If the only purpose for guest characters is to allow a brand new player to
experience the mud before making a character, could somebody maybe make "set
builtin on" enabled by default for guests, so things like "la" and all other
builtin commands work? It seems crazy to me that somebody might login for the
first time and not have these basic command aliases available to them.. and
some might possibly have no idea they need to type 'set builtin on' to make
them work.

First impressions make a difference.. just a thought.