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Standard actions which are checked but then do nothing unless rules intervene
Waiting , Touching , Waving , Pulling , Pushing , Turning , Pushing it to , Squeezing
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 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 rulescheck an actor turning can't turn what's fixed in place rule name unlist
check an actor turning can't turn scenery rule name unlist
check an actor turning can't turn people rule name unlist
report an actor turning report turning rule name unlist