ooc

Purpose: say something Out Of Character to all listening players.
Synonyms: none
NLP Enabled? n/a

SYNTAX	EXAMPLES
1. ooc <message>	1. ooc bad 'net lag right now
2. ooc -h	2. ooc -h

USE:

Use OOC to answer newbie questions, or say anything else you want to say, while making it clear it's not your character talking, but you.
Use 'ooc -h' to replay the most recent 10 ooc channel messages.

Normally we want to encourage everybody to stay in character all the time. But, there are circumstances where that conflicts with other goals. A nice example is that of a crabby or obnoxious character, versus our general ethic of supporting new players. Should a mean-spirited character be helpful to newbies? Maybe not. But it would be good if the player owning the character would help. That's a great time to jump in with an OOC message.

Note that OOC crosses World boundaries. OOCs are received by everyone listening to the ooc channel, whether they're presently in TriadCity, Midgaard, Dungeon, or any future World within the SmartMonsters Universe.

Lastly, you can use 'ooc -h' to replay the most recent 10 ooc channel messages.

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"Two of the most common approaches [to academic study of] adventure games seem to be apologetics and trivialization. Both generally fail to grasp the intrinsic qualities of the genre, because they both privilege the aesthetic ideals of another genre, that of narrative literature, typically the novel. For the apologists, adventure games may one day -- when their Cervantes or Dickens comes along -- reach their true potential, produce works of literary value that rival the current narrative masterpieces, and claim their place in the canon. For the trivialists, this will never happen; adventure games are games, they cannot possibly be taken seriously as literature nor attain the level of sophistication of a good novel. Although the trivialists are right -- adventure games will never become good novels -- they are also making an irrelevant point, because adventure games are not novels at all. The adventure game is an artistic genre of its own, a unique aesthetic field of possibilities, which must be judged on its own terms. And while the apologists certainly are wrong, in that the games will never be considered good novels, they are right in insisting that the genre may improve and eventually turn out something rich and wonderful. This may or may not happen, so the only way to understand the genre is to study the various works that already exist and how they are played."
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