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help adjective
[Communication help] adjective
Syntax: adjective <describing word>
You get one chance to give yourself a SINGLE describing word of less than
15 letters that will stay with you for the ENTIRE life of your character.
This word should be something that describes your character's physical
appearance and would be immediately obvious to people seeing you for the
first time. Be sure that the adjective is:
- still valid if you are asleep or unaware of someone looking at you
- does not refer to emotions or behaviour not based on appearance
- should not represent anything that is not a part of your body
- should not refer to clothing or equipment, color or have punctuation
You will NEVER be able to change your adjective, so use this command very
carefully. Adjective changes may be requested but we don't make any
guarantee that we will do it for you. An adjective is REQUIRED, so please
set one as soon as possible. Players who haven't greeted you will see
something similar to the following:
Adjective not set: A male human is here.
Adjective of tall: A tall male human is here.
The adjective can be used as a target for a command in the same way that
your name would be used. Here are a few example adjectives that would be
considered acceptable:
short tall wrinkled dirty
immaculate red-haired green-eyed brooding
rotund mercurial sneaky pale
smelly frail flamboyant noble
See also: description action title faq pray
Okay people. Once again for Fepel to [REDACTED] about something. The majority of you out there find fairly good,
PHYSICAL adjectives out there, but when I peek around and find "A bipolar male half-elf", or "a profound male human", or "an antediluvian male giant".
Let's look at a few definitions, shall we?
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bi‧po‧lar /baɪˈpoʊlər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bahy-poh-ler] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. having two poles, as the earth.
2. of, pertaining to, or found at both polar regions.
3. characterized by opposite extremes, as two conflicting political philosophies.
4. Electronics. of or pertaining to a transistor that uses both positive and negative charge carriers.
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pro‧found /prəˈfaʊnd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pruh-found] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, -er, -est, noun
–adjective 1. penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
2. originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being; profound grief.
3. being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious: profound insight.
4. of deep meaning; of great and broadly inclusive significance: a profound book.
5. pervasive or intense; thorough; complete: a profound silence.
6. extending, situated, or originating far down, or far beneath the surface: the profound depths of the ocean.
7. low: a profound bow.
8. deep.
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an‧te‧di‧lu‧vi‧an /ˌæntidɪˈluviən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[an-tee-di-loo-vee-uhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. of or belonging to the period before the Flood. Gen. 7, 8.
2. very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive: antediluvian ideas.
–noun 3. a person who lived before the Flood.
4. a very old or old-fashioned person or thing.
So... to be bipolar, in a physical sense, is to have to magnetic poles... Half-elves, to my understanding are not magnetic. The mental characteristic of being bipolar is
NOT a physical characteristic. When you are sleeping... you are not bipolar. When you are dead... you are not bipolar. When a person looks at you for the first time, before you utter a word, a phrase, an ideal, and twice as much before you can utter a conflicting one, you are not bipolar.
To be profound physically...... you can't be, it's a mental characteristic. See bipolar.
To be antediluvian, the only possibly good one in this list, is to act or dress in an achrononystic fashion, or to be very very very old. Frollith is antediluvian... Delear is antediluvian... both not by their own concession, but by the concession of time. A giant just created at the ripe old age of fifteen is not an ancient, though he may act with the disposition of an anachonist, perhaps this is more a mental trait than anything else.
People can be short, or tall, or a certain skin tone, or a hair colour, or an eye colour, or have a cleft pallet, or buck teeth, or comely, or ugly, or lithe, or peg-legged, or one-eyed or a bajillion other
physical characteristics. Why is it time and time again that people keep using mental characteristics to describe themselves?
Please please please adhere to the helpfiles in your future creations. If you aren't sure if it's a physical characteristic, ask yourself these questions. When I'm dead/sleeping do I still display this characteristic? When someone sees me for the first time, knowing nothing else of my person, would they/could they refer to me thusly?
Thank you for your attention.
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