Morgwen wrote:bigchief wrote:I had the same problem quite often. I think the way around that bug is to say Jane, prepare levitation ( or whoever the assistant is) rather than say prepare levitation. worked for me on a number of occasions anyway
Which bug? You decribed the inform syntax. If you want that your assistant does sonething, the syntax is "assistant, prepare levitation" if you want to do it yourself, just type "prepare levitation".
Perhaps its a good idea to read the general help for inform:
http://inform7.com/learn/documents/I7_syntax.txt
That's why I made the comment about the assistant remaining off-stage. Chief's comment about having the assistant prepare the levitation is a workaround to not run into the bug. Everything starts backstage at the beginning of a performance. If you prepare a trick, you are transferred onto the stage with the trick. Sometimes the assistant remains backstage. Giving her commands at that point will fail because she is not in the same area as you (although the error messages are often more along the lines of, she doesn't want to; rather than, she can't hear you because she isn't here).
The bug is that the game makes you leave the backstage area without also making the assistant leave the area. If the assistant is made to prepare the first trick, then the assistant always seems to move to the stage.
There is another bug of course. That being that the error messages don't give proper feedback. When the game currently says things like, Jane has better things to do, the implication is that Jane heard the command; understood the command; but is not willing to do the command. So people try various other commands trying to find one she will do. They don't look to see that she didn't 'hear' it, because the game already gave feedback claiming she did.
