19.10.7 CUSTOM PETS

Pets, in Lusternia parlance, are denizens that can be substantially customised
and which are loyal to a particular player. They are _not_ meant to assist
you greatly in combat, though they are not useless either.

The basic price of a pet is 500 credits. With that you get:
  - The pet itself (including fully custom descriptions and name).
  - Resets to you so that it cannot get stolen or lost permanently.
  - Resets to you in the case of death.
  - The ability to order it to move about via tells.
  - The ability to order it to follow you.
  - The ability to order it to enter your inventory.

Beyond this, you may purchase add-ons, either at the time of buying the pet or
any time afterwards. For 900 credits, you can get a pet with add-ons 1-5 plus
five reactions. Things not on this list are also possible, but will probably
add considerable cost.


TRADEIN
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Pets may not be traded in at all - no tradein value, no refunds, no exchanges.
Be sure that you want any pet you purchase, because it will be yours for a very
long time!


ADD-ONS:
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1) Invincibility - 150 credits
  - Your pet will not die.

2) Sentience - 150 credits
  - Order your pet to speak and emote, pre-defined and custom emotes.

3) Flight - 50 credits
  - Your pet will be able to fly. We will only allow this for pets that flying
    makes sense for. No flying sea turtles, for example.

4) Mountable - 100 credits
  - Ride your pet like a pony! We will only allow this for pets that riding
    makes sense for. No riding a cockroach, for instance. You could ride a
    giant cockroach of course, but not a cockroach of normal size.

5) Reactions - 25 credits each (expensive because they are a pain for us)
  - These are described below

6) Amnesia - 400 credits. Your pet will sometimes afflict your enemies
  in combat with amnesia.

7) custom attack message - 300 credits. Your pet's attack will have a
  custom appearance in the form we call an 'oact'. Oacts may not change
  the damage type or amount. Multiple oacts may be combined to give
  the pet various attacks. Each added oact is also 300 credits.
 
8) maskability - 150 credits - With this ability, you gain the ability to
  PETMASK or PETUNMASK. A masked pet does not appear in the room when
  someone LOOKs there, nor is it seen while entering or leaving. This
  does not mean that the pet is completely invisible, since someone
  looking directly at it will see it.

Reactions are responses to various 'events'. An event is something that happens
that causes the pet to respond. The events they may respond to are:

  - Being asked something (by the owner, a certain player, or any player)
  - Being attacked
  - Being greeted
  - Being given something
  - Being told something (by the owner, a certain player, or any player)
  - Death (at the very moment)
  - Dying (hurting bad, not dead yet)
  - Entry of a given player
  - Exit of a given player
  - Hearing something any player says (or only a certain player)
  - Random (this means it just goes off randomly)

The things that denizens can do in response to these events are:
  - Say things
  - Do standard emotes
  - Do room emotes. A room emote is essentially sending out any text whatsoever
    to the room (the name of the denizen isn't in the results, as with a
    normal emote).
  - Move in a direction
  - Follow someone
  - Tell someone something
  - Attack someone
  - Give someone something (provided that the denizen is holding it)
  - Jump into your inventory

So, for instance, you could have your pet automatically run over and pee on
your worst enemy's foot when he/she enters the room. Or you could have your pet
attack someone if someone gives it your dead body. Use your imagination keeping
in mind the lists above.

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MANSE DENIZENS
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A special type of pet is available to manse owners to help bring life to their homes and estates. For a base price of 100 credits you may purchase a denizen that has the following features:
  - The denizen itself (including fully custom descriptions and name).
  - Resets to a room in your manse so it cannot be permanently lost or killed.
  - The ability to order your denizen to roam within your manse, or sit.

For extra cost, you may purchase addons (1) and (7) above, as well as reactions that do not cause the denizen to follow someone, or jump into an inventory. Also, you may purchase an additional upgrade

9) Merchant - 400 credits
    - The denizen will sell up to 5 types of items that you provide. This is only allowed for denizens that make sense as traders - we don't want to see alligators selling undergarments. It is also highly recommended that the invincibility upgrade is purchased alongside this one.

Well, what I think...

For the merchants idea, I'd rather have it be so that if you've already purchased one store in a manse, any additional ones are 500cr instead, and you can set them in any room (providing that room does not have a down exit).

Manse denizens, if implemented, should probably not be invincible. Are regular ones? They should not give any exp for killing them (maybe even negative exp, like when you kill certain things in Aetolia).

I want Crow, Luciphage, Lisaera, and Shitaki patrolling my place.

Well, there are artifact miniatures, and now there's that skill in arts called miniatures. Sure, we should have figurines be able to turn full size. I want Crow, Luciphage, Lisaera, and Shitaki patrolling my place.

You want a giant mushroom?

There's actually a shroomie in Lolliprin called Shitake the Warrior.