All of my games feature a keyring, as a portable supporter with 4 keys (your usual familiar ones–car, house, mailbox and unidentifiable key which you use to pry stuff with)–when the player uses a key, he implicitly ‘takes it off of’(though this ‘silent’) of the ring, uses it, and ‘puts it back on’ (silently). That’s not the problem. Just a trivial question and I am probably being anal about this–Is there any other way, than the below, to get a description (upon examining) of the keyring, without getting a repeat of the list of keys which are on the keyring–
A keyring is carried by the player. It is a portable supporter. The description is "It's a shiny blue carabeener-type keyring. It has your car key, your apartment key, and your mailbox key, plus a key that you call your [']utility['] key, which you cannot identify, but you use it to pry stuff with." Understand "key ring" or "keys" as the keyring.
Instead of examining the keyring:
say "[the description of the keyring]".
The last line prints only the description of the keyring, and not a list of the keys on it (and there is no chance of losing any of them), which ‘examining’ would do with any supporter–the keys are already included in the description.
I thought there might be a better way of doing this–so I tried altering my description to include ‘[a list of mykeys which are on the keyring]’, because I thought that that way, each of the keys would be ‘mentioned’, and inhibit the listing, without my having to have an Instead rule. It didn’t work.
Any ideas, or do I already have the best solution to this?
Thanks