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Chapter Bubblegum

The bubblegum is a familiar thing. "There's a wad of bubblegum stuck under a table." The description is "The gum is moist and sticky." The indefinite article is "a wad of".

Understand "bubble" and "gum" and "chewing" and "wad" as the bubblegum.

Instead of eating the bubblegum:

say "Ew. No. Ew."

Instead of taking the bubblegum when the bubblegum is a part of a table:

say "You need to scrape it off the table, and you need gloves or a tool to do it. It's too icky to touch with bare hands."

Check scraping the bubblegum with a card when the bubblegum is a part of the second noun:

say "The gum is already on [the second noun]." instead.

Carry out scraping the bubblegum with a card:

now the bubblegum is a part of the second noun;

now the hint list of the bubblegum is the table of found bubblegum hints;

award 1 point for "getting the bubblegum".

Report scraping the bubblegum with a card:

if the bubblegum was a part of a card:

say "You transfer the gum on [the second noun].";

otherwise:

say "You scrape the gum off. It's now on [the second noun]."

Check scraping the bubblegum with a card:

ignore the block scraping with rule.

Check scraping the bubblegum with something which is not a card:

say "You can't scrape the gum with [the second noun]." instead.

Instead of scraping the bubblegum with something when the second noun is the jacket or the second noun is the street clothes:

say "Your almost new clothes would get ruined!".

Instead of scraping the bubblegum off a table:

try taking the bubblegum.

Instead of scraping the bubblegum with the sweater:

say "While you hold no love for Gus's possessions, the gum would just get smudged into the fabric and it'd never come off."

Instead of putting a card on the bubblegum:

say "The gum sticks on the card but not hard enough to make it come loose. You might have to resort to scraping."

Rule for inventory listing the contents of a card (called the gum-holder):

if the bubblegum is a part of the gum-holder:

say ". [A bubblegum] is stuck on [the gum-holder]".

Procedural rule while the noun is the bubblegum or the second noun is the bubblegum:

ignore the carrying requirements rule;

ignore the can't insert what's not held rule.

Instead of taking the bubblegum when the bubblegum is a part of a card (called the gum-holder):

if the player is carrying the gum-holder:

say "You already have that.";

otherwise:

clarify "taking [the gum-holder]";

try taking the gum-holder.

After examining a card when the bubblegum is a part of the noun:

say "On [the noun] is a sticky wad of bubblegum."

The hint list of the bubblegum is the table of unfound bubblegum hints.

Table of unfound bubblegum hints

Table of found bubblegum hints