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Section - Sharpening

Understand "sharpen [something preferably held]" or "hone [something preferably held]" as vaguely petter-sharpening when the location is a petter-room. Vaguely petter-sharpening is an action applying to one thing.

Carry out vaguely petter-sharpening the petter-machete:

if the petter-whetstone is visible:

say "(with [the petter-whetstone])[command clarification break]";

try petter-sharpening the petter-machete with the petter-whetstone instead;

otherwise:

say "You have nothing to sharpen the machete with." instead.

Carry out vaguely petter-sharpening:

say "[The noun] [don't] need sharpening."

Does the player mean vaguely petter-sharpening the petter-machete:

it is very likely.

Understand "sharpen [something preferably held] with [something preferably held]" or "hone [something preferably held] with [something preferably held]" as petter-sharpening it with when the location is a petter-room. Petter-sharpening it with is an action applying to one thing and one carried thing.

Carry out petter-sharpening the petter-machete with the petter-whetstone:

if the noun is petter-sharp:

say "The rusty machete is not going to get any sharper." instead;

otherwise:

if the player does not carry the petter-machete:

say "(first taking [the petter-machete])[command clarification break]";

silently try taking the petter-machete;

now the noun is petter-sharp;

say "These days you prefer plastic pull-through sharpeners, but you vaguely remember something like this from your days in scouting. You spit on the whetstone and rub it at an angle against the edge of the machete. You repeat this until the edge feels reasonably sharp against your finger.[paragraph break]Then you suddenly remember a particularly annoying scout leader explaining to you, in his condescending way, how a machete isn't supposed to be sharp like a knife, and how it must be sharpened with a file and not a whetstone. Oh, well. Hopefully you didn't ruin it completely." instead.

Carry out petter-sharpening something with:

say "[The noun] [don't] need sharpening."

Instead of putting the petter-whetstone on the petter-machete:

try petter-sharpening the petter-machete with the petter-whetstone.

Instead of putting the petter-machete on the petter-whetstone:

try petter-sharpening the petter-machete with the petter-whetstone.