Being creative is very important. The way people speak/type is the most powerful first impression tool on the mud. And its not poor RP. There have been _several_ top-notch players who speak with accents or in strange languages, its interesting.

As Vella Ar'Tzar (Storm warrior in Troupe years ago) I spoke broken english, in stages based on my age. When young I spoke mostly stormish, and let my "common" develop until he finally keeled over of old age. I found that the trick was consistancy. I used the same words for the same thing all the time. And if I needed to express something new in stormish, I would make something up write it down and remember to use it _always_ for that time. I still have friends who talk to me in stormish, and I've been flattered to hear storm giants on the mud, running around saying "Kellesh!"(hello) to one an other. It annoyed some people *cough Twist* *cough Nepenthe* but I didn't care, I found for ever person who hatted me for speaking stormish, I had 5 others talking back in stormish. It can get annoying if you speak gibberish, but when done correctly it can be quite contageous.

There's plenty of language articles in the lyceum, it would be wicked cool if people used the ones already written. Even the greetings, what would you say in response to a felar who greeted you with "Mree!" Probably "Hello!" or some such thing. While I don't think that it should be hard coded into the mud (with the Minotaur exception of course) There's still more languages out there to be discovered, roll a Herald and scribble down everything you can think of and get it in the Lyceum.

Well, sorry I'm a bit long winded. All in all, as an Imm I think you should encourage people trying to be creative and add some depth to thier character. Sometimes its a good crutch for newer people trying to get the technical aspect of their game up. As it was for me and Vella. As an imm you're seen as a leader, lead on, lead by example.

Ti di trabbish a da shaw! (With the strength of the waves)