When someone is emoting, talking, whispering and doing actions from a hiding spot where you *can’t* see them, you should not get to *read* those messages or if you do because they are interacting directly with your character, that you get a message like ‘someone says X’ or ‘someone does X’ instead of getting their short description, because you aren’t actually being able to see them. Playing Batman is *cool*, your @look_place already changes when you are hiding so, maybe your @shortdesc can change too.
Thanks for reading.