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Dance to the Beat of the Earth by Victor Gijsbers

Section - Regions and Backdrops 

Outside Area, Grace, Gods, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Luna, Eternal Laws of Heaven, snow

Section - Hall of Knights 

Hall of Knights, Red granite, chess board, pieces, column of glass

Section - Hall of Flowers 

Hall of Flowers, White marble pillars, circling stairs, niches, rose, block of ice, lily, orchid

Section - Observatorium 

Observatorium, white city

Section - Pax Poetica 

bat, bat's natural weapon

Book - Combat 

Part - Astral influence 

Astral influence, Mercurial, Jovian, Lunar, Martial, Venusian, Terrestrial

Part - New abilities, characteristics, et cetera 

Chapter - Statistics 

Section - Will 

Part - Powers 

Chapter - Mercurial powers 

Section - Planning 

Chapter - Jovian Powers 

Section - Awe 

Section - Domination 

Chapter - Venusian Powers 

Section - Bond 

Chapter - Lunar Powers 

Section - Mist 

Chapter - Martial Powers 

Section - Mars Interfector 

Section - Mars Condatis 

Section - Mars Ultor 

Book - Additions to attack 

List of extensions included (About these  )

Standard Rules  version 2/090402 (documentation)
Inform ATTACK by Victor Gijsbers  (documentation)
Basic Screen Effects by Emily Short  version 7 (documentation)
Plurality by Emily Short  version 9 (documentation)

List of named values (About these )

Situation
player - person
location  - object
score  - number
last notified score - number
maximum score - number
turn count - number
time of day  - time
darkness witnessed - truth state

Current action
noun  - object
second noun - object
person asked  - object
reason the action failed  - rule
item described - object

Used when ruling on accessibility
person reaching  - object
container in question - object
supporter in question - object
particular possession  - thing

Used when understanding typed commands
player's command  - snippet
matched text - snippet
kind understood - value
current item from the multiple object list - object

Presentation on screen
command prompt  - text
left hand status line  - text
right hand status line - text
listing group size - number

Command parser errors
latest parser error - command parser error

Tracking Last Item
prior named noun  - thing

Saying things
numbers boolean  - truth state
global actor  - person

Out of game is fast
take no time boolean  - truth state
just moved boolean  - truth state

Health
printing dead property  - truth state
healed amount  - number

Running the combat
fight consequences variable  - truth state

Striking a blow
global attacker  - person
global defender  - person
global attacker weapon  - weapon
global defender weapon  - weapon
to-hit roll  - number
to-hit modifier  - number
damage  - number
damage modifier  - number
final damage  - number

Concentrating
concentration loser  - person

Useful variables
Stored_row  - number
Stored_person  - person
Stored_weapon  - weapon
Stored_action  - stored action

Rulebook
found-a-target boolean  - truth state

Calculating the chance to win
chance-to-win  - number
normalised chance-to-win  - number
best defence  - number

Tension (Standard Plug-in)
tension  - number

Spacing and Pausing
Status bar table  - table name
Right alignment depth  - number

Astral influence
Power of the Earth  - number
Current Influence  - astral influence
Astral knowledge  - number

Planning
plan bonus  - number
plan counter  - number

Mist
just misted boolean  - truth state

List of Tables (About tables )

Table of Final Question Options	5 columns, 5 rows
Table of Locale Priorities	2 columns, 26 rows (25 blank)
Table of Combat Order	2 columns, 21 rows (20 blank)
Table of Stored Combat Actions	2 columns, 21 rows (20 blank)
Table of AI Combat Person Options	2 columns, 51 rows (50 blank)
Table of AI Combat Options	2 columns, 51 rows (50 blank)
Table of AI Combat Weapon Options	2 columns, 51 rows (50 blank)
Table of Ordinary Status	3 columns, 1 row
Table of influences	1 column, 21 rows (20 blank)
Table of Fancy Status	3 columns, 2 rows

Library Card (About library cards: )

Story file format:  Glulx

Use dynamic memory allocation of at least 8192  Double this

Use maximum things understood at once of at least 100  Double this

You could also use:  ineffectual,  American dialect,  serial comma,  full-length room descriptions,  abbreviated room descriptions,  memory economy,  no scoring,  command line echoing,  undo prevention,  predictable randomisation,  fast route-finding,  slow route-finding,  numbered rules,  telemetry recordings,  no deprecated features,  VERBOSE room descriptions,  BRIEF room descriptions,  SUPERBRIEF room descriptions,  Manual Pronouns

 See some technicalities for Inform maintainers only

	Inform language definition: Included: core, naming, instance counting, command, actions, spatial model, mapping, player, regions, backdrops, showme, times of day, scenes, figures, sounds, glulx external files, bibliographic data Excluded: none Debugging log:  Include action creations in the debugging log.  Include action pattern compilation in the debugging log.  Include action pattern parsing in the debugging log.  Include assemblies in the debugging log.  Include assertions in the debugging log.  Include case insensitive filehandling in the debugging log.  Include conditions in the debugging log.  Include constructed past participles in the debugging log.  Include constructed plurals in the debugging log.  Include debugging log contents in the debugging log.  Include debugging log inclusions in the debugging log.  Include description compilation in the debugging log.  Include excerpt meanings in the debugging log.  Include excerpt parsing in the debugging log.  Include expressions in the debugging log.  Include extensions census in the debugging log.  Include figure creations in the debugging log.  Include grammar in the debugging log.  Include grammar construction in the debugging log.  Include headings in the debugging log.  Include implications in the debugging log.  Include inferences in the debugging log.  Include kind changes in the debugging log.  Include kind checking in the debugging log.  Include kind creations in the debugging log.  Include lexical output in the debugging log.  Include local variables in the debugging log.  Include matching in the debugging log.  Include meaning list allocation in the debugging log.  Include memory allocation in the debugging log.  Include noun resolution in the debugging log.  Include object compilation in the debugging log.  Include object creations in the debugging log.  Include object tree in the debugging log.  Include phrase comparisons in the debugging log.  Include phrase compilation in the debugging log.  Include phrase creations in the debugging log.  Include phrase registration in the debugging log.  Include phrase usage in the debugging log.  Include predicate calculus in the debugging log.  Include predicate calculus workings in the debugging log.  Include pronouns in the debugging log.  Include property assignments in the debugging log.  Include property creations in the debugging log.  Include property provision in the debugging log.  Include property translations in the debugging log.  Include relation definitions in the debugging log.  Include rule attachments in the debugging log.  Include rulebook compilation in the debugging log.  Include spatial map in the debugging log.  Include spatial map workings in the debugging log.  Include specification permissions in the debugging log.  Include specification usage in the debugging log.  Include specificities in the debugging log.  Include table construction in the debugging log.  Include template reading in the debugging log.  Include text substitutions in the debugging log.  Include time periods in the debugging log.  Include variable creations in the debugging log.  Include verifications in the debugging log.  Include vocabulary in the debugging log.