Emoting

Expressing actions and emotions that are not programmed into the game. Emotes are usually written between two asterisks

*emote*

though some people use double colons

::emote::

The things between the marks are not meant to be taken as something the character says, and reacting to it as such will make you look like an idiot. (Trust me, such has been seen, unfortunately.) Cantr adds "You say:" into the beginning of everything you post and this thing is to be ignored when reading emotes.