Lucy

Example 92

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Redirecting a question about one topic to ask about another.

Occasionally we will want to replace the player's question topic with another of our own devising. We can do this in the simplest possible case like so:

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Play in Quixe

"Lucy"

The International Boardgame Championship is a room. Lucy is a woman in the Championship.

Instead of asking Lucy about "checkers":

try asking Lucy about "games".

Instead of asking Lucy about "games",

say "'I don't like games,' she sniffs."

Test me with "ask lucy about checkers / ask lucy about games".

International Boardgame Championship
You can see Lucy here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] ask lucy about checkers
"I don't like games," she sniffs.

>[2] ask lucy about games
"I don't like games," she sniffs.

Note that this syntax did not work in older versions of Inform; it is now safe.