Escape from the Seraglio

Example 410

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Replacing the usual response to TAKE ALL so that instead of output such as "grapes: Taken. orange: Taken.", Inform produces variable responses in place of "grapes:".

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"Escape from the Seraglio"

Section 1 - Special Announcement Rules

The number of takes this turn is a number that varies. Every turn: now the number of takes this turn is 0.

The friskily announce items from multiple object lists rule is listed instead of the announce items from multiple object lists rule in the action-processing rules.

This is the friskily announce items from multiple object lists rule:

if taking:

if the current item from the multiple object list is not nothing:

increment the number of takes this turn;

say "[if number of takes this turn is 1]First [otherwise if the number of takes this turn is 2]And then [otherwise if the number of takes this turn is 3]And I suppose also [otherwise if the number of takes this turn is 7]And on we wearily go with [otherwise if the number of takes this turn is 9]Oh, and not forgetting [otherwise]And [end if][the current item from the multiple object list]: [run paragraph on]";

otherwise:

if the current item from the multiple object list is not nothing, say "[current item from the multiple object list]: [run paragraph on]".

Rule for deciding whether all includes the person asked: it does not.

Rule for deciding whether all includes a person when taking: it does not.

Section 2 - The Scenario

The Palm Chamber is a room. Sarissa is a woman in the Palm Chamber.

The Palm Chamber contains a bottle of ink, a quill pen, a tangerine, a bunch of grapes, a length of silken rope, some perfume, a cake of incense, a fitted leather bodice, a sapphire anklet, an illustrated novel, a whip, and a heavy iron key.

A persuasion rule for asking Sarissa to try taking the key:

say "Sarissa nervously demurs, knowing that it is forbidden.";

persuasion fails.

A persuasion rule: persuasion succeeds.

Test me with "take all / drop all / sarissa, take all".

Palm Chamber
You can see Sarissa, a bottle of ink, a quill pen, a tangerine, a bunch of grapes, a length of silken rope, some perfume, a cake of incense, a fitted leather bodice, a sapphire anklet, an illustrated novel, a whip and a heavy iron key here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] take all
First the bottle of ink: Taken.
And then the quill pen: Taken.
And I suppose also the tangerine: Taken.
And the bunch of grapes: Taken.
And the length of silken rope: Taken.
And the perfume: Taken.
And on we wearily go with the cake of incense: Taken.
And the fitted leather bodice: Taken.
Oh, and not forgetting the sapphire anklet: Taken.
And the illustrated novel: Taken.
And the whip: Taken.
And the heavy iron key: Taken.

>[2] drop all
heavy iron key: Dropped.
whip: Dropped.
illustrated novel: Dropped.
sapphire anklet: Dropped.
fitted leather bodice: Dropped.
cake of incense: Dropped.
perfume: Dropped.
length of silken rope: Dropped.
bunch of grapes: Dropped.
tangerine: Dropped.
quill pen: Dropped.
bottle of ink: Dropped.

>[3] sarissa, take all
bottle of ink: Sarissa picks up the bottle of ink.
quill pen: Sarissa picks up the quill pen.
tangerine: Sarissa picks up the tangerine.
bunch of grapes: Sarissa picks up the bunch of grapes.
length of silken rope: Sarissa picks up the length of silken rope.
perfume: Sarissa picks up the perfume.
cake of incense: Sarissa picks up the cake of incense.
fitted leather bodice: Sarissa picks up the fitted leather bodice.
sapphire anklet: Sarissa picks up the sapphire anklet.
illustrated novel: Sarissa picks up the illustrated novel.
whip: Sarissa picks up the whip.
heavy iron key: Sarissa nervously demurs, knowing that it is forbidden.