From: Christopher Allan Webber Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 21:32:47 +0000 (-0600) Subject: hive inside section X-Git-Tag: fosdem-2017~19 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=902b56578960e5af8ea40cfaa90666303baf1d8e;p=mudsync.git hive inside section --- diff --git a/worlds/bricabrac.scm b/worlds/bricabrac.scm index a21829f..b9382ea 100644 --- a/worlds/bricabrac.scm +++ b/worlds/bricabrac.scm @@ -1644,6 +1644,102 @@ that thing soon.")))) ;;; Inside the hive +(define-actor () + ((cmd-read meta-message-read))) + +(define (meta-message-read gameobj message . _) + (define meta-message-text + (with-output-to-string + (lambda () + (pprint-message message)))) + (<- (message-from message) 'tell + #:text `((p (i "Through a bizarre error in spacetime, the message " + "prints itself out:")) + (p (pre ,meta-message-text))))) + +(define hive-inside + (lol + ('hive-inside + #f + #:name "Inside the 8sync Hive" + #:desc + '((p "You're inside the 8sync Hive. Wow, from in here it's obvious just how " + (i "goopy") " everything is. Is that sanitary?") + (p "In the center of the room is a large, tentacled monster who is sorting, +consuming, and routing messages. It is sitting in a wrap-around desk labeled +\"Hive Actor: The Real Thing (TM)\".") + (p "There's a stray message floating just above the ground, stuck outside of +time.") + (p "A door to the south exits from the Hive.")) + #:exits + (list (make + #:name "south" + #:to 'hive-entrance))) + ;; hive actor + ;; TODO: Occasionally "fret" some noises, similar to the Clerk. + ('hive-inside:hive-actor + 'hive-inside + #:name "the Hive Actor" + #:desc + '((p "It's a giant tentacled monster, somehow integrated with the core of +this building. A chute is dropping messages into a bin on its desk which the +Hive Actor is checking the \"to\" line of, then ingesting. Whenever the Hive +Actor injests a messsage a pulse of light flows along a tentacle which leaves +the room... presumably connecting to one of those actors milling about.") + (p "Amusingly, the Hive has an \"umbellical cord\" type tentacle too, but +it seems to simply attach to itself.") + (p "You get the sense that the Hive Actor, despite being at the +center of everything, is kind of lonely and would love to chat if you +could spare a moment.")) + #:goes-by '("hive" "hive actor") + #:chat-format (lambda (npc catchphrase) + `("The tentacle monster bellows, \"" ,catchphrase "\"")) + #:catchphrases + '("It's not MY fault everything's so GOOPY around here. Blame the +PROPRIETOR." + "CAN'T you SEE that I'm BUSY??? SO MANY MESSAGES TO SHUFFLE. +No wait... DON'T GO! I don't get many VISITORS." + "I hear the FIBERS system has a nice WORK STEALING system, but the +PROPRIETOR is not convinced that our DESIGN won't CORRUPT ACTOR STATE. +That and the ACTORS threatened to STRIKE when it CAME UP LAST." + "WHO WATCHES THE ACTORS? I watch them, and I empower them. +BUT WHO WATCHES OR EMPOWERS ME??? Well, that'd be the scheduler." + "The scheduler is NO GOOD! The proprietory said he'd FIX IT, +but the LAST TIME I ASKED how things were GOING, he said he DIDN'T HAVE +TIME. If you DON'T HAVE TIME to fix the THING THAT POWERS THE TIME, +something is TERRIBLY WRONG." + "There's ANOTHER HIVE somewhere out there. I HAVEN'T SEEN IT +personally, because I CAN'T MOVE, but we have an AMBASSADOR which forwards +MESSAGES to the OTHER HIVE.")) + ;; chute + ('hive-inside:chute + 'hive-inside + #:name "a chute" + #:goes-by '("chute") + #:desc "Messages are being dropped onto the desk via this chute." + #:invisible? #t) + ;; meta-message + ('hive-inside:meta-message + 'hive-inside + #:name "a stray message" + #:goes-by '("meta message" "meta-message" "metamessage" "message" "stray message") + #:desc '((p "Something strange has happened to the fabric and space and time +around this message. It is floating right above the floor. It's clearly +rubbage that hadn't been delivered, but for whatever reason it was never +garbage collected, perhaps because it's impossible to do.") + (p "You get the sense that if you tried to read the message +that you would somehow read the message of the message that instructed to +read the message itself, which would be both confusing and intriguing."))) + ;; desk + ('hive-inside:desk + 'hive-inside + #:name "the Hive Actor's desk" + #:desc "The desk surrounds the Hive Actor on all sides, and honestly, it's a little +bit hard to tell when the desk ends and the Hive Actor begins." + #:invisible? #t + #:goes-by '("Hive Actor's desk" "hive desk" "desk")))) + + ;;; Game ;;; ---- @@ -1651,7 +1747,8 @@ that thing soon.")))) (define (game-spec) (append lobby grand-hallway smoking-parlor playroom break-room computer-room underground-lab - async-museum gift-shop hive-entrance)) + async-museum gift-shop hive-entrance + hive-inside)) ;; TODO: Provide command line args (define (run-game . args)