Fixing the stool involves an arcane procedure

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Knowing how to fix the stool is not enough; you need to know a couple of 
magic words.

The first one is "socket".  You can't fix the stool without using this 
word, and you don't get a clue about this word until you see the 
description for "seat".

The other magic word is "seat".  Since the description of the stool 
includes a complete description of the seat (except that it doesn't 
mention "socket"), there's no reason for the player to examine the seat 
any further.  One of the hints suggests examining the seat in particular, 
which is how I found it.

In my humble opinion, the "x seat" action belongs to the same class as 
"open billiard ball" (an essential-but-totally-unguessable action which 
turned me off a particular IF game long ago).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aecolley on 26 Jan 2010 at 8:37

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Found in: release 2 serial 100124 inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)

Original comment by aecolley on 26 Jan 2010 at 9:12

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I got stuck at this point, too. When examining the stool, I didn't catch that 
the seat 
could be examined separately, and thus I never found the socket. I knew that I 
wanted 
to fix the stool with the bar, but the best I could come up with was "put bar 
in stool" 
"put stool on bar", "fix stool with bar", etc.

Original comment by jacobly@google.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 7:09

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FIxed:

>x stool
A small stool, with legs a couple of feet long. It's three-legged by design, 
but two-
legged in practice, hence its inability to stand upright.  There's an empty 
socket 
where the third leg should be. All of the paint has been worn off the seat by 
your 
illustrious predecessors who inhabited this cell. Those same occupants carved 
every 
square inch of the stool's seat with their initials (and the initials look 
intriguing!)  A 
small bronze plate has been nailed to the bottom of the stool. 

>put bar in stool
(the gray tube in the stool)
You flip the stool over and wiggle the hollow gray tube into the empty socket. 
It fits 
perfectly and remains in place when you let go of the bar, but you think you 
could 
yank the gray bar out again if you needed it. You now have a stool with three 
even 
legs: two wood, one metal.

Original comment by suss...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2010 at 3:57

• Changed state: Fixed