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Turning something (past tense turned)

Turning is the act of rotating something - say, a dial.

In the Standard Rules there are no carry out rules for this action because nothing in the standard Inform world model which reacts to it. The action is provided for authors to hang more interesting behaviour onto for special cases: say, turning a capstan.

Typed commands leading to this action

    "turn [something]"

Rules controlling this action

    before    doing something in The Captain's Office   
    check        an actor turning  can't turn what's fixed in place rule
    check        an actor turning  can't turn scenery rule
    check        an actor turning  can't turn people rule
    report        (display LibMsg <report player turning>; ...) [E1]
    report        someone trying turning   [E1]
    report        an actor turning  report turning rule