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

Consulting something about some text (past tense consulted it about)

Consulting is a very flexible and potentially powerful action, but only because it leaves almost all of the work to the author to deal with directly. The idea is for it to respond to commands such as LOOK UP HENRY FITZROY IN HISTORY BOOK, where the topic would be the snippet of command HENRY FITZROY and the thing would be the book.
The Standard Rules simply parry such requests by saying that the player finds nothing of interest. All interesting responses must be provided by the author, using rules like 'Instead of consulting the history book about...'

Typed commands leading to this action

"look/l up [text] in [something]" reversed

"consult [something] on/about [text]"

"read about [text] in [something]" reversed

"read [text] in [something]" reversed

Rules controlling this action

report an actor consulting something about block consulting rule
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A "[We] [discover] nothing of interest in [the noun]."
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B "[The actor] [look] at [the noun]."
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Click on the speech-bubble icons to see the responses, or here to see all of them: 2