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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]"
    "read about [text] in [something]" reversed
    "read [text] in [something]" reversed

Rules controlling this action

    before    doing something in The Captain's Office   
    report        (display LibMsg <block player consulting>; ...) [E1]
    report        someone trying consulting   [E1]
    report        an actor consulting something about  block consulting rule