Beneath the Surface
Example 233
★The standard world model provides for the idea of containers and supporters, but this is not the only way that objects can relate to one another in the real world. Here we try adding the idea of concealment beneath another object:
"Beneath the Surface"
Section 1 - In Which our Terms are Defined
Underlying relates various things to one thing. The verb to underlie means the underlying relation. The verb to be under means the underlying relation. The verb to be beneath means the underlying relation.
Instead of looking under a thing which is underlaid by something (called the lost object):
say "You find [the list of things which underlie the noun]!";
now every thing which underlies the noun is carried by the player;
now every thing which underlies the noun does not underlie the noun.
Hiding it under is an action applying to one carried thing and one thing. Understand "put [something preferably held] under [something]" as hiding it under. Understand "hide [something preferably held] under [something]" as hiding it under. Understand the commands "shove" and "conceal" and "stick" as "hide".
Check hiding it under:
if the second noun is not fixed in place, say "[The second noun] wouldn't be a very effective place of concealment." instead.
Carry out hiding it under:
now the noun is nowhere;
now the noun underlies the second noun.
Report hiding it under:
say "You shove [the noun] out of sight beneath [the second noun]."
Section 2 - In Which They are Put To Use
The Room of Hidden Objects is a room. It contains a sofa, an easy chair, and a rug. The sofa supports a lime-green pillow and an innocent-looking Chinese finger toy. The rug is fixed in place. The chair is a supporter.
A treasure map underlies the easy chair. A skeleton is beneath the sofa. A blueprint of Atlantis, a lexicon of Linear A, and the key to Jimmy Hoffa's Mausoleum are under the rug.
Test me with "look under the sofa / look under the rug / look under the easy chair / hide lexicon under rug".
Test me with "look under the sofa / look under the rug / look under the easy chair / hide lexicon under rug".
Room of Hidden Objects
You can see a sofa (on which are a lime-green pillow and an innocent-looking Chinese finger toy), an easy chair and a rug here.
>(Testing.)
>[1] look under the sofa
You find the skeleton!
>[2] look under the rug
You find the blueprint of Atlantis, the lexicon of Linear A and the key to Jimmy Hoffa's Mausoleum!
>[3] look under the easy chair
You find the treasure map!
>[4] hide lexicon under rug
You shove the lexicon of Linear A out of sight beneath the rug.
You can see a sofa (on which are a lime-green pillow and an innocent-looking Chinese finger toy), an easy chair and a rug here.
>(Testing.)
>[1] look under the sofa
You find the skeleton!
>[2] look under the rug
You find the blueprint of Atlantis, the lexicon of Linear A and the key to Jimmy Hoffa's Mausoleum!
>[3] look under the easy chair
You find the treasure map!
>[4] hide lexicon under rug
You shove the lexicon of Linear A out of sight beneath the rug.