What rule triggers the end of the game?

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

@EmacsUser

The shutdown rulebook is invoked from the I6 main routine when control returns from the turn sequence rulebook and the deadflag is not zero. That means that you have to stop the turn sequence rulebook, which isn’t happening here.

A slightly hacky alternative is to call the shutdown rulebook yourself, as in

To end the story immediately saying (message - some text): end the story saying the message; follow the shutdown rulebook.
and then

end the story immediately saying "You have been hit by a bolt of lightning";

Thanks – looks like “follow the shutdown rulebook” should work. I guess it manually shuts things down rather than running a check to see if the story has ended, but it should amount to the same thing.

(Of interest only to me: This same issue came up in my first post on this forum, and I’ve been a member for almost exactly a year.)