press

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

## `press`

      press # of lines of text
      * time: 0 days
      * priority: 1

Submit a signed message to the Game Newsletter.

The `press` order may be given by a noble or by the player entity. The identity of the submitting faction will appear in the newsletter. beneath the entry.

The number of lines in the entry should be given as an argument to `press`, followed by the text of the entry. For example, here is a press item submitted by Osswid [xt8].

      PRESS 3
        All ye beware!  Osswid hereby claims the entire continent
        of Provinia as his rightful domain.  Those who trespass here
        without his permission will come to a GRAVE end!

Take care to carefully count the lines of text in the post. If the wrong number of lines is given, your noble may end up posting his orders instead of executing them.

Alternatively, one may specify 0 for the lines of text argument, and terminate the message with the `end` keyword:

      PRESS 0
        All ye beware!  Osswid hereby claims the entire continent
        of Provinia as his rightful domain.  Those who trespass here
        without his permission will come to a GRAVE end!
      END

Take great care when using the 0 lines/`end` keyword feature. If you forget the `end`, or mistype it, none of the orders following the `press` command will execute. Instead, they will be published in the newsletter. This is obviously very bad, so if you intend to use the `end` keyword to avoid having to count lines, please be careful.

Each line of posted text must be less than 78 characters long, or the post will be rejected.

Editorial guidelines for submissions to the Game Newsletter:

1. No profanity.
2. No personal insults to other humans (in-character roleplaying insults are fine).

In some cases, the Times pays money for submissions. If so, it will be noted in the Game description.