Paradise is an interactive-fiction playground.

In Paradise, the world is a sea of nodes, each with a single parent and any number of children. A user is a force acting upon the world through via a node. There are no division between "users" and "files".

A vessel is an object that can act onto other objects, possibly carrying objects, with its own permissions. Vessels may be within themselves, or even organized in the shape of a loop.

library{library}*
	> ghost{ghost}

The lobby begins with a ghost created by itself inside a library created by itself, within itself. Upon creation, the ghost is the default user vessel. Pockets of space can be hosts to vessels existing around a common purpose, or carried around as you would a tool-belt or an inventory, giving the acting vessel additional capabilities appended to the list of primitives.

You are a ghost in a teapot.
The inside of the teapot is stormy.
You see a cat.
You carry a haunted house.

| command

The interface shows who is where, a note about the parent vessel when there is one, what is seen and what is carried.

The vessel capabilities of Paradise.

Each became vessel in Paradise is capable of doing a series of actions upon the world, here is the complete list:

• create
• become
• enter
• leave
• take
• drop
• look
• note
• program
• use
• lock
• unlock

Create

Creating creates a new vessel in the parent vessel:

You are a ghost in a library.

| create a teapot

You are a ghost in a library.
You see a teapot.

Become

Becoming makes the animating spirit leave a vessel, and become another. Actions will, from then on, be carried as the became vessel.

You are a ghost in a library.
You see a teapot.

| become the teapot

You are a teapot in a library.
You see a ghost.

Becoming may also be used to rename a vessel. Some implementations use transform into.

You are a teapot in a library.

| become a cat

You are a cat in a library.

Enter

Entering a vessel changes the parent vessel to the target visible vessel. To enter a visible vessel:

You are a ghost in a library.
You see a box.

| enter the box

You are a ghost in a box.

Entering may also be used to warp to a distant vessel with a specific name. Some implementations use warp into.

You are a teapot in a library.

| enter a void

You are a teapot in a void.

Leave

Leave moves your vessel back to the parent vessel. You may not leave if your vessel is within itself.

You are a ghost in a box.

| leave

You are a ghost in a library.
You see a box.

Take

Take moves a visible vessel into your vessel, you make not take a vessel if your vessel is within itself.

You are a teapot in a library.
You see a house.

| take the house

You are a teapot in a library.
You carry a house.

Drop

Drop moves a vessel out of your vessel and into the parent vessel, you make not drop a vessel if your vessel is within itself.

You are a teapot in a library.
You carry a house.

| drop the house

You are a teapot in a library.
You see a house.

Note

Assign a description to the parent vessel.

You are a cat in a teapot.

| note The inside of the teapot is stormy.

You are a cat in a teapot.
The inside of the teapot is stormy.

Program

Assign an automation to the parent vessel.

You are a cat in a coffee machine.

| program create a coffee

Use

Use the automation of a visible vessel.

You are a cat in a library.
You see a coffee machine.

| use the coffee machine

You are a cat in a library.
You see a coffee machine and a coffee.

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