SimHacker Vehicle
A vehicle is a movable room (or room-tree) a character can inhabit.
Not mount — that skill is NFS-style: overlay a skill on a
directory, or compose virtual trees of GitHub repo slices. Colloquial English
says “mount a horse”; in MOOLLM that horse is a vehicle and you EMBARK /
RIDE it.
Spatial base: room — vehicles are a room type (is_vehicle: true).
Ethics: ETHICS.md — Dorothy’s house landed on a witch and killed her. Movable rooms are not morally null; name pilots, victims, and aftermath.
Core operations
| Method | Effect |
|---|---|
| EMBARK / RIDE | Enter / get on — inhabit the vehicle |
| DISEMBARK | Exit to the vehicle’s current world location |
| DRIVE | Relocate vehicle and all occupants |
| HITCH / UNHITCH | Nest pullable storage vehicles (wagon, trailer) |
| STOW | Cargo in/on vehicle inventory or nested rooms |
| STATUS | Position, occupants, hitchlings, cargo |
room:
name: "Research Tent"
is_vehicle: true
world_position: { x: 5, y: 12 } # changes when you DRIVE
Horses are vehicles
A steed moves through world-space; a rider inhabits it (or rides on it as the occupied locus). It may carry packs (inventory) or pull other vehicles (wagons, caravans). Same pattern as a motorcoach that tows a trailer.
horse (vehicle)
└── hitch → wagon (vehicle, storage-first)
└── hitch → second wagon …
caravan := ordered nest traveling as one DRIVE
Nesting and parties
- Party — multiple souls/characters sharing one vehicle (party)
- Nested rooms — FMC lounge/cockpit/bedroom; TARDIS bigger-on-inside
- Vehicle-as-character — study/RV with its own CHARACTER.yml (Bartle study, FMC #898) — still a vehicle; may also be a soul with minds
Worked examples (adventure-4)
| Example | Path |
|---|---|
| FMC Motorcoach #898 | don-hopkins/fmc-898/ |
| Richard’s study (TARDIS office) | richard-bartle/study/ |
| Bakfiets of holding | acme-bakfiets-of-holding.yml |
| Logo turtle | room SKILL “Riding the Turtle” |
Disambiguation
| Word | Skill | Means |
|---|---|---|
| mount | mount | Attach skill / compose virtual repo tree (NFS) |
| vehicle | this | Movable inhabitable room (horse, coach, wagon, TARDIS) |
| RIDE / EMBARK | this | Get on/in a vehicle — not MOUNT skill on X |