CHAT-GENERAL

Description

Materia Magica has a special chat room feature. These special rooms allow people who want a break from playing the game, or who just want to chat in a fantasy role-playing setting, a place to do so without fear of evil sorcerers and the like.

The chat rooms reside on a magical floating island known as the Ivory Isle. A large tower in the center, the Ivory Tower (named so after the fabled tower of the Druids) contains a multitude of rooms that can be used as a 'chat' room.

A CHAT ROOM in Materia Magica is a special kind of room that usually only has one exit. When you enter one of these special rooms on the Ivory Isle, you may use the 'CHAT' command to set it up as a chat room.

An OPERATOR is a person who moderates the chat room. This person has the ability to kick people out of the room who are disrupting the normal flow of conversation. In extreme cases, the operator can even ban that person from the chat room entirely.

Chat rooms are a fun way to meet exciting people and talk about whatever your heart desires. There are a few general chat rooms run by the system which you may join. These may be moderated by Immortals and computer- controlled 'bots', or unmoderated, depending on the chat room.

The chat rooms are also the only place in Materia Magica where you are allowed to idle up to 90 minutes without fear of the server disconnecting you. Should you get disconnected, or should you leave one of your chat rooms without operators, the server will randomly select someone to become an operator if there are people remaining in the room. If not, it will clear the room and it will no longer be 'your' chat room, leaving the room open to whomever wishes to utilize it.

If you have supporters and would like to make your chat room permanent, you may email admin@materiamagica.com with your request. Requests are handled on a first-come, first-served basis. You must have the support of enough people who want to use your chat room in order to make it permanent (system-controlled).

Chat

Is the command that you will use to set options in the rooms, join specific rooms, or whatever. You may also abbreviate this command to '/', where the space is optional (i.e., /set flag moderated would be a typical command). This command, along with 'ENTER' or 'EXIT', will let you join the chat rooms from almost anywhere within the world of Alyria, and return you to the appropriate location when done. All of your items will go into limbo, and will be returned to you as soon as you leave the chat rooms. Anything you pick up or get in the chat rooms will be magically stripped from your body upon departure back to the game world.