Allow the shrub to speak!

typeclasses/puppets.py

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from re import split, match, IGNORECASE
+
+from evennia import CmdSet
 from evennia.utils import logger
 
+from commands.command import Command
 from typeclasses.characters import Character
 from utils.word_list import routput
 
@@ -130,3 +133,35 @@ class Puppet(Character):
     def other_given(self, giver, obj):
         target = giver.get_display_name(self).split(' ')[-1]
         self.execute_cmd(f"emote /Me says to /{target}, \"Thanks for the {obj.name}.\"")
+
+
+class CmdShrubSay(Command):
+    """Erase and write on the shrub's chalkboard.
+    """
+    key = "say"
+    locks = "cmd:holds()"
+    priority = 5
+
+    def func(self):
+        here = self.caller.location
+        msg = routput("The shrub uses a branch to << brush ^ wipe >> << off ^ >> << the chalk from ^ >> its << small ^ >> chalkboard, and with another branch, << slowly ^ carefully ^ deliberately ^ >> starts to write << something ^ a message ^ >>.")
+        here.msg_contents(msg)
+        self.caller.db.inside = self.args.strip()
+
+
+class CmdSetShrubSay(CmdSet):
+    """
+    The shrub's version of the 'say' command.
+    """
+    def at_cmdset_creation(self):
+        super().at_cmdset_creation()
+        self.add(CmdShrubSay)
+
+
+class Shrub(Puppet):
+    """
+    The 'Shrub' has its own way of communicating.
+    """
+    def at_object_creation(self):
+        "Called when a character is first created."
+        self.cmdset.add(CmdSetShrubSay, persistent=True)

world/version2.ev

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ py bt = self.search('pixies');  bt.db.pose_default = 'playing music atop a giant
 
 
 # [[file:../../../projects/mud-rpg.org::*Awakened Shrub][Awakened Shrub:1]]
-@create/drop shrub;bush;chalkboard;awakened shrub: typeclasses.puppets.Puppet
+@create/drop shrub;bush;chalkboard;awakened shrub: typeclasses.puppets.Shrub
 # Awakened Shrub:1 ends here
 
 
@@ -200,9 +200,7 @@ py bt = self.search('pixies');  bt.db.pose_default = 'playing music atop a giant
 
 
 # [[file:../../../projects/mud-rpg.org::*Awakened Shrub][Awakened Shrub:2]]
-@desc shrub = If a small shrub had the facial muscles to smile and show how much it enjoys itself, this lil' guy would be it. The short leaves indicates it once was a boxwood, but the way it nurses that glass of water shows those days are way behind. When you look its way, it waves a branch at you.
+@desc shrub = If a small shrub had the facial muscles to smile and show how much it enjoys itself, this lil' guy would be it. The short leaves indicates it once was a boxwood, but the way it nurses that glass of water shows those days are way behind. When you look its way, it waves a branch at you. You notice one of its branches clutch a small chalkboard while another holds a piece of chalk.
-
-You notice one of its branches clutch a small chalkboard while another holds a piece of chalk.
 # Awakened Shrub:2 ends here