Entry 300

Party members' skill words: not reproduced, the port's path is the game's

2026-09-28audiobattle

Filescrates/piney-audio/src/driver.rscrates/piney-game/src/area.rscrates/piney-world/src/combat/stage.rs

Reported in play (INF, through the launcher): Kite names his skills, but party members (BlackRose, Orca, Mistral) using skills say nothing. No code changed: every path tried speaks, and each step matches the game.

The game's rule

• One caller. ccWordsPlay(sid, ch) (INF SLUS_202.67:0x0017e290) is called only by _ccSkillRequest (INF GCMN.PRG:0x00572b98), for stype 0 or 2 and ids 6 and up. ccSkillRequest (0x00572700) and the item wrappers (0x00572754, 0x005727b4, 0x005727f8, 0x00572834) all reach it, so the menus, the party AI (ccFellow::UseSkill 0x0041e470, ccFellow::Attack 0x0041e590) and the enemies name skills alike.
• The queue. It is refused while an event runs (eventMng +0x78c), for base->type & 5 clear, or for ids 304 and up; else (base +0x0c, sid) goes into ccSnd +0xd0.
• The line. skillVoicePlay (0x0017e350) takes the first entry:
  • the file is spcVoiceData[c] (0x00307230; spcVoiceDataE 0x003072d0);
  • the rows are voiceData[c] (0x003071e0, voiceKiteTbl .. voiceHerubaTbl; voiceDataE 0x00307280);
  • the row is the sid less a base, by the jump table at 0x0034d830 and bit 0 of ccGetSkillParam(sid)+0x2c;
  • sewordCmd(0x80e0) sends it, and the queue empties.

What was checked

• The data. charTbl gives type 0x6 to every member (Kite 0x7), so & 5 passes. The port's row rule is the jump table case by case. Every row of the Kite, Orca, BlackRose and Mistral tables has a line in both languages.
• The session. A member's cast reaches Event::SkillWords with its charTbl row. It was tried three ways:
  • CHAT's Designate Skill (Orca, Repth);
  • the AI's own arts after RequestChatCmd 13 (Orca, ids 33 and 34);
  • its spells after 14 (Mistral, id 209).
• The sound. Fed to a headless Audio through main's handle with the real event history, both Kite's Repth and then Orca's were heard (rms up to 7716). All 18 characters' lines play through the engine.
• During an event. Casts during event 3's lesson are silent for Kite and Orca alike (puppetShow), as the game's +0x78c check says.

The probes are kept at /mnt/data/claude/scratch/voice (probes.diff, scratch_words.rs), not in the tree.

A difference that does not explain it

A row the rule puts outside a character's table is handled differently:

• the game reads the memory beside the table, sends that, and empties the queue;
• the port returns and keeps the word, so it is tried every frame and every later word is lost.

The ids that land there are other classes' arts (6-59 for BlackRose, 6-32 for Orca) and 296-303 (297-303 for Kite). No INF item uses one: the highest item skill is Recovery Drink's 295. That silence would also take Kite's words.