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

Consulting something about some text (past tense consulted it about)

Consulting is a very flexible and potentially powerful action, but only because it leaves almost all of the work to the author to deal with directly. The idea is for it to respond to commands such as LOOK UP HENRY FITZROY IN HISTORY BOOK, where the topic would be the snippet of command HENRY FITZROY and the thing would be the book.

The Standard Rules simply parry such requests by saying that the player finds nothing of interest. All interesting responses must be provided by the author, using rules like 'Instead of consulting the history book about...'

Typed commands leading to this action

"look up [text] in [something]" reversed

"consult [something] on/about [text]"

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    ethereal-forbidden   

before    doing anything  boots of wandering weirdness rule   name  unlist 

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

instead of    doing anything with rust spores   

report    an actor consulting something about  block consulting rule   name  unlist