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9 is a school-desk called your desk. "[if the player is on your chair]Your desk is surprisingly organized today, probably because you had nothing better to do during recess yesterday than to clean it out[otherwise]The top of your desk is not normally this uncluttered[end if]. ". The description of your desk is "A perfectly ordinary school desk, just like all the other ones in the room. It has a flat top with an open space underneath to store your books." Your desk is familiar.

Understand "jamies desk" or "jamie's desk" or "my desk" or "your desk" as your desk.

A clean sheet of paper is a jotter on your desk's desktop. The description of the paper is "An ordinary sheet of white notebook paper with blue lines and three holes."

The blue lines are part of the paper. The description of the lines is "They're blue. And straight. What more could you want?"

The holes are part of the paper. The description of the holes is "Hole-y."

The printed name of your desk's desktop is "your desk". The description of your desk's desktop is "[description of your desk]".

An origami fortune teller is on your desk's desktop. The description of the origami is "It's one of those folded up paper thingies that you and your friends use to tell fortunes. You know, pick a color, etc., etc."

Fiddling is an action applying to one touchable thing. Understand "play [something preferably held]" or "play with [something preferably held]" as fiddling.

Check fiddling (this is the can't fiddle without the origami rule): if the noun is not the origami, say "You fiddle with [the noun] for a moment before getting bored." instead.

Report fiddling: say "You pick a color and spell it, choose the number and count it, then open up the flap before you remember that this was the one you didn[']t write the fortunes in yet."

Understand "use [origami]" as fiddling. Understand "tell fortune" as fiddling.

Section 6 - The Binder and Supplies