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Section 3 - Enclosures

[This is adapted from the Recipe Book example 366: Rock Garden. The idea is to allow the player to look through the bars of an enclosure.]

Intervisibility relates rooms to each other in groups. The verb to be connected with means the intervisibility relation.

Definition: a room is intervisible if it is connected with more than one room.

After deciding the scope of the player when the location is an intervisible room:

repeat with other place running through rooms which are connected with the location:

unless the other place is the location, place the other place in scope.

Rule for reaching inside a room (called target) which is connected with the location:

let way be the best route from the location to the target, using doors;

if the way is not a direction:

say "Your access to [the target] is barred.";

deny access;

say "(first heading [way])[command clarification break]";

try going way;

if the player is in the target, allow access;

otherwise deny access.

After looking when the location is an intervisible room:

repeat with other place running through rooms which are connected with the location:

if the other place is not the location, describe locale for other place.