Showing it to

Standard actions concerning other people



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Showing something to something (past tense shown it to): applying to one carried thing and one visible thing

Anyone can show anyone else something which they are carrying, but not some nearby piece of scenery, say - so this action is suitable for showing the emerald locket to Katarina, but not showing the Orange River Rock Room to Mr Douglas.

The Standard Rules implement this action in only a minimal way, checking that it makes sense but then blocking all such attempts with a message such as 'Katarina is not interested.' - this is the task of the 'block showing rule'. As a result, there are no carry out or report rules. To make it into a systematic and interesting action, we would need to unlist the block showing rule and then to write carry out and report rules: but usually for IF purposes we only need to make a handful of special cases of showing work properly, and for those we can simply write Instead rules to handle them.


Typed commands leading to this action

"show [someone] [something preferably held]" - showing it to reversed
"show [something preferably held] to [someone]" - showing it to

Rules controlling this action

check    an actor showing something to  can't show what you haven't got rule   name  unlist
check    an actor showing something to  convert show to yourself to examine rule   name  unlist
check    an actor showing something to  block showing rule   name  unlist