Tell

tell <player> <text>
@<player> <text>   (from the main window)

Sends a private message to a player anywhere in the world. The conversation gets its own place under Private in the Chat pane. A player who isn't playing gets it when they come back (type their whole name): they are told what is unread when they enter the game.

Your conversations are kept until you delete them, like a chat app's: they are there each time you play, and "Load earlier messages" at the top of one goes back further. Delete in a conversation's header, or "Delete all my private messages" in Settings (Character), deletes your copy; the other player keeps theirs. REPLY answers the last one who wrote to you.

See also: REPLY, NOTELL, CHAT