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

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    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 

report    an actor consulting something about  block consulting rule   name  unlist