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diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt b/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt index 17579e9067..bb5ea8ecc2 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ carefully constructed monster speech never gets printed, and this documentation also doesn't help you solve the problem, you might want to post a bug report on Dungeon Crawl's SourceForge site [1]. +The exception to the above is when the monster goes away due to dying, being +banished, or a summoned monster being abjured or having it's time run out. In +that case the monster always speaks if the player can see the grid the monster +is on (assuming that there's a speech entry defined for that occasion, of +course). B. A simple example ==================== @@ -386,13 +391,34 @@ and the only hardcoded keywords are "noisy weapon" for weapons with the noises property, and "singing sword" for (who'd have guessed?) the Singing Sword. +Death speech +------------ +You can define messages for the monster to give for when it goes away in three +different manners: + +* If it really died, then the game will look up a speech entry with the + same keys as usual, but with " killed" appended to all the keys. + +* If it was banished, then the game will append " banished" to all the + lookup keys. + +* If the monster was summoned and rather than being killed was abjured or + ran out of time, then the game will append " unsummoned" to all of the + lookup keys. + +The game will always do a lookup in these circumstances if the player can see +the square the monster is on, so if you only want a death message to be given +occasionally then make one of the messages "__NONE" and give it a high weight. + +Of course, if no keys with the given suffix are in the database then the +monster will say nothing in that circumstance. + Special monster speech ---------------------- -Rarely, monster speech will also rely on hard-coded keys, such as -Boris' "return_speech". If such a hard-coded key is changed or removed, -the speech in question will simply not be printed. This may look odd in -the game, but will have no other effect. Sometimes, default messages -will be output instead. +Rarely, monster speech will also rely on hard-coded keys. If such a hard-coded +key is changed or removed, the speech in question will simply not be printed. +This may look odd in the game, but will have no other effect. Sometimes, +default messages will be output instead. God speech ---------- |