§18.22. Printing the description of a dark room
1. When it happens. When looking in darkness.
2. The default behaviour. To print "It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing."
3. Examples. (a) A simple variation of wording:
Rule for printing the description of a dark room: say "Your eyes can barely make anything out." instead.
(b) More stylishly,
Rule for printing the description of a dark room: try listening instead.
which produces, for instance,
Darkness
You hear nothing unexpected.
(Note that this activity does not come in different forms for different dark rooms: the wording is fixed at "printing the description of a dark room", and we are not allowed to substitute particular dark rooms or assign a "(called ...)" onto the mention of the dark room.)
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