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Section - Following

[Stole most of this code from the Inform 7 Recipe Book because I'm too lazy to figure it out myself.]

A person has an object called last location.

Understand "follow [any person]" as following.

Understand "follow [something]" as following.

Understand the commands "chase" and "pursue" as "follow".

Following is an action applying to one visible thing.

Check following:

if the noun is not a person, say "[The noun] [is-are]n't going anywhere." instead;

if the noun is the player, say "You can't seem to escape yourself." instead;

if the location of the noun is the location, say "[The noun] is right here." instead;

if the last location of the noun is nothing or the noun is off-stage, say "It's not clear where [the noun] has gone." instead.

Carry out following:

let the destination be the location of the noun;

if the destination is not a room, say "[The noun] isn't anywhere you can follow." instead;

let aim be the best route from the location to the destination through obvious rooms;

say "(heading [aim])[line break]";

try going aim.

To move (pawn - a person) tidily to (target - a room):

now the last location of the pawn is the holder of the pawn;

move the pawn to the target.

First carry out an actor going:

now the last location of the actor is the location of the actor.