How to make an if Statements in a description after seeing something in a different room?

[kamineko (Drew Cook)]

(the formatting for your last passage is hard to read; perhaps you need another backtick or a line break after your backtick.)

I think [if we have examined the corpse] might work

"If the player has ever VERBSed/HINTed"

Yes. if we have verbsed. It’s ill-documented and problematically named… it’s true if and only if any actor has successfully verbsed, i.e., the action ended in success, i.e., it made it as least as far as its Carry Out rules. To emphasize: we means any actor here. For actions that take at least one object, one can also say if we have fooed the bar: independent of any other “keep track of past states” mechanisms, Inform functionally keeps a grid of all actions and all objects and when a given ac…

alternately,

after examining the impression:
	now the description of the corpse is "something else."

not in a position to test atm