.DT death Discworld concepts help death Name .SI 5 death - How to die. .EI Description .SP 5 5 Death. Death comes about when your hit points go to 0 or beyond. Once death occurs, you are dead. No seriously now. The death process is along these lines. When you die the function second_life is called on the object that is dieing. If this function returns a 0 then the default processing of death occurs. If it returns 1 then no other processing is done at all. (It is assumed you did it). The default processing creates a corpse. Moves all of the equipment it can from the living body onto the corpse, dests all of remainder then dests itself. Other functions that might be useful is the function make_corpse that creates a corpse with the right characteristics (ie right bits and that sort of stuff). If also moves the equipment into it and sets up the wielding/wearing on the corpse. Death itself is in /d/sur/death/chars/death. The function person_died(string name) is called on him when a player dies to get them to be visited by death. You could fake these by calling the function yourself :) To turn yourself back from a ghost again, you call the function remove_ghost on yourself and this dests the death shadow and resets the properties on you that say that you are dead. If you have died and not finished being visited by death you should have the property "noregen" set on you. If this is set none of the resurrect/raise spells will work on you. The property "dead" will also be set on you. This property specifies whether or not you are dead (funny that) and none of the raise spells will work if this is not set. The remove_ghost function will remove the dead property, but not the noregen one. .EP See also .SP 5 5 make_corpse, second_life .EP
