Reprinting objects

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This is likely a very easy one but I’m clearly not searching for the correct phrase.

I want to get the game to reprint the things in the room after an action has happened (plorfing is a placeholder).

instead of plorfing when the player encloses the genies lamp for the third time:
	say "with a 'poof' a genie appears.";
	now the genie is in the desert.

I know the text makes it clear that the genie is now in the desert but I’d like to reinforce it by reprinting the objects in the “room”.

Is this possible?

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Do you mean like this?

"Repeat Genie"

Place is a room.

A boulder is in Place. A cactus is in Place. The boulder and cactus are fixed in place.

There is a genie.

After jumping:
    now the genie is in the location;
    say "A genie appears!";
    carry out the printing the locale description activity with the location. [see WWI 18.5 New activities and  WWI 18.26 Printing the locale description of something]

Test me with "jump".

Transcript:

Place
You can see a boulder and a cactus here.

>JUMP
A genie appears!

You can see a genie, a boulder and a cactus here.
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I did, that’s great! Thank you.

What you’ve done is perfect.

In the interests of completeness, is it possible to just “print” that the genie is here?

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The only way I know to do that is via the “mentioned” property. Add:

now everything in the location is mentioned; [see WWI 18.24. Writing a paragraph about]
now the genie is unmentioned;

just after the say statement.

Then you get:

>JUMP
A genie appears!

You can see a genie here.
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