It is important to be able to get information about your character. This includes information about what he or she is carrying, the status of your character's health, how much skill your character has, etc. Since these informational commands are usually not verbs that tell your character to do something, they can be hard to figure out, so we will list them here for you.

EXPERIENCE
This verb is usually abbreviated as EXP. It will show you information about how many experience points you currently have, and how many you need to advance to the next level. It will also tell you what level you are and how many training points you have. Training points are points that you spend with trainers around Athens who will teach you different skills. You earn these points when you level.

You'll also get a message about your state of mind. This is known as your experience pool. When you gain experience, it goes into a pool that slowly empties over time. Think of it as a funnel. You can pour a lot of water into it, but only so much will come out of the other end, so it will take time to get the full funnel of water emptied. When that pool is empty, it means you have no experience in your head and are not learning. When it is full, that means that your funnel runneth over and any experience you earn is just sloshing over the sides. When this happens, you need to wait until there's room to get anymore experience that will count.

IMPUDENCE
This verb is usually abbreviated as IMP. It will tell you the current status of your Impudence rating. Your impudence rating is how well or how poorly the gods and goddesses look upon you. When you do things that the gods and goddesses don't like, your Impudence will rise. If it gets high enough, it can have a big impact on a lot of things in the game.

This stat is especially important to priests who will find their impudence rises for calling upon the gods to perform magic. More information on this can be found in the professions section of the documentation.

INFORMATION
This verb is usually abbreviated as INFO. It will give you information about your character's name, race, profession, alignment, and the current values of your basic stats. This will also show you your experience pool (explained above) and your fame pool.

The fame pool is a very abstract thing and works almost opposite of your experience pool. It's good for your experience pool to be full. It's bad for your fame pool to be full. When you earn fame for your heroic (or not so heroic) deeds, it is placed in a pool and lies dormant until you have your praises sung to the masses. This can be done by having a storyteller perform a fame song about you (more info in the profession section) or by visiting a storyteller shop where the owner may or may not write songs themselves and asking them to sing you one.

Unlike the experience pool, your fame pool has no limit of how full it can be. But if your fame pool gets beyond a certain level, then the fame begins to leak out, never to be seen again. This is what the message in INFO tells us, when our fame pool has reached the point of leaking. When you have the song performed in your honor, your fame pool will be emptied and the fame will go into your permanent fame stat.

INVENTORY
This verb is usually abbreviated as INV. It will list all of the items you are carrying and wearing. Note, INV will not list the items that are inside of containers you are wearing. For example, if you are wearing a knapsack, it will list the knapsack but not the contents. To see what is in the knapsack, you would have to LOOK IN KNAPSACK.

HEALTH
This verb will tell you the current status of your health. If you are hurt, you can rest and you will heal over time or you can use one of the many aids such as elixirs, spells, or songs to help it along. If your health goes too low though, you'll be dead and no amount of healing will help. Then it's time for a trek through the underworld.

SKILLS
This verb will give you information about the skills your character knows. See the skills section of the documentation for more information on each skill and what it does.

WEALTH
This verb will tell you how many Dinars you are carrying, and it will remind you if you have any outstanding debts. Dinars are the currency we use in Athens and around the world. To pay debts you need to go to the debt office (DIR DEBT) and PAY the AMOUNT you owe. When you begin the game you will begin with a debt.

Not so Obvious Verbs with Information
Some verbs we use to do certain things within our profession will also double as informative verbs on how to do those things. Here are a few examples, this list likely isn't complete and is just here as an example of what to look for.

An example of this sort of verb would be PERFORM. Typing PERFORM LIST will give priests a list of the rituals they can perform. CREATE is another verb that is used for setting traps, but CREATE LIST will tell you what traps you know how to make. FORMULA will give alchemists a list of concoctions they can make, how to make them, and what to make them with. WRITE LIST will tell storytellers what songs they know how to write.

You can find more specific information on things like those listed above in the professions section of the documentation.

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