9.6 Declaring your friends and enemies.

Quite apart from the allegiances and friendships that you will gain through citizenship, your guild and your order, you can create your own alliances, covert or otherwise, that need have nothing to do with a greater organisation. Avalon allows you to keep a personal record of up to thirty friends and enemies. Your friends will be able to exact loyalty from your loyal CCCs, while your enemies will be attacked by your loyal CCCs.

Avalon has an inbuilt facility whereby you can keep track of a small number of your best friends and worst enemies. Typing the commands FRIENDS or ENEMIES will list those folk you have chosen to single out. Type FRIEND <player> <0-100> or ENEMY <player> <0-100> to set up new friends or enemies. The number specified attributes a value to their name in your list. A higher number either means that they are a very good friends or a lifelong enemy. Should you specify 0 as the value, you will be wiping the name of a friend or enemy from your list. The practical use of this command, other than reference, is that CCCs and creatures loyal to you will also take orders from, and protect your friends. Conversely, they will attack your enemies with vehemence whether you are present to lead them into battle or not. Sometimes you may find via magical enchantment you are forced to declare somebody a friend against your will. In order to reverse this you will need to REJECT them (e.g. REJECT CUCHULAIN). Rejection requires great concentration and equilibrium if the bond of friendship you are rejecting is of a certain strength.

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