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Beast Guild prop by Fred

• Beast Guild prop by Fred
  • Foreword
  • Description
    • Background
  • Main
    • Skills
    • Guild commands
    • Special
  • Shapes
  • Guild valley and maps.
  • Other
    • Rank list
    • Titles
  • Comments that doesn't fit anywhere else

Foreword

Description

Background

• What they found was beasts, that were different from normal animals, and nothing else. They began to search the world for more.

Main

Skills

A beast cannot hold or wield anything, just carry.

The ability to turn into a monster is learned from the master or a guru in the guild house, then the player has to shape his own creature from that. Check special.

When a player is transformed, some words will be translated to something unreadable, like: "gossip hey look i'm a bear!" triggers 1.hey to rhouw 2. look to jouljk 3. bear! to hnnuda!!. result in mud will be: "[GOSSIP]Fred: rhouw jouljk i'm a hnnuda!!". now if this is possible, other beasts can have an anti trigger that turns back the words to normal. which will create a beast language.

• Separate languages are completely unsupported and while desirable the system as a whole needs implementing. -- FantoM

Guild commands

tranform: transform into the beast. adds special description to the player and changes all skills into new ones. check special below.

untransform: same as above but will untransform and turn back to normal. [NOTE!] those 2 commands are teached by the master. check other at the end of the prop.

Special

• Only some basic beasts are found in the valley, The others will be spread across the world. Studying the beast will be in a more quests-like manner rather than just taking time.

Why should a player want to change? When a player is tranformed, he/she gets different stats, attacks and abilitys. It's simply the purpose of the guild.

The ability to learn from a beast consumes sp and time (and a bit of thinking). The ability to transform into the beast the player has learned from consumes hp, gp and time. the more gp the longer can a player stay in beast form. Using skills also takes gp.

Shapes

• Will be changed into beasts soon.
• Alignment also changes the shape of the beast.
• To choose between different beasts is very important. Some combinations will work better than others. So a player that decides to learn from all beasts he can find will end up having many commands, but a useless beast form.
  • I've taken into consideration to un-learn shapes. By not using the skills you get so often they will become less usuable, and after time you will "forget" them so you need to learn them again from the same beast. Say a fresh shape will let you have 50% using it often will cause the skill% to go up above 100% even. Using the skill less will make the percentage drop. if it reaches zero, its gone. PS, I will not code in any percentages save to scetch the idea.
    • To scetch even further. The shape/ability learned from the beast is maintained with the skill. Need suggestions on this.

when 2 of the same skill is taught, only one of them stays. The cheap prices is because gp is "drawn" every 6th second when transformed. And also - players do not just get new skills/commands when transformed. Stats and attack/defence is also included ("tranform into the meanest biggest badest creature ever seen on the mud").

Wolf: the player transforms into a more warewolf shaped creature.
skills ->
claw: "wields" claws, which take more damage. cost: 40 gp
player changes: longer nose, sharper claws, hairy.

Fox:
skills ->
howl: the gpose command. cost 30 gp
changes: orange tail.

Lion:
skills ->
roar [target]: lower the defence of [target]. cost: 20 gp, 10 sp and 1 sec
changes: Yellow hair around neck.

Hawk:
skills ->
peek [dir]: looks one room ahead at [dir]. cost: 3 gp
changes: Feathers on arms. width of arms are increased.

• Peek is likely to be impossible to implement reliably at this time, although its something that I think all players should be able to do -- FantoM

Rat:
skills -> none. but by study more creatures gets the transformable beast stronger.
changes:

Rabbit:
skills ->
camoflage: turns invisible. Cannot move though. cost: 20 gp
changes:

• Invisibility is not supported for players -- FantoM

Bear:
skills ->
hug [target]: hugs target. timeconsuming, powerful attack command will hold target for 4 seconds.
cost: 10 gp and 3 sec.
changes: Larger body.

etc etc, continue.

Guild valley and maps.

Legend:
0 = plain
% = forest
^ = mountain
. = desert
~ = water
G = guild house

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                                        ^^^^^

        Guild house
This is how the guild house looks like inside.

D = Door
S = Stair


        ...............DD...............
        :       D               D      :
        :       :S            :4: Rest :
        :   2   :......DD.....:.: Room :
        :       :               :     S:      1 - Kitchen
        :.....D.:               :..DD..:      2 - Conference Room
        :      :                :      :      3 - Masters Room
        :  5   :                :  3   :      4 - Toilet With Door
        :      :                :      :      5 - Bath Room
        ':''D:''     Garden     ''':D:''
         :D..:                  ...:D:..
         :   :                  :     S:
         : 1 :                  :      :
         '': :                  :      :
        ....D.......        ....:      :
        :S         :        :          :
        :          :        :  Living  :
        : Dinner   :...DD...:     Room :
        :    Hall                      :
        :          :'''DD''':          :
        ''''''''''''        ''''''''''''


Floor 2

        ...............DD...............
      ..:       D               D      :..
      : D       :S            :1:   2  D :
      : :       :......DD.....:.:      : :
      '':       :               :     S:''    1 - Toilet With Door
        :.....D.:               :..DD..:      2 - Training Room
        :      :                :      :      3 - Info Room. Here the guild board is placed
        :      :                :      :          among other things.
        :      :                :      :
        :...D:''                ''':D:''
           : :                  ...:D:..
           : :                  :     S:
           : :                  :      :
           : :                  :      :
        ....D.......        ....:      :
        :S         :        :          :
        :          :        :  Library :
        :    3     :...DD...:          :
        :                              :
        :          :'''DD''':          :
        ''''''''''''        ''''''''''''

Other

I like Pyros idea so much so I take it straight as it is (In fact, I already thought of this before I saw that pyro already had it in his prop). If Pyro dislike this I will change it. Commands in the beast guild are non combat ones.

Rank list

Command: Initate - Initates a player into guild and teaches the basic transformation command. Then the initiator must (if needed) show the initatee around and teach him/her the ropes. This can only be done by the master. A little ceremony is held in the garden. Only beasts 30+ is allowed to do this. And only when they feel they are ready for it and they have done the right for the guild, and will continue that way. This is also a promotion.

Other commands is Gwho, gblock and gtalk

Titles

Comments that doesn't fit anywhere else

Ok, no comments so I guess its a complete prop, Ill begin shaping the guild, cross coding with my other projects.

• The prop does not seem to be entirely thought through. Balance issues, implementation issues, and a lot of things that are questionable whether they are possible to implement at all. -- PumaN - 05 Oct 2004
  • I've gone through and flagged what I see as immediately impossible, without any consideration as to whether or not the guild itself is a good thing. -- FantoM

I need it registered into the daemon ASAP, thank you.

• Guild development is currently locked pending new systems. -- PumaN - 05 Oct 2004

As a general comment the combat system is poorly equipt to handle non-standard combat and it would show, badly in many of the transform cases -- FantoM

What do the appearance things have to do with anything? Surely the whole physical body changes? -- FantoM