One very important aspect of any script is the prot management. GgrTF contains a flexible and easy to extend prot management system, which supports basic, stacking and renewable prots. Special cases are also supported, like unstun and conjurer typeprots.
For actually displaying the active prots information, GgrTF offers various methods. The statusline shows the currently active prots in short form (without duration times). Macro command "/prots" can be invoked to locally echo the active prots in long form. Finally, a special BatMUD emote, 'tweak', can be used to trigger reporting of active prots to party report-channel (the 'tweak' emote was chosen for this purpose due to it being the de-facto standard for prot reporting triggers.)
Classes of prots supported by GgrTF are roughly the following:
Harmful effects/curses/handicaps
Basic utility prots (infravision, water walking, floating, invisibility, etc.)
Conjurer prots (minor- and major typeprots, stickyness)
Evil priest (protection from good, paranoia)
Tarmalen (unpain, blessing of tarmalen, lifelink, enhanced vitality)
Nun (protection from evil, soul shield, heavenly protection, mana shield)
Templar (shield of faith, blessing of faerwon)
Psionicist (levitation, force shield)
Druid (flex shield, earth power, earth skin, earth blood, vine mantle, regeneration)
etc...
The string describing active prots consists of entries with abbreviated name of the prot, current duration (from casting), possible number of stackings and optional stickiness-indicator for sticky conjuprots. The entries are separated with vertical line character (sometimes called the pipe). Some examples of prot entries with explanations are shown in table below.
Table 4.10. Prot entries
| Entry | Description |
|---|---|
| Unst[1m9s] | Unstun with duration of 1 minutes, 9 seconds. |
| +AoA[7m19s] | Sticky Armour of Aether. |
| Infra(2)[0m2s] | Infravision stacked at 2 levels. |
| Unst<2>[7m19s] | Unstun that has been weakened 2 times. |
| -Forget[3m5s] | 'Forget' curse that has been active for 3 minutes and 5 seconds. |
Simple example session featuring some protting action in GgrTF:
tweak jeskkoYou tweak Jeskko's nose mischievously. Jeskko [report]: Unst[1h1m13s]unp jeskkoGgr [report]: Unpain -> jeskko GgrTF: ---- SPELL START ---- (393) GgrTF: 'unpain' -> jeskko Unpain: ##### [5] You skillfully cast the spell with greater haste. Unpain: ## [2] Unpain: # [1] GgrTF: ---- SPELL DONE ---- in [3] rounds! [0m9s] You utter the magic words (unpain) You cast the spell successfully. H:506/506 [] S:805/941 [-136] E:246/246 [] $:6499 [] exp:68202 [] Jeskko [report]: Unpain ON!tweak jeskkoYou tweak Jeskko's nose mischievously. Jeskko [report]: Unst[1h4m25s] | Unp[2m35s]
<> = required argument, [] = optional argument
Table 4.11. Macro commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /prots | Show any currently active prots on you. The output is only echoed locally, use BatMUD 'tweak me' emote to list prots to party report-channel. |
| /cprots | This command clears all prots on you. It is meant for those cases where GgrTF is either bugging and does not notice a prot dropping, or any other reason when you need to remove all prots at your discretion. |
| tweak <target> | BatMUD's 'tweak' emote is used to report prots to party report-channel. |