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Movement

These actions get an actor from place to place. Full entries live in the standard library reference; hiding is covered in the NPCs reference.

Action	Phrasings	Needs	Refuses with
go	`<direction>` · `go`/`walk`/`run`/`head`/`travel <direction>`	a room exit that way	`no_exit_that_way`, `movement_blocked`, `door_closed`, `door_locked`, `not_in_room`, `no_exits`
enter	`enter X` · `get in`/`into X` · `climb in`/`into X` · `go in`/`into X` · `board X` · `get on X`	`enterable`	`container_closed`, `already_inside`, `not_enterable`
exit	`exit` · `leave` · `get out` · `go out` · `climb out` · `disembark` · `alight`	being inside or on something	`already_outside`, `container_closed`, `nowhere_to_go`
climb	`climb [up`/`down] X` · `scale`/`ascend`/`descend X`	`climbable`	`not_climbable`, `already_there`, `cant_go_that_way`
hide	`hide`/`duck`/`crouch behind`/`under X` · `hide [in`/`inside`/`on] X`	`concealment` — the `hiding-spot` adjective	`cant_hide_there`
reveal	`stand up` · `come out` · `unhide` · `stop hiding`	being hidden	—

going

Exits are lines in the room's create block; a blocked exit speaks the story's own phrase. go north and the walk/run/head/travel synonyms all parse since ADR-230, as does the bare direction, which is what players actually type.

The author writes:

create the Meadow
  a room
  north to the Orchard
  east is blocked: hedge-thick

  Knee-high grass, and a dark hedge along the eastern edge.

create the Orchard
  a room
  south to the Meadow

  Apple trees in crooked rows.

create the player
  starts in the Meadow

define phrases en-US
  hedge-thick:
    The hedge is a wall of blackthorn. Not that way.

The player sees:

> east
The hedge is a wall of blackthorn. Not that way.

> go north
Orchard
Apple trees in crooked rows.

> walk south
Meadow
Knee-high grass, and a dark hedge along the eastern edge.

> west
You can't go that way.

entering and exiting

One trait, enterable, is checked in the action, which turns everything else away with not_enterable. Compose openable alongside it and a closed door refuses entry with container_closed. All the phrasings are equivalent: get in/get into land on the enterable target even when it is scenery (ADR-231).

The author writes:

create the Carriage House
  a room

  Straw on the flagstones and one relic of better days.

create the sedan chair
  aka chair, sedan
  enterable, openable
  scenery
  in the Carriage House

  A gilt sedan chair with a door on the near side.

create the player
  starts in the Carriage House

The player sees:

> enter the sedan chair
The sedan chair is closed.

> open the sedan chair
You open the sedan chair.

> enter the sedan chair
You get into the sedan chair.

> exit
You get out of the sedan chair.