The Hypnotist of Blois
Example 186
★"The Hypnotist of Blois"
A person is either hypnotized or alert. A person is usually alert.
Persuasion rule for asking a hypnotized person to try doing something:
persuasion succeeds.
Understand "hypnotize [someone]" as hypnotizing.
Hypnotizing is an action applying to one thing.
Check hypnotizing:
if the noun is hypnotized, say "Already done." instead.
Carry out hypnotizing:
now the noun is hypnotized.
Report hypnotizing:
say "[The noun] slips under your control."
Instead of waking someone hypnotized:
now the noun is alert;
say "[The noun] returns abruptly to consciousness."
We will learn more about check rules for other characters shortly, but the following prevents the hypnosis patient from trying to hypnotize us in turn:
Check someone hypnotizing someone:
stop the action.
Maison de la Magie is a room. "In a darkened room, a few hundreds of paces from the chateau of Blois, you give to tourists three shows a day: displaying to them power they do not comprehend and spectacles they do not deserve."
A volunteer is a woman in the Maison. "A volunteer from the audience stands facing you, [if alert]skeptically awaiting hypnosis[otherwise]her face worshipful and obedient[end if]." The printed name of the volunteer is "volunteer from the audience". The description is "A distracted, susceptible woman." The volunteer wears a t-shirt and a baseball hat.
The player wears a top hat and a cape.
Test me with "volunteer, remove hat / hypnotize volunteer / look / volunteer, remove hat / wake volunteer / volunteer, wear hat".
Test me with "volunteer, remove hat / hypnotize volunteer / look / volunteer, remove hat / wake volunteer / volunteer, wear hat".
Maison de la Magie
In a darkened room, a few hundreds of paces from the chateau of Blois, you give to tourists three shows a day: displaying to them power they do not comprehend and spectacles they do not deserve.
A volunteer from the audience stands facing you, skeptically awaiting hypnosis.
>(Testing.)
>[1] volunteer, remove hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience has better things to do.
>[2] hypnotize volunteer
The volunteer from the audience slips under your control.
>[3] look
Maison de la Magie
In a darkened room, a few hundreds of paces from the chateau of Blois, you give to tourists three shows a day: displaying to them power they do not comprehend and spectacles they do not deserve.
A volunteer from the audience stands facing you, her face worshipful and obedient.
>[4] volunteer, remove hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience takes off the baseball hat.
>[5] wake volunteer
The volunteer from the audience returns abruptly to consciousness.
>[6] volunteer, wear hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience has better things to do.
In a darkened room, a few hundreds of paces from the chateau of Blois, you give to tourists three shows a day: displaying to them power they do not comprehend and spectacles they do not deserve.
A volunteer from the audience stands facing you, skeptically awaiting hypnosis.
>(Testing.)
>[1] volunteer, remove hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience has better things to do.
>[2] hypnotize volunteer
The volunteer from the audience slips under your control.
>[3] look
Maison de la Magie
In a darkened room, a few hundreds of paces from the chateau of Blois, you give to tourists three shows a day: displaying to them power they do not comprehend and spectacles they do not deserve.
A volunteer from the audience stands facing you, her face worshipful and obedient.
>[4] volunteer, remove hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience takes off the baseball hat.
>[5] wake volunteer
The volunteer from the audience returns abruptly to consciousness.
>[6] volunteer, wear hat
(the baseball hat)
The volunteer from the audience has better things to do.