Trachypachidae Maturin 1803

Example 340

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Bottles with removable stoppers: when the stopper is in the bottle, the bottle is functionally closed, but the stopper can also be removed and used elsewhere. Descriptions of the bottle reflect its state intelligently.

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"Trachypachidae Maturin 1803"

A bottle is a kind of container. Bottles are usually openable, transparent, and closed. A cork is a kind of thing. A cork is in every bottle.

Understand "cork [something]" as corking.

Understand the command "stopper" as "cork".

Understand "uncork [something]" as uncorking.

Corking is an action applying to one thing.

Check corking:

if the noun is not a bottle, say "[The noun] cannot be corked." instead.

Carry out corking:

try closing the noun.

Uncorking is an action applying to one thing.

Check uncorking:

if the noun is not a bottle, say "[The noun] cannot be uncorked." instead.

Carry out uncorking:

try opening the noun.

Understand "close [something] with [something preferably held]" as corking it with.

Understand "cork [something] with [something preferably held]" as corking it with.

Corking it with is an action applying to one thing and one carried thing.

Check corking it with:

if the noun is not a bottle, say "[The noun] cannot be corked." instead;

if the second noun is not a cork, say "[The second noun] will not fit in [the noun]." instead.

Carry out corking it with:

try inserting the second noun into the noun instead.

Instead of closing a bottle:

if a cork (called the item) is carried by the player, try inserting the item into the noun instead;

otherwise say "You need a stopper of some kind."

Instead of opening a bottle:

if a cork (called the item) is in the noun, try taking the item instead;

otherwise say "[The noun] has no stopper."

Carry out inserting a cork into a bottle:

now the second noun is closed.

After inserting a cork into a bottle:

say "You stopper [the second noun] with [the noun]."

Before taking a cork when the noun is in a closed bottle (called the item):

now the item is open.

Instead of taking a cork when the noun is in a bottle (called the item):

move the noun to the player;

say "You pull [the noun] from [the item]." instead.

Before printing the name of a bottle (called target) while not inserting, taking, searching, or removing:

if the target is closed, say "sealed ";

otherwise say "now open ".

After printing the name of a bottle (called target) while not inserting, searching, examining, or removing:

if the target contains a noncork thing, say " containing [a list of noncork things in the target]";

omit contents in listing.

Instead of examining a bottle:

say "[The noun] contains [a list of noncork things in the noun]."

Definition: a thing is noncork if it is not a cork.

The Doctor's Cabin is a room. "A dark, cramped triangle, like a slice of cake, except that its sharp end has been cut off: and so low that a moderately tall man would strike his head on the deck above if he were to stand upright. Every free surface is covered with sheets of best Venetian looking-glass, to increase the light filtering in. Long use and the carpenter's ingenuity have packed in a folding cot and table, and lockers are built into unlikely places: lockers filled with specimens, skeletons, sketches, drafts and serial letters." The jug is a bottle in the Doctor's Cabin. The jug contains a beetle. The description of the beetle is "The doctor assures you that it is a nondescript."

Test me with "get jug / x jug / open jug / x jug / i / x cork / cork jug / i / uncork jug / i / x jug / get beetle / i / close jug / i / x jug".

Doctor's Cabin
A dark, cramped triangle, like a slice of cake, except that its sharp end has been cut off: and so low that a moderately tall man would strike his head on the deck above if he were to stand upright. Every free surface is covered with sheets of best Venetian looking-glass, to increase the light filtering in. Long use and the carpenter's ingenuity have packed in a folding cot and table, and lockers are built into unlikely places: lockers filled with specimens, skeletons, sketches, drafts and serial letters.

You can see a sealed jug containing a beetle here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] get jug
Taken.

>[2] x jug
The sealed jug contains a beetle.

>[3] open jug
You pull the cork from the jug containing a beetle.

>[4] x jug
The now open jug contains a beetle.

>[5] i
You are carrying:
a cork
a now open jug containing a beetle

>[6] x cork
You see nothing special about the cork.

>[7] cork jug
You stopper the jug with the cork.

>[8] i
You are carrying:
a sealed jug containing a beetle

>[9] uncork jug
You pull the cork from the jug containing a beetle.

>[10] i
You are carrying:
a cork
a now open jug containing a beetle

>[11] x jug
The now open jug contains a beetle.

>[12] get beetle
Taken.

>[13] i
You are carrying:
a beetle
a cork
a now open jug

>[14] close jug
You stopper the jug with the cork.

>[15] i
You are carrying:
a beetle
a sealed jug

>[16] x jug
The sealed jug contains nothing.