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cutting

The platform gates eligibility (cuttable) and validates the tool (with the <tool entity>, the same contract as lockable keys); the outcome is the entity's own on cutting it clause, and exactly one implementation is required at load. Note there is no bare cut X in the core grammar: the tool is part of the phrasing.

The author writes:

create the Bell Tower
  a room

  Dust, bird droppings, and one taut bell rope.

create the bell rope
  aka rope
  cuttable with the shears
  scenery
  in the Bell Tower
  states: taut, severed

  A rope as thick as your wrist, humming with tension.

  on cutting it
    change it to severed
    phrase rope-severed
  end on

create the shears
  in the Bell Tower

  Heavy tin shears.

create the butter knife
  aka knife

  A knife for butter, and butter only.

create the player
  starts in the Bell Tower
  carries the butter knife

define phrases en-US
  rope-severed:
    The shears bite through strand after strand until the rope parts with
    a crack. Somewhere above, the bell swings free.

The player sees:

> cut the rope with the butter knife
The butter knife won't cut the bell rope.

> take the shears
Taken.

> cut the rope with the shears
The shears bite through strand after strand until the rope parts with a crack. Somewhere above, the bell swings free.