PRESS      <# of lines of text>                 time: 0 days    priority: 1

Submit a signed message to the Olympia Times.

The press order may be given by a character or by the player entity. The identity of the submitting entity will appear in the Times beneath the entry.

The number of lines in the entry should be given as an argument to press, followed by the text of the entry. For example, here is a press item submitted by Osswid [501].

PRESS 3
  All ye beware!  Osswid hereby claims the entire continent
  of Provinia as his rightful domain.  Those who trespass here
  without his permission will come to a GRAVE end!

Take care to carefully count the lines of text in the post. If the wrong number of lines is given, your character orders may end up published in the Olympia Times instead of executing them.

Alternatively, one may specify 0 for the lines of text argument, and terminate the message with the end keyword:

PRESS 0
  All ye beware!  Osswid hereby claims the entire continent
  of Provinia as his rightful domain.  Those who trespass here
  without his permission will come to a GRAVE end!
END

Take great care when using the 0 lines/end keyword feature. If you forget the end, or mistype it, none of the orders following the press command will execute. Instead, they will be published in the Olympia Times. This is obviously very bad, so if you intend to use the end keyword to avoid having to count lines, please be careful.

Each line of posted text must be less than 78 characters long, or the post will be rejected.

Editorial guidelines for submissions to the Olympia Times:

1. No profanity.
2. No personal insults to other humans (in-character roleplaying insults are fine).
3. No "junk" submissions ; just something half-way reasonable (i.e. don't send in "Blah blah.")