interacting

Some things in a room are part of it: statues, fountains, bookshelves,
a manhole cover. You can't pick them up, but you can often do things
with them. Try the obvious verb: lift manhole, read bookshelf,
push statue, listen.

Other things, like mushrooms in the sewers, grow back a while after
someone takes them, so there's usually more for the next person.

Click a name. On the webclient (and telnet clients with MXP), the
creatures, people, players and things in a room are links: click one
for what you can do with it. Look, consider or kill a creature; talk
to, ask or shop with someone; page, invite, follow or give to a
player; pick up a thing. Options marked ✎ go in the input box for you
to finish (ask Rook about ...), the rest happen at once.

Examples:
  lift manhole
  read bookshelf
  push statue
  listen
  get glowcap