Listen

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Command: Listen
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Usage: listen <on | off | marker>

Use this command to listen to your surroundings and pick up audio trails. Use 'listen on' to start listening. Use 'listen off' to stop listening. Use 'listen marker' to print out a directional marker to help locating the audio source.

The strength of the audio source varies from 0...9 and !, with ! being the loudest.

This is how a short period of listening looks like:

.-------------------------------------------------------------.
|.....sw.......W......nw.......N......ne.....E.......se......S|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|.....sw.......W......nw.......N......ne.....E.......se......S|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
|...........................4..93..........................77.|
'-------------------------------------------------------------'


Time flows down. In this example situation we hear a total of five audio sources, three sources in north and two sources in south.

The audio source directly to north is the strongest with '9' strength. Right next to it, to both left and right, are comparatively weak sources, '3' and '4'. The two sources in south are both pretty strong at strength of '7'.

Note that the strength of audio source changes depending on how close you are to it.

Listening doesn't work from air.