3.12 THE POSTAL SYSTEM
(See also: HELP EDITOR)
** Warning: sending a letter to any of your own alternate characters is NOT
PERMITTED and considered seconds abuse (HELP SECONDS). Do NOT mail anything,
even a blank letter, to one of your alternate characters! **
Each city has a post office, often located near the city bank. The basic
idea is to first pay for and get a blank letter (REQUEST LETTER), then
write in it (WRITE LETTER), and then send it (MAIL LETTER TO <someone>).
Letters can also be used to send up to five items to another person. If
you need to send more than this, at any post office you can REQUEST
[SMALL|LARGE] PARCEL to request a parcel that can hold either ten or
twenty items in the two different sizes respectively. Unlike letters,
these parcels can not be written upon.
Syntax:
REQUEST LETTER: Request a letter from the postal staff. Letters
are magical and can hold amazingly large things.
They cost 100 gold each, and will decay within
a handful of Achaean months. If you want to
include items, just PUT <item> IN LETTER before
you mail it. You can only request a letter while
at a post office, though there are stationery
stores in Sapience where you can buy decorative
letters, usually for a higher price.
REQUEST [SMALL|LARGE] PARCEL: Request a small or large parcel for sending
items to people. If you don't specify a
size, small is purchased by default.
WRITE LETTER: Compose a letter. (See HELP EDITOR for
composing commands.) You can write in a letter
from anywhere.
MAIL LETTER TO <whom>: Address and mail a letter to someone. You
must be at a post office to do this.
MAIL PARCEL TO <whom>: Address and mail a parcel to someone. You
must be at a post office to do this.
READ LETTER: Read whatever may be written on a letter. You
can do this from anywhere, provided the letter
is in your inventory or in your room.
CHAR LETTER: Provided you have a source of fire with you, such as a
tinderbox, you can partially char a non-preserved
letter, which will cause bits and pieces of it to
become unreadable. This can be done multiple times,
making the letter less readable each time. You can
char a letter from anywhere.
Pasting Letters
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It is possible to PASTE a letter into a journal or manuscript which can
permanently preserve letters into a great form to preserve for posterity in a
library.
The syntax for doing this is:
PASTE <LETTER> INTO <JOURNAL/MANUSCRIPT> [PAGE <NUMBER>]
What are the catches/benefits to doing this?
- The pasted letter is destroyed in the process and cannot be recovered.
Any contents will be left in your inventory.
- Once you have pasted a letter onto a page, you can no longer edit that
page.
- Regardless of which language the journal has been written in, the page
that the letter was pasted on will now be in the same language that the
letter was in.
- If a letter is ENCIPHERed, the page in the journal will be forever
ENCIPHERed, even if the journal itself isn't ENCIPHERed.
(See also: HELP EDITOR)
