Thanks guys 
*watches her desc be ignored except by Hal* 
QUOTE(Sarrasri @ Sep 26 2008, 03:52 PM) 562965
*watches her desc be ignored except by Hal*
Too short! Add more detail! Otherwise it's fine
Not...what I wanted. The request is to have someone else re-write it. 
QUOTE(Lendren @ Aug 31 2008, 03:33 PM) 552421
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.)
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:
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#alias descdirty {describe self 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.  %-1}
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.)
Lendren, I always read your descs when I see you
.Aison is also in need of a makeover, sometime soon...
QUOTE(Aison @ Sep 26 2008, 04:45 PM) 563008
Lendren, I always read your descs when I see you .
Aison is also in need of a makeover, sometime soon...
.Aison is also in need of a makeover, sometime soon...
Pigtales?
QUOTE(Shaddus Mes @ Sep 26 2008, 05:01 PM) 563053
And perhaps... horn rim glasses? Hot librarian style?
QUOTE(casilu @ Sep 26 2008, 08:27 PM) 563112
She is 66 years old, having been born on the 20th of Vestian, 151 years after the Coming of Estarra.
I guess you have a thing for old people, I see her more as a that REALLY old librarian in the library. The one that can read Egyptian because she was raised on it type.
I guess you have a thing for old people, I see her more as a that REALLY old librarian in the library. The one that can read Egyptian because she was raised on it type.
She isn't that old, gosh.
She does need a different appearance, once I get her outfit made.
Every time I see life in this thread I feel like showing off my own desc again. 
Vain.
Vain.