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Latest revision as of 23:12, 13 October 2024

The Post-Self MUCK is a real-time text-based roleplaying environment co-hosted by Skunks& The Lament that primarily depicts the Lagrange System after the Century Attack.

MU*s such as the Post-Self MUCK are distinguished from forums or IRC in that they are organized into rooms, an imaginary place to which a character goes. These rooms each have descriptions, objects and other characters within them, and are separate in that conversations in one room cannot generally be heard from another. This lends a sort of spatiality to the roleplaying experience that is not found in other forms of chat roleplay.

MUCKs (Multi-User Construction Kits) are distinguished from other MU*s in that they enable all players to create new areas and objects as they please, and even to write interactive softcode to dynamically modify the presentation of these things. Many players just jump in with a character and a personal description and call it a day, however, and that is the main attraction of the MUCK, after all!

The Post-Self setting was designed to reflect many of the mechanics of MUCKs, mirroring common organizational structures such as realms (sub-areas with local administration) or starter sims and actions such as sweeping people from sims or morphing oneself into alternate appearances.

You can find a short list of some of the features and commands of the Post-Self MUCK in particular here. You do not need to know tons of lore to join us! All you need to know you can learn in What is Post-Self? and No-Spoiler Timeline.

Connection Info

Quickstart

Download BeipMu
Click the 🌎 icon in the bottom left
Click New...
Set the Host to muck.post-self.ink:4201
Enable Use TLS (SSL)
Set the Text Encoding to UTF-8 - Unicode
Hit Connect
Follow the on-screen instructions

MUCK Guide

You can connect to muck.post-self.ink:4201 using most Unicode-enabled MU* clients.

If for some reason you cannot use SSL, you can connect via port 4202.

The MUCK is currently configured to allow anyone to create new characters at will.

The Post-Self MUCK is hosted on a Unix system using TinyMUX 2.13.

If you need help figuring out how to use the MUCK, you can contact a @MUCK Guide in the Post-Self Discord.

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 '''The Post-Self MUCK''' is a real-time text-based roleplaying environment co-hosted by [[Madison Rye Progress|Skunks&]] [[The Lament]] that ''primarily'' depicts [[the Lagrange System]] after [[the Century Attack]].
-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU* MU*]s such as the Post-Self MUCK are distinguished from forums or IRC in that they are organized into ''rooms'', an imaginary place to which a character goes. These rooms each have descriptions, objects and other characters within them, and are separate in that conversations in one room cannot generally be heard from another. This lends a sort of spatiality to the roleplaying experience that is not found in other forms of chat roleplay.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU* MU*s] such as the Post-Self MUCK are distinguished from forums or IRC in that they are organized into ''rooms'', an imaginary place to which a character goes. These rooms each have descriptions, objects and other characters within them, and are separate in that conversations in one room cannot generally be heard from another. This lends a sort of spatiality to the roleplaying experience that is not found in other forms of chat roleplay.
-MUCKs (Multi-User Construction Kits) are distinguished from other MU*s in that they enable ''all'' players to create new areas and objects as they please, and even to write interactive softcode to modify the presentation of these things. Many players just want to jump in with a character and a personal description and call it a day, however, and that is the main attraction of the MUCK, after all!
+MUCKs (Multi-User Construction Kits) are distinguished from other MU*s in that they enable ''all'' players to create new areas and objects as they please, and even to write interactive softcode to dynamically modify the presentation of these things. Many players just jump in with a character and a personal description and call it a day, however, and that is the main attraction of the MUCK, after all!
-= Connection Info =
+The Post-Self setting was designed to reflect many of the mechanics of MUCKs, mirroring common organizational structures such as realms (sub-areas with local administration) or [[starter sims]] and actions such as <code>sweep</code>ing people from [[sims]] or <code>morph</code>ing oneself into alternate appearances.
+You can find a short list of some of the features and commands of the Post-Self MUCK in particular [[MUCK commands|here]]. You do not need to know tons of lore to join us! All you need to know you can learn in [[What is Post-Self?]] and [[No-spoiler timeline|No-Spoiler Timeline]].
+== Connection Info ==
 {{Aside|
 # Download [https://github.com/BeipDev/BeipMU/releases BeipMu]
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 # Click <code>New...</code>
 # Set the <code>Host</code> to <code>muck.post-self.ink:4201</code>
+# Enable <code>Use TLS (SSL)</code>
 # Set the <code>Text Encoding</code> to <code>UTF-8 - Unicode</code>
 # Hit <code>Connect</code>
 # Follow the on-screen instructions
-| Quickstart Guide
+<center style{{=}}"margin-top: 0.5rem; font-weight: bold;">[[MUCK:Communication|MUCK Guide]]</center>
+| Quickstart
 | color = 0080FF
 }}
 You can connect to <code style="white-space: nowrap;">muck.post-self.ink:4201</code> using most [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUD_clients#Protocol_support Unicode-enabled MU* clients].
+If for some reason you cannot use SSL, you can connect via port <code>4202</code>.
 The MUCK is currently configured to allow anyone to create new characters at will.