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

Looking under something (requires light) (past tense looked under)

The standard Inform world model does not have a concept of things being under other things, so this action is only minimally provided by the Standard Rules, but it exists here for traditional reasons (and because, after all, LOOK UNDER TABLE is the sort of command which ought to be recognised even if it does nothing useful). The action ordinarily either tells the player he finds nothing of interest, or reports that somebody else has looked under something.

The usual way to make this action do something useful is to write a rule like 'Instead of looking under the cabinet for the first time: now the player has the silver key; say ...' and so on.

Typed commands leading to this action

"look under [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 rules 

NB: the check going during convnode rule is listed before the say goodbye when moving rule in the before rules 

instead of    looking under the table   

instead of    looking under the bed   

carry out    an actor looking under  standard looking under rule   name  unlist

report    an actor looking under  report other people looking under rule   name  unlist