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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
"look at [something]"
"examine [something]"
"read [something]"
Rules controlling this action
before asking someone to try doing something when the person asked is not the current interlocutor giving orders needs an interlocutor rule name unlist
NB: the change greeting command to greeting rule is listed before the giving orders needs an interlocutor rule in the before rulesinstead of examining the boy for the first time
instead of examining the table
instead of examining the black sword
instead of examining the various sundries and oddments
instead of examining the dirty plates
instead of examining the pieces of string
instead of examining the Beethoven compact disc
instead of examining the bottles
instead of examining the stuffed toy
instead of examining the cassettes
instead of examining the teapot
instead of examining the medicine
instead of examining the novels
instead of examining the rotting cucumber
instead of examining the trunk
instead of examining the holy water
instead of examining the window
instead of examining the can of beer
instead of examining the raven
instead of examining or opening the manila folders
instead of examining or taking or searching the Inferno
instead of doing anything except taking or examining to love
instead of examining the player
instead of examining a natural weapon
carry out examining something visible mark items as seen on examining rule name unlist
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