I’ve got another little problem with this interactive fic I’m writing. What I want is to create a villain character that follows the player until they are killed. I’ve been setting this up with a modification of the “Van Helsing” recipe, setting it in a scene that lets the player explore the small starting area before triggering the coming of the enemy. Here are the directly relevant pieces of coding:
[code]The Waiting Room is a room.
In the Waiting Room is a man called The Jackal. “A man in a black coat stands nearby. He notices you immediately, and raises his gun to fire…”
Pursuit is a scene. Pursuit begins when the Sanctum Passage is open.
When Pursuit begins:
move The Jackal to Bridge.
Every turn during Pursuit:
if the location of The Jackal is not the location:
let the way be the best route from the location of The Jackal to the player, using doors;
if the way is not nothing, try silently The Jackal going the way.
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Suffice to say that, in brief, the Sanctum Passage is a hidden door, and the Bridge is about 5 rooms removed from the Sanctum. The problem is that what this does is that The Jackal moves to the Bridge…and then sits there until the player goes to the bridge. I want him to move from the bridge to follow the player to the Sanctum and through the open Sanctum Passage, which leads to a small maze. Why isn’t he moving?