Basic actions

Basic actions are the verbs every class has in a turn-based room. Each one reuses an existing character animation, as the user asked.

The actions#

Location verbs (Seal, Trim and Process) exist only where a room offers them. See Location verbs.

Tend#

Tend clears one debris clump. A companion may Tend, which uses one of its jobs. In the Quiet Tracts, each clump you Tend goes into your load of 3.

Inspect#

Inspect reads a hidden fact: a side-story cue, an input's pulses in the Tag Garden, or a vessel wall's condition in Vessel Margins. Companions never Inspect, because recruits do not diagnose. If Mote stands beside you, the Inspect also files Mote's field note.

Call#

Call is a signal, never an order (the user's reframing, 1 November). You pay its Supply before the room. In the room, Call signals within 4 tiles, and the room decides which eligible residents hear it and choose to answer. It may go unanswered. Call exists in Act II and Vessel Margins. Claude B reports that no current room uses it yet. Call lets every class learn coordination without the Coordinator.

What companions can do#

A companion may only Care (at half strength), Tend or wait. It never Inspects, Links or uses class skills.

Development#

All of these are in B's turn engine in the alpha. Room-level use of Call and its Supply price are not yet hosted: the lead lists "paid Call provisioning when a matching room is authored" as remaining work.

See also#

Care · Link · Settle · Location verbs · Turn-based encounters

Sources#

1. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/31-turn-based-encounters.mdcopy
2. b89f778c2:src/main-game/alpha/public/encounter/src/skills/turns/catalog.jscopy
3. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/28-recruits-rest-stops-economy.mdcopy