Entry 134

near_marker outside the towns: event 17's Data Drain lesson plays through

2026-09-26script

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Event 17 is where Mia teaches the Data Drain. In block 13, in area 18's dungeon, she sends Kite toward the magic portal. The script walks Kite part of the way (pc_walk_pos) and hands him back. Block 14 then waits on if near_marker 1 <= 250.

The field and dungeon host (AreaHost) had no player_distance, so it fell back to the host default. That default answers f32::MAX, so the block could never open, and the lesson stopped at the portal however close Kite walked. A scan of the host defaults against the Infection scripts found it. The fields and dungeons still lack marker, load_overlay, set_frame_rate, affect, prev_room, condition_effect and enemy_pp as well. None of those is used in an M1 event outside the towns: overlay and frame_rate are only used on the desktop, in events 1, 4 and 31, and near_marker is the only one that was missing (field-game.md).

The fix

FieldWorld::player_distance computes what ccEvent::CheckOpen (main 0x001a7d9c) does: ccGetDist(ccTransPosW2P(pos), plw->posP), on the ground. The player's frame wraps through the map's bounds (Combat::bounds, kite::w2p_pos). The VM already looks the marker up as the evPos of that number outside the towns. AreaHost answers through it.

The check

event_17_walks_kite_to_the_portal starts at event 17 at the dungeon's entrance, with blocks 0-6 played. Kite walks to point 4 (floor 4, room 1), where block 12 opens the portal. The walker goes up to the portal, the fight follows, and the event plays blocks 7, 8, 10-17, then goes back to Mac Anu.

The dungeon walker needed more on the way:

• Magic portals. A room with a live portal keeps its doors shut. The walker now walks up to the room's portal and presses X before taking the room's leg.
• Waypoints. The line-of-sight test now looks at knee height as well as waist height, and with Kite's width either side. A low rail around a caged statue had let the waist-height line pass over it.
• Puts. A put now lands in the leg's doorway, not 900 units inside or 1500 beyond. The walk then aims past the door: beyond it, GotoNextRoom never ran, and on the doorway Kite had stood still.
• The goal room. leg_to returns nothing once Kite is in it.

The event 25 and event 29 walks still pass.

The town's item-get menu

The same scan covered each M1 block's instructions against the host that runs it, with an untagged block taking the scene of the block before it. It found one more gap. The town host had no item_get_menu, so item_add_menu in a town played through without opening menu 29, and menu 29 is what gives the item. Event 16 is the merchants' contest in Mac Anu: its prize, the Book of Law (category 15, id 60), was never given; the block still went on to mail 12, so the story did not stop. Event 24's item_add_menu 0 15 61 1, in a town block too, lost its item the same way. FieldHost now opens the menu as AreaHost does. The scan's other hits are not gaps:

• present 2 goes to spc_present;
• mode 3 only asks a ChangeRequest;
• Kite's item_add of category 15 goes to the save;
• the desktop's overlay and frame_rate run in its own host.

event_16_gives_the_contest_prize starts event 16 logged in to Mac Anu with blocks 0-5 played. Block 11 opens menu 29, the Book of Law goes from 0 to 1, and nothing falls to a default. The tests' new story_in_mac_anu (which story_22_in_mac_anu now calls) logs a desktop start straight in.