I have an object (person) within an object (room). When I enter the room, the description of the room is displayed. The description of the inner object is not displayed, I think it is never used in the game. Wouldnt it possible to display all descriptions within an object, when the outer object is entered? In my example it would say:
"This is a house.
Harold is living in his house."

<object name="house">
<alias>house</alias>
<description>This is a house.</description>
<exit alias="south" to="S1 Vorplatz"/>

<object name="Harold">
<alias>Harold</alias>
<gender>[MaleGender]</gender>
<article>[MaleArticle]</article>
<description>Harold is living in his house.</description>
</object>
</object>

I think this is a good idea.

At the moment the "description" property is used only for room descriptions, and Harold here isn't a room, so his description property is never used (you can give him a "look" property to describe him when the player looks at him of course). I quite like the idea of the room description adding the description property of objects in the visible scope - and it would be straightforward as part of Core.aslx.

Added to the Issue Tracker: http://quest.codeplex.com/workitem/623