Chapter 8: Vehicles, Animals and Furniture
8.4. Furniture

Most domestic furniture consists of supporters and containers of one size or another. This means that the simplest furniture needs no elaborate instructions:

The candlestick is on the dining table. The dining table is fixed in place.

The silver salt cellar is on the serving trolley. The serving trolley is pushable between rooms.

The pillow is on the bed. The bed is enterable and fixed in place.

The examples below are therefore mostly ways to get around the usual restrictions on containers (that they only have one interior) and supporters (that they cannot simultaneously be containers as well).

Yolk of Gold provides a set of drawers, that is, a container with multiple interiors.

U-Stor-It provides a way to have containers with a lid which is also a supporter.

Swigmore provides a supporter which holds up the player, but has no top surface as such, and cannot hold up anything else.

Princess and the Pea shows how a pile of supporters, each on top of the last, could be managed.

Finally, Tamed demonstrates furniture large enough to get inside, or on top of.

* See Position Within Rooms for a box that can be positioned and used as a stepping stool

* See Entering and Exiting, Sitting and Standing for making the player automatically rise from a seat before leaving the room


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** Example  Yolk of Gold
Set of drawers where the item the player seeks is always in the last drawer he opens, regardless of the order of opening.

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* Example  Princess and the Pea
The player is unable to sleep on a mattress (or stack of mattresses) because the bottom one has something uncomfortable under it.

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*** Example  U-Stor-It
A "chest" kind which consists of a container which has a lid as a supporter.

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** Example  Swigmore U.
Adding a new kind of supporter called a perch, where everything dropped lands on the floor.

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* Example  Tamed
Examples of a container and a supporter that can be entered, as well as nested rooms.

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