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Section 2 - The Player

The player is wearing your watch.

Printed name of yourself is "you".

Description of yourself is "[self_description]"

To say self_description:

If player is wearing uniform2:

Say "Thanks to all the gardening, and building the log cabin, you are looking fairly muscular and wiry. You are wearing a Somewhere army uniform over your normal clothes.";

Otherwise:

Say "Thanks to all the gardening, and building the log cabin, you are looking fairly muscular and wiry. You are wearing worn black jeans, a woolly jumper and some boots"

your boots are part of the player.

Description of your boots is "A pair of ex-army surplus leather boots. You go ahead and they will follow on foot".

Instead of taking off boots:

Say "You're going to need them, you have a lot of walking to do."

your woollen jumper is part of the player.

Understand "woolly jumper" and "woolly" as woollen jumper.

Description of the woollen jumper is "An old woollen jumper that a gnome knitted for you a long time ago. It is patched and worn, but very warm."

Instead of taking off woollen jumper:

Say "You're going to need it, it's cold today."

your worn black jeans are part of the player.

Description of worn black jeans is "A pair of very faded black jeans, you've had them for so long the jeans are part of your genes."

Instead of taking off the worn black jeans:

Say "It's not a good day to be stripping off."

Instead of examining watch for the first time:

Say "A mechanical wind-up watch, you can tell when it's hungry as it goes back four seconds. Your watch reads [time of day]."

Instead of examining watch:

Say "Your watch reads [time of day]"

Understand "time" as watch.