Report 1062

Report #1062
Skillset: Skill: Impale/Pinleg
 Org: Serenguard Status: Completed Mar 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1. Solution 2 if possible.
Problem: This report explores three simple problems that have to do with
tracking impales, both on the attacker's and victim's end. (1) For the attacker,
impaling a target prevents them from performing a number of actions, including
casting certain spells and using the arm(s) that are impaling the target. It can
occasionally be a pain to track this, especially if you are forced away from
your target which ends impalement prematurely. (2) On the victim's end, your
enemy may be forced away from you, resulting in the impalement ending.
Unfortunately, there's a number of instances in which this can happen, and it is
quite a lot of trigger-work to keep track of this. (3) If you are blacked out
after you started to writhe from an impalement and your writhe completes before
the blackout ends, you receive no cure line. This is out of line with most
afflictions, where you will perceive if you cured it under the blackout.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: As a solution to Problem 1: Allow on the prompt for
 the 'l' and 'r' to be capitalized when either arm is
 impaling a target, and for the 'x' to be capitalized
 for 2-handers (cavalier). On gmcp, allow each
 mentioned balance to include a value of -1 indicating
 that someone is being impaled on those arms.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: As a solution to Problem 2: Add a message for when an
 opponent has moved and a specific impalement has
 ended as a result. For example, if someone impales me
 and an ally gusts them out, it should say "<Person>'s
 rapier is pulled from your gut as he is thrown to the
 <direction>." or some variant. It is important that
 the specific impalement is mentioned, including which
 leg if it is pinleg.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: As a solution to Problem 3: Allow it to be shown when
 you've completed writhing out of an impalement (all
 impalements, including Stag's gore, crucify and any
 other writhe cure that does not behave this way)
 while you're under blackout.
Player Comments:
---[Vivet on 3/10 @ 23:37 writes]:
All solutions supported.
---[Shuyin on 3/11 @ 23:34 writes]:
Yeah this is fine. I like solution 2 particularly especially for the victim POV.
---[Ushaara on 3/12 @ 13:52 writes]:
Yep, all solutions supported.
---[Rivius on 3/13 @ 02:16 writes]:
Another thing that occured to me: The symptom line for pinleg when performing an
action: "The sharp pain in your foot from the weapon pinning it to the ground
makes you incapable of anything other than thinking of escaping it." could
possibly do with specifying which foot (left/right) is pinned to make this a
more useful symptom message. The general idea of this report is to make tracking
these types of impalements less of a chore for system coders.
---[Dynami on 3/14 @ 15:21 writes]:
Solutions 1 and 2 supported.
---[Tulemrah on 3/22 @ 19:47 writes]:
All solutions supported.
---[Tacita on 3/23 @ 11:37 writes]:
Supported.