verbosity

verbosity is a global variable that affects how room descriptions are printed. It is basically a legacy feature from olden days when the amount of room text could actually affect the loading times in the game (or even older olden days, when some people played IF games with no monitor, having output go straight to a printer).

verbosity value	mode name	mode behavior
0	Brief	Full description is printed first time a room is visited, followed by abridged versions (this was the default in olden days)
1	Superbrief	Terse description is printed every single
2	Verbose	Full room descriptions every time.