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chortle
Purpose: chortle over an individual, thing, or the world in general
Synonyms: none
| SYNTAX |
EXAMPLES |
| 1. chortle |
1. chortle |
| 2. chortle <thing> |
2. chortle statue |
| 3. chortle <n>.<thing> |
3. chortle 2.statue |
| 4. chortle <modifier> |
4. chortle sarcastically |
| 5. chortle <thing> <modifier> |
5. chortle statue sarcastically |
| 6. chortle <modifier> <thing> |
6. chortle sarcastically statue |
| 7. chortle <modifier> <n>.<thing> |
7. chortle sarcastically 2.statue |
| 8. chortle <n>.<thing> <modifier> |
8. chortle 2.statue sarcastically |
USE:
- Use form one to chortle indiscriminately, for instance, over everything in a room.
- Use form two when there's no possible ambiguity. In the example, there's only one statue present.
- Use form three when there are many instances of <thing> present, and you want to chortle over one of them in particular.
- Use forms four through eight to add a modifier, typically an intensifying adverb, to the verb.
- Use forms four through eight to add a modifier, typically an intensifying adverb, to the verb.
- Use forms four through eight to add a modifier, typically an intensifying adverb, to the verb.
- Use forms four through eight to add a modifier, typically an intensifying adverb, to the verb.
- Use forms four through eight to add a modifier, typically an intensifying adverb, to the verb.
As is typical of most TriadCity commands, Chortle searches for <thing>
in a specific order, starting with the room you're in, then your worn or wielded equipment,
then your inventory. So, if there's a box in the room, and a box in your inventory, the command
"chortle box" will refer to the one in the room, not your inventory. You'd need to use
"chortle 2.box" for the latter.
Chortle
can be modified with an arbitrary word of your choice.
Usually you'll use an intensifying adverb as shown in the examples
above. Note that
Chortle
does not use this modifier as a search specifier when
looking for <thing>. Instead
Chortle
displays this modifier via the Game channel.
Thus you can "chortle snottily", "chortle maliciously",
and so on. You can also "chortle 18373649" or "chortle toothpaste-like",
so, please don't. It's up to you to get the syntax right.
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"In 1455, Gutenberg invented the printing press -- but not the book as we know it. Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is derived from the Latin for swaddling clothes and is used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy. It took fifty years of experimentation and more to establish such conventions as legible typefaces and proof sheet corrections; page numbering and paragraphing; and title pages, prefaces, and chapter divisions, which together made the published book a coherent means of communication. The garish videogames and tangled Web sites of the current digital environment are part of a similar period of technical evolution, part of a similar struggle for the conventions of coherent communication.
Now, in the incunabular days of the narrative computer, we can see how twentieth-century novels, films and plays have been steadily pushing against the boundaries of linear storytelling."
-- Janet H. Murray,
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (info)
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