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Magic Exam Day

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"Magic Exam Day" by Pinmat135

[When play begins:
    say "Sorry, this game was published before it was ready. I will publish it when it is finished!";
    end the story saying "Stay tuned!"]

Section 1 - Options and Spells

Use American dialect and the serial comma.

A book is a kind of thing. A book can be read or unread. A book is usually unread. A spellbook is a kind of book. The indefinite article of a spellbook is "the".

Table of Player Spells
read from
text
with 10 blank rows.

Unlockifying is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "reserare [something]" as unlockifying.

Check unlockifying (this is the can't cast unlockify in the library rule):
    if the location is the Library, say "The Library is protected against magic of all kinds. You cannot cast spells here." instead.

Check unlockifying (this is the can't cast unlockify on unlockable things rule):
    if the noun is not lockable, say "You can't unlock something if you can't lock it in the first place!" instead.

Check unlockifying (this is the can't cast unlockify on unlocked things rule):
    if the noun is unlocked, say "[The noun] is already unlocked." instead.

Carry out unlockifying:
    now the noun is unlocked.

Report unlockifying:
    say "You wave your wand at [the noun] and exclaim 'reserare!' [The noun] gives a shudder and you hear, to your satisfaction, the bolts jerking about as it unlocks itself."

Lockifying is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "clauditis [something]" as lockifying.

Check lockifying (this is the can't cast lockify in the library rule):
    if the location is the Library, say "The Library is protected from magic of all kinds. You cannot cast spells here." instead.

Check lockifying (this is the can't cast lockify on unlockable things rule):
    if the noun is not lockable, say "[The noun] isn't built to be locked." instead.

Check lockifying (this is the can't cast lockify on locked things rule):
    if the noun is locked, say "[The noun] is already locked." instead.

Carry out lockifying:
    now the noun is locked.

Report lockifying:
    say "Waving your wand at [the noun], you chant the incantation, 'clauditis.' It creaks, and then you hear the bolts snapping into place, locking [the noun]."

Openifying is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "patentious [something]" as openifying.

Section 2 - Reading It

Understand the command "read" as something new.

Reading it is an action applying to one thing. Understand "read [something]" as reading it.

Check reading it (this is the can only read books rule):
    if the noun is not a book, say "This isn't a book! How do you expect to read it?" instead.

Check reading it (this is the can't read books with no text rule):
    let the current book be the noun;
    unless there is a description corresponding to a book of the current book in the Table of Book Text, say "You open [the noun], but the pages inside are blank." instead.

Carry out reading it:
	let the current book be the noun;
	say "You open [the noun] and begin to read:[line break][the description corresponding to a book of the current book in the Table of Book Text][line break]".
	if the current book is unread:
		choose a blank row in the Table of Player Spells;
		now the read from is the current book.

Table of Book Text
book	description
Book of Locking	""
Book of Unlocking	""
Book of Opening	""
Book of Closing	""

Section 3 - Scenario

Library is a room. The bookshelf is a fixed in place supporter in the library.

The Book of Locking is a spellbook on the bookshelf. The Book of Unlocking is a spellbook on the bookshelf. The Book of Opening is a spellbook on the bookshelf. The Book of Closing is a spellbook on the bookshelf.