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dammessage( damage )

Used to produce damage messages matching regular in game damage messages, being based of the amount of damage.

Returns 3 string values: singular verb, plural verb, and punctuation.

local dam=randnum(750,1250)
local sng,pl,pnct=dammessage(dam)
echoat(ch, string.format("%s's cannon %s you%s",
    mob.shortdescr, pl, pnct))
damage( ch, dam)