Used by the routines at OBEY, TRY_IT, WOULD_WORK, TARGET_TROUBLE and ACTOR_TRIES.

The one place every action is done, the player's and every other character's alike. The action is refused outright if it makes no sense (SENSIBLE), and in the dark it can only be done to what the actor is carrying. Then the objects get the first say: an object can carry a handler of its own for an action (see FIND_OBJECT_HANDLER), and only if neither has one does ACTION_TABLE's ordinary handler run. For most actions the first object is asked; for the five in SECOND_FIRST -- DROP IN, PUT IN, PUT ON, TAKE OUT OF and THROW THROUGH -- the second object is asked first, since it is the container or the gap that decides.

A handler is followed by any records after it keyed 0, which run too: the wine's record has the ordinary handler for DRINK followed by WINE_DRUNK under key 0, so drinking it does both. Last, each object that is a character reacts to what was done to it (REACT_TO_ACTION).