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Section - Cutting

Understand "cut [something] with [something preferably held]" or "attack [something] with [the petter-machete]" or "strike [something] with [the petter-machete]" as petter-cutting it with when the location is a petter-room. Petter-cutting it with is an action applying to two things.

Instead of cutting the petter-machete when the petter-machete is enclosed by location:

say "You can't cut the machete with itself."

Instead of cutting something when the location is a petter-room and (the petter-machete is not enclosed by location or the noun is the petter-machete):

say "You have nothing suitable to cut with."

Instead of petter-cutting something with the petter-machete when the petter-machete is petter-dull:

say "The machete is too dull to cut anything[if petter-whetstone is not handled]. You wish you had something to sharpen it with[end if]."

Instead of cutting something when the player carries a petter-dull petter-machete and the location is a petter-room:

say "The machete is too dull to cut anything[if petter-whetstone is not handled]. You wish you had something to sharpen it with[end if]."

Carry out petter-cutting something with:

Try cutting the noun instead.

Instead of cutting the petter-branches when the player carries a petter-sharp petter-machete:

say "[one of]You chop off some particularly annoying branches with the machete[or]There are too many branches to cut away them all[stopping]."

Instead of cutting or attacking the player when the player carries a petter-sharp petter-machete and the location is a petter-room:

say "[one of]That won't help[or]You don't want to ruin the machete[or]Suicide is not the answer[or]The machete might not hold out[or]You don't see what that'd accomplish[cycling]."

Instead of attacking the player when the location is a petter-room:

say "[one of]That won't help[or]Suicide is not the answer to this one[or]You don't see what that'd accomplish[cycling]."

Before cutting something when the location is a petter-room and petter-machete is enclosed by location:

unless the player carries the petter-machete:

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

silently try taking the petter-machete.

Instead of cutting the petter-hidden-cage when the player carries a petter-sharp petter-machete and the petter-statue is not petter-clean:

now the petter-hidden-cage is nowhere;

now the petter-cage is in location;

say "You cut through the branches with the machete. As the leaves fall away, a human-size birdcage, suspended from the ceiling, is revealed."

Check cutting the petter-whetstone when the player carries the petter-machete:

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

Check cutting something when the location is a petter-room and the noun is not petter-insubstantial and the noun is not portable and the player carries a petter-sharp petter-machete:

say "You strike [the noun]. A yellow cloud of spores billows up, dense enough to make you cough and your eyes run, but [the noun] seems unaffected." instead;

Understand "cut down [petter-cage]" as a mistake ("You will have to say exactly how.").