Get Axe

Example 206

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Changing the check rules to try automatically leaving a container before attempting to take it. (And arranging things so that other people will do likewise.)

We could now re-write the check rules so that any time someone (the player or someone else) tries to pick up a container which he is in, he will first get out:

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"GET AXE"

This is the clever can't take what you're inside rule:

if the person asked is in the noun, try the person asked exiting;

if the person asked is in the noun, rule fails.

The clever can't take what you're inside rule is listed instead of the can't take what you're inside rule in the check taking rules.

Attic is a room. The unused coffin is in the Attic. The coffin is enterable and openable and open. Raskolnikov is a man in the coffin.

Persuasion rule for asking Raskolnikov to try doing something:

persuasion succeeds.

Test me with "raskolnikov, get coffin".

Attic
You can see an unused coffin (in which is Raskolnikov) here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] raskolnikov, get coffin
Raskolnikov gets out of the unused coffin.

Raskolnikov picks up the unused coffin.