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Interaction · Diplomatic actions

Fire Puppet

No costAccepted automatically

End your Puppet relationship with the recipient

What you need

You

To send it

  • Is not incapable

To see it in the menu

  • Is played by a person
  • Is an Adult
  • scope:recipient.puppeteer ?= scope:actor

Fire Puppet is a diplomatic character interaction in Crusader Kings III. You need: Is not incapable. Accepted automatically. Patch 1.20.1.2, from game/common/character_interactions/00_puppet_interactions.txt.

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Quick answers (2)
What are the requirements for Fire Puppet in CK3?
You: Is not incapable. (patch 1.20.1.2)
Will the AI accept Fire Puppet?
Yes: it is accepted automatically.

Will they accept?

The other character has no choice: the game accepts it automatically.

What happens

Effects

  • … stops being your Puppet
  • The character you target: Opinion: Set Me Aside (-10)

• the game's own tooltip text · ◦ our reading of the script line · code the script where neither exists

Who can use it and sees it (is_available, is_shown) (4 lines of game script)
is_available = is_ai = no
is_adult = yes
is_shown = scope:actor != scope:recipient
scope:recipient.puppeteer ?= scope:actor

As written in game/common/character_interactions/00_puppet_interactions.txt.

Can be sent when (is_valid…) (3 lines of game script)
scope:actor = {
	is_incapable = no
}

As written in game/common/character_interactions/00_puppet_interactions.txt.

Effects (on_send, on_accept, on_decline) (22 lines of game script)
on_accept = scope:actor = {
	send_interface_toast = {
		type = event_toast_effect_neutral
		title = fire_puppet_interaction_notification
		left_icon = scope:actor
		right_icon = scope:recipient
		custom_tooltip = fire_puppet_interaction_effect_tt
		hidden_effect = {
			scope:recipient = {
				clear_puppet_status = yes
				remove_puppet_modifiers_effect = yes
			}
		}
		scope:recipient = {
			add_opinion = {
				target = scope:actor
				modifier = set_me_aside_opinion
				opinion = -10
			}
		}
	}
}

As written in game/common/character_interactions/00_puppet_interactions.txt.

Category
Diplomatic actions
In the menu
under More…
ID
fire_puppet_interaction

Source: game/common/character_interactions/00_puppet_interactions.txt and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.1.2. “You” is the character who sends it (scope:actor, or a puppet acting for you); “the character you target” is the recipient.

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