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Book III - Returning to the Library

Part I - Ghosts

Ghost-puzzle is a puzzling scene with puzzle description "locating some ghosts". The ghost-puzzle begins when vhelas is inscribed in the player's preferred spell book. The ghost-puzzle ends when a ghost is known.

A ghost is a kind of person. A ghost has an object called the haunted location. [This is where they should go when moved on-stage.]

Effect of casting a spell at a ghost:

say "The spell seems to pass through [the second noun] without effect."

After saying hello to a ghost:

award points for "conversing with ghosts";

continue the action.

Before doing anything when the noun is a ghost and the action requires a touchable noun:

if conversing, make no decision;

say "That is difficult when [the noun] [are] not solid." instead.

Before doing anything when the second noun is a ghost and the action requires a touchable second noun:

if conversing, make no decision;

say "That is difficult when [the second noun] [are] not solid." instead.