I loved this - it was a wonderful hybrid of direct chat with simplistic graphical representation of how people would express themselves in chat before the exist

I loved this - it was a wonderful hybrid of direct chat with simplistic graphical representation of how people would express themselves in chat before the existence of graphical emoticons. It would be interesting to create something like this for the MUD experience. A picture is worth a thousand words, but words sometimes can be worth a thousand mental pictures.