What is a Chat Pose?

A chat pose, also called an emote, is an action you cause your character to perform while interacting with others to give more visual clues to your feelings and conversation. In Asheron's Call using the *chat pose name* format in the text area of the interface, will cause your character to physically act out the chat pose that you have selected.

For example, if you enter *ymca* in the text area, your character will perform a series of moves that look like "Y", "M", "C;", and "A" as well, a description of the action will be visible in the text for all in the area to see. The "YMCA" chat pose also has some wonderful visual effects along with the physical movement.

Some poses, such as *clap hands*, automatically return to the standing position - these are known as "state" poses. Others, *tap foot* for example, remain in the pose until you exit by moving or pressing "ESC".

Most of the poses can have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them. To create keyboard shortcuts for any of the chat poses, select the Keyboard option on the right side of the Character selection screen, scroll to the "Chat Poses" section and set up the shortcuts you prefer or change ones that have been preset.

The list below is a current list of the known chat poses in Asheron's Call and a description of the action your character will perform for each. Entries marked with a ² are poses which are not state poses, but also have a state short-cut available in the keyboard settings. Entries with a ³ are state poses which also have a state short-cut available despite it's redundancy. ⁴ indicates a state pose which only has a state variation listed in the keyboard short-cuts. Entries tagged by ⁵ are unavailable for keyboard short-cuts.

NB: when assigned to a keyboard short-cut, emotes do not say what happens; so pressing "K" for point will not produce "You point" as typing "*point*" will.

Chat Pose Descriptions