Chord / Cookbook / Social / attacking

attacking

Real combat is the combatant trait plus a combat interceptor, registered from a .story by one header line: use combat (the reference). A story that wants scripted fights instead has the reaction seam: an on attacking it clause whose phrase replaces the standard reply.

The author writes:

create the Training Yard
  a room

  Packed dirt and a straw dummy on a post.

create the training dummy
  aka dummy
  scenery
  in the Training Yard

  A straw man on a post, much abused.

  on attacking it
    phrase dummy-thud
  end on

create the player
  starts in the Training Yard

define phrases en-US
  dummy-thud:
    You catch the dummy square in the chest. It rocks back on its post,
    then swings around to face you again, unimproved.

The player sees:

> attack me
Violence against yourself isn't the answer.

> hit the training dummy
You catch the dummy square in the chest. It rocks back on its post, then swings around to face you again, unimproved.