NPC healers walking away mid spell

[Kielar]

It took three attempts before Ghent actually completed the spell. The npc shouldn't be able to move while casting. Failing that, the target should still receive the benefit of the spell.

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glance self
A muscular male moon elf is in perfect health.
His left arm is critically injured.
His right arm is severed.

heal limbs
You donate 2 gold, 1 silver to High Radiance Ghentilara's faith.
High Radiance Ghentilara begins to chant.

High Radiance Ghentilara walks south.
You hear the sound of footsteps from the south.

glance self
A muscular male moon elf is in perfect health.
His left arm has many nasty wounds.
His right arm is severed.

heal limbs
High Radiance Ghentilara says to you 'Here is your change, 3 gold'
You donate 2 gold, 1 silver to High Radiance Ghentilara's faith.
High Radiance Ghentilara begins to chant.

High Radiance Ghentilara walks south.
You hear the sound of footsteps from the south.

heal limbs

You donate 2 gold, 1 silver to High Radiance Ghentilara's faith.
High Radiance Ghentilara begins to chant.

High Radiance Ghentilara utters the words, 'toralounsozgruhz'.
High Radiance Ghentilara's healing power causes your right arm to grow back.

High Radiance Ghentilara walks west.
You hear the sound of footsteps from the west.

[Harroghty]

I added some code to some of the wandering healers in and around Waterdeep (the change will be live with the next copyover). I am going to moving this post to the Builder's Discussion forums so that other builders can use this same code in the future if they so desire. It just adds the SENTINEL flag to a wandering healer mobile when someone types HEAL and then it removes it when anyone moves out of the room (it will not remove the flag if an NPC wanders out, but anyone who physically types NORTH, for example). Not perfect, but workable.

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>intercept_prog heal~
mpunintercept
mpmset $i flags sentinel
mpmset $i quest 0 1 1
~
>intercept_prog north~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog south~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog east~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog west~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog northeast~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog northwest~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog southeast~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog southwest~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog up~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~
>intercept_prog down~
if quest(0, 1, $i) == 1
  mpmset $i flags sentinel
  mpmset $i quest 0 1 0
endif
mpunintercept
~

[Raona]

Is there a hard code issue here worth tackling, namely that NPCs can move while casting?

[Harroghty]

I don't believe so. Not with the other issues at hand from the hard code perspective.

[Tarven]

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm fairly certain that they can't cast -offensive- spells while moving. If they could, that'd be a whole different bag. Theoretically, an easy fix for players would be to follow the NPC healer, before requesting the heal.

[Harroghty]

There are few enough wandering NPC healers that it should be pretty easy to apply this soft code bandage and avoid either of those courses of action.

[Tarven]

There are few enough wandering NPC healers that it should be pretty easy to apply this soft code bandage and avoid either of those courses of action.

That too. =P In fact, I think that same temple might even have another healer that doesn't wander, though I might be mistaken.

[Mask]

Would a 'leave_prog' not be a better choice than a bunch of intercepts?

[Harroghty]

Not sure that those work, but yes; it would if they do.

Confirmed, leave progs do not work.