vehicle

# Vehicle > A vehicle is a **movable room** (or room-tree) a character can inhabit. **Not** [`mount`](../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`](../room/) — vehicles are a room type (`is_vehicle: true`). Ethics: [ETHICS.md](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 | ```yaml 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. ```text 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](../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/`](../../examples/adventure-4/characters/real-people/don-hopkins/fmc-898/) | | Richard’s study (TARDIS office) | [`richard-bartle/study/`](../../examples/adventure-4/characters/real-people/richard-bartle/study/) | | Bakfiets of holding | [`acme-bakfiets-of-holding.yml`](../../examples/adventure-4/street/lane-neverending/w1/acme-bakfiets-of-holding.yml) | | Logo turtle | room SKILL “Riding the Turtle” | ## Disambiguation | Word | Skill | Means | |------|-------|--------| | mount | [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` | ## Part of MOOLLM [README](../../README.md) · [skills/](../) · [room](../room/) · [INDEX.yml](../INDEX.yml)