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Section 18 - Looking at/with

Understand "look [direction]" as facing.

Facing is an action applying to one visible thing.

Check facing the direction:

let the viewed location be the room noun from the location;

if viewed location is a room:

try looking toward the viewed location.

Report facing:

let the viewed location be the room noun from the location;

if viewed location is not a room:

say "There's nothing to see in that direction."

Instead of facing up:

if the location is in Outdoors:

say "A brilliant blue sky, marred by the contrails of snowspeeders and TIE strikers.";

otherwise if the location is in Echo Base:

say "Ice and cables, mostly.";

otherwise if the location is in Space:

say "You're not sure which way is up.";

otherwise:

say "You see nothing special."

Instead of facing down:

if the location is in Outdoors:

say "A brilliant blue sky, marred by the contrails of snowspeeders and TIE strikers.";

otherwise if the location is in Echo Base:

say "A muddy plasteel grating.";

otherwise if the location is in Space:

say "You're not sure which way is down.";

otherwise:

say "You see nothing special."

Understand "look toward/towards [any adjacent room]" as looking toward.

Looking toward is an action applying to one visible thing.

Report looking toward:

say "You see [the noun]."

A viewing thing is a kind of thing.

Understand "look [direction] with [a thing]" as looking with.

Looking with is an action applying to one visible thing and one carried thing.

Check looking with:

let the viewed location be the room noun from the location;

if viewed location is not a room:

stop the action.

Carry out looking with:

let the viewed location be the room noun from the location;

if the location is in Outdoors and the second noun is a viewing thing:

say "Through [the second noun], you can see: [The description of the viewed location]."