Editing Posting Rules (section)

==Tag Symbology==
You already know how to use speech tags: "Speech" Quite simply, when someone in the room speaks, this is the tag they use, and you use when you
hear it.

Next is the Thought tags: ~Thought~ These are used when someone wants to write their character as thinking something that no one else can hear.

Then we have the telepathic communication tags ::Telepath:: We use these when two telepaths are communicating mentally, they can hear it, those around them can't. Most people have non-telepathic characters so the big thing to remember is treat this like thought, you can't hear it. For those of you who do happen to have telepathic characters (touch telepaths, you too) or are considering one, please take a look at the '''[[Telepathic Moral Laws]]''' for more information on when and how you are allowed to use your abilities.

Then there's the computer information tag: [Information] We use this whenever we get information from the computer (on a screen/[[PADD]]/or a computer voice speaking).

Last we have the [[communicator|commbadge]] communications tag: =/\=Speech=/\= This tag is a little more complicated. in that you need to combine it with regular speech tags.

Let's say you and I have a conversation using the comm system, When I speak to you I will use the "speech" tag, but you will hear me with the =/\=communications=/\= tag. And then you speak to me using the "speech" tags while I will hear you using the =/\=communications=/\= tag.

Really simply put, anyone who talks to you over a communicator or ships systems will have =/\=these=/\=, while anyone in the room with you (including yourself) will use "these". 

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JJ Schmidt looked around and saw the computer terminal blinking. ~I wonder what that's about?~

He walked over and tapped the screen, accepting the message displayed.

[The Captain Would like JJ Schmidt to give back his name, as it is my name too.]

JJ exclaimed, "Well, I'll be! I always hear people shout my name when I go out"

Miss Muffet came in and sat down beside him, as she ate her curds and whey. Seeing as how they shared a telepathic connection she didn't bother 
to stop but spoke directly, mind to mind.

::Hello, JJ. I had to leave my tuffet because of a spider.::

Just then, JJ's commbadge chirped to life and JJ heard a crowd singing, =/\=Da da De Da da de da=/\=
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