Migraine sez:
**The Zelda-style block pushing thing...
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idea...
the NPc has the appearance of the block, and is an aggressive caster, when you are in (LOS=1)range, it casts a spell,
which changes your player map animation to that of a standard animation(pinned down by keyframes) that depicts the player pushing in the appropriate direction.

what this als innately does is causes the NPC to switch to its long 'range/cast' animation wich would be an animation of it, depicted as a block, moving back, to prevent bouncing while this is going on, the range animation has an offset collision that's set to follow the action, upon completing the NPC push animation the last frame switches indeces, to one with a correctly aligned collison sphere
(this index could be used to visually show that the block can no longer be pushed, change its color, play a sound etc)
the last frame of this animation switches he player's map portrait back to the normal animation set...

you might want to give the NPCs spell a condition for execution, etc.

well this would be choreographed dance, as such you'll need to calculate the timing between the two objects.

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