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Section - Mourning

Understand "cry" or "weep" or "mourn" or "grieve" or "regret" or "repent" or "pray" or "lament" as "[mourning word]". Understand "[mourning word]" or "think of/about Rume" as mourning. Mourning is an action applying to nothing. Understand "[mourning word] [text]" as a mistake ("[mourning-text]").

Carry out mourning: say mourning-text.

To say mourning-text:

if current chapter is 1 begin;

say "You feel only the mounting dread of impending loss. The loss itself is not yet real.";

otherwise if current chapter <= 3;

say "[one of][missRumelots][or][stopping]";

if the player's command includes "cry" or the player's command includes "weep", say "Tears fill your eyes and then trickle down your cheek, slow, wet. ";

if the player's command includes "think" or the player's command includes "mourn" or the player's command includes "grieve", say "You sink to your knees and clutch yourself tightly as the pain of your loss rolls through you. ";

say "Dread finality fills you, tinged with red regret, and you know your loss all over again. Finally, you recover yourself. Rume is gone, and you must move on.";

otherwise;

say "You remember Rume, but the memory is only a dull ache that your consciousness will not, for the moment, allow you to prod.";

end if. To say missRumelots: miss Rume a lot.