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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/l 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 doing something to a secret door which is unrevealed
before doing something to a secret switch which is unrevealed
before doing something when a secret door is the second noun and the second noun is unrevealed
before doing something when a secret switch is the second noun and the second noun is unrevealed
report an actor consulting something about block consulting rule
name
unlist
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