Example: ** Happy Hour Location: Listing nondescript items of something RecipeLocation: Social Groups Index: People listed as a group, with their possessions afterward Description: Listing visible characters as a group, then giving some followup details in the same paragraph about specific ones. For: Z-Machine Often it is best to have an entire paragraph about the characters present in a room, but suppose we're narrating a large party with a lot of people moving around. In that case, it might be better to list everyone together, then add a few salient details by way of follow-up, like this: {*}"Happy Hour" Before listing nondescript items: say "You can see [a list of people who are marked for listing] here. "; repeat with named party running through people: now the named party is not marked for listing; let count be the number of visible other people who are carrying something; if count is 0: say paragraph break; continue the action; let index be count; repeat with holder running through visible other people who are carrying something: if index is count, say "[The holder]"; otherwise say "[the holder]"; say " has [a list of things carried by the holder]"; decrement index; make delimiter index of count. The next part could be simpler, but for rigor we will write it in such a way that it will work whether or not the serial comma is in use. This requires some extra work. {**}To make delimiter (index - a number) of (count - a number), continuing or halting: if index is 0: if continuing, say ". [run paragraph on]"; otherwise say "."; otherwise if index is 1: if count is 2, say " and "; otherwise say "[optional comma] and "; otherwise: say ", ". To say optional comma: if the serial comma option is active: say ",". And now the scene: {**}The Banquet Hall is a room. "A large cheery banner over the door (which, incidentally, vanishes when you approach it) reads: HELLO NEW INDUCTEES! WELCOME TO THE AFTERLIFE!" Fred, George, and Larry are men in the Banquet Hall. Fred carries a dry martini. Larry carries a cream puff. Matilda and Louise are women in the Banquet Hall. Definition: a person is other if it is not the player. Every turn: let wanderer be a random other person; let place be the holder of the wanderer; let next place be a random room adjacent to the place; let the way be the best route from the place to the next place; try the wanderer going the way. The Kitchen is west of the Banquet Hall. "Dominated by a pile of dirty plates which you imagine it will be someone's privilege to wash, later." Vanessa is a woman in the Kitchen. Vanessa carries a tray. On the tray is a salmon roll. The roll is edible. Test me with "z / look / g / g / g ".