3.20 Emotions

Emotions are a shorthand way of expressing various emotions with one or two words. Generally, these emotions will be seen by everyone in the same location as you. There are hundreds of emotes, and more being added whenever a player suggests a good one. An example of an emote would be SMILE, to smile (unsurprisingly) or SALUTE. Most emotes may be targeted at someone too. So you could, for instance POKE IOSYNE to poke Iosyne in the arm (though poking a Goddess is a really bad idea). Emotions run the gamut from the mundane to the sometimes silly, and some players delight in trying to discover new ones.

Pre-defined emotes (emotions)
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There are hundreds of pre-defined emotions available in Aetolia. The syntaxes involved for navigating and finding the emotions you are looking for are as follows:

  - EMOTIONLIST/EMLIST: Shows you a full list of the emotions available in
    alphabetical order.

  - EMOTIONLIST or EMLIST <text>: Searches the EMOTIONLIST for all emotions
    matching your search string. You can use asterisks (*) as wildcards, to
    indicate you wish to search for emotions with your word in a specific
    part of the name.

    Ex: emlist *smile : faintsmile, fakesmile, sadsmile, shysmile, smile,
                        weaksmile

        emlist back*  : backaway, backflip, backhand, backrub

        emlist *zz*   : bzzt, dizzy, huzzah, nuzzle, puzzlebox, puzzled

  - EMSHOW: Use EMSHOW <emotion> to see all messages display by the given
    emotion.

  - EMSEARCH <term>: Searches and returns any emotions that contain the 
    specified term anywhere in its messages. This is case-insensitive and
    will find the word anywhere, e.g. 'the' will match on 'synthesist'.

  - EMOTECOUNT: See the list of emotes with their usage count.

Thinking
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You can use the THINK command to preface your character's private thoughts. This is only visible to you as well as any player who has the ability to read your mind, as well as the Gods who can see everything.

You may use < or > as a shortcut for thinking.

  --> think You think, "I need a pie."
  --> < Whoa, what was that sound?
  --> > You wish those stinking Monks would stop invading your privacy.

This text will appear literally, as-is, on your screen, and is automatically capitalized/punctuated like says and emotes.

For more information on making your emotes unique, see: HELP CUSTOM EMOTES.