Scroll Thief — 33 of 138

Daniel M. Stelzer

Release 2

Book T3 - Translucency

A thing can be translucent. A thing is usually not translucent.

Examining it through is an action applying to one visible thing and one [touchable] thing.

Understand "examine [something] through/in [something]" or "look at [something] through/in [something]" or "x [something] through/in [something]" as examining it through.

Check an actor examining something through something (this is the can't look through an opaque lens rule):

if the second noun is a container:

if the noun is enclosed by the second noun:

if the second noun is open or the second noun is transparent:

make no decision; [This should be allowed through.]

if the second noun is not translucent:

if the actor is the player, say "[The second noun] [do]n't make a very good lens." (A);

rule fails.

Carry out examining something through something:

say "Through [the second noun] you can make out [the noun]. [r]";

try examining the noun.

Report someone examining something through something:

say "[The actor] [peer] into [the second noun], examining [the noun] closely."