Drinks (Three Broomsticks)

How Drinks Work

Visit the Hog's Head Inn (accessible from Hogsmeade once you're a 3rd year with 2+ Voldemort Encounters) and talk to Aberforth the barkeep. Select "Drinks" to see the menu, then purchase any drink that catches your fancy.

Drink Costs

Each drink has a base cost that scales with your level:

• Cost Formula: Your Level × Base Cost Per Level
• Example: If you're level 10 and a drink has a base cost of 5 gold per level, it costs 50 gold
• Higher level = higher prices - Because apparently expensive alcohol is a sign of success

What Drinks Can Give You

Each drink can grant various benefits (or drawbacks):

• Hitpoints - Restore health, either a random amount or a percentage of your max HP. Some drinks might damage you instead (poison is surprisingly common in wizarding beverages)
• Forest Turns - Gain extra turns for forest fighting. Or lose some, if the drink doesn't agree with you
• Combat Buffs - Temporary bonuses to attack, defense, or damage for a set number of combat rounds
• Drunkeness - Every drink increases your drunkeness level, which affects how you speak in chat (see below)

Feel Messages

After drinking, you'll get flavor text based on the effects:

• `&You feel vigorous!`n - You gained turns
• `&You feel lethargic!`n - You lost turns (oops)
• `&You feel healthy!`n - You gained hitpoints
• `&You feel sick!`n - You lost hitpoints (maybe don't order that one again)

The Drunkeness System

This is where things get entertaining. Each drink adds to your "drunkeness" value, tracked per character. The drunker you get, the more your chat text gets automatically "drunkenized" when you speak in commentary areas.

How Drunkenization Works

The system applies the following transformations to your text based on drunkeness level:

• Letter Doubling - Random letters get doubled or extended
  • a → aa, e → ee, f → ff, h → hh, i → iy, l → ll, m → mm
  • n → nn, o → oo, r → rr, s → sss, u → oo, v → vv, w → ww, y → yy, z → zz
• *hic* Insertions - Random *hic* hiccups get inserted into your text
• Replacement Rate - Based on formula: replacements/text_length < drunkeness/500
• Case Preservation - If the original letter was uppercase, the slurred version is also uppercase

Example Drunken Text

Original:  "Hello everyone, how are you doing today?"
Level 100: "Heelloo *hic* everyonne, hoow aare yoou *hic* doingg toodaay?"
Level 300: "Heellloo *hic* eevveryoonnee, *hic* hhoow aaree *hic* yoooo dooiyng *hic* toodaayy?"
	

Maximum Drunkeness

There's a maximum drunkeness level set by the server. Once you hit it, Aberforth refuses to serve you more drinks:

"[Barkeep's refusal message]"

You'll have to wait for your drunkeness to decrease naturally over time (or through a new day reset) before you can drink more.

Disabling Slurred Text

If you find the drunken text effect annoying (you party pooper), you can disable it in your module preferences by setting noslur to true. Your drunkeness will still increase, but your text won't be modified.

Hard Drinks

Some drinks are flagged as "hard drinks" (the wizarding equivalent of hard liquor). The game tracks how many hard drinks you've consumed in a separate counter (harddrinks preference).

This counter might be used for:

• Special events or modules that check if you're a heavy drinker
• Achievements or titles for consumption records
• Random encounters that reference your drinking habits
• Aberforth silently judging you

Combat Buffs from Drinks

Many drinks grant temporary combat buffs that last for a certain number of rounds when fighting:

Buff Property	Effect
Buff Name	Displayed name of the buff (e.g., "Liquid Courage")
Rounds	Number of combat rounds the buff lasts
Attack Modifier	Bonus (or penalty) to your attack stat
Defense Modifier	Bonus (or penalty) to your defense stat
Damage Modifier	Multiplier for damage dealt (1.0 = normal, 1.2 = +20% damage)
Damage Shield	Absorbs damage each round before it affects your HP
Round Message	Text displayed each round the buff is active
Wearoff Message	Text displayed when buff expires

All drink buffs use the schema module-drinks for translation purposes.

Drink Menu Customization

The drinks menu is highly customizable through the module's settings and can be themed for different locations:

Customizable Elements

• Title - The header shown when buying drinks (default from module hook)
• Barkeep Name - Who's serving (Aberforth by default, but can be changed)
• Demand Text - What the barkeep says when you approach
• Too Drunk Text - Refusal message when you've had too many
• Return Link - Where you go after buying (usually back to the Inn)
• Drink Substitutions - Custom text replacements for flavor (e.g., "{lover}" gets replaced with your partner's name)

Variable Substitutions

Drink remarks can include these special variables:

• {lover} - Your in-game partner/spouse name (from marriage module)
• {barkeep} - The barkeep's name (color codes preserved)
• Plus any custom substitutions defined in the module hook

Creating Custom Drinks

Server administrators can create custom drinks through the drinks editor (?act=editor). Each drink can be configured with:

Setting	Description
Name	Display name of the drink
Cost Per Level	Base cost multiplied by player level
Drunkeness	How much this drink increases your drunk level
Hard Drink	Whether this counts as a hard drink (boolean)
Remarks	Flavor text shown when you drink it
HP Settings	Min/max HP to grant, or percentage of max HP, or always give HP
Turn Settings	Min/max turns to grant, or always give turns
Chance	Probability of granting HP vs turns (hpchance vs turnchance)
Buff Settings	All buff properties listed in previous section

Integration with Other Systems

The drinks module integrates with several game systems:

• Marriage Module - The {lover} variable is populated from the partner system
• Commentary System - Drunkeness affects your chat text in all commentary areas
• Combat System - Buffs from drinks apply to forest fights and PvP
• New Day - Drunkeness typically resets or decreases at new day
• Inn Module - Drinks are accessed through the bartender conversation at the Inn
• Module Hooks - Other modules can add custom drinks via the "ale" hook

Tips and Strategies

• Buy before forest - Get buff drinks before heading to the Forbidden Forest for combat advantages
• Watch your gold - Drink prices scale with level, so budget accordingly
• Healing drinks - Some drinks restore HP cheaper than other healing methods
• Turn drinks - Gaining extra forest turns can help you level faster
• Monitor drunkeness - If you care about readable chat, pace your drinking
• Read the remarks - Drink flavor text is often hilarious and worth reading
• Hard drink tracking - If you're going for a "heavy drinker" achievement, stick to hard drinks
• Check buffs - Some drink buffs are incredibly powerful for their cost

Common Issues

Q: Why won't Aberforth serve me?
A: You've hit maximum drunkeness. Wait for it to decrease naturally or wait for new day.

Q: I can't afford any drinks!
A: Drink costs scale with your level. Early game, drinks are cheap. High level, they're expensive. Fight forest creatures for gold.

Q: My text is all messed up in chat!
A: That's the drunkeness effect. Either wait for it to wear off or disable slurred text in your module preferences (noslur setting).

Q: A drink damaged me instead of healing me!
A: Some drinks have negative HP values (poison, bad batches, "experimental" beverages). Read the flavor text carefully before ordering.

Q: Do drinks work in PvP?
A: Yes! Buffs from drinks apply to all combat, including PvP fights. Stock up before attacking other players.

Q: Can I get drunk in real life from playing?
A: No, but you can get drunk in real life WHILE playing, which makes the drunken text effect twice as confusing.

Q: What's {lover} in the drink text?
A: If you're married/partnered in-game (via marriage module), this displays your partner's name. If you're single, it might just say nothing or "your lover" generically.

Technical Details (For the Curious)

• Drinks are stored in the drinks database table with drinkid as primary key
• Drunkeness is stored per-character in module preferences as drunkeness
• Hard drink counter is stored as harddrinks module pref
• The drunkenization algorithm runs each time you post commentary if drunkeness > 0
• Slur replacement rate is calculated as replacements/strlen(text) < drunkeness/500
• *hic* insertions are prevented from stacking directly (*hic**hic* becomes *hic*hic*)
• Color codes (backtick+letter) are skipped during drunkenization to prevent breaking formatting
• All buffs applied with the name "buzz" internally (stacking not allowed—last drink overwrites previous buff)
• HP/turn grants include sanity checks (HP cannot drop below 1, turns cannot go negative)
• The module uses hooks extensively: "drinks-text" for custom text, "ale" for adding drinks to menu