Details: The borg got into a fight it thought it was supposed to win in the Tower of Babil. This might have been fine, but Rydia was set to defend instead of summon, and we got into a fight with three of those white marshmallow things that are essentially immune to physical attacks. Lost at the end of a long, embarrassing fight.
The real problem here was that the borg thought it was supposed to fight in the first place. It had just entered a room with a monster-in-a-box treasure chest. The convention up to this point has been: Walk into a room with a monster-in-a-box, switch from running to fighting, open the chest and fight, switch from fighting to running. Most of the time this works, even though it picks up the occasional extra fight on the way to the chest. But if we get into one of these fiddly fights that require a specific strategy, that could put us in trouble.
Solution: Our GetLoot:[Item Name] and GetAccessibleLoot commands now switches to fighting mode when opening a treasure chest, and back to whatever our strife specibus was before after the treasure chest is open. Not only does this avoid trying to win unnecessary fights, but it also cleans up our command queue in a few places.
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