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<p style="margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;line-height:150%;"><b>Details</b> &mdash;
A single action in detail.<br><i>About the action rulebooks&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=inform:/doc178.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/help.png></a></i></p>
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<hr><b>Standard actions concerning other people</b><br>Giving it to&nbsp;<a href=24_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Showing it to&nbsp;<a href=25_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Waking&nbsp;<a href=26_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Throwing it at&nbsp;<a href=27_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Attacking&nbsp;<a href=28_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Kissing&nbsp;<a href=29_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Answering it that&nbsp;<a href=30_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Telling it about&nbsp;<a href=31_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, <b>Asking it about</b>&nbsp;<a href=32_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a>, Asking it for&nbsp;<a href=33_A.html><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Beneath.png></a><p><hr><p><b>Asking <font color="#000080">something</font> about <font color="#000080">some text</font> </b><a name=Ask></a> (<i>past tense</i> asked it about)<br>
<p>The Standard Rules do
not include any systematic way to handle conversation: instead, Inform is
set up so that it is as easy as we can make it to write specific rules
handling speech in particular games, and so that if no such rules are
written then all attempts to communicate are gracefully if not very
interestingly rejected.<br><br>The topic here can be any double-quoted text, which can itself contain
tokens in square brackets: see the documentation on Understanding.<br><br>Asking is an action existing only to catch commands like ASK STEPHEN ABOUT
PENELOPE. Customarily in IF, such a command is shorthand which the player
accepts as a conventional form: it means 'engage Mary in conversation and
try to find out what she might know about'. It's understood as a convention
of the genre that Mary should not be expected to respond in cases where
there is no reason to suppose that she has anything relevant to pass on -
ASK JANE ABOUT RICE PUDDING, for instance, need not conjure up a recipe
even if Jane is a 19th-century servant and therefore almost certainly
knows one.<p><hr><p><b>Typed commands leading to this action</b><p>
<p class="hangingin2">&quot;ask [someone] about [text]&quot;</p><p><b>Rules controlling this action</b></p><p>
<p class="hangingin2">instead of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>doing something to the cables</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="source:story.ni#line56"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png></a></p>
<p class="hangingin2">instead of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>asking, answering, or telling</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="source:story.ni#line26"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png></a></p>
<p class="hangingin2">instead of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>doing something other than examining, talking, answering, sleeping, asking, looking, waiting, getting off or exiting when the player is on the sofa</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="source:story.ni#line61"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png></a></p>
<br><p class="hangingin2">after&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>asking the Petra about "Lynne"</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="source:story.ni#line76"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png></a></p>
<br><p class="hangingin2">report&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>an actor asking something about</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#800000">block asking rule</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:pasteCode('block asking rule')"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/paste.png></a>&nbsp;<i>name</i> <a href="javascript:pasteCode('The block asking rule is not listed in the report asking it about rulebook.[=0x000A=]')"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/paste.png></a>&nbsp;<i>unlist</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#" onclick="showResp('extra1000225', 'plus1000225'); return false;"><img border=0 id="plus1000225" src=inform:/doc_images/responses.png></a>&nbsp;1</p>
<div id="extra1000225" style="display: none;"><p class="in2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #8080ff;">&nbsp;&nbsp;A&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> <span style="color: #000066;">"[There] [are] no reply."</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:pasteCode('block asking rule response (A)')"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/paste.png></a>&nbsp;<i>name</i>&nbsp;<a href="javascript:pasteCode('block asking rule response (A) is [=0x0022=]New text.[=0x0022=].')"><img border=0 src=inform:/doc_images/paste.png></a>&nbsp;<i>set</i></div>
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