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Leather Goddesses of Phobos
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Trent is easily impressed (by design?) #67

Open eriktorbjorn opened 3 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 3 years ago

If you tell Trent about one of the parts he's looking for, he thinks you've found it:

>EXAMINE MOUSE
You can't see any mouse here!

>TELL TRENT ABOUT MOUSE
"Hey, wow!" says Trent, clearly impressed by your discovery of the mouse.

That's because V-TELL-ABOUT acts as if you're showing him the object, whether or not you actually have it:

<ROUTINE V-TELL-ABOUT ()
     <COND (<PRSO? ,ME>
        <PERFORM ,V?WHAT ,PRSI>
        <RTRUE>)
           (T
        <PERFORM ,V?SHOW ,PRSI ,PRSO>
        <RTRUE>)>>

Then again, he does admit early on that he's "not too bright" ...

arcanetrivia commented 3 years ago

We could also interpret this as the natural act of telling someone about something whether or not it's not currently present, even if "discovery" is maybe an odd noun in that context.