Check the mail by Noah

Check the mail

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The maximum score is 3.

When play begins:
     say "Today is the big day.";
     say "The last item for your collection should have arrived.  Time to go check the mail ...";
     move the player to the chair, without printing a room description.

Front Room is a room.
"The front room is a cozy place where you can get ready for the day.  The front door is to the south."

A chair is in the front room.  
	The chair is an enterable supporter.

The rack is in the the front room. 

A jacket is wearable.  Jacket is on the rack.
	Description of jacket is "A warm cozy looking jacket with a hood and a pocket."
	Before taking the jacket, say "Hint: Be sure to look in the pockets for dog treats and the mailbox key.".
	Before taking the jacket, increment the score.

Pocket is part of Jacket.
	Understand "pockets" as pocket.
	A yellow key is in the pocket.
	Crumbs are in the pocket.
	Crumbs are edible.
	After eating crumbs:
		say "You slowly pick each crumb out one at a time.  You try to savour each bit by letting them dissolve in your mouth.  But this takes quite a while as the crumbs seem to be designed for much sharper teeth".
	
A Hat is wearable.  Hat is on the rack.
	Description of hat is "A tattered well worn hat that is clearly not yours."
	Instead of taking hat: say "Your jacket has a hood, so leave the hat alone."

A table is in the front room.

The dog treat are on the table.  
	A dog treat is edible.
	Understand "treat", "treats" as dog treat.
	Before taking the dog treat, increment the score.
	After taking dog treat, say "Good idea, you never know when you might run into a ravenous stray dog!"
	Before eating dog treat:
		say "Are you sure you want to eat this?"
	After eating dog treat:
		say "Crunchy but lacking flavour.  You probably should have saved it for the stray dog at the mailbox."; 
		decrement the score.

The front door is a door.  The front door is south of the front room.

Driveway is south of the front door.
The description of driveway is "It is very cold outside.  The house is to the north and the mailboxes are too the south. "

The old car is in the driveway.  The old car is scenery.  
	Understand "car" as old car.

Mailboxes is a room.  Mailboxes is south of the driveway.
[Instead of going in to mailboxes:
If front door is open, say "shut the door".]

Before entering mailboxes:
If player wearing jacket,  
	say "A cold wind picks up, like an ominus warning of danger.  Good thing you are wearing your jacket.";
	otherwise say "A cold wind picks up, like an ominus warning of danger.  Too bad you aren't wearing your jacket.".

Bosco is an animal.  
	Bosco is in the Mailboxes.
	Understand "bosco", "dog", "mutt" as Bosco.
	Description of Bosco is "A ravenous stray dog! - He looks hungary ... thus ravenous."

Instead of giving treat to Bosco:
	say "The dog gobbles up the treat and walks away.";
	remove treat from play;
	increment the score;
	remove Bosco from play.

Dan is a man.
	Dan is in the Mailboxes.


Mailbox is a closed lockable locked container in the Mailboxes.  

The mail is inside the mailbox.
	Yellow Key unlocks the Mailbox.
	Before taking the mail, increment the score.
		Before taking the mail:
		If Bosco is in the mailboxes,
		say "Your turn your back momentarilly to peer inside the mailbox.  Indeed the last item of your collection appears to be there (lodged near the back). [line break][line break]You reach in to retrieve the item as Bosco (the ravenous i.e. 'hungry' dog) reaches into you with his sharp teeth.  Surely he can smell the crumbs in your pocket ... at least they smell like dog treats ... [line break] the kind you give every day.  --- Except today that is.";
		end the game in death.
		
	After taking the mail:
		say "You got the mail!";
		end the game in victory.