Betrayer

Your blood pool and the items feeding it, on screen instead of behind a command — and the window grows and shrinks itself as that list changes.

What it’s for

The game publishes a Betrayer panel: a blood-point total out of 100, and a list of the items contributing to the pool, some of them flagged as active. It arrives as its own feed, which means it can sit permanently in your layout rather than being something you ask for.

This window draws that panel. A dark red bar carries the point total, the contributing items are listed beneath it, and the whole thing refreshes when the game sends an update. It is a small, single-purpose window for a small, single-purpose reading.

What the numbers mean in play is a GemStone IV mechanic, not a client feature. VellumFE reads what the game sends and draws it — the point total, the item names, and which items carry the game’s active marker. It does not interpret them.

Set it up

Common setups

A blood pool that stays out of the way until it matters

The item list is what makes this window tall, and most of the time you want the number, not the list.

1. Add Betrayer from the catalog’s Dialogs group and place it wherever you keep small readouts.
2. In the terminal, .editwindow betrayer and untick Show Items. The window drops to its 3-row floor: border, bar, border.
3. Right-click it in the GUI ▸ Appearance ▸ Frame and turn the border off, so what is left is a bare red strip.

You’ll see: a one-line red bar reading your point total, taking almost no space — and if you tick Show Items back on, the window grows on its own to fit the list again.

Tips & gotchas

⚠️ This window resizes itself, and it is the only widget that does. VellumFE recalculates its height from the item count on every update — one row for the bar, one per item, plus borders — clamped between 3 and 12 rows, and saves the new height into your layout. Dragging it to a height you like will not stick, because the next update recomputes it. Control the height with Show Items instead: off pins it at 3 rows.

⚠️ The active marker shows in the terminal and not in the desktop GUI. The game prefixes an active item with !. The terminal draws that ! in its own alert color; the GUI prints the line plainly, ! and all. The mark is visible in both — it is the coloring that differs.

An empty window means the game hasn’t sent the panel yet. The terminal says so out loud with (No blood pool data). It fills in when the panel next arrives, and it empties again when the game clears it.

The bar is the point total out of 100. It fills proportionally and carries the game’s own text — Blood Points: 100 — centered on the fill. When the game sends no text, the window writes that line itself from the number.

The desktop GUI can put this reading in a different window. A Mini Vitals window in the GUI offers Blood as one of its selectable bars, so the point total can ride alongside health and mana in one strip. That gets you the number without the item list — and without this window at all.

This widget is GemStone IV only. Both pickers hide it from DragonRealms characters — it is absent from the GUI Windows catalog and from the bare-.addwindow picker. The full six-argument form does not check, so it will build the window on a DR character. You get an empty box: DragonRealms never sends this feed. If the game is not set at all, VellumFE assumes GemStone IV and the row appears, which is why it shows up when you connect through Lich without naming a game.

See also

• Mini Vitals — the Blood bar, for the total without the item list
• Progress Bars — how feed-bound bars work generally
• Active Effects — the other dialog-fed windows, and how their feeds arrive
• Inventory — the full list of what you’re carrying
• Creating Layouts — placing and saving these windows

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