Without initial apperances?

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Hello, all:

I am at a point in my project where the host of the dinner party is taking his guests on a tour of his mansion, walking from room to room and describing the surroundings.

What I am running into is that, every time the group moves to a new room (there are six characters in the group) the initial appearance of each displays each time. This adds a lot of extraneous text in a short amount of time – the group is walking through five rooms and in each rooms spends only a turn or so and then moves on. Each time the initial appearance prints.

How would I code it so that the occupants of the room are listed but not their initial appearances? Is it even possible?

Thank you for your support and guidance!

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A thing’s initial appearance doesn’t appear anymore if its handled attribute is set. That doesn’t happen normally with people, since handled gets set once the player carries something. So you can toggle people’s initial appearances being printed by setting and unsetting handled.

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Thank you!