Bardstuff

It has come to our attention that, while many people enjoy the atmosphere and flavor of bardic performances, often times (especially, for example, when you're in the middle of a large conversation at a table or other 'place' in a room where a bard's performing), you'd really just like to filter out some of what is, for you at that moment, spam.

Enter... BARDCODE! (It's like barcodes, but fewer verticle lines and no laser-scanner.)

Syntax:

+bardon +bardoff

You should be able to guess which turns the performances on and which edits them out. ;) How does this work, you ask? SIMPLE! We make the bards do a little bit of extra work! (Sorry, bards.) But not really all that much. The command to use the 'bardstuff' system is 'bs', and then ust put a | between the stuff that isn't scroll-intensive performance pose, and the stuff that is. Here's an example:

bs :gets up and sings.|"This is the song that doesn't end... Yes it goes on and on my frieeeeends! Some people.. started singing it not  knowing what it was..."|Then sits back down.

People who are Bard_Ok will see:

Meg gets up and sings. "This is the song that doesn't end... Yes it goes on and on my frieeeeends! Some people.. started singing it not  knowing what it was..." Then sits back down.

People who are not:

Meg gets up and sings. Then sits back down.

See how simple it is? And it will work with %rs and %ts, and any other formatting you throw at it. I think. If not, there's always the BUGS queue!