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I don’t want to delete it. It needs to be used ongoing.

• Timers fire after a time has elapsed (eg. 30 seconds) or at a time of day (eg. 10:45 pm). This is the “AtTime” flag.
• Timers fire once or forever. If forever, then a periodical timer would fire after that interval continuously, eg. every 30 seconds. And a “AtTime” timer would fire at (say) 10:45 pm every day.
• Timers can be made “OneShot” (another flag used when creating them) which means they delete themselves when they fire. In this case, of course, they only fire once.
• Timers can be made “Temporary” (another flag) in which case they are not saved to the world file, and are lost when you close MUSHclient.
• Timers can be enabled and disabled (see the EnableTimer function). Disabled timers do not fire, but are not deleted.
• Timers can be reset (see the ResetTimer function). This makes them start the timing interval again. So, if you reset a 30-second timer, it will count for another 30 seconds.
• Timers can be deleted, before or after they fire (see the DeleteTimer function).

Script functions are documented here.

You don’t necessarily have to have dozens of timers. You could have one “heartbeat” timer that fires every second or so, and in that timer (script) consult a table of things (timed skills in your case) and see if the time has elapsed. If the time has elapsed display a message and remove the particular skill from the table, otherwise leave it there for the next heartbeat check.

I don’t even know where I would input this? In triggers? In timers? Or if it’s even possible.

Virtually anything is possible.

Stop worrying, initially, about how to script. First make a plan. Imagine you are explaining your plan to a friend, in detail.

• When combat starts ¹
• Do a “slash” ²
• Keep doing a slash every 4 seconds ³
• When combat ends ⁴
• Stop sending “slash” ⁵

Now turn that into scripting:

1. How do you know combat starts? A certain message arrives from the MUD, presumably. So you probably need a trigger.
2. Use the Send function to send a command to the MUD.
3. Add a timer to send “slash” with an interval of 4 seconds. See AddTimer.
4. How do you know combat ends? A certain message arrives from the MUD, presumably. So you probably need a trigger.
5. In the trigger, delete the timer which is sending “slash”. See DeleteTimer

Script functions are documented here.

If you initialize by command input then you want an alias which can:

• Send the command you want.
• Do other stuff like starting a timer.