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Maxaxle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:47 am Post subject:

Eww...a Vampire eating bodies? Ack

Maybe it should simply turn enemies it bites into ally vampires...? Or just killing them by biting them? Or just doing the same as the monster version: Taking away possible health points.
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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:40 am Post subject:

Nah, for starters, I already thought about making allies with the Werewolf, if someone tells me how to do that (and of course if my werewolf ever gets animated), I would. I'd probably have another bar (use the mana one; is it possible to add another color, like gray?) that'd you'd have to have full to make an ally. Maybe you could recharge with every kill, so then after a certain number of enemies is defeated you can bite an enemy and make them into a werewolf to help you.
And anyway, it's not that nasty, actually... I mean, how often do you fight humans? The most humanoid common monsters are lumpkins and cobols, and they're pretty monstrous. Ever played NetHack? You can eat anything. Gross, maybe, but only in the way eating monkey brains is gross. I wouldn't know, as I've never tried them, and am therefore unprepared to even call that gross.
Maybe I should make it so it can eat neither humans (because there's still the guards, I suppose) nor undead though, as the vampyre should still be benevolent (it would just have access to the same save-the-world modules as everyone else, right?), just anti-heroic, like the hobgoblin.

bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:33 am Post subject:

I don't know why you would want to limit the creature from eating humans...

There is a way to change the model that is displayed for a character. You should be able to modify the Book of Morph script to do it.

If there is an insta-kill, you should only be able to do it every so often. Maybe it takes a lot of mana to do or something?

PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:58 am Post subject:

OK, but wouldn't I just want to completely change the object into a helping object? Like maybe however the zombi works?

Assuming we're both talking about the lycanthropy thing, otherwise I have no clue what you'd be talking about...

Oohhhh, I get it, so then maybe you'd be able to bit other friendly players? That's a thought...
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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:16 am Post subject:

Zefz, your script didn't work... Sad

I copied it just as you had it there, except with "MI" (temporarily, to test it) instead of "XX". It killed a cobol in the ash palace and it wouldn't do anything when I touched the body...
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:38 am Post subject:

if you just want to recruit them to your team, you just change their TEAM to match yours!

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a script to change another character/item's team... You can set your own team. Maybe we could add a RecruitTargetToTeam function?

Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

I made a new script function in last release.

Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:31 am Post subject:

Hey PurpleSquekle, here are some ideas to give your vampire some special powers:

PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I was already going to do the weak-to-silver, holy-hurts-him stuff, but wasn't sure how to do it... Although traditionally vampyres are weak to wooden stakes and crucifixes, especially. If we had wooden stake item, we could make it kill him in one hit.

I was also thinking that at 9999 EXP he should be able to gain significantly larger amounts of health from eating...
Or, no, even better- he gets a small max life boost for everything he eats.

Oh, and should he be able to eat tranches and grub bugs and everything too?
I guess not, it would be kinda unfair if he could just eat anything he wanted.
But like i said, Nethack!
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Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

I say he can eat every body he wants (Except undead ones). I highly recommend to do it that way. Thats really rougelike you know (Killing any monster and use them as food).
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PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

I know. I've never played Rogue, actually. But whatever. Nethack!

(From now on I'm going to say Nethack after every sentence. Nethack.)

Anyway, the reason I asked was because one of your examples makes it so you can only eat humanoids.
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Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject:

Yes, but you are not limited to my examples Wink

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Chainsaw · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

PurpleSquerkle · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

Oh, yeah. Nethack. I was thinking that maybe some things wouldn't be as good, too, yeah, and maybe even make it so he CAN eat undead but it hurts him instead of healing him! Nethack!
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PurpleSquerkle · 7/15/08; Three new midi loops.

The script isn't working... Sad

This is what I have: