For my Knight Wear people! We present...

... more verbs, huzzah! (And for anyone who's seen The Great, yes, I totally smashed a glass while huzzahing ;) ).

Verb Set 3 is the new set -- RAISE, SPIN, FIDGET, and GRIN. This is an add-on tier rather than vertical tiering. Lil' bit of the new messaging is pasted at the bottom of this post.

For those not familiar with Knight Wear: these are an interactive set of items with a jousting-esque theme behind them. There are 6 different item types -- helm, spurs, surcoat, belt, gauntlets, and armor! There are 3 different flavors of messaging -- Lance (traditional), Gaston (confident, arrogant, or a bit of a peacock -- depending on your POV), and Monty (clumsy-ish)! The base items are all sold in The Knight Way, with a section of the shop dedicated to each flavor, and you can certainly mix and match which flavors you wear together.

Both Verb Set 2 and Verb Set 3 are available to add on to Knight Wear items via certificates in the north-most room of The Knight Way. Surcoat design variations are available in that same area from the seamstress. Spur embellishment variations are available in the Rumor Woods forge area.

As a reminder, aside from attaining base Knight Wear items from The Knight Way, the forge area of Rumor Woods still includes blacksmiths who can add Knight Wear helm/armor/gauntlet ability to your unscripted helm/armor/gauntlets. The blacksmiths require that the items are built a certain way in order to be eligible for this (for example, armor must be actual armor profiles; gauntlets need to be hand-worn items built as plain or UAC gloves that already have the noun "gauntlets", etc.) -- if you run into any items that they refuse to work on but don't giving a clear indication of why, you can BUG or ask here.

In addition to those offerings from the blacksmiths, you can also now add the Knight Wear spurs ability onto unscripted, pinworn items that already have the noun "spurs".

Massive thank yous to GMs Isten, Lanadriel, and Auchand for their QC work on all of these elements!

Happy jousting!

~Kaikala


Verb Set 3 - a few examples of one verb (RAISE) on 3 different items:

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*RAISE BELT*
LANCE
1st: Hooking your thumbs into your red bazan belt, you lift your gaze and calmly scan the horizon for any threats.
3rd: Hooking her thumbs into her red bazan belt, Roxe lifts her gaze and calmly scans the horizon.

GASTON
1st: Casually hooking your thumbs into your red bazan belt, you lift your gaze and nonchalantly scan the horizon while simultaneously laughing to yourself and lamenting the lack of realistic threats to your person. Truly, it would be a welcome surprise to find anyone or anything that could ever pose a danger to you!
3rd: Casually hooking her thumbs into her red bazan belt, Roxe lifts her gaze and nonchalantly scans the horizon while laughing to herself and lamenting a lack of any realistic threats to her person.

MONTY
1st: Hooking your thumbs into your red bazan belt, you intermittently lift your gaze to apprehensively scan the horizon for any threats.
3rd: Hooking her thumbs into her red bazan belt, Roxe intermittently lifts her gaze to apprehensively scan the horizon.


*RAISE GAUNTLETS*
LANCE
1st: Closing one gauntlet into a fist, you triumphantly raise it to pound at the air -- once, twice, three times in quick succession.
3rd: Closing one of her gauntlets into a fist, Roxe triumphantly raises it to pound at the air -- once, twice, three times in quick succession.

GASTON
1st: Closing one gauntlet into a tight fist, you winningly raise it to punch the air -- once, twice, three times in quick succession. You humbly bow, then pause to wait for the necessary accolades that you are absolutely positive you deserve.
3rd: Closing one of her gauntlets into a fist, Roxe winningly raises it to punch the air -- once, twice, three times in quick succession. She fluidly bows and pauses expectantly, as if awaiting accolades of some sort.

MONTY
1st: Closing one gauntlet into a loose fist, you hesitantly raise it to pound at the air -- one, two, three, four, five, six times -- in slow, but progressively rapid, succession.
3rd: Closing one of her gauntlets into a loose fist, Roxe hesitantly raises it to pound at the air -- one, two, three, four, five, six times -- in slow, but progressively rapid, succession.



*RAISE SURCOAT*
Showing the empty-handed version for all 3 flavors below, but also adding some additional Lance outputs to show that some wording will vary based on what "weaponry" is in your hands (that specific part of the wording is the same across all 3 flavors).

LANCE (empty hands)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes quietly against your vaalorn half-plate as you advance forward, your gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of you.
3rd: Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes quietly against her vaalorn half-plate as she advances forward, her gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of her.

(RH: wand, LH: empty)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes quietly against your vaalorn half-plate as you advance forward, holding your golden wand aloft in front of you.
3rd: Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes quietly against her vaalorn half-plate as she advances forward, holding her golden wand aloft in front of her.

(RH: sword, LH: shield)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes quietly against your vaalorn half-plate as you advance forward, your vultite sword raised up alongside your tower shield, which you hold up slightly out in in front of you.
3rd: Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes quietly against her vaalorn half-plate as she advances forward, her vultite sword raised up alongside her a tower shield, which she holds up slightly out in in front of her.

(RH: 1 arrow, LH: long bow)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes quietly against your vaalorn half-plate as you advance forward, raising your long bow, with your arrow nocked against it, up in front of you.
Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes quietly against her vaalorn half-plate as she advances forward, raising her long bow, with her arrow nocked against it, up in front of her.

GASTON (empty hands)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes quietly against your vaalorn half-plate as you confidently stalk forward, your gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of you, your place at the top of the food chain unquestionable.
3rd: Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes quietly against her vaalorn half-plate as she confidently stalks forward, her gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of her, her body language conveying her smug attitude.

MONTY (empty hands)
1st: Your white noil surcoat swishes against your vaalorn half-plate as you bumble forward, your gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of you with a courage that you don't at all feel.
3rd: Roxe's white noil surcoat swishes against her vaalorn half-plate as she bumbles forward, her gauntlet-clad fists raised up in front of her as she trembles like a leaf.

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Speaking softly to you, Rovvigen says, "Please dont be a stranger."
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Speaking to Rovvigen, you exclaim, "I am never strange, Rovvigen!"
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[MYCHAR: XxXxX is thinking to herself, "Please do not get any stranger..."]

>>I wish I could convey complex inner states in the 3rd person output of my custom scripts.

If they're worded to be realistically visible to 3rd parties (the laughing to oneself and lamenting here are both definitely intended as viewable/audible actions), you absolutely can ;)

~Kaikala

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Speaking softly to you, Rovvigen says, "Please dont be a stranger."
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Speaking to Rovvigen, you exclaim, "I am never strange, Rovvigen!"
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[MYCHAR: XxXxX is thinking to herself, "Please do not get any stranger..."]

My KnightWear armor seems to have a variable for how it's fastened, with straps or buckles being options, and it's set to nothing. Is there an NPC that changes that embellishment? It's the only thing I haven't customized so far :-p