| Chapter 7: Basic Actions |

| 7.11. In rooms and regions

Three elaborations of action descriptions increase the range of possibilities further.

> Instead of taking something in the Supernatural Void, say "In this peculiar mist you feel unable to grasp anything."

Like the objects to which the action applies, this location - the "in" clause - can take any description, not just an explicit place like "Supernatural Void":

> Instead of listening in a dead end, say "You strain to hear further clues as to the course of the underground river, but to no avail."

But we often want a rule to apply in any of a set of rooms: and where, unlike the "dead end" example above, the rooms have nothing much in common except where they happen to lie on a map. For instance, we might want a rule to apply only inside a given building, or a garden consisting of five miscellaneous rooms. If so, we can create a "region" as a convenient way to refer to that group of rooms:

> The Arboretum is east of the Botanical Gardens. Northwest of the Gardens is the Tropical Greenhouse.

> The Public Area is a region. The Arboretum and Gardens are in the Public Area.

> Instead of eating in the Public Area, say "The curators of the Gardens are ever among you, eagle-eyed and generally cussed."

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