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Standard actions concerning the actor's vision
Looking , Examining , Looking under , Searching , Consulting it about

Examining something (requires light) (past tense examined)

The act of looking closely at something. Note that the noun could be either a direction or a thing, which is why the Standard Rules include the 'examine directions rule' to deal with directions: it simply says 'You see nothing unexpected in that direction.' and stops the action. (If you would like to handle directions differently, list another rule instead of this one in the carry out examining rules.)

Some things have no description property, or rather, have only a blank text as one. It's possible that something interesting may be said anyway (see the rules for directions, containers, supporters and devices), but if not, we give up with a bland response. This is done by the examine undescribed things rule.

Typed commands leading to this action

"look at [something]"

"look [something]"

"examine [something]"

"read [something]"

"[thing]"

Named values belonging to this action

examine text printed - truth state

Rules controlling this action

before doing anything other than looking, waiting, examining or birthing during Giving Birth

instead of examining the bed when the bed is closed

instead of examining the crystal ball

instead of examining the player

carry out when sp_normal and the number of words in the player's command is 1 and not (the reborn command matches the text "EXAMINE") Smarter Parser noun alone examines rule name unlist

carry out standard examining rule name unlist

carry out examine directions rule name unlist

carry out examine containers rule name unlist

carry out examine supporters rule name unlist

carry out examine devices rule name unlist

carry out examine undescribed things rule name unlist

after examining an identified passkey passkey description rule name unlist