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A MUSH, commonly known as a "'''[[Multi User Shared Hallucination|M]]'''[[Multi User Shared Hallucination|ulti-]]'''[[Multi User Shared Hallucination|U]]'''[[Multi User Shared Hallucination|ser]]''' [[Shared Mass Hallucination|S]]'''[[Shared Mass Hallucination|hared]]'''[[Shared Mass Hallucination|H]]'''[[Shared Mass Hallucination|allucination]]", is a text-based online environment with its roots in [[Interactive Fiction]]. However, the title '''MUSH''', like [[MUCK]], is a pun on [[MUD]] ([[Multi User Dungeon]]), and rather good [[Fun with Acronyms|backronyms]] suggested by [[The Other Wiki]] also include '''M'''ulti-'''U'''ser '''S'''hared '''H'''ack, '''H'''abitat or '''H'''olodeck.
Progressing down the text-based online game 'system reliance' scale from [[MUCK]]s, MUSH games are usually perceived as having the least systems support for roleplay. Whereas a [[MUD]] will usually provide players with an entire game's worth of systems to play with, roleplay or otherwise, and MUCKs offer their players systems comparable to those of Pen&Paper [[RPG]]s, a MUSH will often merely be a series of rooms, and only enough systems to allow players to communicate with one another in various ways, along with the occasional currency system. In other words, MUSH games generally encourage and trust their players to create and manage their own roleplay.
Not to be confused with the [[Uncle Croc's Block|1975 animated parody]] of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''.
== Tropes common to MUSHes ==▼
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Quite often, where non-original/feature characters are concerned.
* Just about everything on the [[Creator Standpoint Index]] applies to a MUSH at one point or another, whether you're talking about players and characters, or the staff and the MUSH itself.
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* [[The Wiki Rule]]: In more modern times, this has increasingly become the norm for existing and startup MUSHes.
* [http://www.akashat.com/ Akashat]: An original setting, adult-roleplay MUSH. Noteworthy due to its firm focus on continuity, in-depth roleplay and complex storylines. Does not allow non-original characters.
* [http://www.castledimage.net/ Castle D'Image]: Quite an old MUSH set in an original fantasy setting. Defunct.
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