^ 1 | Details — A single action in detail. About the action rulebooks

Standard actions which happen out of world
Quitting the game , Saving the game , Restoring the game , Restarting the game , Verifying the story file , Switching the story transcript on , Switching the story transcript off , Requesting the story file version , Requesting the score , Preferring abbreviated room descriptions , Preferring unabbreviated room descriptions , Preferring sometimes abbreviated room descriptions , Switching score notification on , Switching score notification off , Requesting the pronoun meanings

Preferring sometimes abbreviated room descriptions (past tense preferred sometimes abbreviated room descriptions)

Typed commands leading to this action

"brief"

"normal"

Rules controlling this action

carry out prefer sometimes abbreviated room descriptions rule name unlist

report standard report preferring sometimes abbreviated room descriptions rule name unlist 1

A " is now in its 'brief' printing mode, which gives long descriptions of places never before visited and short descriptions otherwise." name set