Frequently Asked Questions

Shoujo-Ai MUSH? What?: "Shoujo ai" means, roughly, "girl love." "MUSH" is short for Multi-User Shared Hallucination, a text-based social platform. Shoujo-Ai MUSH is a text-based social world with a lesbian theme, and plenty of things to talk about, to inspire roleplay, and just to explore.
Seriously?: Yes.
And by "explore" you mean --: If you want.
How old do I have to be to enter the MUSH?: By signing into the MUSH you affirm that you are at least eighteen years of age.
How do I join in?: Take a look at this page for information on connecting to the server and getting started.
But I've never played on a MUSH/MUD/MUCK/etc before!: Thankfully, there are tutorials for that. If you would like to get an overview of basic commands, our Beginner's Guide is a good start. For those tricky social trip-ups, Claire Benedikt wrote a wonderful guide several years ago called Don't be a TinyJerk, a copy of which can be found here.
Help! I'm lost/stuck!: Nearly all places on the MUSH are built with exits (even if they aren't visible) such that you can always keep typing 'out' or 'o', and you will eventually end up at the Village Center. If you happened to wander into someone's private home that didn't follow this design, you can also always go 'home', or teleport to a few public places, such as: '@tel #69' (Village Center), '@tel #0' (Starting Hut), or '@tel #100' (Faerie Circle Clearing)
I wanna make a map for my area! How do I do that?: We have a guide up here to walk you through this (somewhat) complex process.
The MUSH seems to be down. What's going on?: Though it's somewhat rare, there have occasionally been times when the MUSH has been offline or unreachable. Usually this is a network glitch, and will correct itself before too long (if this is the case, then the website will also be unreachable, and this FAQ significantly less helpful). Less commonly, the MUSH program may be down; this may be either due to program bugs from a bad patch, or the hosting server was rebooted and Yuriko hasn't had the opportunity to restart it yet.; For any reason, whatever it may be, there are still resources you can check for status updates. One is the shoujoai.com forum, where someone will usually post a message if it's more than a momentary hiccup. Another is the #shoujoaimush IRC channel on irc.lunarnet.org, where a staff member or two will be available to relay information (Yuriko and breisleach usually idle in here all the time, but don't expect them to actually be paying attention unless something has broken).