How common is having several descriptions (in my case aliased for ease of exchange)? At the moment, there are two for Madach which are broadly similar to each other, but the one I use is dependent on how recently somebody else has bathed him.

BEGGARDIRTY

... and is covered in filth. His figure is gaunt from malnourishment; his ribcage clearly visible under a thin layer of pallid skin. His flesh is pasty and pockmarked where it is visible under the thick grime which covers his body. The hair upon his head is black and shines from grease, and it crowns a narrow face which borders on skeletal. Two slightly sunken eyes peer out from under his matted fringe. His shoulders and back are covered in flea bites; the creatures are occasionally drop from his body.

BEGGARCLEAN

... and looks cleaner than usual. His figure is gaunt from malnourishment; his ribcage clearly visible under a thin layer of pallid skin. His flesh is pasty and pockmarked, but freed of it's regular patina of dirt it is beginning to regain some colour. The hair upon his head is long, black and lifeless, and it crowns a narrow face which borders on skeletal. Two slightly sunken eyes peer out from under his lank fringe, which droops over his forehead. His shoulders and back are covered in flea bites, though currently he seems free of the tiny parasites and the marks are beginning to fade.


Also, I'm thinking of designing a transitional stage. What do people think of them, and the idea in general?

I'm sure that would be fine. If I recall correctly, Aison edited her description when the guildhall collasped to include dust and dirt on her person.

I have always done this in all my characters in all MUDs. Sometimes just for changing moods. Though my current character is a changeling illusionist who genderbends sometimes, so I have so many descriptions I have a database to store them, instead of just a bunch of aliases!

My suggestion: having aliases is great but sometimes you want to just add a little something to the end to account for something temporary and situational. For instance, you've just been gorging on strawberry tarts, but you don't want to edit your alias (or make a new one) to show a smudge of jam on your cheek. Still, you want to show it, and have it be easy. So just add something to the end of the alias that lets you specify "extra" description when you run the alias, like so:


The %-1 on the end is zMUD lingo for all the extra words on the command line. (Other clients will use other syntax.) Now if you type:

descdirty There's a smudge of something that might be strawberry jam on his cheek.

People will see your usual description plus that extra. Always put something extra that shows what's going on most recently, and people might even get in the habit of looking at you. (Don't count on it though.)

I haven't really decided to put Myrkr's description up before, but, I'm sure it could use some help.




The feather is actually a gift from Everiine, and since it's not a physical object and Myrkr always has it with her, I put it in there.

Myrkr is pocket-sized? Isn't that a bit too small?

Faeling+diminish enchant=6 inch tall faeling. It could work, I guess.

Yes, but I doubt Myrkr has Dimish on her down to Size 1 constantly.

If the size was incorrect, I believe I would have had a Divine-poke or ten by now, considering I've interacted with Eventru, Maylea, Nocht, and Lisaera.

Also, I've seen Faeling 4" tall and even 2" tall. Kares was 4" tall, no one told him he was wrong for it.

I highly doubt you would've had a divine poke. 4 and 2" small is too small baring some sort of magical enchantment or if you have hardly any elfen blood in you at all.\\

Even most fae aren't that small.

Kares also didn't post it on the forums looking for tips, as far as I can recall.

PS: The Divine don't (generally) take an OOC thing (the ability to change your description) and tell you ICly that it's off. Though occasionally you might get a comment of "You're really small" or "you're hairier than I expect" (a correction hidden in an observation), you really cannot use "I've interacted with Divine! That means my description is a-okay!" as an excuse. It's not.

Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean that the description is wrong, either-- simply that that excuse isn't worth much at all. If they actually comment on it, and then say it's okay, then you can use that. If they comment and say it's not, that can be used as well. No comment? No foundation for an argument.

Myrkr is more pixie than Elfen. Also, on alts I had made before, I had gotten very big pokes on my description if it was somehow RP-off. This is not the case for Myrkr. But if that's the only beef you have with the description, thanks?

Well, it's sort of possible if an Elfen is not you're father or mother, but a great-grandparent. But still's not very feasible (in my book anywho). I'm just sharing my opinion on faeling aesthetics, not really telling you to change it.

I mean, if you're that much pixie to be pocket-sized naturally, you're basically a pixie.

It's fun having Myrkr that small though cause it gives Lekius like millions of opportunities for short jokes..so..y'know..no changing it!

Alrighty heres mine. This is my first attempt at a description so be gentle

He is a fierce dracnari and whose dragon ancestry is very pronounced. Standing
at just under 8 feet in height he is covered in large blue-green scales that
almost stick out like armoured plates. Just above his eyes is a bone ridge
extending a few inches towards his temples increasing in height. A scaled ridge
runs along from the back of his head down along his spine to the tip of his tail
which forms an arrowhead shape. Large sharp teeth hang down in places from his
upper jaw ending in an almost permanent smirk. His elbows sport thicker
sharper scales that point up along the curve of his arm for about 3 inches. He
also has a medium-light build with toned muscles run along his body, the largest
of which being on his legs. His kneecaps have a similar style of scale as on his
elbows but these are thicker and point upwards. His legs bow backwards similar
to a lizards. His hands and feet are both five digit talons which seem rather
clumsy at first-glance but he uses them as well as any human hand would work. A
well-muscled tail trails for almost 5 feet behind him twitching to and fro in a bored
manner of it's own accord.

But yea, help on this would be nice.

I do that all the time, as well as the fact that Shuri un-ages back to age 12 every eight years. I make different descriptions based on what she's wearing sometimes, even.

Oh, right, und here's Shuri's desc.

He is an ordinary undead human and is very femininely constructed, mildly cute
in that manner, but far from rugged or handsome. Large amethyst eyes, a cute
nose and a small, somewhat thin mouth make up his soft, delicate facial
features. His hair, as red as polished rubies and just as shiny, slides down to
his shoulders, topping a slight frame and skin so white it almost shines. His
hands and forearms are smudged with what appears to be poorly-washed ink, but
most strangely of all, he has a pair of small breasts. Overall, perhaps his most
stunning aspect is that he appears no older, or any different, than a
fifteen-year-old girl.

The dwarf I just made...

He is a stout dwarf and has a boisterous, joyous air about him. His cheeks are
pink with laughter, and his lips are seemingly always curled into a joyous
smile. Frazzy hair of dull oak sits upon his head, and a long braided beard
hangs from his face. Warm brown eyes are seemingly lost between unusually long
eyelashes and caterpillar like eyebrows. His limbs and body in general are
bulky, offering that this dwarf's size may have nothing to do with his strength.

I used to use multiple descriptions for my forms, but since my system is gone, I don't have those triggers.

So anyway, since I'm a changeling, I figure I can look like whatever I want while holding the stats of another race, so I modified my elfen description (the one I had last) to apply no matter what my race says, since I could look entirely like something else than my race says. Can this work?

Okay, so I've had Sarra's description essentially since I first made it, with it only changing slightly in that time span. I kinda want to update it though, maybe make it a bit more descriptive while still containing the same things I have in it now, essentially. Also feel free to leave an eye colour out, or allude to shifting eye colours. Thanks in advance.

She is a crystalline Lucidian Vernal Ascendant and is old.

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I...I apologize...