# city_library
$loc_arg = $ARGS[0]
$loc = 'city_library'
$menu_loc = 'city_library'
$menu_arg = ''
menu_off = 0
$location_type = 'public_indoors'
frost = 0
gs 'stat'
gs 'themes', 'indoors'
! Stuff to do on Studying a Book
! $ARGS[0] = Skill to Check
$downlibrary['BookStudy'] = {
$downlibrary['Skill'] = $ARGS[0]
*clr & cla
menu_off = 1
if blizoruk = 500 or glassqw = 1:
glassqw = 1
msg' The text blurs across the page, it seems you have poor eyesight. Maybe you should visit an ophthalmologists.'> $curloc
end
if pcs_nerd > 0:
lastread = totminut
lastreadday = daystart
pcs_nerd += 1
end
minut += 60
if $downlibrary['Skill'] ! '':
dynamic "
if pcs_<<$downlibrary['Skill']>> >= 50:
<<$downlibrary['Skill']>>_exp += rand(0,1)
elseif pcs_<<$downlibrary['Skill']>> >= 25:
<<$downlibrary['Skill']>>_exp += rand(1,2)
else
<<$downlibrary['Skill']>>_exp += rand(1,3)
end"
end
blizoruk += 1
gs'stat'
}
'
National Library of Russia'
'> src="images/locations/city/citycenter/library/downlibint.jpg">'
'A huge library with thousands upon thousands of books. You could spend years here and you probably still wouldn''t be able to read it all.'
act 'Leave the library': minut += 5 & gt 'city_center'
if hour >= 8 and hour <= 18:
act 'Read a science book (1:00)':
intel_exp += 4 + (mentats_dose - rand(0,mentats_dose))
dynamic $downlibrary['BookStudy'], ''
' You read the book for an hour trying to make sense of all clever propositions and understand the subject of the description.'
act 'Put the book down':gt $curloc
end
act 'Read an entertaining book (1:00)':
pcs_mood = 100
dynamic $downlibrary['BookStudy'], ''
' You read an adventure fiction for an hour.'
act 'Put the book down':gt $curloc
end
act 'Read the collected works of Leo Tolstoy (1:00)':
dynamic $downlibrary['BookStudy'], 'sprt'
' You read the book for an hour. Tolstoy is certainly a classic writer, no one denies this, but he wrote exceptionally wordily.'
act 'Put the book down':gt $curloc
end
if MagicLibrary = 1:
act 'Read in magic books':
dynamic $downlibrary['BookStudy'], 'splcstng'
' You pick out one of the magic books you can actually read and sit down with it.'
'Not only is the subject matter complex and mostly a mystery to you, but the descriptions and explanations are unnecessarily wordy, as if the writer had something to prove.'
'After about an hour, you decide to take a break from it and, instead, test your memory. You don''t remember much, but you understand magic a tiny bit better than before nonetheless.'
! Find Researchable Spells
if func('spellList','numAvailableSpells','librarySpells') > 0:
if rand(1,10) = 10:
gs 'spellList','addAvailableSpells','librarySpells'
*nl
*pl 'You have come across a lead on a new spell.'
end
else
'There don''t seem to be any more spells to learn here, but perhaps I can still improve my skills in the ones that I''ve already found.'
end
gs 'spellList', 'teacherActions', '$librarySpells', 'city_library', ''
act 'Put the book down':gt $curloc
end
end
else
'The library is closed.'
end
--- city_library ---------------------------------