BANK

bank - perform banking functions at a local branch

Banks in Alyria exist to safeguard their depositors' money. In order to 
 maintain the necessary security force to protect large amounts of crass lucre 
 from pirates, robbers, looters, and other rogues, they charge their depositors 
 for keeping their money secure.

 There are many varied banks in the world of Alyria, each with their own fees
 and rates for the deposit and withdrawal of your money. Some will be cheaper,
 some will be more expensive.

 Some banks have multiple branches, and may be accessed in several locations.
 Using most bank commands at a bank will automatically  open an account for you
 at that bank.

 Bankers also will sell bars of rare metals, permitting adventurers to
 temporarily hold onto their gold in object form, until they wish to convert 
 them back. To buy bars, purchase them from bankers; to convert them back into 
 gold, SAYTO BANKER EXCHANGE MY BARS. Bankers are also willing to act as secure
 intermediaries between adventurers that are trading items. For more 
 information, HELP TRADING.

 BANK INFO will give you some basic information about the bank - its name, total
 accounts, total assets, and transaction and withdrawal rates.

 BANK BALANCE will give you a complete listing of how much you have in that 
 bank.

 BANK DEPOSIT <amount> will allow you to deposit <amount> worth of gold in your
 account. BANK DEPOSIT ALL will deposit all of the gold you currently carry on
 your person into your account.

 BANK WITHDRAW <amount> will allow you to withdraw <amount> worth of gold from
 your account. Please note that some banks charge a transaction fee when money 
 is withdrawn from an account. BANK WITHDRAW ALL will withdraw all of the money 
 in your account into your inventory.

 BANK TRANSFER <amount> <player name> will allow you to withdraw <amount> worth
 of gold from your account and transfer it to <player name>. The player to which
 the money is being transferred must be online at the time the transfer is made.
 Please note that some banks charge a transaction fee when money is transferred
 from an account.

 BANK DEFAULT sets the current bank as your 'default' bank. What this means, is
 that when buying items from stores and over auctions, if you do not have enough
 gold on hand to complete the transaction, the money will be withdrawn from your
 account at this bank.

GOLD

gold - view the amount of gold you have on hand, and in banks

 This command allows you to view the amount of gold you have on
 hand, and gives you a listing of all current open bank accounts
 and their balances.

 GOLD may be abbreviated as '$'.

LOCKERS

locker - access a local or remote locker

 A locker is a storage facility that allows a player to keep extra items,
 such as items they are not currently using, or items they are saving
 for a later time.

 Lockers are located in most major towns. Each locker charges a
 varying monthly (real time) rental fee - some lockers will be cheaper
 than others (usually the more remote the locker, the less expensive
 its monthly maintenance is). Some lockers are magical and can be
 accessed from more than one locker location.

 LOCKER - Alone, the command shows a list of your rented lockers, the
 number of items they contain, and their expiration dates.

 RENT - Rents a new locker, or extends your current locker duration
 an additional real-time month. If you allow your locker to expire,
 you must pay the rent up to the current date before you will be
 allowed to access it. This may be several months worth of payments,
 depending on when your locker rental expired. The items will remain
 in your locker past the expiration date, but will not be accessible
 until such time as the locker rent is paid in full. There is a maximum,
 however, of three months' worth of missed payments so if you are
 gone longer than that you will not have to worry about (too) much
 of a locker payment when you get back.

 STORE <item name> - stores an item in your locker, if room is
 available.

 REMOVE <item name> - removes an item from your locker.

 LIST - Lists the items in the current locker.

 

 SURVEY - While in a locker room, displays the contents of every

 locker that you have rented.

 

 CANCEL - Cancels your locker rental. Useful if you plan on
 spending a few months away from the game.

 NOTE: Special items in the game - such as Vandemaar's Trunk - can
 magically access lockers. These items will currently only access
 the lockers in Rune.

ALYRIAN LOTTERY

lottery - information on the Alyrian Lottery system

 The Alyrian Lottery is a fun system that allows Adventurers to try
 their hand at winning big money, without any of the fuss of stealing
 it from deranged banking imps!

 The Alyrian Lottery has three shoppes in which players may buy tickets,
 in Sigil, Rune, and Tellerium, off of Sanctuary, Yew and Steadfast,
 respectively. To buy a lottery ticket, Adventurers may simply give
 the entrepreneur (proprietors of the lottery shoppes) 10,000 gold.

 Each lottery ticket has a different number, per draw, a number that will
 be drawn at the end of each drawing. Tickets from previous drawings are
 automatically checked upon logging in.  Non-winning tickets will be
 discarded and winning tickets will deposit their prize into the
 winner's default bank account.

 The winning ticket is worth half of the amount that was spent on tickets
 for that drawing, which lasts approximately an Alyrian month (eight
 Real Life days or so). Any amount of tickets may be purchased; tickets
 will be numbered sequentially.

 The proceeds from the Alyrian Lottery go to the Sigil Home for Retired
 Wizards.