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Standard actions concerning the actor's vision
Looking , Examining , Looking under , Searching , Consulting it about

Looking under something (requires light) (past tense looked under)

The standard Inform world model does not have a concept of things being under other things, so this action is only minimally provided by the Standard Rules, but it exists here for traditional reasons (and because, after all, LOOK UNDER TABLE is the sort of command which ought to be recognised even if it does nothing useful). The action ordinarily either tells the player he finds nothing of interest, or reports that somebody else has looked under something.
The usual way to make this action do something useful is to write a rule like 'Instead of looking under the cabinet for the first time: now the player has the silver key; say ...' and so on.

Typed commands leading to this action

"look/l under [something]"

Rules controlling this action

instead of doing something to the cables

carry out an actor looking under standard looking under rule name unlist 1

A "[We] [find] nothing of interest." name set

report an actor looking under report other people looking under rule name unlist 1

A "[The actor] [look] under [the noun]." name set

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