NPC common phrases / questions
GLYPH
Hi everybody! I've got some NPCs in my entry for lpsmith's TFEAMTOIFMC
and I'm trying to think of as many common phrases and questions that
should generate a response from the NPC. Gunther has already sent me
some, but I'd like as many as possible.
An example might be:
>Bob, what the heck are you doing here?
Any ideas for more?
Thanks!
- GLYPH
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Bob, where did you get that lovely tie?
Bob, would you like a soda or some juice?
Bob, what is that terrible thing growing on your neck?
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Jonadab
GLYPH wrote
> and I'm trying to think of as many common phrases and questions that
> should generate a response from the NPC. Gunther has already sent me
> some, but I'd like as many as possible.
Well, first of all, a really complex NPC should have some sensible response
to every possible order the player could give, beyond "Bob has better
things to do."
So
>Bob, die
should not just say that Bob has better things to do. (What it should say
depends on Bob's personality, of course...)
> An example might be:
> >Bob, what the heck are you doing here?
>
> Any ideas for more?
Bob, who are you?
Bob, what do I do now?
Bob, why did you [whatever Bob recently did]?
Bob, what should I ask you?
Bob, can you help me?
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In article <01bd9895$98474ac0$LocalHost@jonadab>,
Jonadab <jon...@bright.net> wrote:
>Bob, who are you?
>Bob, what do I do now?
>Bob, why did you [whatever Bob recently did]?
>Bob, what should I ask you?
>Bob, can you help me?
Bob, where is X? (for a wide variety of X's)
Bob, what is X?
Bob, what is this? (object held)
Bob, who is this? (ideally, pointing)
I really liked the way Edifice handled pointing at things.
I tried it on a whim and was *delighted* when it worked.
Mary Kuhner mkku...@genetics.washington.edu
Joe Mason
GLYPH wrote:
>
> An example might be:
> >Bob, what the heck are you doing here?
>
> Any ideas for more?
bob, what is your name?
bob, what is your quest?
bob, what is your favourite colour?
bob, who did your hair?
bob, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?
bob, knock knock (to which Bob should reply, "Who's there?")
and, seriously...
bob, hello (I always get VERY annoyed when this isn't implemented!)
Joe
GLYPH
Joe Mason wrote:
>
> GLYPH wrote:
> >
> > An example might be:
> > >Bob, what the heck are you doing here?
> >
> > Any ideas for more?
>
> bob, what is your name?
> bob, what is your quest?
> bob, what is your favourite colour?
These first three are already implemented.
> bob, who did your hair?
> bob, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
> wood?
> bob, knock knock (to which Bob should reply, "Who's there?")
Sure.
> and, seriously...
>
> bob, hello (I always get VERY annoyed when this isn't implemented!)
Done.
> Joe
- GLYPH
Greg Ewing
Bob, are you a Citizen or a Puppet?
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David Rush
Joe Mason <jcm...@execulink.com> writes:
> GLYPH wrote:
> > An example might be:
> > >Bob, what the heck are you doing here?
> > Any ideas for more?
> bob, what is your name?
> bob, what is your quest?
> bob, what is your favourite colour?
But you forgot:
bob, what is the speed of an unladen swallow?
HTH
david rush
Gunther Schmidl
>bob, what is the speed of an unladen swallow?
Bob says, "Which do you mean, an African or an European?"
--
Gunther
Steven Marsh
No, that's the interpretor's job.
>BOB, WHAT IS THE SPEED OF AN UNLADEN SWALLOW?
Which swallow do you mean, the African swallow or the European
swallow?
>EUROPEAN
[In other words, Bob, What is the Speed of an Unladen European
Swallow?]
Bob says, "I don't know that."
Bob's is visibly flung off the bridge by an invisible force.
There is a bridge here, currently unguarded.
There is Bob in the river, currently living up to his name.
Steven Marsh
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Kjetil Aavik
> bob, what is the speed of an unladen swallow?
What is the *air* speed. Geez.
Bob, are you my uncle?
-Kjetil
George Caswell
For a little _Airplane_ nostalgia...
"Bob, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
---GEC
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue..."
Rybread Celsius
> For a little _Airplane_ nostalgia...
> "Bob, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
nonononononono!
"Bob, tell me, do you like movies about gladiators?"
Jonadab the Unsightly One
> > "Bob, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
Rybread Celsius wrote
>
> nonononononono!
>
>
> "Bob, tell me, do you like movies about gladiators?"
>
>
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>Bob, have you ever been crazy?
"Not as far as I remember..."
>Bob, I was crazy once.
"Really! How interesting."
>Bob, they put me in a rubber room.
"Hmmm."
>Bob, I died in the rubber room.
"Fancy, I'm speaking with a dead man."
>Bob, then they put me in the cold hard ground.
"Hmmm."
>Bob, and there were worms in the cold hard ground.
"Here all the time I thought worms preferred soft ground."
>Bob, I hate worms! Worms make me crazy!
"Do they, now?"
>Bob, have you ever been crazy?
[etc ad nauseam]
Yr. Obd't & Humble Servant,
Jonadab the Unsightly One.
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