Inside-EO is a room. The Planning table is in the Inside-EO. A man called Logistics Section Chief is in the Inside-EO. A man called Finance Section Chief is in the Inside-EO. A man called Information Section Chief is in the Inside-EO. A man called Media Coordenator is in the Inside-EO. A man called Media Liaison Officer is in the Inside-EO.
In the Inside-EO is a man called the boss. The indefinite article of the boss is “Planning Section”.
The description of the Planning table is “A large square table”.
Feature is a kind of value. The features are intelligent, well-build, stricked, educated, loyal, self-controled, devoted and sincere.
Appearance relates various persons to various features. The verb to appear means the appearance relation.
Logistics Section Chief appears educated and loyal.
Finance Section Chief appears educated and loyal.
Information Section Chief appears intelligent and devoted.
Media Coordenator appears loyal and educated.
Media Liaison Officer appears stricked and sincere and well-build and educated.
Yourself appears intelligent and loyal and devoted and educated.
Instead of looking:
say “The intelligent ones: [list of people who appear intelligent][line break]”;
say “The well-build ones: [list of people who appear well-build][line break]”;
say “The stricked ones: [list of people who appear stricked][line break]”;
say “The educated ones: [list of people who appear educated][line break]”;
say “The loyal ones: [list of people who appear loyal][line break]”;
say “The self-controled ones: [list of people who appear self-controled][line break]”;
say “The devoted ones: [list of people who appear devoted][line break]”;
say “The sincere ones: [list of people who appear sincere][line break]”.
Instead of asking:
say “The intelligent ones: [list of people who appear intelligent][line break]”;
say “The well-build ones: [list of people who appear well-build][line break]”;
say “The stricked ones: [list of people who appear stricked][line break]”;
say “The educated ones: [list of people who appear educated][line break]”;
say “The loyal ones: [list of people who appear loyal][line break]”;
say “The self-controled ones: [list of people who appear self-controled][line break]”;
say “The devoted ones: [list of people who appear devoted][line break]”;
say “The sincere ones: [list of people who appear sincere][line break]”.
The Say phrases need to be indented with a tab, I assume that’s the bug.
That part is the only one that shows up in the story when running it, although I can still look at the table but the player will not know it is there as the first part of the code does not show before the latter part of code.
Well, I guess you are right: The instead of looking is overwriting the standard room description. Depending on what you need you could do something like:
Inside-EO is a room. "A fancy room with lots of interesting people in it. [list of people]".
To say list of people:
say “The intelligent ones: [list of people who appear intelligent][line break]”;
say “The well-build ones: [list of people who appear well-build][line break]”;
say “The stricked ones: [list of people who appear stricked][line break]”;
say “The educated ones: [list of people who appear educated][line break]”;
say “The loyal ones: [list of people who appear loyal][line break]”;
say “The self-controled ones: [list of people who appear self-controled][line break]”;
say “The devoted ones: [list of people who appear devoted][line break]”;
say “The sincere ones: [list of people who appear sincere][line break]”.
The purpose of the “looking” action is to give a description of the room and everything in it. When you write an “instead of looking” rule, you’re telling the game what to do, well, instead of looking—that is, instead of giving a description of the room and its contents.
If you want something to happen after printing the description, you can use an “after looking” rule. Or, as Olaf suggested, you can just embed this information into the room description.
Another option is to use a “rule for writing a paragraph about” the people, but that’s a more complicated technique.
Of course! I’m glad I could help and I’m happy to do so again if I can. However, there are many here who have more experience and deeper insight than me…
I have another problem I cannot find an answer to.
I created a room called Planning Section Table
In the room I placed objects (people) Ex. The Planning Section Chief is in the Planning Section Table (the room)
I placed about six of these objects (people) that are part of this table (room).
Now when you run the story these objects (people) show up under “You can see…”
I want to interact with these objects (people) but do not want to see their names listed under “You can see…”
Is there a solution to hide their names but still interact with them?
I’d be wary of setting a character as scenery, since it can lead to some weird results – for example, PUSH FRED gives you the output “He is fixed in place” rather than the typical “Fred might not like that.” You’re better off saying they’re undescribed, if all you want is to keep them from showing up in the regular location description.
isn’t undescribed deprecated? and possibly opting out of some other rules? I feel that I’ve been warned off of it, though I can’t find the post. Maybe I’m making it up.
perhaps this is an alternative. Someone correct me if this is a bad road.
room1 is a room.
bob is a person in room1.
After choosing notable locale objects when the location is room1:
set the locale priority of bob to 0.
No, but the docs refer to it being “intended to be used only as a last resort”. The warnings against resorting to I6 inclusions are more dire than that.
