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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 [symbol-extra]" 

Named values belonging to this action

examine text printed - truth state

Rules controlling this action

set action variables for    when acting fast  acting fast actions are fast rule   name  unlist 

before    doing anything except examining or reaping in Drawing Room   

before    doing anything except attacking when Nomos bonus is true   

before    doing anything  boots of wandering weirdness rule   name  unlist 

instead of    examining rust spores when the location is rust-spored   

instead of    examining clouds of smoke when the smoke timer of the location is greater than 0   

instead of    doing anything with clouds of smoke when the smoke timer of the location is less than 1   

instead of    examining the fascinating drawing   

instead of    doing anything with rust spores   

carry out    examining something visible  mark items as seen on examining 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

carry out    examining a hot thing   

carry out    examining a person   

after    examining a dead person  give list of possession on dead person rule   name  unlist 

report    an actor examining  report other people examining rule   name  unlist

report    examining a weapon  extra weapon info rule   name  unlist