Welcome to FlipsideMUSE

If you don't already have a character, there are several ways to get one:

Getting Started

QUIT - quit and leave muse (or /quit with tf)

WHO or who - print list of users currently on this muse

help - access online help
help <topic> to get more information about a certain topic

news - access online news about this muse's events and topics
news <topic>

say <something> (shortcut: use " instead of say) - make your character 'say' something
Example: say Hi Everyone!

page <player> = <message> - send a message to a player on the muse
Example: page Mint=Hello, Can you register me?

look - look at the room you're in.
look <object> to look at a person or object in the room you are in.
Examples: look
look button

go <exit> - go through one of the obvious exits in the room.
Example: go out
Shortcut: type only the name of the exit (or the letter(s) you see inside <>'s: If an exit is called <O>ut, you can use it by typing 'o')

Please see online help on following topics: +channel, channels, register, syntax (on Flipside type 'help +channel' etc. without quotes)

NOTE:When you see things written inside <>'s in helpfiles, you are supposed to replace what's inside of them with something 'suitable' (like your message if you are paging somebody...) and not type the <>'s in your line at all. Hey, if you keep paging me with 'p Mint=<message>, it will take a while to figure out what you want (oh well, help about syntax of commands, obviously :) ) But don't be embarrassed if you make mistakes like that. We all were newbies once and did things like that, and everybody understands :) (I mostly remember the panic that filled me when I entered myself and realized I didn't know how to get out.. Finally somebody answered my pages and told me 'oh, just type 'home', silly' .. :) )

Okay, the next step is to get out of Darkness (#5) .. To some people it seems to be impossible, but just pay attention: The circle says 'PRESS ME' ! All you need to do is to type 'press button', or even 'press me' will do.. That wasn't so hard, was it? :)

If you are a guest, just pressing the button will do. if you are a new character, you will need to have a description and a sex before you can continue. If you already haven't done that, you should type '@desc me=<a short description what you want to look like> ' and '@sex me = <male/female/something else>' .

You will end up in Roadside (#80) and then it is up to you where you want to go. I'd suggest North (type 'N'), but for some reason most of our suicidal guesties head south and ... Anyway, if you go north, you should find a Gas Station (#1230) at some point. You can stop there, or continue north (trust me, you will return to the gas station sooner or later if you want to go places.. :) ) There you can see 'Round Shiny Object(#35)' that says it can be entered. You can do this by typing 'enter shiny'. You feel 'compelled to sit in the chair'. Then you better SIT. Type 'sit in the chair'! That usually helps.. (in this case just typing 'sit' won't help you, you have to 'sit in ...' . After that, you 'feel compelled to leave'. Guess what you should type next? Right, type 'leave' and whee, you are not at the Gas Station any more!

If you continue north, you will end up in the City of Terminus itself. Then you can either walk around and just @teleport around. Of course if you are lazy to begin with, you can always skip the intro and just @tel to town anyway.

Here are some places to go (type 'help @tel' if you are totally new and have no idea what it does)

#111 - Amusement Park
#333 - Town Square
#300 - Zoo
#217 - Crystal Mall, main entrance
#1666 - Castrovalva Station

FlipsideMUSE has ANSI color. You have to set yourself ansi (@set me=ansi) to be able to see color. Read 'help ansi' to find out more.

We don't have a whois command yet, so typing 'whois person', @finger person, +finger person and so on won't do you are good. If you want to know, try paging the person and asking. They usually don't bite (too hard..)

When your character is being created, you automatically join the 'public' channel. The 'connections' channel of Flipside is 'log_io'. You can join that if you feel like seeing people connect and disconnect. Read 'help +channel' and 'help +com' to find out more.

MOTD's (Message Of The Day) will give you information about what's going on. The changing, not-always-informal motd is attached to the end of the WHO-list. The more permanent MOTD is the one you see when you log on, and you can see this MOTD again by typing 'motd'.

News (type 'news' to see the topics, then 'news topic') exist but they aren't being updated very often.

We hope you start building and creating things after getting started. Build and create whatever you want. Just don't leave your things out in the public areas if they are uhm, not kid-safe. And just because a MUSE is a virtual environment, it doesn't mean you can act like a complete moron and do things that you'd never do in real life! Don't bug people if they want you to leave them alone. Don't harass players OR guesties, OK? Don't page admins with 'can I be a guide?' every day if they tell you 'Sorry NO!' after the first page. You will have plenty of things to do on Flipside and MAYBE one day, when we get bigger, we will need more guides, and then we will reward good little citizens.. :) But not before rest of the admin say it is okay :)

And on FlipsideMUSE, you are not a member, you are a citizen. We don't have mentors and you don't need to fill any 'special requirements' in order to become a permanent character. As a matter of fact, we have characters who have last logged on in 1995, and we still haven't gotten rid of them! :)

You start with about 5000 credits (=muse money). If you are running out of it, ask a friendly admin to give you more. But don't get greedy! :) HELLO, it is a MUSE, having lots of money means nothing! If you have over 20 000 credits and you keep whining for more, it is very likely that at least some of the admin will get pretty annoyed with you (okay, *I* will probably get real annoyed, and you will end up with 53 credits or something.. :) ) Consider yourself warned! :)

Another way to piss people off is to whine about everything. If you are not happy with the Amusement Park, stores, residential areas etc, you are more than welcome to build bigger and better ones yourself. We will be more than happy to link them anywhere you want. So try to be polite AND patient.. :) People on Flipside do their best to make it a good muse, but people do have real lifes, with school, work, stuff to do, and sometimes when they come online, they want to relax, not to hear somebody whining about wanting to have more money or powers...

You can buy your first home from a 'housing agent' or a 'realtor' if you can find one. They are muse objects that have been coded to dig you a one-room house once you pay them. The problem is that there aren't too many of them around, so it will be hard to find one. Anyway, if you find a housing agent or a realtor, they will sell you a house, and after that you can expand it by @digging (see 'help @dig' online) more rooms. If you find a realtor, just look at it, and it should tell you how muxh a house costs, and what you should do. Basically, if the house costs 100 credits, you just type 'give realtor=100' (syntax: give <object/person> = <amount>) and it'll do the rest for you.

If you can't find a housing agent, or you are not sure where you want your home to be, you can make it 'floating'. That means you can have a house with lots of rooms without having it linked to any streets of the city. The only way people can get to your house is by @teleporting there. Simply do '@dig <First Room>', then you should type '@set <first room>=floating' (otherwise it'll be a 'disconnected room', and we really don't like those.. :) They keep giving you warnings..). As soon as you type your command, ou'll see a message saying '<First Room> created with room number <# of your first room>'. Keep that # in mind, because now you have to @teleport in that room. Type '@tel <# of the room>'.

Once you are inside that room, you should give it a description (otherwise: Surprise! More warnings! :) ). Type '@desc here=<Whatever you want your room to look like>'. Also you probably want to make the room as your 'home' (your default home is 'Login (#0)'. That means you'll end up there if you type 'home', and from there you'd be immediately kicked into Login Area.. that's no place to call your home! :) ). Type '@link me=here', and the next time you type 'home, you will end up in your room no matter where you are.

After that you can continue building your home by using the @dig command again (read 'help @dig and especially 'help example @dig' if you are a new user - I KNOW you want entrances and exits to the rest of your rooms! :) ). Later on you can ask an admin to @link your house to some nice area.

If you want visitors in your nice floating house, you will have to set at least one of the rooms 'jump_OK' (read 'help flags'). Type '@set <Room>=jump_OK'. Then people can drop by by typing '@tel <# of the Room>'. If you decide that you don't want to have anybody @teleporting there later on, you can do '@set room=!jump_OK'. You can find out if a room is set jump_OK by looking at the room. If you notice a 'J' after the DBREF# (Data Base REFerence #) (and 'R' flag, which just means your room really is a room) of the room, then it is jump_OK. For example, Town Square(#333RJ) is jump_OK, but Garage(#1368R) is not.

Like I said earlier, you should get a description as soon as you first log on. Okay, so you do have a default description, 'You see someone special and unique.', but it would be nice if you were a bit more special and unique than that. Type '@desc me=<A short description of what you want to look like>'. Other things you should do are:

• Set your sex: '@sex me=<whatever sex you are/want to be>'
• Lock yourself: '@lock me=me' works and prevents anybody from picking you up.
• Set your home: as soon as you have built your first room, you should link yourself there by typing '@link me=here'. After that every time you type 'home', you'll be immediately transferred there.
• Get an alias:Type '@alias me=<a short alias>'. People can use aliases instead of players name when paging etc. The name or alias of a player must be only 5 characters long or shorter. If you get an error message saying 'You can't set 's alias to that' make sure there isn't already somebody using that alias, and that either your name or the alias is short (see 'help @name').
• Set yourself ANSI to be able to see colors: '@set me=ansi'. After that you can see ansi colors (if your terminal supports them). Read online help for 'help @cname' to see how you can color your name, and 'help ansi' to find out how to use colors and get a list of all possible colors.

• caption: '@caption me=<A line of text people see after your name.>'. For example, '@caption me=looks tasty.', would make people see 'Hamburger(#9999PDv) looks tasty.'.
• @Doing: '@doing me=<What you want people to see on the who-list under the header 'Doing'>. When you look at the WHo-list, you will see that we all have highly intelligent and distinguished Doings, so follow those guidelines :)
• Privacy Issues:
  • '@set me=dark' prevents people from seeing your location with '@whois <player>'.
  • '@lhide me=me' makes it so only you can see yourself on the who list.
  • '@lpage me=!<person from whom you don't want to receive pages>'. For example: '@lpage me=!*jerk' makes it so that everybody but jerk can page you.
  • Changing your password. You can change your password with '@password <old password>=<new password>. I recommend changing your password when you log on for the very first time as your character. You should request your character with a simple password, and change to it something more secure online (but this is just a suggestion, only the administrators are able to see character requests, so nobody unauthorized can see your first password. But IF you want to be absolutely sure nobody knows your password, not even admin, change it :) )
• '+laston <player>' shows you the last time player was connected.
• 'examine me' ('ex me' for short) shows you all available information about you. You should see things like your real name, e-mail address, when your character was created, who regged you, all the atributes you have set on yourself etc. examine <object>/<attribute> displays the value of <attribute> on <object>.
• 'inventory' ('i' for short) shows you all the objects you carry (and that are not set 'dark') and all the money you have.
• '@quota' shows how many objects you own and how many you can have.
• '+mail' shows you all the +mail you currectly have. See 'help +mail' online to find out more. If you see something like 'You have 2 messages. 2 of them is new.' when you log on, it means you have +mail and you haven't read some of it yet.
• '@search me' lists all the objects you own.
• '@find <object>' displays the name and number of every room, thing, or player that you control whose name matches <object>

You can make objects with '@create <object>', and destroy them with '@destroy <object>' or '@poof <object>' (the difference is that with '@poof' the object disappears from your sight immediately). No matter which one you use, it will take 10 minutes before the object has 'officially' been destroyed. This gives you time to save the object if you realize it didn't mean to destroy it after all. '@undestroy <object> will save your object from being destroyed. If you used '@poof', saving the object is a bit more complicated, but not impossible. Since the object disappeared (what it actually does is @teleports itself inside itself..) you have to use its DBREF number instead if its name. When you type '@poof <object>' you will see a message 'Okay, <object(#xxxx)> has disappeared.' Pick the DBREF number from that line, and then type '@undestroy #xxxx'. If you missed that line and you need to find the BDREF number of your object, type '@find <object>'.

In order to avoid accidentally destroying your objects you can do '@protect <object>'. This will set 'the @doomsday attribute' on the object to -1, keeping the object from being destroyed with @destroy. To destroy the object, it must first be @unprotected with '@unprotect <object>'.

You should always locks your objects ('@lock <object>=me(or here)') to prevent people from stealing them. ALSO you should not steal anybody's objects if you happen to find an unlocked object! You can pick it up, take a look at it, but you should put it back. Especially you SHOULD *NOT* walk into people's homes and take their stuff. Sure, it is easy to say 'Oh, if they want to keep their stuff, they should lock their doors, or their stuff.' Maybe, but just because something isn't locked, it doesn't mean you have a right to take it! I *hope* you don't do that in real life either.. :) But if you want to keep people out of your house, lock the doors. Also, try to keep track of your objects, don't leave them all over the MUSE :)