Re: Odyssey: failed orders

From: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Schreuder)

Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

minnotte@stat0.stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte) writes:

>Does anyone know what happens if an Odyssey character (location, guild,
>etc.) issues an order which fails because the prereq's aren't met?
>In particular, does it still count as an action for the character (loc.,
>guild, etc.)?

Yes, it does _not_ count as an action.

>For example, suppose you have a necromancer, c01, you wish to make a spectre
>with spell s184.  If you only have a moderate chance of learning the spell
>on any given LEARN order, could you have your two-action character
>issue:

>LEARN c01 s184
>LEARN c01 s184
>CAST c01 s184 c01,

Several possibilities:
- first Learn succeeds, second won't be executed, and you cast it => 2 actions
- first Learn fails, second succeeds, so you can't cast it anymore.
- both Learns fail, cast can't be executed => 2 actions

>with the theory that if the character doesn't learn the spell the first
>time, he'll take a second try, but that if he succeeds at first, he'll
>use his second action to cast it on himself?

Yes.

So you can create conditional orders in some way: The cast could create
an army, your party could enter it, the army could move and attack
a location, and then your party could move, just in case the create army
couldn't be cast. So you would take a location when you learned the spell,
and attack a den when you failed.

Sjoerd Schreuder

References

Odyssey: failed orders
minnotte@stat0.stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000