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Name
ingested/drunk - Effect for drunkeness
Arguments
int strength
Shadows
ingested/drunk
Description
This effect roughly simulates the drunk handling built into the player object. The strength is divided by half of the player's constitution to obtain the duration in seconds (this was determined empirically from the built-in drunk effect, to give approximately the same duration).
Behavior includes various soul commands (hiccup, burp, etc.), dropping objects, falling and injuring oneself, wandering, and passing out (the last two being more likely at higher levels of intoxication). The effect is countered one-for-one by ingested/knurd and vice versa. It also counteracts the hangover effect if the duration of drunkeness is greater than 10 times the duration of the hangover (basically, to get rid of the hangover you have to get drunk again).
Slurring of speech is handled by the shadow. Note that this effect does *not* use the alcohol volume in the player object.
Bugs
The proportioning of the case statement that handles the random behavior could probably stand some work. It doesn't seem to do much at high levels of constitution. But then, maybe that's a feature.
The hangover handling isn't implemented yet.
See also
ingested.knurd
