DEITY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Play your deity character at least 5-10 hours a week.
• Roleplay the character at all times when visable.
• No multiplay. No having your god char and your mortal char on at the same time.
• Report all bugs.
• You are the police of the realms so keep an eye out for bug abuse and other problems.
• Only use the commands listed below for roleplay and policing purposes.
• If you go afk for a short time please wisinvis your character.
• If a player prays for help that is in character it can be your policy to demand something from them for the help. ie an object, or a quest or a service. You might also take away favour or experience in exchange.
• Monitor roleplay. Things like where a guild is should be found out in character and not ooc. You might switch into a bar tender to give in character directions or the like if needed. Reward good roleplay. We want roleplay another means for leveling for the dedicated roleplayers.
• Do not put your holy symbols on random mobs for players to randomly pick up. This is poor roleplay on your part and unfair to the mortals.
• Inform the administrators when you will be away for an extended period of time so that they can roleplay your character for you. It isn't fair to the players otherwise.
• Read up all you can on your character, and be aware what classes and races can follow your deity character. The books Faiths and Avatars, Demihuman deities and Faiths and Pantheons are highly recommended as the basic reads for a deity. Novels featuring your deity should be read as well if possible.
• All deities are expected to play a mortal character. We believe it helps the player of the deity keep in touch with the game and its changes and be a better and more understanding deity. It also helps you answer out of character questions put forth by new players. Note that you are NEVER to have your deity character and your mortal character on at the same time.
• Make sure your title is appropriate. It is suggested rather than putting god of whatever in your title, you use something more subtle. For instance one of your gods known aliases. If you are not sure as to what the are, just ask. It is afterall already obvious that you are a god by the fact that it preceeds your name.
• Be prepared to present a unified front in public forums. If you have a complaint about the game take it up with the administrators direct or present it on the administrators board. There is nothing worse than deities whining in a public forum, it gives the mud the impression of being in chaos when this is not the case.
• Stay up to date with the discussion board, especially the administration forums.

Problem players policy

When you observe a problem, post about it to the administration forum on the discussion board. If you think it is worthy of a strike make sure to make it a poll so that it can be voted on for a strike. We use the strikes system to determine if a character is to be deleted or banned. If you are unsure as to handle the problem hell the character and leave them there for a member of the mortal council to deal with rather than let them roam the game without check.

Perhaps it seems harsh but we have a low tolerance of bug abuse and harrasment of any kind. This is a roleplay mud and there is no place for such actions. If you dont want to hell the player an alternative is to use the "punish" command which deducts experience. Make sure you post any "punishes" done on the administration discussion board. Certain offences will result in character stripping of objects. Offences like multiplay transferal of equipment between characters or abuse of a bug to gain coins and so on will result in this action.

Commands

You should note that many of these commands when used go to the log file.

• speak all - This enables you to speak all languages at once.
• bamfin - This is what is seen when you arrive using the goto command.Make sure you don't include your name in this. ie If you type Mystra appears in a swirling mist. It will appear to the player that Mystra Mystra appears in a swirling mist.
• bamfout - This is what is seen when you leave the room using the goto command.
• deities - Without an argument it lists all the deities in the Kingdoms. You can see a help file (if one is written in that file) on a deity by putting an argument after the word deities. ie deities tyr will show his help file.
• echo - This echos the string inputed after the command to the WHOLE mud. Please use with care, and make sure that all echos are part of roleplay.
• recho - This one will echo what you type to the room only.
• fecho - fecho deityname comment. This will send an echo to all the followers on line of that particular deity. ie. As Mystra I want to tell all my followers something I would fecho mystra The magic weave vibrates. All followers of Mystra would see that on their screen.
• echoat - This allows you to echo to one player only in a room. For instance if there is several players in one room and you want to echo to just one just type echoat playername text.
• mpareaecho - This one will echo what you type to the whole area, not the whole mud.
• force - Only higher level deities have this one. They can force players and mobiles to do things.
• fquit - Forces a player to quit. This is only used in situations of bug abuse and policing. Or if a player is link lost in a bad place.
• goto - This allows you to goto a particular room vnum. See below for a table listing popular vnums. You can also goto a player or a mobile.
• guilds - lists all the guilds. Now guilds are the character specialisations in this game.
• godtalk - This is the communications channel for all the deities. Levels 53 and up only can see it. There is another channel called immtalk that is only for level 60+ imms to see.
• hell - This send a character to hell. This hell is for out of character use and punishment for out of character issues. Syntax is hell charname number hours|days. If you dont specify hours or days it will default to hours.
• unhell - Releases the character from hell.
• holylight - Allows you to see more things in the game. Like invis characters and objects. Without it you only see what mortals see. It will not allow you to see immortal characters who are invis who are higher level than you.
• invis - Allows you to go wizinvis and you will not be seen by anyone lower than your level. Those at or above your level can see you if they have holylight on.
• snoop - Allows you to watch a player. What they see is seen on your screen. This is not to be used for anything other than policing characters or roleplay purposes. Abuse of this command will see it being removed from level 53 deities. To turn it off just snoop self.
• mfind - This allows you to find a mobile even if it is not loaded into the game. ie mfind guard will show you all the guards in the game. It has to be in the mobiles key words.
• minvoke - Allows you to invoke a mobile. This is useful for roleplay. Please note abuse of this command will result in it being removed from the level 53 commands list.
• mwhere - Lists all of a type of mob in the game at that time. ie mlist guard will show you all guards in the game. Be warned that this particular mob is likely to bring up a very long spammy list, as will mlist citizen.
• mstat - You can mstat a player or a mobile to see detailed information about them. Please note you are NEVER to reveal information in mstat to a mortal.
• ofind - Lists all the objects of a type even if they arent in the game or not. ie olist ring, will show the vnums of all the rings in the game.
• owhere - Lists all the objects of a type in the game at that time. ie olist rings will list all the rings in a game including multiples.
• peace - Stops any fighting in the room.
• purge - This command used on its own will clean the room of ALL mobs and objects. It wont purge on the player. If you wish to purge a specific mob/object type purge object/mobname.
• regoto - This takes you back to the room that you last did goto from.
• switch - This allows you to switch into a mob and run that mob. This is a very useful tool for roleplay.
• return - Brings you back into your normal body after having switched into a mobile.
• sober - Will sober up someone that is drunk.
• showdeity - This will show the information on a particular deity.
• transfer - This is a higher level deity command only. It allows you to transfer mobiles and players into the room you are in.
• retransfer - Allows you to transfer the mobile/player back to the room you transfered them from.
• where - where character name will show you where someone is in the game by their room description. Where on its own will show all the PC's in the area you are in.
• reward - Reward gives a character experience. You can give this to any player. Rewards are to be given for good roleplay. You can choose how much by saying lots, or little or some.
• punish - This is the opposite of reward in that it takes away experience. This is an alternative for sending them to hell or site banning. If you use this on a character make sure that you post a note about it on the board in the pantheon.
• bless - This adds favour to a character and can only be done by the players deity. This is to be given for in character actions that have pleased you.
• damn - This takes away favour from a character. This is to be given when a character does something that displeases you in character. Note that damn and bless are for in character use and not for punishment of out of character wrongs.
• long - You can set your long description with this. This means you are able to appear as someone else to mortals. Your long description is what players see when they look in the room. ie long A young elven ranger is here.
• short - This sets your short description. This is what is seen when you use say's and emotes etc. ie short The elven ranger - This will show up as The elven ranger says 'Hello'. If you want mortals to realise you are you then set your short to your name.
• slay - This command slays the victim - PC and NPC. This command is to be used rarely and only in roleplay situations. Sometimes it is good to make a point on a mob in front of a character. There are several different slay types that make it more suitable for roleplay. Type help slay in the game.
• wizhelp - This will list all the deity commands that you have.
• color - You can use this command to change the colour of your says. Typing color list will list the colour numbers. If you wish to change your says then change field 11. You can also change the colour of your echos. help feralcolour will show you the list of colour numbers for use in echos. You can also use the feralcolour codes for bamf's in and out.
• alias - The use of the alias command is good for special echos that your deity might have. Also if you use zmud you can use its alias command to make detailed avatar changes.

Vnums that might help 1200 pantheon, 1299 for the prayer board, 6 for the abyss, 50 for the realms of the dead and 8030 market square in waterdeep.

How do I become a god?

In order to be a god you must:

• Earn the trust of the game owners. This is the most important thing. Without this the rest doesn't matter.
• Have achieved max level with a character and shown that you can responsibly roleplay that character. (Note: Reaching max level does not automatically allow you to become a deity. It is only one of the things we look at.) Someone who makes it to max level in a record time will actually be very unlikely to make it to godhood. We do not like twinkish behaviour.
• Show that you have a good knowledge of the Kingdoms and the game play. A good knowledge of Forgotten Realms also helps.
• Be prepared to meet the responsibilities of a god. (see above).
• Don't ask. If we are interested in you we will contact you. Don't get on at level 1 and ask if you can play a deity as it will most likely turn us off you rather than make us look upon you as a potential player to role play a deity. We will be getting our new deityes from our player base. That is our long term player base.
• Please note that builders and deities are two totally seperate things on FK. A builder does not necessary become a deity. Often our deities try their hand at building, but what we look for in a deity is not building but roleplay. Builders do not get immortal characters in the game. Builders who have made their first area off line and wish to continue to build will be given an imm character with OLC commands on the TEST port not the game itself.