HELP 141
GUIDE / HELP
The same manual the game answers with. help <topic> in play reads the same text.
── GENERAL ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 25
Accessibility Read the game in plain text with a screen reader.
Account Manage account settings, connections, and character…
Afk Mark yourself away from the keyboard, then back aga…
Breathalyzer Read the blood-alcohol figure off your own breath.
Calendar Read the current in-world date and time.
Capsule Hotel Use a capsule hotel as private shelter when you log…
Character Progression View your character sheet and spend experience poin…
Colors Add color to text with pipe codes.
Doors Operate doors, bulkheads, keypads, and rented entra…
Elevators Call an elevator and select a floor.
Experience How experience is earned, banked, and spent.
Following Follow, escort, or shadow another character.
Hauling Move heavy objects with a hauling team.
Help System Find and read help topics.
Inventory Manage carried items, clothing, armor, and held wea…
Looking Observe rooms, objects, and people.
Lost And Found Take free secondhand clothing and loose change from…
Movement Move through rooms and stop active movement or comb…
Newbie New here? Start with this: the handful of commands …
Notes Manage private character notes that staff can read.
Objects Pick up, drop, give, place, and install objects.
Skills What each skill and attribute covers. Use @stats to…
Syntax Read the command syntax in help, and name the peopl…
Tickets Open a help request, report a problem, or review yo…
Verticality Climb, jump, rig lines, and use aerial equipment.
── COMMUNICATION ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6
Channels Use global out-of-character communication channels.
Handset Use handset calls, messages, contacts, and web link…
Handset Groups Manage handset group chats and their members.
Handset Photos Take, manage, and share handset photos.
Nous Use the Nous network, the in-character network that…
Player Community View player profiles, presence, reactions, kudos, a…
── ROLEPLAY ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 13
Body Modifications Apply and remove tattoos, piercings, and cosmetics.
Description Set your character's appearance, pronouns, voice, a…
Media Use cameras, photographs, DataSlates, DataDrives, a…
Performance Perform for a crowd, with or without an instrument.
Places Create room places and use local expression.
Posture Sit, lie down, or stand up.
Recognition Recognize characters and manage short memory notes.
Roleplaying Talk, and write what your character does.
Room Music Manage background music in an authorized room.
Room Poses Set pose lines shown when players look at a room.
Socials Send a ready-made pose, such as a nod, a wave, or a…
Tokens Substitution tokens dynamically insert names and pr…
Trust Trust grants permission for other characters to per…
── COMBAT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 10
Cages Enter, secure, and leave cages.
Combat Fight with melee weapons, firearms, and combat acti…
Custody Surrender, arrest a suspect, or complete precinct b…
Firearm Modifications Install, remove, and operate firearm modifications.
Firearms Reload, unload, inspect, and clean a firearm.
Firing Range View and clear firing-range scores.
Grapple Grapple, control, and release another character in …
Loading Fill a magazine, a speedloader, or an alchemy stati…
Sleight Conceal, steal, and plant carried items.
Stealth Hide, move quietly, and search for concealed target…
── SURVIVAL ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6
Cultivation Use farming modules or the communal farm to produce…
Husbandry Capture wild animals and manage companion animals.
Industrial Mining Operate an extraction combine in a mining bay.
Scavenging Scavenge sites and harvest corpses.
Survival Use food, water, field sources, and fishing equipme…
The Surface The land above the city, and how to go there.
── MEDICAL ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 8
Custodians Use biomonitors and casualty recovery services.
Cyberware Inspect, activate, and operate installed cyberware.
Medical Assess patients and provide medical treatment.
Medical Devices Operate IV, rescue, resuscitation, dialysis, and st…
Medical Diagnostics Examine patients with diagnostic tools.
Scanning Scan medical patients and Nous Sprites or tools.
Splintering Use a splinter pod and obtain a replacement sleeve …
Surgery Perform surgery or assist another surgeon.
── CRAFTING ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 15
Alchemy Refine specimens and make chemical compounds.
Armorsmithing Forge, inspect, repair, and reinforce armor.
Artisan Design Edit unfinished jewelry and perfume.
Artwork Make, finish, and install artwork.
Brewing Use kitchens and brewing vessels to prepare drinks.
Cooking Use a kitchen to prepare food.
Crafting Use blueprints and manage a crafting station.
Dismantling Break crafted items into salvage materials.
Finishing Set the name and sensory descriptions of a new craf…
Foundry Refine raw metal and other materials at a foundry b…
Rune Carving Prepare and carve ritual seals.
Tailoring Weave cloth and turn a carried bolt into one finish…
Tanning Process hides and related materials at a tanning st…
Technical Artifacts Inspect, activate, and recharge technical artifacts.
Weaponsmithing Forge weapons and repair damaged weapons.
── ECONOMY ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 5
Bar Prepare, serve, stock, and manage venue menu items.
Businesses Run a business: staff, wages, money, and the shop c…
Commissions Browse, accept, and deliver faction commissions.
Contracts Accept, complete, and collect freight assignments.
Economy Buy, sell, appraise, transfer, and bank money.
── VEHICLES ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6
Mechanics Inspect, repair, refuel, and customize vehicles.
Robotics Build, inspect, operate, and repair modular machine…
Vehicle Cargo Use vehicle crew stations, cargo storage, hatches, …
Vehicle Combat Fire, load, install, and use vehicle weapons.
Vehicle Security Lock vehicles, manage access, and bypass security.
Vehicles Start, control, drive, and fly vehicles.
── MATRIX ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6
Dive Rigs Use a stationary dive rig for Nous and remote-vehic…
Matrix Connect to the Nous, move through it, and run progr…
Matrix Combat Deploy, command, capture, and tune Nous Sprites.
Matrix Pages Build your own page on the Nous web, at an address …
Slotting Install DataSlate media, dive-rig modules, and Nous…
Vaults Enter a private Vault.
── GAMES ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 5
Cards Use a shared deck, table piles, and private hands.
Dice Use a held digital dice roller.
Diskette Play Diskette inside an arena.
Mechanical Bull Ride a mechanical bull and post your score on its b…
Pool Play pool on a pool table in the room.
── LORE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 36
Abkal The Abkal: Suburba's divers, keepers of the Cortex,…
Cabiri The Cabiri: the slum fraternity of mechanics and ro…
Coterie The Coterie: the masked crime syndicate that rules …
Deshret Deshret: the last city, built downward into the ear…
Districts The four tiers of Deshret, from the slums under the…
Diving Diving: going into Abzu, the Matrix, which most of …
Glossary Words your character would know, from Abzu to yeoma…
Great Houses The nine families who rule Deshret from the deepest…
Guilds The Six Guilds: the city's great monopolies, their …
House Amari House Amari: keepers of the only real garden in Des…
House Drepane House Drepane: devoted servants of Symphony's digit…
House Kadesh House Kadesh: the truest believers in the city, who…
House Morcant House Morcant: masked, nameless, and somehow tied t…
House Qamarat House Qamarat: owners of the crystals that power th…
House Rook House Rook: the youngest Great House, raised up fro…
House Valcora House Valcora: restless pilots who own the city's l…
House Varga House Varga: the feral nobles who keep the city's g…
House Vesalius House Vesalius: the ancient, beautiful, and coldly …
Kolkhos The Kolkhos: the farmers' collective that feeds muc…
Languages The four languages of Deshret: Shinar, Babble, Harr…
Law Law and order in Deshret: a turf war between the st…
Life In Deshret What everyday life is like in Deshret, from housing…
Materials What Deshret runs on and is made of: crystal power,…
Mythos Mythos: the guild that owns your body, and heals, a…
Ophirian League The Ophirian League: Suburba's salvage traders, a r…
Outriders The Outriders: the guild that crosses into the scor…
Pegasus Pegasus: the unseen guild. It votes, it tithes, and…
Religion The Church of the Nine: the city's one faith, what …
Saints The nine Saints: the Founders of Deshret, what each…
Seals The eight Seals: holy shapes of broken and unbroken…
Sepulchre Sepulchre: the Church in a guild's seat, keeper of …
Splicers Splicers: people with non-human DNA, from a pair of…
Symphony Symphony: the guild of everything the city sees, he…
Technology Technology in Deshret: what the Church allows, what…
The Hum The Hum: the sound that runs through the whole city…
Vulcani Vulcani: the forge guild, where the craft itself is…