Quoll Work Thread, 2025-10-11 - 2025-10-11 18:37
Ya girl is back on Quoll trying to wrap up a few more implementation tasks before she lets herself loose in an orgy of writing! First up is wrapping up the fourth conversation affection verb, booping!
For the most part, I have written all the code here but I have outstanding testing to run, and likely a few places where I still need stub rules added. This includes a test of a new phrase I did to write about Ada in a species aware way:
To say gnbsp-ada-short-pelt-description:
let S be the species of the player;
if S is h-sapiens:
say "skin";
otherwise if S is d-draco or S is a-squamigera:
say "scales";
otherwise if S is e-quagga or S is p-porcus:
say "hair";
otherwise:
say "fur".
Rather than for booping per se, this was about me writing a response for Ada trying to kiss a grue, where she doesn’t want to get grue slobber on her pelt, and is just a less verbose version of a similar rule I wrote in December 2022:
To say gnbsp-ada-pelt-description:
let S be the species of the player;
if S is:
-- h-sapiens: say "caramel-colored skin";
-- b-taurus: say "orange and white speckled fur";
-- l-victoriae: say "brown-gray fur";
-- r-norvegicus: say "brown-cream tapering fur";
-- d-draco: say "bright purple scales";
-- a-squamigera: say "dusky orange scales";
-- e-quagga: say "black and white striped hair";
-- c-hircus: say "white fur with brown and black splotches";
-- l-catta: say "gray fur";
-- g-gallus: say "mostly black feathers with a few white one speckled about";
-- l-pictus: say "tri-colored brown-black fur with white splotches";
-- p-porcus: say "orange hair with a white stripe running from my head down my back";
-- l-lynx: say "spotted tawny fur";
-- m-mephitis: say "dark black fur with a few white stripes running from my head all the way down my back and
tail".
Not sure why I felt like sharing these; perhaps I just think they’re kind of cute peeks under the hood.
Anyway, back to work!