Dialogue signifying Character class.

revival

Hey there! I'm less than a week into Twine and have a question, and I apologize in advance if it is a simple one. I think my main issue is that this is my first foray into coding, and despite watching quite a few tutorials and reading this forum there's probably something I can't wrap my head around just yet.

So my question is this. I write my choices or links textlocation as interior or exterior dialogue. Like a Bioware game. But I would like it so that my player, if they click a piece of dialogue, it helps create their character for the game.

Example: My sword was stained and in the end, nearly broken <If they click this, I would like to have $class as "Swordsman"

My staff was lightning, strong enough to cook the most frozen of hot pockets <If they click this, then their $class would be "Mage"

And later on, when they pick their gender, or race, I'm hoping to write in code:

"So, $race $class, what brings you to this roller derby?"

Any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time.

greyelf

You need to state which story format you are using, as answers can be different for each one. I am going to assume you are using Harlowe. (documentation)

You can use a named-hook and the (click:) macro to show a link which when clicked does something other than send the Reader to a new passage, you can also us a (link:) macro to do the same thing:

[My sword was stained and in the end, nearly broken]<sword|
(click: ?sword)[(set: $class to "Swordsman")]

(link: "My staff was lightning, strong enough to cook the most frozen of hot pockets")[(set: $class to "Mage")]

... if you want to send the Reader to a new passage as well you can add a (goto:) macro to your (click:) / (link:) macros:

[My sword was stained and in the end, nearly broken]<sword|
(click: ?sword)[(set: $class to "Swordsman")(goto: "Next Passage")]

(link: "My staff was lightning, strong enough to cook the most frozen of hot pockets")[(set: $class to "Mage")(goto: "Next Passage")]

revival

Thank you for your help! I apologize for not citing documentation. Much obliged!

Sage

"hot pockets" !!!! haha

love it