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Pushing something to something (past tense pushed it to)

This action covers pushing a large object, not being carried, so that the actor pushes it from one room to another: for instance, pushing a bale of hay to the east.

This is really a special case of the going action, and it works in a special way (for reasons to do with the history of Inform). If the noun object has the either/or property 'pushable between rooms', then the action is converted to going at the before stage - so no instead or subsequent rules can apply. That means that any rules to do with successful pushes between rooms should be applied to the 'going' action, not this one. Rules should only be written for this action in order to catch attempts to push exotic, non-pushable between rooms objects - people, say.

Typed commands leading to this action

    "push [something] [direction]"
    "push [something] to [direction]"

Rules controlling this action

    check        an actor pushing something to  block pushing in directions rule