| BT | an item type this shop will buy |
| CASTING | if present, casting is allowed in this shop |
| CHEATS | list of codes indicating which chars this shop will cheat |
| DEADBEAT | how the shop reacts to chars without enough money |
| GREED | how greedy the keeper is |
| HATES | list of codes indicating which chars this shop won't deal with |
| HOURS | operating hours for this shop |
| KILLABLE | if present, shopkeeper may be attacked |
| MBCASH | message sent when they don't have enough money to buy something |
| MBHAVE | message sent when they try to sell something they don't have |
| MBIGOT | message sent to chars shop hates |
| MBUY | message sent when shop buys an item |
| MCLOSE | message sent to room when shop closes |
| MNBUY | message sent when they try to sell something shop won't buy |
| MOPEN | message sent to room when the shop opens |
| MSCASH | message sent when the shop doesn't have enough money to buy |
| MSELL | message sent when shop sells them an item |
| MSHAVE | message sent when shop doesn't have something they try to buy |
| OFFENSE | how keeper reacts to attacks against him/her |
| PO | Vnums of objects this shop makes/sells |
| PROFIT | the spread between buy/sell prices |
| ROAMING | if present, shop is a roaming peddler |
| ROOM | Vnum of the room shop loads in |
| SHOP | Vnum of the NPC that is the shop's keeper |
Each line must be complete on one line, you can imbed newlines with \n, and if you absolutely HAVE to, you can use a '\' on the end of a line to indicate a continuation. Example:
MBUY:\
Shopkeeper tells you 'Here's your longsword,
That will be 1 platinum and 3 gold coins.'
Also note: no damn tildes '~', they'll be treated as normal characters if you put one in a file. The code also trims all leading and trailing whitespace (spaces, tabs).
Any keyword can be used in any order, and any number of times, except SHOP, which is used to indicate the start of a new shop definition. Extra uses of some keywords (notably the messages) simply causes code to ignore the previous entries, the 'Explanations of Keywords' section will make clear which keywords make sense when used multiple times.