Entry 113

"Skeith in the field: the boss entry, its task each frame, and what it asks of the area"

2026-09-25battleworld

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109's rules and 112's arena, put together: event 30's entry 7 0 now makes Skeith in field 1, and he fights.

The runtime

• The entry. ccEntryEventMng hands type 7 to ccBossEntryStart(0). In the port, FieldWorld::entry_setup sees an entry 7 0 among the event's entries after the entry control's set-up. It loads the boss's look (x11's CMP_trall and every clip of x11 and xeffect), and Combat::start_boss builds ccBoss01 over the battle's scene:
  • the boss is a Char::foe of bossTbl row 0, its affects going to AffectFunc::Boss;
  • its centre is the arena's DMY_center01, and it stands 500 below Kite, facing his way;
  • BattleData now reads Skeith's tables from GCMN.PRG.
• The frame. Combat::frame runs the boss's task after the entry control, in the game's task order (64, then 66, then the effects at 80). The actor takes the boss's clip and frame, place and heading, setTransparency, and whether it is drawn. The boss joins the enemies Kite's frame targets and the HUD lists.
• Affects from other frames. The game calls bossAffectFunc from inside Kite's and the members' frames. Their contexts in the port build their own AffectCtx without the boss's tables. boss::entry with no BossEnv now queues the affect (type, params, who) on the boss, and boss::apply_queued runs them in order at the start of its task, the same frame, before Main. Two hits in one frame keep their order.
• What it asks.
  • Out::Skill now carries its target and runs through Combat::item_skill.
  • Hit marks and damage numbers become rule events for the effects.
  • Sounds (ccSeOn3D, ccSeOn3DNote, ccSeOn), scFadeDef flashes and EVENTAREAB0::SwitchLayer reach the area mode (boss_calls).
  • A DeleteCmnd takes it off the enemies' list.
  • Everything else is shown as Show::Boss and waits for its reader.
• The event. The area host's boss() answers present 7 / absent 7: task parameter 0 while it fights, 1 once it has exited.

Checked

• session::skeith::skeith_fights_in_its_arena. Field 1 is set up as area 27's door leaves it (area 27's WORLD_MAN, town 1), with entry 7 0. Over 900 frames the boss exists and runs its patterns: neutral, the cross, the chase. The host reports it fighting.

• skeith_shots (ignored) writes every 30th frame. The shots show:

  • Skeith in the arena, targetable as "Skeith" with his HP;
  • BATTLE MODE ON;
  • the cross swung at a new game's Kite, who does not survive it at level 1.

• session::skeith::event_30_ends_with_skeith. Event 30 plays end to end in the arena: the VM of --mode story:30 with blocks 0-19 marked played and eventStatus[0] 4. Block 20's accumulated settings need both, carried from block 3's block_done 1 and block 12's status 4.

  • Block 20 runs battle_ready, block 21 (phase 2) plays streams 14 and 17, then entry 7 0 makes the boss.
  • Kite has 9999 HP. The drain's 13 and 21 are put on the boss while the player is free (the menus cannot open under LockPlayer), then hits of 800.
  • The Epitaph (act 12) follows, then death (act 14) and the exit.
  • Block 22's if absent 7 runs, and its mode 3 takes the session to the desktop.
  • The desktop runs event 31 (ENDING):
    • stream 15, about 5160 frames;
    • the closing lines, pressed through;
    • the desktop with block 1's staff_roll, about 7230 frames;
    • then the desktop again, the game cleared.
  • The desktop's title now says when the staff roll runs.
  • An earlier run drained Skeith in the middle of his magic, which the menus cannot do. That left lockPlayer set and the party held for good. A level 1 Kite dying makes the party count as annihilated, which leaves a -1 wait in force and the boss standing.

• session::skeith::skeith_drained_through_the_menus. In the same arena, Kite gets the bracelet and Data Drain and the boss's protect is broken. Kite walks up while the boss is free and plays the menus: PERSONAL, Skills, the Data Drain page, the target page (65), menu 66. The boss takes the drain and its Epitaph begins.

• The boss's menu locks. LockPlayer's MenuForbid and the cursor now reach ccMenu's forbid, forbidChatExcept and cursolOff.

• The body hit. bodyHit is on the collision list at the boss's place:

  • ccBoss::Move's SetHitSW(bodyHitSW);
  • its CollisionDetection answers the rules' collide;
  • its copy follows the boss;
  • it leaves the list at the exit.

  kite_bumps_into_skeith walks Kite at the boss for 600 frames, and he stops 200 away instead of passing through.

• Menu 74. StreamMenu (gcmn 0x00535340) is ported (piney_fieldui::menus::stream):

  • the fade, then the stream;
  • ccThStrParty (0x0056ab00, piney_world::foe::StrParty): each flagged member's CMP_trall in its spcAnmTbl pose at the stream's OBJ_dmy_spcN (piney_stream::scene::Scene::world_named, new);
  • the menu's close.

  The boss's StreamMenu output opens it. skeith_drains_a_member gets the gauge past half and lands a hit, so the Super table's drain (act 5) opens menu 74. Stream 20 plays with the member drawn (str_party 0x1), the menu closes and the boss goes on. member_drain_shots (ignored) shows Kite hanging in stream 20 while Skeith drains him.

• The picture.

  • ccBoss::Draw's blend: ccChar::Draw's hit flash and condition tints, but none while off the command lists. The boss's conditionNum now starts at ccChar::ccChar's -1; with 0 Skeith wore the first condition's purple.

  • The after-images (EntryAfterImage, ccBossAfterImageEx::Draw 0x0045b980): the pose when entered, white (m_eai colour -1 at 100), from 1.0 by -0.05 a draw on effLayer.

  • The wave's DrawParts (Out::DrawWave, new): xeffect's ANM_xx11wave objects at the boss on objLayer.

  • The stage fader (InitStageEffect 0x0045eac0, BeginStageEffect, EndStageEffect): scStageFade on stageLayer, priority 2, above the stage and under the characters. EntryFlash3(t0, t1, t2, rgba) for Begin. End deletes a running element and, with t, flashes out from rgba.

  The shots show the dash's white trail, the wave's burst under Skeith and its damage on Kite. The magic dims the arena, and Skeith hides for the IceBreak (OffDraw).

• The rest. The rules' harness still matches with the target added to Out::Skill. The workspace's tests, clippy and fmt pass.