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7368: [MUD-Dev] Re: Object transitions, was Re: Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?
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From: Vadim Tkachenko <vt@freehold.crocodile.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:09:19 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Richard Woolcock wrote:
[skipped as irrelevant to the question]
> My Diku *is* persistant. If you kill someone, their corpse
> remains in the room forever* (slowing rotting away, eventually
> becoming a skeleton) unless someone removes it.
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> *At least this is how it appears from a player's point of view.
> In fact, the corpse is saved, and loaded up the next time someone
> enters the room - getting renamed to rotting/rotten/skeleton
> depending on how long it has been lying in the room.
One funny question here: what is a sure way to make a clear distinction
between, for example, the corpse -> rotting corpse -> rotten corpse ->
skeleton, and, generally, define the transition between two very
distantly connected things which may be a dual (multiple)
representations of the same object?
When and how a 'body' object becomes a 'skeleton' object?
Ice melting into water?
Rock crumbling to dust?
Caterpillar becoming a butterfly?
Lycanthrops in between two literal forms?
you get the idea...
> KaVir.
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Vadim Tkachenko <vt@freehold.crocodile.org>
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