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Standard actions which move the actor
Going , Entering , Exiting , Getting off 

Entering something (past tense entered)

Whereas the going action allows people to move from one location to another in the model world, the entering action is for movement inside a location: for instance, climbing into a cage or sitting on a couch. (Entering is not allowed to change location, so any attempt to enter a door is converted into a going action.) What makes entering trickier than it looks is that the player may try to enter an object which is itself inside, or part of, something else, which might in turn be... and so on. To preserve realism, the implicitly pass through other barriers rule automatically generates entering and exiting actions needed to pass between anything which might be in the way: for instance, in a room with two open cages, an actor in cage A who tries entering cage B first has to perform an exiting action.

Typed commands leading to this action

"get in/into/on/onto [something]"

"stand on [something]"

"go [something]"

"go into/in/inside/through [something]"

"enter [something]"

"sit on top of [something]"

"sit on/in/inside [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    entering torpor   

instead of    entering the bed   

instead of    doing anything except entering to torpor   

check    an actor entering  convert enter door into go rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  convert enter compass direction into go rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  can't enter what's already entered rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  can't enter what's not enterable rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  can't enter closed containers rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  can't enter something carried rule   name  unlist

check    an actor entering  implicitly pass through other barriers rule   name  unlist

carry out    an actor entering  standard entering rule   name  unlist

report    an actor entering  standard report entering rule   name  unlist

report    an actor entering  describe contents entered into rule   name  unlist