Another tweak to PR #1240. Vampires start out vampshifted to
bat/fog/wolf form. Marking them as 'waiting' forces them back to
vampire form. Testing that revealed one of the brides as a vampire
lord rather than a vampire lady. That could probably be construed
as being politically correct but doesn't match the source material.
The reversion from vampshifted to vampire entailed a 10% chance of
toggling gender, comparable to hero self-polymorph. Don't do that
for vampires. From the player's perspective they change randomly but
from their own perspective, the change is controlled.
Extend PR #1240 by giving the three brides names.
It looks a bit odd when they're in bat/fog/wolf form rather than in
base vampire lady form but I think that we can live with that.
In the original Bram Stoker novel, Dracula has three brides,
colloquially referred to as the [Brides of Dracula]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brides_of_Dracula). I thought it would
be a nice touch for NetHack to quietly reflect this by ensuring three
of the vampires of his court are vampire ladies. While this
technically increases the difficulty of Vlad's Tower, the vampires in
Vlad's court are not necessary to fight, and the experience level of
a hero at this point in the game is likely to cause them to spawn as
vampire lords or ladies in any case.
No established names exist for these characters, so I have left them
unnamed.
[Cherry picked rather than merged into order to reformat the commit's
log message. PatR]
Closes#1240
Game is playable, and should compile on linux and Windows.
Assumes you have a lua 5.3 library available.
Removes level compiler and associated files.
Replaces special level des-files with lua scripts.
Exposes some NetHack internals to lua:
- des-table with commands to create special levels
- nh-table with NetHack core commands
- nhc-table with some constants
- u-table with some player-specific data (u-struct)
- selection userdata
Adds some rudimentary tests.
Adds new extended command #wizloadlua to run a specific script,
and #wizloaddes to run a specific level-creation script.
nhlib.lua is loaded for every lua script.
Download and untar lua:
mkdir lib
cd lib
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.5.tar.gz
Then make nethack normally.
