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### Highlighting of various messages

# See also "note_messages" in misc.txt

msc := message_colour

# Really important messages
#
msc += $danger:drains you
msc += $danger:feel drained
msc += $danger:strangely .*stable
msc += $danger:curare-tipped.*hits you
msc += $danger:Space warps.* around you
msc += $danger:Space bends around you
msc += $danger:sense of stasis
msc += $danger:clumsily bash
msc += $danger:goes berserk!
msc += $danger:Forgetting.* will destroy the book
msc += $danger:The blast of calcifying dust hits you!
msc += $danger:you are engulfed in calcifying dust
msc += $danger:is moving more slowly
# Don't recolour acquirement messages along with messages about invisible monsters.
msc += lightgrey:Something appears (at your feet|before you)
msc += $danger:^Something .* you
msc += $danger:you block its attack
msc += $danger:constricts you
msc += $danger:you convulse
msc += $danger:You feel a build-up of mutagenic energy
msc += $danger:place you under penance
msc += $danger:acid corrodes
msc += $danger:rotting away

# Less urgent, but still significant messages
#
msc += $warning:ticking.*clock
msc += $warning:dying ticks
msc += $warning:distant snort
msc += $warning:odd grinding sound
msc += $warning:creaking of ancient gears
msc += $warning:floor suddenly vibrates
msc += $warning:a sudden draft
msc += $warning:coins.*counted
msc += $warning:tolling.*bell
msc += $warning:roar of battle
msc += $warning:creaking.*portcullis
msc += $warning:portcullis is probably
msc += $warning:wave of frost
msc += $warning:crackling.*melting
msc += $warning:hiss.*sand
msc += $warning:sound.*rushing water
msc += $warning:rusting.*drain
msc += $warning:drain falling apart
msc += $warning:heat about you
msc += $warning:falling.*rocks
msc += $warning:rumble.*avalanche of rocks
msc += $warning:crackle.*arcane power
msc += $warning:crackle.*magical portal
msc += lightcyan:LOW MAGIC WARNING
msc += $warning:fails to return
msc += $warning:no longer ripe
msc += $warning:This .* contains the .* runes? of Zot.
msc += $warning:They guard the .* runes? of Zot.

# Unimportant messages and combat clutter
#
msc += $boring:You start (resting|waiting)
msc += $boring:Unknown command
msc += $boring:disappears? in a puff of smoke
msc += $boring:dissolves? into (sparkling lights|shadows)
msc += $boring:crumbles away
msc += $boring:returns to the deep
msc += $boring:shimmers and vanishes
#
msc += $boring:plain:miss(es)? (the|you|it)
msc += $boring:but (do no|doesn't do any) damage
msc += $boring:(prevent|prevents) you from hitting
msc += $boring:nimbly evade
msc += $boring:waved at by a branch
msc += $boring:lunges up near

## Messages so important to require a --more--

force_more_message += You have reached level
force_more_message += Your scales start
force_more_message += You fall through a shaft
force_more_message += Marking area around .* as unsafe
force_more_message += .*breaks free of your control
force_more_message += .*doesn't seem very happy

## Reduce chance of drowning because flight or form runs out:
force_more_message += Careful!

# Announcements of timed portal vaults:
force_more_message += interdimensional caravan
force_more_message += distant snort
force_more_message += roar of battle
force_more_message += wave of frost
force_more_message += hiss of flowing sand
force_more_message += sound of rushing water
force_more_message += oppressive heat about you
force_more_message += crackle of arcane power

# Abyss exits and rune
force_more_message += Found a gateway leading out of the Abyss
force_more_message += Found .* abyssal rune of Zot

# Generally exciting things that are somewhat automated
force_more_message += You pick up the .* rune and feel its power

# First chance of Beogh conversion
force_more_message += press .* to convert to Beogh