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entreat
Purpose: entreat an individual, thing, or life in general
Synonyms: none
| SYNTAX |
EXAMPLES |
| 1. entreat |
1. entreat |
| 2. entreat <thing> |
2. entreat statue |
| 3. entreat <n>.<thing> |
3. entreat 2.statue |
| 4. entreat <modifier> |
4. entreat diplomatically |
| 5. entreat <thing> <modifier> |
5. entreat statue diplomatically |
| 6. entreat <modifier> <thing> |
6. entreat diplomatically statue |
| 7. entreat <modifier> <n>.<thing> |
7. entreat diplomatically 2.statue |
| 8. entreat <n>.<thing> <modifier> |
8. entreat 2.statue diplomatically |
USE:
- Use form one to entreat life in general.
- 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 entreat 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, Entreat 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
"entreat box" will refer to the one in the room, not your inventory. You'd need to use
"entreat 2.box" for the latter.
Entreat
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
Entreat
does not use this modifier as a search specifier when
looking for <thing>. Instead
Entreat
displays this modifier via the Game channel.
Thus you can "entreat despairingly", "entreat earnestly",
and so on. You can also "entreat 18373649" or "entreat toothpaste-like",
so, please don't. It's up to you to get the syntax right.
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"We do not usually think of prose style as conditioned, radically and intrinsically, by the conventions of writing [on paper] and then, more narrowly, of print, but it is this conditioning that electronic print teaches us to detect." --- Richard Lanham, The Elecronic Word (info)
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