Another error

Authoring Inform 7
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This, too, worked several months ago and ain’t workin’ now:

[code]The description of the box of tampons is “There is just one tampon left. You wonder why the box wasn[’]t shoved under the bed.”[code]

In Part - Rooms, Chapter - Bedroom:

Problem. You wrote '"

A box of tampons is in Bedroom. […] cription of the box of tampons is " There is just one tampon left’ : but it looks as if perhaps you did not intend that to read as a single sentence, and possibly the text in quotes was supposed to stand as as a sentence on its own? (The convention is that if text ends in a full stop, exclamation or question mark, perhaps with a close bracket or quotation mark involved as well, then that punctuation mark also closes the sentence to which the text belongs: but otherwise the words following the quoted text are considered part of the same sentence.)

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The part you showed seem to work fine:

Could you show a bit more of your code?

EDIT: But the error message sounds like it want you to put a punctuation mark at the end of your line.

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A tampon is a thing. It is in box of tampons. The tampon is undescribed. The tampon is wearable.

Shoving is an action applying to one visible thing."

A box of tampons is in Bedroom. It is a container.

The description of the box of tampons is “There is just one tampon left. You wonder why the box wasn[’]t shoved under the bed.”

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Try deleting the " in the second line:
A tampon is a thing. It is in box of tampons. The tampon is undescribed. The tampon is wearable.
Shoving is an action applying to one visible thing."
A box of tampons is in Bedroom. It is a container.
The description of the box of tampons is “There is just one tampon left. You wonder why the box wasn[’]t shoved under the bed.”

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Dang! Thanks.

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Added more code, and can’t figure out where I went wrongz;

[code]A tampon is a thing. It is in box of tampons. The tampon is undescribed. The tampon is wearable.

Shoving is an action applying to one visible thing.

Understand “shove [something]” as shoving.

A box of tampons is in Bedroom. It is a container.

Instead of shoving something under something:
say “You shove the box of tampons under the bed. As you do so, you hear a soft ‘Clunk.’”

The description of the box of tampons is “There is just one tampon left. You wonder why the box wasn[‘]t shoved under the bed like it usually is. You[’]ll have to do something about that.”[code]

Message:

shove box of tampons under bed
I only understood you as far as wanting to shove box of tampons.

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You defined shoving as applying to one visible thing, but you’re trying to invoke the action with two nouns. The definition has to match the usage.

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A simple hack, if you only have to use shove on the tampons, is this:

[code]A tampon is a thing. It is in box of tampons. The tampon is undescribed. The tampon is wearable.

The bedroom is a room.
A box of tampons is in Bedroom. It is a container.
The description of the box of tampons is “There is just one tampon left. You wonder why the box wasn[’]t shoved under the bed like it usually is. You[’]ll have to do something about that.”

Shoving is an action applying to one visible thing.
Understand “shove [something] under the bed” as shoving.
Understand “shove [something] under bed” as shoving.
Instead of shoving tampons:
say “You shove the box of tampons under the bed. As you do so, you hear a soft ‘Clunk.’”[/code]

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Holmes IV, if you want to show you code in fancy code boxes, try this:

The bedroom is a room.

This will not work:

[code]The bedroom is a room.[code]

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A few other notes:

  • The action should be called “shoving it under” or something like that.
  • You don’t want to use the “visible” modifier: “applying to one thing” means it needs to be touched, “applying to one visible thing” it doesn’t.
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Thanks y’all.