First Blackwood Server Assignment (100 pts)
Create a character in the Blackwood simulation, go underground
through the Wishing Well in the Park, find your Ante Room (based
on your last name), 'dig' a workspace for yourself, and send a
report detailing your work to the relevant official.
You accomplish this by following the instructions, in the
sequence detailed below.
- Log on to the Blackwood MOO
Host: lions.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Port: 7777
Use either
- a standard telnet client (as used in the example at
First Transcript)
- the MacMOOSE client if it is installed in the Mac clusters in the
IACC, or if you use a Mac at home
- the tkmoo-light client if it is installed in the PC clusters
in the IACC, or if you use a PC at home
- Note: to get copies of these freeware clients, MacMOOSE or
tkmoo-light, in the clusters or elsewhere, go to
The MooAdmin Page and follow the instructions.
- Create a character for yourself using the 'create'
command
Usage: create [new-player-name] [new-password]
Use your NDSU email name (first.last) as your login name and
your StudentID number as your password
- (5 pts) @describe yourself
- Find your Ante Room, according to the first letter of your
last name
- Execute the 'pgmr_me' verb to promote yourself to a programmer
- (20 pts) @dig a room for yourself (do this carefully)
read 'help @dig' for assistance
do NOT use a compass point as your exit name (10 pt deduction
for this)
do NOT dig your room in the wrong place (15 pt deduction)
- (10 pts) execute the 'addmyexits' verb to make your exit visible
- (10 pts) go to your new room and use @sethome to make this
your home room (Note: this is demonstrated using the 'home' verb)
- (20 pts) @describe your exits, both in and out of the Ante
Room (10 pts each).
- (20 pts) define @leave messages on your exits (10 pts each).
You will want to read "help messages" to fully grasp this, the
short summary is:
The 'leave' message on an exit is printed to a player when
they successfully use the exit to leave a room. To set the
'leave' message on the exit 'ParsnipFarm' from the current room, use
the command
@leave ParsnipFarm is "You wander towards the Parsnip Farm, with
a leisurely gait, smelling the Parsnips as you roam."
- (5 pts) @describe your room in whatever (tasteful) way you choose
- (10 pts) @dig a back room for yourself (4 pts), describe it
(2 pts), and describing the exits
in (2 pts) and out (2 pts).
- @audit yourself and send that to the relevant official
(probably the TA for your course) along with a transcript
showing your character and description messages.
This document should be clear and explicit about what points you
have earned, and for what exactly.