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CEILING-F oddity #28

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

This bit in CEILING-F ...

     <COND (<AND <EQUAL? ,HERE ,ON-WAGON>
             <IN? ,MUNRAB ,ON-WAGON>>
        <PERFORM ,V?KNOCK ,OFFICE-DOOR>
        <RTRUE>)

means that anything you try to do to the ceiling while on the wagon, and Munrab is present (actually, from a story point of view he's in his trailer and it's only from an implementation point of view that he's on top of it) will be the same as knocking on the door:

>HYPNOTIZE CEILING
Below you Mr. Munrab very cautiously steps outside and begins poking around,
closing the door behind him. He wanders into the darkness.

This seems a bit strange to me, but I'm not sure which verbs should actually trigger the action.