Commands
Every typed command in the bar and every slash command in Discord, on one page. In the bar, type / in the chat box and a list of the ones you may use appears above it, narrowing as you type; the same words work without the slash, and a line that matches nothing is said out loud as typed.
Everyone
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/invite Damon | Invites someone, wherever they are on the server, to your room: they get a line with Go and Not now. A kind of whisper: it needs room_dms, and a closed door (privacy) refuses it unless they've whispered to you lately. |
/goto boardroom · /goto | Through to another room (by address, name, or one of the names the room is also called on its settings screen; same login, same look). On its own, the list of rooms here. go to the boardroom works too. Clicking a door in the picture is this command. Needs transport_self (members). /goto https://… is a web address instead of a room: this tab goes there, and you're out of the room the moment it does (another bar, a reference page, anywhere). |
/doors | Shows every door in the room for five seconds, frames and names. Holding Control does the same for as long as it's held (the original's Control, or Control+Shift on a PC). On a Mac a Control-click still goes through the door. |
/open https://… | A web page in a new tab; you stay in the room. Only http and https addresses. A door in the picture can be this too. |
/avatar | Opens the outfit editor (see Props). Same as Change avatar / props… in the look picker or Change avatar… on your own head's menu. |
/rename Countess | Go by a chosen name here. It's shown in italics as an alias, and your Discord name stays on the "who is this" line of your menu, so nobody can pass for someone else. call me Countess works too. Needs rename_self (members). |
/myname | Back to your Discord name. (my name, real name.) |
/naked | Take everything off; your smiley is back. |
/takeoff | Drop your topmost prop on the floor at your feet, for others to pick up. (take off.) |
/dm off · /dm on | Close or open your door to whispers. With it closed, only people you've whispered to first, and a barowner, can whisper to you. Same as the privacy box under Preferences. |
/bolt · /unbolt | Bolt this room's door from the inside, or draw it back. While it's bolted nobody new comes in (a barkeep can, announced), nothing reaches Discord, and what's said is sealed between the people inside, so the house can't read it and Harry doesn't hear it. The last one out draws it back. |
/mute Ada · /unmute Ada | Stop hearing someone, for you alone; their balloons vanish from your screen and they aren't told. Also on their menu. |
/sounds · /sounds off · /sounds 3 | The notification sounds: say how they're set, switch them off, or set a level 0–7. The 🔔 button and the Sounds section of the look picker do the same. |
/play doorbell | Hear one sound, just you: doorbell, door, knock, name, murmur. Harry, play the door works and Harry doesn't answer it. |
/settings | Opens the settings screen in a new tab, for whoever holds a part of it (see Hosting). |
/hidebadge on | Go without the ✱ that marks a barkeep or barowner. Needs hide_badge. |
/spoof member | Pose as a lesser tier (guest, member, barfly, clotheshorse, barkeep) to see the bar as they do; /spoof off ends it. A striped tag in the top bar says you're posing; click it to stop. A gag, a ban or a raised floor that would land on the pose only takes it off. Needs status_spoof. |
A door in the picture issues one of these commands when clicked, as if you'd typed it, with your own permissions: usually goto a room, but a shape on the wall can just as well be open https://… (a page beside the bar), goto https://… (out of the bar to another server's room, or any page), or play doorbell. A door can't put words in your mouth; only commands run.
Whispering isn't a command: click a head and choose Whisper, then type; the chat box turns violet and the × at its end (or Esc) takes you back to talking out loud. Painting, likewise, is the ✎ button.
Pinned signs
| Line | Does | Flag |
|---|---|---|
^^ Trivia at 8 | Pins a sign at the top of this room's picture, for everyone, until taken down. | announce (barkeeps) |
^^^ Big event at 7pm | The same sign in every room on the server. | announce |
^^ · ^^^ | Alone: takes that sign down. | announce |
One ^ is still your own sticky balloon. Signs outlive sessions, resets and restarts, show in the Discord picture, and are logged.
Prefixes on a line
These aren't commands but change what the line does; the quick start has the full table. A first character of : makes a thought balloon, ! an excited one, ^ a sticky sign that stays up until your next line, @x,y places the balloon; an emoticon such as :) or ;) at the start changes your face before you speak. Two or three of these combine, in any order.
Asking Harry
Harry takes sentences, not commands. Anything with his name in it reaches him; the lines below are the shapes he acts on, and only barkeeps (holders of command_ghosts) get more than an answer.
| Say | He does | Who |
|---|---|---|
Harry, what's good? | Answers in a balloon from the painting. Once he has, you're in conversation for a minute or two and needn't say his name; end a line with over to get one answer and then quiet. | anyone he hears |
Harry, hush · pipe down · we're playing | He says nothing for ten minutes or until his name comes up. | anyone |
Harry, forget me | Wipes what he's kept about you across evenings. | anyone |
Harry, stop | Clears his balloons and tells him to stand down. | barkeeps |
Harry, take me to the boardroom · Harry, take us all to the beach · Harry, send Ada to the armory | Takes you, one person, or the whole room to another room; he's there too and carries on. He moves everyone only when you say "all" or "everyone"; without the word, only you go. A room is one picture: nothing changes in the room you leave except that you're gone. | anyone with transport_people (barkeeps) |
Harry, let's play chess · play checkers · play backgammon · back to the bar | Macros: a phrase mapped to a command runs as you before Harry hears anything. let's play chess takes you to the chessboard room (the board lays itself out; another player finds you there); let's all play chess takes the whole room, which needs transport_people. Set on the Harry tab. | anyone (the command's own permission applies) |
Harry, put up a banner that says Trivia Night | A banner, a sign, a shape, a badge under someone's name (give Ada a badge that says Champion). | barkeeps |
Harry, find a picture of a ring-tailed lemur | Hangs a picture from Wikimedia Commons or Openverse on the wall; paste an https image address and ask for that one and he fetches it. next picture and previous picture cycle the candidates; what's in the picture? makes him look. | barkeeps (anyone may ask what's in it) |
Harry, clean the room | Clears the loose props off the floor. | barkeeps |
Harry, use the word replacement gag | The 1995 word-swap list on everyone's balloons (Discord sees what was typed). | barkeeps |
Harry, whiteboard · let's play Pictionary · let's do trivia · Wheel of Cheese | Opens the floor for a game right here: the whiteboard goes up on the wall behind the people for drawing; scoreboard, timer, dice, polls, the wheel. He narrates; the bar keeps the honest parts. Nobody goes anywhere. | barkeeps |
Harry, move to the left | He walks, where he has a body. | barkeeps |
A line that mentions Claude or starts with bug: never reaches him; it goes to the audit log as a note for the developer.
Barkeeps: handling the room
These need handle_room (barkeeps by default). Most have a mouse form too: click a picture on the wall to select it, drag to move, drag a corner to size, the × or Delete to take it down.
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/next picture · /previous picture | The next or previous candidate for the selected (or latest) web picture. |
/remove picture | Takes it down. |
/whiteboard up · /whiteboard down | The whiteboard object on the wall of this room, up or down; the board up button on the paint strip does the same. Needs whiteboard (barkeeps). |
/clear props | Clears every loose prop off the floor. Also on the floor's right-click menu. |
With paint_always a barkeep paints whenever (not only when a game hands out markers) and can wipe the board from the paint strip. With ban_props, Take that picture off them on a head's menu strips a picture from everyone wearing it and bans it from the bar.
The god's tools
Each of these is its own flag, barowner by default, so a barkeep can be trusted with some and not others (the Permissions tab), or one person can be given one (a grant, on the People tab). The rank rule applies to all of them: never on someone above you, never on an equal who holds the same tool. Every use goes in the audit log with who, whom and why.
| Command | Does | Flag |
|---|---|---|
/gag Ada · /ungag Ada | A user-mute: they keep typing and seeing their own balloons; nobody else receives them, and they aren't told. A barowner with ears_of_god still sees the lines, in a typewriter face with a dashed rim. | gag_people |
/ban Ada · /unban Ada | Opens a small dialog: an hour, a day, a week, or for good, and a reason. They're shown out at once and refused at the door until it's over. | ban_people |
/bless Ada barfly · /unbless Ada | Raise someone's tier by hand, whatever their Discord roles say; never to your own rank. Without a tier a dialog asks. | bless_people |
/send Ada to armory · /take everyone to boardroom | Move one person, or everyone, to another room; they're told who sent them. Never someone above you. | transport_people (barkeeps) |
/floor barfly | Who may come in and talk tonight: member (normal), barfly, clotheshorse. Raises every member-default flag in every room; survives restarts until lowered. | set_floor |
/preview off · /preview on | Replaces the live picture in Discord with a black PAUSED card, and back. | pause_preview |
The same tools sit on a head's right-click menu (Gag, Ban…, Bless as…), and on the People tab of the settings screen, where they can be applied to someone who isn't in the room.
From Discord
Slash commands, in the room's channel or, with room:poolroom added, from anywhere in the server (a room without a channel of its own is reached only that way). Answers are ephemeral (only you see them).
| Command | Does | Who |
|---|---|---|
/palace peek | A picture of the room right now, and the link. | anyone |
/palace who | Who's in. | anyone |
/palace say | Says a line into the room as a caption under your name; if it addresses Harry, waits up to fifteen seconds for his answer and shows it to you alone. | anyone |
/harry status | Is he connected and enabled? | command_ghosts |
/harry off · /harry on | Drop him and refuse him until on. The same switch as the Harry tab's absent presence. | command_ghosts |
/harry log | What he did in the last hour. | command_ghosts |
/harry reset | The room back to normal: no game, no gag, nothing on the walls. Nobody is moved. | command_ghosts |
/harry play | Start a game (Wheel of Cheese). | command_ghosts |
/harry mute · /harry ban · /harry pardon | Gag, ban (an hour, a day, a week, forever, with a reason), or lift either, by Discord user; works on people who aren't in the room. | gag_people, ban_people |
/harry bless | Raise someone's tier by hand. | bless_people |
/harry floor | Raise or lower the floor. | set_floor |
/harry punished | Who is gagged or banned here. | any of the tools |
/harry preview | The live picture: on, or off (the PAUSED card). | pause_preview |