MOBILE-INTERACTION

Many mobiles (non-player characters within the mud) are interactive to what you say or do. Many of these mobiles require you to speak to them to tell them what you want. For instance, to converse with a store owner, you would need to talk to them to list the items for sale, to buy a certain item, to sell an item, to find out the hours of operation. A guildmaster on the other hand would like to hear if you want to practice, or gain levels.

Most interactive mobiles are helpful. All you do is talk to the mobile and ask about help. That mobile will then tell you a list of possible things you can talk to him or her about.

If you are alone with the mobile, you can just use the 'say' command because there is no ambiguity as to who you are talking to.

Examples:

talk baker help
talk priest buy heal
talk scribe appraise scroll
talk guildmaster train daggers
talk armorer fix sword
talk banker deposit dagger

Commonly used commands like 'buy', 'sell', 'deposit', 'withdraw', and so on have built-in short-cuts. But you will still need to talk to the mobile for other commands like 'help' and so on. Also, most quest mobiles need to be talked do and do not have short-cut commands for them. For example:

buy bread
deposit dagger