I'm sure this is simple but

Authoring Inform 7
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I’m trying to set it up that there are some instruments on a shelf that are not described until the player specifically seeks them out.

I can’t seem to get ‘look for’ to work it says ‘you can’t see any such thing’.

‘look at’ works fine but that wording doesn’t really work for me in the context.

I currently have each instrument as undescribed and was planning on making it described once the player has found it.

Ideally the player could write something like: ‘Look for ukulele’ or ‘search for trombone’

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

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Which development system are you using? Inform, TADS, Dialog, something else?

How you do this will depend on what system you’re trying to do it with.

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Inform 7 (or 10?). Sorry I always forget to include that :upside_down_face:

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You’ll need to define a new action for that. Something like

Pursuing is an action applying to one thing. 
Understand “search for [something]” as pursuing.

Edit: there’s gotta be a better verb than pursuing but I can’t think of it.

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Yeah that worked, thanks. I’ve then gone with:

after pursuing something:
	say description;

which i was happy to find also worked! :grinning:

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