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The response to attacking people can get a bit absurd #23

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago 
>DESTROY PHONG WITH GUN RECEIPT
Trying to destroy Mr. Phong with a gun receipt is quite self-destructive.

>KILL PHONG WITH GUN RECEIPT
With a lethal blow of the gun receipt, Mr. Phong falls dead.
You vaguely hear screaming and yelling through a haze of confusion and the tugs
of your conscience asking "How could you have done it?" Before you can answer,
you hear police sirens come near. Sergeant Duffy and two others enter and grab
you by the arms. They take you to a waiting car, where, forlorn and disgusted,
you think about being sent up for life. "Maybe," you think, "I shouldn't have
done that."

The case has come to an end. Would you like to start your investigation over
from scratch? (Answer YES or NO.) >

Should that be fixed? I don't know. The game lets you kill people with your bare hands, so I don't know if killing them with a receipt is any worse...

arcanetrivia commented 3 years ago

I think killing with a receipt is definitely worse - your bare hands could strangle, or beat someone to death, for instance, but what's a receipt going to do, death by paper cut?

Is there any check or even a bit defined to tell weapons and non-weapons apart? Or could it be that KILL is ignoring the indirect object? (Zork III, for example, allows KILL to be effective with unlikely objects like the cloak or waybread, so...)