vehicle

name	vehicle
description	Movable room a character can inhabit — horse, coach, wagon, TARDIS, RV
license	MIT
tier	1
related	["room","mount","party","inventory","container","character","soul","adventure"]
tags	["moollm","vehicle","portable-room","embark","drive","caravan"]

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

Part of MOOLLM

README · skills/ · room · INDEX.yml