Taking off

Standard actions which change the state of things



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Taking off something (past tense taken off): applying to one thing

The Standard Rules give Inform only a simple model of clothing. A thing can be worn only if it has the either/or property of being 'wearable'. (Typing a sentence like 'Mr Jones wears the Homburg hat.' automatically implies that the hat is wearable, which is why we only seldom need to use the word 'wearable' directly.) There is no checking of how much or how little any actor is wearing, or how incongruous this may appear: nor any distinction between under or over-clothes.

When an article of clothing is taken off, it becomes a thing directly carried by its former wearer, rather than being (say) dropped onto the floor.


Typed commands leading to this action

"take off [something]" - taking off
"take [something] off" - taking off
"remove [something preferably held]" - taking off
"shed [something preferably held]" - taking off

Rules controlling this action

check    an actor taking off  can't take off what's not worn rule   name  unlist
check    an actor taking off  can't exceed carrying capacity when taking off rule   name  unlist

carry out    an actor taking off  standard taking off rule   name  unlist

report    an actor taking off  standard report taking off rule   name  unlist