Chat Guide: Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

When you enter chat you will see the number of players in the chat channel; if you are the only player in that chat channel the message "There is currently one player in this channel, and that one player is you!" will replace it.

Repetition Filter

The repetition filter will not allow you to type the exact same text, or repetitive characters into open chat more than once. It will result in a message coming back to you saying Repetition. You may /msg a person the same text more than once, however it is likely they will ignore you unless this was a mistake.

Chat Effects

Certain items and effects will also affect what you say in chat. Here's a list of everything in the game that affects chat and their availability in Hardcore.

Source	Source Type	Change	Duration	Cost	Prereq	In HC?	Notes
Jazz Hands	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "~jazz hands~"	20 turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from jazz soap.
Liar's pants	Pants	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "No, really.", "Seriously.", "Trust Me.", or "Yeah, that's the ticket!"	Always		None	No	Mr. Store item This and Innuendo Shopping cancel each other out
Innuendo Shopping	Weapon	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: ", heh heh heh.", ", if you know what I mean.", or ", wink wink, nudge nudge."	Always		None	No	Obtained from an origami riding crop This and Liar's pants cancel each other out
Drunkenness	Booze	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "-hic-"	Until rollover		Boozetafarian or no dietary path	Yes	Adds to messages only if you are within 5 Drunkenness of your limit.
wanged	Effect	Certain abbreviations (thx, u, r, ur, k, y and ppl) will be replaced by their non-abbreviated equivalents. Cancels the effect of the sword.	100 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a wang
Canadianity	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: ", eh?" and changes "ou" to "oo" (e.g. about -> aboot)	3 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a White Canadian or fancy chocolate Even "[shouting]" will change to "[shooting], eh?"
Gothy	Item	Occasionally breaks up message into 3-4 words per line, each line ending with a gothy word (agony, anguish, blackness, despair, fear, gloom, heart, loneliness, miasma, rain, soul, or torment).	10/20 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a fancy chocolate, spooky eyeliner, spooky lipstick, or gloomy mushroom wine
Talking Like a Pirate	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "Yarrr.", "Arrr.", "Avast ye!" or "Ahoy, Matey!"	50 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a can of Binarrrca
sword behind inappropriate prepositions	Weapon	Changes your prepositions to inappropiate ones.	Always		None	Yes	Triggers before any other effect, including the repetition filter
V for Vivala mask	Accessory	Gives red color to the first letter V of a word.	Always		None	No	Only the first letter V in a word turns into a red V.
The Gray Plague	Unknown	Messages would slowly fade to gray, occasionally adding "-cough-" at the end.	Until cured		None	Yes	No longer available (plague occurred in 2005)
Tinnitus	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "-rimshot-"	20 Turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a cymbal syrup
Emotion Sickness	Item	Puts random words into italics	5/50 Turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a bottle of melodramamine or bottle of extra-strength melodramamine
Bruised Jaw	Item	Changes 1/3 of letters a-z to 'm', and A-Z to 'M'.	10 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a jawbruiser Even [shouting] can be changed, such as [mmouting]
B-b-brr!	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "*brr!*" and randomly causes stuttering (e.g. cold -> c-c-c-cold)	10 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a snowball
Single-Eyed Vision	Item	Adds various things to other people's text messages	20 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from an Atomic Comic
There is No Spoon	Item	Occasionally makes your text green and flashy	5 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a Red Pill Each chat message consumes a turn of the effect

Of the chat effects that only sometimes fire ("-hic-", "eh?", etc), only one will fire on a single message. They can appear when the shout filter is activated.

Interactive Bots

• chatbot (#142302) is a multipurpose bot who responds to chat, rolls dice in /games, announces the current song playing on Radio KoL in /radio, provides useful game information and plays games. For more information, private message chatbot with the message, "help".

• Haiku Oracle (#464776) is a multipurpose bot used for strawberrying a player, telling a joke, flipping a coin, and answering yes or no questions Magic 8-Ball style. All of this is done both in haiku and in /haiku, coincidentally.

See Also: Bots, Buffbot

Special Key Bindings

• Shift-UpArrow and Shift-DownArrow will cycle through your recently typed chat window entries.

Shout Filter

Disabled March 8, 2011:
The shout filter was a filter that prevented people posting in more than 40% capital letters and exclamation marks (!). Any message that contained more than 40% capital letters and exclamation marks was re-posted as "[shouting]". Posting a "[shouting]" post following another "[shouting]" post acted as a repetition, even if the messages content was different. There was no way to turn the shout filter off, but it was disabled in clan chat.