This is without a doubt one of the most, if not the most, helpful and responsive forum I have ever joined! Many places where I am a “noob” online I feel ignored or ridiculed, and wonder why I even bothered joining the community. You are all very helpful!
Again, I learned a ton from these latest posts. I have a lot to think about, not just in terms of what to do, but what not to do. There are many options to explore now.
Always wanting to learn to fish instead of just be given a fish though, my one follow up at this juncture would be how I could have figured out that the terms “random person”, “incorporation”, and “reverse incorporation” were things the game would understand without being told by you guys, without reading every piece of documentation end to end, and without being a savant? I’m sure there are things I’ll be wanting to try in the future, and I wonder if anyone has a method for translating ideas from English to Inform.
Maybe a simpler example of what I’m asking above is how to remove something globally declared from play… In truly plain English, my blind attempt at the syntax was just “Eye Patch Man does not have a left eye.” The real syntax being to “remove the noun from play” or “When [condition]: now [the noun] is off-stage.” These are fairly intuitive in a sense, but still are a specific syntax and wording, whereas human language could try to describe this in ways that are incorrect for Inform. Again, I’m just wondering if there is a good methodology short of asking this forum for help that I can learn to better deduce the correct Inform language for my plain English concepts. It will come with practice and time, but does anyone have any tips for accelerating the advancement of this skill?