Cages, Cage Fights, and Johnny Cage

[mansa]

Hi,

I think there should be an echo when you want to enter a cage, that says, "You may not be able to leave the bone and wood cage.  Type enter cage to enter it."

There's nothing about a cage item that may tell you that you cannot leave it, in it's description.  The point is to prevent people from getting frustrated with entering a cage and not being able to get out, logging out of Armageddon, and never coming back because they entered a death trap that cannot kill them instantly, but kills them by starvation inside a city, which takes 10 hours.

[musashi]

This must have been wonderful for you to have figured out ...

I wish I had known about it earlier, I could have put a big pile of obsidian coins inside the cage, dropped it in the desert, hide, and just waited for the slaves to line up.

[Mood]

I think that cages should be able to be opened and closed from the outside, and closed from the inside. It makes no sense that my character cannot step into a cage without slamming the door behind him.

[tortall]

This must have been wonderful for you to have figured out ...

I wish I had known about it earlier, I could have put a big pile of obsidian coins inside the cage, dropped it in the desert, hide, and just waited for the slaves to line up.

ROFL!!! That would have been amazing.

[mansa]

I think that cages should be able to be opened and closed from the outside, and closed from the inside. It makes no sense that my character cannot step into a cage without slamming the door behind him.

How would you prevent animals from leaving a cage automatically?
Codedly, it's really just a room without an exit, isn't it?

The simplest solution is to force a user who typed 'enter cage' to type it again.

[Qzzrbl]

I once hid a stash of spice in a slave cage, only to find that I couldn't enter or just take it back out.

So I wayed one of my characters buddies over, hinted -very- heavily ICly that I was going to have to pick him up and throw him in so he could get it.

Thankfully he picked up on it and nosaved subdue.

I subdued him, threw him in, he got the spice, I released him from the cage, we went back up in the alleys and got baked.

...Good times.



It's always good to have friends in these kinds of situations.

::Edit:: I've always figured these cages to have a mechanism that locked behind whatever was thrown in from the outside.

[Yam]

They're just giant lobster traps.

[path]

This is funny. There was this one time this happened to me. Well, there's this one cage IG that looks very exciting. Lots of colors and things. Maybe even bells? I just sort of wanted to see about things...So that goes to show about that.

[Tisiphone]

You can 'look in cage'.

[mansa]

You can 'look in cage'.

True, but nowhere about the description of the cage does it say you can't leave it, once you enter it.

[path]

Anyway. I agree with mansa. It should double check with you like it does with a reroll.

[FantasyWriter]

I also agree.

[Tisiphone]

You can 'look in cage'.

True, but nowhere about the description of the cage does it say you can't leave it, once you enter it.

Absolutely, and I agree with the changes you propose.

[musashi]

I concur as well! Here here!