Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Proposal: Spooky Grid Action

Reaches quorum with 7-0 -SingularByte

Adminned at 07 Dec 2022 08:40:10 UTC

If there exists a rule “Explorers Phase”, add a rule “Explorer Actions” with the following text to the Dynastic Rules:

Where Planned Actions are concerned, the valid directions are North, South, East, West, Down and Up, or anything their current Room defines as an Exit Direction. North, South, East and West are the horizontal directions. Up and Down are vertical directions.

The available Planned Actions for an Explorer are:
Rest
Peek, together with a direction
Walk, together with a direction
Flee, together with a horizontal direction

Resting has no current effect.
Peeking has no current effect.
Walking moves the acting Explorer one Room in the indicated direction if such a Room exists, if the direction is horizontal. If the indicated direction is vertical, it has no effect unless their Room contains a Staircase.
Fleeing repeatedly moves the acting Explorer one Room in the indicated direction until something prevents them from continuing (for example, the non-existence of the Room they would move into) or until they would attempt to move into a Room that they previously exited during the same Mansion Phase.

The default Planned Action is to Peek North.

I further intend that some room features are not revealed until someone looks up, but room features don’t exist yet.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

06-12-2022 19:51:14 UTC

So much for my force-directed graph plans. ;-)

JonathanDark: he/him

06-12-2022 19:51:45 UTC

But seriously, this will be a lot easier to draw and read, so thank you for that.

Bucky:

06-12-2022 19:59:52 UTC

You wanted to go full Text Adventure?

Josh: Observer he/they

06-12-2022 20:56:18 UTC

I feel like we could be more organic with this.

I’ll also note that you suggested changing the Action keyword in https://blognomic.com/archive/starting_in_the_foyer#comments; if it changes here then it should probably change here too.

JonathanDark: he/him

06-12-2022 21:22:35 UTC

[Bucky] I was thinking of a Text Adventure feel to it, but it’s not strictly necessary. My personal taste is that it adds to the spookiness of the Mansion if the paths an Explorer can take are not always in a predictable fashion.

It’s just a preference on my part, but I will likely go along with what’s better or preferred for everyone else.

Bucky:

06-12-2022 21:28:17 UTC

Ok, I removed the part that defines the grid. Cardinal directions are still available by default, but Rooms can locally define other directions e.g. inside, or “through the vent”.

Habanero:

07-12-2022 00:14:03 UTC

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Lulu: she/her

07-12-2022 01:58:28 UTC

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Trapdoorspyder: he/him

07-12-2022 02:06:10 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

07-12-2022 02:45:09 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

07-12-2022 03:56:00 UTC

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SingularByte: he/him

07-12-2022 08:39:21 UTC

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