When in Rome 2: Far from Home
An interactive fiction by Emily Short (2006) - the Inform 7 source text
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Understand "write on/out [text]" as a mistake ("You need to write the name of a home-world -- for instance, WRITE LUNA ON..."). Understand "fill out/in [text]" as a mistake ("You need to write the name of a home-world -- for instance, WRITE LUNA ON THE LABEL.").
Understand "write [moon] on [something]" as filling it out on.
Filling it out on is an action applying to one moon and one thing.
Setting action variables for filling:
if the second noun is the egg and the blank label is stuck to egg:
change the second noun to blank label;
if the second noun is the egg and the filled label is stuck to egg:
change the second noun to filled label.
Check filling it out on:
if the second noun is not the blank label and the second noun is not the filled label, say "You can't fill out [the second noun], only the label." instead.
Check filling it out on:
if the player is not carrying the ballpoint:
if the ballpoint is visible, try taking the ballpoint;
otherwise say "Now where did you set down your pen, anyway?" instead;
if the player is not carrying the ballpoint, stop the action;
Check filling it out on:
if the second noun is the blank label, fix blank label.
To fix blank label:
if the blank label is part of something (called the parent):
now the filled label is part of the parent;
otherwise:
move the filled label to the holder of the blank label;
if the blank label is stuck to the egg:
now the filled label is stuck to the egg;
now the blank label is not stuck to the egg;
remove the blank label from play;
change the second noun to the filled label.
Check filling it out on:
if the second noun is the filled label:
say "First you cross out ";
if filled label is alien-marked, say "[fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark of the moon of the creature][variable letter spacing]";
otherwise say "[moon of filled label]";
say " vigorously with many strokes of the pen..."
Carry out filling it out on:
now the second noun is human-marked;
change moon of the second noun to the moon understood.
Report filling it out on:
say "You write [moon understood] firmly on the label."
Before a creature trying filling moon understood out on the blank label when the person asked is not carrying the pen:
try the person asked trying taking the pen instead.
Before a creature trying filling moon understood out on the blank label when the person asked cannot touch the blank label:
try the person asked trying taking the blank label instead.
Carry out someone trying filling the moon of the creature out on the blank label:
fix blank label;
now the filled label is alien-marked;
change moon of the second noun to the moon of the creature.
Report a creature trying filling the moon of the creature out on something:
let destination be the moon of the creature;
choose row with a moon column of destination in Table of Alien Characteristics;
say "Tongue caught between its teeth, [the creature] writes [fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark entry][variable letter spacing] on [the second noun]."
The description of the filled label is "[if human-marked]In your familiar handwriting it registers the origin of the creature as [moon of the filled label][otherwise]In alien writing it says [fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark of the moon of the creature][variable letter spacing][end if]." The filled label can be alien-marked or human-marked.
The description of the blank label is "Intended to identify the alien to whatever interplanetary post office is responsible for these shipments."