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| - | ===== Giving the Reader Several Options ==== | + | #redirect actions |
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| - | Suppose you're writing a passage like this: | + | |
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| - | > The door opens into a narrow sloping corridor which leads into another chamber. The walls are covered with hieroglyphics, and there are three clay pots standing on top of a stone table. Will you: | + | |
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| - | > Lift the lid of the white pot? Turn to **14** | + | |
| - | > Lift the lid of the black pot? Turn to **156** | + | |
| - | > Lift the lid of the red pot? Turn to **183** | + | |
| - | > Walk through the chamber to the archway in the far wall? Turn to **20** | + | |
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| - | (Ian Livingstone, //Temple of Terror//) | + | |
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| - | Lifting the lid of one pot shouldn't preclude the protagonist from lifting the lid of another afterwards — assuming, of course, that the pots don't kill the protagonist (which, unfortunately, they often do in these kinds of gamebooks). The ''<<actions>>'' macro shows the reader a list of choices, excluding any he has already seen. You can combine this with the ''<<display>>'' macro to implement the passage above: | + | |
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| - | <code> | + | |
| - | :: Pot Chamber | + | |
| - | The door opens into a narrow sloping corridor which leads into another chamber. | + | |
| - | The walls are covered with hieroglyphics, and there are three clay pots | + | |
| - | standing on top of a stone table. | + | |
| - | <<display "Pot actions">> | + | |
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| - | :: Pot actions | + | |
| - | <<actions "Lift the lid of the white pot" "Lift the lid of the black pot" | + | |
| - | "Lift the lid of the red pot" "Walk to the archway">> | + | |
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| - | :: Lift the lid of the white pot | + | |
| - | There are chocolates inside! And they're delicious. | + | |
| - | <<display "Pot actions">> | + | |
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| - | :: Lift the lid of the black pot | + | |
| - | There's licorice inside. You've never been that much of a fan, but maybe | + | |
| - | someone you encounter on your quest will like them. | + | |
| - | <<display "Pot actions">> | + | |
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| - | :: Lift the lid of the red pot | + | |
| - | It's empty! Looks like someone got here before you did. | + | |
| - | <<display "Pot actions">> | + | |
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| - | :: Walk to the archway | + | |
| - | You continue on your brave quest... | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
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| - | The reader can open one, none, or several pots in the room before proceeding onward. Make sure you have at least one choice that does not lead back to the <<actions>> macro. Otherwise, readers won't be able to continue. | + | |
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