23.3.2 ARTIFACT PETS AND MOUNTS
Pets, in Aetolia parlance, are mobiles that can be customized to a
fairly large extent in certain ways, and which are loyal to a particular
player. They are _not_ really meant to assist you greatly in combat,
though they will be useful to a certain extent.
The basic price of a pet is 500 credits. With that you get:
- The pet itself (including fully custom descriptions and name).
- The ability to order it to move about via tells.
- The ability to order it to follow you.
- Resets to you so that it cannot get stolen or lost permanently.
- Resets to you in the case of death.
- The ability to order it to enter your inventory (if it's small
enough).
Beyond this, you may purchase add-ons, either at the time of buying
the pet or any time afterwards. For 900 credits, you can get a pet
with add-ons 1-4 plus 10 reactions (see #5). Things not on this list
are possible, but will tend to add on considerable cost due to the
fact that custom coding would be necessary.
Add ons are:
1) Invincibility - 150 credits
- Your pet will not be able to be killed.
2) Sentience - 150 credits
- You will be able to order your pet to say things, emote things, and
use the hundreds of pre-defined emotes.
3) Flight - 50 credits
- Your pet will be able to fly.
4) Mountable - 100 credits
- Ride your pet like a pony! We will only allow this for pets that
riding makes sense for. No riding a cockroach, for instance. You
could ride a giant cockroach of course, but not a cockroach of
normal size.
5) Reactions - 10 credits each
- These are described below:
Reactions are responses to various 'events'. An event is something that
happens that causes the mobile to respond. The events they may respond
to are:
- Being greeted
- Being given something
- Death
- Being attacked
- Dying
- Hearing something a player says
- Being told something
- Being asked something
- Random (this means it just goes off randomly)
The things that mobiles can do in response to these events are:
- Say things
- Do standard emotes
- Do room emotes. A room emote is essentially sending out any
whatsoever to the room (the name of the mobile isn't prepended to
the text as with a normal emote).
- Move in a direction
- Follow someone
- Tell someone something
- Give someone something (provided that the mobile is holding it)
- Jump into your inventory
So, for instance, you could have your pet automatically run over and pee
on your worst enemy's foot when he/she enters the room. Or you could
have your pet attack someone if someone gives it your dead body. Use
your imagination keeping in mind the lists above.
ORDERING A PET
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In order to order a pet, you need to send an e-mail to razmael -at-
aetolia -dot- com detailing what you want your pet to be called and
what its descriptions should be. Include any special features you want
to purchase.
PET COMMANDS
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Aside from the commands in HELP MOBILES, the following will apply to
your pet.
SAY <pet name>, FOLLOW ME
- Makes your pet follow you.
SAY CLIMB UP, <pet name>
- Makes your pet climb up into your inventory.
TELL <pet name> COME HERE
- Teleports your pet into your inventory from anywhere.
FOR MOUNTABLE PETS
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MOUNT <pet> - Mount your pet.
DISMOUNT <pet> - Dismount your pet.
SPUR <pet> SKYWARDS - Your pet flies to the skies with you on its back.
FOR SENTIENT PETS
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TELL <pet> EMOTE <xx> - any built-in emote, like nod, or weep.
TELL <pet> EMOTE EMOTE <xx> - any free-form emote.
TELL <pet> SAY <whatever> - pet will say whatever you want.
See Also: HELP MINIPETS, HELP CASTLES, HELP HOUSE MOBS