I want to make it so when the player hits the attack verb, the player attacks, sleep(5), then the player keeps attacking untill the monster is dead, or the player dies. I also want to make a calm() verb so the player can stop attacking when he/she presses it.



mob
verb/attack(mob/M as mob in oview(1))
if (M.dead == 0)
if (M.HP >= 0)
flick("malefight",src)
usr << "You attack [M]!"
oview() << "[usr] attacks [M]!"
var/damage = rand(strength)
usr << "[damage] damage!"
M.HP -= damage
M.DeathCheck()

I tried this, but it doen't seem to work. It comes up with an error that says: Cannot read null.dead , then it stops attacking


mob
verb/attack(mob/M as mob in oview(1))
if (M.dead == 0)
if (M.HP >= 0)
flick("malefight",src)
usr << "You attack [M]!"
oview() << "[usr] attacks [M]!"
var/damage = rand(strength)
usr << "[damage] damage!"
M.HP -= damage
M.DeathCheck()
attack() //right here I try to make the loop



In this example, basicly he just attacks once with success, but when it tries to loop, it just says an error.