ship sailing mission

two player ship sailing mission
- Quartermaster
in charge of searching for materials in the store and organising them for when they're needed
should be able to choose to some extent what they get from a search - multiple search locations
storerooms distributed around the ship - each storeroom has a search add_item for items in one category, but you can randomly get the wrong thing
main skill: perception
  curved/flat small/medium/large steel plate
  curved/flat small/medium/large wooden board
  narrow/thick copper pipe
  nails/rivets
  tar
  steering wheel
  caged swamp dragon
  water tank
  coal/charcoal/kerosene/coffee/other dragon foods? dragons can eat anything
  lemons, for keeping the scurvy off
enchanting materials makes them more durable, which is better for purposes that require durability
- Patching the hull
swim out and nail the appropriately sized boards to the right holes in the hull, do it fast enough for not much water to leak through.
before swimming out, you have to tie a rope round your waist and be dragged along with the ship via the rope
if you untie the rope for some reason while in the water, and the ship is moving, you get left behind and fail the mission
main skill: carpentry
holes just show up randomly when the ship hits things; it's impossible to close all the holes and still do the other jobs
bail out the water that does leak through using a bucket
if the bilge becomes flooded the ship slows down, becomes harder to steer and eventually sinks

initially, damage to the hull doesn't penetrate all the way through but causes hull damage
if the hull damage gets too high without repair then holes appear that leak water in
that's why you have to go and repair the ship from the outside
- Boiler Operator/Dragon Keeper
the boiler is run on dragons and you have to feed them using animal husbandry (stoking the boiler)
have to patch holes in the boiler/pipes, using the same materials as above, and clean it
dragons may get touchy due to a wide variety of reasons; being overfed, being underfed, not being cleaned, being sick, being upset at another dragon.  touchy dragons will keep getting touchier and if not treated, sedated or evacuated into the ocean in great haste, will explode and raise the heat of the boiler by a lot, possibly causing a chain reaction
dragon stats: stress, excitement, hunger
have some sort of dragon-wrangling implement around called a control rod, just for the pun
too much heat makes the boiler overheat; too little makes it stall and have to be restarted
a skilled boiler operator should be able to emergency flush the boiler to stop an overheat in progress.
if the boiler overheats it explodes, making a large hole in the hull; it is possible to repair it using a large quantity of materials if the boiler operator is skilled.  this should happen at least twice a run
when boiler goes over dangerous temperature:
  1. pipes burst, filling room with steam
  2. boiler comes unmoored and violently bursts through one of
    - the ceiling, landing somewhere on the deck (chance of busting the steering wheel?)
    - a wall, breaking a hole through and making some planks
should be possible to flush valve in time if lucky
if the boiler stalls, steering becomes difficult.
main skill: animal husbandry/smithing
fire resistance helps with surviving dragon explosions
witches can tempt dragons with coal?

Instructions for operating the boiler:
First, obtain 4 water tanks and pour 2 into each boiler to fill them both up to half full.  Remember to close them afterwards.
Then, obtain 2 caged dragons and 10 pieces of coal.  Feed 5 pieces of coal to each dragon, then place the dragons in the two chambers at the aft end of the boiler room (you can also feed the dragons after putting them in).  They will start breathing fire into the boilers, heating them up.
Lastly, open the steam valves on the boilers.
You will have to check back occasionally to fill the tanks again and feed coal to the dragons.  Sometimes a pipe will burst and you'll have to replace it using the wrench.  If a dragon is looking hungry, give it a piece of coal.  Don't feed dragons that don't look hungry or leave a dragon in the chamber unfed for too long.  If it's getting overexcited, take it out and swap in a fresh dragon - excited dragons will calm down when they're not in the chamber.  You can put them back in the dragon pen to prevent them from wandering off.
If a dragon gets overexcited enough that it looks like it's going to explode, grab it, run up to the top deck, get off the side and drop it in the water as fast as possible.  If it explodes in the ship, it will damage the room and anyone who's there.  If it explodes in the dragon chamber, it'll overheat the boiler and might cause all your pipes to burst.
If the boiler overheats, open the flush valve to dump all the water into the sea, then open the cover (wear gloves for this) and pour in some more water.  This will stop any more pipes from bursting and resets the temperature of the boiler back to a safe level.
//keep track of boiler using two variables: average temp and heat capacity.  heat capacity is a small value for the boiler, plus an amount that scales with the amount of water in it
- Captain
steers the ship by turning the wheel port and starboard while checking the telescope periodically for obstacles.  bad steering causes even more holes to appear as the ship runs into things; however, even the best captain cannot prevent the ship from hitting anything
generate a grid map of obstacles? adjacent obstacles can be seen from the room desc, one room off can be detected from reading charts but only large obstacles are charted
it's possible to actually be steaming away from the destination
main skill: ad.di
random events involving weather
steering wheel may be lost in a random event and need replacing


this will naturally be hectic as hell for two players
adaptive difficulty?  if you're doing well random events are weighted towards the harder ones
maybe allow more players but the xp is shared

This project is written with a 119 screen width.

ship design:
fireflies for lighting?  need something waterproof
or just use lanterns and have them go out when the ship floods
destructible rooms that make the room impassable until repaired and rapidly flood the ship
the ship's been obviously converted from a regular sailing ship and the boiler room is made from tearing down the walls between half the cabins to dump
giant paddlewheel's mounted in what used to be the poop deck