When in Rome 2: Far from Home — 14 of 22

Section 2 - The Label

Understand "write on/out [text]" as a mistake ("You need to write the name of a home-world -- for instance, WRITE LUNA ON..."). Understand "fill out/in [text]" as a mistake ("You need to write the name of a home-world -- for instance, WRITE LUNA ON THE LABEL.").

Understand "write [moon] on [something]" as filling it out on.

Filling it out on is an action applying to one moon and one thing.

Setting action variables for filling:

if the second noun is the egg and the blank label is stuck to egg:

now the second noun is blank label;

if the second noun is the egg and the filled label is stuck to egg:

now the second noun is filled label.

Check filling it out on:

if the second noun is not the blank label and the second noun is not the filled label, say "You can't fill out [the second noun], only the label." instead.

Check filling it out on:

if the player is not carrying the ballpoint:

if the ballpoint is visible, try taking the ballpoint;

otherwise say "Now where did you set down your pen, anyway?" instead;

if the player is not carrying the ballpoint, stop the action;

Check filling it out on:

if the second noun is the blank label, fix blank label.

To fix blank label:

if the blank label is part of something (called the parent):

now the filled label is part of the parent;

otherwise:

move the filled label to the holder of the blank label;

if the blank label is stuck to the egg:

now the filled label is stuck to the egg;

now the blank label is not stuck to the egg;

remove the blank label from play;

now the second noun is the filled label.

Check filling it out on:

if the second noun is the filled label:

say "First you cross out ";

if filled label is alien-marked, say "[fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark of the moon of the creature][variable letter spacing]";

otherwise say "[moon of filled label]";

say " vigorously with many strokes of the pen..."

Carry out filling it out on:

now the second noun is human-marked;

now moon of the second noun is the moon understood.

Report filling it out on:

say "You write [moon understood] firmly on the label."

Before a creature trying filling moon understood out on the blank label when the person asked is not carrying the pen:

try the person asked trying taking the pen instead.

Before a creature trying filling moon understood out on the blank label when the person asked cannot touch the blank label:

try the person asked trying taking the blank label instead.

Carry out someone trying filling the moon of the creature out on the blank label:

fix blank label;

now the filled label is alien-marked;

now moon of the second noun is the moon of the creature.

Report a creature trying filling the moon of the creature out on something:

let destination be the moon of the creature;

choose row with a moon column of destination in Table of Alien Characteristics;

say "Tongue caught between its teeth, [the creature] writes [fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark entry][variable letter spacing] on [the second noun]."

The description of the filled label is "[if human-marked]In your familiar handwriting it registers the origin of the creature as [moon of the filled label][otherwise]In alien writing it says [fixed letter spacing][tattoo-mark of the moon of the creature][variable letter spacing][end if]." The filled label can be alien-marked or human-marked.

The description of the blank label is "Intended to identify the alien to whatever interplanetary post office is responsible for these shipments."