Since I am on a roll these last couple of days for ideas I thought I might share another. How about making emote targetable. In this way

command: TMOTE
syntax: tmote <char> 'emote things with charcter %C to denote the char and %a to be the their article'

for instance

tmote Valg 'stares intenstly at %c focusing mostly on %a sword'

would look to me like
you stares intensly at valg focusing mostly on his sword

to valg it would be
laxman stares instensly at you focusing mostly on your sword

to another in the room it would be
laxman stares intesly at valg focusing mostly on his sword

From my understanding of emote code this should not be all that hard to add in and I think would be able to expand a chars ability to roleplay tenfold.

obviously this is abuseable but no more than emote already is, the only change is that it would not look sloppy as hell to emote towards one person in a room of many.