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Contents Page
Volume - Inclusions, programming variables and tricks 
Volume - The Main System
Book - Minor Preliminaries
Chapter - Saying things
Chapter - Time
Book - Dressing up the Person Class
Chapter - Health
Chapter - Basic Combat Stats
Chapter - Factions
Book - Combat Round
Chapter - Combat States
Chapter - Setting up the Combat Order
Section - Initiative
Section - Deciding the order
Chapter - The actual combat round
Section - Main combat round routines
Section - Handling the combat round
Section - Having a reaction
Section - Running the combat
Book - Striking a Blow
Chapter - Striking a blow
weapon
Section - Reset combat variables
Section - Basic attack roll
Section - Attack modifier melee
Section - Calculate results of attack roll
Section - Show results of attack roll
Section - Whether the attack hits
Section - Basic damage roll
Section - Calculating the final damage
Section - Showing the final damage
Section - Aftereffects before flavour text
Section - Flavour text rules
Section - Aftereffects
Section - Final blow report
Book - Standard Combat Actions
Chapter - Waiting
Chapter - Attacking
Chapter - Concentrating
Chapter - Parrying
Chapter - Dodging
Book - Artificial Intelligence
Chapter - The Tables
Section - Blanking out the Tables
Section - Useful variables
Section - Standard attacker AI
Section - General AI definitions
Chapter - First Stage - Choosing a Person
Chapter - The pressing relation
Section - Rulebook
Section - Standard rules
Chapter - Second Stage - Choosing a Weapon
Section - Standard rules
Chapter - Third Stage - Choosing an Action
Section - Standard select rules
Section - Calculating the chance to win
Section - Standard rules
Book - Weapons
Chapter - The weapon kind
Section - Weapon attack bonus
Chapter - The ready action
Section - The action itself
Section - Natural weapons
natural weapon, your natural weapon
Section - Natural weapons as a fallback option
Volume - Plug-ins
Chapter - Reloadable Weapons (Standard Plug-in)
Section - Reloading
Section - Reloading and choosing a weapon
Chapter - Tension (Standard Plug-in)
Volume - Testing Game
Chapter - Sample weapons
Section - Sword
sword
Section - Sawed-off shotgun
sawed-off shotgun
Section - Crossbow
crossbow
Chapter - First test game
Chapter - Second test game
Cave, mace, unwieldy mace, goblin, goblin's mace, goblin's natural weapon
Section - Retreat
Small cavern, Grassy meadow, boots of expeditious retreat
Section - Frog warriors
frog warrior, small frog spear, frog commander, frog commander's natural weapon, limping frog warrior, limping frog warrior's natural weapon, stout frog warrior, stout frog warrior's natural weapon, old frog warrior, old frog warrior's natural weapon, bright green frog warrior, bright green frog warrior's natural weapon
Section - Shout
Section - Healing
shrine, health potion
Section - A blade in the dark
treasure chest, dagger, gilded dagger, cloak of shadows
Section - Troll
Troll lair, large troll, large toll, large toll's natural weapon, huge club, large troll's natural weapon
Section - Victory
Section - Test commands - Not for release
Section - Save and undo
Section - Testing with killed
John, John's natural weapon, Queen, Queen's natural weapon
List of extensions included (About these 
)
Standard Rules version 2/090402
Plurality by Emily Short version 6
Dice-lock by S John Ross version 1/080522
Basic Screen Effects by Emily Short version 6
Conditional Undo by Jesse McGrew version 3/080626
List of named values (About these )
Situation
player ... person
location ... an object
score ... a number
last notified score ... a number
maximum score ... a number
turn count ... a number
time of day ... a time
darkness witnessed ... something which is either true or false
Current action
noun ... an object
second noun ... an object
person asked ... an object
reason the action failed ... the name of a rule
item described ... an object
Used when ruling on accessibility
person reaching ... an object
container in question ... an object
supporter in question ... an object
particular possession ... thing
Used when understanding typed commands
player's command ... a snippet
matched text ... a snippet
number understood ... a number
time understood ... a time
topic understood ... a snippet
truth state understood ... something which is either true or false
current item from the multiple object list ... an object
Presentation on screen
command prompt ... some text
left hand status line ... some text
right hand status line ... some text
listing group size ... a number
Verbs
prior named noun 
... thing
DiceLock
... a number
Saying things
numbers boolean ... something which is either true or false
global actor ... person
Time
take no time boolean ... something which is either true or false
Health
printing dead property ... something which is either true or false
healed amount ... a number
Running the combat
fight consequences variable ... something which is either true or false
Striking a blow
global attacker ... person
global defender ... person
global attacker weapon ... weapon
global defender weapon ... weapon
to-hit roll ... a number
to-hit modifier ... a number
damage ... a number
damage modifier ... a number
final damage ... a number
Concentrating
concentration loser ... person
Useful variables
Stored_row ... a number
Stored_person ... person
Stored_weapon ... weapon
Stored_action ... a stored action
Rulebook
found-a-target boolean ... something which is either true or false
Calculating the chance to win
chance-to-win ... a number
normalised chance-to-win ... a number
best defence ... a number
Tension (Standard Plug-in)
tension ... a number
Retreat
retreat location ... room
Shout
shout-victims ... a list of
Spacing and Pausing
Status bar table
... the name of a table
Right alignment depth
... a number
A blade in the dark
detection probability ... a number
prevent undo flag
... something which is either true or false
faction understood ... faction
combat state understood ... combat state
List of Tables (About tables )
| Table of Final Question Options | 5 columns, 5 rows |
| Table of Locale Priorities | 2 columns, 39 rows (38 blank) |
| Table of Combat Order | 2 columns, 21 rows (20 blank) |
| Table of Stored Combat Actions | 2 columns, 21 rows (20 blank) |
| Table of AI Combat Person Options | 2 columns, 21 rows (20 blank) |
| Table of AI Combat Options | 2 columns, 16 rows (15 blank) |
| Table of AI Combat Weapon Options | 2 columns, 11 rows (10 blank) |
| Table of Ordinary Status
| 3 columns, 1 row |
| Table of Fancy Status | 3 columns, 2 rows |
Library Card (About library cards: )
| Story title | ATTACK |
| Story author | Victor Gijsbers |
| Story headline | An Interactive Fiction |
| Story genre | Fiction |
| Release number | 1 |
| Story creation year | (This year) |
| IFID number | 7D366D40-616D-11DD-A4AB-0013D44E7D6C |
| Story description | None |
Story file format: 
Glulx
In a Z-machine story file, array memory can be very limited. Switching to the Glulx setting removes all difficulty, but some authors like to squeeze the very most out of the Z-machine instead. This list shows about how much array space is used by some larger items the source text has chosen to create.
| object | each crossbow | 372 bytes |
| object | each sawed-off shotgun | 348 bytes |
| table | locale priorities | 340 bytes |
| object | each dagger | 316 bytes |
| object | each natural weapon | 308 bytes |
| object | each sword | 308 bytes |
| object | each small frog spear | 284 bytes |
| object | each mace | 276 bytes |
| object | each frog warrior | 276 bytes |
| object | each man | 244 bytes |
| object | each woman | 244 bytes |
| object | each animal | 244 bytes |
| object | each weapon | 224 bytes |
| table | combat order | 196 bytes |
| table | stored combat actions | 196 bytes |
| table | ai combat person options | 196 bytes |
| map | map of rooms and doors | 192 bytes |
| object | each person | 192 bytes |
| object | each vehicle | 180 bytes |
| object | each player's holdall | 180 bytes |
| object | each door | 176 bytes |
| table | final question options | 164 bytes |
| table | ai combat options | 156 bytes |
| object | each container | 128 bytes |
| object | each supporter | 128 bytes |
| object | each backdrop | 128 bytes |
| object | each health potion | 120 bytes |
| object | each device | 120 bytes |
| table | ai combat weapon options | 116 bytes |
| object | each room | 100 bytes |
| object | each region | 92 bytes |
| object | each thing | 84 bytes |
| object | each direction | 84 bytes |
| relation | pressing | 64 bytes |
| table | fancy status | 64 bytes |
| table | ordinary status
| 52 bytes |
| action | each | 48 bytes |
| scene | each | 21 bytes |