old habits still work. To take something back out of a container, use get <item> from <container>, and look <container> shows what is inside. A container can only hold so much, and you cannot put money inside one.

Examples

• put cigarette in pouch — tuck a cigarette into a pouch.
• put dagger in backpack — stow a dagger in a worn pack.
• put sword — with no container, drops the sword (same as drop).

Toggle quiet mode to hide all channel messages from OOC, global, area, and group channels. Useful when you want to focus on roleplay without distraction. When you exit quiet mode after messages were sent, you get the option to catch up on what you missed.

Examples

• quiet — toggle quiet mode on or off.

While in quiet mode, you only see roleplay messages and actions in your room. All channel text is hidden until you exit quiet mode.

Log out of the game and end your session. Your character will depart the room with a farewell message visible to others. Any active states (observing, following, status flags) are automatically cleared. You must not be in combat to use this command.

Examples

• quit — log out.
• logout — alias for quit.
• sleep — alias for quit.

Quitting during combat will fail. Finish your fight first, or ask staff for help if stuck. Your playtime is recorded when you quit.

Replace all decorations in a room you own with new text. Unlike decorate which adds layers, this clears the old decorations and sets everything fresh.

Examples

• redecorate Minimalist furnishings create a zen atmosphere. — completely redecorate.

How it works

All old decorations are deleted and replaced with your new text in a single operation. Useful if you want a clean slate without building decorations piece by piece.

Tips

• Use decorate if you want to add decorations gradually.
• Use redecorate for a fresh, one-shot replacement.

Let go of a character you are dragging or carrying, setting them down in the current room.

Examples

• release — put down whoever you are carrying or dragging.
• putdown — alias for release.

How it works

When you release someone you were transporting, they are placed in the current room and regain independence. If you captured them as a PvP hostage, releasing them also ends any hostage status tied to that capture.

Take off clothing or jewelry you are wearing. You can remove multiple items at once by listing them separated by commas or 'and'. Removed items go back into your inventory.

Examples

• remove shirt — take off your shirt.
• remove hat, scarf, gloves — remove multiple items.
• take off jacket — alternative phrasing.

Change the name of a room you own. The name must be 100 characters or less.

Examples

• rename Cozy Living Room — rename to Cozy Living Room.
• rename The Den — rename to The Den.

How it works

The game updates the room name and broadcasts the change to anyone else in the room.

Quickly respond to the last character who sent you an OOC message or direct message.

Examples

• reply — set reply mode to the last sender (no message sent).
• reply Got your message! — send a reply immediately.

How it works

Instead of having to remember and retype the name of whoever messaged you last, reply automatically targets them. If you send no message, it sets the messaging mode so you can send follow-up messages. This works for both OOC messages and direct messages (msg).

This staff command displays a player's reputation tiers and the world memories most strongly linked to them. Reputation is divided into three tiers: public knowledge (tier 1), social circles (tier 2), and close associates (tier 3). The listing also shows the 10 most relevant memories by importance and recency.

Examples

• reputation Alice — view Alice's reputation tiers and linked memories.
• rep bob smith — short form; search for Bob Smith.

Create a new character to replace your current dead character. Only available when your character has died. The old character is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

Examples

• reroll — create a new character.
• newchar — alias for reroll.

Change the physical dimensions of a room you own. Specify width, depth, and height in feet. The room resizes around its center point, and nested rooms must fit within the parent's bounds.

Examples

• resize room 10 10 3 — make the room 10 feet wide, 10 feet deep, 3 feet tall.
• resize room 20 15 4 — make a larger room, 20x15 floor, 4 feet high.

How it works

You provide three positive numbers: width (x-axis), depth (y-axis), and height (z-axis). The room is recalculated to fit within those bounds, centered at origin. If this room is nested inside a parent, it cannot exceed the parent's dimensions. The game rejects dimensions that are zero, negative, or exceed the configured maximum (typically 100+ feet).

Tips

• All dimensions must be positive numbers (integers or decimals).
• Nested rooms are constrained by their parent's size.

As the host of a dance activity, resume it after pausing. Dancers will resume moving with their partners.

Examples

• resume dance — resume the dance.

How it works

You must be the host of the event and the dance must be paused (not stopped). Resuming restarts the music and dancers begin moving again with their current partners.

Roll dice using your character's stats or custom dice notation. Stat rolls combine your approach and stat values, while dice rolls use standard notation. Results are broadcast to the room and visible to all players.

Examples

• roll — open a menu to pick a stat to roll.
• roll QCK+POW — combine quickness approach with power stat.
• roll QCK+MTH+POW — combine multiple stats (approach + two stats).
• roll 2d6 — roll two six-sided dice.
• roll 1d20+5 — roll a d20 and add 5.

How it works

Stat rolls use 2d8 with exploding 8s (roll again and add extra). Your selected stats provide a modifier to the result. Dice rolls use straight notation: NdN with optional +/- modifier. All rolls show individual die values and total. Results are always public.

Tips

• Rolling with stats is good for narrative moments. Stat rolls can explode for big results.
• Dice notation rolls are simpler and have no explosion mechanic.
• Cannot combine the same stat twice in one roll.

Set a short status text that appears after your name when you are in a room. This is a descriptive phrase (like 'looking thoughtful' or 'leaning against the wall') that gives other players a quick sense of your character's posture or mood. The maximum length is defined by server configuration (typically 100 characters).

Examples

• roomtitle looking thoughtful — set your room title.
• roomtitle leaning against the wall — update with a new pose.
• roomtitle clear — remove your room title.

Save media (pictures or videos) from recent chat messages to your personal library. You specify the media type and number (e.g. "pic1" for the first picture, "vid2" for the second video), then give it a name. Once saved, you can retrieve it anytime. The game searches recent chat history for media content, so only media that appeared in the last 50 messages can be saved.

Examples

• save pic1 as sunset — save the first picture as "sunset".
• save vid2 as funny — save the second video as "funny".
• save tpic1 as portrait — save the first text-picture as "portrait".

Save a color gradient to your library for later use. A gradient is a sequence of color codes separated by commas (e.g. "#ff0000,#00ff00,#0000ff"). Once saved, you can reference it by name in other commands or share it with others. Gradients are useful for customizing appearance or recording color schemes you like.

Examples

• save gradient #ff0000,#00ff00 as christmas — save red-to-green gradient.
• savegrad #000000,#ffffff as monochrome — save black-to-white gradient.

Tips

• Use hex color codes (with or without the # prefix).
• You can save gradients with two or more colors.
• Named gradients can be reused across commands and shared with others.

Save your current room as a bookmark so you can return to it easily later. Once saved, you can reference the location by name. This is useful for remembering favorite spots, storing addresses, or quickly navigating back to frequently-visited places. You can have multiple saved locations and delete them with "library delete".

Examples

• save location as home — bookmark your current location as "home".
• saveloc as work — save current spot as "work".
• bookmark as secret — save a hidden location.

How it works

Saved locations remember both the room and the zone. When you later retrieve the location, the game knows exactly where it is. This is different from the wardrobe system, which is for storing items; save location is purely for bookmarking places.

Speak to everyone in the room. You can use adverbs to describe how you speak (say quietly I have a secret). Alternatively, use say to <target> for directed speech, or say through <exit> to speak through a door or window. Quick syntax: use "message or 'message as a shorthand for say.

Examples

• say Hello everyone! — speak to the room.
• "How are you? — quick syntax for say.
• say quietly I have a secret — speak with an adverb.
• say to John Hello there! — speak directly to John.
• say through north, Hello in there! — speak through the north exit.

Trigger an arranged scene meeting with an NPC. You must be in the designated meeting location and have an active invitation. If you have multiple pending invitations, a menu appears so you can choose which scene to trigger. The scene then moves you to the roleplay room where you interact with the NPC.

Examples

• scene — trigger your pending scene (or select from multiple).
• meet — synonym for scene.

This staff command sets special instructions for how an NPC should behave during an arranged scene. You can set instructions before the scene triggers (affecting the NPC's behavior when it starts) or during an active scene (seeding the NPC immediately). Instructions influence the NPC's next LLM-generated action.

Examples

• sceneinstructions 5 mention the weather and offer a discount — set NPC instructions for scene 5.

Show your character record: a one-page sheet of who your character is and how they stand right now. It takes no arguments; just type score (also stats or status) to see the whole record at once.

What the record shows

• Identity — your age, gender, birthday, zodiac sign, destiny, and martial school.
• Vitals — Health (current over maximum, colour-coded), Energy (with its refill rate), Qi Level, Influence, and your Destiny and Fate points when you are on an adventure.
• Holdings — your wealth by currency, your family estate, and the martial style you are currently wielding with its level.
• Stat blocks — your trained stats grouped by block, with any temporary modifiers shown in parentheses (e.g., +2 from a buff).
• If someone is holding you hostage, a warning band shows the captor and the time until release.

Health colour shows at a glance how hurt you are: green is healthy, yellow is wounded, red is critical.

What is my Qi Level?

Qi Level is the size of the qi dice your character rolls in a fight, shown as a word from Four up to Twenty. The larger the die, the harder your qi swings when it powers an attack, a defence, an ability, or a burst of movement. It is not the same as the qi you spend in cultivate to level up a style; that qi is a separate resource.

Your Qi Level rises and falls with passion, not with training. It deepens through romantic chemistry with other characters, and most fiercely between rivals whose feelings are sharpened by conflict. Being near that person, or crossing blades with them, stokes it; long absence lets it cool. Once your qi burns bright enough you take on a visible radiant glow. For the in-world account, read help qi; for relationship commands, see help relationship.

Search the current room for characters who are hidden via style abilities (specifically the Silken Viper style's hide mechanic). When you search, any hidden character in this room is revealed and loses their hidden status. This is an active action broadcast to the room.

Examples

• search — search the current room for hidden characters.

This staff command searches world memories using semantic similarity. The system embeds your query and finds the 10 most similar memories, ranked by similarity score. This is useful for discovering which world memories are linked to specific themes or events. Memories must have embeddings to be searchable.

Examples

• searchmemory bandits attacking — find memories about bandit attacks.
• memsearch guild meeting — find memories about guild meetings.

Manage your membership in the realm's sects, the established martial and scholarly orders of the five kingdoms. Sects are not founded by players; they already exist in the world, and you join one simply by naming it. Use this command to join a sect, leave it, view its details and roster, send a memo to fellow members, set your personal handle, and grant sect mates access to rooms you own. The clan, guild, and faction names all run this same command.

Joining a sect

To join, type sect join followed by the sect's full name, for example sect join The Ninth Pouch. There is no application, sponsor, or invitation required; if you know a sect's name, you may swear yourself to it directly. You may belong to up to three sects at once. To find which sects exist, use sect list or browse the world lore pages, where every sect is described.

A note on the secret sects

A few sects are marked secret and shown with a (Secret) tag in sect list. Their secrecy does not hide the sect itself; it conceals who belongs to it. Members of a secret sect are known to one another only by a chosen handle rather than their true name. You join a secret sect exactly as you would any other, by typing sect join and its name, and you may set your handle afterward with sect handle.

Examples

• sect list — see the sects you can find and any you have joined.
• sect join The Ninth Pouch — swear yourself to a sect by name.
• sect info The Ninth Pouch — read a sect's details.
• sect roster — view the members of your sect.
• sect memo — send a message to all members.
• sect leave — leave a sect you have joined.

Tips

• You can belong to up to three sects at once.
• Secret sects still show in sect list with a (Secret) tag; what stays hidden is who belongs to them.
• Set a handle with sect handle to be known by an alias within a secret sect.
• Use channel <sect name> <message> to chat with sect members in real time.

This staff command plants an instruction into an NPC that will influence their next LLM-generated action. The NPC does not have to be in your room, but must be online. Useful for steering NPC behavior without taking full puppet control. If the NPC is already fully puppeted by someone else, you cannot seed them.

Examples

• seed Bob mention the weather — plant an instruction for Bob.
• seed merchant offer a discount on potions — guide the merchant's behavior.

Sell an item from your inventory to the secondhand market or to a material-buyer stall. Sold items are valued and you receive currency instantly. You can sell to the general market or to a specific buyer stall by code. Material-buyer stalls only accept specific material types.

Examples

• sell silk dress — sell to the secondhand market.
• sell iron ore to east_b — sell to a specific buyer stall.
• sell broken sword — unload a damaged item.

How it works

Items sold to the general market are added to the secondhand pool for others to browse at resale stalls. Items sold to buyer stalls must match what that stall buys (e.g., "iron ore", "leather"). You receive payment immediately in the local currency. Prices are typically 30-60% of retail.

Mark yourself as semi-away, meaning you are partially present but distracted or multitasking. Less urgent than full AFK. Specify duration in minutes or omit for indefinite. Typing semiafk again toggles it off.

Examples

• semiafk — toggle semi-AFK status.
• semiafk 30 — set semi-AFK for 30 minutes.
• semi — alias for semiafk.

Semi-AFK signals you are still at the keyboard but have reduced attention. Useful when you are doing something else while playing. Others see your status in the room.

Perform an action with automatic game command extraction. Describe what you are doing in natural language, and the system attempts to parse and execute any embedded game commands. For example: semote stands up and walks to the door may extract a stand action and move command. The emote always broadcasts; command execution is async and background.

Examples

• semote stands up and walks to the door — emote with extracted movement.
• semote sits on the couch — sit and emote together.

Set a background image URL for a room you own. This is a visual backdrop displayed when players look at the room. Pass no argument to remove the background.

Examples

• set background https://example.com/room.jpg — set a background image.
• setbg https://i.imgur.com/abc123.png — alternate short form.
• set background — with no URL, remove any background.

How it works

You provide an https:// URL pointing to an image (max 2048 characters). The game stores the URL and displays the image as a backdrop. If you provide no URL and a background is set, it is removed. The URL must be fully qualified and reachable from the web.

Set seasonal variations for room descriptions or background images. Specify a type (desc or bg), a time (morning, afternoon, evening, night, dawn, day, dusk, or dash for any), a season (spring, summer, fall, winter, or dash for any), and the text or URL. Use set seasonal list to view all seasonal settings and set seasonal clear to remove one.

Examples

• set seasonal desc morning spring The spring morning light filters through the windows...
• set seasonal desc - winter Snow blankets the view outside...
• set seasonal bg night - https://example.com/night.jpg
• set seasonal list — show all seasonal settings for this room.
• set seasonal clear desc winter - — remove the winter (any-time) description.

How it works

The game stores multiple descriptions and backgrounds keyed by time and season. When a player looks at the room, the client picks the most specific match (exact time and season), then falls back to just time, then just season, then the default. Use dash (-) as a wildcard for any time or season. Desc sets a text description; bg sets a background image URL.

Tips

• Use set seasonal list to see all your current seasonal settings.
• Dash (-) acts as a wildcard; set seasonal desc - winter ... applies to any time in winter.

Manage and browse shops. Displays the shop menu where you can browse items, buy goods, or manage inventory (if you own the shop). Entering commands here lets you add items to your shop, adjust prices, or remove stock. Use shop buy to purchase or shop stock to manage.

Examples

• shop — open the shop menu.
• shop buy leather jacket — quick purchase an item.
• shop stock — open stock management (owner only).
• shop add 50 sword — add a sword from your inventory at 50 li price (owner only).
• shop remove jacket — remove an item from your shop (owner only).

Tips

• Owner commands (add, remove, stock) only work if you own the shop's location.
• Adding stock requires the item to be in your inventory.
• Prices are per unit and should be in the shop's local currency.

Show an item to another player. Use the format "show to " or run "show" with no arguments for a menu. The target player sees the item's full description, including condition and damage. Other players in the room see only a vague notice that something was shown. This is useful for discussing items or proving you own something without giving it away.

Examples

• show ring to Bob — let Bob inspect your ring.
• display sword to Alice — show Alice your sword.
• present necklace to John — display a necklace.

Reveal the description of an item to other players. If you previously hid an item's description, this command makes it visible again. Other players can then see the full custom description when they examine the item. Combined with "hidedesc", these commands let you control who sees what about your possessions.

Examples

• showdesc ring — reveal a ring's description to others.
• show description silver necklace — make a necklace visible again.
• showitem sword — display a sword's details.

As the host of a dance activity, randomly reassign dance partners. All dancers are regrouped with new partners.

Examples

• shuffle — shuffle dance partners.

How it works

You must be the host and the dance must be running. Shuffling randomly pairs dancers with new partners. This keeps the dance fresh and helps attendees meet different people.

Sit down on the ground or on furniture. You can sit alone on the floor, or choose a specific chair, bench, couch, or other seating surface available in the room. Sitting changes your stance and may affect what other commands are available to you.

Examples

• sit — sit down on the ground.
• sit down — alternative phrasing for ground seating.
• sit on couch — sit on a specific piece of furniture.
• sit at bar — sit at the counter.
• sit in booth — sit in an enclosed seating area.

Tips

• Use the places command to see all available furniture before sitting.
• Furniture has limited capacity; if a seat is full, try another option.

Smoke something from your inventory. Like eating and drinking, smoking is a progressive action. You light up and smoke for a period of time, and other players see the smoke. Aliases let you vary the verb: "puff" for shorter actions, "light up" for the full phrase, or just "smoke" for neutral. Smoking items produce visual effects and roleplay messages visible to everyone nearby.

Examples

• smoke cigarette — light a cigarette.
• puff pipe — take a puff from a pipe.
• light up cigar — smoke a cigar.

Open your society event preferences panel to manage who you like and avoid socializing with. These preferences influence how the host groups you with other attendees during activities.

Examples

• society interactions — open your preference panel.

How it works

The preference panel lists all characters you can mark as liked or avoided. The host uses these preferences when grouping attendees for dances, performances, and other activities. Mark characters you enjoy so you are grouped together; mark those you prefer to avoid so you are separated.

Tips

• You can update your preferences at any time during an event.
• You can also set preferences when you first join an event.

Move south to an adjacent room. Like all cardinal directions, southbound movement follows geographic adjacency within the game world. You cannot move during combat.

Examples

• south — move south.
• s — short alias for south.

Move southeast to an adjacent room. Diagonal movement combines two cardinal directions and reaches corner spaces. Navigation is based on room adjacency, so southeast is available only if a neighboring room exists in that direction.

Examples

• southeast — move southeast.
• se — short alias for southeast.

Move southwest to an adjacent room. This diagonal direction reaches corner spaces in the southwest direction. Movement is possible only if a room exists in that direction with no impassable barriers blocking the way.

Examples

• southwest — move southwest.
• sw — short alias for southwest.

Challenge another player to a friendly, non-lethal sparring match. Sparring follows the same turn-based combat rules as real combat but without risk of permanent injury or hostage capture.

Examples

• spar Bob — challenge Bob to spar.
• spar — open a menu to select an opponent.
• sparring guard — alias for spar.

How it works

Sparring initiates a friendly combat session where both fighters can use all their combat abilities and styles. Damage is tracked and characters can fall, but sparring ends in a draw rather than knockout or death. Sparring matches are allowed in safe zones where lethal combat is not. After sparring, both fighters recover from wounds normally.

Tips

• Use sparring to practice combat without consequences, train new abilities, or roleplay training scenes.
• Sparring is available even in safe zones where attack is blocked.
• You cannot spar if you are already in an active fight.

Toggle spotlight on a character during an event (host or staff only). Use this to focus attention on a specific player for roleplay purposes. You can set a spotlight for unlimited duration or for a fixed number of emotes.

Examples

• spotlight Alice — spotlight Alice for unlimited duration.
• spotlight Bob 3 — focus on Bob for 3 emotes.
• spotlight Alice again — toggle the spotlight off.

Tips

• You must be the host or staff of the event to use this command.
• If you specify a count (e.g., 5), the spotlight lasts for that many emote rounds.
• Using the command again on a spotlighted character toggles it off.

View or change your active combat style outside of combat. Your stance determines which abilities you can use and shapes your combat strategy. Inside a fight, use the quickmenu to change stance.

Examples

• stance — show your known styles and active stance.
• stance iron_claw — switch to iron claw stance.
• stance Stormbreaker — switch to stormbreaker (name matching).

How it works

Each style you learn can be your active stance. Your active stance is persistent across fights and determines your default combat posture. Changing stance outside combat swaps your style immediately. Inside a fight, use the quickmenu to queue a style change for the next round. You can only use abilities tied to your currently active style.

Tips

• Different styles have different strengths; change stance between fights to adapt to opponents or scenarios.
• Your stance is shown in your character status.
• You cannot change stance during combat outside the quickmenu.

Stand up from sitting or lying position, optionally while at or near a piece of furniture. You can stand up alone in an open space, or position yourself at a specific location like a bar, window, or stage. Standing may enable actions that sitting or lying prevent.

Examples

• stand — stand up from your current position.
• stand up — alternative phrasing for standing alone.
• get up — rise to standing position.
• stand at bar — stand beside or at a bar counter.
• dance on stage — stand on a stage and dance.

How it works

Standing at furniture places you visibly at that location. Use the places command to see available furniture before attempting to stand at a specific spot.

As the host of a society event, launch a new activity such as a dance, art exhibition, performance opportunity, or exhibition fight. Activities can be run one at a time within the same event.

Examples

• start activity art_exhibition — start an art exhibition.
• start activity dance — start a dance with no music specified.
• start activity dance Morning Rain — start a dance with a specific track.
• start activity performance — start a performance activity.
• start activity game Mahjong — start a mahjong game.
• start activity exhibition_fight solo Bob — start a solo fight with Bob.
• start activity exhibition_fight pairs A B C D — start a pairs fight with four fighters.

How it works

Activities form the main program of your event. Each activity has its own rules: dances pair attendees, art exhibitions display pledged items, performances spotlight designated performers, and fights are matches between combatants. Only one activity can run at a time; use end activity to finish one before starting another.

Begin a scheduled event immediately (organizer only). The event transitions from scheduled to active. All players at that location are notified that the event is starting. As the organizer, you are automatically moved into the event. Others use enter event to join.

Examples

• start event — start a scheduled event you created at your location.
• start event Birthday Party — start a specific event by name.

Tips

• You must be the organizer (creator) of the event to start it.
• The event must be in scheduled status, not already active or completed.
• Starting the event broadcasts a notification to the location.

Stop moving, following, observing, or cancel a world journey. This command halts whatever action you are currently performing. If you are walking between rooms, following a character, watching someone or something, or traveling on a long-distance journey, this command ends that activity.

Examples

• stop — stop the current action automatically.
• stop following — stop following a character.
• stop observing — stop watching someone or a place.
• stop journey — cancel a long-distance travel journey.
• halt — alternative command for stopping.

Tips

• Stopping movement on a city street cancels directional walking.
• You can stop following someone without ending your own movement.

As the host of a dance activity, end it and compute any grants or awards earned by participants. The dance stops and attendees are ungrouped.

Examples

• stopdance — stop the dance and finalize results.

How it works

You must be the host and the dance must be running. Stopping the dance finalizes it and computes any grants earned by dancers based on their performance. The grants are awarded immediately to participants.

Remove all worn clothing at once. You must explicitly type 'all' or 'naked' to prevent accidental nudity. All items are removed and go into your inventory. The action is broadcast to other players in the room.

If you are at a stash (your home or a storage facility), strip stash removes everything you are wearing and puts it straight into the stash in one step, saving you from removing then storing each piece.

Examples

• strip all — remove all clothing.
• strip naked — alternative phrasing.
• strip stash — remove everything worn straight into your stash.
• undress all — alias form.

Observe another character quietly to learn their combat styles. As they move and act, you gain glimpses of their combat abilities, though they may notice they are being studied.

Examples

• study Liang Wei — start studying Liang Wei's styles.
• study stop — stop studying anyone.

How it works

When you study someone, each time they perform an action, there is a chance you catch a glimpse of one of their two most visible combat styles. Simultaneously, there is an independent chance they notice you watching them. Studying is a passive activity that continues until you stop or you enter combat. Study generates roleplay and allows you to learn an opponent's style before fighting them.

Tips

• Use study to scout opponents and plan combat strategy.
• The target may notice and confront you, so study is not risk-free.
• You can study someone in the same room but not at a distance.

Apply a hairstyle description to yourself or someone else using the description editor. The editor is set to the scalp position. Applying hairstyle to someone else requires their dress/style permission. You write a full description of the hairstyle and can optionally add an image URL.

Examples

• style me — open the editor to style your own hair.
• style Alice — style Alice's hair (requires permission).

Perform a subtle action visible only to those nearby. Your action broadcasts to characters in your immediate vicinity (within the subtle bubble); distant characters see nothing. Useful for quiet conversations, passing notes, or private actions. Dance partners always see your subtle actions even if outside normal range.

Examples

• subtle slides a note across the table — only nearby characters see it.
• subtle winks conspiratorially — a quiet gesture.

Send a message summoning an NPC to your location. You can reach out to any NPC you have established a connection with by name and send them a message requesting they come to where you are. The NPC will evaluate your summons and decide whether to accept.

Examples

• summon Merchant I need to buy supplies — summon a named NPC with a message.
• call Guard There is trouble here — alternative verb for summoning.
• summon Guard=Please help! — use equals sign as a separator.

How it works

The game processes your summons asynchronously. NPCs may refuse if they are unable to travel, recently declined your calls, or are unavailable. A cooldown prevents spamming the same NPC with repeated summons.

Give yourself or someone else a permanent tattoo using the description editor. You can select one or more body positions (head, torso, arms, hands, legs, feet) and write a detailed description of the design, colors, and style. Tattooing someone else requires their dress/style permission. You can mark the tattoo as normally concealed by clothing.

Examples

• tattoo me — give yourself a tattoo.
• tattoo me back — open the editor with back region preselected.
• tattoo Alice arm — tattoo Alice's arm (requires permission).

Set your default transport preference or hail a taxi to a destination. Use taxi alone to view and change your preferred method of getting around the city. Use taxi with a destination to immediately book a ride there. Transport options vary by era and location.

Examples

• taxi — open the transport preference menu.
• taxi to Grand Temple — hail a taxi to a location.
• cab to Market Square — book a black cab.
• rickshaw — hail a rickshaw to the current location.

How it works

Setting a default preference auto-books transport for long journeys. Direct hails with a destination override your preference for that ride. Availability and cost depend on the current era and location.

Getting out of the ride

Once you climb aboard, the ride carries you to the destination you named and drops you there. There is no way to get out partway: while you are riding, the stop command and the movement commands have nothing to act on, so a rickshaw or cab cannot be cut short once it has set off. If you find you are headed the wrong way, ride it out to the stop you named, then hail a fresh ride back.

Start or stop teaching a martial arts style to another character in the same room. The student must already know the style you're teaching, and you must be a higher rank than them. Teaching sessions earn experience for both teacher and student and contribute to cultivation progression.

Examples

• teach "Zhang Wei" iron_claw — teach iron claw to Zhang Wei.
• teach Zhang flowing_palm — partial names work if unambiguous.
• teach stop — end your current teaching session.

How it works

Both teacher and student must be in the same room and alive. You must have mastered the style (rank 6+) to teach it. The student must have at least one level in the style already. Teaching sessions end when you use teach stop or when the student leaves the room.

Express internal thoughts that are visible only to you and anyone with telepathy. The message is formatted as an internal monologue. You can use aliases like ponder, wonder, worry, or remember to flavour your thoughts with different verbs.

Examples

• think I wonder what she meant by that — express a thought.
• ponder the mysteries of the universe — use a different verb.
• worry about the future — express concern.

Submit bug reports, typos, feature requests, and general suggestions. View your open and closed tickets, and read staff responses. Use shortcut aliases (bug, typo, request, suggest) for quick submission.

Examples

• tickets — show ticket menu.
• tickets new — submit a new ticket.
• tickets view 42 — read ticket #42.
• tickets cancel 42 — cancel your own open ticket #42 (also tickets close 42).
• bug — quick bug report submission.
• typo — quick typo report.

Include room ID and character context automatically when submitting. Staff reviews and responds to all tickets. Resolved tickets show staff notes with the resolution. If you filed a ticket you no longer need, cancel it with tickets cancel <id>; you can only cancel your own ticket while it is still open, and a cancelled ticket is closed and dropped from the staff queue.

Bind a helpless character's hands, feet, or both. The target must be helpless before you can restrain them.

Examples

• tie Bob — bind Bob's hands (default).
• tie Jane hands — bind Jane's hands.
• tie Bob feet — bind Bob's feet.
• bind Bob — alias for tie.

How it works

Binding prevents a helpless character from moving or using their hands. A bound character can still speak and be gagged or blindfolded separately. In PvP zones, binding an opponent automatically creates a hostage record, representing their capture. Use untie to remove the restraint.

Tips

• Binding hands alone leaves feet free; bind feet to restrict movement instead.
• Binding someone in a PvP zone marks them as a hostage for ransom or negotiation.
• A character can be bound, gagged, blindfolded, and carried all at the same time.

Check the current in-game date and time. Shows the full date, time of day, and information about the moon and weather. Useful for planning activities and understanding seasonal changes.

Examples

• time — show current date and time.
• clock — alias for time.
• date — alias for time.

The game clock runs independently of real time. Celestial information (moon phase, weather) is shown. Time is synchronized across all players in your location.

Step into the past to play out flashback scenes without affecting your present character. There are two kinds of past timeline: a snapshot (a moment you saved earlier) and a historical timeline (a shared year and place). Every past timeline applies the same protections: no death, no prisoner mechanics, no XP gain, and rooms are read-only.

Examples

• timeline — open timeline menu.
• timeline "Before the battle" — enter a snapshot by name.
• snapshot — alias for timeline.

How do I flashback to a past year or a different place?

You do not type a year or a place on the command line. There is no year or location argument: typing timeline followed by a year does not work. Instead you open the menu and pick where to go. Type timeline, choose Enter Timeline, and then either pick one of your saved snapshots from the list or choose Historical Timeline.

Choosing Historical Timeline opens a short form with two fields: a Year (for example 1892) and a Zone Name (a place in your current world, for example Downtown). Fill in both and submit, and you arrive in that year and zone. Historical timelines are shared, so anyone who enters the same year and zone lands in the same scene and can interact with you. Your present character state and a copy of your inventory come with you.

What about snapshots?

A snapshot already has its moment baked in: the date, the place, and who was present are captured when you save it, so you do not pick a year for a snapshot. You enter one by name with timeline "Before the battle", or by choosing it from the Enter Timeline list. You can only enter a snapshot where you were actually present when it was created. To save the current moment, type timeline and choose Create Snapshot.

To return to the present, type timeline and choose Leave Timeline. You can keep your main character active in one browser tab while you play a past timeline in another.

Permanently destroy an item from your inventory. The item is gone forever and cannot be recovered. Trashing is useful for getting rid of unwanted items; you cannot trash money (use "drop" instead). The game will confirm the item name before destroying it.

Examples

• trash broken shield — destroy a broken shield.
• destroy old map — get rid of an old map.
• junk unwanted ring — trash an unwanted ring.

Drop your current disguise and reveal your true identity. Anyone who already knew you will continue to recognize you regardless of your disguise status. Use this when you are ready to abandon your cover.

Examples

• undisguise — drop your disguise.

Delete your last sent message from the game. Works for roleplay narration, channel messages, direct messages, and OOC messages. The message is removed from your screen and everyone else's immediately.

Examples

• undo — delete your last message.

How it works

Undo is a safety valve for typos or mistakes. It removes your message from the database and sends a deletion event to all viewers, clearing it from their screens immediately. Each panel (roleplay feed and communication feed) maintains its own undo history, so undo always affects the most recent message in the panel you are using. Undo expires after 60 seconds.

Withdraw a standing invitation to your Lotus Boat booth. The target character loses access and can no longer enter past the curtain. Their previous invitations are invalidated.

Examples

• uninvite Jade — revoke Jade's invitation.
• uninvite "Jade Chen" — use full name if needed.

How it works

Once you uninvite someone, their access to your booth ends immediately. They cannot re-enter even if they previously accepted your invitation. You can reinvite them later if you change your mind.

Remove a place you made with make place. Only the person who made the place can unmake it, and only places that players make can be unmade (you cannot unmake the room's built-in furniture).

Examples

• unmake place stone bench — remove a place you made called the stone bench.
• unmake reading nook — the word "place" is optional.
• dismantle place my booth — dismantle does the same thing.

How it works

The place is removed at once and anyone sitting on or standing at it is moved off. This is the same end a place reaches when its time runs out, just on demand. A place built in your home does not expire on its own, so unmake is how you take one down.

This staff command releases control of a puppeted NPC. If you puppet multiple NPCs and give no argument (or use all), all puppets are released at once. Otherwise, specify which NPC to release by name.

Examples

• unpuppet — release all puppets.
• unpuppet Bob — release just Bob.

Remove restraints (bindings, gags, or blindfolds) from a character. You can remove specific restraint types or all of them at once.

Examples

• untie Bob — remove all restraints.
• untie Jane hands — remove hand bindings only.
• untie Bob feet — remove foot bindings.
• untie Charlie gag — remove the gag.
• untie Alice blindfold — remove the blindfold.
• free Bob all — alias to remove all restraints.

How it works

Untie removes specific or all restraints from a restrained character. You must be in the same room. Removing restraints frees the character to move, speak, or see as appropriate. If you remove all restraints from a PvP hostage, the hostage record remains (use proper hostage release procedures if needed).

Unzip or unbutton worn clothing to partially open it. The item stays on your body but is unfastened, allowing for partial reveals. You can unzip multiple items at once. Other players see a broadcast when you unzip something.

Examples

• unzip jacket — unzip a worn jacket.
• unbutton shirt — unbutton a worn shirt.
• unzip jacket, hoodie — unzip multiple items.

Move up to a room above you. Use this to ascend stairs, climb a ladder, or move to an upper floor or level. Unlike horizontal movement, vertical transitions always complete in a single step. You cannot move during combat.

Examples

• up — move up one level.
• u — short alias for up.

Use or interact with an item in your inventory, or play a game in the current room. This is a flexible command that adapts to what you are using. With no argument, you see a menu of usable items. Some items open additional options for how to use them (e.g. board games with different difficulty levels). Games track your score and you can reset your score anytime.

Examples

• use — see a menu of usable items.
• use dartboard — play a game.
• use dartboard aggressive — play on a specific difficulty.

How it works

Items can be consumable (you eat, drink, or smoke them) or interactive (you play games on them or activate them). The command detects which type you are using and shows appropriate options. Game scores are saved per item and per character, and you can reset a game's score if you want to start fresh.

This staff command displays full details of a world memory by ID, including its summary, importance, publicity level, characters involved, locations, and raw log of messages. The raw log expires after a set time and is purged to save space.

Examples

• viewmemory 142 — view memory 142.
• memview 98 — short form; view memory 98.

Place a wager on an activity within a running society event. Wager on a specific outcome (like a fight count or fighter name) using currency.

Examples

• wager 50 dollar on 7 — bet 50 Gold Dollars that the outcome will be 7.
• wager 25 dollar on Bob — bet 25 Gold Dollars that Bob will win.

How it works

An open wager pool must exist for the event activity. You choose an outcome (a number or a specific participant's name) and wager currency on it. If the outcome matches your prediction when the activity ends, you win and receive payout based on the pool odds.

Tips

• Wagers must be placed while the pool is open (activity is running).
• You must have sufficient currency in your wallet.
• Payouts depend on the total pool size and odds.

View all open wager pools for the current society event and see a summary of your personal wagers.

Examples

• wagers — view pools and your wagers.

How it works

This command shows all active wager pools in the event, including the pool outcome type and total currency wagered. It also lists all your personal wagers, how much you wagered, and what outcome you predicted. Use this to track your bets during the event.

Rouse an unconscious character, bringing them back to consciousness. The target must be present in the room and currently unconscious. You cannot wake yourself; this command is for helping someone else who has been knocked out.

Examples

• wake Bao — wake Bao from unconsciousness.
• rouse Jian — alias for wake.
• awaken Chen — alias for wake.

How long a knockout lasts

When a fighter is beaten senseless their health falls and they drop unconscious. A knocked-out fighter cannot be woken while the fight is still going. Once the fight ends, the wake clock starts:

• They come round on their own after about ten minutes. No outside help is needed. Left alone, an unconscious character stirs and regains consciousness roughly ten minutes after the fight ends, with no action required.
• A friend can rouse them sooner, but not instantly. For the first minute after the fight ends, a knocked-out character is too dazed to be shaken awake. After that one-minute mark passes, anyone in the room can use wake to bring them round at once instead of waiting out the full ten minutes.

How it works

When you wake someone, they regain consciousness and awareness. Everyone in the room sees you shake the character awake. The woken character is now alert and can act normally. If their hands were bound while they were out, they stay restrained until untied (see help untie).

Walk toward a target: a direction, room, character, place, or location name. This is the primary command for goal-directed movement. You can walk using various verbs (move, go, run, crawl, etc.) to set the tone. On outdoor city streets, walk initiates continuous directional movement until you stop or change direction.

Examples

• walk north — walk toward the north.
• move east — walk east (alternative verb).
• go south — walk south.
• run to tavern — head toward the tavern.
• crawl to John — approach John while crawling.

How it works

Walk accepts many movement verbs and optional adverbs to flavor your motion (angrily, slowly, boldly, etc.). If the target is ambiguous, you will be prompted to choose. Home is a special target that takes you to your assigned home room.

Tips