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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.)
For arcane reasons to do with the Inform 6 library underlying what Inform
does, these rules test to see 'if the noun goes undescribed by source
text' (rather than more simply testing whether the description property
of the noun is blank). If so, we search (i.e., look inside) a container,
and show the status (switched on or off) of a device, but otherwise
give up with a bland response. For traditional reasons, we also show
the status of a device as a second paragraph even after any description
property has been printed: this is done by the examine described devices
rule.
Typed commands leading to this action
"examine [something]"
"read [something]"
Rules controlling this action
carry out examine undescribed containers rule name unlist
carry out examine undescribed devices rule name unlist
carry out examine undescribed things rule name unlist
carry out examine directions rule name unlist
carry out standard examining rule name unlist
carry out examine described devices rule name unlist
report an actor examining report other people examining rule name unlist