Generic Climbable Object

Players climb onto and up it with 'climb climbable', and descend with 'descend climbable'.

@height climbable is : Defines the maximum height of a climbable.

Used by the climb verb to detect when you can't go any further.

@describe climbable at level as string : Defines a single line description

to be printed to the player when e climbs or descends to that level, or

to be appended to the output of the containing room's :look_self when

executed by the player. (This is an awful kluge. Don't read the code, OK?)

No editing is available; you may only replace strings with @describe again.

@capacity climbable is : Defines the maximum number of people who

can be climbing on the climbable at once.

@messages available to set:

@next-step climbable is "You climb up."

@onext-step climbable is "climbs up the %d."

Printed to player and room (respectively) when someone climbs from one level to the next.

@start-climbing climbable is "You climb onto the %d."

@ostart-climbing climbable is "climbs onto the %d."

Printed to player and room (respectively) when someone climbs onto the climbable for the first time.

@step-down climbable is "You descend the %d."

@ostep-down climbable is "descends the %d."

Printed to player and room (respectively) when someone descends from one level to the previous.

@stop-climbing climbable is "You get off the %d."

@ostop-climbing climbable is "gets off the %d."

Printed to player and room (respectively) when someone descends from the bottom level to the floor

Programmatic Customization:

The verb :look_height is called in all places where the climbable wants to print out one of the height descriptions entered with @describe above. This verb does player:tell; it doesn't return its string or anything. You can override it, or add stuff to it.

The verb :set_description(level,description) is used by the @describe verb, and can be used to set multiline descriptions by making the second argument a list.

The Generic Climbable Object is invitingly empty.