Your voice in Aurbis comes from your body, and it carries only as far as it should. Speak normally and the room hears you; speak low and only the closest catch it; shout and the street turns. There is no free chat channel floating outside the world — every line you say happens in a place, at an hour, with a body to trace it back to.
How it works
The default is /say: a normal speaking voice that reaches a typical room. /low is for quiet conversation at the same table. /s shouts further, across squares and streets. /w whispers to a single person standing close enough to hear. There is one channel that steps outside the world — /g, the global voice — but it is loud, public, and rare. The information economy of Aurbis depends on people choosing which voice to use, and on who is in earshot when they use it.
Commands — /help speech
/say hello — Default nearby speech. What your voice does without effort./low quiet line — Soft nearby speech, for conversation that shouldn't carry./s (alias: /shout) loud line — Longer-range speech. The room will know./w (alias: /whisper) <name or id> message — Private nearby whisper to one person within arm's length./g (alias: /global) hello world — Temporary global channel. Visible to all who haven't muted it./reply (alias: /r) message — (Planned.) Direct reply to the last whisper without re-naming the sender./online (alias: /playercount) — Show the current player count on the server.
