I've had a nasty little bit of a time trying to get the command
"ASK <character> ABOUT ME" to work. I wrote my own Ask routine,
overwriting the one in Inform, and it behaves identically to the
Query verb in Balances (using "scope=Topic" to allow players to
use more than one word in referring to the subject to be asked
about). The trouble is, it's not recognizing "me" -- it drops
through to the default ("<character> probably couldn't tell you
more than you already know"). It recognizes all the other words
with which the player can refer to himself, but "me" seems to
confuse the parser. Any suggestions?
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