this sounds fantastic! since i'm a novice Inform7 user, would you be open to walking me through an example? how would i make it so that i can't pick up a pencil, until i pick up the paperclip first?
(many of our participants might lean on Lesson 7 from I7 boot camp to figure this kind of thing out: https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/PBD/Inform+Tutorials+7%3A+Lists)