sail

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

## `sail`

      sail direction or destination [...]
      * time: varies
      * priority: 4

Pilot a ship in the given direction, or to the specified location. If a location is specified, there must be a direct route to it from the current location of the ship.

Compass points may be abbreviated: ``n`', ``s`', ``e`', ``w`'.

The Sailing [1001] subskill of Shipcraft [1000] is required to use the `sail` order.

The noble issuing the sail order must be the ship's captain, i.e. the noble must be the first unit listed in the ``Seen here`' report of the ship.

The `sail` order will fail if the ship is overloaded. Use `drop` to throw items overboard if necessary.

Multiple destinations or directions may be given as arguments to `sail`. If the first fails, the next will be tried, until a passable route is found, or `sail` runs out of arguments.

For example, ```sail` n e w`' would first try to sail north. If travel north was not possible for any reason, east would next be tried, then west. In this way exploring units can attempt to deal with the case of running into an impassable ocean route, or a coast.