Run your own Lich

If you play with Lich, Hydra runs your own Lich behind each character you turn it on for. Hydra keeps the game connection and hands Lich the game’s text, so your scripts, settings and aliases work as they always have. Lich never sees your password.

What you need

• Lich, installed: a folder with lich.rbw in it.
• Ruby, which Lich runs on. On Windows, Lich’s installer puts it in C:\Ruby4Lich5, where Hydra finds it. Otherwise Hydra uses the ruby on your PATH.

Turn it on

Type these in a character’s play window:

1. .lich folder <folder>, once: where your Lich is, for example .lich folder C:\Lich5. It holds for every character.
2. .lich on: Lich starts for this character now, and again every time the character starts. It starts once the game has let the character in, so logging in is no slower.

.lich off stops it and leaves it off. .lich alone says whether it runs and where Lich is.

Typing with Lich

• A line starting with ; is Lich’s own command: ;repository, ;kill bigshot.
• A line starting with . is Hydra’s.
• Anything else goes to Lich first, so its aliases and hooks see it, and Lich sends it on to the game.

Lich’s symbol is ; unless you choose another: Lich command symbol, on a character’s General page in the settings.

What the window shows

• .lich view lich, as it starts: what Lich shows. Its squelches hold, and its scripts’ messages appear in the story.
• .lich view game: the game’s own text, with Lich’s lines beside it.

.stop stops everything on the character at once, Lich’s scripts included.

Lich does not run in HydraFE’s own Hydra on a phone.