Patient

One of the people still breathing behind a shuttered door in Ashcross.

A patient is a nook, not a sprite: a straw pallet, a figure huddled on it, a quarantine sheet nailed across the front and drawn to one side, and a lantern on a hook beside the door. All four are children of the entity carrying this component, so moving the entity moves the whole doorway.

game.rounds places these; nothing else spawns one.

The moment, and the hold

Reaching one is a moment: come within reachRadius and they speak, once, through NB.say — which means the line is heard if the audio slice has a voice for it and printed on screen either way.

Treating one is a hold. Stand within treatRadius and move slower than stillSpeed for NB.RULES.treatSeconds. The lantern's wick catches the moment work starts and gutters back out if the physician steps away, so the progress is readable off the street rather than off a bar. When the hold completes the sheet falls in a heap, the figure sits up bandaged, and the lantern burns.

The lit lanterns are the progress display. Five of them lit is the round.

Fields

Methods

local c = entity.find("patient_vetch").component.get("Patient")
c:status()                                 -- this patient
c:round()                                  -- the whole round's blackboard
c:treatNow()                               -- finish the hold now
c:setPhase("play")                         -- drive NB.setPhase
c:raise("gate.reached", { x = 0, y = 0 })  -- raise an event on the live bus

round, setPhase and raise are the round's external control surface: a scripted beat, a tool, or a test drives the round through them without reaching into game.nb and without having to know which slice owns what.

Where the doctor is

Read off the doctor entity's transform — the local player's avatar where there is one — rather than off NB.state.doctor. The world is always multiplayer and the doctor is a PlayerPrototype the engine clones, so the avatar is the body actually standing there; the speed the hold checks is differenced from that same transform, which means the hold reads true whoever is driving the body.