Shop YANI

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Just a simple YANI to deal with annoyances with shopkeepers. A few times
I've had the pleasure of being stuck in a shop. Everything in my inventory
was paid for and I was not invisible yet the shopkeeper just would not move
from the front door no matter how much I hit space to rest or wandering
endlessly around the shop hoping the shopkeeper would move. Sometimes these
situations would last many turns.

Would it be possible that if one is not invisible and all the items are
paid for and the shopkeeper is still in front of the door that one could
type "p" and give the shopkeeper a clue to get the heck out of the way?

 

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Haakon Studebaker wrote:
> Just a simple YANI to deal with annoyances with shopkeepers. A few times
> I've had the pleasure of being stuck in a shop. Everything in my inventory
> was paid for and I was not invisible yet the shopkeeper just would not move
> from the front door no matter how much I hit space to rest or wandering
> endlessly around the shop hoping the shopkeeper would move. Sometimes these
> situations would last many turns.
>
> Would it be possible that if one is not invisible and all the items are
> paid for and the shopkeeper is still in front of the door that one could
> type "p" and give the shopkeeper a clue to get the heck out of the way?

I'd like to be able to lure those greedy shopkeepers out of the way by
dropping some gold on the ground. If they have no reason to be blocking
you, they could then go pick up the gold.