Automated Drawers

version 4 by Emily Short

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  • Section: Names of drawers

    Automated Drawers will now be described to the player in terms of where they are in an object, as follows:

        An object with two horizontal drawers will have one drawer described as "left" and the other as "right"; one with two vertical drawers will have an "upper" and a "lower" drawer.

        An object with three horizontal drawers will have one "leftmost", one "middle", and one "rightmost"; one with three vertical drawers will have one "top", one "middle", and one "bottom" drawer.

        An object with more than three drawers will have the second through next-to-last drawers called "second", "third", etc., up through "twelfth"; the first and last will be called "top" and "bottom" or "leftmost" and "rightmost" as appropriate.

    Thus in principle an object may have up to thirteen drawers. If this is insufficient, the extension's understanding of numbers may be increased by adding lines to the table of ordinals; but if we routinely have objects with very large numbers of drawers, it would probably be better to rely on some alternative model.

    Even if a drawer has a position name, the number will still be understood to refer to the drawer; so that for instance "first drawer" will refer to any top or leftmost drawer.