Backyard — 11 of 15

Section concerning slugs

A slug is an animal. The description of slug is "A brown slug, shiny with mucus.". The slug is undescribed.

Every turn when the garden bed produces the salad-plant and salad-plant is ripe for the third turn:

say "A slug crawls to a salad head and examines it with its feelers.";

acquire slug;

now the slug is in the location;

now the salad-plant is munched.

Every turn when the salad-plant is in the location and the salad-plant has been munched for 5 turns:

say "All the salad has been eaten. The slug departs to juicier pastures.";

now the salad-plant is nowhere;

now the garden bed produces nothing;

now the slug is nowhere;

lose slug.

Instead of taking the salad-plant when the salad-plant is munched:

say "You collect the remaining salad together with the slug.";

now the player carries the salad-plant;

now the player carries the slug;

now the salad-plant is colonised;

now the garden bed produces nothing.

After dropping the salad-plant:

try dropping the slug;

now the salad-plant is munched.

Check inserting the salad-plant into a container:

if the second noun is not the glass jar, say "The slug wouldn't be happy there." instead.

Instead of taking the slug, say "The slug is happy where it is. Also, ew.".

Instead of dropping the slug when the player carries the salad-plant, try taking the slug.

Instead of eating the salad-plant when the salad-plant is not free, say "You prefer other proteins in your salad. In other words, ew.".