Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (May 4 1999)
press
press
# of lines of text
* time: 0 days
* priority: 1
Submit a signed message to the Game Newsletter.
The press
order may be given by a noble or by the player
entity. The identity of the submitting entity will appear in the
newsletter. beneath the entry. Note that this will permit other
players to target that noble with hostile
, spells such as Receive
Vision, etc. To avoid this, use rumor
.
The number of lines in the entry should be given as an argument to
press
, followed by the text of the entry. For example, here is a
press item submitted by Osswid [501].
PRESS 3 All ye beware! Osswid hereby claims the entire continent of Provinia as his rightful domain. Those who trespass here without his permission will come to a GRAVE end!
Take care to carefully count the lines of text in the post. If the wrong number of lines is given, your noble may end up posting his orders on a sign instead of executing them.
Alternatively, one may specify 0 for the lines of text argument,
and terminate the message with the end
keyword:
PRESS 0 All ye beware! Osswid hereby claims the entire continent of Provinia as his rightful domain. Those who trespass here without his permission will come to a GRAVE end! END
Take great care when using the 0 lines/end
keyword feature. If you
forget the end
, or mistype it, none of the orders following the
press
command will execute. Instead, they will be published in the
newsletter. This is obviously very bad, so if you intend to use the
end
keyword to avoid having to count lines, please be careful.
Each line of posted text must be less than 78 characters long, or the post will be rejected.
Editorial guidelines for submissions to the Game Newsletter:
A player who uses press or rumor to submit at least one item to the Times receives 25 gold to CLAIM.