Entering something (past tense entered)

Whereas the going action allows people to move from one location to another in the model world, the entering action is for movement inside a location: for instance, climbing into a cage or sitting on a couch. (Entering is not allowed to change location, so any attempt to enter a door is converted into a going action.) What makes entering trickier than it looks is that the player may try to enter an object which is itself inside, or part of, something else, which might in turn be... and so on. To preserve realism, the implicitly pass through other barriers rule automatically generates entering and exiting actions needed to pass between anything which might be in the way: for instance, in a room with two open cages, an actor in cage A who tries entering cage B first has to perform an exiting action.

Typed commands leading to this action

"get in/on"

"get in/into/on/onto [something]"

"stand on [something]"

"go/walk/run [something]"

"go/walk/run into/in/inside/through [something]"

"enter/cross"

"enter/cross [something]"

"sit on top of [something]"

"sit on/in/inside [something]"

Rules controlling this action

instead of    entering the first staircase   

instead of    entering the second staircase   

instead of    entering the door   

check    an actor entering  convert enter door into go rule    name  unlist

check    an actor entering  convert enter compass direction into go rule    name  unlist

check    an actor entering  can't enter what's already entered rule    name  unlist   2

check    an actor entering  can't enter what's not enterable rule    name  unlist   4

check    an actor entering  can't enter closed containers rule    name  unlist   1

check    an actor entering  can't enter if this exceeds carrying capacity rule    name  unlist   2

check    an actor entering  can't enter something carried rule    name  unlist   1

check    an actor entering  implicitly pass through other barriers rule    name  unlist   5

carry out    an actor entering  standard entering rule    name  unlist

report    an actor entering  standard report entering rule    name  unlist   4

report    an actor entering  describe contents entered into rule    name  unlist