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Escort menu in-game.

When you just can't do it yourself, it's always nice to have someone there to bring you home. The Escorting Escort Mode allows you to be dragged along through the World Beyond Desert by a Hero Hero.

Features

• While in the World Beyond World Beyond, anyone can set themselves to "Wait for an escort".
  • The zone will register an entry
    [Citizen] has decided to wait for an escort...
  • By default the escortees cannot be taken further away from Town Town, only closer, unless marked otherwise.
  • By default an escort can not view the escortee's Inventory Inventory and drop items, unless marked otherwise.
• While in the World Beyond World Beyond, any Hero Hero can escort up to four Citizen Citizens at once.
  • The following message appears:
    [Citizen] has agreed to follow you.
  • The zone will register an entry:
    [Hero] has convinced [Citizen] to follow them.
• A Resident Resident cannot escort others, and if attempted, he will receive the following message:
  Only Heroes have the skills needed to guide other citizens in the World Beyond...
• Escortees will follow the leading Hero Hero if possible, and contribute Control Points Control Points to the zone.
• The Hero Hero can command his escortees to do the following actions:
  • Fed Eat from items available in their inventory.
    • Food items with additional effects, such as Meaty Bone Meaty Bones, cannot be fed to an escortee.
  • Refreshed Drink from items available in their inventory.
    • Drinking the Water Ration Water Ration is prioritised over drinking a Purified Stagnant Water Purified Stagnant Water
  • Scavenging Search any zone
  • Drop items in their inventory, although certain items cannot be dropped; see below.
• The Hero Hero can not command his escortees to do the following actions:
  • Go into Explorable Ruins Explorable Ruins or search Ruins Ruins in a zone.
  • Use hero abilities, such as Tamer Tamer sending away their Three-legged Labradoodle Three-legged Labradoodle, or Survivalist Survivalist using the Survival Guide Survival Guide.
  • Consume Pharmacy Drugs, Alcohol, or Bloody hot coffee Bloody hot coffee.
• Escorts can see the and most Status Effects Status Effects of escortees.
  • Ghoul Ghoul status is invisible to escorts (or anybody else).

Restrictions to Inventory

Certain items in an escortee's inventory cannot dropped by the escort:

• Water Ration Water Ration and Purified Stagnant Water Purified Stagnant Water
  • They cannot be dropped even if the escortee is Refreshed Refreshed
• Food (confirm types):
  • 7 food
  • 6 food
  • Doggy Bag Doggy Bag
  • Armageddon Lunch Box Armageddon Lunch Box
• Drugs (confirm types):
  • Twinoid 500mg Twinoid 500mg
  • ...
  • Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids
• Weapons (including furniture):
  • Carcinogenic Oven Carcinogenic Oven
  • ...
• Roleplay Items (confirm)

Notes

• Stopping others from following is indicated by:
  • "Finally, [hero] decided to leave [citizen] there..." line in the zone register;
  • A pop-up reading "[Citizen] is no longer following you."
• While being escorted, users cannot view the in-game map or their inventory, nor they can perform any actions on their own, except for leaving the escorting party, attacking others in the zone, gifting hero days, and (if they are a Ghoul Ghoul) eating someone. Once an escortee leaves the party their interface is returned to normal.

What the interface looks like to a ghoul being escorted

• When leaving escort mode, the text "[escortee] has finally decided to take back their independance." appears in the zone register.
• As escortees can neither drop nor use weapons on command, any weapon in their inventory is useless to the escort party.
  • Batteries, however, can be carried and drop as ammo for battery launchers.
• In case of falling due to Wounded Leg Injury:
  • All players engaged into escort are prevented from moving;
  • The escorting player receives a pop-up warning them that something went wrong, advising to address the issue.