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Newbie Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

I am really kind of scripting challenged and would greatly appreciate some help.

I am trying to accomplish a trigger to escape a fight. Basically you have to keep trying to run away several times in order to actually escape. How do I accomplish this? Do I use an #UNTIL command?
Here's an example of the text during the game

You miss.
Dragon massacres you to tiny bits.
READY> north
You run like a girly man!
READY> north
You run like a girly man!
READY> north
You run like a girly man!
READY> north
You run like a girly man!
Mountaintop {n, s}
READY>

My feable attempt at the script is the following:
#TRIGGER {Mountaintop} {#VAR A 0}
#UNTIL {A = 0} {north}

The script fails because the loop does not end on time when you reach the mountaintop.

Please help!
Thank you very much!

Beginner Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 27

Are you using the automapper? If so, one possibility might be to continue issuing the direction command until the room number changes. That might look something like this:

#ALIAS flee {#VAR curr_room %roomnum;#UNTIL {%roomnum <> curr_room} {%1} }

Then, to run away, you'd type in 'flee north', and would continue fleeing north until the room number changed (or you died -- which might be of interest in terms of terminating the script properly).

Note: I have not tested the above alias. I'm assuming %roomnum is the command for getting the current room number, when the automapper is active. And I'm assuming the not-equal-to logic is correct. Plus, you may want to put in some logic that will exit the UNTIL if something else happens....like an OR clause kind of thing....anything that can run an infinite number of times is generally a scary proposition.