No, I’m pretty sure there’s an actual bug there. Start the game and try this sequence:
e
take all
w
drop stool
get on stool
get on table
take ball
x ball
x homework
say nnai
open backpack
look up nnai
say nnai
If you guess that say nnai might be useful and try it before opening your backpack and looking it up it seems to lock you into a state where it never works even after looking it up.
Once you get stuck, if you do x rune; look up rune it seems to break you out of it, so it’s fairly specific, but it does seem like a bug to me that look up rune by itself does not teach it to you; you have to x rune again first.
rune bug.txt (6.9 KB)