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Once the N1 exit disappears and becomes a mirror, we need to change the room decription to stop mentioning that there's an exit to the south.

A more specific before rule (like trying to take a rune book) will undermine the general rule that provides the photo when anything is done with the runebook; if it misses the first time, it never happens with the current code:

Current code:
Before doing anything with benjack-TomeONaomi when benjack-Denouement has happened for the first time:
say "A photograph flitters out of the Rune Book, spirals around you and floats to the ground.";
now jpk-picture is in the location;
now jpk-picture is seen;
continue the action.

Code needs to be modified - suggest something like Before doing anything with benjack-TomeONaomi when benjack-Denouement has happened and the jpk-picture is unseen.

If we have time, this would be a safety net against exposing internals in the event of disambiguation issues.

• if less than 3 teas, carol tries to retain
• otherwise goodbye

Upon entering N1 for the first time, Frances saw three things in a row:

1. (verbose room description) "You would have killed for a room like this..."
2. (verbose tea party description)
3. short descriptions of both room and tea party.

#3 is bizarre and redundant -- should only happen after a 'look' later on.

In R0, Christabell mentions 'estate'.
Asking about 'estate' leads to bold 'Carol'.
Asking about 'Carol' leads to Naomi talking about how she already met Carol -- but this is R0.

The before going south rule has higher priority than the before anything rule in denouement; going south on denouement turn 3 will cause the scene-ending code to miss.

Is this a whole class of bugs waiting to happen? In the start of R1:

ask glamour
You can't see any such thing.

a glamour
Carol isn't here.

ask about glamour
(addressing Christabell)

"A Glamour be not moor than the outwarde Signe to the Seighted of Werked Magick. In the Case of you, it be raw and avid, the very Stuff taken of Life.

since initially is child locked, need to give a reasonable way to account that it can be opened later

Asking about "tea" and "animals" gives a generic non-response from Carol. But they're bolded subjects within the scene.

Need to adapt to scene

Need some meta-explanation for this

Need to discuss with Ryan & Jenni

options

• see if author of adjoining room would be willing to have a door there, and if so if we could put some gating-code on it.
• interpose a room between hall and nursery, add a door in between. The effect would be a side hall off the main one.
• implement the door entirely with code within the nursery; pro: does not disturb the hallway author at all; con: complicated, more likely to be introduce bugs and lengthen development and debug time.
• alter the way we have written this module to avoid having a door (in the direction of hall to nursery).

Sometime in R0 after the user asks/tells about something for the first time, there's a hint about using shorthand to ask/tell.

HOWEVER, there's no hint at all the first time Christabell introduces herself and speaks bold words. We need a hint that explains what the bold words mean the first time she says some. (e.g. "you can ask or tell about bolded words to further the conversation."

(This was confusing for Frances on first play.)

The way we deal with the player touching/taking shadows right now is lame. The transcript actually is more eloquent about it (at least the first time)