The Hobbit: Data at C9D7

What bard does, turn by turn. CHARACTERS_ACT runs one step of a character's script each turn it can, and a step is an action the character tries as if it had typed it: RUN, TAKE, GIVE TO. A step that names nothing acts on whatever fits.

First comes the script table: one entry per script, a key and the script's address. Key 0 is an ordinary script -- the ones a character wanders between, picked at random by a 'switch at random' step. Any other key is an action code, and that script is the character's reaction when that is done to it: attacked, given something, captured.

Then the scripts, one step to a line. A step's first byte says what it is: its low four bits $00-$03 an action with objects (or, $01 and $03, a routine to call), $04 an action with none, $0E go to, $0F switch at random, $0C switch to a reaction. $10 added means an address follows, where the script goes on if the step is refused; $20 that the step is used up once it works (SCRIPT_DO zeroes its first byte); $40 that an order from the player cannot interrupt it. So $14 is an action with no objects, with somewhere to go if it is refused. The Characters page has every script written out.

What bard does, turn by turn. CHARACTERS_ACT runs one step of a character's script each turn it can, and a step is an action the character tries as if it had typed it: RUN, TAKE, GIVE TO. A step that names nothing acts on whatever fits. First comes the script table: one entry per script, a key and the script's address. Key 0 is an ordinary script -- the ones a character wanders between, picked at random by a 'switch at random' step. Any other key is an action code, and that script is the character's reaction when that is done to it: attacked, given something, captured. Then the scripts, one step to a line. A step's first byte says what it is: its low four bits $00-$03 an action with objects (or, $01 and $03, a routine to call), $04 an action with none, $0E go to, $0F switch at random, $0C switch to a reaction. $10 added means an address follows, where the script goes on if the step is refused; $20 that the step is used up once it works (SCRIPT_DO zeroes its first byte); $40 that an order from the player cannot interrupt it. So $14 is an action with no objects, with somewhere to go if it is refused. The Characters page has every script written out.
BARD_SCRIPTS	C9D7	DEFB $00	Key 0, an ordinary script: BARD_A
	C9D8	DEFW BARD_A
	C9DA	DEFB $0F	Key $0F, ATTACK WITH: its reaction, BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH
	C9DB	DEFW BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH
	C9DD	DEFB $FF	End of the table
BARD_A -- An ordinary script: BARD_TAKES_ORDER, TAKE: wooden chest, Go to BARD_A.
BARD_A	C9DE	DEFB $43	Call BARD_TAKES_ORDER (an order cannot interrupt it)
	C9DF	DEFW BARD_TAKES_ORDER
	C9E1	DEFB $00	Not used
BARD_ORDER_STEP	C9E2	DEFB $42	TAKE: wooden chest (an order cannot interrupt it) -- rewritten by BARD_TAKES_ORDER with each order Bard is given
BARD_ORDER_ACTION	C9E3	DEFB $13	The action
BARD_ORDER_OBJECTS	C9E4	DEFB $25,$FF	Its objects
	C9E6	DEFB $0E	Go to BARD_A
	C9E7	DEFW BARD_A
BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH -- The reaction to ATTACK WITH: SHOOT, Go to BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH.
BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH	C9E9	DEFB $54,$3A	SHOOT (an order cannot interrupt it)
	C9EB	DEFW ON_ATTACK_WITH	If it is refused: ON_ATTACK_WITH
	C9ED	DEFB $0E	Go to BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH
	C9EE	DEFW BARD_ON_ATTACK_WITH