Keywords

Keywords are words that can be used to target commands at an object, character, or NPC. Keywords automatically expand from short descriptions.

short description                keywords
the short, freckle-faced woman   short, freckle-faced, freckle, faced, woman

You must match whole words to target something by keyword. For example, look short will look at the above woman, but look shor won't.

Things that share the same keyword will prompt you to choose between them when you target them with a command. You can step around this by pre-selection, for example, by look 2.short in the instance where two short things are in the room.

You can survey things that match a keyword in advance by typing keyword <word>, which will list all valid matches, and which number it would be if you wanted to choose it directly.

Your character's name is also a valid keyword for them, so you can target characters by proper name as well.