The Man of Steel

Example 203

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An escaping action which means "go to any room you can reach from here", and is only useful to non-player characters.

It will sometimes be handy to write actions that are only available to the non-player characters and not to the player. To do this, we just define an action which has no "understand": the player will never be able to specify this command himself, but other characters can try it.

This is particularly useful for creating abstract or general actions for when we want a character to eat something, wear something, or go somewhere, but aren't too particular as to what the object is; as here, where we just want Clark to move away from the kryptonite, regardless of direction:

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"The Man of Steel"

Escaping is an action applying to nothing.

Carry out someone escaping:

let space be the holder of the person asked;

let place be a random room which is adjacent to the space;

let way be the best route from the space to the place;

try the person asked going way.

Every turn:

if Clark Kent can see kryptonite, try Clark Kent escaping.

The Daily Planet Newsroom is a room.

Perry White's Office is west of the Newsroom. In Perry White's Office are a desk and a poster of Elvis. On the desk is a lead-lined box. The box is openable. In the box is the green kryptonite crystal.

The Supply Closet is east of the Newsroom. The Elevator Bank is north of the Newsroom.

Clark Kent is a man in the Newsroom. "Clark [if Clark can see the kryptonite]looks a bit ill[otherwise]is here, frowning as he revises his latest article[end if]."

Test me with "west / get box / east / close box / east / west / north / south / west".

Daily Planet Newsroom
Clark is here, frowning as he revises his latest article.

>(Testing.)

>[1] west

Perry White's Office
You can see a desk (on which is a lead-lined box (in which is a green kryptonite crystal)) and a poster of Elvis here.

>[2] get box
Taken.

>[3] east

Daily Planet Newsroom
Clark looks a bit ill.

Clark Kent goes west.

>[4] close box
You close the lead-lined box.

>[5] east

Supply Closet

>[6] west

Daily Planet Newsroom

>[7] north

Elevator Bank

>[8] south

Daily Planet Newsroom

>[9] west

Perry White's Office
Clark is here, frowning as he revises his latest article.

You can also see a desk and a poster of Elvis here.