Talking

Enter

open the chat line

! message

shout, heard by everyone in view

/w name message

whisper privately to one player, anywhere

/r message

reply to the last whisper

/help

every command you can use

Plain speech carries about twenty-five metres. The tabs above the chat log split it: Chat for people, Combat for blows, System for the world talking to you, Gains for skill and stat rises. A tab you are not looking at counts what it has missed.

Your words over your head wear a color of your own, and everyone sees them in it. Pick it with Speech color, under Interface on the Video page of the gear menu.

Some words do things. "bank" beside a banker opens your box, "guards" in town calls the law, and pets take orders such as "all follow" or "all kill".