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weep
Purpose: weep over an individual, thing, or life in general.
Synonyms: none
| SYNTAX |
EXAMPLES |
| 1. weep |
1. weep |
| 2. weep <thing> |
2. weep statue |
| 3. weep <n>.<thing> |
3. weep 2.statue |
| 4. weep <modifier> |
4. weep disconsolately |
| 5. weep <thing> <modifier> |
5. weep statue disconsolately |
| 6. weep <modifier> <thing> |
6. weep disconsolately statue |
| 7. weep <modifier> <n>.<thing> |
7. weep disconsolately 2.statue |
| 8. weep <n>.<thing> <modifier> |
8. weep 2.statue disconsolately |
USE:
- Use form one to weep indiscriminately, for instance over 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 weep 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, Weep 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
"weep box" will refer to the one in the room, not your inventory. You'd need to use
"weep 2.box" for the latter.
Weep
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
Weep
does not use this modifier as a search specifier when
looking for <thing>. Instead
Weep
displays this modifier via the Game channel.
Thus you can "weep forlornly", "weep bitterly,",
and so on. You can also "weep 18373649" or "weep 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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