If you've been on IRC yet, you might have noticed a new user sitting in the channel: GameServ. When I was looking for info on making server link stuffs, I found a few bots one can connect directly into the server, and this one promised to play similar to LORD, so I thought it was worth a try. When I first started messing with it, it hated color in any command you typed, but I was able to easily enough edit the code and recompile to strip that out.
Anyhoo, to get started, you can message it and type "help". You can use "help" in front of any command name from that point to find out more info. The one you'll want to start with is "register", and then everytime you want to play afterwards, you'll need to "identify" to it (much as you do to Nickserv). To actually play, you can use "search", for example, to find mawnsters to attack, and just respond with "attack" to fight back, etc. It seemed like it might be fun, so we'll see how it goes!