A Closer Look

Moving closer, you see...

OOC: Most MUCK characters are content with just a main description, but for those who feel like being explored a bit more in detail there's something called look traps or detail descriptions. They are actually two different things that work roughly the same way - by specifying both a person and a detail on that person. Because one of them doesn't work everywhere on FurryMUCK I have a complete set of both.

Giving each of the orders listed in bold below will display the text shown in the frames. (You can type in upper or lower case, upper case is just used here for clarity.) The first variant of each order is the one that always works.

LOOK SKUNKIE=EYES or LOOK SKUNKIE'S EYES will show this:

They are big and blue!

Now that didn't really say much more than the relevant part of my regular description (in fact it says less after I added the "jump in and drown" bit), this was just something I added to show someone how easy it is to make look traps. Something more detailed may be added later whenever I'm in the mood.
Uh, no. Not THAT mood!

LOOK SKUNKIE=SKIRT or LOOK SKUNKIE'S SKIRT will show this:

Something familiar about that pattern,  you muse as you give the rather
plain  (except for that pattern)  skirt a closer look. Oh yes, it's the
same pattern as an Amiga Boing Ball. Guess that makes it a Boing skirt.
Heh.  And yes, she's an "amigite";  at least her player is.
You didn't think dressing like that was *her* idea, did you? ;)
(see http://Skribenten.tripod.com/furry/Boing.html)

This is actually part of my summer outfit only, but the look trap will always be displayed the same way. I may come up with a bit of coding similar to that in my description, but in the meantime I'll just reckon with people not looking at details that are not pointed out in the main description.

LOOK SKUNKIE=TAIL or LOOK SKUNKIE'S TAIL will show this:

Discretely parting the back of the young skunkette's skirt for a
closer look, you find that the plain golden ring is fastened by a
short chain to a small silver clasp attached to something under her
tail. As she turns around and smiles at you before she bends slightly
forward to give you a better view, you realize that the peaceful
little fur has peace bonded her stench gland.

And finally this was my first look trap (which was just a look trap until I learned about detail descriptions, causing no end of disappointed comments in places like the park that doesn't support look traps.) Partial credit goes to the proprietors of the TK&II clothing and jewelry shop, whose inventory introduced me to the concept of tail jwelry in the first place.

The detail show's over. Please step away from the skunk.