// Basic room school by Avelan
// room #3
// May 2001
/*
* NOTE: In order to avoid confusion and to make
* these files a bit easier to read, i'll only
* comment those functions that i haven't commented
* before in the school.
*/
#include "defs.h";
/* Remember that we inherited ROOM_OBJ in the last room
* that you were in. Just like that one, OUTSIDE_OBJ points
* to a file, help global defines to see which one. The
* difference between the two, as you might have guessed, is
* that ROOM_OBJ is an inside room and OUTSIDE_OBJ is an outside
* one. They have a few differences, but the main one is that
* OUTSIDE_OBJ rooms are affected by the weather.
*/
inherit OUTSIDE_OBJ;
void setup(){
set_light(80);
set_short("outside room");
set_determinate("an ");
set_long("This room describes what a basic outside room"
" is like. A few trees grow here and there are some nests"
" embedded deep within their branches. The branches are"
" almost as big as smaller trees and could easily hide"
" a few small animals, this makes the trees excellent"
" hiding places for animals.\n");
/*
* Next the add_items, note that the plurals are handled
* automatically, so i only need to make an add_item for
* nest and still 'look at nests' works also.
*/
add_item(({"room","outside room"}),"The room is quite"
" plain, only a few trees are here.");
add_item("tree","The trees are quite tall and have"
" huge branches.");
add_item("branch","The branches are huge, there are some"
" nests on them.");
add_item("nest","The nests obviously belong to some small"
" birds.");
add_item("bird","None are visible at the moment.");
add_item("animal","There must be many animals living in"
" these trees, although you don't see any right now.");
add_item(({"place","hiding place"}),"The trees must be"
" excellent hiding places for animals.");
add_item("leaf","The leaves rustle in the wind every once in"
" a while.");
add_item("ant","There are ants running up and down the trees.");
add_item("treetop","The treetops are hiding several birds judging"
" from the beautiful singing that can be heard.");
/*
* Ok, a new function called room_chat. You should use
* these in most of the rooms you make, both inside and outside.
* They make the rooms much more interesting. The numbers
* in the function are times, a new chat is chosen between those
* times, so atleast 120 seconds after the last chat but also before
* 240 seconds have past.
* NOTE: Also the nouns in the room chats should have an add_item.
*/
room_chat(({ 120, 240, ({
"A leaf falls off from one of the trees.",
"A bird flies by and vanishes in one of treetops.",
"Wind rustles the leaves a bit.",
"A bird catches an ant running up the tree."
}) }) );
add_exit("backward",ROOMSC "room_school02","path");
add_exit("forward",ROOMSC "room_school04","path");
add_exit("example",ROOMSC "example02","path");
}
