HIDEGRIN
You hide a grin behind your hand.
Lendren hides a grin behind his hand.
Glancing wryly at Linwe, you hide a grin behind your hand.
Lendren glances wryly at you and hides a grin behind his hand.
Lendren glances wryly at Linwe and hides a grin behind his hand.

WRINKLE
You wrinkle your nose in distaste.
Lendren wrinkles his nose in distaste.
You wrinkle your nose in distaste as you contemplate a reishi mushroom.
Lendren wrinkles his nose in distaste as he contemplates you.
Lendren contemplates a reishi mushroom and wrinkles his nose in distaste.

SHEEPISH
You grin sheepishly, blushing faintly.
Lendren grins sheepishly, blushing faintly.
You avert your eyes from Linwe, grinning sheepishly.
Lendren grins sheepishly, averting his eyes from you.
Lendren grins sheepishly, averting his eyes from Linwe.

And some emotes for bards to use targetting their instruments (thus, the second person targetted ones are error messages more than real emotes); some of these are resubmissions:

TUNE
You hum a cheerful tune.
Linwe hums a cheerful tune.
Listening closely while playing a scattering of notes, you adjust the strings of an ebony and moonhart mandolin until it is perfectly in tune.
Linwe seems to think you're an out-of-tune instrument.
Listening closely while playing a scattering of notes, Linwe adjusts the strings of an ebony and moonhart mandolin until it is perfectly in tune.

PLAYTUNE
You play a simple but lovely tune.
Ialie plays a simple but lovely tune.
You play a simple but lovely tune on a rainbow-decorated viola of pale wood.
Ialie seems to think you're a musical instrument.
Ialie plays a simple but lovely tune on a rainbow-decorated viola of pale wood.

MINORKEY
You play a somber melody in a minor key.
Xiel plays a somber melody in a minor key.
You play a vine-woven mahogany lyre in a minor key, filling the air with somber harmonies.
Xiel seems to think you're a musical instrument.
Xiel plays a vine-woven mahogany lyre in a minor key, filling the air with somber harmonies.

MAJORKEY
You play a sprightly tune in a major key.
Asmodea plays a sprightly tune in a major key.
You pluck out a sprightly, upbeat tune on the Argent Lyre of Trialante, filling the air with merry melodies.
Asmodea seems to think you're a musical instrument.
Asmodea plucks out a sprightly, upbeat tune on the Argent Lyre of Trialante, filling the air with merry melodies.

HEARTHANDS

You lift your hands up and press your fingertips together to make the shape of a heart.

(Person) lifts up his/her hands and presses his/her fingertips together to make a heart.

You look at (person) and lift your hands up making the shape of a heart.

(Person) looks at you and lifts up his/her hands to make the shape of a heart.

(Person) looks at (person) and lifts up his/her hands to make the shape of a heart.


An example for the last...

Meliana looks at Raflein and lifts up her hands to make the shape of a heart.

That reminds me of gang signs, for some reason.

Wag needs to have a different message for Loboshigaru

lolwut

(3rd person - not targetted)
Shurimaru laughs loudly, but half-heartedly, looking confused.
(3rd person - targetted at someone else)
Shurimaru stares at for a moment, then tosses his head back and laughs uncertainly.
(If you're the target)
Shurimaru looks at you for a moment, apparantly confused, then laughs uncertainly.
(what you see - untargetted)
Not wanting look stupid, you laugh along, not understanding the joke.
(what you see - targeted)
You stare at for a moment, mulling over what just happened. You realize it may have been a joke, and laugh along.

Those emotes I posted for playing music would look odd if you targetted something other than an instrument, and there's no coded way to prevent you doing that. And while there are already plenty of emotes that look odd if you target the wrong thing (try NIBBLE EAR for instance) we don't want to make any more. So, although it diminishes the value to remove the instrument name, here's a few rewritten ones that don't have that problem:

PLAYTUNE
You play a simple but lovely tune.
Ialie plays a simple but lovely tune.
Gazing at Tael, you play a simple but lovely tune.
Ialie gazes at you as she plays a simple but lovely tune.
Ialie gazes at Tael as she plays a simple but lovely tune.

MINORKEY
You play a somber melody in a minor key.
Xiel plays a somber melody in a minor key.
Glancing soulfully at Kielo, you play a somber melody in a minor key.
Xiel glances soulfully at you as he playes a somber melody in a minor key.
With a soulful glance at Kielo, Xiel plays a somber melody in a minor key.

MAJORKEY
You play a sprightly tune in a major key.
Zia plays a sprightly tune in a major key.
You pluck out a sprightly, upbeat tune, filling the air with merry melodies, as you skip in circles around Shuyin.
Zia skips in circles around you in time with a sprightly, upbeat tune she plays in a major key.
Plucking out a sprightly, upbeat tune, Zia skips in circles around Shuyin, filling the air with merry melodies.

TUNE
Listening closely while playing a scattering of notes, you adjust the strings on your instrument until it is perfectly in tune.
Listening closely while playing a scattering of notes, Linwe adjust the strings on her instrument until it is perfectly in tune.
Pondering Lendren thoughtfully, you play a scattering of notes and adjust your instrument's strings to a perfect accord.
Linwe ponders you distractedly while she plays a scattering of notes, then adjusts the strings of her instrument to a perfect accord.
Linwe ponders Lendren thoughtfully while she plays a scattering of notes, then adjusts the strings of her instrument to a perfect accord.

Because elfen need some racial emote love:

NATUREGAZE

1st person: Your heart and soul resonate with your connection to the forests as your pulse becomes one with nature.

3rd person: The fleeting glimmer of an emerald light flickers within Kielo's eyes and vanishes just as suddenly as it appeared.

1st person targeted: Your heart and soul beat in time with the inexorable flow of nature as you study Sarrasri's place in it.

2nd person targeted: A fleeting glimmer of emerald light flickers within Kielo's eyes as he studies you with quiet intensity.

3rd person targetted: A fleeting glimmer of emerald light flickers within Kielo's eyes as he studies Sarrasri with quiet intensity.

Random emote inspiration, yay. Apologies to Casilu for randomly hijacking her for demonstrations.

A companion to PAW, especially suited for use against people who have just used FAINT:

TOE

1st person untargeted: You search for something to poke with your foot, but, alas, find nothing.

1st person targeted: You nudge Casilu with your foot, checking for signs of life.

2nd person targeted: Uncertainly, Casilu nudges you with her foot.

3rd person untargeted: Casilu lifts her foot, hesitates, and puts it down again.

3rd person targeted: Looking uncertain, Casilu nudges the corpse of a crumbling loamadore with her foot.

And here's a few more, maybe subconsciously inspired by the DUDE set. I had fun making them multipurpose depending on target:

DEAD

1st person untargeted: "Yep," you sigh, "we're dead."

1st person targeted: "You're dead," you inform a thorn beast.

2nd person targeted: "You're dead," a gaseous cloier informs you.

3rd person untargeted: "Yep," a merian beachcomber sighs, "we're dead."

3rd person targeted: "You're dead," an enormous gorgog informs a slice of key lime pie.

DEAD?

1st person untargeted: Cringing, you look around and ask hesitantly, "Are we dead?"

1st person targeted: Carefully watching the corpse of a titanic, fearsome kraken, you ask quietly, "Is it dead?"

2nd person targeted: Turning to you, a giant snapping turtle asks hesitantly, "Are we dead?"

3rd person untargeted: Cringing, a kephera worker looks around and whispers, "Are we dead?"

3rd person targeted: Carefully watching a glowing carrot, Sandy Sawtooth asks, "Is it dead?"

Courtesy of our fast working emote-pookas, we now have three new emotes:

dead, dead?, and toe!

I like the dead one
*coverts to Shadowdancer, for an Emote-Pooka*
TWEAK
Untargeted:
First Person: You glance around, and suddenly quiver with anticipation. (( I suck at this, but you get the idea, think "Tweak", the kid from south park))
Third person: Morgfyre glances around, and suddenly quivers in anticipation

Targeted:
First Person: You reach out and gently tweak Lisaera's nose, emitting a quick "PVT" sound
Third Person: Estarra reaches out,and tweaks Roark's nose, emitting a quick "PVT"sound

FIREFIRE
Untargeted:
First Person: You chuckle, and shriek, "Fire, Fire!!"
Third Person: Amaru gets a crazed look in his eye, and laughs, shrieking, "Fire, fire!!"

Targeted:
First Peron: You stare feverishly at a small dust bunny and shriek, "Fire, Fire!!"
Third Person: Thoros stares feverishly at an oat bran muffin and shrieks, "Fire, Fire!!"

Sheer genius, all.

Are there any dracnari or taurian racial emotes?

WOMEN

1st person:
Exasperated, you throw up your hands and sigh, "Women!"
3rd person:
Shurimaru throws his hands into the air and sighs with exasperation, "Women!"
1st person targetted:
You fix Amatsemaru with a piercing stare and sigh, "Women!"
3rd person targetted:
Shurimaru fixes Amatsemaru with a piercing stare and sighs, "Women!"
2nd person:
Shurimaru stares at you, exasperated, and sighs, "Women!"



EDIT: And, of course, change the emote title to Men.

CROSS

1st person:
You cross your fingers behind your back.

1st person targetted:
You cross your fingers, keeping them out of Ongaku's sight.

3rd person:
Shurimaru slips a hand behind his back.

3rd person targetted:
Shurimaru faces you and slips a hand behind his back.

2nd person:
You notice Shurimaru cross his fingers behind his back. For good luck, surely!

2nd person targetted:
You notice Shurimaru crossing his fingers, keeping them out of Ongaku's sight. Surely, for good luck!

Yeah, but how would you decide which to use on someone who switches genders with Dramatics all the time?

Here's a couple of silly ones. Since we already have ORLY and YARLY, why not?

GREATSUCCESS

1st person untargeted: Giving two thumbs up, you grin widely and declare, "Great success!"

1st person targeted: Grinning approvingly at a scientific ledger, you give it two thumbs up and announce, "Great success!"

2nd person targeted: "Great success!" decides Glumki Thorneye, King of the Redcaps, flashing you a grin and two thumbs up.

3rd person untargeted: Flashing a grin, Brennan Stormcrow gives two thumbs up and announces, "Great success!"

3rd person targeted: With a wide grin, Gorky Hardbottom gives two thumbs up to a ravenwood armchair and says, "Great success!"

And by popular demand: NOMNOM

1st person untargeted: "Nom nom nom nom nom," you gabble hungrily.

1st person targeted: "Nom nom nom nom nom!" you babble as you advance on a frosted nature talisman cookie.

2nd person targeted: "Nom nom nom nom nom," gabbles a fluffy, white rabbit as it advances towards you with a disturbing gleam in its eye.

3rd person untargeted: "Nom nom nom nom nom," Xiel gabbles.

3rd person targeted: "Nom nom nom nom nom," a female krokani gabbles, approaching the corpse of an aslaran warrior.

Because I want it... D:


THUD

1st person untargetted: You fall to the ground with a resounding 'THUD!'

1st person targetted: You look at (person) and fall to the ground with a resounding 'THUD!'

2nd person targetted: (person) looks at you and falls to the ground with a resounding 'THUD!'

3nd person untargetted: (person) falls to the ground with a resounding 'THUD!'

3nd person targetted: (person) looks at (person) and falls to the ground with a resounding 'THUD!'

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For those situations when things are too ridiculous for words, and the unusualness of the conversation itself seems to be able to knock you over.

Lobos really do need Wag replaced. I have the command aliased to do "emote wags his tail" perhaps

1u: You feel your tail wagging of its own accord.
3u: Torre's tail begins wagging absently.

1t: As you stare at Raziela, you feel your tail wagging of its own accord.
2t: You notice Torre's tail wagging as he stares at you.
3t: Torre stares at Raziela, and his tail starts wagging absently.

p: Torre is here, his tail wagging absently.
tp: Torre's tail wags absently as he stares at Raziela.

Happywag

1u: You smile, and your tail wags happily.
3u: Torre smiles, and his tail wags happily.

1t: You smile at Raziela, your tail wagging happily.
2t: Torre smiles at you, his tail wagging happily.
3t: Torre smiles at Raziela, his tail wagging happily.

p: Torre is here, his tail wagging and a smile on his face.
tp: Torre's tail wags happily as he smiles at Raziela.

and one for Aslaran

Bristle:

1u: You suddenly get the urge to hiss and bristle your fur.
3u: Spooked by something, Syridean hisses and all his fur bristles.

1t: Displeased with a dream leech, you hiss at it and your fur bristles.
2t: Syridean suddenly hisses at you, his fur bristling.
3t: Syridean suddenly hisses at a dream leech, his fur bristling.

p: Syridean's fur is bristling as he glares at the world.
tp: Syridean's fur is bristling as he glares at a dream leech.


Aaand finally a general one

Earscritch

1u: You idly scritch behind your ear.
3u: Aerotan scritches behind his ear.

1t: You scritch a red fox behind the ears affectionately.
2t: Aerotan reaches toward you and gently scritches behind your ears.
3t: Aerotan scritches a red fox behind the ears.

I propose a new emote: Orcgasm... I'll leave that one to the imagination

INSTRUMENTSWING - needs an instrument

Karedesia swings a wooden lute at your head causing a rather disharmonious twang as it connects soundly.
You swing a wooden lute at Kaerdesia causing a rather disharmonious twang as it connects soundly.
Ryleth swings a wooden lute at Kaerdesia causing a rather disharmonious twang as it connects soundly.
You peer around, looking for something to swing at
Ryleth peers around, hefting an instrument ominously

Great success is from... borat

We already have orly, yarly, and nowai. So why not?