Bescort Settings

Description

Gets you through travel that ordinary walking can't handle: ferries, barges, airships and gondolas, mazes, rivers, deserts, the ice road and the astral plane.

You rarely need to run it yourself. When ;go2 (and any script that walks you somewhere) reaches one of these routes, it runs bescort for you. Hunting Buddy also uses it to get into and out of hunting areas behind mazes (the escort_zones in base-hunting.yaml). You can also run it directly for a single leg, for example ;bescort ferry leth.

If you don't have the coins for a fare, it says "Get money you slob!" and stops, unless you turn on bescort_fare_handling.

While it waits for a ferry or similar to arrive, it hides, unless you turn that off.

Settings

YAML Settings

Fares and waiting

bescort_fare_handling: false
bescort_hide: true

Setting	Default	Purpose
bescort_fare_handling	false	When you're short of a fare, walk to that town's bank, withdraw it, and come back. With false, bescort stops and you get the coins yourself.
bescort_hide	true	Hide while waiting for transport. Set it to false to stay visible.

Routes with fares, and how much they withdraw with bescort_fare_handling on:

Route	Fare
ferry (Crossing to Leth Deriel)	70 from Crossing or 35 from Leth Deriel. Zoluren citizens skip this check.
ferry1 (Hibarnhvidar to Ain Ghazal)	62 from Hibarnhvidar. Leaving Ain Ghazal without enough coin, it just stops.
lang (Riverhaven to Langenfirth barge)	300 from Riverhaven or Therenborough.
haven_throne (Riverhaven to Throne City)	300 from Riverhaven or Throne City.
dirigible (Shard to Aesry)	Your circle times 50, from Shard or Aesry.
balloon (Langenfirth to M'riss)	Your circle times 50, from Therenborough or Mer'Kresh.
galley (M'riss to Mer'Kresh)	300 from Mer'Kresh, when leaving Mer'Kresh with under 120. M'riss has no bank.

Flying mount

flying_mount: broom
mountable_item:
mountable_verb:
mountable_dismount:

Setting	Default	Purpose
flying_mount		Your flying mount. It must contain broom, dirigible, carpet, rug, phoenix feather or cloud.
mountable_item		For a phoenix feather or cloud: the item you activate, if it's different from flying_mount.
mountable_verb		For a cloud: the verb that activates it (for example rub).
mountable_dismount		For a cloud: the verb that dismisses it.

With a flying mount, bescort flies over the ice road, the Faldesu and the Segoltha, and into the cave trolls area. fly_under_gondola needs one.

Ice road

footwear:

Without a flying mount, it takes off your footwear, puts on skates if you have any, and skates the ice road. Afterwards it swaps back. Without skates it walks, collecting a rock and kicking the pile at each step. If the game warns that you're going too fast, it slows down.

Shard thieves' guild

shard_thief_password:

The password for the Shard thieves' guild door, for thief_guild. If it's wrong, bescort says so, and stops ;go2 too.

Argument Settings

Run ;bescort <route> <where to>. The routes:

Route	Where to	What it does
ferry	leth, crossing	Ferry between the Crossing and Leth Deriel.
ferry1	hibarnhvidar, ainghazal	Ferry between Hibarnhvidar and Ain Ghazal.
lang		Barge between Langenfirth and Riverhaven.
haven_throne		Ferry between Riverhaven and Throne City.
dirigible	shard, aesry	Airship between Shard and Aesry.
airship		Airship between the Crossing and Muspar'i.
balloon	langenfirth, mriss	Airship between Langenfirth and M'riss.
galley	mriss, merkresh	The M'riss to Mer'Kresh galley. Can be started on board.
jolas	harajaal, merkresh	The Jolas between Hara'jaal and Mer'Kresh. Can be started on board.
currach	halasa, aesry	Rows a currach between Halasa Temple and Aesry.
basalt	island, ratha	Ferry between Ratha and Necromancer Island.
mammoth	acen, fang, ratha	The mammoths between Acenamacra, Fang Cove and Ratha.
sandbarge	from to (hvaral, oasis, muspari)	The sand barge, for example sandbarge hvaral muspari.
gondola	north, south	Gondola between Shard and Leth Deriel. Start on the platform you're leaving.
fly_under_gondola	north, south	Flies a flying mount under the gondola, past the obstacles. Start at the end you're leaving.
therenropebridge	totheren, torossman	Rope bridge between Theren and Rossman's Landing.
iceroad	shard, hibarnhvidar	The ice road between Shard and Hibarnhvidar.
faldesu	haven, crossing	Crosses the Faldesu river at the end of the NTR.
segoltha	north, south, west	Crosses the Segoltha south of the Crossing.
shard		Uses the Shard gates.
hvaral_passport		The gate between Hvaral and Muspar'i.
thief_guild		Enters the Shard thieves' guild (see shard_thief_password).
ways	aesry, crossing, fang, leth, merkresh, muspari, raven, riverhaven, shard, steppes, taisgath, theren, throne, velatohr	Moon Mages: travels the astral plane with Moongate.
wilds	exit, leucro1, leucro2, geni	The Leucro and Geni wilds on the NTR.
oshu_manor	exit, worms, kartais	Oshu'ehhrsk Manor near Germish'din on the STR.
zaulfang	exit, enter	The Zaulfang swamp maze outside Riverhaven.
gate_of_souls	exit, blasted, temple, fangs, fou	The Blasted Plain between the Gate of Souls and the Temple of Ushnish.
crocs	enter, exit	The blue belly crocodiles on the NTR.
desert	adult, juvenile, elder, oasis, exit	The Hidasharon Desert on M'riss (armadillos).
velaka	nomads, westanuryn, slavers, exit	The Velaka desert.
velaka_dunes	oasis, barge, canyon, valley	The Velaka dune maze.
hara_polo	up, down, hunt	The Polo maze at Hara'jaal.
cave_trolls	enter, exit	The cave trolls hunting area beyond the stream.
asketis_mount	up, down	Asketi's Mount, for black marble gargoyles.
abyss		The Cleric entrance to the Abyss. Requires Rezz.
coffin		Into the Abyss through the coffin (lanky grey lachs and others).
eluned		Into the Crystal Cavern of Eluned.

The ways (Moon Mages)

• You must know the destination's Grazhir shard. It checks with RECALL HEAVENS GRAZHIR and remembers the answer.
• Below circle 100, you must start in a room with a Grazhir shard. From circle 100, you can open the gate from anywhere.
• It prepares Moongate with 5 mana, harnesses 20 mana three times, opens the gate, walks the conduit to your destination's pillar, and opens a gate out. If it can't prepare Moongate where you are, it says "You may need to move to another room" and stops.

Debug messages: ;e UserVars.bescort_debug = true.

Usage

;bescort ferry leth

;bescort iceroad hibarnhvidar

;bescort sandbarge hvaral muspari

;bescort ways shard