glife/locations/city_library.qsrc

# 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.'&gt $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'
}

'<center><b><font color="maroon">National Library of Russia</font></b></center>'
'<center><img <<$set_imgh>> src="images/locations/city/citycenter/library/downlibint.jpg"></center>'
'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



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