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Opening the safe a second time prints odd message #44

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago 
>DRILL SAFE WITH PORTABLE DRILL
As you drill through the lock, the door pops open with a rush of escaping air!
This reveals a glass case!

>CLOSE SAFE
Closed.

>OPEN SAFE
Opening the safe reveals a hole you drilled and a glass case.

As if the hole is only on the inside.

It seems odd to me that the hole is listed, because both HOLE-1 and HOLE-2 have NDESCBIT. But apparently PRINT-CONTENTS (unlike PRINT-CONT, which is used for listing objects in a room) doesn't care about that.

In fact, it seems most games don't even bother to check the INVISIBLE bit.

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

You can also open the safe with the drill a second time:

>DRILL SAFE WITH DRILL
As you drill through the lock, the door pops open with a rush of escaping air!
This reveals a glass case!

>DRILL SAFE WITH DRILL
As you drill through the lock, the door pops open with a rush of escaping air!
This reveals a hole you drilled and a glass case!
The portable drill sputters, and the bit stops turning.