To comminicate directly and in real time, use channels.
Channels are used by typing command <text>
EX. gossip hi everyone.
To turn a channel off, type the name of of the channel with
no argument.
The following channels are available :

Channel	Syntax	Uses	Range
Gossip	Gossip or .	Out of character chat	Alanthia
Auction	Auction	Role-Play, to sell stuff	Alanthia
Music	Music	To sing	Alanthia
vQuestion	Question	To ask a question	Alanthia
Answer	Answer	To answer a question	Alanthia
Qwest	Qwest	To play and run a qwest	Alanthia
Gratz	Gratz	To congratulate a player	Alanthia
Swear	_____	Vulgar words from any channel are sent here	Alanthia
Newbie	Newbie	Level 1 players are restricted to it. Only Imms and players under lvl 10 can hear it	Alanthia
Shout	Shout	Shout can be heard only by awake players.	Alanthia
Tell	Tell <name>	Sends a private message to a player	Alanthia
Argue	Argue	For more heated discussions	Alanthia
Farspeak	Fs or ]	For public roleplaying ONLY	Alanthia
Say	Say	For a message to anyone awake and in the same room.	Current room
Gtell	Gtell or ;	Sends a message to anyone in your group.	Alanthia
Clan	Clan	Send a message to members of your clan.	Alanthia (Your clan
Yell	Yell	Sends a message to all awake players in an area.	Current Area

Report will send our health, mana, and movement to the
say channel.

 There are two more commands associated with channels.
They are quiet and deaf. The syntax for each is
quiet
deaf
Quiet turns of all public channels and deaf makes you unable
to recieve tells.

Reply will send a tell to the last person who sent you
a tell. Be careful using reply because mistells involving reply
are common occurances.

If you plan on going away from your keyboard (AFK) type
afk
and you will enter AFK mode. All playes attempting
to send you a tell will recieve a message telling
them you are AFK. When you return, type afk
again and all the missed tells will be shown.

 If you lost your link and reconnected, typing
replay
will show all missed tells.

 Another form of real-time communication is socials
and emotes. Socials are built in emotes used to express an
action or an emotion. The syntax is
social <name>
The social with out the name argument will produce a generic
form of the social. For example. rofl Shoshara
will produce the statement "You roll on the floor laughing at
Shoshara's remark". Just rofl will produce the statment
"You roll on the floor, laughing histarically."

Emotes are a way to make a custom action. The syntax is :
emote <text>
For example, "emote sits on a cloud" would be seen as
"Xxxxx sits on a cloud".

 Pmotes are another form of an emote that makes an action
toward another player and in which a players name must be
used. The syntax is :
pmote <text>
An example is "pmote kicks Shoshara in the shins". Shoshara
would recieve the message "Xxxx kicks you in the shins." and
everyone else in the room would see "Xxxxx kicks Shoshara in
the shins".

 A final form of emotion is Pose. Pose produces a random
message based on the players class and level. The syntax is
pose

Notes are the last form of Alanthian communication. They are
*not* a real time form of comminucation; but rather, are used
like a letter or poster or e-mail. There are 6 note
directories. They are :

Name	Syntax	Uses
Notes	Note	Generic Out of Character notes
Ideas	Idea	Ideas for the mud
Qwest notes	Qnote	Notes regarding qwests
Role-play notes	Rpnote	Notes written *In-Character*
Changes	Change	*Immortal Use Only* Update players on current changes in the mud
Penalties	Penalty	*Immortal Use Only* Declare a penalty given to a player
News	News	*Immortal Use Only* Updates players on current happenings in Alanthia

Notes are read using the following commands (insert
the syntax of the note where "note" is used for different
note directories):
note: Displays an unread note if there are any
note list: Lists all the notes in a given directory.
 New notes are denoted by an N.
note catchup: Marks all notes in a given directory as
 read.
note remove <number>: Remove a note you wrote
 or were the target of
note read <number>: Read the selected note

The following commands are used in writing a note:
note to <player/clan/immortal/all>: sets the
 targets of the note
note subject <subject>: sets the subject of the note
note + <string>: add a line of text to the note
note - : remove the current line of text from the note
note clear: erase the note in progress
note show: Show the note in progress
note post: Post the note in progress. *MUST* be done to
 post a note.