Suppressing "you can see.."

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

I will refer you to this topic until others chime in:

Removing the 'You can see a' messages

For the first, the easiest thing to do is to put square brackets around the item name in the room description – this tells Inform to display the printed name, and since it knows the item’s already been mentioned, it won’t mention it again in the “you san see” line (note that you’ll usually want to make these objects fixed in place so that the description doesn’t stop making sense if the player moves things around – though you can also put if statements in the description to manage this if needed…