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* Reading and talking
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(Sybil: 1. ASK, TELL, and ANSWER conflated--ASK, TELL, and ANSWER commands rolled into one)
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Direct all ASK, TELL, and ANSWER commands to ASK, and accept multiple words for certain cases.
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Sometimes we do not particularly want to deal with all the variations on asking, telling, or answering someone something, but want to direct everything to a single conversational command:
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{*}"Consulting the Oracle"
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The Grove is a room. In the Grove is a woman called the Sybil.
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Instead of telling someone about something, try asking the noun about it. Instead of answering the noun that something, try asking the noun about it.
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Instead of asking the Sybil about "persians", say "She nods gravely."
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And similarly, a difference between GIVE and SHOW is sometimes overkill:
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{**}Instead of showing something to someone, try giving the noun to the second noun.
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The player carries a coin. Instead of giving the coin to the Sybil: move the coin to the Sybil; say "She accepts with a smile."
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It is also often the case that we want to accept more than one form of a term. For instance
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{**}Instead of asking the Sybil about "Darius/king", say "Her smile unnerves you."
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will match either "Darius" or "king". If necessary, we can go a step further and define our own token to match a variety of phrases, like this:
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{**}Understand "Athenians/Spartans/Greeks" or "hoplite army/forces" as "[Greeks]". Instead of asking the Sybil about "[Greeks]", say "She looks encouraging."
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The token "[Greeks]" will match all of "Athenians", "Spartans", "Greeks", "hoplite army", or "hoplite forces". It will not match "hoplite" or "forces" alone; it is important to note that the / divides individual words which are understood equivalently, but does not define entire phrases as equivalent. More about how Inform understands specific phrases can be found in the chapter on Understanding.
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{**}Test me with "test one / test two".
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Test one with "ask sybil about persians / tell sybil about persians / sybil, persians / ask sybil about darius / ask sybil about king".
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Test two with "ask sybil about greeks / ask sybil about athenians / ask sybil about hoplite army / ask sybil about hoplite forces / give the coin to the sybil". |