Question Trigger of the Day - Following Mob Assist

yes, use %.alias% and not name. You can also use the first alias if it has multiple with
car - Returns the first word of the string. For %text%="this is the
string"; %text.car% will yield "this". TSTAT 53

HELP CHAR-VAR
HELP TEXT-VAR

I think this is probably something we could improve upon.

The issue is that "assist %master.name%" is translated into "assist an enormous bear".
Instead, you could use "assist %master.alias%" which should return the alias, not the s-desc, and then expand to "assist enormous bear mamabear". Which would be parsed by the server as "assist enormous". Which may or may not work, depending on whether the bear is the lastly arrived "enormous" mob.

A general fix would be to allow lookups based on UID_CHAR+id in get_char_vis.
This again would require some moving of some of the internal plumbing.

The suggested modifications work, by the way. I've added a few other twists to bring it a little more to life. Thank you everyone for you help!