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I believe you are correct. I went over the code several times before and must have missed it every time! Since I've been doing this for less than a week, I just figured that I was taking to totally wrong approach. My next goal, I think, is to play all of the example games on the Inform site and then read their source codes. So far I've only played Bronze.

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Since you say you've played Bronze, I'll point out that I think the navigation mechanic in it (that allows the player to simply "go to" any previously-visited location) is extremely well suited to the kind of game you're talking about, with a lot of rooms that the player character is supposed to know fairly well and might need to spend time revisiting. I personally resent having to put a lot of effort into navigating, and I find that having to pay a lot of attention to how to get back to a place I've been breaks the immersion except in the few kinds of settings where conscious navigation is expected (such as, say, a series of caves).