Emotes

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Emotes are an additional communication method available to players for conveying non-spoken actions. Emotes are particularly useful for communicating in situations where verbal communication is not possible: Mute characters, mimes, characters separated by a hard vacuum with no radio, etc.

Emotes are subject to all rules on communication, but especially rule B1.2, subsection 1: "Do not use the Emote channel to bypass an inability to speak. Use the Emote channel for things that could reasonably be displayed by your character's physical motions."

General Use

Emotes may be accessed by starting your chat message with ' /me ', ' @ ', or ' * '. This will cause the resulting message to follow the character's name directly, be displayed in italics, and without quotation marks. For example: "/me yawns" will be rendered as "Urist McPlayer yawns."

Special Emotes

Some emotes will result in pre-programmed behavior when sent, or may even be sent automatically if your player is affected by certain conditions, such as zombification. Other emotes will result in visible changes to your player sprite.

The Emote Wheel & Sprite Emotes

The emote wheel can be accessed by pressing its hotkey (default Y) or the button in the top menu bar. For most species, the emote wheel provides access to three types of emotes: general emotes, hand-based emotes, and vocal based emotes. Selecting a category brings up a selection of available emotes in that category.

The 'general' category includes two emotes which produce an effect on the player's sprite: spin, and jump. Spin causes the player's emote to spin rapidly, and jump causes the player's sprite to rapidly hop vertically.

Sound-playing emotes

Some emotes will trigger sounds when sent. The table below lists the sounds available to each playable species. Sound-playing emotes and their requirements, which may be the ability to produce vocal noise, or the presence of certain limbs. If a species has a sound listed but the requirements for producing the sound are unclear, they are marked with ' ? '.

[This table needs significant verification and testing. Some emotes are programmatically available but I don't know how they're triggered (e.g. Weh on humans). Assume writer ignorance where your knowledge conflicts with the table, and please update it.]

Species	Scream	Laugh	Sigh	Whistle	Crying	Squish	Chitter	Squeak	Click	Clap	Single Clap	Finger Snap	Salute	Thump	Gasp	Death Gasp	Chirp	Buzz	Beep	Chime	Buzz Twice	Ping	Honk	Weh	Hew	Meow	Hiss	Monkey Screech	Sneeze	Cough	Yawn
Human	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal					Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing			?				?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Vocal	Vocal
Slime	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal				Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing			?				?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Vocal	Vocal
Felinid	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Oni	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Rodentia	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Skeleton	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands				Vocal
Thaven	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Vulpkanin	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Feroxi	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Reptilian	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal					Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands	Breathing	Breathing							?	?	?		?
Harpy	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Vocal
Arachnid	Vocal	Vocal					Vocal		Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands			Breathing							?	?	?		?
Moth Person	Vocal	Vocal					Vocal	Vocal		Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing		?					?	?	?
Chitinid	Vocal	Vocal			Vocal		Vocal		Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing											?			Vocal	Vocal
Diona	Vocal	Vocal								Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands		Breathing	Breathing	Nymph						?	?	?
Vox	Vocal	Vocal								Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands										?	?	?
IPC	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Vocal	Hands	Hands	Hands	Hands				Vocal	Body	Body	Body	Body	Body	Body
Cyborg																		Body	Body	Body	Body	Body	Body
Cyborg (Syndicate)		?																Body	Body	Body	Body	Body	Body

Trigger words

Many special emotes can be triggered by trigger-words. The table below lists known trigger words for each word-triggered emote.

Emote	Triggering Words
Scream	scream, screams, screaming, screamed, shriek, shrieks, shrieking, shrieked, screech, screeches, screeching, screeched, yell, yells, yelled, yelling
Laugh	laugh, laughs, laughing, laughed, chuckle, chuckles, chuckled, chuckling, giggle, giggles, giggling, giggled, chortle, chortles, chortling
Honk	honk, honks, honked, honking
Sigh	sigh, sighs, sighed
Whistle	whistle, whistles, whistleblowing
Crying	cry, crying, cries, sob, sobs, sobbing
Squish	squish, squishing, squishes
Chitter	chitter, chitters, chittered
Squeak	squeak, squeaks, squeaked
Click	click, clicks
Clap	claps, clapping, clapped
Single Clap	clap, claps their hands together, claps her hands together, claps his hands together, claps its hands together
Snap	snap, snaps, snapping, snapped, snap fingers, snaps fingers, snaps their fingers, snaps her fingers, snaps his fingers, snaps its fingers, snapping fingers, snapped fingers
Thump	thump, thumps, thumping, thumped, thump tail, thumps tail, thumps their tail, thumps her tail, thumps his tail, thumps its tail
Salute	salute, salutes
Gasp	gasp, gasps, gasped
Buzz	buzzing, buzz, buzzed, buzzes
Chirp	chirp, chirps, chirped, chirping
Beep	beep, beeps, beeped, beeping
Chime	chime, chimes, chimed, chiming
Double Buzz	buzztwice, buzzstwice, buzzestwice, buzzingtwice, buzzedtwice, buzz twice, buzzes twice, buzzing twice, buzzed twice
Ping	ping, pings, pinged, pinging
Cough	cough, coughs, coughed, cough., coughs., coughed., cough!, coughs!, coughed!
Yawn	yawn, yawns
Spin	spin, spins
Jump	jump, jumps

Automated Emotes

Automated emotes are sent without direct player input.

Emote	Triggering Condition	Trigger Chance	Trigger Frequency
Snoring	Sleeping with 'Snoring' character trait	unknown	unknown
Sneeze	Diseases with sneezing symptoms	unknown	unknown
Cough	Diseases with coughing symptoms	unknown	unknown
Yawn	Diseases with yawning symptoms	unknown	unknown
Robot Beeps	Robot diseases [citation needed]	unknown	unknown
Meowing	Cat diseases [citation needed]	unknown	unknown
Hissing	Cat diseases [citation needed]	unknown	unknown
Monkey Screech	Monkey diseases [citation needed]	unknown	unknown
Gasp	Oxygen damage [citation needed]	unknown	unkown
Death Gasp	Dying	100%	--
Zombie Groan	Zombification	10%	5
Cluwne Giggle	Cluwne	50%	5