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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Curses! remarks, bugs, etc. (SPOILERS!)
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Russell L. Bryan (russbryan@earthlink.net) wrote:
> Andrew Plotkin wrote:
> > 
> > Curious Of All Natures (mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:
> > > What's the die-tossing syntax?  (And what do you have to do to get him
> > > to "gamble" with you?
> > 
> > It's "drop die". I think this is a British-ism. The game may support an
> > American equivalent, but I never found it.

> Actually, I think "drop die" is a parser accident.  The correct Britishism 
> turns out to be "throw die."  My guess is that "throw" and "drop" are using
> the same verbsub.  No?

Oh, right. Yes, in the standard Inform library (which is basically Curses 
minus the game, I understand :-) "throw X" and "drop X" are synonyms.

The reason I got stuck there is that, of course, everywhere *else* in the 
game, you can't "throw X" without taking X first. (It produces an 
"Already on the floor" message.) And "take die" doesn't work.

--Z

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