: description + <string>
Syntax: description -
Descriptions are MANDATORY in Solace. This means that you MUST have one,
no matter who you are. The description must be written before level 5.
Anyone failing to have a description by that time will be warned once.
If that person does not get a description immediately, they will be
sent to the Realm of the Dead and will remain there
until such time as they have an acceptable description.
This is the syntax for entering your description:
To add a line to your description, type: desc + <description>.
To remove a line from your description, type: desc - .
To show you your current description, type desc .
Your description should describe who you are, your personality, your beliefs
and what you look like. Actions and clothing worn are unacceptable as
parts of your descriptions. Also, your description should be at least one
to two paragraphs in length. One or two sentences will NOT be accepted.
If you need an example, here is a good druid's description:
Astuana stands before you with a curious look in her clear ice-blue
eyes, which sparkle with a hidden knowledge of her world, but they
also shine with innocence and grace. Her fair skin is the color of
snow normally, but the time that she spends outdoors has turned it
into a healthy tan, a beautiful shade of gold. Freckles pepper her
face from cheek to cheek across her nose, which is petite and rather
cute. Her ears curve gracefully from her head, sloping gently up into
rounded points, a mark of her elven mother. She is built well, slender
yet solid, a result of her dual heritages of elf and human. Her sleek
physique lets her move quietly about, making almost no sound whatsoever,
not even in a handbreadth of dead leaves. The power that she draws from
nature resides in her heart, which is like the ocean, vast and powerful.
Her full lips are curved into a beautiful grin all the time, and her
perfectly white teeth shine like stars. She is close to touching true
freedom, waiting until the day that she can spread her wings and fly,
and looking into her eyes, you can see that she is dedicated to live
as she pleases. Her neutrality is the neutrality of nature, kind and
cruel, merciful and merciless. Her deeply beautiful eyes shimmer
prettily, almost seductively, beckoning you to follow her deeper
into the forests of her birth. Her eyes are outlined in a smoky grey
color, making them seem deeper and darker than they really are. As you
glance down her lithe body, you notice a tattoo of a tiny green tree on
her ankle. Something in her face, something human, seems familiar ...
something about her lips ... Their deep, almost blood red color is
strange-looking ... very natural, though. And something in those eyes ...
those smoky, mysterious eyes ... the icy blue ones, flecked with green
and grey, the ones that stare into forever ... They seem sad at times ...
distant all of the time ...
And now with another one she was beginning to love gone ... the sadness
seems deeper than the vast ocean ...
This is a very full, fleshed-out description. It tells you all that
you could need to know and could see just by looking at her.
* * * What a description should have * * *
1. What your character looks like. Include the following: hair color,
hair length, eye color, skin tone, facial hair, height, weight, manner,
demeanor, how you carry yourself (proud, vain, arrogant, etc.), body type
(skinny, slender, thin, large, fat, plump, etc.), and so on. Height and weight
do not have to be exact amounts.
2. Your character's race and partial background. If you are a dark-elf,
why were you outcast from elven society? It could be because you wanted
to study necromancy. If you are a half-elf, was your mother raped in a war,
or were your parents married?
3. Some way to tell alignment and ethos. You could say that the spirit
of anarchy burns in your character's heart if he is chaotic, or that
the light of justice shines in his eyes if he is lawful. Goodness
reigns in his soul, or evil burns in his head like a fire.
* * * What a description should -NOT- have * * *
1. OOC information.
2. EQUIPMENT. You will NOT always have it. Basic clothing is good: a simple
robe for mages or clerics, camouflage clothing for rangers, etc.
3. COPIED DESCRIPTIONS, either from NPCs or other players! If you
are found to be doing this, say goodbye to your hard work. You will
be denied. If two players do this, they will both be denied.
4. Emoticons. This is the technical word for those faces on the
ends of sentences, such as :) :( :P >:|
5. Languages other than English. A word or two in elven (or another
Krynnian language) can be used, but nothing more.
6. Speaking of language, NO CURSING! No racial slurs, no sexual slurs.
If you don't know what they are, and you are unsure, don't use it,
plain and simple. If we see it, don't expect us to be happy or nice.
Poor spelling is not a problem, provided that it is at least readable.
I realise that English is not a mother tongue for many players, and it
is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, language to learn because
it is so complicated and confusing. Don't get frustrated if you can't
write your description because you can't remember a word or two; it
happens to everyone.
See also help roleplaying.