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Stories withhold what must be found, and link what can be acted on - #83

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Hidden things start INVISIBLE with a hint and a reveal; containers stay closed until examined; LDESCs state presence only; all three books link actionable nouns and exits. Suggestions and companions never offer unfound objects. lint-zil checks link words and examines each link target through the parser; writing guidance, skills and agents updated; each book gains test-prose-reveal.zil. Used by corepunch/lua-objc#76.

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A glance showed things that should be found: Blackwood's brass key lay
listed among the reception papers, its wall safe "behind a moved painting"
before anything moved, and its shelves, bins, tubs, lockers and morgue
drawer listed their contents; Wondertown listed the oil can under the
workbench and the doll head in the scrap and quoted the whole winding
diagram; Limehouse named the knife in the hedge and the letter among the
desk papers, read labels aloud and printed deductions in LDESCs.

Hidden things now start INVISIBLE, with a hint at the hiding place and a
reveal when it is examined, as Zork I hides the grating under the leaves;
containers stay closed until looked into; LDESCs state presence only; and
things described by their room no longer describe themselves again. Every
room and object line links its actionable nouns and exits.

The bootstrap's suggestions skip INVISIBLE objects and closed containers.
Companions search before they take. lint-zil checks link words
(check-links.lua) and examines every link target through the parser
(check-link-targets.lua); check-vocab no longer mistakes "->" in a string
for the end of an object. Writing guidance, skills and agents require all
of this, and each book has a prose-reveal regression test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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