Inform 7 is ignoring me :(

[mostly_useless]

Store is a room. A cloth sack is a closed openable container in Store. A badger is in the cloth sack. After removing the badger from the cloth sack, say "The badger seemed happier in the sack."
This compiles without a grumble, but the last line is ignored. I tried “After the player…” as well, same outcome. What am I doing wrong?

Also, this might not be the best way to do what I want. I just want a different response to be printed depending on whether the badger is taken from the sack or from a location.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: same for After taking the badger when the badger is in the cloth sack, say "The badger seemed happier in the sack."

[abjectadjective]

It seems like Inform converts the removing action to the taking action in some situations such as this.

The second one worked when I replaced “is in the cloth sack” to “was in the cloth sack”.

[mostly_useless]

Of course! Because it’s an after rule, so at that point the badger is no longer in the sack. Many thanks to you!

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

Yes, the removing it from action is strange. If you go to the actions tab of the index and click on the magnifying glass next to “removing it from,” you get this blurb:

@Inform 7

Removing is not really an action in its own right. Whereas there are many ways to put something down (on the floor, on top of something, inside something else, giving it to somebody else, and so on), Inform has only one way to take something: the taking action. Removing exists only to provide some nicely worded replies to impossible requests, and in all sensible cases is converted into taking. Because of this, it’s usually a bad idea to write rules about removing: if you write a rule such as ‘Instead of removing the key, …’ then it won’t apply if the player simply types TAKE KEY instead. The safe way to do this is to write a rule about taking, which covers all possibilities.

Which is why it ignored you – “take badger” never was a removing action, though “take badger from sack” would be – and why the taking rule works.