Hymenaeus

Example 312

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Understanding "flaming torch" and "extinguished torch" to refer to torches when lit and unlit.

"Hymenaeus"

A torch is kind of thing. Understand the lit property as describing a torch. Understand "lighted" or "flaming" or "burning" as lit. Understand "extinguished" as unlit. A torch is usually lit.

Before printing the name of a lit torch, say "flaming ".

Before printing the name of an unlit torch, say "extinguished ".

The Wedding Procession is a room.

Orpheus is a man in the Wedding Procession. Orpheus carries a torch.

Eurydice is a woman in the Wedding Procession. Eurydice carries a torch.

Rule for writing a paragraph about someone (called target):

say "[The target] carries [a list of things carried by the target]."

Every turn:

if a random chance of 1 in 2 succeeds and a torch is lit:

let target torch be a random lit torch;

now the target torch is unlit;

say "Aquilo blows down from the north, extinguishing the torch carried by [the holder of the target torch]."

Instead of examining a lit torch:

say "It casts a bright glow over [the holder of the noun]."

Instead of examining an unlit torch:

say "[The holder of the noun] is looking at it disconsolately, obviously worried about the omens."

Test me with "z / z / z / look / x flaming torch / x extinguished torch".

Wedding Procession
Orpheus carries a flaming torch.

Eurydice carries a flaming torch.

>(Testing.)

>[1] z
Time passes.

>[2] z
Time passes.

>[3] z
Time passes.

Aquilo blows down from the north, extinguishing the torch carried by Orpheus.

>[4] look
Wedding Procession
Orpheus carries an extinguished torch.

Eurydice carries a flaming torch.

Aquilo blows down from the north, extinguishing the torch carried by Eurydice.

>[5] x flaming torch
You can't see any such thing.

>[6] x extinguished torch
Orpheus is looking at it disconsolately, obviously worried about the omens.