The extension has been expanded a bit to include another rulebook, reaching across, which applies when both the actor and the touch target share the same position (i.e. are directly in the same room or container, or are directly on the same supporter). This is transcript from another test scenario, with responses from reaching rules marked by a preceding asterisk:
The Professor's Invention
Laboratory
An odd machine is situated here. Is this the "inertial amplifier" that the Professor told you about? Amidst its profusion of antennae lies a single switch.
An old, well-worn armchair is in one corner, incongruous in this setting.
Scientific paraphernalia clutters a large workbench.
On the workbench are some incomprehensible equipment and a red stapler.
Your baseball is lying on the floor nearby. It must have rolled down the steps after crashing through the window upstairs.
Rickety wooden steps leads back upstairs.
>X STAPLER
You see nothing special about the red stapler.
>TAKE IT
Best not to touch any of the Professor's things.
>GET IN ARMCHAIR
You get onto the large armchair.
>X BASEBALL
You see nothing special about the baseball.
>TAKE IT
*The armchair is set apart from everything else. You can't reach.
>GET UP
You get off the large armchair.
Laboratory
An odd machine is situated here. Amidst its profusion of antennae lies a single switch.
An old, well-worn armchair is in one corner, incongruous in this setting.
Scientific paraphernalia clutters a large workbench.
On the workbench are some incomprehensible equipment and a red stapler.
Your baseball is lying on the floor nearby.
Rickety wooden steps leads back upstairs.
>TAKE BASEBALL
Taken.
>TURN ON MACHINE
A high-pitched whine quickly cycles out of hearing range, and an odd feeling, like static electricity, crawls over your skin.
>X STAPLER
You see nothing special about the red stapler.
>TAKE IT
*You can barely move your arms, let alone move across the room. It feels like you are embedded in weeks-old gelatin.
>DROP BALL
You force your grip on the baseball to loosen, and it falls to the floor as though sinking through pudding.
>TAKE BALL
*You can barely move your arms, let alone move across the room. It feels like you are embedded in weeks-old gelatin.
>GET IN ARMCHAIR
*You can barely move your arms, let alone move across the room. It feels like you are embedded in weeks-old gelatin.
>TURN OFF MACHINE
*You strain against the weird resistance until your hand reaches the switch.
The unusual sensation fades instantly as the switch clicks home.
>TAKE BALL
Taken.
>GET IN ARMCHAIR
You get onto the large armchair.
>TURN ON MACHINE
*The armchair is set apart from everything else. You can't reach.
The governing reaching rules are:
Reaching across the Laboratory when the player is enclosed by the armchair:
say "The armchair is set apart from everything else. You can't reach.";
deny access.
Reaching across the Laboratory when the inertial amplifier is switched on:
say "You can barely move your arms, let alone move across the room. It feels like you are embedded in weeks-old gelatin.";
deny access.
Reaching across the Laboratory when the inertial amplifier is switched on and the noun is the inertial amplifier:
say "You strain against the weird resistance until your hand reaches the switch.";
allow access.