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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

    carry out    an actor looking under  standard looking under rule
    report        an actor looking under  report other people looking under rule