* Grand Ritual: Alternate Wizard objective (Wizard Events II) (#72918)
Adds an alternate greentext objective for Wizards known as the "Grand
Ritual". This was initially the gimmick of a different wizard-related
antagonist downstream. I didn't get permission to port it, so I'm
attaching it to regular Wizards instead.
Wizards will spawn in with a new Grand Ritual button next to their
antagonist info button. Pressing it will pinpoint them towards their
next Ritual Location (a randomly chosen region of the space station).
Once within that location, pressing it will summon a magic circle and
obliterate any dense objects which are in the way. This also puts the
ability on a two minute cooldown.
Clicking on the magic circle with an empty hand will begin a three-stage
invocation to gather magical power. You can interrupt this invocation at
any time and will resume from the last stage you completed (if you
finished two stages you only need to do one more).
Once you complete a ritual, a random event will be triggered based on
how many rituals you have performed so far. These tend to be ones which
annoy the crew in some manner, and Wizard Events are included in the
list. Additionally, something weird will usually happen to the room you
are in.
Then you are assigned a new location and can toddle off to do it again.
Once you have done this three times, you will be picked up by the
station's sensors every time you start a subsequent ritual and should
expect annoyed company to come investigate.
Once you have done this six times, you can finally spend all of that
accumulated power on the seventh Grand Finale ritual. Completing this
grants you victory at the end of the round and will have a larger,
flashier effect which you can pick from a list of options, think of it
like a wizard equivalent of a Traitor Final Objective or Heretic
Ascension.
After that you can still keep doing rituals if you want to pester the
crew further by summoning more random events, you've already "won" at
this point so now it's your job to make them want to go home.
I think it'd be more fun to just find out what the Finale ritual can do
by seeing it happen but maintainers will probably want a list of its
precise capabilities, so here it is:
Currently completing a ritual also has a chance to create Heretic
Reality Tears (of both varieties, available for Heretics to eat and
visible to crew) as a kind of cross-antagonist interaction which seemed
to make sense to me but if this seems thematically or mechanically
inappropriate it's easy to strip out.
* wew
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
* [NO GBP] Removes a can_spawn_event check that I forgot to remove on the grey tide event. (#71866)
I forgot to remove these lines after changing the area checks away from
a global list. There's no longer any reason why only one of these should
run at a time.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Increases grey tiding :)
* [NO GBP] Removes a can_spawn_event check that I forgot to remove on the grey tide event.
Co-authored-by: Rhials <Datguy33456@gmail.com>
* Grey Tide event light behavior changes and code tidiness (#71230)
## About The Pull Request
Makes a number of changes to the Grey Tide event, some of which are and
some of which aren't player facing.
Player facing bits:
- The lights will once again turn off when the event ends and the doors
begin opening. Originally, the lights would all shatter when the event
hit, providing a cover of darkness for opportunists to sneak around
under. Unfortunately this would prevent the AI from fixing the doors
until the lights were replaced, leading to headaches and the removal of
this functionality in #43159. Now, the lights are simply turned off at
the APC instead of shattered.
- The lights now flicker at certain intervals as the event is running,
rather than just right at the start.
- Announcement has been slightly modified to indicate that the event
hits more than just airlocks.
- Event runs way faster. Doors open all at once, rather than
one-at-a-time.
And now for the non player-facing bits:
- The filename is now grey_tide.dm instead of prison_break.dm. The event
was effectively re-branded to the Grey Tide event six years ago, but the
filename was unchaged.
- potential_areas is now a part of setup instead of a var on the
round_event.
- Cleans up instances of single-character varnames and stuff not in
snake case.
- The event now checks if it has any valid areas (will it work or not)
at the start, rather than at the end.
- The event now sends a global signal when run, rather than checking
everything in the entire world. It should run faster now.
- Everything that can be affected by the grey tide event now stores its
functionality on a signal handler, including the light flickers
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes the grey tide event a bit more interesting and easier to take
advantage of. Cleans up the backend code a bit.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
balance: The lights will now flicker more frequently before a Grey Tide
event
balance: The lights will now be shut off via the APC when the Grey Tide
event opens up a department.
code: Makes some miscellaneous code improvements to the Grey Tide event
code: Grey tide event runs much faster
code: Renames prison_break.dm to grey_tide.dm
/🆑
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@ users.noreply.github.com>
* Grey Tide event light behavior changes and code tidiness
Co-authored-by: Rhials <Datguy33456@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@ users.noreply.github.com>
