MUSH Survival Guide: MUSH Basics

Welcome to Chapter 2. If you're looking at /this/, you should be in the following situation.

1: You should have a telnet client running, and know what that even means.

2: You should have an open connection to PersonaMUSH running.

3: You should have just typed 'connect guest guest', and a bunch of text should have just scrolled at you.

What just happened

Alright, what you just saw was a metric boatload of text, a staggeringly small amount of it is important right now. Ignore the babbling about yelling at gods personalizing files, and there being no place like home.

Let's look at a sample of what the 'OOC Lounge' might look like. This text looks like this.

Velvet Room - OOC Lounge

        The Velvet Room is a comfortable, yet strange place outside space and time, between consciousness and unconsciousness. The room is invariably decorated in deep blue, the contents seemingly changing from moment to moment to smoothly account for any who might arrive in comfort according to their own natures. An eternal theme plays in the background, a wordless poem dedicated to everyone's souls. A fixture of the Velvet Room, however, is the enigmatic Igor, his bug-eyed gaze and massive nose familiar to many Persona-users... And his fey assistants, who change, come, and go based on need. The room is filled with potential, every facet designed to invoke the potential that lies within those who are here. The air is sometimes thick with spirits and masks, ready to surface at a simple call.

Ryotaro Dojima [U] <None>              Suggestion Box <SB>                    
Deidra Doyle [SEES] <Xuanzang>         Fortune Teller                         
Maki Sonomura [NWO] <Matsu>            Anzu Momonoki [NWO] <Ailuros>          
Mitsuru Kirijo [SEES] <Penthesilea>    Shinjiro Aragaki [DS] <Castor>         
Will Dent [KDA] <None>                 Yosuke Hanamura [KDA] <Jiraiya>        
Shiori Hibiki [SEES] <Pheme>           Naoya Toudou [DS] <Seimen Kongo>       
Ran Itoh [SEES] <Verthandi>            Yuzuriha Hatsumi [KDA] <Hattori Hanzo> 
Natsuko Choukawa [S] <Ofnir>           Eriko Kirishima [KDA] <Nike>           
William Blazer [NWO] <Golem of Prague> Baofu [DS] <Odysseus>                  

<W>est:                   Demon Artist's Gallery - Meeting Room
<N>orth:                  Nameless' Piano - Quiet Room
<E>ast:                   Elizabeth's Corner - Free Code Room

<Guests> Guest has connected.