How, exactly, does alertness figure into this? Alertness is the skill that
lets you avoid an ambush, and continue walking smoothly past the monster. If
anything, you should stop if you _don't_ have alertness.

Seriously now, you're acting as if strolling aimlessly and blindly through the
deep, dark forest of a fantasy world is a happy frolicking number-one good
time. Sine when is that the case in any swords-and-sorcery world? There are
lions and tigers and bears, oh my, and you might even get eaten by a Grue. Is
it really that much to stick to the roads, use nav spells, or at least look at
where you're going every once in a while?

And no, I'm also not going to code the command "walk east until a monster is
in the way, then take a step around it" or "work with my delims so that, if I
walk east and then stop, I don't continue the rest of my instant-go-to-guild
command". We don't tuck you in at night, we don't wipe your noses, and we
don't hold your hand when you're crossing the street.

Shinarae Lluminus