MOBOL, MOB Operating Language

Cities

• When shops open and close, a zone echo about a bell that gongs indicating that the shop is open or closed.

• When players ask for items the shopkeeper doesn't have, shopkeeper to direct them to zone where it loads ... making it into an adventure.

• Mobs that just say things for the hell of it, giving clues to other adventures.

• Mobs in conversation with each other.

• Global narrates asking for help when mobs are attacked, by whitecloaks. ie:

  Citizens, to arms! Darkfriends in xxxx.

• Lots of spam in cities, thus people feel it's busy.

Zones

• Mandatory mobol challenge in each new zone, ie if there is money loaded somewhere, a mob who whispers "heard about the secret treasure in the xxx?" and then make a conversation based on that. This can be expanded, into:

• Directing the player elsewhere, to ask someone else;

• Directing the player to room descriptions which has embedded clues using, say, keywords;

• Alluding to zone resets by using /coms to /force a mob to tell another mob elsewhere that would do something like receive a message from a pigeon and say something about reinforcements in a trolloc castle.

MOBOL notes - examples

IF hear 100% pony dance jig
THEN
emote starts to do a little jig.
emote taps one hoof, and then the other.
emote twirls around, her mane whirling in sparkling light.
wiggle
emote tosses her head back and neiiiiiiiiighs loudly!
emote snorts.
emote paws the ground with her front hoof.
emote braces herself.
pause
emote does a leaping back-somersault!
pause
smile
curtsey
END

IF hear 25% (light OR children OR whitecloak)
THEN
peer @name
say You do walk in the Light, don't you @name?
END
IF hear 25% shaitan
THEN
say Only a Darkfriend would use that name, @name!
kill @name
END
IF hear 25% (tower OR aes OR sedai OR warder)
THEN
emote spits over his shoulder at the mention of the White tower.
END

IF get 100% (scalp AND Trolloc)
THEN
sameclan @name
emote exclaims in admiration!
say great work, @name
/player @name qp 1
END

sameclan will abort if the person is not in the same clan as the mob. /player qp gives qp as usual, and the new ruletype get will be triggered if the mob is given something, in this case a PC trolloc scalp. It's a player because Trolloc is capitalized, otherwise it would be a mob.