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Most commonly, mud is a typically messy mixture of dirt and water. The bane of maids and housewives everywhere, mud tends to get animals, children, and the carpet very messy. With that, we shall refer more largely to the modern, online convention of mud.

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'''MUD''' is an [[acronym]] for ''m''ulti-''u''ser ''d''ungeon (or ''d''imension), a [[role-playing game|role-playing]] [[computer]] [[game]] that runs on a [[bulletin board system]] or [[Internet]] server. Many people may connect simultaneously. Once connected, players control a character. They see textual descriptions of rooms, objects, other characters, and computer-controlled creatures or NPCs (''n''on-''p''layer ''c''haracters) in a virtual world. Players may interact with each other and the surroundings by typing commands that resemble plain [[English language|English]].