Normally, when you use the wand on Cerberus he's supposed to notice it.
>WAVE WAND AT CERBERUS
The dog looks puzzled.
The wand grows warm, the three-headed dog seems to glow dimly with magical
essences, and you feel suffused with power.
But one alternative syntax doesn't quite do this:
>RUB CERBERUS WITH WAND
The wand grows warm, the three-headed dog seems to glow dimly with magical
essences, and you feel suffused with power.
That's because this is what ``CERBERUS-FCN ` does:
<COND (<AND <VERB? WAVE RUB RAISE> <EQUAL? ,PRSO ,WAND>>
<TELL "The dog looks puzzled." CR>
<RFALSE>)
And in the second case, Cerberus is presumably PRSO while the wand is PRSI.
He doesn't notice RAISE WAND at all, but I'm not sure if he should.
Normally, when you use the wand on Cerberus he's supposed to notice it.
But one alternative syntax doesn't quite do this:
That's because this is what
``CERBERUS-FCN
` does:And in the second case, Cerberus is presumably
PRSO
while the wand isPRSI
.He doesn't notice
RAISE WAND
at all, but I'm not sure if he should.Here's what
WAND-FCN
does:So
RAISE WAND
is only cosmetic., apparently?