Sniff room code!

[RunningMountain]

We all know sniff room exists but I hate trying it outside and finding nothing. Now if certain things were hard coded to make sniff room work on a timer!

Wouldn't stuff like this rock?

Badass sorcerer fireballs stupid ranger who told him to fuck off.
Sniff room whereever or the middle of nowhere shows:
The smell of burnt flesh lingers in the air.

Or another example with spice or fire. Sniff person works for spice, but not sniff room, perhaps taking those same echoes used in each spice category and adding them to the room (if they smoked a hefty amount of it) Would be a cool addition.

God the possibilites are endless. For spells in particular, maybe if you use components or something in casting it would add a pungeant aroma for certain types like leaves or roots or something.

Even combat could add a certain smell, if a corpse is in the room for more then a few IC hours it should add:
The reek of death and decay is in the air.

Or something like that. You could even make the sniff room not work at all in strong winds outside.

Feedback?

[Kennath]

Might be hard to code.
-Ken

[RunningMountain]

Might be hard to code.
-Ken

With the awesome coders arm has? I'd put my faith in them to be able to do it.

Plus the code already exists.

[LauraMars]

Could use some kind of variant of the incense code, couldn't it?  Time specific, maybe just append that the room is a special kind of smelly to the end of the room desc...after all, it should be apparent to anybody walking in.  Unless they have a bad cold.

[RunningMountain]

Could use some kind of variant of the incense code, couldn't it?  Time specific, maybe just append that the room is a special kind of smelly to the end of the room desc...after all, it should be apparent to anybody walking in.  Unless they have a bad cold.

Yeah, I guess certain intense smells could be appended to the room. I still like the idea of having to sniff room to find certain things. Makes me feel like a detective.

[spawnloser]

Yeah, there aren't many places that sniff room seems to accomplish anything.

[Sir Diealot]

neat idea.

[Tuannon]

The greasy, barrel paunched half giant sits here shovelling beans into his mouth with gusto.

Seriously though, such code could give some interesting things to be done with city encounters, out of city encounters and all sorts of stuff.

[Halaster]

Personally, I like this idea a lot, and have even thought about doing some things related to it (and in fact, have on a very very small scale).  There are certain code hitches with saving rooms and other things that we'd have to overcome, but I'm sure there'd be a solution.

[Malifaxis]

RM, that is a killer idea.

[Adhira]

Slightly on a tangent, but for those of you who are sniffing rooms and coming up short-smelled.. feel free to idea those rooms with a smell suggestion.

I've been making an effort to include scent descriptions in all the new rooms I build, I'd be happy to go back through and add more.

[Halaster]

Slightly on a tangent, but for those of you who are sniffing rooms and coming up short-smelled.. feel free to idea those rooms with a smell suggestion.

I've been making an effort to include scent descriptions in all the new rooms I build, I'd be happy to go back through and add more.

What she said.  And if you want, you can email me with any ideas you have for special situation scents - such as the charred smell when someone gets fireballed, etc.

[Sir Diealot]

Does silt smell?  Like, at all?  Thats something I've never been able to figure out.

[Hymwen]

Great idea!

And I don't think silt smells more than sand and dirt does.

[Yokunama]

Does silt smell?  Like, at all?  Thats something I've never been able to figure out.

Silt should have some sort of smell to it.

[LauraMars]

I think silt smells like dusty mud.

Silt makes me think of when a lake or river is low and the mud baking in the sun on the shores has that... methany-dead stuff-hot mud smell.

[spawnloser]

Hmmm...I have a feeling that silt smells like choking if you try too hard.