SnakeSays - Azta'rec Boss Mod

SnakeSays

A Simon-Says HUD for World of Warcraft, built for the memory game from Azta'rec, the Delve Nemesis from Midnight Season 2. Azta'rec divides the room into four quadrants during its intermission, sends a run of waves through them (one safe quadrant each time), then repeats the same sequence without visual warnings. Your goal is to memorise the sequence and run to the safe quadrant each time.

You tap the quadrants on the board as the waves are shown. SnakeSays works out the fight's timing and calls the run back to you during the silent repeat, by voice and on screen. In a group you can use Leader Mode to have only one person input the sequence.

The memory game runs three times per pull, with an extra icon per repetition. ?? difficulty gets 5 waves at 90%, 6 at 60% and 7 at 30%, while ? gets 3, 4, and 5 waves at the same percentages. Each phase is recorded and replayed on its own; the previous one is cleared when the next channel starts.

It records and displays only. It never moves your character, targets, or places world markers, so there is nothing protected here: every button and keybind works in combat.

How the Fight Works

There are two halves to each memory game, and SnakeSays splits the work the same way:

Half	What happens	Who does what
Showing	waves cross the room, one safe quadrant each	you press each quadrant on the board or by keybind
Repeat	the boss replays the run with no visual warning	SnakeSays calls each wave out loud and on screen

Remembering the sequence in the middle of the fight is the hard part, and it's the part SnakeSays does for you.

The HUD

A circle split by an X into four cardinal wedges.

Each wedge shows a raid marker and is tinted to that marker's colour. The defaults are:

Quadrant	Marker	Colour
North	Circle	Orange
East	Diamond	Purple
South	Square	Blue
West	Cross	Red

The sequence renders as a row of marker icons beneath the circle, and a reset button sits at the left of that row. Wedges flash as each wave goes on.

The Timeline

A separate window, at the top of the screen by default shows the sequence being pressed. Once the replay starts, it swaps for being an indicator of the current chain of events, so you can plan accordingly.

During the Replay

When the boss starts repeating the run, SnakeSays calls each wave three ways:

• Voice: one word per wave, the safe colour ("Red") or the marker's name ("Cross"), your choice.
• On-screen call: the current quadrant large, with the next one beneath it so you can start moving early. Drag it anywhere; unlock the HUD to grab it.
• Timeline: the scanning bar above, which is the one that tells you how long you have rather than just where to be.

Simulate the Addon

/ss sim makes up a run anywhere in the world, shows it going onto the board, then calls it back with the real voice and popup. It prints the run it's about to play, so you can check the calls against it. /ss sim stop ends it.

It runs a 5-wave phase by default; /ss sim 6 or /ss sim 7 practises the longer ones. It exists to check the announcements and to place the windows.

This simulation is useful to show you all components of the addon working together, use it to calibrate your settings before the encounter.

Leader Mode

Running with a group? SnakeSays supports Leader Mode.

The party leader is the leader. Everyone else just watches.

Setup, for the leader only:

1. Run /ss macro out of combat. It creates five macros — SS North, SS East, SS South, SS West and SS Reset.
2. Drag them onto your action bars and use those instead of the board or your normal keybinds. The macros are what share the run; clicking the board does nothing for the group.
3. Run /ss macro again if you change which marker a quadrant uses.

What followers get: the run appears on their timeline as marker icons, in order, and the scanning bar runs across them so they can see which wave is being called. Due to addon restrictions, there are no voice callouts and no on-screen call for other group members.

/ss sync off opts out of watching the leader's run.

Something Broken?

/ss status prints what the addon currently believes: whether it thinks it's in the delve, which windows are up, the encounter state, the wave timing it's working from, how many TTS voices are installed, and whose board you're on.

If a round goes by with nothing pressed and nothing read off chat, you'll get No input detected during setup. in chat when the showing half ends. That's the addon saying it worked and had nothing to work with — as opposed to silence, which would mean it never saw the round at all. The two look identical without that line, so it's the first thing to check when a pull produces no calls.

Settings

/ss (or Esc → Options → AddOns → SnakeSays) opens the options page:

• Per-quadrant marker - click one of the eight markers to assign it. Markers are unique across quadrants: choosing one that's already in use swaps the two, so you never end up with a duplicate.
• Keybinds - one per quadrant, plus Reset. Click a key box and press the combo (Esc cancels, right-click clears). These are real game bindings, set from this page.
• Show HUD / Lock HUD - one lock for every window. Unlock to drag the board, the on-screen call and the timeline; lock again when they're placed.
• Auto-reset - clears the sequence a set number of seconds after the first press (30–60s, default 40s). The timer is anchored to the first press and doesn't slide forward as you add to the sequence.
• Only show inside the Delve Nemesis map - on by default. Untick it to place the windows out in the world.
• Share the sequence with my group - on by default. Watches for the leader's run in party chat. See Leader Mode.
• During the replay - call things by colour or by marker, voice volume, let calls overlap, on-screen call on/off, next-up line on/off, timeline on/off.
• Window size - one slider each for the board, the on-screen call and the timeline, 50% to 200%. They're separate on purpose: the board is a click target, the call is read head-on, and the timeline is read from the corner of your eye, so one size for all three is usually wrong for two of them. Resizing also scales the window's offset from whatever it's anchored to, so it can shift a little as it grows - nudge it back, or /ss recenter.

Slash commands

Command	Effect
/ss	open the options window
/ss sim	demo run anywhere; /ss sim 7 for a 7-wave phase, /ss sim stop ends it
/ss status	report what the addon currently sees
/ss sound	test the voice and say what the client did with it
/ss debug	step-by-step detection output in chat
/ss show · /ss hide · /ss toggle	show / hide the HUD
/ss lock · /ss unlock	lock / unlock for dragging
/ss reset	clear the recorded sequence
/ss sync	share the sequence with your group (on / off to be explicit)
/ss macro	make (or update) the macros that share your board with the group
/ss timeline	toggle the timeline (on / off to be explicit)
/ss recenter	move every window back to its default place

(/snakesays is a long alias for /ss.)