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+[{"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na lantern (providing light)\na mop\na dirty dish\na nuclear-powered flashlight\na blue keycard\na pipette (red wine)\na plastic bag\na green severed hand\nan electromagnet\na pen\na diary\na red keycard\na yellow keycard\na wallet (open but empty)\na ketchup bottle\na treasure chest (closed)\na stapler\na remote control\na screwdriver\nLucy fires."}, {"prompt": "You examine the corpse", "response": "This withered and horrible corpse will be hard to identify as the poor soul seems to have been dead for a good while now. You're pretty sure it was once female as the clothes, while dirty and torn, are a feminine style."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the monk", "response": "\". . . now listen here, don't be a dosh-garned fool,\" the lumberjack is saying as you approach, \"-- of course the tree makes a sound when it falls down. Why, the sound permatriculates no matter who is listening.\"\n\"I am afraid,\" says the Buddhist monk, evidently not at all afraid, \"that you haven't thought this over enough. After all, how do you know it makes a sound if no one is there to hear it?\"\n[1] Can my philosophical know-how help you resolve this tricky issue? [2] Do you mind if I borrow that axe, Ms Lumberjack, sir?\n[3] I'm not going to get involved in further silliness. . ."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "Oh, bother. I haven't been programmed to get angry."}, {"prompt": "You examine the damaged fruit", "response": "It is evident (now) that this is one of those recorders that grows riper as it gets more full of information, and that something happened to it at a primitive stage of its growth. Probably Valenti could think of no place where people would be less likely to pry than his food cabinet."}, {"prompt": "Aveh sensi", "response": "You say \"Aveh sensi\".\nYour emotions feel confused again."}, {"prompt": "You ask the bridesmaid about oil", "response": "\"Oh, don't remind me. You have no idea how mortifying it all was, being turned away from the door like that!\"\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...honour one's father and mother. Say what you like, he's always done his duty by her....\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the water", "response": "The water is an oddly milky grey, a consequence of all the sediment stirred up by the glacier. The wind makes the water ripple, with occasional tiny whitecaps.\n\"That... nah, can't be. I've never seen one of them this far\nsouth...\" says the captain."}, {"prompt": "Suveh tia fireno ani matotototo", "response": "You say \"Suveh tia fireno ani matotototo\", and you feel the tingling sensation again.\nThere is a faint twittering sound from the cage."}, {"prompt": "You look at Ralph", "response": "Ralph is one of those dungbeetles who cling onto Gus for hopes that his fame would somehow rub off and transfer onto them. He must have some task, otherwise he wouldn't be so far away from his hero.\nLooks like the commotion on the dance floor is dying down."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "This must once have been part of the forest that you can see to the south, but this section is now dead. Lifeless stumps protrude from\nthe sickly soil, surrounded by fallen trunks and branches, all alike leeched a pale grey as if turned to ash by some terrible fire. But there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning, so you\u2019re sure\nno\nflames caused this. The ground has been half cleared, perhaps with\nthe most usable of the dead wood taken for kindling, but there\u2019s been no systematic attempt to clear the area; given the sorry state of the soil there\u2019d be no point. The barren land continues to east and\nwest,\nwhile a path leads due south into the still living forest."}, {"prompt": "Link inset to gilt", "response": "(the gilt-wood mirror)\nBending your will, you form the link between the mirror inset inside the box and the gilt-wood mirror."}, {"prompt": "You look at the white jacket", "response": "The jacket is loosely cut, as you would expect, with floatpins throughout. The cuffs have two narrow stripes of gold and red, like a uniform. It looks very fresh and crisp. Possibly Valenti never wore it, and that's why he didn't bother to keep it. It looks as though you might be able to wear it, though you may look strange.\nLiam waits for your instructions, though with a faint air of impatience."}, {"prompt": "Light torch", "response": "You put the torch, drenched with alcohol, on the flaming coffin: it lights up and starts to burn slowly.\nPraseidimio sniggers thinking of the next soul that he'll send to burn to hell."}, {"prompt": "You take the log", "response": "That belongs on the desk."}, {"prompt": "You hold the nose", "response": "(first taking your nose)\nYour nose is already about as close to you as it can be."}, {"prompt": "You enter the cart", "response": "You get into Golf cart."}, {"prompt": "You put the plate in the contraption", "response": "(first taking the plate)\n(putting the onion skin into the sack to make room)\nTaken.\nYou put the plate into the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "You give the tape to Lipton", "response": "(the cassette tape to Miss Lipton)\n\"What's this?\" Miss Lipton asks as you offer her the tape.\n\"Um, I think it's classical music,\" you say. \"It might help you relax. It might be better than rainforest sounds, at least.\"\n\"Thank you very much, Becca. Why don't we try it right now?\"\nMiss Lipton removes the tape from her cassette player and inserts Professor Rubach's. She adjusts her headphones, and then she presses play.\nYou hear tinny piano music coming from the speakers. Miss Lipton blinks.\n\"This is...\"\nShe nods her head slowly. Her arms fall to her sides.\n\"Miss Lipton?\" you ask. She doesn't respond. You wave your hand in front of her face: Her half-lidded eyes do not react."}, {"prompt": "You wake", "response": "You drift away...\nYou are standing in front of the Chimera Corporation building. A narrow path leads around the building, to the east and to the west. A car is parked here.\nYou hear a car honking in the distance."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Audrey", "response": "Please select one:\n(1) \"Sorry. The next movie will probably be better anyway.\"\n(2) \"Did you particularly want to see Blade??\""}, {"prompt": "You open the shade", "response": "And if you see no taxi outside? What then? ...but the angry honking comes again. You yank hard on the windowshade, and it whips up as violently.\nBlazing daylight floods the room."}, {"prompt": "You put dark sphere in the hands", "response": "You place the dark sphere in the sentinel's hands. A shudder wracks the sentinel. Its hands lower, dropping the sphere onto the floor.\nBubbles curls up in a small ball, resting."}, {"prompt": "You take the fish", "response": "(first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)\nYou easily catch one of the stranded fish and bite down on the back of its neck. Snap-crunch. You feel nauseous.\nA couple of beavers scuffle meaninglessly for a bit."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stand", "response": "Hanging from the stand is a bag filled with a clear liquid--the nicotine antiaddiction drug. A needle hangs from the bag.\nYour hands begin twitching uncontrollably. You fight to keep them still."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the creature", "response": "\"E-Excuse me?\" you say.\nThe creature freezes. It rears up, bringing undulating folds of flesh to bear, and it fixes you with seven unblinking eyes.\nto bear, and it fixes you with seven unblinking eyes.\"I am,\"\nit says. \"Landlord.\"\nit says. \"Landlord.\"A clatter. It has dropped its keys -- it\nrushes forth like an engulfing wave. Its eyes surround you, press inward.\ninward.\"You are,\" it breathes. \"You are?\"\n1) <Panic.>\n2) \"Please get away from me.\"\n3) \"My name is Marid. Servator Marid Orpheia.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the tent", "response": "This tent's heavy, waterproof canvas seems in the best condition of anything in the camp. It's smaller than the army-surplus tent to the southwest, but still looks roomy enough to provide a good amount of living space and headroom."}, {"prompt": "You look at the icons", "response": "Within the workspace you see the metasemantics icon, the form icon, the weight icon, the charge icon, the light icon, the heat icon, and the pressure icon, all vibrating wildly around."}, {"prompt": "You look at the juggs", "response": "It's the Virgin Alewives of the Midwest issue, according to the cover. \"Oh hey dere I've never had a man but I'd sure like to doncha know!\" proclaims the woman on the front in big red 80's font, as she stands there with two strategically-placed giant beer steins and not nearly enough clothing for a Midwest winter.\nOoo, it says there's an article on cornhole strategy, too!"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You bear the following (both on your person and stashed in your trusty THESKIAN DUFFEL BAG): a TELEPHONE POLE (held at the ready), a CYABORG ARM (attached to you), a TWO-HANDED SWORD (currently un-used), an AMULET of SCIENCE (being worn), a CRIMSON POTION, a SUIT OF BURLAP ARMOR (currently un-used), a SUIT OF CHAINMAIL ARMOR (currently un-used), a SUIT OF KLENGON MAIL (currently un-used), a FLASHLIGHT, a SUIT OF IMPERVIUM PLATE-MAIL ARMOR (being worn) and a DELICATELY-OILED CLOTH."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Dr. Sinister's Office\nThis luxurious office must be where Dr. Sinister spends most of his time scheming. A huge mahogany desk takes up most of the west side of the room, and behind it is a tall, black leather chair. A smaller door hides behind it. The rest of the base lies to the east."}, {"prompt": "You take the leaf", "response": "(the chocolate leaf)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "As you reach for the screen door, Beauregard Phelps smiles at you in a slimy way. You smile back and get ready to run, but it seems he's no longer quite so interested in visiting with you as he was earlier. You're able to reach the door and open it without interference. The screen door screeches metallically as you open it.\nThe entry hall of Eternal Springs is bare of decoration. The only furnishings are a grandfather clock, which ticks heavily, and a small round telephone table. The front door of the house stands open to the east, the screen door providing, at best, a very partial barrier against the ingress of insects. There are open archways to the north and south, and a narrow staircase with a threadbare runner leads upward. The hall extends further to the west, alongside the staircase.\nAfter you go through the screen door, it closes behind you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south.\nYou feel a chill of memory in your bones."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "(first unlocking the sinister door)\nYou lack a key that fits the sinister door."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You head east on First Street...\nThe Gap gapes on the northeast corner. A place called \"Ice Planet\" is southeast. To the southwest is a convenience store, ShopLite. The cheerful block of the nTopia Hospital occupies the remaining corner, to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You pick up 'Moon Palace' by Paul Auster. It tells the story of a fatherless young man whose life is interwoven with coincidences involving the moon. Attending college in the late 60s, he voluntarily embraces poverty and madness and finally homelessness until a chance meeting with a stranger leads to a redemptive love affair. He gets a job caring for a mysterious old man on the verge of death, who tells him a fantastic story of a career as a painter who created a series of lost artistic masterpieces while living in a cave in the deserts of the southwest US."}, {"prompt": "You absorb the wall", "response": "SADI emits a frustrated beeping sound. Unfortunately, everything has limits, and SADI is no exception. Walls are one of the items of scenery it generally struggles with - as a rule because walls are attached to other walls, and often have foundations in the ground, so absorbing them is not as simple as absorbing, say, a pencil."}, {"prompt": "Horrible", "response": "You aren't carrying a gun.\nThe horrible zombie goes northwest.\nThe hideous zombie seems barely aware of you."}, {"prompt": "Discipline bub", "response": "You apply some well-deserved discipline to Bub Grady. His discipline is now bad."}, {"prompt": "Wear helmet", "response": "You once again don the strange helmet."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are wearing your trenchcoat, your clothes and your wedding ring; in addition, you have in your hands a letter opener, a broom and a hooded robe.\nThe pockets of your trenchcoat contain a tattered drawing, a teddy bear, a broken padlock, a small steel key, a meat hook, a newspaper, a strange metal flute, a silver locket, a gold locket, a flashlight (providing light), a keyring, on which are five keys (a small copper key, an old-fashioned brass key, an old-fashioned iron key, a key to the house and a key to the cellar), an animal's skull, Michael's faculty card, a bundle of soggy pages, a puzzle box (which is open but empty), a flask (which is closed), a slip of paper, a family album, a book of matches with six matches left, a torn journal, a typewritten notice, a lantern, your umbrella and a towel."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The only feature breaking the monotony of the circular room made of polished white marble is a huge statue. Hewn from flawless mountain crystal, it portrays the goddess Sul.\nA vast slug covered in green ooze has positioned itself in this room.\nYou can also see Mouser, Fafhrd, an unguentum argenti and a war mask here.\nExits lead east and down (to Temple of Nomos)."}, {"prompt": "Meow", "response": "Shining his light on you, the figure bends over, and strokes you behind the ears."}, {"prompt": "You take the sketch", "response": "Now wouldn't that be cold. She probably was George's sweety."}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial right", "response": "You turn the dial one notch clockwise.\nN  |  E\n\\|/\nI+Z\n/|\\\nW  |  S\n|\nL"}, {"prompt": "You take the pan", "response": "Taken.\nMAGNETIC BOTTLE -> SELECT : TRUE\nFrom the direction of the living room, you hear Rover barking at something."}, {"prompt": "Break bushes", "response": "BAM! That fun! Not really do much, though."}, {"prompt": "You remove the clothes", "response": "You struggle to remove your clothes before they drag you down, but, being waterlogged, they cling to you peversely and you lack the strength to wrestle with them."}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All the lockers are closed."}, {"prompt": "You ask Gnome how long gnome here", "response": "Grunk ask gnome how long him here for.\nGnome say, \"I've been down here alone for at least--\" Gnome look at Grunk and laugh. \"Well, let's just say it's probably it's probably longer than you can count.\"\nWow. Gnome here for more than seven!\nGnome draw strange curly picture with lots of swoopy bits and little marks next to each bit.\n[Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or ASK GNOME ABOUT EQUINOX or ASK GNOME ABOUT ADVENTURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT ALCHEMY or ASK GNOME ABOUT ALCHEMIST or ASK GNOME ABOUT MAGIC. And probably other thing too.]"}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "boggle-box you've been transported into. You can go one move in any of\nthe usual 2-d directions, even the crazy ones, before hitting a wall.\nThe pedestal you took the spacesuit from is here, too. It's prominent\nenough that you couldn't trip over it if you tried.\nYou can see a small lead ball here."}, {"prompt": "You follow you", "response": "Amos has better things to do."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Hovering Over a Hotel Rooftop (in the helicopter)\nThe helicopter hovers just above the top of the hotel tower. Wind from the rotors fans waves on the swimming pool and buffets the canvas marquee erected next to it. A few guests in formal dress emerge from the tent to wave their fists angrily.\nA crafty crocodile dangles beneath the helicopter."}, {"prompt": "You examine the deck", "response": "A standard deck. Thirteen ranks. Four suits. Fifty-two cards total."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "It's a real struggle, but eventually you move northwards along the top of the train...\nHandholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.\nThe train just rushed past the Los Angeles station."}, {"prompt": "The combination is 849", "response": "Your younger self seems surprised by your statement.\nYour younger self hands you your spell book!"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Splashing and struggling under the weight of the pail full of water, you stagger out of the shallow surf.\nDamp Sand, North of Pier\nThe damp, hard packed sand is darkened almost to bronze by the relentless tide to the east, while to the west it lightens to a powdery gold before ending in tall dunes. To the south, you can pass through the pylons supporting the long pier that stretches east from the pavilion.\nSomeone has built an enormous sand sculpture here. It seems to be some sort of reptile.\nYou see a mussel shell, a crab shell, and a snail shell, lying in\nthe sand."}, {"prompt": "You examine the brackets", "response": "The brackets stick out an inch or so from the walls on both sides of the pantry. The brackets are supporting the shelves."}, {"prompt": "You examine Helzog", "response": "August Helzog wears a neatly pressed white suit. His kindly face is deeply tanned and lined, his white hair slicked smoothly to one side."}, {"prompt": "You look in the cold box", "response": "You poke around in the fridge and find nothing at all.\nCRYOCHAMBER -> MANIFEST : NIL"}, {"prompt": "You turn the left ear", "response": "As you turn the ear there is a distinct click. A loud humming noise\ncomes from inside the statue, and a beam of blue light shoots out from\nits centre eye, illuminating a circle in the centre of the workbench.\nAfter a while, however, the light flickers and goes out, and the\nhumming sound stops."}, {"prompt": "You punch other yourself", "response": "Who do you think you are, Mike Tyson?"}, {"prompt": "You get up", "response": "[get u]\nYou can't see that"}, {"prompt": "You examine the legs", "response": "This block depicts a creature with more legs that hair follicles. It is molded metal without any seam."}, {"prompt": "You examine well", "response": "(the village well)\nThe village well is a large, low stone ring with a rough wooden cover. During the day, it's a gathering space for local servants, women, shepherds, and pretty much the whole town."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Goodcat/Badcat seems to be considering your actions carefully.\nTime passes."}, {"prompt": "Turn sphere", "response": "Which sphere do you mean, the red sphere on the left, or the yellow sphere in the middle?"}, {"prompt": "Muffle chimes", "response": "What do you want to muffle the iron windchimes in?"}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The Schwinn is no mountain bike. It would be best if you stuck to paved surfaces while riding it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the first hole", "response": "It's a small round hole; you cover it with your finger in order to change the flute's pitch."}, {"prompt": "Smell bed", "response": "The bed smells disgusting."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The monkey arrives on your heels.\nThe stone tunnel turns from the south to the west here.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "You examine the litter", "response": "The trip seems interminable, the cabbie babbling throughout it. Talk of nothing: the weather, the ball game on television last night. You hardly hear him. All you can think about is your mother in that vile smelling white room, breathing her last. You close your eyes and hope you'll be finished with this in time.\nThe sunlight flickers over your closed eyelids, making a shadow-dance beneath, and you pause, lost for a moment in their flickering patterns. Let her be ok ... please, just let her be ok.\nThe sudden stop in front of the Hall rudely breaks your reverie. \"That'll be 15, bucks\", says the cabbie, hitting the meter's flag.\n\"I'm sorry,\" you say, handing him your last fifteen dollars, \"I don't have enough for a tip.\"\nThe cabbie looks at you for a moment, and then a smile breaks slowly across his face. He sighs. \"Forget it, buddy. You look like you could use a break.\" You profusely thank him as you open the taxi's door and rush up the long marble steps into the building...\nCity Hall is a veritable labyrynth of cold, marble corridors and your breathing echoes about you as you run, searching for the notary public's office. You almost miss it when the writing on the door catches your attention out of the corner of your eye. Practically knocking it down, you rush into the office.\n\"... and here he is!\" Mike says, seeing you. \"Come on, Timmy-boy, let's get this show on the road!\" He quickly introduces you to Mrs. Thompson, a middle-aged woman with graying hair, and the notary public. The signatures are done in a flash, with Mrs. Thompson thanking your profusely the entire time, telling you how much this means to them, that they won't be losing the family business, about how afraid they were.\nYou hardly hear her. All you can think about is your mother, lying there in that room.\n\"... Mr. Hunter? Are you all right?\" Mrs. Thompson's question snaps you back to reality.\n\"Mike, Mike ... did you bring your car?\" you ask him frantically.\nYour fear suddenly breaks through his bravado.\n\"Yeah, Tim. It's out back. What's the matter?\"\n\"It's, it's my mom, we ... I've got to get to the hospital...\"\nMike grabs you by the shoulder and the next thing you know, you're running down the corridor again, heading for the back parking lot. Behind you, you can hear Mrs. Thompson calling.\n\"Thank you again, Mr. Hunter! I hope your mom's all right...!\"\nYou remember nightmares as a child like this, where no matter how fast you went, you knew it was never quite fast enough...\nMike's driving like a maniac, but some part of you already knows that it's too late. You've already been through this and it's too late. And yet...\nAnd yet there's some part of you that's hoping that somehow, someway, she'll be ok, that it won't be the same this time ... it won't ... just somehow.\nMike pulls up in front of Mercy with a screech, yelling at you as you slam into the front doors to go ahead, he'll be up right behind you.\nYou rush past the front desk, running for the elevators and slip between the doors just as they're closing. You frantically stab at the buttons, and then slump against the back wall. First, second, third, fourth, hurry god-damn you hurry ... please ... please ... fourth, come on ... come on you ... fifth! The doors slide back and you rush down the corridor, almost slipping on the tiles and finally come to a screetching halt at the door to your mother's room.\n\"I'm sorry, Tim,\" says Doctor Hughes. He's standing in over your mother's bed ... just like in the Tapestry.\n\"No!\" But it's too late. She's dead. It takes a moment for you to comprehend this. And then you're rushing forward, falling on your knees next to her, clutching her hand and crying out that you didn't mean to. You didn't mean to abandon her. You wanted to be here...\nBut now it's too late."}, {"prompt": "You concentrate", "response": "You concentrate, and are now quite concentrated.\nThe Reaper advances towards you, saying \"Et in Arcadia ego!\" in a booming voice."}, {"prompt": "You open hatch", "response": "You scramble up into the rafters, grab hold of a nearby beam, and lean out over empty space. You can just about reach the maintenance hatch. Unfortunately it's quite heavy, and at this angle you have no leverage with which to open it. Disappointed, you jump back down to the enclosure roof. If only you had a long pole to push it back with."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sinks", "response": "Literally the cleanest sink you have ever seen, the polished steel of the basin gleams like a mirror. A long faucet curves in a neat arc over the sink and its long handles flank the faucet like wings.\nIn the sink is a small brass key."}, {"prompt": "You read the book", "response": "Which book do you mean, the guidebook, or the The Female Quixote?"}, {"prompt": "Eddunn", "response": "You plot what to take care of next. Hmm... \"Retro gm comp at 445\" is as good as any.\nThreediopolis, Sector 445\nThreediopolis, Sector 345\nThreediopolis, Sector 245\nThreediopolis, Sector 345\nThreediopolis, Sector 355\nThreediopolis, Sector 365\nEd Dunn's secret hideout door is just where you remember it. You can enter it to report to your employer."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You roll the barrel down the road.\nA narrow, bumpy ribbon of blacktop runs east and west at this spot. To the south, a gravel driveway leads off through some tall bushes. Standing - or rather, leaning - next to the driveway is a sign that says, \"Eternal Springs.\" The north side of the road is impassable due to a nasty-looking thicket of berry bushes."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "At the bottom of the cave was the Garden of Doom. Every poisonous deadly plant grew there.\nThey could go up to the rest of the cave.\nLeana looked around and she saw the Forever Fern growing there."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You lead the knight and his squire to a doghouse shaped like a miniature tower. Hence, a dogtower. During your last escape, the dogtower housed an overly playful pomeranian. You have no desire to repeat the encounter.\nAttached to the dogtower is a long, thick chain. At first, you wonder why such a small dog would need such a thick chain, until you realise the chain is not wrapped around the neck of a pomeranian. The chain is wrapped around the neck of a sleeping dragon.\n\"Is-is that a... is-is that a...\" asks Tuck, the rest of his question lodged in his throat.\nSer Leonhart covers the young squire's mouth. \"Aye, my quivering companion,\" he whispers, \"we have stumbled upon the fiercest creature of them all. Let us keep quiet, lest we learn whether it has a taste for human flesh.\""}, {"prompt": "You open Book", "response": "You open the Book to the page at which you first found it & shudder as a wave of Evil washes over you."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Not especially,\" she says. \"I think I saw it when it first came out.\"\n\"What? Are you kidding me?\" I think about the math for a second. \"By my calculations, you were eight when it came out. You mean to tell me that the Neuromancer didn't like you dating me at first because at three years your elder, I was a bad example, but he was OK with you watching a movie where Snipes hacks apart vampires for 90 minutes?\" I call her father 'The Neuromancer' because his first name is Henry, and the main character of the novel _Neuromancer_ is named Henry Case. I've been lucky in not saying it when he's been around so far.\n\"I was very mature for my age,\" she replies. \"I think we'd have been a perfect match, intellectually, if you met me when I was eight and you were twenty-seven.\n\"Hey, what about if you met me?\" says Criswell.\n\"Two,\" Audrey and I say at the same time.\n\"The thumb points down, bitchkin!\" says Criswell to Pang. It was inevitable that he was going to pull the movie no matter what popular choice happened to be. Criswell hops over to the DVD player and ejects the disc. He places The Truman Show in. \"We're now starin'\ndown the barrel of a whole lotta giggles,\" he says to Audrey.\nI keep one eye trained underneath the sofa in case Audrey's rolling eyes pop out of her head.\n\"What are you talking about?\" she says. Audrey has never, ever liked Criswell. \"This is a drama, not a ninety minute episode of 'White Guys Gone Jostling.'\" Criswell's head strains to the side as he simultaneously doesn't believe her and doesn't comprehend her.\nAudrey continues. \"You know what drama is, right? It's the name given to a movie that adults tend to enjoy, as well as being the\nstandard root cause of every Linkin Park song.\"\n\"Yeah, whatever.\" Criswell shrugs. \"I bet you Truman here is making like he's talking out of his ass before the opening credits are finished.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This building is dominated by enormous telescopes and other optical instruments, all pointed across The Great Gap. No signal from the Lower Forest has been received for generations, yet the scientists live in hope. Indeed, it is to them you owe your mission, for it was they who spotted the asteroid plummeting downwards. The asteroid you are now sworn to retrieve.\nA large telescope appears to be merely pointed towards the floor.\nThat can't be right.\nYou can see a bowl of oatmeal here."}, {"prompt": "You go outside", "response": "You see a heat shield here."}, {"prompt": "You reach the cord", "response": "What do you want to reach the pull-cord with?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the cage", "response": "The iron cage is nearly two meters square. A cloth has been placed on the bottom of the cage. Faeries are crammed into it, trying desperately to avoid the sides of the cage.\nBelow you, you glimpse faeries fluttering about the confines of their cage. One notices you. \"Please!\" he pleads. \"Help us!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This ledge is barely two feet wide at most. You try not to feel like it's angled slightly outward. The pit stretches above and below you; but you can see no way to climb from here, either way.\nA gentle arc hangs across the pit, well above your head."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "(shen2 dao4) Eastern end of spirit way\nCypress and bamboo trees form an avenue which ends to the east as the trees open out to form the entrance to a cemetery. The western end of the path continues through the elaborate archway. A tea bush grows out from a crack in the pavings."}, {"prompt": "You ask the Mother for book", "response": "(Mother first taking mother's book)\nNow, now, there's no need to be bossy."}, {"prompt": "You open the car", "response": "You open the car.\nCurb attempts to swallow your car keys, chokes, and brings them back up. He doesn't drop them, though."}, {"prompt": "Pet yellow worm", "response": "\"Do I really want to? No!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine birdhouse", "response": "You pull yourself out of the stream and approach the birdhouse.\nOn closer inspection, it can't really be a birdhouse. The circular entryway is blocked off on the inside; there's no way for any birds to get in.\nBased on the weathering of the paint, it might have been put up here a year or two ago, if you had to guess. A word is written in black magic marker across the back: WRENLAW. The plank on top is attached\nwith a hinge.\nThe circular entryway is blocked off on the inside; there's no way for any birds to get in.\nBased on the weathering of the paint, it might have been put up here a year or two ago, if you had to guess. A word is written in black magic marker across the back: WRENLAW. The plank on top is attached\nwith a hinge."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The floorboards groan against your footsteps as you enter the dusty sitting room. Light struggles to penetrate the grimy bay window, hinting at the space around you. Various pieces of furniture are covered by moldy, moth-bitten sheets. The remains of a portrait hang above the fireplace. Leaning against a wall is a large mirror.\nSeems like no one has used this room in some time."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is a typical Doctor's office. It has a clinical air, but no more than you would expect. It is really very neat in here. The walls are hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames, imprisoned behind glass.\nThe Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.\nThe door to the south leads back to the dining hall."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dagger", "response": "It does not look like the kind of dagger you would bring to a knife fight. The blade is long and thin, and wavy-shaped for some reason, with intricate carvings all up and down both sides. The handle is sculpted into the shape of two big birds standing back-to-back; their feet form the butt of the handle and their long, downward-curving beaks form the hilt.\nIt's probably worth hundreds of dollars."}, {"prompt": "You eat Fredrick", "response": "Pounce, my dear, pounce before Frypan pounces. No, not here,\nhere; no, not there, there. His fried legs fly over\nyour head. Dishes break when he lands. He's left, right, near, far, tripped\u2014yes, tripped on his long pointed toes. Haute couture takes another toll. You have him, no, you don't have him: he's leapt to seize the chandelier. He swings most wildly."}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "Your bedroom is fairly barren. You have a bed and a window. The floor is bare of carpet. You have put up a poster to hide some dents on one wall. A door leads north.\nOn the bed is a blanket.\nThe poster smiles at you."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the spirits", "response": "There are so many, and their spirits are so fragmented -- it hurts just to see them, let alone speak with them.\nThe sounds of a distant pipe organ echo in the street."}, {"prompt": "You take the fork", "response": "(putting the silver coins into the sack to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na f-shaped key\nEvery Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy"}, {"prompt": "You ask the passenger for a the light", "response": "The light isn't important.\nSomeone at the right of the room raises his hand. \"Yes, you at the right,\" the woman says, pointing to him.\n\"I used to work as a lobbyist. Are similar positions available\nhere?\" he asks.\nThe woman responds, \"Absolutely! However, you may find that there\nare quite a few lobbyists in Hell, which will probably not surprise anyone. Incidentally, anyone interested in public affairs should tune in to H-SPAN, which broadcasts programs that cover a wide array of current events. I believe the station number is 319.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the key in the keyhole", "response": "The stonework key fits into the mural with a tingle, as though an alchemical glyph has been completed. The world blurs into the rain, and the rain into the world, and you see it -- a change in\nthe order of the skeins that are woven before you.\nthe order of the skeins that are woven before you.The iron door swings open."}, {"prompt": "Bear", "response": "\"You saw us behind the polar bear, did you?\" asks Dmitri. \"I don't care. I have nothing to hide. I'll admit I'm a little annoyed that you'd sit there and watch like a voyeur, but I'm not going to let myself get angry over it. I'm not the one who needs to grow up. You are.\"\nIn order to speak with Dmitri, just mention whatever subject you'd like to hear his opinion about, or you could say farewell."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are wearing:\na cloak\nyour llama-suit\nYou are carrying:\nAdvanced Fluid Dynamics\na substance scanner\na parchment\nthe vax\nthe somnuliser\nthe attuning set\na Winkerchief"}, {"prompt": "Smell", "response": "Whatever smell is there is overpowered by your characteristic fragrance: Self-Obsession, by Calvin Klone.\n\"Still, you'd think she'd be a little more discrete. I mean Frank's only been gone for a day.\"\n\"Personally, I think she wanted to get caught. She always has enjoyed the limelight.\""}, {"prompt": "You go down", "response": "Lothlorien co-op, on the dock\nThe dock is short, wooden, and rather rickety. An old gnarled tree reaches far out over the water nearby.\nStaci is here."}, {"prompt": "You say the cinderella", "response": "\"Cinde--\"\n\"Ssh,\" says Lucinda, glaring at you.\nThe Prince stops his work with the shoe. \"I can't -- this must not be --\"\n\"Oh, for pity's sake,\" says the old lady. \"You haven't the least idea how women dress. Let me.\" And she kneels at Theodora's feet, shooing the Prince aside, and gives a firm tap to the heel of the shoe; at which point it slides on.\n\"Bless me,\" she says.\nThe Prince is silent for a moment, looking at the shoe. \"It's you,\" he says. \"It's you, Theodora! Why didn't you tell me?\"\nThe old lady turns away, tucking something into her pocket: something glassy and glinting."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Poised at the edge, prepared to leap\u2026 no, dear, step back. It's true that you've the space to jump, but you'd land as a pancake without anything planted below to cushion your descent."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "The text is too long to read, but you get the sense of it quickly. It is an order from the King: the traitor the Baron D'Envers, otherwise the heir through primogeniture of the estate of the Count, is prevented from the enjoyment of that inheritance, though for unnamed reasons he is not to be executed.\nThe text goes on to add that these matters are to be kept private, but that Marie is female heir effective to the Count's line, with all the rights and honors preserved, and that anyone she marries, regardless of background, will become rightful Count."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tourniquet", "response": "A tourniquet is a curious thing to find in a restaurant first aid kit. It would only ever be useful to stop major arterial bleeding."}, {"prompt": "You examine tube", "response": "FC: I don't know the word 'tube'."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away into the dark to be readable.\nThere's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall.\nYou can see a glass case containing an access card.\nYou remember your first visit to the Administration Centre. The tour spent hours in the museum. Most of your classmates took little interest in it and were quickly bored. But you found it fascinating. Here in the centre of it all, literally within the corridors of power! What excitement, what possibility!"}, {"prompt": "You open the book", "response": "Rules, rules, and more rules:\nITEM 23. Vigilance is of the utmost importance for an officer on\nduty. When riding the rails, you should LOOK around to become aware of your immediate surroundings and ensure there are no obstacles on the track ahead of you. You may also find it useful to EXAMINE specific things for a better understanding of their natures.\nITEM 141. The harpoon cannon is an effective weapon that requires skill, precision, and a strict adherence to routine. To use, you must first LOAD HARPOON into the cannon and then SHOOT TARGET (where TARGET is whatever thing you are trying to shoot). In a pinch, another object may be used in lieu of a harpoon.\nITEM 335. In the event the mechanical brakes become damaged or otherwise inoperable, trolleys in Her Majesty's service are required\nto carry an anchor in reserve. You should DROP ANCHOR outside the\nrails to slow the trolley down, or once off the hotline, to force a complete stop.\nITEM 612. The moorsea is full of dangers, but none moreso than idleness. There will be times you have little to do other than WAIT, especially when awaiting an order from a senior officer. It remains paramount that you always carry yourself with the poise and demeaner expected of an officer of the Empire.\nITEM 998. While serving aboard a trolley, you are likely to\nencounter many words and phrases unfamiliar to you. You may read the GLOSSARY at any time for pithy definitions of these linguistic deviations.\n\"Now!\""}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue.\nThe door snaps open."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The ghoul claws you. You strike back with your sword, and the monster falls to the ground!\n(You lose 4 hit points and defeat the ghoul.)\nYou look around and find a small pearl worth 5 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You examine the lever", "response": "The lever may be set to any of four positions, 0 through 3. At the moment it stands at 0."}, {"prompt": "You examine the rule 1", "response": "1. You do not talk about janitor club."}, {"prompt": "You kill the spider", "response": "On a normal day, you might be able to grit your teeth and force yourself to do something with (or to) the spider. But you're feeling pretty nervous today. You just can't quite bring yourself to get that close to it."}, {"prompt": "Attack fish", "response": "What do you want to attack it with?"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You can't go that way now. The tide is in.\nThe little mailbox rubs your leg.\nYou can hear the tramp of marching boots to the west. It sounds as if they're coming this way!"}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You make your way north through the bright light. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...\nThe smell of tobacco hangs in the air in this small, dark pub. It is nearly deserted; even the bartender appears to have stepped out. An exit leads south.\nCauchy is sitting at the bar, sipping from a glass of wine.\nWeierstrass is next to Cauchy, drowning his sorrows in a pint of beer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the spelling", "response": "A sixth-grade spelling book, with lists of words and definitions. Words that are spelled oddly--one or two per lesson--are for some reason given the name of 'snurks'. You're not really sure how you ended up with the book."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "Your nostrils flare at the lingering smoke from incense, and at the strong scent of holy oils. The TEMPLE is ancient, cold and dark, with but dim shafts of smoky light from high windows. In the center of the room is an ALTAR, on which a SACRIFICE is being prepared.\nYou can see the VIRAXIAN INCENSE, the ACOLYTE OF TRAGA and GINA THE VIRGIN SACRIFICE here.\nThe ACOLYTE OF TRAGA looks up from his work as you enter amid a swirl of snow. \"Welcome, barbarian,\" he says. \"Please, take your ease here if you need shelter from the cold. The hospitality of our DARK DEMON LORD FROM BENEATH THE STYGIAN ABYSSAL PITS is no mere rumor. When you have a time, come and PARLEY with me.\"\nThe VIRGIN SACRIFICE also looks up with a welcoming smile, but as she is bound oiled and naked to the altar she does not rise to greet you formally."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Vast metal towers stand in silhouette against the stars, backlit by the full moon. Their skeletal arms hold dozens of cables aloft between them, a dozen lines running across the sky like a great celestial loom. You feel energy play across them overhead. Little stands below. Carefully pruned vegetation, low to the ground, covers the undeveloped land beneath the towers.\nThere's a stump here, on which sits an old portable radio.\nSuburban housing stands in neat rows to the North and South. The flat micro-savannah of the corridor gives way to a tall field of grain to the East, and to the West is a small riverside park.\nYou can see a beautiful person here.\nThe beautiful person is playing with the radio, a frown marring their perfect face. They turn the radio off and on several times, sigh, and place the radio back on the stump. They stand and walk South, toward a ruined house."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "This huge hall is filled with the radiant images of warriors long dead, fighting their bloody battles over and over again. You see several knights in plate armour struggling to reach the shores of a swamp, while the land retreats before them as if it were alive -- but the scene changes before you can focus on any details.\nYou can see the robe of the dead mage here.\nAn exit leads north (to Entrance Hall)."}, {"prompt": "You fill the teapot with the water from well", "response": "You put some water in the hinge-lidded teapot. This fills the hinge-lidded teapot to the brim. The water mixes with what was already there."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You are standing in the center of an enormous crater, strewn with debris. Several points around the perimeter look climbable."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gate", "response": "It is a tall stringy ow. Through it, you can see the shiny place beyond. It is marked with a welcome message from Goodcat/Badcat whom suggests that getting past it is difficult."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA rusty knife\nA skeleton key\nA bloody axe\nA brown sack\nThe brown sack contains:\nA screwdriver\nA matchbook\nA clove of garlic\nA leaflet\nA nasty knife"}, {"prompt": "You kick the door", "response": "The back office door is covered in decades-old lead paint which gives it advanced armor against any attack I could strike it with."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You've visited the library many times, and this room has never failed to impress you. Sunlight shone in through the circular window in the great domed ceiling, reflecting off the mosaic floor and filling the area with patterns of red and gold. The din of innumerable Enchanters and students made it feel alive.\nNow, however, it is dark and silent. A few shafts of moonlight give everything an ethereal silvery glow.\nStanding in the middle of the floor is a glass display case, showing off an illuminated scroll.\nThe mosaic shifts again: \"Welcome, Wizard McSmartypants!\n\""}, {"prompt": "You look at safe", "response": "In the iron safe you see a MYSTERY INGREDIENT."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "You survey your one small room. One desk, paper-piled, with a dusty computer shoved to the side. Your futon. Second-hand stereo sitting on a cardboard crate. A kitchen nook one way and a bathroom nook the other, with a closet to the side. A broad mirror tries to make the place seem twice its size; it halfway works. One window, whose shade is down, and the front door firmly shut.\nThe place is still too dim, except the corner where the desk lamp is somehow too bright.\nA potted spider plant sits beneath the window.\nOn the desk are your to-do list and a travel book.\nYou can see ankle-deep sand here.\nIn the kitchen nook you can see a trace of sand.\nIn the bathroom nook you can see a trace of sand."}, {"prompt": "You take the book", "response": "You pick up the book and flip through it as you conduct your business. It looks like there's an article you could perhaps READ.\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You take the light", "response": "The lights look as if they will go out any moment as it is. Best to leave them alone."}, {"prompt": "Y.", "response": "debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0\nSUSPENDED: INTERLOGIC Science Fiction\nSUSPENDED and INTERLOGIC are trademarks of Infocom, Inc.\nFC ALERT! Planetside systems are deteriorating. FC imbalance detected. Emergency reviving systems completed. You are now in control of the complex.\nSENSA INTERRUPT: Seismic aftershock detected ten meters north of Beta FC. Tremor intensity 9.7. Projected damage: connecting cables in Primary and Secondary Channels.\nFC INTERRUPT: All Robots, report locations.\nIRIS: In the Weather Monitors.\nWALDO: In the Gamma Repair.\nSENSA: In the Central Chamber.\nAUDA: In the Entry Area.\nPOET: In the Central Chamber.\nWHIZ: In the Advisory Peripheral."}, {"prompt": "You feel", "response": "(the surroundings)\nYou run your palms all over the sides of wherever you are. It is clearly made from thick hard wood, you'd guess pine, and it's rectangular. You have just enough room to turn yourself around in here, and maybe four inches of space. Running your hands over the top of the box, you can feel metal studs holding the corners together... nails?"}, {"prompt": "You take the books", "response": "Once more, I dare to peek inside the books or prophecy:\nIn the year when Apollo comes of age, twins shall arise\nFriendly to each other only in times of storm.\nOne shall always want to start\nWhen the other wants to begin.\nI'm pretty much freaking out now and I can't articulate why. No way am I opening those books again today."}, {"prompt": "Attack strawberry", "response": "Strawberry is a battle-hardened combat kitty and springs into action. She grabs your hand with both paws, and nips lightly at your knuckles with her teeth. You pull your hand back, and she leaps up to chase it, sinking her claws into your knee. You fight back with a quick belly-tickle and she rolls onto her back, ready to deploy the full power of her back legs. You are beaten yet again. You have never defeated her."}, {"prompt": "You get the clothes", "response": "You feel much more at ease with your wardrobe properly arranged on your person. This even despite its present condition.\nHold, what's this in your pocket?\nYou already have those."}, {"prompt": "You hit wall", "response": "There are better targets."}, {"prompt": "You ask about the soil", "response": "\u201cLet\u2019s talk about that some other time,\u201d she suggests."}, {"prompt": "You hit the toilet with the fire extinguisher", "response": "You give the toilet a good, hard thump. You thump it again, a bit harder this time. Next thing you know, you're pounding on the toilet again and again for all you're worth -- you stop yourself, feeling a bit light-headed. Damn. You hate it when that happens."}, {"prompt": "You feed seeksorrow to ligerlily", "response": "You can only do that to something animate."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cosmetics", "response": "At least a dozen assorted glittery tubes are scattered across the top of the dresser - eyeliner, eyeshadow, blusher, mascara, hand cream, nail polish, and more."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Through a narrow window there's a view across the moat. Another hole once ran a chain to the drawbridge: no more. Root beer bottles lie tumbled beneath a table.\nWestward the garderobe's collapsed, leaving only a ledge, and eastward you'd return to the pantry."}, {"prompt": "PLU 3", "response": "There is a brief flash of light, and you find yourself in...\nThis is not so much a physical place as it is the essence of the number four. A deep red light fills the space.\nYour number sheet glows brighter. It now reads\npi: 3.14159  3.14xxx\ne: 2.71828  2.718xx\nsqrt(2): 1.41421  1.4xxxx\nsqrt(3): 1.73205  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(5): 2.23606  2.236xx\nphi: 1.61803  1.xxxxx\nln(2): 0.69314  0.xxxxx\nzeta(2): 1.64493  1.xxxxx\nzeta(3): 1.20205  1.2020x\ngamma: 0.57721  0.5xxxx\nIn addition, your spell list now reads\nEND: End the examination, submitting your work for grading\nRET: Return to examination room\nARITHMANCY SPELLS  (X = already used this sequence)\nINC: Add one to current number\n(X) STA #: Begin a sequence of digits\n(X) PLU #: Add a single digit to current number\nMIN #: Subtract a single digit from current number\nTIM #: Multiply current number by a single digit"}, {"prompt": "You look at the texts", "response": "The books in the shelf are a series of scholarly-looking treatises, ranging from \"The Memoir As Discovery\" by Stephen Gilmour to \"Literary Classes and Categories\" by Julia Franklin. Obviously, someone in this house is a literary critic."}, {"prompt": "You pick the orange", "response": "The orange tree is not something you can pick. Possibly you meant to type 'pick up'."}, {"prompt": "You look at the gloucester", "response": "Colossal gloucester, packed with full fat, you're a cheese that a giant could hack with an axe. That apricot glow's annatto-infused. Your wedges would prop fortresses against collapse."}, {"prompt": "Status", "response": "Credit balance: 0k (That is to say: you're broke.)\nEquipment: spacesuit (don't need air)\nCrew:\nYourself, Aurea and Szymon\nInstalled systems:\njump drive (superluminal travel)\nFuel:\n2/5 fusion cells charged\nReadable Data:\ndebt note, flight manual, ship's log and trading log\nCargo:\nnothing"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You stretch a foot towards the bush, shift your weight, and take two quick steps. The bush trembles but holds.\nYou are in a dense tangle of shadow, bushes, and small trees. The ground falls away to the southeast, into darkness and rain.\nA trail curves down to the southwest. Another cuts along the hill to the north, but a chunk is washed out, too wide to jump across.\nA bush is growing out of a crack in the hillside, to the north. It's right in the gap in the northern path.\nAn old shed stands just to the east. It's weathered but sturdy, still wearing the tatters of a coat of white paint. The door is closed.\nYou are very tired.\nThe fox appears on a nearby rock.\nThe fox glances at you, or perhaps something you hold."}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial to 15", "response": "The dial settles on the number 15 with a slight \"clunk!\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "(first opening the east door)\nFrom here you can see the hall beneath you. An iron railing prevents you from falling to the floor far below. Massive oak wood doors block the paths to the east and the west.\nYou see Allan Jameson here."}, {"prompt": "You examine grue", "response": "As you approach the grue, it suddenly opens its eyes. But after looking in your flashlight, it runs away in fear. You make sure that, next time you play Zork, you will take heavy radioactive materials with you in the dark."}, {"prompt": "Anxious", "response": "I was anxious to find a purpose.\nI scoured the universe but found no solace.\nUntil I stumbled upon a world home to a curious kind of creatures who were ready to accept CONTROL and INFLUENCE."}, {"prompt": "You examine metal door", "response": "The door to the west is metal. It has no handle; another black plate is visible beside it. The door is closed."}, {"prompt": "Y.", "response": "\"Thank you, Samiira.\" They move on down the line until all the cheftestants have given their assent."}, {"prompt": "You open the south door", "response": "You open the grey-blue door leading south."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The rooftops above you lean so close together as to nearly block out the sky altogether, making this a particularly dark and unpleasant section of the city. The street leads away to the east, and a shadowy driveway leads through a high brick wall to the south."}, {"prompt": "You look at the drawer", "response": "You can't get it open. No authorization."}, {"prompt": "You hit the giant with crushing blow", "response": "KABOOM! The ground quakes with the staggering of the giant. Appearing like a punch drunk fighter, he weaves round and round, all the while shrinking in size, finally to the lowly hunched figure of the client. Humiliated at his defeat, the man makes a Chaplinesque exit, kicking dust as he walks crookedly away."}, {"prompt": "You get the orange wire", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Iris.\nIRIS: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Unhealthy stems grow lush here. They have woven themselves into a pliable mesh between floor and ceiling. The roots are sunk into a putrid matrix of muck and shattered bones.\nYour LED's light gleams in pale splinters off the stems. The growth is crushed down in paths heading east, west, and south."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "As you exit the break room, you notice an odd smell from behind you. Is that...burning? You turn around, but someone rushes into and knocks you over!\n\"Oh, I'm so sorry!\" you hear someone say. You roll over to see the secretary standing above you.\nLobby (on the floor)\nThe original ceiling in this comfortable room has been lowered for the installation of office lights and ceiling panels. A huge desk extends from one wall almost to the hallway, a telephone placed on its center. The black door to the hallway is solid, a throwback to times when security and safety mattered. KOLR has its own parking lot, to the south. The bathroom is to the east and the break room is to the\nwest, but you don't want to even think about the first and that nosy secretary is in the other. The station logo has been stenciled on the wall in faded, tasteful colors.\nYou can see Cindy here.\nThe radio is playing Every Breath You Take."}, {"prompt": "You touch fred", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Poet.\nPOET: Sensory pads detect no abnormal flow."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Why have you tied me to a chair?\"\n\"Marid.\" He pauses. \"You must understand that I take no pleasure in doing this. I wish that I did not have to treat you like... like a common asylum patient. But you are not ready.\ncommon asylum patient. But you are not ready.\"I know that you\nhate me, Marid. You must hate me, after what I have done. But if I were to let you go free, you would run at the first opportunity. You would undermine everything that I have worked to accomplish.\"\nwould undermine everything that I have worked to accomplish.\"He looks at you with a fire in his eyes.\nat you with a fire in his eyes.\"I can't let that happen.\"\n1) \"Did you do it, Justinian? Did you kill all those people?\""}, {"prompt": "You get on the ramp", "response": "Okay. I'm standing on the solid wedge now."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "You stand next to the top of a stairway. Looking North, you see a pair of completely unmarked sliding doors standing open.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You take Chocolate Recipe", "response": "(putting the Andouillettes Recipe into the sack to make room)\nIt takes a bit of wiggling to get the cylinder to come free, but you extricate it without too much difficulty."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na pile of twigs\na handy spade\na sharp axe\na long sword"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones, starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve, like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high\ncorridor continues to the north."}, {"prompt": "You look at the puddle", "response": "The shallow pool of blood in the middle of the floor is spattered and smeared, as if something has been dragged through it. A couple of flies are already circling around it."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "This is the southern end of a plain carpeted hallway, which continues to the north.\nTo the east is the computer room and to the southeast the bedroom. A bathroom (in the English sense) lies to the southwest, and one in the American sense to the south.\nA yellow plastic ball, known as a favourite toy of the family cat, has been left here."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "On a whim, you pull open the glove compartment and root around inside. Your fingers close on a loose match. Odd. It must have fallen out of the matchbook when you took it out last time. Shrugging, you pocket it; it might come in handy later."}, {"prompt": "Both WALDO and SENSA go to Gamma Repair", "response": "FC: I can't use the word 'go' here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pie", "response": "It's vibrating like a purring cat and luminous with a gentle ruby red aura. Gosh, this is a real day for glowing pies."}, {"prompt": "Stats", "response": "Total items melded: 7/12\nTotal items unmelded: 5/11\nMelded:\nMelded G (Gun)\nMelded K (Key)\nMelded L (Lipstick)\nMelded M (Magnifying glass)\nMelded P (slip of Paper & Passcard)\nMelded R (Rock)\nUnmelded:\nUnmelded L (Lipstick)\nUnmelded M (Magnifying glass)\nUnmelded P (slip of Paper & Passcard)\nUnmelded R (Rock)"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nJoxley makes a few notes, then looks up. \"All right then. Now we get to some more specific questions.\n\"I suppose we should start with the most obvious. Your Dive was restricted to a family residence. How many people occupied this residence prior to its evacuation?\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You take a deep breath and step out onto the bridge once again. On your fourth step, the board beneath you snaps in two. You plunge through the gap into the yawning blackness with a terrified shriek that is lost amid the roaring wind. You are only able to panic for a few moments, however, before the bone-shattering impact silences you. The wind carries the smell of you quickly through subterranean crevices, and your ruptured corpse provides a grand feast for the scuttling carrion feeders that live on the pit's stony floor."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "This garden path leads from the front of the house to the west, towards the guest cottage to the east. It also forks northeast into a side yard.\nDry leaves and twigs rustle under your feet."}, {"prompt": "You examine the microphone", "response": "Just a microphone to read in a code-word. Known to be temperamental most people don't trust these to anything you actually want to be able to get into. Kurner himself always has problems because he insists on whispering his password. Eventually he'll just yell \"SCARECROW\" and pretend it was a curse at the door's failures."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The ceiling lofts high into a round arch in the Fincher's front living room. Paintings tastefully line the southern wall, and a large window looks out into the night. A piano is in one corner of the room and a bar is in the other. Ron stands here behind the bar, on top of which is a singapore sunrise, an array of liquor bottles, a line of glasses and a cocktail book. An archway north leads to the den, a hallway northwest connects to the kitchen, and the guest room, where the coats have been placed, lies to the west. The front door waits invitingly to the south.\nYour empty glass lies in the corner of the carpet next to a nasty spill.\nOn the bar is a singapore sunrise."}, {"prompt": "You follow the adventurer", "response": "You are on a long pebbled path, stretching out to the north. To the south the path continues through an open arch into an open area.\nThe darkening sky is lit by a waning moon.\nThere is a bedraggled and weary adventurer standing here. He is carrying a beautiful, ornamented egg, a sword, and a brass lantern. He seems pleased to see you and frequently smiles in your direction.\nThe adventurer leaves the room, heading to the south."}, {"prompt": "You give the juice to Beatrice", "response": "Beatrice says, \"No. My employer drinks so much of it that the smell of it has begun to sicken me.\""}, {"prompt": "You set the timer", "response": "You can set the timer's green dial or its blue dial."}, {"prompt": "Pie", "response": "The thing undergoes a deafening amount of number crunching."}, {"prompt": "You remove the disk from the computer", "response": "Removed."}, {"prompt": "You remove cloak", "response": "Remove what?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the drain", "response": "A hole in the floor that keeps liquids of various kinds from filling up in the room. There's a metal grate over it."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "Talking to her is too easy. One thing tumbles out after another -- memories, philosophies, names you haven't spoken for years.\nShe sits down on the pedestal, drawing her knees up to her chest. (\"Have you no respect for that gorgeous dress?\" \"None.\") Her bare feet poke out; she's painted the toenails a ruddy shade of bronze, and she studies the effect whenever she isn't looking at you.\nEventually she begins to talk too: about her first encounter with a northern rain; the frustration of trying to watch the television in her hotel room...\nAnd that's where you find yourselves when the lights blink and the owners come to send everyone home: sitting shoulder to shoulder, shading your eyes from that hard downglare. You stand; a happy exhaustion sets in, so you're too tired to be self-conscious about hugging her goodbye under the skeptical gaze of the caterers.\nYou come around a corner, away from the noise of the opening.\nThere is only one exhibit. She stands in the spotlight, with her back to you: a sweep of pale hair on paler skin, a column of emerald silk that ends in a pool at her feet. She might be the model in a perfume ad; the trophy wife at a formal gathering; one of the guests at this very opening, standing on an empty pedestal in some ironic act of artistic deconstruction --\nYou hesitate, about to turn away. Her hand balls into a fist.\n\"They told me you were coming.\"\nUnlit, except for the single spotlight; unfurnished, except for the defining swath of black velvet. And a placard on a little stand.\nOn the pedestal is Galatea."}, {"prompt": "You press the red button", "response": "You press the red button and you hear a click."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "You scramble down the embankment.\nMilk runs along the moat's bottom, and from its surface rises a nightsoil mound that not even a flood could wash away.\nScramble upward again and you'll regain the fens."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're in an entry foyer. The front door is to the north and there are exits on the other three sides."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "This must be where Papa Bear does all his D.I.Y. It's a small but tidy workshop with a bench and an old filing cabinet in the corner. Pinned to the walls are what appear to be the blueprints for various devices. Sitting in the middle of the floor is a huge wooden crate, stencilled with the words: \"DANGER: PROTOTYPE!\""}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "You start across the room, but less than halfway across, the huge hammer crashes down, right on top of you!\n****  You have died  ****\nYou awaken among the members of the Circle. Belboz the Necromancer looks tired, and scattered about are the remains of the components of a spell of great healing power. The other members of the Circle are pleased to see you revived, but worried by the setback. \"I think Krill is too powerful,\" says one. \"This inexperienced wizard will never defeat one so puissant as he.\" Quiet discussion ensues, with well-concealed acrimony beneath the surface.\nDebate ensues, with Belboz returning frequently to the contents of the ancient manuscript. His wishes prevail, and it is agreed to send you back....\nThe darkening sky is lit by a waning moon.\nThere is a loaf of bread here.\nThere is a jug here (providing light).\nThe jug contains:\nA quantity of water"}, {"prompt": "You open the lunchbox", "response": "[Your score has just gone up by five points.]"}, {"prompt": "You examine the handle", "response": "There is only about a foot and a half left of the mop handle.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "You answer the line one", "response": "You switch back to Amelia on line 1.\nWhat a dreary conglomeration of stainless steel and Bakelite! There are enormous cabinets set into the walls, with a long metal counter on top. Most of the equipment here is sadly of the physical rather than life science variety, but I do recognize a terrarium here. There is an exit to the east.\nI can see a terrarium (which contains a gecko) and a metal enclosure (which is open and contains a large red lever) here."}, {"prompt": "You reach the acorn", "response": "Lornedei holds the golden acorn in her hand. The images come to her without being reached for.\nA seedling, a sapling, a giant oak.\nAll in a matter of seconds. Dripping water, a silver goblet.\nA wish to grow, a wish to heal.\nInstant flashes, not much more than emotion and fleeing images, but strong and urgent.\nTime is running out.\nThe vision fades."}, {"prompt": "You go outside", "response": "You nudge your way toward fresher air....\nYou enjoy curling up in the blankets' warm folds. Light streams down through an eastern window. A mingling of faded scents lure you northward.\nThe Provider snores beside you.\nYou're starving!"}, {"prompt": "You put tube in the hourglass", "response": "You put the tube into the contraption; predictably, it squinches down, passes through the narrow neck, and emerges from the other end smaller than it was when it went in."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "You are not a pretty sight.\n\"Crash!\" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"At the moment he died, I had a strange vision. It was... it was...\"\nYou try to recall the strange sensation you experienced, but it fragments and swims away, and lingers at the edge of your consciousness where you can find no purchase. What words could describe that weightless moment?\ndescribe that weightless moment?\"It was...\" you flounder, \"it was...\"\ndescribe that weightless moment?\"It was...\" you flounder, \"it was...\"Doctor Cavala watches you intently.\nwas...\"Doctor Cavala watches you intently.\"Strange sights are not uncommon at the moment of death, Marid. Especially when the animus escapes untethered. You studied such reactions in the Physicians' College, did you not?\"\nCollege, did you not?\"\"This was different,\" you insist.\nCollege, did you not?\"\"This was different,\" you insist.\"It's been a long day,\" she replies. \"Take a moment to collect your thoughts. Talk to me again tomorrow when you are certain.\"\nto me again tomorrow when you are certain.\"You lower your eyes. \"Yes, Doctor.\"\n1) <Take off your surgical mask.>\n2) \"If only...\"\n3) \"What happens next?\""}, {"prompt": "Insect", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the shirt", "response": "You're wearing a dark brown long-sleeved t-shirt, the color of chocolate. It's cotton, which isn't always a wise thing to wear when hiking - fantastic when it's hot, but is miserable in the rain - however there's a brilliant blue sky and a favorable forecast, so you're risking it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the windows", "response": "The light through the drapes is weak and gray, and the sound of raindrops striking glass comes through."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"What time do you get off? How about you and me go somewhere for a drink?\"\n\"I'd like that, Sam, but tonight's bad for me. Come by tomorrow and ask me again will ya?\"\n\"Sure, kid. You bet.\"\n[1] Say goodbye.\nThere is a brief lull in the music and the dancers return to their seats before the music starts and more take their places."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a fishofax, a tatty card, a travel pass, a hyperdriver, a film and a bag.\nYou are wearing a watch, some dark glasses and some ear-plugs."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nyour trench coat (being worn)\na handgun (with 8 rounds)\nyour keyring"}, {"prompt": "You take the locket", "response": "\"Ooh, jewelry! Good eye, Tibert!\" says the captain.\nYou stuff the silver locket into the sack."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Doctor? Are you --\"\n\"Marid,\" she says quietly. \"I know what you're thinking. You want to go out there. Make a difference. Marid, you just recovered from a case of severe hypoxia. You shouldn't even be standing right now.\"\nof severe hypoxia. You shouldn't even be standing right now.\"She chuckles bitterly, and sinks into her makeshift cot like a wretched leaden thing.\nleaden thing.\"You were dead, Marid,\" she says, very quietly. \"Just moments ago, you were clinically dead on the tarp.\"\n1) \"What?\"\n2) \"This isn't the time for jokes, Doctor.\"\n3) <Say nothing.>"}, {"prompt": "Release break", "response": "You release the parking brake.\nAloysius watches approvingly. \"Good, good,\" he says."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mural", "response": "The mural shows court ladies whispering to each other in a garden; men kneel to float folded-paper poems down the brook for them to read."}, {"prompt": "You use the potion", "response": "You consume the CRIMSON POTION, and feel an immediate sense of well-being.\nThe SLAVER KING slings you across the THRONE ROOM, and you hear stone CRACK as you slam into the cold stone wall! You have suffered 53\nhits of damage!"}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "You find yourself in a damp cavern strewn with aged trash that extends out into darkness. You know it's a dungeon by all the dangling manacles. The opening in the brick wall leads back east to the wine cellar."}, {"prompt": "You look at the chimecherries", "response": "(the bunch of chimecherries)\nKlaus's favorite fruit.\nThe zephyrwort whirls about the bunch of chimecherries, setting them jingling like bells."}, {"prompt": "Release chair", "response": "SADI emits a whistling sound, and the chair reappears in its original location."}, {"prompt": "You wake up", "response": "You open your eyes.\nBallroom\nOn the floor you can see a white glove where it has been contemptuously thrown down, and expanding outward from this glove the world takes form. There are dancers surrounding you in a circle, but they are not dancing: they are staring at you and staring at the glove, and their eyeballs never cease staring because they are frozen.\nThere has been some hitch and time stands still.\nA chandelier hangs overhead, candles unflickering. Everything is mirrored in the marble floor. Toward the future you can glimpse the grand staircase, where the countess is ascending with her back turned after having delivered her challenge."}, {"prompt": "You put it in the well", "response": "The celestial bauble falls into the distance."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na handful of grey stones\na stocking\nhandsome leather shoes\na candle stick"}, {"prompt": "You press the brass button", "response": "That seems like it might do something. But it doesn't."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"There's this girl Nathalie. She was in charge of our arts event last year, and it was a... Well, it went very poorly. So this year I ended up organizing the event instead of her, and I guess she took it personally, because she sabotaged the whole thing.\"\nJack's skull twists into a furious scowl. \"How dare she treat my\nfriend so shamefully! She must be punished, Hina!\"\n\"Well, I don't know if I have the authority to punish anyone.\"\nHe leaps to his feet and points a long, bony finger down at you. \"This Honors arts event is your responsibility! You alone can bring Nathalie to justice!\"\nThen he sees you cowering in fear beneath him and composes himself.\nHe sits down, puts a reassuring arm over your shoulder: \"But I'm sure you'll handle it well, whatever you do.\"\n1: Tell him about Lane.\n2: Tell him about Alec.\n3: Tell him about Nathalie.\n4: Tell him about the Sidewalk Chalk Tournament.\n5: Change the subject."}, {"prompt": "You dig the mound", "response": "Ugh, why must the ground always be so dirty? This dust is no exception. You search for a small plank to dig with, but find nothing suitable. You look at your hands. Desperate times, desperate measures.\nResigning yourself to filthy hands, you sweep away the dust. Gold! No, merely golden in color. You dig and dig, wincing with every clump of dust that impinges on the delicate space beneath your fingernails. Gradually, a giftbox emerges, wrapped in golden paper and tied with a red ribbon. Not something one usually finds buried. Perhaps there is a treasure inside."}, {"prompt": "You examine the board", "response": "This is a 2x4 board. It appears very sturdy."}, {"prompt": "You eat the onion", "response": "You munch another onion. Blow before its odor fades."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Splish splash. Splish splash. Splish splash.\nStrange shapes surround you, shadows moving quickly along the walls. The effect is amplified by the uneven and blinking green light from the fireflies in your glass canning jar. Stalactites hang and stalagmites climb, occasionally making thin columns that join the floor to the ceiling. A small pool of dark water collects drops from above, echoing in the eerie quiet. Your eyes survey the room, but the only way out is east.\nA banquet of your favorite hors d'oeuvres has been set out in a large wicker basket."}, {"prompt": "You pull black", "response": "You yank on the long black cord and it separates from the red parachute. Uh oh. You let go of it."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "FC: Time passes...\nSENSA INTERRUPT: Secondary tremor detected in lower level. Intensity: 7.3. Projected damage: Cooling systems for FCs in Maintenance Area."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mice", "response": "Parts of the ribcages are black and corroded, as if eaten from within. There are no animii that you can see."}, {"prompt": "You examine the note with the lens", "response": "The lens magnifies the text: \"Note: for security reasons, I have reversed the door's passcode.\""}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "I climbed past the gutter and saw what must have been the antenna, a gnarled wooden staff, on top of the roof's ridge. The rain was pouring down in torrents and staying on the steps took all my effort.\nClambering up to the antenna I glanced behind me and saw horrifying a dark mass was emerging from the storm clouds over London; it was larger than the city itself, and revealed more of itself every second as it descended from the skies. Even the light from lightning would not penetrate the total blackness of its form. Only its grotesque shape could be seen as a silhouette against the dark sky.\nAn overwhelming sense of dread and despair overcame me. I screamed, screamed until my lungs were empty of air."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the\ninside."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "stone bracelet:\n(first taking off the stone bracelet)\nDropped.\nscrewdriver: Dropped.\nwooden bucket: Dropped.\nburlap sack: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "It takes every ounce of determination in your body to turn the handle, but there is no other way to stop the banging. As three startled policemen charge, propelled by their own momentum, into a tangled heap on the sofa, you steel yourself and take that first step outside into the dawn...\nA gentle breeze of fresh air caresses your cheek as you look out over the awakening city, gently blowing the fog away from your mind, calming the fevered waters. Sorrowful memories begin to stir; the plane crash so many months ago now, the rage against arbitrary, cruel fate, the endless gloom and desperation - but this time you firmly put them behind you, and breathe instead the scent of the dew and the symphony of the morning.\nYour reverie is broken by an anxious policeman tapping you on the shoulder. \"Are you all right? The neighbours heard a lot of screaming - we're sorry we couldn't get here earlier, it's been a terrible night...\"\nSmiling for the first time in an age, you explain that it was only a nightmare, apologizing for their trouble.\nAs the departing car's roar fades into the distance, more mundane thoughts enter your mind. The house will need some redecorating, the medical researchers will definitely be hearing from you once the phone is fixed, and - somewhere you can't quite remember yet - your work awaits. But most importantly, the spectre of fear and the ghosts of the past no longer haunt you, and the rising sun inspires the hope of a new beginning.\nThe long night is over."}, {"prompt": "You put pillow in the shaft", "response": "You drop the pillow down the shaft. You hear a faint splash far below."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"No!\" he states emphatically, \"I won't have any of the paltry excuse for claret they serve here. It's pre-phylloxera claret or nothing.\"\n[1] Then it's going to have to be nothing . . .\n[2] Alright, then. I'll go find a bottle, shall I? There's nothing I like more than going on obscure object quests, after all."}, {"prompt": "You remember the mother", "response": "You can't remember yourself.."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "Closed.\nYour hands begin twitching uncontrollably. You fight to keep them still."}, {"prompt": "Dance", "response": "This antechamber isn't zoned for public dancing. Nertz."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "There have been other worlds in your experience that a few well-placed words could bend or change. But this place seems not responsive to such control."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na bowl of eggnog"}, {"prompt": "You talk to the attendant", "response": "You say hello to Billy Jumpner.\nFilmore the Clown goes south.\n(You could ask him about himself, the incidents or Jonathan Boom.)"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're in a bathroom. Exits are to the west and south.\nYou hear several voices in the distance saying things like \"where did it go?\" and \"I think it went this way!\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "You wait for a moment, taking deep breaths to keep your calm.\nThe phone rings one more time before Rosalita picks up.\nShe says, \"Hello?\"\n[New topic - Hello]"}, {"prompt": "You connect red tube to the red receptacle", "response": "Connected.\nThe stock ticker tape advances:\n|  SPA +TS  |  GWD +U/15  |  FPF -S8  |  A P +S9  |  C T -W7  |\nTwo pigs huddle together, shivering nervously."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Sharp Corner (in dimness)\nThe corridor cuts around a sharp angle, from the northwest to the north. To the south, in the end wall, is the standard featureless\nmetal door; it is closed.\nThree guards are standing in the angle, with three more motionless on the floor.\nYou hit the corner at a dead run. The remaining guards break and fall aside, trying to aim and roll for cover simultaneously."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The forest grows denser as you go, crowding thickly up to either side of the road. The groping, tangled branches block out what little sunlight there is left. Your footsteps are muffled; whispering leaves and the slow drip of water are the only sounds you can hear. Beyond the watching trees, the shadows are impenetrably thick. The road stretches interminably, north to south.\nAt the edge of the forest, on the west side of the road, stand the rotted stump and twisted sapling from your dream.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "Your eyes close. Your breathing slows. Your cheek deadens against the travel pillow. You drift off and experience a hectic dream...\nCount Ruggino is as good-looking as ever. Count Ruggino is\ncarrying a gold-plated pistol. Count Ruggino shoots himself with the gold-plated pistol. Click. It must be out of bullets. Click. Count Ruggino's arm falls off and rolls under the bed. Click. Count Ruggino looks under the bed and fishes out his arm. Count Ruggino's leg falls off. Count Ruggino picks up his leg and his head falls off. Click. Count Ruggino sees a rat, a rat, a rat, and a rat here. Count Ruggino picks up a rat and his head, and his nose falls off. Click. Click. Count Ruggino eats a sausage and a sleeping pill. Count Ruggino picks up a rat and a rat and drops a rat. Count Ruggino unlocks his head. Count Ruggino opens his head, revealing a rat. Count Ruggino unlocks his leg. Count Ruggino opens his leg, revealing a rat. Count Ruggino picks up a rat, a rat, and a rat. Count Ruggino drops his head and it rolls under the bed. Click. A rat picks up a rat and a rat and drops a rat. A rat opens a rat, revealing a rat. A rat jumps up and down on the spot, fruitlessly. A rat wouldn't like that. A rat wouldn't like that. It is pitch black, and Count Ruggino can't see a thing!\nYou awaken at sunrise to find the bedchamber filled with rosy light.\nSunrise (on the bed)\nYou can't see much of anything due to the reddish light that floods the room via a narrow doorway to the east."}, {"prompt": "West", "response": "You channel your will to power to summon a path in that direction. Sadly, nothing happens: you can't go that way.\nThe demon lands in front of you and stares you in the eyes. There is a dreadful pause as you fall into the glowing hollows of his pupils, and then he punches you square in the stomach. As you collapse you think you hear the sound of ribs breaking."}, {"prompt": "You examine Aunt", "response": "Your Aunt Caroline is a thin, pale woman of about 40, with mousy hair and a pinched face. Her glasses are perched, as usual, halfway down her nose. Her fingernails are gnawed. At the moment she's standing in front of the bookcase, lingering over the pages of a mystery novel."}, {"prompt": "Fountain", "response": "The fountain takes the form of a huge, scaly fish. It's currently presenting a stony front to the squid's attempts to overpower it with a tentacle.\nIvy punches the tentacle that's holding her, and then clutches her hand. \"Ouch! It's tough...\""}, {"prompt": "You stand on the wedge", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Okay. I'm standing on the solid wedge now.\nAUDA INTERRUPT: Listening...\n\"Well, this is some sleep chamber. No frills.\"\n\"Don't complain. At least there's bunks for us.\"\n\"I suppose. I'm going to put the toolbag on the floor while I grab some shuteye.\"\n\"What about the robot?\"\n\"What, that ear thing? Gimme a break!\"\nAUDA: I hear the sound of metal being placed on the floor."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "If things want learning in Hydropolis, then Opah University is where they get learned. The university disco to the north is in the middle of a bop-til-you-drop rag week stunt with schools of tired students swimming in and out to the heavy four-four beat. An expensive restaurant lies to the south. Have you made a reservation? No? Too bad. It's very popular. An impressive archway leads east into the university itself. You can return to Opah tube station by going west.\nA statue of the university founder is in the middle of the quad.\nAs you arrive Bertie Bream greets you cheerfully."}, {"prompt": "You take the key", "response": "(the gilded key)\nThe rat nips your fingers sharply, drawing blood. You squeeze the offended digits until the flow is staunched. \"Bastard scion of Lucifer!\" you yell at it.\nIt stares back at you beadily."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You've gone with your jean cut-offs and a plaid shirt tonight. Nothing fancy, but then it doesn't really need to be."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "As you park your bike outside Rossini's, you see Staci arriving. You know she has read the same sci-fi novels that inspired you, so after not seeing her for several years, you greet her as follows:\n'Staci! World-as-myth is true, fiction is entering reality, and the Loonie Revolution is starting. Do you want a position of high power and responsibility?'\n'Power and responsibility? Fuck no!' she answers.\n'That's the perfect answer! You're in!' you say, and shake her hand. She stands back from the door to finish her cigarette, and you enter.\nMemorabilia from classic 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s movies and tv shows covers the walls of this neighborhood pizzeria. The smell of spicy-sweet tomato sauce and brown-crisp pizza crust fills the air. A lava lamp sits on one of the tables. From the back room, you hear the alluring sound of the 8-bit arcade machines of your youth.\nAs you open the door, you see a tall young man on the cusp of his teenage years, and a small young girl - Elgin and his sister Isabelle. 'Elgin! And you must be Isabelle!' you exclaim enthusiastically. It's been years since you have seen him, and Elgin responds 'Hey' in a noncommittal manner.\n'Actually, I prefer Lily,' says his sister brightly. 'Okay, I'll remember,' you reply.\nWaves of time-binding intensity sweep over you as you enter. You can hardly believe what you see in the arcade room - all of the favorite games of your childhood, time warped into the present day. Nothing like this existed in your universe before the binds of past and present and fiction and reality were made. A young woman with rainbow hair and a soft voice calls you a Jedi, and you break down in tears at her intuitive understanding of your fictional nature.\nThe rest of the party is a kaleidoscopic blur of pizza, classic arcade games, and getting contact information for friends old and new. You gather that Clark and Staci aren't together any more. Staci and you exchange emails, and she tells you she will be in touch, and that she is currently living at Lothlorien co-op. (Footnote 9). You make a mental note to use your terminal soon.\nYou return home feeling like you have travelled into a truly wonderful branch of the multiverse, laden with the fruit of infinite possibilities.\n(Messages have arrived, and new paths are open.)\n(28 April 2013 - Outside my house)"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This is only half a cave; the western half, to be exact. It's a dark\nplace full of crevices (you would have missed the stony passage back\nsouth if you hadn't already known about it). Boxes, bottles and crates\nare stored here, and to judge from scrape-marks are used by whoever\nlives through the broad passage northwest.\nthe cave, after all.\nYou can also see a burnished lantern (providing light) here."}, {"prompt": "Examine tubes", "response": "Typical Dr. Frankenstein or Herbert West stuff: bubbling flasks, wires, jars of strange fluids, and powders. You've got some lab experience, but you don't know what any of this stuff does. That's Jeff's department."}, {"prompt": "You look in Pinto", "response": "It's pretty dirty."}, {"prompt": "You examine the head", "response": "It's the gore-spattered head of the real estate agent -- you recognize her from the cover of a brochure she sent you in the mail several months ago. The eyes are still open and the mouth thrown wide in a silent scream."}, {"prompt": "You examine the machinery", "response": "The machines squat like gigantic mechanical trolls all around you, ceaselessly clanking, groaning, vibrating and spitting steam."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You have a small pamphlet, a tackle box, a thermos, and a disposble camera. The tackle box seems to contain a fishing knife.\n\"I ever tell you about the time I caught ol' Big Mouth up at Lake Shawnee?\" asks Bob. \"Boy, was he a wild one! I waded down into that lake and pummelled him good with my bare fists. That I did!\""}, {"prompt": "Probe contacts", "response": "You put the electropulse probe into the fusion generator bay.\nYou trigger the top sensor.\nAlthough you cannot see anything happening directly,  Cheryl's monitor hologram lights up with a multi-colored iridescent sphere which slowly fades away. At the same time, a number of smaller points of white appear in the part of the hologram corresponding to the fusion bay, but you cannot make out the details from here--unfortunate, since those details are just what you need to make the repairs; they are somewhat obscured by the glow of the probe."}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "You descend...\nPharynx\nThis grotto is barely recognizable. Flesh has corroded, sloughed from cartilage. The throat weeps with the ruins of ruptured blood vessels.\nThe epiglottis blocks the larynx. You can only descend into the esophagus."}, {"prompt": "You give the mirror", "response": "(to the sevenfold panoptic)\nThe heptagon takes the mirror tenderly. \"Thank you,\" he says. \"You've\ndone a good thing.\" With that he hurls himself into the mirror, not\neven bothering to pick his way around the sharp parts, and is gone,\nleaving the mirror behind."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "From this observation deck, you can see the grand scale of the operation of the Channelworks. A solid mass of machinery extends everywhere within this ancient building, filling its domed chambers and its high stone arches. Everywhere you look, pipes converge in a dizzying cacophony of hissing steam and flowing water, of whirling turbines and rolling metal drums.\nA foul-smelling tunnel leads out of the Channelworks to the south.\nThere is a console here, and a hydraulic door to the east which stands open. The black trail flows from one of the leaking pipes near this door."}, {"prompt": "You examine blocks", "response": "Stackable blocks used to do aerobics on. You can combine the blocks to form all sorts of stairs."}, {"prompt": "You eat the tube", "response": "Hmm. It not easy, but...\nGulp!\nOK. (Tweee.) All gone."}, {"prompt": "You take the rack", "response": "That's fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Adrian", "response": "Under different circumstances you would actually quite like to talk to Adrian. Maybe you are deluding yourself with suspicions of kinship but you can more readily imagine yourself saying something that feels true to him than anyone else. But how can you speak of anything in this company, at this time. Better not to talk to him at all."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The Museum is a presentation on Earth -- geography, culture, and everything else. The selection is idiosyncratic, but apparently compelling, to judge by the healthy crowd currently looking it over.\nTo one side there is a ramp leading down. The studious way the crowd ignores this ramp suggests that they consider it private space.\nA map of Earth covers the east wall, so large that you can barely reach across South America with both arms outstretched. It has attracted several groups of interested visitors, who are pointing out to each other details of the topography of Mongolia and making excited gestures at the Sahara.\nThere is a display case in the middle of the room."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "You open Fractals, and light bursts forth from it. The light\ncircles you several times. Then, with a loud \"whoosh,\" it returns to the book, which slams shut."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[\"Let's write some poetry!\"]\n\"All right, let's start with something simple.\" Traudl clears her throat and recites. \"The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!\"\n1) \"Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!\"\n2) \"My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness.\" 3) \"The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!\"\n4) \"Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts.\""}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "Excellent! What a perfect name.\nDigging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation.\nHey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep.\nin fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours ago.\nYour mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth.\nMaybe it's time to get on that."}, {"prompt": "You open the washing mashine", "response": "Open what?"}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "The rat charges and bites your leg. You strike a fierce blow with your sword and kill it!\n(You lose 4 hit points and defeat the giant rat.)\nYou look around and find a pouch of bronze coins worth 1 crown."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na book of herbs\na book of alchemy\na medallion\nan iron bell\na piece of purple parchment\na Hogwarts brochure\na contract\na handful of yellow Jelly Babies\nan identity card"}, {"prompt": "Blow whistle", "response": "Tweeeeeeeeee!\nA hansom cab pulls up beside you."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "bronze cherubim, each at least the height of three men. Their mighty wings are swept forward, covering their respectfully downturned faces. The powerful arms of each statue are extended forward: the first grips the axle of a bronze wheel suspended between his clenched fists; the second holds a brass censer; the third cups a copper sphere in his upturned palms. The three seem to be bowing deferentially toward an ornate archway leading southward. Another archway leads back to the west. A ceremonial chest sits in the southeastern corner."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nWe are the kings behind mirrors. We are the glass serpents. We rule\nunreality, and soon, we will rule reality too. This triangle is ours,\nand will be ours, and has always been ours.\nThe last thing you hear before you lose consciousness is high,\nmany-voiced laughter.\nA slow boat rests in a silent river. Your surroundings are dark, but\nyou can see everything with awful clarity. The far shore is in the\ndistance, out of reach.\nA skeleton in robes sits at the front of the boat, guiding it along\ndown the river.\nAn ancient chess set is tucked away in a far corner of the boat."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "Opened."}, {"prompt": "You ask Joshua for the wine", "response": "Lazarus of Bethany has better things to do.\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...such a temper. Their mother's ambitious, though, and won't rest until....\""}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "There's some corrugated steel-with-cinderblock-accents thing going on here. The floor ends to the west, where smoke and wailing rise from a pit. And it looks like we also have a double-cup panel lifter."}, {"prompt": "You sit in the chair", "response": "You slouch into the chair with a protracted sigh of pleasure. It is indeed as comfy as it looks."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "In the distance, you hear Big Ben strike the hour.\nThe sun comes up, as much as it ever comes up in England.\nA verger appears, unlocks the huge door, and pushes it open.\nYou enter Victoria Street, which runs east and west between Victoria Square and Broad Sanctuary.\nYou see a sign outside one of the shops.\nThe detective walks alongside you."}, {"prompt": "Attack snake", "response": "Which do you mean, the black snake or the snake scale?"}, {"prompt": "Time", "response": "The time is 12:44"}, {"prompt": "Bye", "response": "\u201cWell, goodbye then, my lady,\u201d you say.\n\u201cAu revoir, lieutenant,\u201d she replies. \u201cYou must come up to the\ncastle\nsoon; I am sure the Duke would be interested to meet you.\u201d"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "I am in the Library Entrance.\nSensa is off to the north.\nWaldo is off to the north.\nPoet is in motion off to the north."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Your house, in the basement\nYour ex-girlfriend used to stay down here, but now the area is mostly storage...and your grid hardware. In the center of the dark concrete floor is a flimsy table with numerous aging computers both under it and on top. A tangle of ethernet and power cables criss-cross the room like spiderwebs.\nYour cat Strawberry is here.\nYou can also see Reality and Fiction here.\nStrawberry is curled up and napping in the corner."}, {"prompt": "You read 13", "response": "Pope's Delight:\nYou'll need:\n1 cup of water\n2 cups of camel milk\n1 handful of sugar\n1 mouthful of flour\n1 kilo of parrot spleens\n1 otter, dead\nSome whiskey\nMix all the incidences, except the otter and the whiskey, into a paste. Fry it in a pan for 20 minutes at full heat. Shave the otter and stuff it with the paste. Boil it until its nose falls off, then dip it in whiskey. Traditionally served with fried potatoes and donkey milk.\nThe letters on this page are different from the rest of the book. You realize this page actually belongs in another book, and has been printed here by mistake.\nA tentacle plunges down towards your feet, but you manage to jump away from it.\nThe green monster swings one of its legs at a tentacle, but misses."}, {"prompt": "You examine the counter", "response": "There's nothing on the counter.\nThe teenager taps his fingers nervously on the counter and tries to avoid eye contact with you."}, {"prompt": "You take skull", "response": "Taken.\nCurb tries to gnaw on the piano. You shoo him off before he does too much damage."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "The wind whistles down the corridors of the hedge maze and blows snowflakes into your hair.\nA little white snow sprite carrying a golden bell runs atop the snow laughing and tumbling. As soon as it spots you, it runs right up to you stops just a few feet away."}, {"prompt": "You assign Hunter to the tricycles", "response": "You command Hunter Blair to occupy himself with the ancient tricycles. He obediently complies."}, {"prompt": "You enter the wardrobe", "response": "The wardrobe is much too small and cluttered."}, {"prompt": "You look at the heart", "response": "Reden's organs are black and withered. You might have suspected poor embalming technique if it hadn't been Doctor Cavala performing the dissection."}, {"prompt": "You examine the glowing pie", "response": "Someone left this pie at the end of the pie-tasting table. It's at least five times bigger than the other pies, it's glowing like a lighthouse, and you can see things moving around under the crust. The smell of decay hovers around it.\nMary Jane murmurs something to one of her Pine Nut Ladies-In-Waiting, who writes it down on a clipboard."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floor", "response": "(the cork dance floor)\nThe dance floor isn't very large but you imagine it doesn't need to be. People don't come to Nikolai's to dance. They come to get soused. The floor is discolored by water marks and mold."}, {"prompt": "You examine Shrine", "response": "A sturdy vault for your most fragile internal organs. External, now."}, {"prompt": "You ask David about the chimera", "response": "\"Chimeras are awesome! They can multiattack and fly!\" says David."}, {"prompt": "Status", "response": "Health: 8 of 28\nAttack: 4\nDefence: 10\nPerception: 5\nDexterity: 5\nWillpower: 6\nWhen you die, you explode, dealing as much damage to your enemy as the enemy dealt to you. This gives you a last chance to kill your enemy, and perhaps absorb his soul and come back to life in the process. (Level 2)"}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a town with only one street. The sun beats down from above, lighting up the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of here. On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings. Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.\nOld Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying slightly.\nThe fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.\nThe sun begins to sink lower in the western sky.\nYour head hurts like hell."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You'll have to open the western door first."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "The boards are old and warped, but still quite sturdy. It is locked with a heavy padlock."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You're standing in an ancient chamber inside the burial mound. High above your head, the muddy hole you dug beckons you - but there's no way to reach it. The walls of the chamber are hard-packed sod, but the floor is solid stone, good Unnkulian granite. A massive stone coffin stands in the very center of the room. The only exit from the chamber is a narrow passage sloping down to the west, vanishing into darkness."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is scarred with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still flashes of its historic charm.\nThis alley, however, has no time for charm. It ends in flat bare dirty brick, and a door which lacks even the courtesy of a handle. Not that you'll wait on courtesy.\nIt's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (You're sure the police are as efficient about litter laws as about everything else they do.) You can retreat to the south.\nA plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's firmly shut."}, {"prompt": "You turn on toggle", "response": "You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine begins within it."}, {"prompt": "You examine terminal", "response": "Your terminal glows with a Mondrian-like arrangement of pastel windows, each rio bound into a different namespace. Multiple rc shells are running, acme is open, and several irc channels are available within hubfs. You can check for messages with >use terminal."}, {"prompt": "You look at the script", "response": "Scene:\ncloak room, evening\nthan human words can put into language.\nStage directions:\ninventory (i), examine (x), take, drop, talk to\nfuture (f), past (p), clockwise (c),\ncounter-clockwise (cc)\nwear, undress, wake up\nfly, oink (when wearing the butchered pig)"}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "The drop to the ground below is too far for you to jump safely, and the trunk of the tree is too slick to climb."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "This spacious library is lit by an arched window in the east wall. The collection must have once been extensive, but now the bookshelves lining the walls are empty. A desk stands near the window, and the south wall is dominated by a large fireplace. A doorway leads west, and a wooden door to the north is open."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the server", "response": "To start a conversation, try to ASK the server ABOUT something or TELL the server ABOUT something."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A richly attired Wait Chamber, walls covered with pagan frescoes which beckon you to unpure thoughts. Chairs arranged near the circular perimeter mingle with tables for gaming. The chamber becomes the reception chamber to the west, the dining hall to the north. A small tiled archway leads southwest, and to the east is the grand Entry Hall.\nThis is room 3. Exits: north, south, east, down."}, {"prompt": "You examine the radio", "response": "It's a small orange box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus link on the other. The link is connected to a scan scrambler."}, {"prompt": "You search the lockers", "response": "All the lockers are closed."}, {"prompt": "You touch the top", "response": "You trigger the top sensor.\nAlthough you cannot see anything happening directly,  Cheryl's monitor hologram lights up with a multi-colored iridescent sphere which slowly fades away."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\nyour summer program ID"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The immense metal wall of the airport is interposed as if there were Palestinians on the other side. Or perhaps you're the Palestinian. You won't get over it."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mirror", "response": "The mirror hangs over the pedestal sink."}, {"prompt": "You examine the portrait", "response": "A man with a small mustache glances off to the side and down, trying to put some painful memory out of his mind."}, {"prompt": "You drop the earworm", "response": "The earworm is seemingly resistant to all forms of interaction, and simply acknowledging it gives it strength:\nI get knocked down / but I get up again / you're never going to\nkeep me down! Apparently Chumbawamba is still stuck in your head.\n[Author's note: messing with the earworm is entirely optional. Not that I would try to dissuade you from it!]"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "A dusty road leads east to west. Some pleasant-seeming woods lie to the south."}, {"prompt": "You make the dough", "response": "You knead another ball of bread dough.\nYou mould the dough into a loaf and slap it into an empty pan.\n[5:22 pm:33|756335]  Bri'anne Wayverlyn the CrystalSinger : Name?"}, {"prompt": "You drop the helmet", "response": "You perform the relinquishment.\nA coming screams across the ceiling.\nAll that you can see flickers into reverse video; even worse is the reverse audio, pure sound everywhere except for the globs of silence shrieked from innumerable mouths, your own one of these. The tongue cannot say what tastes and smells visit you. Your skin is crawling all over the ants. The round is world.\nSixteen years later you arise from catatonia to play a single game of ping pong against a silentious Native American. It is a moment that Oliver Sacks would have written touchingly about. But the moment does not last."}, {"prompt": "You look at left", "response": "A glass Pyrex beaker, maximum capacity 500ml, with something scrawled on the side in grease pencil. There's a glass probe fused to the bottom.\nIn the left beaker is about 260mL of dark blue liquid."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the door with the bronze key", "response": "(first taking the tarnished bronze key)\n(slipping the blueprint into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou unlock the massive bronze door.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You look at the label", "response": "What do you want to examine: the flux capacitor, the sticker, or the whiskey bottle?"}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "Though it's probably one of the best books you'd ever choose to read, you don't really have time right now. [18]"}, {"prompt": "You examine the candles", "response": "They glow with eerie light."}, {"prompt": "You ask the nun for the brains", "response": "\"BRAAI--\" you begin, but the old nun interrupts. \"Hush now! You'll startle those creatures under the bus.\"\nThe old nun looks you over gravely. \"You're in very bad shape, my friend. Very bad. I wish I could help you. I'd even give you my own brain, if it were enough. But I don't think you'd have the strength to escape without eating more than that,\" she says. \"Go find yourself some more brains to eat, and maybe I'll be able to help you then.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the controls", "response": "A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for it."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "FC: Time passes...\nSENSA INTERRUPT: Sensory mechanisms match goal directive. I am at the Skywalk Alpha."}, {"prompt": "You fill the bottle with Water", "response": "You fill the antique bottle with salt water from the ocean."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The corridors of the hospital join in a T-junction. The arms of the\nT lie east and west, while the base runs south. A pair of swinging doors crowns the top of the T, to the north. Over the east corridor is a sign. A line of patients on gurneys fills the hallway.\nThere is a nurse here, talking with a patient."}, {"prompt": "You watch the tv", "response": "The antenna is now extended.\nJust when you thought it couldn't get any worse, a steady rain starts to fall. You glance up at the skies ahead and it doesn't look good. The wind is starting to swirl and the sea water is starting to get agitated. The boat continues to speed straight out to sea as it pounds into the waves of the choppy water.\nThe TV is now on. A picture now appears on the small TV screen.\nThe rain picks up and is now pelting you constantly. You see several flashes of lightning and a few moments later, they are followed by the sound of thunder echoing in the distance. The boat continues to speed straight out to sea as it pounds into the waves of the choppy waters.\nYou see nothing but snow. The reception must be pretty bad out here.\nThe driving rain is making it very hard for you to see. More flashes of lightning illuminate the dark skies and the waves are starting to reach the boat deck. The storm is upon you. The boat catches a couple of waves and actually goes airborne for a moment. The impact knocks you back and you hold onto the railing for dear life.\nA huge wave spills across the deck and picks up the two-liter plastic Pepsi bottle. You watch it float to the back of the boat where it disappears into the dark waters."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe big, meaty footsteps are getting louder."}, {"prompt": "Drink water", "response": "You can't touch the free flowing water. That is too far away!"}, {"prompt": "You open the aunt suitcase", "response": "Aunt Caroline's suitcase seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You put the block on the thief", "response": "I give the block intent to the thief, who now intends to block the door.\nThe thief pushes a shelf against the door, blocking it from the\ninside."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Gilberto", "response": "Maybe you should ask or tell about more specific topics.\nCrackling through static on the radio, you hear, \"German serial killer Fritz Haarmann has been sentenced to death. . .\"\nGilberto wipes down the bar."}, {"prompt": "You examine Falcon", "response": "Jamison carries an aura of power unusual in men so slim and tall, the strength of a willow in his hard seaworn body, straight shouldered and resilient. Chestnut hair, tousled by the wind, frames the tanned oval of his face. A jagged scar etches one cheek, harsh against the warmth of his limpid blue eyes.\nTo your surprise, the stranger bows. \"Well met, my lady.\" His accent\nis cultured, his smile vibrant. \"I am Captain Nicholas Jamison, known in these waters as 'The Falcon'. Your father has sent me.\" He chuckles at your glare of distrust. \"Yes, you are like your sire. You needn't believe me untried -- I carry this.\" He hands you a missive."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "The window is too high."}, {"prompt": "Empty bottle of mead", "response": "mead: You pour the mead out onto the ground.\nIn the hot sun, the mead would appear to be evaporating.\nThe level of the water in the well sinks out of sight."}, {"prompt": "JAR", "response": "A hemisphere of glass attached to an air PUMP. It seems to contain a piece of rotten MEAT and a SWARM of stripy flies.\nThere's a NOTE attached to it."}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "Identical passageways open to the north, south, east, and west.\nOverhead you can see your old friend, the trapdoor."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Relief floods you as you feel sunlight on your skin.\nThis tiny cubicle is flooded with high-quality artificial sunlight, giving it a pleasant golden color. Through the small window on the bulkhead door to the south, you can see the planetoid's barren surface. The abandoned Planet Roller sits at an odd angle halfway up a ridge. Another heavy door is to the north, with another small window revealing the dimly lit station interior.\nYou can see a warning plaque here."}, {"prompt": "You take the matches", "response": "(slipping the strange metal flute into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "A large room with windows that face south, and a fireplace along the east. The place is a mess. Other rooms have looked bare, but this one-- this room has been ransacked. Furniture has not simply been removed or disarranged, it has been thrown around, in some cases even chopped up. The handsome secretaire has been turned into splinters.\nNorth is the doorway into the room that was once your bedroom.\nAn open door leads back west into the corridor."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "Being as cautious as you can with the journal, you flip to the next page that has legible handwriting in it:\n\"To be visited by a strange, elderly woman, but not know where she came from. To name herself Esther and to be kind to me. To say I can one day go down the stairs if I listen to her, but to not to speak of this to anyone, not even Ma and Da. To agree, I say, but what must I do?\n\"To ring the bells for me, she says, for I do not have the strength. But bells bring evil, I say. To be safe from the evil with this, she says, and gives me a pendant. Now, ring the bells.\n\"To ring the bells, I do, in the way she teaches me. To like to hear them sing. To bring the winds, they do, but not to bring evil. To be soothing.\"\nThere are more pages to read."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Come to think, you've never had the foggiest what a peristyle is, but this pillar-and-porch number here seems as reasonable a candidate as any (though twist your arm, it looks just like a courtyard to you).\nThere's a small closet in an outbuilding to the north and the exit to the countryside lies west, but more appealing are the paths southward, source of drinking songs and belches, and eastwards, whence quiet music and some jolly bracing incense waft. The stairs back down to the cellars are off in a dingy corner.\nThere's a stone fountain at the center of the courtyard, happily burbling just the way you do after Alky's made you drink number seven."}, {"prompt": "You take moon", "response": "You can't touch the paper moon. That is too far away!"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You walk back down the corridor.\nYou're in the main module, and that means you know your way around\nwith your eyes shut. With your eyes open you can also comment on the decor; and note that it improves substantially to the east where the General has his office, to the west it probably disimproves (Kurner's hole is over there) and north leads toward the centre of the dome which means one thing - toward the room with your machine.\nBack south is a long corridor."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[(nod) \"One...\"]\nThe fryer suddenly explodes in a shower of grease and goo as a half-fried tentacle forces its way through the wall, reaching for you with ropy strands of sizzling, popping slime. \"Twothreegogogo!\" Renee shouts as the three of you scurry to the backdoor. The diner roof collapses behind you under several tons of hungry brain guzzler, sending up a cloud of plaster dust.\nYou crash through the back door and sprint desperately for the sidewalk. The monsters are everywhere now, tentacles questing in every direction, but you somehow avoid them, ducking, dodging, even hurdling one of the smaller ones. You head north. There don't seem to be as many along Saguaro. You can hear the girls breathing heavily on either side of you. You all made it! Now if you can just reach the tunnel--\nLike a green landslide, a brain guzzler the size of a house slides down the slope of Make-Out Mountain, its surface a forest of tentacles.\n1) \"Oh my gosh!\"\n2) \"Holy cow!\"\n3) \"Jeepers jipes!\"\n4) You're so shocked, you actually say the f-word."}, {"prompt": "Close double", "response": "You close the double doors."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cross", "response": "From the way it fell, it looks as though it must have been hung upside-down."}, {"prompt": "You open the burlap with the scale", "response": "You cut open the bag, revealing powdery borogove food."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.\nThe stone tunnel extends from north to south here. Another passage leads away to the west.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "You go downward", "response": "You descend...\nEsophagus\nYou hang between sphincters, slashed apart and seized with rigor mortis. The walls, flickering in your unsteady lens-light, run\nwith black streaks into the yawning darkness.\nThe stomach lies beneath."}, {"prompt": "You put the fire in the bag", "response": "Stop fooling around trying to put the fire."}, {"prompt": "You look at the panel", "response": "Inside the panel is an array of wossnames and receptacles: an empty black receptacle, an empty brown receptacle, an empty red receptacle, an empty orange receptacle, a yellow receptacle containing a yellow wossname, and a green receptacle containing a green wossname. There are also disconnected black, brown, red, and orange wossnames.\nThe stock ticker tape advances:\n|  PP  6PP  |   P  6P/10  |   P  6P6  |    P 6P6  |    P 6P6  |"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A tree stump pokes through the otherwise unbroken blanket of soft, powdery snow. A slatted fence traverses the snow to the north, while the cottage entrance lies southward.\nYou can see a strip of smouldering kindling, a shiny empty shell and a hole (which is empty) here."}, {"prompt": "You examine tag", "response": "It reads: \"CHUCK\"."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This cave tunnel goes from northeast to east!\nA gruesome hatchling flutters in shrieking! You'd better run!"}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Sure, sweetheart. Don't worry, kid. I'll find him. You run along and I'll be in touch.\"\nIrene gets up and says \"Thank you so much, Mr. Fortune.\" before giving you a small wad of bills for expenses and telling you her phone number. Then she gracefully heads for the door. On her way out she pauses and looks over her shoulder for a second, giving you a brief look at her misty blue eyes. Then, she closes the door and she's gone.\n\"Well, Sam,\" you say to yourself. \"Looks like you're gonna be dining at the Top Cat Club tonight.\""}, {"prompt": "You open the bird drawer", "response": "You open the bird drawer, revealing a broken vinyl record."}, {"prompt": "You enter the tube", "response": "You step into the tube, and there is a WHOOSH of air with the sensation of upward motion; you step out into new surroundings.\nThe decay has advanced considerably around you, and the entire fortress looks on the verge of disintegration. Collapsed ceilings block the way west and south, and the ongoing cave-in continues to force you eastwards. The walls keep liquefying, and the ceiling here is shuddering unsteadily.\nEmily floats out of the tube a second behind you.\nThe walls continue to dissolve before your eyes, and that eerily calm alien voice keeps advising you:\n\"Critical state reached... Self-consumption sequence continues... Critical state reached... Self-consumption sequence continues...\""}, {"prompt": "Onions", "response": "screwdriver: Taken.\nwooden bucket: Taken.\nburlap sack: Taken.\nsketchbook: Taken.\nfire tongs: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You drop andouillettes", "response": "Which do you mean, the Andouillettes Recipe or the cooked andouillettes?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the controls", "response": "The dashboard of the power boat looks about as easy to operate as the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. There are more dials and knobs than you can count."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "A corner tower severely damaged by fire, so that there is only framework between you and the sky.\nThe Beast's thoughts intrude on yours, courtesy of the enchanted shoes: A spectacular but unsuccessful attempt. My fur was singed\nand foul-smelling for weeks."}, {"prompt": "You get all from the box", "response": "(You will have to refer to things individually in this\nstory.)"}, {"prompt": "You give paper dragon to the doll", "response": "The doll takes the paper dragon face and bows its thanks."}, {"prompt": "You touch the doorway", "response": "Not after last time."}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial right to 20", "response": "You concentrate to still your shaking hand, and reach for the locker dial.\nYou turn the dial right to 20."}, {"prompt": "You examine copper key", "response": "\"Mine!\" the old man hisses, clapping his hands onto his chest as though you were about to frisk him for it. \"It's mine, and I won't let it go!\""}, {"prompt": "You get qualiascope", "response": "(putting the Encyclopaedia of Qualia into the sack to make room) Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "Atwood Avenue is one of the streets that defines the character of the near east side. The feel is funky and freak-friendly. North of you is a cluster of intriguing stores: Astral Enchantments, Turning Wheel Cycles, and Essentially Art. Willy street is to the west, your home is northeast, and Atwood becomes Monona Drive to the southeast."}, {"prompt": "You open jar", "response": "You open the glass jar.\nYou feel unable to stop yourself turning and staring into the swirling eyes of the pictogram."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A beautiful pair of mahogany sliding doors stand closed to the east.\nA section of the shelves in the western wall has slid to one side, revealing a hidden safe.\nResting on the pipe stand is a sizable volume decorated with a gilded pentagram on its cover."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nThe cube looks concerned. \"The execution of lxprog has been halted.\nSomething is stopping the program from running.\""}, {"prompt": "You put all in the sack", "response": "teaspoon: Done.\nwooden bucket: Done.\njuice glass: Done.\npill bottle:\n(first taking the pill bottle)\nDone.\nfaded photographs:\n(first taking the faded photographs)\nDone.\nflashlight:\n(first taking the flashlight)\nDone.\ncroquet hoop:\n(first taking the croquet hoop)\nDone.\npartially crumbled piece of burnt toast:\n(first taking the partially crumbled piece of burnt toast)\nDone.\nbad fuse:\n(first taking the bad fuse)\nDone.\nsketchbook:\n(first taking the sketchbook)\nDone.\nstone bracelet:\n(first taking the stone bracelet)\nDone.\ngold locket:\n(first taking the gold locket)\nDone.\nold shovel:\n(first taking the old shovel)\nDone.\nindecipherable map:\n(first taking the indecipherable map)\nDone.\npoker:\n(first taking the poker)\nDone.\nkey to Cabin One:\n(first taking the key to Cabin One)\nDone.\nscrewdriver:\n(first taking the screwdriver)\nDone.\nbrown envelope:\n(first taking the brown envelope)\nDone.\nfire tongs:\n(first taking the fire tongs)\nDone.\nfat white candle:\n(first taking the fat white candle)\nDone."}, {"prompt": "Cast pole", "response": "[I can't understand your entire command: the first part might be\nan action I know, but I didn't expect the word \"pole\" next.]"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The Troll is chasing after you!\nThe emptiness of a natural cathedral of living rock rises high into darkness above you, far beyond the reach of your candlelight. The sound of your footsteps echoes strangely. There are many stalactites and stalagmites, some of which have joined to form delicate pillars, others just hang like creamy icicles in the still, crisp air. Frozen rivers of snow-white rock spill down from the ceiling beside a dark fissure that spits the southern wall. Occasionally you see fireflies dancing and darting between the columns of pale stone. You are aware of the immense mass of the ancient mountains above.\nOpenings lead north and south.\nYou can see a huge Troll with a club here."}, {"prompt": "You open the plain door", "response": "You open the plain door."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain.\nSilvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain.\nEast and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta above.\nSilvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain.\nWhat's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was it?\nSilvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain.\nSilvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You set off to the west, and after a brisk walk up the slope you find yourself on the eastern outskirts of the town.\nPressed in between a rough stone wall to the north and a small shop to the south this short, narrow street runs east back towards the coast and west towards the centre of town."}, {"prompt": "You disable alarm", "response": "You haven't had much call to disable security alarms, but this one is of very basic design and it doesn't more than a minute or two to figure it out.\nAll done. One security alarm that will never cause you trouble again."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "You find yourself in the balcony. You look down over the railing to the North, and see the entire audience and stage apron area. There is no one in sight and no sign of any activity. Looking around, you see a staircase to the West and a small storage closet to the East with a switch just inside the door.\nYour seat (THEATER seat, that is) has folded into the upright\nposition\nA wad of chewing gum is stuck to the bottom of the seat.\nYou see an old, weathered piece of paper beneath the seat."}, {"prompt": "You look at the teeth", "response": "Jammed together into a carnivorous vertical jigsaw, festering with mold, yellow with plaque. A bloody socket gapes in the gumline."}, {"prompt": "You give Frazer to the librarian", "response": "Wordlessly the librarian takes the tome from you and spirits it back to the shadowy depths of the reserved stacks."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You head east on Second Street...\nThe north part of the campus is deceptively pleasant, with nWare Media buildings scattered about. Specifically, F2 is to the northeast.\nA bald man runs screaming past you, pants on fire, pursued by a man without pants whose hair is on fire. They disappear around a corner."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "You turn the pages and check the next article:\nYesterday the Backwater Police inaugurated a police car determined to support urgent operations. The Chevrolet 490 Touring is a generous donation from Mr. Humphrey Littlewit, founder and owner of the Littlewit East Indian Trading Company, who said the car is supposed to make Backwater's streets safer by giving the police means that were common in cities like Boston or Providence. Chief of police Mr. Jervas Hyde is quoted saying \"Finally Backwater Police closes the gap on bigger neighbouring cities regarding prompt presence at the place of action. This is the first emergency vehicle the Backwater Police has at its disposal, and the police and the citizens of Backwater are very grateful to Mr. Humphrey Littlewit for this generous donation.\" An accompanying picture shows the Chief of police looking up to the industrialist holding his speech while looking into the camera."}, {"prompt": "Wear the bag", "response": "You put on the shoulder-bag."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "With a touch of the joystick the helicopter thunders through the sky...\nHigh Over The City (in the helicopter)\nThe endless city of Tokyo stretches out below. To the south a monstrous chicken is casually tearing the city to pieces."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "The key is of gold, with eight small teeth."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coolbox", "response": "That's already open.\n>The label says: \"Please close the coolbox as fast as possible after opening to optimalise the instant cooling effect and avoid freezing to death everyone in the presence of the box.\"\nYou can't see inside, since the coolbox is closed."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about Jessie", "response": "As you start to speak, Luisa scowls at you irritably. \"Why don't you go outside and play?\"\nLuisa snuffles and wipes her eyes. \"I don't want to talk about that,\" she says hoarsely."}, {"prompt": "Offer", "response": "I touch Wetherby's shoulder. \"I'll see that a constable is assigned to protect you, but we shall have apprehended this man shortly.\"\nWetherby seems reassured. \"Thank you.\"\nI check that my hat is on my head. \"Now, where might we find this Davenport?\"\n\"I don't know,\" Wetherby says. \"But I suspect that it will be nowhere civilised. He was Saul's mirror opposite in many ways, and he loathed even the least luxury.\"\nI find myself smiling. \"I know just where to find him. Ivy, we'll LEAVE for there immediately.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the bust", "response": "a small lantern (providing light)\na backpack (being worn and open)\na skull\na zorkmid\na spider fang\nYou already have that."}, {"prompt": "Attack script", "response": "You take out your playscript and tear it in half. Who wrote these scenes? They make no sense. You won't perform this dreck. Instead you toss the script into the wind and its sheets blow across the garden.\n\"What are you doing?\" says the countess. \"Come back here!\"\nYou don't come back. You're walking away from this production. They can find someone else to play your role if the duel is that important because, frankly, you don't understand a thing.\nYou didn't know what you were getting into, but you didn't know it would be this. It almost feels like there's a conspiracy against you. Well, of course there is: you're supposed to be killed, after\nall.\nThat's not going to happen. Not if you don't say your lines. Not if you don't play along.\nLet them boo and complain. Let them throw rotten fruit. Let them fill the newspapers with scathing reviews. Let them call you a prima donna.\nYou are going to live. That's what counts."}, {"prompt": "You examine the handles", "response": "Massive and shaped from solid brass, they are sculpted into the shape of a lion's head.\nYour throat feels as though it were on fire, so desperate is your need to find something to drink."}, {"prompt": "You take the torch", "response": "You invoke the heat icon, and the environment transforms into a new form.\nYou stand in a long, low hall of smoke-darkened timbers. The floor is earth, benches line the walls, and you are washed by heat from the blazing fire-pit that runs the hall's entire length.\nAt the south end the hall rises, and an enormous wooden chest stands on an earthen mound. The chest is open and empty.\nThe cube that is your workspace rests nearby. Inside it bounce five icons.\nA torch is lying on the ground, burning unsteadily.\nThe old tree has been uprooted; it lies dead on the west side of the hall. Its leaves have fallen into a yellow heap, drifted around the bare branches.\nThe workspace vibrates to the icons' sharp movements.\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You put the scroll in the hourglass", "response": "You put the vellum scroll into the contraption; predictably, it squinches down, passes through the narrow neck, and emerges from the other end larger than it was when it went in."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-east", "response": "Malign Tunnel (Damon L. Wakes)\nThe space beneath the boiler room is damp and narrow, little more than a dogleg corridor set into the earth. Something about its shape, its proportions, is deeply unsettling to you. There is a rusting iron ladder leading to the floor above, and a green door leading to the southwest, its paint flaking onto the uneven stone floor. The curving brick walls on either side of you arc gracefully inwards to form a vaulted ceiling. You would be able to stand comfortably were it not for the pipes that stretch like tendons above your head.\nA ghostly trolley stop sign reads Black Line -- Underground."}, {"prompt": "You look at Jenny", "response": "A lettucehead like hers would break the widest wheelbarrow and command every ribbon at the fair. Put away your spades and seedling dreams, farmhands; you're through. Pearl onions at her maize earlobes. Ripe cherry cheeks. Jenny, let's see your carrot jaws. A rather sharkish smile, hasn't she? Quell your concerns and count your blessings she's no predator. Soil's her standard fare, the richer, fouler the better. After a battle, when the land's imbued with rot, flowers still bloom."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "You climb the stairs a bit, and end up...\nThe strains of punk rock emanate from the door to your west, the entrance to the SEAS Cafe. A bulletin board nearby is covered in flyers, posted by people who share the quixotic goal of making engineering students think about something other than classes and projects. A hallway to your east leads into the South Campus quad, and stairs lead down."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A flight of stairs leads upwards. The corner turns from south to west.\nThis section contains accounting offices.\nA clump of people hurries past."}, {"prompt": "You examine the whetstone", "response": "A dark grey, smooth whetstone, great for sharpening any cutting implements.\nThe old-timers squabble over the time Virgil Thursley had a warrant issued for adulterating maple syrup and died in a shoot-out near Bear Flats."}, {"prompt": "You open the bag", "response": "You open the black bag.\nInside you see a knife, a pistol, a brown bottle and a blue bottle."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "Oasis, Water Site\nOasis, Excavation Site\nI sensed strong undercurrents from that place the humans were\nexcavating."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The monkey follows you.\nThe stone tunnel turns from the north to the west here.\nThe monkey is still with you."}, {"prompt": "You turn the chalkboard", "response": "(the chalkboard)\nIt is fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "Lasso flippers", "response": "(with the rope)\nI don't know how to lasso the pair of flippers."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The flowery lane soon degenerates into  a dank track through  a series of foul-smelling bogs as you move westward. But it's always been this way, and the solitude can sometimes be a comfort.\nYou can continue westwards deeper into the swamp, or return to the village eastwards.\nYou can see Giles here."}, {"prompt": "You ask beverly about the bra", "response": "\"Oh dear, Beverly,\" you say, glancing at her chest, \"you're not going to let your surgeon get away with that, are you?\"\nShe says nothing but shifts her bra again.\nBeverly smacks a ball across the court."}, {"prompt": "You examine the saurian", "response": "Razor sharp teeth, hungry eyes and green-scaled skin that's stretched taut over his muscles.\nHe stares back at you. \"What are you looking at, chimp?\"\nThe guard draws his shock stick. \"Break it up you three. This isn't a social club.\"\nYour two new friends walk away laughing, the saurian pausing to thump you on the back. \"We'll catch you for a bite later, hey pal?\""}, {"prompt": "Light lantern", "response": "You light the lantern. You can now explore places that are shrouded in darkness."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pink paper", "response": "A small square of pink notepaper, folded twice, and scrumpled: it's been through the wash; this is one bit of paper you empathise with. Written on it is:"}, {"prompt": "You look at matches", "response": "A label on the side reads, \"Water-resistant matches. Strike on cover.\" There are five matches left.\nYou pointedly look the other way as the orderly takes another tweak at the pimple on his neck.\nAiry strains of vacuous elevator music waft through the room from invisible speakers."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You walk into the future...\nNo one deliberately goes to a parking lot for itself. A parking lot isn't a destination. It's an in-between place between where you were and where you're going. Which would be west and east, respectively."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "Blooming with color and fragrance, a tidy garden snuggles against the stone cottage to the south. Ivy frames the whitewashed front door; starched white curtains hang in a diamond-paned window. A faint path forks southeast and southwest around the cottage, toward the back. To the north, across the lane that runs through the village, a few small cottages line the road. The clock tower looms further west, silhouetted against the sky."}, {"prompt": "Cylinder", "response": "You have now got the travel pass.\nYou are carrying too much already to get the cylinder."}, {"prompt": "You ask the wade about the ticket", "response": "\"I think you have to give that to the snack attendant,\" says the gate guard."}, {"prompt": "You examine man", "response": "The figure is nearly not there -- like shadows at the edge of your sight, or a dream of blindness. It crawls away from your vision; your eyes feel thick and strained."}, {"prompt": "Open glove", "response": "You pull open the compartment, and it catches again.\nSunlight gleams through the windshield."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is scarred with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still flashes of its historic charm.\nThis alley, however, has no time for charm. It ends in flat bare dirty brick, and a door which lacks even the courtesy of a handle. Not that you'll wait on courtesy.\nIt's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (You're sure the police are as efficient about litter laws as about everything else they do.) You can retreat to the south.\nA plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's firmly shut."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Nina", "response": "It's clearly pointless to even try talking to Aunt Nina right now.\nAunt Nina walks over to the transfer chamber and starts typing on the attached keyboard, double-checking the programming of its internal equipment. \"The bacteria actually live in tiny pockets of brine inside the crystals, so we'll extract that fluid and add some nutrients to see what grows. I think they've been able to survive this long because they were in a spore state, essentially shut down. But preliminary testing indicates that once these bacteria leave the spore state, they may be able to multiply astonishingly quickly.\""}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You descend via the square hole.\nThis is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall.\nA beam of light enters the room through the window and makes a bright spot on the right wall."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A wall, covered in monitors. A table, unfurnished except for some lined square buttons in the middle and a lonely terminal, sitting on a corner. This is a sightseeing tour over the detention center."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Running north-to-south, this is Church Lane. The backside of the library is to the west, and pine trees flank the east. The air is still and the town feels emptier than ever."}, {"prompt": "You plug in the camera", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Sensa.\nSENSA: I've plugged it in. Electricity flows and RF transmissions begin.\nIRIS INTERRUPT: Receiving transmissions."}, {"prompt": "You examine the native village", "response": "Too small for you to see without help."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "(first opening the bathroom door)\nThe bathroom is barely big enough to turn around in. There's a narrow shower stall, a minuscule, rust-stained sink above which is a cracked, flyspecked mirror, and a commode. The towels stacked on the rack are thin, frayed at the edges, and probably none too clean. A tiny window provides a very little air.\nThe door leads westward."}, {"prompt": "You show Carr to the Aunt", "response": "Triumphantly you hold up the copy of The Four False Weapons. Aunt Caroline's squinty eyes widen, and she practically tears the book from your hands. \"Let me see that. It can't be. No, it is. You say you got this in the house? And there are more like it?\"\nYou nod.\nWithout another word, Aunt Caroline makes a beeline for the door of the cabin. But then, struck by a thought, she turns back. She slips into the bathroom for a moment and emerges holding something, pressing it tight against her as if it were a baby. Hiding whatever it is from you with her body, she sidles into the closet. You hear a clicking noise. A moment later she emerges from the closet and strides out the door."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nSpear\nUseful Rock\nBone\nPurple Paste\nWhite Bark (with a picture of Feverleaf)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the chair", "response": "(the desk chair)\nA modern rolling chair that matches the desk."}, {"prompt": "You close the south door", "response": "You close the grey-blue door leading south. As you do so, you hear from the room beyond it a peculiar screech and crashing noise, as though wood and metal had strained and then given way."}, {"prompt": "You look in trunk", "response": "The old metal trunk is empty."}, {"prompt": "You look at the wheelbarrow", "response": "A battered metal wheelbarrow. Or at least, it used to be when it still had a front wheel. With only a twisted axle remaining, I guess now it's just a \"barrow\". It is full of glistening black soil."}, {"prompt": "You drop the mead", "response": "You set the bottle of mead down gently."}, {"prompt": "Rec", "response": "Recordings:\nCome - \"Come here right now!\"\nYuck - \"Don't eat that!\"\nRepeat - \"Let's try one more time! We can do it!\""}, {"prompt": "P kimpert", "response": "The kimpert seems to un-sag slightly, as if someone had pumped a little air into it.\nThe scale's pointer moves to one. You hear a ding from the scale."}, {"prompt": "Dune", "response": "Threediopolis, Sector 344\nThreediopolis, Sector 444\nThreediopolis, Sector 454\nThreediopolis, Sector 455"}, {"prompt": "You take Blue with the net", "response": "What do you want to catch the blue mome rath with?\n(first taking the net attachment)\nYou remove the net attachment from the pole."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I'm on it, Doctor.\"\nShe nods and presses the bundle of documentation into your hands. \"Remember: first, deliver the documents to the basilica; second, look for Zoiro in Riggertown. Report back to me when you're done.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Big Street, Center\nBig Street is as big here as it is further to the south, although people have set up stalls in the middle, so it's more crowded. Mel's is to the east. We might be able to find something useful there. The financial district is farther north."}, {"prompt": "You read the analysis of the Evil", "response": "You thumb through the book looking for anything of interest, and find the following:\n\"Many myths and tales attribute various strengths and weaknesses to such evils - from the ability to turn to mist, to a variety of apotropaics thought to ward them away. In particular, the powers of evil are said to wane considerably during the daylight hours, although the notion that sunlight should result in the combustion of the demon is recent and apocryphal.\n\"Most reliable sources agree on the effectiveness of silver as anathema to evil. Those advocating iron instead are surely victim to ecumenical confusion between those that are Evil and those that are merely of the Other.\""}, {"prompt": "Onions", "response": "screwdriver: Taken.\nwooden bucket: Taken.\nburlap sack: Taken.\nsketchbook: Taken.\nfire tongs: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You take the album", "response": "You pick up the family album. It's a slim, hardbound volume in dark leather, unadorned except for name \"Verlac\" embossed on the front. Glancing at the title page, you notice two details: one, the book was self-published; and two, it was published in 1944. So it's a good bet that Edward Verlac and his family aren't mentioned here."}, {"prompt": "You put the pendant in the sp", "response": "(the broken silver amulet (smelling faintly of mildew) in the side pocket)\nYou unzip the side pocket, deposit the broken silver amulet (smelling faintly of mildew), then zip the side pocket back up again."}, {"prompt": "You look at the plate", "response": "This photographic plate has a simple paper label affixed, reading \"MAY 1\" in handwritten letters. To your naked eye, it seems to be an over-exposed field of white."}, {"prompt": "You get the crowbar", "response": "You've already got your hands full."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na letter\na Battlebase episode guide\na plastic supermarket bag\na small brass key\na wedding programme"}, {"prompt": "You look at the letter", "response": "I could see the letter, but Leah was not holding it in such a way that I could\nread it.\nThere was something extraordinary about the letter."}, {"prompt": "You search the locker", "response": "In the locker is a blanket."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Wasteland (By the Circle of Stones)\nThis is the southeastern corner of the field of despair. The forbidden forest is nearly all around her. West, northwest, and north takes her out. The ground sinks into a large hole, a bowl more than fifty paces across, in the ground, edged by crevices and uneven ridges. A broken land. Once at the bottom, the rest of the field is out of sight.\nA big round stone lies in the middle of the pit. The fire is gone.\nA stone circle is laid out on the ground.\nThe sleepwalker stirs up a cloud of dust and dirt as it follows Lornedei."}, {"prompt": "You hit the fish with the handle", "response": "The swordfish easily evades the short handle and gives you a cut to the arm to remember it by.\n[ Your Stamina: 7     Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "You smell bud", "response": "It smells of tobacco, not surprising considering it spent the last six years tucked away in a cigar box.\nA wave crashes against the rocks below sending a shower of spray up high into the air."}, {"prompt": "You examine letter opener", "response": "An ivory-handled letter opener."}, {"prompt": "You eat the croquettes", "response": "\"I wouldn't,\" says Dame Demitasse, steaming slightly hotter.\nDame Demitasse swallows the choriqueso and drops the platter."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "The squirrelly thug blocks your way in that direction. He seems to be waiting for you to approach."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "You climb back up the long, dark staircase.\nThe heart of Santaland and the destination of families from miles around. It's not your destination, of course, but that doesn't change the fact that parents and children have for years made pilgrimages to this spot to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus.\nSanta's big comfy chair  is tipped back, revealing the hidden staircase underneath. The stairs lead down into darkness.\nNext to Santa's chair is a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There are no presents beneath the tree, perhaps to better display the colorful decorative tree skirt underneath which was, until recently, spread out beneath it."}, {"prompt": "You eat venusian", "response": "(first taking Venusian warrior woman)\nThat's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There's really not much to the local train station; just a roofed platform and a long bench. The only exit is back west.\nYou can see a short stranger here.\nYou can hear the train approaching. It will be here in a moment if you wait."}, {"prompt": "You take the red worm", "response": "If you insist.\nLornedei is muttering to herself."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This is what appears to have been the maintenance room for Flood Control Dam #3. Apparently, this room has been ransacked recently, for most of the valuable equipment is gone. On the wall in front of you is a group of buttons colored blue, yellow, brown, and red. There are doorways to the west and south.\nThe water level here is now up to your knees."}, {"prompt": "Harvest", "response": "[What do you want to harvest?]"}, {"prompt": "Hi", "response": "The faeries do not notice you.\nFrom the house you hear, \"Terry! TERRY!\"\nYour father. He's found your open window."}, {"prompt": "You touch calibration", "response": "You touch your fingertip gently against the calibration stud and focus your mind to concentrate your energies through it.\nNothing appears to happen, but that is hardly surprising, since it can't be calibrated without a simultaneous electromagnetic stimulus."}, {"prompt": "You look at the beams", "response": "The beams are holding up the uneven dirt roof of the tunnel."}, {"prompt": "You show the faculty card to chuck", "response": "(first taking the faculty card)\n(slipping the animal's skull into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nHe glances at the faculty card without anything remotely resembling interest, and returns to his magazine without a word."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A HUNGRY man (and woman) eating plant is creeping toward you."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dog", "response": "The dog has a shiny black coat, and displays the abundant energy of a hungry hunting dog."}, {"prompt": "Link the bottle of the mead to well", "response": "Bending your will, you form the link between the bottle of mead and the well."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "grimoire: Dropped.\nbible: Dropped.\njournal page: Dropped.\nbismuth crystal: Dropped.\nmetopticon: Dropped.\nchest: Dropped.\niron key: Dropped.\nearthenware jug: Dropped.\nwooden bow: Dropped.\nbowtie: Dropped.\ntop hat: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You walk over to the water and study your reflection. The river is wide and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost perfect mirror.\nRather than the face you were expecting --- a battered one, but human --- you instead see a furry snout with bulbous eyes on each side and a wide mouth.\nYou recognise it from the survey report: the temporary name tagged on the creature is rabbit, for fairly obvious reasons. Numbly,\nyou find yourself interested that you're finally seeing one up close.\nIt's definitely you. Now you're actually noticing, it's\nperfectly apparent that the body you're inhabiting is not your own. The fact that it feels totally natural is strangely unnerving.\nBut that still doesn't explain how, or why, although you can make a decent guess at where."}, {"prompt": "You eat the rotting pumpkin", "response": "That's plainly inedible."}, {"prompt": "You pull the black", "response": "You pull the long black cord and the red parachute begins to open.\nYour body jerks back and you lose your grip on Joe. His body slips through your hands and you helplessly watch his body fall toward Earth.\nMeanwhile, your descent toward Earth slows down tremendously."}, {"prompt": "You open the box", "response": "Opening the cardboard box reveals a clock.\nIt seems that the clock contains a winding key.\nThe clock continues sounding out a steady \"Tick... tick... tick.\""}, {"prompt": "You get the eyes", "response": "Those seem to be a part of the serpent's head.\nYou shiver under the onslaught of raindrops that blast your skull like tiny bullets."}, {"prompt": "You take the opener", "response": "(slipping the umbrella into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou pick up the letter opener. It's a rather ornate thing, with a silver hilt and a slim, sharp tip."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a keg of ale, a spoon, a bag of coins, an envelope (which is open), inside which is some powder, a pawnshop key, and a brass lamp (providing light)."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "The south wall of the church looms blankly overhead.\nSatisfied, the dog wanders off back to the Front of the Church."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Nice sandy beach. Shame you don't have time to just sit down and enjoy it.\nYou can see Kari here.\nKari scans the horizon."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You head south on Eel...\nThe Gap gapes on the northeast corner. A place called \"Ice Planet\" is southeast. To the southwest is a convenience store, ShopLite. The cheerful block of the nTopia Hospital occupies the remaining corner, to the northwest.\nYou think you catch a glimpse of someone down the street leaping out a window and deploying a parachute, but a second glance finds nothing out of the ordinary going on."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "I was carrying:\na pair of boots (being worn)\na pair of jeans (being worn)\na t-shirt (being worn)\na brass key"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This is the part of the loveseat that is to the north. It goes on to the south and you could totally slip around the end of the loveseat to the west. There is the rocking chair to the east as well, that is always fun.\nShoved half-under the loveseat is a remote control.\nThose are Parry's feet dangling from the loveseat."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "meticulously cut into a network of crisscrossing channels. Presumably the effect is disorienting to humans, but I have no trouble making out the open area to the north, nestled in the center of the maze. The gravel pathways snake around it, warm in the heavy evening air.\nThe rest of the casino grounds lie to the south."}, {"prompt": "You look at the man", "response": "The under-gardener, Harry Boyle, is a small, wiry man of indeterminate age. His sunburned face wears an expression of weary resignation, befitting a man who has been tasked with trimming a hedge that has already been trimmed to within an inch of its life. The true reason for his being stationed here, you suspect, is to guard the entrance to the kitchen garden."}, {"prompt": "You examine jar", "response": "Looks the cap was loose or there was a leak somewhere. Some of the oil has clearly soaked through the label."}, {"prompt": "You put the dress in the sack", "response": "Better not. It would get wrinkled, and then Aunt Caroline would be mad."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the torchlight", "response": "In the gloom of the Quarantine Room, the beam of the torchlight was much clearer, and for the first time I saw why the Kampong Slasher was carrying this.\nIn the puddle of light was the sigil of near sight, the most dangerous sigil of all, for it whispered sweetly of violence in darkness -- and this was the only place in the station in which it was dark enough to do that.\nThere was a monstrous knocking at the outside of the Station: more a booming than knocking. I sensed that the sound was coming from the lobby."}, {"prompt": "You jump off the Pier", "response": "The old man watches with flinty eyes as you set the brick on the railing and then climb over, coming to rest on the outside of the railing with your heels hanging over open air. Suddenly, you realize you won't be able to turn around while carrying the brick. You swallow and resign yourself to going off backwards. A trembling spasm flits through your calves as you raise the brick. You count three, take a deep breath, and... jump! You fall fast and hit the water, hard, with your face, throwing spray everywhere. The weight of the brick drags you down fast, faster. You fall down and down alongside an enormous dropping slope, and the water turns cold around you while the pressure pierces your ears with shards of glass. You throw back your head and howl in pain, losing most of your air in a glittering swarm of bubbles, and still you fall into darkness. But below you is a speck of light, and even as you fall from the sunlight, this new light gives you hope. It grows as the sun diminishes, and though it gives off no warmth, it cheers you slightly. The barbed pain in your ears subsides. You fall further and further, and finally, you hit bottom with a dull thud that raises a cloud of mud. When the mud clears you find you've somehow lost track of the brick.\nUnderwater, (drifting)\nYou're at the bottom of a long, precipitous slope. The cold and pressure are intense. Judging by the dim light, you must be many fathoms below the surface. It's astonishing that you made it this deep without any diving equipment. An enticing beam of light in these frigid, sub-arctic depths has resolved into... the huge staring eye of an enormous octopus!\nYour lungs are almost empty of air after your long descent. You can already feel burning tendrils of pain spreading through your chest."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You are in Cornelia Hogg's sumptuous private observation car. The room is dim now with the shades drawn, and the floor is covered in vivid chartreuse carpeting. A door to the south leads to freedom, once you're finished here.\nBeatrice bustles in and out of the room constantly, keeping everything tidy and giving you frequent sidelong glances.\nHogg's pet parrot Horus is clinging to his perch, his box of crackers nearby.\nCornelia Hogg is poring over her papers, mumbling and making minor adjustments.\nThe train passes under a tunnel, plunging the room into darkness.\nIt is now pitch dark in here!"}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, because there is no space for breathing here."}, {"prompt": "You play okarina", "response": "(play ocarina)\nYou tootle a few sour notes on the ocarina. The garage door and the windowboth shimmer pleasantly for a moment, as if a rainbow of light is passing across them."}, {"prompt": "You put Bread in the display case", "response": "You put the loaf of wheat bread into the display case.\nThe white robed citizen arrives from the north.\n\"A loaf of wheat bread, please!\" requests the white robed citizen.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery."}, {"prompt": "Chase pia south", "response": "You rush after Pia, jumping back and spreading your arms whenever she tries to get around you. By doing this a few times, you manage to get her to run south, and you follow her.\nYou're in a part of the park that gets less sun because the trees make a web of dark overhead.\nPaths go north and south to less shady places.\nThere's a big puddle of mud here.\nPia skids to a halt.\nThe big girl is here, leaning on a tree and counting aloud.\n\"One hundred and thirteen,\" says the big girl."}, {"prompt": "M love", "response": "Nikhil considers love for a second.\n\"Every girl is in love with the idea of love. I would say most men are too.\""}, {"prompt": "Sorry", "response": "Oh, don't apologise.\nNo, you listen to me. I'm tired of this."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "You descend the staircase.\nDown here the air is cool and dry and still. Along the walls are stacked the castle's butts, rack upon rack, enormous barrels corked to keep fine beverages in store. The greatest barrel's big enough to contain a hundred smaller.\nUpward a staircase runs to the kitchen."}, {"prompt": "You examine spacesuit", "response": "Your spacesuit, custom-made to fit someone your size, is much less cumbersome and bulky than the spacesuits of the past; this one is actually quite stylish. It says \"W. MACKAYE\" on the front."}, {"prompt": "Drop box", "response": "You place the upside-down orange box carefully on the floor."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"See you around sweetheart.\"\n\"Oh I'm sure you will, Sam. At least I certainly hope so.\"\nGinger flashes a brilliant smile at a portly man who is old enough to be her father. It looks like he'll go home happy."}, {"prompt": "You examine the plant", "response": "This plant is your one claim to actual responsibility. The spider\nplant sits by the window, soaking up sunlight (when it's not night)\nand managing to thrive despite your lack of gardening skill. Although it looks very dry."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cord", "response": "A white rubber cord connected to the fan on one side and a hole in the wall on the other."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Maya", "response": "You finally manage a smile. \"Okay, I guess you can take a look! It's only rough, though.\"\nMaya grins and doesn't hesitate to pick up the piece of paper. You watch her as she reads it. The smile doesn't fade from her face, even when she's finished.\n\"You're really good at drawing!\" she says. \"I wish the headteacher actually had a cat.\"\nHer words fill you with warmth, and any nervousness you had is forgotten. Instead, you hear yourself laugh. \"Me too,\" you reply.\n\"You should put, like, aliens or something in. Why make a\nsuperhero comic and just set it at school?\"\n\"I wanted to have everything realistic, so the notebook seems more special.\"\nMaya tilts her head. \"But that's boooring.\" She says it jokingly, and you find yourself laughing again.\n\"Okay, okay, how about you come up with the next story, and I'll draw it?\"\nIt's the start of a long friendship.\nYou and Maya drew countless comics together, aliens and all. Inevitably, some of Maya's careless confidence rubbed off on you, and through spending your school years by her side, you realised that speaking up for yourself didn't feel as overwhelming as it had before. Maybe your comic self had a magic notebook, but the real you was good too.\n(You have learned the lesson of CONFIDENCE. To remind yourself of\nthis lesson, REMEMBER CONFIDENCE - this will allow you to apply this lesson to your next action. To check which lessons you have learned, REMEMBER LESSONS.)\nOn the right side of the room is your bed - or rather, bedframe, since the mattress is gone. Next to the end where the pillow would have been, there's a little bedside table. A wooden wardrobe sits in the far left corner. Beside it, there's a low chest of drawers. There's a window on the wall opposite the door, looking out onto the street. The light switch is on the wall next to the door, whilst the wall above the bed is covered in old blu-tac stains."}, {"prompt": "You hit the dome with the mace", "response": "One good whack with the miniature mace and the dome cracks open and falls apart in a dozen or so curved shards. I could get used to the smashing-things method of eating. Suits me."}, {"prompt": "You ask the shopkeeper about egg", "response": "\"Eggs are a reminder of the promise of new life ahead.\""}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.\nThe old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked inside the molehill."}, {"prompt": "You link ornate to the sword", "response": "Bending your will, you form the link between the ornate key and the sword.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "This simple unfurnished space leads from the tower Napier\nappropriated\nfor his own use through the servant rooms to the more comfortable sections intended for the family. Steps lead back up to Napier's rooms, and an arched doorway leads east to the rest of the castle.\nYou can see a maid and a large black bird here."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You enter the South Aisle of the Nave. In the gloom, you bump into one of the tombs. There is an exit to the southeast and a door set into the south wall.\nYour friend drifts in after you, apparently lost in thought.\nIn the distance, you hear Big Ben strike the hour."}, {"prompt": "You take the hands", "response": "You can't have those; they're part of the grandfather clock."}, {"prompt": "You think about the perfume", "response": "Does she just wear this around the house?"}, {"prompt": "You read the word", "response": "\"EXIT\""}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "A narrow side yard with a high solid fence on the north side and a few straggly decorative plants. The yard extends east behind the house and west to the front of the house.\nThe Reserve Bank Spacescraper is visible in the distance, rising over the low skyline.\nYou can go east and west to Front Path from here.\nThere is a Public Surveillance Notice here."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The orc slashes you with its axe. You stab with your sword and cut its arm.\n(You lose 5 hit points.)"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "To the east, icicles hang like fangs within a giant maw of snow. A large pair of matching tracks lead out of shadows of the snowy mouth and to the west. A path loops north and south.\nA rotting log lies half-exposed in the snow.\nYour Rival arrives from the Rival's Wood."}, {"prompt": "You examine the handkerchief", "response": "It's just one of your handkerchiefs."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Knowing the boys are likely to make fun of anything you say, you just turn and walk away without saying goodbye. As you walk away, you hear the boys snickering about something.\nThe narrow, potholed ribbon of blacktop runs east and west between thorny thickets to the north and south. A narrow gap in the shrubbery to the south might be wide enough for you to squeeze through."}, {"prompt": "You ask Pop about the aliens", "response": "\"A little curious about your 'hosts', eh? Well, it seems to me they're a pretty friendly bunch, but that they can't figure out how we think. I think all this abduction nonsense is designed to get us where they can figure us out. They've got more of a hive mind, if you know what I mean.\"\nClick."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Please?\" \"No.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the fish", "response": "This is an Eastern Spotted Shortfin. They're fairly plentiful in the bay. I find their meat a little spongy for my taste, but any fish is a a good fish."}, {"prompt": "TAKE CAPE, HELMET, STAFF", "response": "golden cape: Your hands are too full to hold the golden cape.\ngolden helmet: Your hands are too full to hold the golden helmet.\nwooden staff: Your hands are too full to hold the wooden staff."}, {"prompt": "You put the rat in the teapot", "response": "You put the rat corpse into the hinge-lidded teapot."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Furnished with a long countertop and the equipment of an apothecary; sketches from physicians; anatomical drawings of creatures similar to the Beast, bears and lions being especially prominent; also poison reference books, primarily the work of Italian and (earlier) Persian experts. The room has an unused air, and you do not remember ever coming in before, or seeing the Beast go in. It must have been a hobby that interested him before your arrival.\nRoses from the garden below have crept up to grow around the north window, lending a sickly smell to the place."}, {"prompt": "You examine the glass door", "response": "The glass door in the front of the clock protects the pendulum."}, {"prompt": "Exit", "response": "\"Okay, I've squeezed back out..\"\n\"... is the central hub of the ship. Let's see; there's the hatch leading back up the bridge and a couple of other doors around the ring.. a lot sealed off; bulkheads down.. .. couple of bodies floating slightly, red blood.. passages, blocked up leading off into .. marked 'store room' on the door, pretty solid.. and a ladder down, and some debris opposite .. squeeze past, I don't know, I could try to squeeze past it, I think there's...\"\n\"Oh no, I don't believe it! The damn gun.. it oh sh.. ie! ...firing at us! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!!\""}, {"prompt": "You give it to the clown", "response": "\"Hello again,\" you venture.\n\"Hello again yourself,\" the clown replies. \"I was wondering if you'd come back.\"\nYou gesture at the skeleton. \"Do you think these bones are what you need?\"\nThe clown inspects the skeleton gravely. \"I do believe they'll serve. Where did you - no, don't tell me. I don't want to know. Whoever these belonged to doesn't need them anymore, that's all that matters.\"\nHe picks up the skeleton. First he clasps it to him, so that it looks as if he's planning to dance with it. (The music is still oom-pahing away in the background.)  But then he ... it's hard to say exactly what he does with the skeleton. It looks a bit like putting on a pair of pajamas, except sort of inside out. It's as if the pajamas were putting on the person, somehow. First he steps on the skeleton's feet, and somehow the feet are inside his, and then the legs, and then the rest. In a moment the skeleton is entirely gone.\nThe clown jumps up in the air and clicks his heels together. \"Oh, I feel wonderful! So much more solid! You've done it - you've brought me everything I need to be a real person. I never doubted you for a moment, you know. I knew you'd do it.\" The clown digs down into one of the capacious pockets in his baggy trousers, produces the gold coin, and solemnly hands it to you. \"You see? I've kept my end of the bargain, haven't I? Spend it wisely, young lady. Now, if you'll forgive me, I really must be going. I've so much to see!\n\"Perhaps we'll meet again someday,\" he adds. \"I'd like that. I do hope you'll stay safe until then. The world - what little of it I've seen so far, which is very little indeed - seems quite full of dreadful dangers. I do hope you'll be very careful! Farewell, then.\"\nThe clown bows to you, and then turns and walks away with a kind of proud, sauntering stride, the spangly tails of the coat swaying behind him. As he goes, the blobs of color swirling around you begin to dissolve. In a few moments you're back in the upstairs bedroom - and the wall where the clown was painted is blank!\nYou rush to the window and look out. A figure is just ducking out of sight around the corner of the house - a figure with red hair and a coat that seems to shimmer in the sun. He turns and waves, and then he's gone.\nThis room has been mostly stripped of furniture. The wood floor is bare, the window uncurtained. A bulky, old-fashioned cradle stands in the center of the room. A metal heating grate is built into the baseboard in the west wall, and there's a small square table in the northeast corner, on which stands an old-fashioned model merry-go-round.\nYou see a straw mat here.\nThe merry-go-round continues tinkling its wistful little tune."}, {"prompt": "You get the cattail", "response": "The cattail is entirely too heavy for that."}, {"prompt": "You remove the candles", "response": "(first taking the lamps)\nThey are built into the walls."}, {"prompt": "You wear the shades", "response": "The mirror shades filter the brightness of day perfectly, removing your squint and making it easier to smile. Careful wearing them indoors though.\nYou put on the pair of mirror shades.\nStrawberry is curled up and napping in the corner."}, {"prompt": "You examine Emma", "response": "Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it, means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun. You know she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously."}, {"prompt": "You look at the box", "response": "In the box are a razor, a cardboard tube, a key and a wedding ring."}, {"prompt": "You look at the roses", "response": "(the roses)\nMore thorns than the usual, and fewer blooms, or so it seems to your eye."}, {"prompt": "You look at it", "response": "This small box is made of exquisitely crafted teak wood, with a highly\npolished surface. It is closed."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "The forecastle of the boat is surprisingly comfortable despite its small size. The helm controls, including the wheel, are mounted on the fore wall, next to a chest-of-drawers which sports a lamp. Across from the chest and beside the west entrance is the galley; between the galley and the helm is a companionway to the fore stateroom. Also on the port wall, aft of the entrance, is a small bar. Across from it is a dinette bench. Windows are at each of the cardinal directions. The west entranceway is open, as is the companionway to the north.\nSitting on the small bar is a drink tray.\nAshleigh is here, standing pensively.\nBill is slumped in the dinette bench.\nBill hands Ash's purse to her. \"Here,\" he says, \"you dropped this.\"\nAshleigh turns an odd shade of red: you can't tell if she's embarassed, mad, or worried. \"Thanks,\" she finally says."}, {"prompt": "You think", "response": "You think you can develop your friendship with Xochi more.\nVisiting the 24-hour restaurant seems like a good idea.\nVisiting the Willy street food co-op seems worth doing.\nChecking out Lady Wisdom's coffeeshop is on your mind.\nYou'd like to wander around to visit new places."}, {"prompt": "You look at Bridge", "response": "The body of the bridge is formed of some offensive metamorphic stone; as if marble had been tainted by the presence of an abominable fungus that, aeons ago, had been subsumed into its surface. You are currently balancing on a walkway of calcareous slats."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pot", "response": "The pot is big and looks like pewter. We've both been baffled at how heavy it is. I wonder if the business school professor had the cactus specially repotted before he left just to make it more expensive for Madison to dispose of."}, {"prompt": "You get the head", "response": "Your body picks up your head. Certainly one of the stranger sensations in life."}, {"prompt": "You know STA", "response": "pi: 3.14159  x.xxxxx\ne: 2.71828  x.xxxxx\nsqrt(2): 1.41421  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(3): 1.73205  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(5): 2.23606  x.xxxxx\nphi: 1.61803  1.xxxxx\nln(2): 0.69314  x.xxxxx\nzeta(2): 1.64493  1.xxxxx\nzeta(3): 1.20205  1.xxxxx\ngamma: 0.57721  x.xxxxx\nEND: End the examination, submitting your work for grading\nRET: Return to examination room\nARITHMANCY SPELLS  (X = already used this sequence)\nINC\nSTA #: Begin a sequence of digits\n\"Academy entrance exam instructions state that we will not provide a spell's effect until the candidate demonstrates understanding of the spell. Are we really going to be breaking our own rules?!\" asks Teraboz.\n\"I think it's reasonable - at least at the beginning of the exam - to be a little flexible and help out the candidate,\" says Morkan. \"After all, this is our first-ever entrance examination in Arithmancy.\"\n\"Maybe we should just give the candidate the answers,\"\nTeraboz grumbles.\nMorkan's voice comes from somewhere around you. \"You already know what the STA spell does.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The alley skirts along the wall of the bar from the south before turning sharply west."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "O foul Hypocrite! O whited Sepulchure! In the midst of his debauchery the Baron does see fit to erect himself a Chapel of the faith! Mayhap he thought to take sanctuary here at your approach. 'Tis more likely the lighted Candles & marble Altar did bear witness to blasphemous & terrible Rites in the Baron's lifetime.\nA stair in the corner leads down into darkness, an archway northeast. A solid oak door prevents your going east.\nYou can see a golden key, a dented Box (in which is a handful of spice) & a silver key here."}, {"prompt": "You ask the librarian about the frazer", "response": "Wordlessly the librarian retreats back into the shadows, only to reappear the next moment carrying the thick, dusty tome you saw your husband with earlier. Dutifully, you sign the register, and the librarian hands you the book before disappearing again."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "You unlock the office door."}, {"prompt": "You wear the white shirt", "response": "(the frilly white poet shirt)\n(first removing the trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes)\n(first taking off the grey scratchy shirt and grabbing the frilly white poet shirt)\nI pull on the poet shirt. I look like a gorram idiot. There ought to be some other way."}, {"prompt": "Smell keys", "response": "You sniff the keys. Ser Leonhart tries each one in the lock until, at last, it turns. He charges through the door, and you hurry in after him.\nYou know a few things about the bedrooms of teenage girls, but you never expected to see one here. Of particular note is a brightly lit vanity covered in wigs, ersatz jewellery and one specially large and overflowing box of makeup. An open wardrobe is full of dresses and capes and boas and heels. On the walls are posters of boy bands like 5 Seconds of Winter and Four Directions (before they broke up, naturally). The largest poster of them all is of Zifmia the Adventurer, mayhap the kingdom's most famous and subversive drag queen, clad all in leather, with her crown askew and her makeup artfully smeared.\nIn the centre of the room waits the wizard's son, Tristain, wearing the pinkest and fluffiest dress you have ever seen. His arms are crossed over his chest, partly to disguise his lack of a bust and partly to hold up the dress (being unable to lace the back by himself). His blonde shake-and-go wig is painfully dry, his contouring is a touch too harsh and his left eyelash is only partially glued. Despite all these flaws, you have to give him credit for producing such an effort in so little time.\nSer Leonhart, meanwhile, is starstruck. \"Your Highness,\" he says, sinking to one knee and bowing his head. \"I have heard tales of your beauty, but mere words cannot describe the magnificence of your presence. You are a vision of Lunara herself, goddess of the moon, of beauty, elopements and gin. Would you do me the honour of accompanying you home?\"\n\"Home?\" Tristain-as-Joy starts, but he immediately corrects himself. \"Why home, yes, of course, Ser Knight. Give me a few minutes to pack my things. Any of my dresses left behind are likely to be tossed into the nearest fireplace by my fa\u2014er, I mean, what did you call him again? Oh yes, the evil wizard.\"\n\"I shall not leave your side for an instant,\" says the knight, drawing his sword and preparing to stand guard, but Tristain ushers him towards the door.\n\"Be not so silly. There is no reason for you to watch me sort through my unmentionables. I shall meet you down in the foyer. Yes, that sounds like a brilliant plan, I'm so glad you thought of it. Off you go!\" And before Ser Leonhart can protest, Tristain has you both (with a curious but passing glance in your direction) out the door.\nOn your way out, you notice Hero 5 falling and landing on the stone sill outside one of the bedroom windows. He rises to his feet and presses himself against the glass for a better view of the inside. Spotting Tristain dressed as the princess, he becomes very excited; so excited, he loses his balance and falls once more to the storey below.\nTristain closes the door, leaving you and the knight alone in the hallway."}, {"prompt": "You search William", "response": "In William's coffin is an animal's skeleton."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The decayed remains of an old slaughterhouse stand here, now little more than a shell of crumbling brick and gaping holes, surrounded by a clearing of yellow, sickly grass. A path leads northeast, back toward the road; to the west, a gaping hole that might once have been a doorway leads into the rotting building.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You give Bread to white", "response": "You nod to the white robed citizen, whom you recognize as the Butcher of Shireton.\n\"Ah, thank you, good Baker of Shireton! Here is your well-deserved, but meager coin,\" says the white robed citizen.\nThe white robed citizen goes north.\nThe red robed citizen arrives from the north.\n\"A loaf of wheat bread, please!\" requests the red robed citizen."}, {"prompt": "Wind canary", "response": "The canary chirps blithely, if somewhat tinnily, for a short time."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Water trickles over your hands, but the floor must have risen; there is less of it. But the roof lowers, and the crawl has become almost impossibly tight. And you cannot see.\nThe stone is not going to let you go."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gift box", "response": "A decorative box, obviously made on Earth, enameled like a Faberge piece. The exterior is covered in a design of leaves and morning glories."}, {"prompt": "You go to New Library", "response": "(going to the Public Library)\n(going west)\nHigh Street (South)\nThe High Street runs north to the City Centre and continues to the south. A narrow alley runs off to the east, opposite a newsagent to the west."}, {"prompt": "You examine the damaged fruit", "response": "It is evident (now) that this is one of those recorders that grows riper as it gets more full of information, and that something happened to it at a primitive stage of its growth. Probably Valenti could think of no place where people would be less likely to pry than his food cabinet."}, {"prompt": "You turn off the radio", "response": "The radio is now turned off.\nThe Celestial Security officer sighs. \"Oh, my,\" he says, \"I did it again! I accidentally wrote down your last name in the space for your first name. This form is just so confusing.\" He crumples up the form and throws it into the wastebasket. \"Oh, well,\" he says, \"we'll just have to start over.\" He reaches beneath the counter and gets out a new form."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nConfused shouts can be heard in the distance. Worried nannies turn their perambulators toward the gates."}, {"prompt": "You take the garlic", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The north side of the street is occupied by a large wooden hall. On the south side is a neat single-storey white building (directly south) next to a two-storey green house (to the southeast). The street continues eastwards but quickly peters out into a narrow farmtrack as it leaves the town, while to the west it runs back towards the town centre.\nObvious exits: North, South, East, West, Southeast\nYou can smell the cheese."}, {"prompt": "You take the portrait", "response": "(the framed portrait)\nThe portrait is doubtless worth a good deal, but it is also taller than you are."}, {"prompt": "You take bear", "response": "(slipping the newspaper into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou pick up the teddy bear. It is old and threadbare, its fur worn through to the stuffing in some places. Stitched onto its behind is the name \"Jeffrey\"."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sunset", "response": "The sun is setting in the western sky in a wondrous display of color."}, {"prompt": "You knock on the door", "response": "No response."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "It has seen better days. The legs are pulling loose, the top is warped, and it has had every conceivable shade of paint spilled on it over the years."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Inside the Glass Maze (you are flying)\nYou are inside a huge cubical maze, shimmering with light from an unseen source above. Thanks to your sonar-like bat senses, you can tell that there are surfaces above you, to the north, to the east and to the west."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an emergency escape map.\nThe staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of furniture. You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade. As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone missing. You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the basement worries you.\nYou can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement."}, {"prompt": "You get up", "response": "You get off the cot.\nsheet metal and plastic welded together. One wall is open, with a flapping piece of tarp serving as the only protection from the wind. Bits of equipment litter the sandy ground.\nA recording device rests on the ground. The message light is\nblinking.\nThere is a mirror propped against the wall. A partially buried\nhelmet lies nearby. There is a fish bowl on top of a stainless steel piece of equipment. A dead fish lies inside. A long crack is beginning to form down the side of the bowl."}, {"prompt": "You examinthe knick-knacks", "response": "Bric-a-brac, whim-whams, folderol..."}, {"prompt": "You take the ring", "response": "You acquire the gold ring, and assess it curiously.\nA very very very very very very very very very very very very very curious object."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You swipe your keycard and go east as the door opens.\nIt's quiet here, mostly due to the soundproofed walls. It'd make a nice mob combine, but it's a small bunker for nerds who just got sick of the thumping.\nA large metallic door is to the west. It's got no sensor on this side, so you can probably just walk back through it.\nYou can also see some nerds here.\n\"...How I do it, idiot.\"\n\"Who?\""}, {"prompt": "You take the candy", "response": "Dr. Singh knocks off a piece of rock candy.\nTaken.\nFrom experience, Dr. Law, this should increase the remote's power by\n5 jigawatts. We need to reach 99 jigawatts to turn\noff the machine!\nDr. Singh's toes turn to ash and fall off."}, {"prompt": "You put aggressively on the speechwriter", "response": "I give the aggressively manner to the speechwriter, taking the lazily manner in exchange. It now intends to aggressively write notes encouraging warmongering.\nThe speechwriter scribbles some notes and gingerly feeds them into the contraption."}, {"prompt": "You put the roses in the teapot", "response": "You put the dead roses into the hinge-lidded teapot."}, {"prompt": "You go upwards", "response": "You can see why J. Daggett's great-grandfather chose this site for his estate. The view from the top of the cliff is breathtaking. The bay stretches out before you. A wide expanse of sandy beach lies below. The day is sunny and relatively calm, with only a slight onshore breeze. A gentle swell rolls onto the sand.\nA wide, sandy path leads down to the beach. The bare footpath leads back toward the garage to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You examine Peter", "response": "It's your husband, Peter! He looks unharmed, but his eyes are dull, and he is unresponsive under your gaze."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cage", "response": "You can barely make out the brass cage sitting on the floor.\nIt seems to have fallen open."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\nbattered bugle\ndim bulb (Providing light)\nlong hotdog\nstage makeup\nsharp knife\nold lamp\nplaster pluto\ndark secret\nYou're wearing:\nroller skate\noaken bucket\npocket pager ( on your belt )"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "(opening the real estate office door first)\nIt seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You examine staircase", "response": "The staircase curves as it falls to the floor below.\nBubbles wanders away."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mushrooms", "response": "The ring of mushrooms and toadstools is ragged in places, as if no longer cared for. One toadstool in particular stands out from its brethren.\nBubbles comes over, sniffs at your legs, then wanders off again."}, {"prompt": "You wear motley", "response": "You don your jester's motley (after removing the pig carcass) and potential pranks inspire you. Everything in this wide world is kissable."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You jump on the spot."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying a wooden bucket, a burlap sack (which contains an old shovel and a sequined jacket), a flashlight, the key to Cabin One, a pill bottle, and a white dress. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "Identical passageways open to the south, east, west, and north.\nYou can hear people walking on the exposition floor above."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "\"Just ... the code, tell me the code now!! ... hear me, I need the code...\"\n\"...oh sh.. oh sh... I'm gonna die! The gun's firing.. I'm gonna die..\""}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "In the lower chamber, you find, there is almost as much sand as there is above; it must have been flowing a very long time.\nAround the outside of this contraption ascends a wooden staircase."}, {"prompt": "You examine bottle", "response": "It's Valley Bordeaux 569 - a very good year. It's unopened; the cork's still fitted into the neck."}, {"prompt": "You take the bucket", "response": "You pick up the oaken bucket."}, {"prompt": "You eat the balloon", "response": "That's plainly inedible.\n\"Hurry!\" says Austin. \"It's slipping!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the shadows", "response": "The perfect hiding place for a killer."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There seems to be a complete absence of activity in this area.\nIn the room with me is Waldo.\nWaldo is carrying a scanning device, a micro extension, and a small container.\nAuda is off to the west."}, {"prompt": "You examine the egg", "response": "They're flat on the top and bottom, and round on the sides. You're certain they contain soft food, but not sure how to crack open their cold shells."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "You have come across a store room. A stairway leads down. A closet is North.\nA small magnesium box sits on the floor"}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This room seems to be some kind of office. You have no idea what kind of work they do here though.\nThe exit is to the south.\nThe only interesting thing here is a desk with a typewriter and all kinds of paperwork on it.\nThere is a fuse box on the wall."}, {"prompt": "You look at the altar", "response": "The temple might be fake, but this altar has the unfalsifiable eerie presence of the real thing; Klaus's parents, avid antiquarians, imported it from an otherworldly dig-site. Once Klaus \"sacrificed\" you on this altar. (And then sewed you up again, thankfully.)\nSome significance of an expedition nags at your mind.\nOn the altar is a pair of clippers."}, {"prompt": "You give the mouse to Wolf", "response": "(first taking the dead mouse)\nThe Big Bad Wolf doesn't seem interested."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Mel's Magnificent Mystical Minutiae is the real deal. You can get all sorts of magical things here. Some of it is cheap junk that doesn't work, and that's what most people get; but if you want serious magic (and you've got serious money), Mel's is the place. We're here to ask Mel for a Midas potion specifically, which might save your\nbacon.\nThe exit to the street is to the west, and there's another, smaller area of the shop to the southeast.\nSome of Mel's famous Exploding Cockroaches are on display here.\nA red balloon is here, probably as part of some promotion.\nMel's at the counter.\nI can also see a pile of assorted trinkets here."}, {"prompt": "You play it cool", "response": "You offer her a cordial smiles. \"It's a pleasure to meet you, Baroness.\"\nShe laughs. \"Imelda. Just call me Imelda. Come on, we need to get to shelter.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the chain", "response": "It seems as if the janitor in this place doesn't trust anyone with his tools. There's no lock on the chain. It'd have to be cut to free anything from it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the trumpet", "response": "The trumpet is in amazingly good condition. By the style, you decide it was probably made over 3,000 years ago and used by ancient armies as they sieged and attacked walled cities. You always were such a good music historian."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You are in a sumptuously decorated parlor, containing a mantelpiece with a vast mirror above it. The sumptuous decorations consist of an old, ratty, couch. The living room is back to the west. A window-frame on the south wall contains a picture of a sunny field. A light fixture above the window contains a bright floodlight.\nIn the northeast corner, a floating arrangement of glowing blue runes indicates the location of access door E2N, which is open."}, {"prompt": "You open the curtains", "response": "You glance at the curtains and instantly dismiss them as unimportant."}, {"prompt": "You put the conch in the cavity", "response": "You set the conch shell in the cavity. It's a perfect fit, and somehow you can feel the... rightness... of it. A shiver seems to ripple over the dragon's spine, as if presaging some magical awakening. Uh oh. Sensing the lack of any restraint, the crab has also begun to stir. It probes the sculpted sand beneath it and, finding no resistance, extends its claws and scuttles out of the cavity. It falls from the dragon's face, then retreats hastily back into its shell on impact with the wet sandy floor."}, {"prompt": "You get the branch", "response": "\"Snap!\" The branch comes off in your hands."}, {"prompt": "Shout", "response": "You shout, \"Samir, can you hear me?\"\nSounding tinny and far away, Samir hollers, \"I'm here, I can hear\nyou!\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Old crates and boxes piled high against the walls make this room seem even smaller and dingier than it actually is, which is saying a lot. A doorway lies north; the other walls contain nothing but shadows and dirt-filled corners."}, {"prompt": "You destroy the necklace", "response": "You move to swing the pendant sharply against the door. As you do, Galen says sharply, \"Don't!\" and reaches over to take hold of the chain just long enough to check its momentum.\n\"Don't,\" he says again. \"It's not a good idea.\""}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes. Slowly.\nThe rumble turns to a roar. Waves of snow begin coasting down the hill in an avalanche.\nThe horse snaps out of its stupor, ears shooting up. Before you can move, she bolts off down the pass."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The sign says \"NO SMOKING\", but judging from the cigarette butts all over the floor, it looks like this little hole at the bottom of the stairs isn't used for anything else.\nThe pale door here leads into the basement.\nThe door swings shut behind you."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "The air and ground are both rich in valuable, if poisonous chemicals.\nMining crawlers churn through the haze, carving wide trails\ninto the oozing rock.\nIntendant Aq-P manages the bustling administration facility."}, {"prompt": "You get off", "response": "You get off the bed.\nYou can see a school uniform here."}, {"prompt": "You examine foldout", "response": "It's a minus sign at the moment. It seems a bit broken. You're not sure what you can fold it into. There's some tiny etched writing on it."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You can only go south."}, {"prompt": "You ask Gnome about Gnome", "response": "Grunk ask gnome about gnome.\nGnome look away. \"Me? I'm nobody special. I just take care of the shrine, now that no one else does.\"\nGnome peek up on shelf. Then him look under desk. Then him look around at room.\n[Grunk can try ASK GNOME HOW LONG GNOME HERE or ASK GNOME ABOUT THIS PLACE. And probably other thing too.]"}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial to 8", "response": "The tape spins forward, blanking the display. Then...\n\"SEARCHING...\"\nAnother advance. Then...\n\"FILE 2D1AF8 NOT FOUND...\"\nThe tape advances. It now reads \"...RETRIEVAL FAILED...\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the bar", "response": "(the iron bar)\nAn armlength of iron."}, {"prompt": "East", "response": "Tunnel come to little cave here, but wide stream block way east. Grunk not see much on other side. Not know if tunnel keep going or stop here. Only light that Grunk see come from bright room, far off to west. But Grunk hear lots of water.\nThere stone bench next to stream.\nSeeing over there not easy in dark, but Grunk think there little reddish thing on other side of stream.\nPig here too."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a\ndark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge\nbroadens down a slab \"staircase\" to the east but wastes away into a\ntight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into\nthe rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here,\nback north under the lintel.\nHanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing,\ninverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung\nbranch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here.\nAn improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and\ncreepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches."}, {"prompt": "Knife", "response": "Your knife bounces off the indestructible line. So much for guarantees."}, {"prompt": "Search stones", "response": "There is nothing on the unholy stones.\nLornedei glances up at you, uncertain."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "You are at the south end of a ginormous library. Shelves upon shelves of books stretch high over your head and the place seems to have been somewhat ransacked. Besides the shelves, some of the books are strewn about the floor; tossed aside as if someone was desperately looking for something. The flickering flames from scattered braziers make the shadows dance in this large, oddly shaped room. More of the library can be reached to the north and northeast."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "\"I wish you would hurry up. I want to get out of\nhere.\"\nMiss Flame strolls into Kitchen. Reverend Weed and Professor Puce wander into Ballroom. Mrs Fowl wanders into Ballroom."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are easy to spot.\nExits lead northeast, southeast, up."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Servants' Dormitory (in the fireplace)\nUp here the female servants used to sleep. Now there is only a dreary row of unmade beds; a rack for drying washing; the fireplace, hollow and untended. Time was, when you were very young, that you used to creep in here for chatter and gossip, and the language you were used to hearing at home."}, {"prompt": "You bake Bread", "response": "You open the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nThat does it! No more bread will fit in the oven.\nYou close the oven.\n[6:11 pm:18|223014]  AnUUsSpOoPy69 : Name?\nMysticMegan95 arrives from the north.\nLegolas31 attempts a mind-meld with the Baker of Shireton."}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "You have reached the lowest extent of the stair, and stand on what might best be described as a small balcony. The surface of the water is still some distance below you.\nPerhaps to deal with predicaments such as that in which you now find yourself, a pulley mechanism has been installed at this level.\nOn the pulley is a perfect icosahedron.\nYou taste bitter pride. Determination is, in the end, more valuable than any other conceivable commodity."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You look longingly at the hot spring, but the time feels early and there's still much to do.\nThe dipper flies to a mossy rock, then disappears behind the waterfall."}, {"prompt": "You meld the mirror with chisel", "response": "You concentrate on the mirror and the chisel and bring your meld ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each other."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Outside, Just Above Trail Surface\nThe snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of\nthe trail."}, {"prompt": "Lift door", "response": "You squat, reaching into the grooves you've made in the stone floor to grip the polymer sheet's bottom edge. With a deep breath, you unbend your knees and thrust your arms upward. The lab door resists your efforts with incredible power, but you manage to create an aperture large enough for you and Emily to go through. You're not sure how much longer you can hold the door up, though."}, {"prompt": "You read about Beast in the book", "response": "Even if you knew his name, he wouldn't be listed here, of course. The master is not contracted, only the servants."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The inside of the building looks totally deserted, and the dim corridor running further north looms in front of you ominously. An intersecting corridor, present at a strangely early stage, runs east to west."}, {"prompt": "You read the Dyes", "response": "You flip through the pages, becoming transfixed by a discussion of how the Celts, supposedly, were wont to dye clothing in a decoction of powdered lichen and stale piss, brewed together for three weeks and then strained.\nBut beside this pleasant concoction there are references to others, such as onion skin boiled in water to produce a pleasant yellow.\nThe model universe clicks."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You're wearing a dirt-smeared lab coat and a security badge and carrying a Samsung cell phone. In sum, you have absolutely nothing of use.\nThe fan's rotation picks up speed, causing the breeze to increase in intensity. You brush hair from your face."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "Though a dim light filters down from the servant quarters, you can see almost nothing of the contents of your current location. You find yourself concentrating all the more alertly on your hearing, as though the slightest echo might offer a clue.\nYou hear some dry sifting from the northeast."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scepter", "response": "Studded with measly turquoises and semi-precious stones."}, {"prompt": "You look at the house", "response": "Mrs. Pepper's house is two stories tall, and narrow. It hasn't been painted in a long time. A small covered porch is attached to the front, and the driveway runs along the right side. A short flight of steps leads up from the yard to the porch."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "A wooden Wheel is mounted on the wall, near the Portcullis.\nThe Pig sniffs at the ground."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"D-Doctor Justinian?\"\n\"Thank the Primes.\" He's checking your pulse now, leaning in to examine your eyes. Your gazes meet for a second, and his irises are fiery and alive and close.\nfiery and alive and close.You take a few deep breaths, trying\nto compose yourself. Neither of you speaks for a moment.\nto compose yourself. Neither of you speaks for a moment.\"I thought we'd lost you,\" he says at last. \"The Vigiles found you bleeding out in the condemned block... I heard your door was broken down.\nIt boggles my mind that anyone could do a thing like this --\nIt boggles my mind that anyone could do a thing like this --\"But what matters is that you're here now. You're safe.\"\nmatters is that you're here now. You're safe.\"There is a sound from the waiting chairs. You turn and see Doctor Cavala watching from her cot. Her throat is choked. Her eyes are red from crying.\ncot. Her throat is choked. Her eyes are red from crying.\"You're safe,\" she breathes. \"Marid, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.\"\n1) \"Doctor Cavala?\"\n2) \"...Thank you, Doctor Justinian. For saving me.\"\n3) \"How long was I out?\"\n4) \"I was attacked by a mutant woman with a sword...\"\n5) \"What's wrong with the color of the light?\""}, {"prompt": "Next", "response": "The rest of the pages seem to be blank. You turn back to page six."}, {"prompt": "You throw radio module east", "response": "(first taking the radio module)\nThe radio module clatters down the hall into the dead end.\n\"Did you hear that?\" comes a voice from the north. \"Sounded like it was coming from the wiring closet,\" another guard says, a frown in his tone.\nThe footsteps begin to hurry. The three guards round the corner, and run down the east hall -- without a glance at where you huddle in the western branch."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the generator", "response": "With a hum and a puff of ozone, the generator powers up."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Gluttonous indeed were the the Feasts prepared in this Kitchen while the Baron still lived. The huge Ovens now stand cold & unlit, the Crockery smashed & strewn about the floor. The Dining Hall is to the east, & northwards is a small enclosed Yard. A stair leads downward into Darkness.\nYou can see a dented Box (in which are a silver key & a golden key) here."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You return to the Nave. Amidst the massive columns, one tomb in particular catches your attention.\nYour friend joins you and starts looking around with interest."}, {"prompt": "You drink the champagne", "response": "You can't actually have that! It's for the sake of the puzzle, stupid.\nNEW YEARS FUN FACT: Did you know that New Years often takes place on the first day of the year? It's true!"}, {"prompt": "You look at the rubble", "response": "The mound of rubble blocks your way further in to the north. You\nmight\nbe able to clear a way through though."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken\nthe place of his head.\nThe summoner known as Seegan rested before me."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the lamp", "response": "The lamp is now on.\nTop of Well, in the wooden bucket\nYou are at the top of the well. Well done. There are etchings on the side of the well. There is a small crack across the floor at the entrance to a room on the east, but it can be crossed easily.\nThe wooden bucket contains:\nA quantity of water"}, {"prompt": "You look at lights", "response": "Blip... clic... blip... every annoying light here seems to be related to some even more annoying noise."}, {"prompt": "You examine the helmet", "response": "A sleek and streamlined creation of my own design, with ingenious padding to defend my cranium from peril, and an impermeable clear faceplate to protect me from the world! It emits a soft green glow to let me see in the dark, and to tell my foes that DIRK RADON, the UNIRRADIATABLE MAN, has come! It's as handsome as it is ATOMIC!"}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "the trunk will bear your weight.\nAn improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and\ncreepers, hangs down the rest of the way.\nAn expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at\nits centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the\nrocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly\nsouth; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east.\nThe cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9\nfeet off the floor.\nAn improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and\ncreepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its\nbranches."}, {"prompt": "You examine the documentation", "response": "for Zoiro in Riggertown. Report back to me when you're done.\"\"Okay.\"\n\"I'll be here if you need anything.\" She pauses. \"Take your time. Consider today a break after yesterday night.\"\nConsider today a break after yesterday night.\"\"Yes, Doctor.\"\nConsider today a break after yesterday night.\"\"Yes, Doctor.\"\"Run along.\"\nalong.\"With that, she sits down at the slab.\nalong.\"With that, she sits down at the slab.(Type >inventory or\n>i to see what items you're carrying. Type >journal or\n>j to review your current objectives.)"}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "If a star fell asleep, she'd quickly burn holes through her skin. So they don't."}, {"prompt": "Time", "response": "The time is 14:15\n\"All aboard,\" shouts the guard. Some dolphins rush in where angelfish fear to tread. The doors close and the train accelerates out of the station."}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "Here a fat Pig wallows.\nThe Pig rolls & twists on the Ground."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 5\nNice houses. Your car, to the east.\nA police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of here.\nThere is a small dog here, running round in circles.\nThe dog scampers away to the east."}, {"prompt": "You get the gloves", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You feel yourself", "response": "Your body is still present."}, {"prompt": "You look in the mirror", "response": "A bedraggled yet inquisitive face looks back at you."}, {"prompt": "You touch the terminal", "response": "There's a bug somewhere. But in the computer for sure, the terminal won't help."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are easy to spot.\nExits lead north, southeast, southwest, up."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The main bouncelifts are much more heavily secured than the public areas of the building. Your dead MitKlein prevents you from gaining access."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Well, there was your army of genetically-modified sharks.\"\nSinister blanches. \"You were able to defeat them? They should have been more than a match for the likes of you.\"\nYou think back. \"Actually, now that you mention it, no; I just flew out of their reach.\"\n\"You can fly. Doesn't count.\"\n[1] \"Trap doors.\"\n[2] \"Orbital Doom Cannons.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the plate", "response": "A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the bricks beside the door. It's about the width of your palm. No fool could doubt the plate has something to do with opening the door, but it doesn't bear a clue about how to do it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the luggage", "response": "It's all a huge, hopeless mess. Just looking at it instantly drains you of any desire to unpack."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Centipedes and beetles scurry away across the rotten floorboards as you shine your light across the room. Over in the corner sits a hulking shape of black metal that was probably once a wood-burning furnace; aside from that, the cellar looks empty. A dark alcove, the shadows within too thick to see through, opens in the west wall, and a trap door in the ceiling leads back up to the outside.\nAt the very edge of your light's glow, you can just make out a horribly suggestive shape lying in the shadows behind the furnace."}, {"prompt": "You take the newspaper", "response": "You pick up the old newspaper, fumbling a little as you try to keep the separate sheets together while they resist your efforts with the most stubborn display of the innate cussedness of inanimate objects. You eventually manage to tame it, with the surviving sheets forced into a reasonable semblance of order."}, {"prompt": "You look at Seat", "response": "A most opulent & high Seat, supporting the dastardly Baron as he passes judgement, accomplice to his avarice. No more."}, {"prompt": "You take the skull", "response": "Even before this, I never liked to touch, you know, animal bits. There was a reason I was vegetarian, right? You know. So, no. Ew."}, {"prompt": "You concentrate", "response": "You concentrate, and are now mildly concentrated.\nMalygris concentrates, and is now quite concentrated.\nMalygris suddenly teleports away!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the sink", "response": "The stainless steel sink is practically brimming with unwashed dishes. You really need to get a dishwasher, but there'd be no room for it. Among all the dishes you see the shine of a large knife blade.\nThe TV continues, \"These raises come at a crucial time, as work related stress causes growing numbers of investigators resign every week.\""}, {"prompt": "You seize the FISH", "response": "It swims out of reach."}, {"prompt": "You sit on the chair", "response": "It feels surprisingly hard, father's weight has flattened all the stuffing.\nThe radio plays some Jazz in the living room."}, {"prompt": "Search boxes", "response": "You look inside one of the nearby barrels and find some hunks of salted pork."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Not with that wall in the way."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The clock is ticking! You take off on the Schwinn, and after a bit of furious peddling arrive at...\nEast Driveway (sitting on the bicycle)\nThe driveway bends to the north here, leading toward a large outbuilding in the distance. A flagstone path passes through the hedge to the east. The way back to the mansion is west. Otherwise the neatly trimmed hedge continues unbroken along the outside edge of the driveway on both sides."}, {"prompt": "You ask the Mother about the cookbook", "response": "You have a pleasant conversation about the cookbook which fundamentally fails to be relevant."}, {"prompt": "You look at the shape", "response": "Which shape do you mean, the red sphere on the left, the yellow sphere in the middle, or the blue pyramid on the right?"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "All wall in this room glow. It bright, just like day time. Except that instead of sun, it wall that glow. And instead of grass and tree, it square room with four wall. And instead of outside, it all under ground. But beside those thing, it just like it! Tunnel keep going out to east and west, but normal doorway go north and southeast and southwest.\nIn middle of room, there fountain. But fountain not have any water.\nSouth wall have big curtain hanging on it."}, {"prompt": "You look at the kitten", "response": "The kitten, neither fluffy nor white any longer appeared to be a small statue chiseled out of stone, a petra-eikon.\n\"Can you bring the kitten out of this stoned state early?\" one of the investors asked Malcolm.\nHe shook his head. \"Once the Petrian energy imbues the subject, it dissipates at a constant rate. We've had no success at either speeding up or prolonging its effect.\"\nAs he spoke these words I realized that they weren't entirely true, but he didn't know yet. I had meant to tell him when I first made the breakthrough... but that had been just three weeks ago. All meaning in my life had been taken from me the very next day."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Oh, no! A lurking grue slithered into the room and devoured you!\n****  You have died  ****\nAs you take your last breath, you feel relieved of your burdens. The feeling passes as you find yourself before the gates of Hell, where the spirits jeer at you and deny you entry. Your senses are disturbed. The objects in the dungeon appear indistinct, bleached of color, even unreal.\nYou are outside a large gateway, on which is inscribed\nAbandon every hope all ye who enter here!\nThe gate is open; through it you can see a desolation, with a pile of mangled bodies in one corner. Thousands of voices, lamenting some hideous fate, can be heard."}, {"prompt": "You go downward", "response": "Tunnel Entrance (Grueslayer)\nThe ladder leading down the funnel ends here at a brick wall with one or two interesting features. Only a little light shines through the funnel and bathes the surroundings in eerie shadows. The ground seems to be made up of treaded down dirt. A masoned, semi-circular tunnel leads southeast, the walls made up from the same musty red bricks as the wall marking its end. The tunnel is about six feet high. Rolled up on the ground in the southwestern corner is a hobo who declared this tunnel his bedroom.\nYou cringe from thinking something has moved in the shadows, but your mind just played a trick on you. You hope."}, {"prompt": "Full", "response": "You have so far scored 35 out of a possible 50, in 96 turns.\nThe score is made up as follows:\n5 for entering the sealed room\n10 for opening the door\n5 for discovering the truth\n35 total (out of 50)"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Saiph", "response": "\"I care for you more than you know,\" you say, kissing Saiph on the cheek.\nSaiph frowns. \"Her heart clamors for war with these NEWCOMERS,\" your lover says, \"and was upset to find I do not share her views. We shall see if your ENEMY has better luck at the TELLING.\" He looks up to the stars, and adds, \"It is a good NIGHT for it.\""}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The corridor on this level runs North to South but both directions have collapsed in. The ladder well is on the western wall. An active terminal is glowing on the eastern wall.\nYou can see Active Terminal here."}, {"prompt": "You link the brick to the snuffbox", "response": "You valiantly try to link the two objects, but they are just too dissimilar."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "But it'll be what, twenty years before any of these war babies are old enough to fight. The war can't go on that long, can it?\nPage: 8 May 7-11\nP = previous page    N = next page\nQ = resume story    G = Go to page\nMay 7 - Oh the shit has hit the fan. There's rioting in the streets. The people who don't like the war are protesting the war. The people who don't like the draft are protesting the draft. Pretty much everyone is protesting the breeding plan, except for the ones that are lined up around the block to get a big fat shot of fertility drugs and the big fat check that goes with it. Mom's friend that works for a doctor says that they've been asked not to tie anyone's tubes or give out contraceptives anymore. I found out that Jim's stockpiling condoms, on the off chance he manages to get a girl who doesn't think the rest of him's as ugly as his face. Says there's a bill in congress to restrict the sale of anything that prevents pregnancy.\nDonna's friend Rusty is talking about signing up. She's trying to talk him out of it, but he figures his draft notice is in the mail already anyway.\nMay 8 - QK 2nj n6w9 h6rvvk54 xn cft 17poz07 xz5 bz2h2ql1j r2 z53t6u93t 656 t8gfdmb3k n8 03iy1j1 ar 81n Sqppfl Lqi5pu Pn2wbbyk. Xh3wx 35 p2 tpi kt9n 401b rhyy jj 9k8r 4gi m0b3 ly Hm9xr jy zqf 6f7f9z. O qw 4mfmtw5xge24 vtbez623t2.\nHo shhv4 m4b nfzy4r 5n3 wz3o zg8ws 8 its589. E 6m5z4hn c6f5 rjc up cxl 21 eum5 87 5zkv f676m21o vbnt 8xw. V do9'9 idv gvk kpoh 8d z6muv8, dc0fu on rrn p6 9erp xo4 ahgaa8 no zgm9s x4yom kt52zp, to8bb 9oitt 96ty 84avl6 jp 5k3 2s3.\nKlvjm'n i66 4u0 fap 4vvn53tl c105 F8'4 uiuar1 6ex (C xqljs \"0l6 z8g h2e9qopm\" h7 i cam45 4cvzjeks04. 0zc 05 7m NQ y5nx wkf30.) & zdrb v4gi tx7 52 sfjf gw0kwu 712 a p6pzf. Qw 6pso'f 02ss b6d8055 f9h, xr9 j42 27d 168lq3 9nk 87f8p zd xj78c lfxj yw 67cy a4.\nMay 11 - When I got up this morning, my eye hadn't recharged. Hope I don't have to get the damned thing serviced. I couldn't go anywhere, of course, because I had to leave it on the charger all day. But Donna came over and we hung out. She went out with Tom last night and had a good time and all."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "Your singing is abominable."}, {"prompt": "Open trophy", "response": "The case is protected by a fearful spell. You cannot touch it in any way.\nA strange little man in a long cloak appears suddenly in the room. He is wearing a high pointed hat embroidered with astrological signs. He has a long, stringy, and unkempt beard.\nThe Wizard draws forth his wand and waves it in your direction. It begins to glow with a faint blue glow.\nThe Wizard, in a deep and resonant voice, speaks the word \"Ferment!\" He cackles gleefully.\nYou begin to feel lightheaded."}, {"prompt": "You examine fridge", "response": "An old 1970s Avocado Green side-by-side. Instead of kid art, the front is covered with some pinups (at least they are\nclothed). You assume the decorations are courtesy of the workers.\nReverend Weed saunters into Kitchen."}, {"prompt": "You hit the padlock with the flask", "response": "(first taking the flask)\n(slipping the puzzle box into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou can't get in a good blow with the flask; you need something heavier."}, {"prompt": "You look at Laurie", "response": "Laurie is small and pretty, pale with apparent grief, and you despise her. She's only here because she's dating Twitch (although they are both fucking other people) and she must have met Celine all of twice. You suspect she is enjoying the enactment of tragedy.\nLaurie stands behind Twitch, combing her fingers through his lightly curling hair."}, {"prompt": "You climb the ladder", "response": "There is no running allowed at the pool of blood, so you walk slowly around its perimeter to the diving board.\nYour arms are easily strong enough to bear you to the top of the ladder. What slows your progress is the knowledge that there is no turning back: When you get to the top of the ladder, the only way to get back down will be to dive into blood.\nYou are very high up.\nThe board wobbles beneath your feet.\nBelow you, far below, is the pool of blood."}, {"prompt": "Hello", "response": "\"Oh, hello!\" she says excitedly. Then a look of puzzled concentration crosses her face. \"Have we met before?\" she asks."}, {"prompt": "You ask Chatarras about the higher Powers", "response": "\"Can you tell me more about this talent of Bian's?\"\n\"It's hereditary. It's supposed to make one the perfect leader. The Priory of Sion has been trying for centuries to restore the bloodline with the Voice of Command to the throne that was taken from it. In our investigations--\"\nHe is cut off as Janet explodes. \"Our ancient rivals are trying to put a nineteen-year old Vietnamese-American girl onto the nonexistent throne of France?\"\nChatarras looks at her with quiet amusement. \"How much stranger is that than half the stuff you've been shutting down on this campus?\"\n\"Point. But still. You'd think they'd have been shut down ages ago.\"\n\"In any event, with the research we've been doing with Bian, it seems that this talent involves the ability to give short commands that will nearly always be obeyed. With more subtle applications, one can implant false memories or instill specific belief systems. We're still working out the applications, as well as how easily they can be mechanically duplicated or neutralized.\""}, {"prompt": "You drop the doughnuts", "response": "Someone will probably spot an item appearing from nowhere.\nA clump of people hurries past."}, {"prompt": "You look at the claw", "response": "This mechanical claw opens and closes when the dial is turned."}, {"prompt": "You get the orange pill", "response": "You take the orange pill out of the blue bottle."}, {"prompt": "Press bellows", "response": "A fine mist sprays from the tiny bellows, blowing across the glowing cone. The mist becomes a spray of fire, and in an instant the wire of the cage is all aflame. The ball burns bright as the sun; its light scintillates among the lands of the jewelled globe.\nDawn has come.\nNear the west pole of this spherical chamber, the dawn-light reveals an arched doorway that was not there before this moment.\nThe clockwork scarab is pushing its fiery metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Traffic is heavy at the intersection of these roads. Nearby to the east is Coffee Lion Cafe. Monona Drive continues to the south, Atwood Avenue is northwest, and your home is to the north."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "It would take you forever to walk anywhere because you're so small.\nYou hear someone ascending the staircase.\nMorkenmindan strolls around, examining the effectiveness of your cleaning. Unfortunately for you, he crushes you underfoot without even noticing.\""}, {"prompt": "You eat the cow", "response": "Gracious, this cow is no tartare to be nibbled living and raw. She moos with arch disdain; you pull your mouth away; you could not tear a chunk from her thick hide. All the better when her udder begs with bigness for milking."}, {"prompt": "Smell lift", "response": "You sniff the lift.\n\"What is it?\" asks Tuck, but Ser Leonhart presses a finger to his squire's lips.\n\"The loo,\" replies the knight in a hushed tone.\n\"Oh,\" says Tuck. \"But why are we whispering?\"\nSer Leonhart points at the lift. \"The evil wizard is inside.\" He raises his sword, counts to three on his fingers, then throws open the door, only to find it completely empty. The knight is dumbfounded and almost offended. \"Why, there is naught inside at all! Ah, here it is.\" He picks up the pail in the foyer. \"A good thing too. I have held this in since the foot of the mountain.\"\nSer Leonhart places the pail in the centre of the lift, takes several minutes to conduct his business and then returns without the pail. \"Now, where were we?\" he asks."}, {"prompt": "You look at the parrot", "response": "This parrot looks real enough to have been alive at one point, but it may simply be a well-crafted construction. In any event, it's not alive right now. Lovely plumage, though; brilliant blues, greens, and yellows. Now that you've separated it from its perch, it has no particular orientation, and dangles upside-down from your hand. Its glass eye stares at you balefully, blaming you for subjecting it to the rigors of gravity."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Painted on the floor, snakes of every colour and size crawl and coil on each other, creating an apparently entangled mess. Some of them also climb onto the walls, brushing against the ceiling and making seemingly meaningless drawings. To the north there is the passage that goes to the bats room, to the south a solid wooden door (without a keyhole), to the east and to the west the entrances to two other rooms.\nThe small chain of your medallion hangs from the slot at the side of the lever, near the wooden door on the south wall."}, {"prompt": "You examine Euros", "response": "Average of both height and build, this man wears his gray Investigator uniform with sharp precision. His black hair is trimmed neatly around his ears. His hard, square face bears an angular black goatee, leaving his cheeks perfectly shaven. His eyes are stormy gray; his complection lightly pigmented.\nChronos carefully extricates himself from the hole in the wall, passing his rod off to Veritas and then collecting it again after you help him down."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Sally", "response": "Sally doesn't really seem to notice you, but she comes out of her reverie when Jack approaches, and gazes up at him adoringly. \"Jack!\" she gasps.\n\"Wonderful news, Sally! We have a guest! Meet Hina.\" Jack puts his\nbony hand on your shoulder and pulls you into Sally's line of sight.\n\"How nice to meet you, Hina.\" She raises her hand, and you shake it gently, worried that you might pull it loose."}, {"prompt": "You take the purple scroll", "response": "The adventurer, not seeing any use in keeping the purple scroll anyway, hands it to you gladly.\nThe adventurer leaves the room, heading to the west.\nThe darkened sky is now full of bright stars. It is night.\nToday seemed shorter than yesterday, somehow."}, {"prompt": "You kill the monster", "response": "(first getting off your bed)\nYou get off of your bed.\nYou strike at the monster with the glowing sword. As the lit weapon hits the monster, it howls in pain and fear, baffled that you have found a weapon capable of hurting it.\nThe monster slams into you, knocking you down on the floor, the sword falling from your grasp. You reach for the sword, and your hand justs graps it as the monster grabs your ankle and lifts you into the air. On the way down into its mouth, you reach out with the sword, just as the jaws of death clamp down on you, ending your life.\nThough you don't know it, the monster explodes in blackness which envelopes the room in darkness until daybreak, when your parents find your brother, safe in his crib, and you are nowhere to be found.\nThe monster slams into you, knocking you down on the floor, the sword falling from your grasp. You reach for the sword, and your hand justs graps it as the monster grabs your ankle and lifts you into the air. On the way down into its mouth, you reach out with the sword, just as the jaws of death clamp down on you, ending your life.\nThough you don't know it, the monster explodes in blackness which envelopes the room in darkness until daybreak, when your parents find your brother, safe in his crib, and you are nowhere to be found."}, {"prompt": "You ring bell", "response": "Ding! The guard jumps up from his nap. \"Hey, get away from the alarm! Stupid bird.\" Yeah, well, get away from...your...face, you\nstupid human. Man, I'm going to think of a good comeback hours from now, when it won't do me any good.\nHe returns to his nap.\nThe egg is calling to me..."}, {"prompt": "You drive to the santa monica", "response": "You drive to Santa Monica and park along Ocean Avenue.\nSanta Monica, in your cousin's Volvo\nThis is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United\nStates and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west."}, {"prompt": "You open tin", "response": "You open the old tin, revealing a smelly quantity of fish oil."}, {"prompt": "Yell", "response": "You cry out. The assassin turns her head --\nYou cry out. The assassin turns her head ---- her lips peel from a carnival of teeth --\ncarnival of teeth --You break and run. The kitchen is a blur. You crash through the service lift -- send it lurching with your footfalls -- tear through the viscous cobwebs. All the while she gains, gains with impossible speed upon you, until --\nwith impossible speed upon you, until ---- wood splinters --\nwith impossible speed upon you, until ---- wood splinters ---- metal fails and reality turns.\nfails and reality turns.The lift has been dislodged from its\nunnatural suspension. Its arcane skeins have entangled the assassin in their coils. Now, shackled again to the chains of gravitation, that whole unwieldy apparatus has begun to collapse, and the assassin has been caught up in its descent.\nbeen caught up in its descent.Her smile falters. She tenses. Stops.\nbeen caught up in its descent.Her smile falters. She tenses. Stops.\"I -- you -- what --\"\n-- you -- what --\"She scrabbles desperately for purchase.\nImpossibly, her claws gouge into the stone. She grasps at your feet --\nImpossibly, her claws gouge into the stone. She grasps at your feet ---- digs into the flesh of your ankles -- you scream in pain\n--\n---- and she slips. She slips.\n---- and she slips. She slips.It is enough. The machine has been set in motion. The cacophony, the wailing gnashing whirlwind, it takes her and bears her down -- bears her shrieking into the abyss where reality ends, where all things end and are consumed.\nends, where all things end and are consumed.And she is gone.\nends, where all things end and are consumed.And she is gone.You collapse there on the edge of the shaft, inches from empty space. You start to cry.\nYour footsteps feel strangely heavy as you walk down this final hall. The dust -- your footfalls -- your heartbeat -- they throb in time with every breath.\nYou can see the light just up ahead. Just a little further. To the south."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a pair of dusty black jeans and a gun belt (which contains a six shooter and numerous bullets).\nThe plainswoman leans forward to sniff the concoction brewing on the fire. She sits back again shortly after, apparently unsatisfied."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have a hoe, a bucket, and an axe. The bucket seems to contain some water.\nClick."}, {"prompt": "Outside door", "response": "The door is already locked, two deadbolts and a latch.\nThe static clears and picks up with the anchorman saying, \". . .continued threats of chemical warfare.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the hat", "response": "Taken. \"Leave that alone!\" cries Hubert."}, {"prompt": "You ask Perotti about the kymberly", "response": "\"Sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about.\"\nMichelle Stapelsky walks in, a few meters from you."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "(first opening the trapdoor to the cellar)\nA dimly lit mouse-hole of a hollow that has been bricked off from prying eyes. A pair of mattresses lie near the entrance, where Sal and Piper must have slept. Further in, a guttering candle on the only table illuminates bladed weapons, counterfeit bills, and other contraband.\nA trapdoor ascends out of the cellar.\nYou notice a wine bottle on the table that seems particularly out of place."}, {"prompt": "You look at Cabernet", "response": "A vintage Cabernet Sauvignon from 1734. A raised letter \"H\" has been stamped into the bottom of the bottle."}, {"prompt": "You hit the candle", "response": "Violence isn't the answer to this one.\nThe bat flutters clumsily around the room, knocking into the disused cravat."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mirror", "response": "A stylin' and engaging Chortlemaster with great hair is staring back at me."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "One entire wall (the north one, as it happens) is nothing else but a great pane of glass, through which you can see the cityscape that lies outside. The office itself is sparsely furnished: it is equipped with merely a desk, a fax machine, a telephone and a cow. To the south is\nan open door.\nThe office chair stands upon its wobbly wheels, sighing slightly.\nA long wire extends across the room, originating from the fax machine."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "cafeteria and back west to the Chapel. The Gymnasium yawned its familiar oppressive woodsmell to the north below a paper banner\nin direct opposition to the school Library, which was an oasis of quiet solitude to the south.\nBrandon was leaning against her locker pushing buttons on his digital watch."}, {"prompt": "You consult the computer about the purple", "response": "The computer beeps irritably: NO RESULTS FOUND. PLEASE REPHRASE AND TRY AGAIN."}, {"prompt": "You jump to the athena", "response": "(You launch first.)\nYour ship is ferried back into orbit by the steaming elevator.\nThe surface of Hub is aflame with the light of sprawling conurbations.\nA multitude of space elevators lance into the sky, each feathered with white hot radiators.\nA fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for\na reasonably priced refuel.\nSpace junk crowds around a planet of dark clouds and oily seas.\nAn amalg war junker tries to blend in with the garbage.\n(Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.)\nThe amalg war junker closes in, blasting out aggressive binary obscenities."}, {"prompt": "You examine Ickstein", "response": "Ickstein is a monkey. He's looking at you wide-eyed."}, {"prompt": "You climb the medium", "response": "(getting off the short plastic block)\nYou carefully climb onto the medium plastic block, it is a ways off the ground.\nWatson wanders off to the north."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You are holding Jude's hand, so she follows you.\nYou are holding Ashley's hand, so she follows you.\nThe wall buckled a bit here, but didn't collapse entirely - unlike to the west, where outright wreckage is visible by the gym entrance. Colorful leaf rubbings and magazine mosaics hang drunkenly off their moorings.\nAshley is here, holding hands with you and carrying a yardstick.\nJude is here, holding hands with you and clinging to Mr. Bunny.\nThe door to your classroom hangs open on its twisted doorframe.\nThe fire alarms flash and shrill monotonously."}, {"prompt": "You arrest him", "response": "He makes a casual movement, and suddenly a large gun is in his hand.\nBefore he can aim it, you've shot it out of his grip with your autorevolver.\n\"Phelim,\" he says. \"Corporal. Four eight five six one five.\"\nYou lock him in your ship's brig."}, {"prompt": "Search receptacle", "response": "Inside the trash receptacle is some garbage.\nThe automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and smashes it down with surprising force."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "Made of hefty rope and still apparently sound, with rungs made of wood. At the top on each side is a hook, allowing it to be put on something (rather than tied)."}, {"prompt": "You kill the croc", "response": "Harm a sleeping animal! Mama would have been shocked."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the horizon in every direction.\nNereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer.\nA smiling girl strolls the pier, twirling her parasol.\nA marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung between two palm trees.\nA group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "You take a deep breath.\n\"Doctor Justinian tried to silence me,\" you say. \"He... he's behind it all, somehow. He's using this affliction as a weapon -- a tool to kill people. He wants to change the world.\"\nHoratio stares at you, and his eyes widen. For a moment time stops.\nHoratio stares at you, and his eyes widen. For a moment time stops.\"Primes,\" he says. \"Oh Primes. What are you saying? What did he do to you?\"\ndo to you?\"\"He locked me in a room. He... he talked to me, and it was like... it was like he was a completely different person. He was totally different from the Justinian I knew. But it was -- that was a lie, wasn't it? He had always been that way. I just never realized it.\"\nit.\"You realize you are shivering again, and you cross your arms, pulling your jacket tighter to try to block out the cold.\npulling your jacket tighter to try to block out the cold.Horatio puts a hand on your shoulder. \"I can't believe it,\" he says softly. \"Doctor Justinian...\"\nJustinian...\"\"I... Horatio, I can't believe it myself. I still keep thinking that -- perhaps it was a dream, a hallucination. But it was real. The cistern he locked me in was real. I had to swim my way out -- I had to cut myself free and wash down the Bilious Canal. And I can't stop thinking about it, Horatio, I just can't...\"\ncan't stop thinking about it, Horatio, I just can't...\"\"I...\" Horatio takes your hands. \"It's okay, Marid, it's okay. You're here now, aren't you? You're going to be fine.\"\naren't you? You're going to be fine.\"\"Horatio, I...\" You close your eyes. \"Horatio, I'm scared. Because Justinian... the Justinian I knew... he always knew what he was doing. Horatio, what if Justinian knows what he's doing? What if he's right?\"\nknows what he's doing? What if he's right?\"Horatio just watches you, stunned, and you can tell he has no idea how to respond. The wind rises and tugs and whips at the two of you. The rain falls.\n1) \"I can't turn back now...\"\n2) \"Horatio, I need to get to the Channelworks...\""}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The monkey trails faithfully along behind.\nThe stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the west end. The only way you can go is back to the east.\nAn ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.\nThe monkey is standing close by."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "I can't go in that direction, but I can move south and in.\nSo tired..."}, {"prompt": "You ask Lydia about the eternal Springs", "response": "\"I'm really bored here,\" Lydia says. \"I can never get very far from this spot, but sometimes I go peek into the cabins at night, when people are sleeping.\""}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are Jim Mackaye, an accounts manager at the First Queensport Bank, husband to a lovely ex-teller named Linda and father to a beautiful little girl named Wendy who is still much too young to be left home alone without a sitter. The sitter in question is Alison Dawson, currently sitting in the passenger seat.\nYou cruise through the Polk Boulevard intersection."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Sarah", "response": "\"Right.\"\n1) Introduce yourself.\n2) \"There must have been some mistake. I need the laptop.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Aunt about the unicorn", "response": "\"That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie,\" says Aunt Emma, \"but, well, the less said about that the better.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the tree", "response": "The tree in the center of the garden has a slim trunk and a profusion of foliage. Possibly the fruit has recently been harvested, but if so, the gardeners didn't quite finish the job. Hanging from one upper bough, half-hidden among the leaves, is a single large, ripe golden fruit."}, {"prompt": "You put spice on the chicken", "response": "You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering.\n\"Ah yes, of course.\" Lafond obligingly takes the green goblet, shrugging off your lack of cooperation.\nHe inhales deeply of the bouquet of his wine, then turns to you.\n\"You must think me very naive to fall for such a trick. I saw you pour something into one of these glasses -- although I cannot smell it.\" He switches goblets, setting the green goblet into your nerveless grasp and taking up the other, smiling evilly. \"Now you will drink from the cup intended for me.\""}, {"prompt": "You look through trapdoor", "response": "(first trying to open the trapdoor)\nYou're able to push the trapdoor up only a couple of inches before it hits an obstruction."}, {"prompt": "You look at the shelves", "response": "The shelves cover the room, as if they had multiplied in the same manner coathangers are reputed to. They are covered in broken shards."}, {"prompt": "You examine the copier", "response": "The photocopier is a hulking technological monstrosity that you've never been able to satisfactorily figure out. It's got about fourteen billion buttons on it and the only one you know how to use is the big green one marked 'COPY'. There's also a lid on top (paper goes in), and a small hopper off to one side (paper comes out). That's as familiar as you've ever cared to (or are ever likely to) get with this thing.\nCurrently, the lid is open and the hopper contains a pile of shredded paper and a counterfeit bill."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This lumpy, patchy stretch of lawn is the most pleasant outdoor spot at Eternal Springs, though that isn't saying much. A rusted, sagging chaise longue is provided for the comfort of anyone who would like to bask in the scorching heat of the afternoon sun. (There's precious little shade here, other than the low oblong of obscurity wedged beneath the chaise.)\nTo the east, the lawn is bordered by a high hedge of a virulent and sickly green, whose foliage is laden with a bounty of pulpy red flowers. The arid stretch of dirt between the cabins stretches out to the south. The main house stands, crooked and bleak but stubbornly attempting a faded grandeur, to the west, a short, broad flight of board steps leading up to the long porch, which is roofed over but nonetheless gapes open on the afternoon. A tiny, weed-infested flower-bed crouches to the right of the steps.\nA cracked and buckled concrete walk leads away through some tall bushes to the north, and another walk, whose slabs are tossed as if by some prehistoric geological upheaval, curves out of sight to the southwest around the corner of the house.\nHoney Hartwell is reclining on the chaise longue, leafing through a magazine.\nHoney curls a strand of hair around her little finger."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coaster", "response": "The roller coaster consists of a track mounted on a grid-like frame marked with coordinates. For the horizontal - or x -\ncoordinates, the entrance is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as you go east. For the vertical - or y - coordinates, the\nwater line is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as you go up.\nThe roller coaster track consists of a hill above the water and a valley below the water. The track climbs the single hill, descends it, enters the water, turns around, dips down into the valley, and then returns to the platform."}, {"prompt": "You search Phelps", "response": "(first trying to go over to Beauregard Phelps)\nBeauregard Phelps is too far away."}, {"prompt": "You wait for the Orange Line", "response": "You lean against the rotting deposits, hold out your pass, and wait for the orange line. Within moments, an insubstantial trolley arrives. Instead of stopping and allowing you to board, it passes\nthrough you, and you find yourself transported to\nConstabulary Road (Harkness Munt)\nThe road phases into little more than a wide dirt track winding from the west towards the edge of town to the northeast. A paved walk wanders through an iron gate which interrupts a high stone wall looming to the north. A memorial bench sits just outside its shadow. A thickly-woven rampart of vegetation obstructs passage to the south, but you notice a narrow deer trail cutting a path through the deep woods.\nA barricade spans the road to the northeast, and beyond it a large shallow pit is being excavated. If you're careful, you could skirt the edges of the pit and continue along the northeast road.\nA man stands near the barricade. He appears to be contemplating the contents of the dig site.\nA grad student works fastidiously on the fossilized bones in the pit.\nA phantom trolley stop sign reads Orange Line -- Constabulary Road."}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "Bookshelves lined the walls, full of books that had titles in languages I didn't recognize. Behind a mahogany writing desk, filled with books, papers and parchments, sat an old man, frevently writing on a notepad or looking up something from the books.\nA curious machine was embedded in one of the walls.\nHeavy curtains covered the windows.\nThe old man was sitting behind the desk, scribbling on a notepad.\n\"It's you,\" he said as he noticed me. \"Now who did you say you were again? You must excuse me, I'm very busy with the experiment.'\"\n(I could ask him about the woman, Elizabeth, or the experiment; or tell him about the generator, myself, or the storm.)"}, {"prompt": "You examine transmitter", "response": "It looks like a radio or voice transmitter module, with a speaker and a switch, but no other buttons.\nThe voice transmitter is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "Shelter", "response": "\"Ah yes, the survival shelter. That's a very impressive find. We looked over the notes, and we don't have any other incidents of a Diver exploring a survival shelter of that era. Good work.\"\nYou go on to explain that you found the bodies of two recently deceased young women in the basement.\nJoxley looks through her notes. \"Yes, I have that here. That contradicts what we had in our historical records -- you know, of course, that heads are going to roll in the approval committee for that little oversight. It's a good thing your Dive didn't take you back any earlier. If either of them had been alive, we'd have had a major violation of the first directive on our hands.\n\"It's just a shame that you weren't able to use the Stream Visualizer inside the shelter. If the approval committee had known what you would find, they would have made sure to send you back with the right equipment.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Rover", "response": "He's not what you'd typically call a lapdog, although he'd beg (literally) to differ.\nROVER -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "Invoke charge", "response": "You invoke the charge icon, and the environment changes around you.\nThis square tower is built of granite blocks braced by high iron beams. The roof is a broad sweep of lead-framed glass, hammered by the roaring rain outside.\nA complex apparatus dominates the room: a heavy brass tank, surmounted by copper and bubbling glass tubing. Wires drape from the roof down to the apparatus, hanging every which way.\nYour workspace sits in the center of the lab. Inside it the six icons whirl.\nThe silver kite bobs near the wires, and jerks as a spark leaps across to it. It tries to slide away; but a flash of lightning sears the sky, and the room's air grows prickly and electric. Sparks dance from the kite's tail, and the wires pull it closer --\nThe kite shimmers away... into a gleam of pure light that plays across the roof."}, {"prompt": "You get the seafood", "response": "Taken.\nThe sound of crumpling cellophane, grating your ears, comes in from the direction of the living room."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Duke William watches you leave. Lady Inalda follows you out.\nToo small to count as a bailey, the courtyard is completely enclosed\nby the castle wall. An archway leads out of the courtyard to the south, while to the north stands a misshapen keep. What looks like a stable block rests against the western wall, and a long crude\nbuilding, perhaps a barrack block for the castle guard, occupies the east wall.\nLady Inalda stops in the middle of the courtyard and motions you to join her.\n\u201cA word, if you please, lieutenant,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t know\nwhether\nyou truly intend to do as my cousin asks, but perhaps there is something you might do for me.\u201d\n(You could ask what she wants, or ask her about smuggling.)"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Your feet click on the tile floor as you shift around, waiting. You could sit--there are a couple of worn chairs scattered around, but they all look really uncomfortable. The ticket counter and the board with the bus schedules on it are on the north side of the room, opposite the exit."}, {"prompt": "Mention nikhil", "response": "Nikhil considers himself for a second.\n\"I'm a good man, I think, and I'm well on the track to success. I'm not sure there's any need to be more specific.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the candy", "response": "The crowd already took all the candy in their mad scramble for sweets."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "All the bric-a-brac on the sideboard has been packed away for the move, leaving only dusty imprints on the wood. It had been filled with colourful plates and cups and seldom-used cookery books and odds and ends that the family had brought back from various holidays that couldn't find another home. Now the brown boxes on the floor and table, taped and anonymous, only serve to remind you of how much there is left to do before the removal van arrives next week. The pile of boxes seems to be higher than yesterday, but that's ok, because the room seems to have grown to accommodate them.\nOn a plinth in the corner, a rubber plant brushes the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "\"She's gone to the Pig,\" you tell her. \"Why, was there something you wanted her to get?\"\nShe shakes her head. \"Nah.\" You shrug and turn back to the toaster."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "blue door leading west: That's fixed in place.\nchink in wall: That's fixed in place.\nheavy chest: That's fixed in place.\nsilver key: (putting the blue glass jar into the sack to make room) Taken.\ngreen glass jar: (putting the iron key into the sack to make room) Taken.\nsalers: (putting the bottle of Sauvignon Blanc into the sack to make room)\nTaken.\nwedge of brie: (putting the documents into the sack to make room) Taken.\nIn your hunger, you imagine in great clarity thinly-sliced venison. Or perhaps dark squares of prepared chocolate."}, {"prompt": "You get the head", "response": "Attend, child, when I tell you most actions are irrelevant. Whatever you take, learn to take with your teeth. Whatever you do will require your tongue. Utilize your appetite and eat."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Mary", "response": "Though as startled by you as ever, Mary greets you warmly. \"Oh, hello again, dear! Did you think of something else?\"\n[1] Sorry, no. Still stuck. I'll leave you to it"}, {"prompt": "Pirouette", "response": "Hold up tippytoes. Your fancy-stepping isn't going to be appreciated while you're wearing this heavy coat.\nThe dancers PIROUETTE, pull their KNEES IN and they NOD NOD."}, {"prompt": "You examine Afterlife", "response": "Which do you mean, the door to the Afterlife or the atwood shopping block exterior?"}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "It's perhaps a judgment on the cellar that the only things you care to notice about it are the exits. One might think the stairs to be the likeliest prospect, but Alky's fetching form is currently interposing itself. More immediately relevant are the lighted openings to the west and south, and coming in a distant fourth in the niceness sweepstakes is the dim, cave-y area to the east.\nAlky notices that his torch is dripping ash on his chiton, and flicks himself clean with a sound that's somewhere between a snort and a bray, but still manages to be charming."}, {"prompt": "You look at it", "response": "The lower drawer is empty."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Dappled light plays through the sparsely spaced trees that thin out even more towards the southeast, where the forest ends. In principle you could walk in any direction amongst these autumnal trees, but one direction looks much the same as any other, so you could all too easily get lost, except that you know that the way back to the main path is to the east.\nObvious exits: East, Southeast"}, {"prompt": "Scream", "response": "You strain against the ropes, but your efforts are futile.\nSalomonder rubs his hands together. \"Now, I must go about the business of having you killed.\"\nSalomonder picks up a jar from the shelf. \"Peach preserves,\" he says, inspecting it approvingly. \"My favourite.\"\nHe smiles down at you. \"My dear Miss Sweet,\" he says, with a wistful smile. \"You've already glimpsed the power of the artifact, but you've no inkling of its true power.\" He crouches down beside you. \"Aren't you curious? Wouldn't you like to know a little more about it?\""}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Dry Sand, South of Pier\nThe cool early evening has left the beach nearly deserted but for a few joggers and unsupervised children. To the east, the dry, powdery sand goes hard as it rolls down toward the swelling tide. The boardwalk lies back to the west. To the north, tall dunes flank the base of the pavilion, blocking your way.\nSomeone has scrawled a message and a simple diagram in the powdery sand.\nA heap of trash has been scattered into the sand by the squabbling flock of gulls.\nHundreds of gulls are engaged in a fierce battle over the pile of refuse, squabbling and squawking at each other and filling the air with hungry shrieks.\nFrom somewhere among the flock you hear a raucous cry that sounds suspiciously like \"Big Water!\""}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"See ya.\""}, {"prompt": "You look through hole", "response": "(the small hole)\nStanding on tiptoe and placing your eye up to the hole, you see the children's bedroom. Through some strange trick of the angle, you appear to be looking straight down at the bed from the middle of the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "Light singh", "response": "This dangerous act would achieve little.\nMother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's leg. Pari tries hard not to scream, only letting out a short \"Oof.\""}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "You start up the stairs, the murk gradually diminishing as you come closer and closer to the surface. But just as the sun starts to resolve from a general glow into a specific bright blob above you, a vicious rip current pulls you off the staircase and drags you further out to sea.\nThe sheer power of the current throws you for a loop. You thrash in vain against it, crying out in frustration as your muscles begin to cramp from the effort while you continue to be dragged further and further out to sea. Finally you try swimming parallel to shore, and that frees you from the current's grip. For several long moments you drift aimlessly in the ocean, exhausted. When you do at last get your wind back and take your bearings, you find yourself kilometers from the nearest hint of land. Sighing, you start for shore. Your suit feels unexpectedly cumbersome, but you dare not take it off: even if it does make you tire that much faster, at least you don't risk drowning.\nOr, rather, you don't risk drowning until your oxygen supply runs out. Luckily, this doesn't happen until your feet at long last touch the shore. You drag yourself onto the beach, blinding spots dancing before your eyes; your knees give even as you tear off your helmet, and everything goes dark.\n[ -> ]\nEverything is dark -- no matter how much you strain your eyes, you can't see the faintest hint of light. But whispering voices tickle the edge of your hearing."}, {"prompt": "You give the coupon", "response": "Cornelia looks at the luggage coupon. \"Is that what I need? I think it might be. Although...no, probably not. I can't remember.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "One corner of the nWare Media Campus is to the northeast, where a path affords entrance. A Starbucks is on the southeast corner. There is a coffeehouse called \"Independent Grounds\" to the southwest. Another Starbucks is on the northwest corner."}, {"prompt": "You look at the wallet", "response": "It contains only one pound coin and a lighter. You remove them both and discard it in disgust at the poverty of unemployed philosophers."}, {"prompt": "You look at the birds", "response": "The stare of this huge cowbird chick is crisp and blank. Unlike portraits whose eyes seemingly follow you around the room, the cowbird chick seems to stare some distance directly behind you. The heavy-edged flanges of its mouth and the wispy eyebrow feathers common to baby birds give it an air of seriousness, like that of an old general."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "An overwhelming certainty strikes: If you leave by that door, clowns will eat you."}, {"prompt": "You eat APPLE", "response": "You take a tentative nibble. It has an oddly smooth taste and you feel no ill effects, so you prepare for a second bite. Then it hits you that all is not right. You feel faint, your head is swimming.\nYou fall down. You are dying. As you sink into oblivion, you remember an old ditty from your childhood: \"An apple a day/Keeps the warthogs away,\nBut a foot-long hot dog/Will placate a frog.\"\nWait here a minute, I just remembered something. Yep, I just checked with central supply. That was only a WAX apple. (Boy, what a hypochondriac!)"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying an envelope."}, {"prompt": "You give the mirror", "response": "Janice glances in the mirror. \"As good-looking as ever,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "Measure 1", "response": "(the mirror labeled #1)\n(with the calipers)\nThe instrument holds the mirror delicately clamped between its pincers; the readout reads \"0.0191\"."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the horizon in every direction.\nNereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer.\nA smiling girl strolls the pier, twirling her parasol.\nA marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung between two palm trees.\nA group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue."}, {"prompt": "You move the desk", "response": "It is fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You concentrate", "response": "You concentrate, and are now quite concentrated.\nThe rusted chain golem spins even faster, audibly slashing the air with its whip-like metal appendages."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sculptures", "response": "Twin dragons. One is painted blue, the other green."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "matchbook: Dropped.\nsmall pile of coal: Dropped.\nbrass lantern: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You put the kettle in sink", "response": "The tea kettle is too large for the sink."}, {"prompt": "You examine the russet door", "response": "A russet door leading east, currently closed."}, {"prompt": "You examine the spark", "response": "Something like a spark of chalk hovers in the air behind you. As you watch, it fades, only to reappear to your right in a wash of cold."}, {"prompt": "You look at the Crust", "response": "He's a little man holding an ornate scepter. His nametag says Crust.\nHe is carrying the following menagerie food (with Blooodiness, Sloppiness, and Rawness)\n(B 7, S 5, R 4) Goat Meat\n(B 7, S 3, R 5) Lamb Meat\n(B 5, S 3, R 4) Bantam\n(B 3, S 3, R 5) Minnow\n(B 3, S 3, R 5) Rat Meat"}, {"prompt": "You look at the clock", "response": "The grandfather clock stands as stiff and still as a tombstone, except that within it a brass heart ticks as the pendulum swings back and forth behind the long glass door. The clock face is numbered using Roman numerals, to which a pair of ornate old-fashioned brass hands (rather bent and tarnished) are pointing. If the clock is to be believed, it's now 5:41."}, {"prompt": "You look up light", "response": "(the light switch)\n(in Casey's notes)\nYou flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: \"I don't have much to say about the lights. Sometimes there's a problem and you have to go mess with the fuse box. But in your case it doesn't matter, because you should be leaving the lights off anyway! You're hunting a ghost!\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You can see what looks to be the town of Gainesville in the distance, to the northeast. You can't really tell; the trees that line your path also block your view. You can retreat from the town to the south."}, {"prompt": "You look through Gate", "response": "[the portcullis]\nYou look through the gate.\nYou see an old boat."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the ceiling panels, but not strongly enough to do anything."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the dog", "response": "\"What a delightful dog you have, Lady Hamcester.\"\n\"Isn't she a darling?\" asks Lady Hamcester.\n\"Zat is one word to describe her, Madame, oui.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the firebox", "response": "Essentially, this is just a big iron box through which a lot of piping runs; you set a big fire inside, the water in the pipes turns to steam, and then Technology happens and stompy iron feet crush all before them. A good fire has been set inside, and the furnace is starting to radiate heat."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You make a break up the hallway -- only to come into view of two groups of guards, at once. Their pulse guns knock you sprawling before you can duck back.\n*** You have been captured ***\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"Yes, yes, but you still have not bought the details. We were certainly not fools enough to ignore the broken cabinet drawer. You left nothing inside it.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nDiagonal Branch\nThis bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; another short hall leads south.\nYou throw yourself to a halt, nearly stumbling, as you hear footsteps approaching from the northwest... and then the guards behind you become audible as well. You duck around the southern corner and glance about desperately."}, {"prompt": "Awe4", "response": "Restored.\nLost at Sea, in the Boat\nYou're in a decent size boat, which is currently speeding toward the open, albeit turbulent, sea. You're not very familiar with boats and most of the features of this craft are not recognizable.\nAn open hatch is here, which leads down to the cabin. Just beyond the hatch, is the boat's control panel. At the rear of the boat is the outside casing of the gas tank. The opening to the tank is currently secured by a gas cap.\nYou see a two-liter plastic Pepsi bottle, a two-liter plastic Sprite bottle, a window screen, a note, a portable TV, two bottle caps, and a funnel here."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "Your hands are freeA rosary hangs around your neck."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are in a wide open space with a hard concrete floor. Small dark tunnels lead south and east, and a metal door marked \"Central Pump Room\" (open) leads down between them to the southeast.\nThere is a faint hiss from overhead."}, {"prompt": "You take the box", "response": "Your load is too heavy.\nYour mouth is getting rather dry."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\n...And suddenly, there is the Power! It crackles through your whole\nbody, sparking at your fingernails and toenails, sending shivers along\nyour limbs. You feel suddenly afraid to imagine, afraid that you can\nno longer tell imagination from reality."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dancers", "response": "The dancers are especially fine. Their costume replicates an English mode of perhaps fifty years ago: the lady wears a skirt of beaten copper, pierced in designs, and around the gentleman's neck is a ruff of folded silver.\nThe effect of their hands and faces is less happy: all their skin is carved ivory, so that they look drawn, and even paler than ordinary English folk."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the east end. The only way you can go is back to the west."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury.\nThis is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls.\nThe Alchemy building is south. Another building\u2014a despicable building\u2014is further north."}, {"prompt": "You eat grue", "response": "(first taking Light grue)\nI don't suppose Light grue would care for that."}, {"prompt": "You get the sack", "response": "You clamp your teeth on the monstrous sack, but it's too heavy to lift."}, {"prompt": "You look in the mirrors", "response": "(Yes, why not? An easier way than to go home, in bitterness.)\nYou leap, divide, return by multiple ways.\nOut of unity into multiplicity, out of time into the eternal instant. Feeling all the surface of the walls on your back, having the image of every angle in your eyes. In this little space, you know as much as God himself: omniscience bounded in a hollow shell."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You go into the gap.\nThe gap in the eastern wall opens into a narrow room. Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal door bears the sign \"storeroom\" while, to the north, stands a more relieving vibertron portal.\nLight? You mutter to yourself. Where's the source? Maybe\nthere is power, somewhere, after all.\nA power strong enough to activate the Tidal Initiative, maybe?"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Unlike the plain corridor to the west, this auditorium is designed to impress the audience???not the fidgety crowd of half-interested reporters and minor officials physically present here, but the\naudience for the mass of television cameras perched above them.\nThey're pointed toward the northern stage, where a couple of summit representatives and their entourages face toward the assembly. Their features are hard to make out in the bright spotlights, but their\nbland voices fill the room."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na kettle\na glass jar\na toy pistol\na white coat (being worn)\na rubber glove\na brass key\nan envelope\na postcard\na remote control (which is open but empty)\na faxed note\na leaflet\na typed note\na sou'wester (providing light and being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You ask Phelps about the porch", "response": "\"This useta all be prime farm land, once,\" Beauregard says, waving his arm. \"We grew us a fine crop o' leaf. Was you sayin' somethin'?\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nSomeone at the rear of the room raises his hand. \"Yes, you at the rear,\" the woman says, pointing to him.\n\"I'm a very rich individual and I refuse to be treated in this\nmanner. I've made charitable contributions all my life, and we've never beaten the help -- not when they didn't deserve it, anyway, the lazy bastards. This is an outrage! You can be sure you will be hearing from my lawyer! What do you have to say for yourself?\" he asks.\nThe woman responds, \"I'm sure you have a very good case. However,\nI'm afraid that the legal system in Hell is based on the United States judicial system. So, as you must know, the courts are so overloaded with frivolous lawsuits that legitimate claims, such as yours undoubtedly is, cannot be accepted. Any lawsuit found to have merit is immediately and summarily dismissed. There are some very good personal injury lawyers that you might wish to contact, though.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the Milk", "response": "All that remains from the deluge you drank. This milk's gone brown and rancid flowing here in the moat's muck. Sludge sucks your feet with every step you take."}, {"prompt": "You get the damper", "response": "You remove the damper from the control panel.\nThe wrench, held by your previous self, passes through the space where the control panel once was."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising sun.\nThe farm gate to the south-west is safely shut.\nThe sheepdog lies on the sun-warmed concrete, panting gently.\nA group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, desperately searching for grain.\nSheets of hail lash down from the heavens, driven by a roaring westerly."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Mr. Teeterwaller comes with you.\nThis wide hallway is filled with dust and debris from a construction project. A foreman is looking at a blueprint, and several construction workers are demolishing parts of the hallway. The hallway opens to the south, and continues north past the contruction."}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A dark, dripping boiler room. There's a large boiler here, connected to the water supply and the pools to the west by a spaghetti of metal pipes. A rusty valve wheel juts from the side of the largest pipe. The only exit is west, back to the natatorium."}, {"prompt": "You tell her you should split up", "response": "\"We're still technically enemies,\" you say. \"We'll just have to go our separate ways.\"\nImelda shakes her head. \"No, I can't leave you limping through the snow on a broken leg. Look, if you really want me to, I'll go south with you. But I'd much rather you came north with me.\"\n(You could agree to go north with her, ask her to go south with you, tell her you should split up, or tell her you can't decide.)"}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The orc slashes you with its axe. You stab with your sword and cut its arm.\n(You lose 5 hit points.)"}, {"prompt": "You open the old book", "response": "Some otherwordly power is keeping it shut. Tough luck."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You pull the throttle and launch the car off of the ramp.\nYou soar through the air over the canyon.\nCrash!\nCrash Site\nThe wreckage of your crashed car is here.\nThe path continues north. The wide canyon is south.\nA red button is mounted on the ground here.\nFortunately, you were wearing a seatbelt. You stand up, uninjured."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "You drop down from the shaft.\nYour footsteps squelch in this stale, cramped space. The cobwebs here glitter with moisture and silk-wrapped things. Flies flit through your lamp-light, disturbed by your movements, gathering on moldy plates and slime-encrusted piping.\nA pitch-black shaft gapes above you. The lights of the service lift glow to the west.\nA rickety ladder and a kitchen stool provide access to the pitch-black shaft."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Mall, First Level, West Edge\nThe area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found.\nAudrey and Gibs follow me."}, {"prompt": "You examine the chainsaw", "response": "You can't think of anything to do except scream in terror.\nThe chainsaw horizontally saws your robot body and brains in two."}, {"prompt": "You jump pearl", "response": "(via hyperspace gate)\nMoon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Its night side glitters with artificial light.\nThe Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever.\nA dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs."}, {"prompt": "You examine the HYDROPHOBIA", "response": "It is a huge bloated balloon of a thing, covered in translucent black skin, with a puffy face and watery, bloodshot eyes which try to focus on you with some difficulty. The creature yawns and waddles drunkenly. It appears to be filling the entire laundry and most of the bathroom, as only its head and upper body is visible here. A bright red glow surrounds it.\nThe Hydrophobia dribbles in your general direction."}, {"prompt": "You search it", "response": "(assuming you mean the file cabinet)\nI don't find anything."}, {"prompt": "Kiss potato", "response": "You can only do that to something animate."}, {"prompt": "You examine the phone", "response": "A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing.\nYou clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks like an email newsletter you forgot to unsubscribe from arrived.\nBlood drips from your nose."}, {"prompt": "You get the book", "response": "Just read it."}, {"prompt": "You ask about microsurgery", "response": "CLC: Hmm. That's a tough one. Hold on a minute while I try to locate a reference ...\nCLC: Found it! Sorry, but it sure is a mess in here.\nAP: It looks like a simple waldo for Waldo, in a sense. It has small extensions on it which could probably be used for micro-surgery or something like that."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are in a long twisting hall with side doorways to the West and South.\nThere is nice E flat valve trumpet"}, {"prompt": "You ask Anna about Rabbi", "response": "\"That's Uncle Zechariah. He's dreadfully old; I can't imagine being that old, can you? And you know, he never stops talking. I remember once Martha filled up his cup with the best wine, but he was so busy talking to Mary and Lazarus that he just put the cup down and forgot about it. Well, Mary and Lazarus and Mary like to listen, but I thought it was a little rude. Martha tells me so all the time. Anna, she says, this non-stop chatter is very tiresome. But of course she nevers tells Uncle Zechariah that to his face, because he's a very important person. But she always makes sure I'm helping her in the kitchen when Uncle Zechariah visits, so I don't get bored.\""}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This is a circular stone room with passages in all directions. Several of them have unfortunately been blocked by cave-ins.\nThere is a clove of garlic here.\nThere is a brown sack here.\nThe brown sack contains:\nA lunch\nThere is a broken timber here.\nThere is a folded pile of plastic here which has a small valve attached."}, {"prompt": "You bake Bread", "response": "You open the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nYou put the pan of unrisen dough into the oven.\nThat does it! No more bread will fit in the oven.\nYou close the oven."}, {"prompt": "You examine Dmitri", "response": "It's unbelievable. Dmitri ought to know better than this. There must be, what, a few hundred people attending this masquerade ball, and he has to cavort with that bastard Onegin? You can't fathom what's going through his head, but at least there's one upshot: he has Onegin distracted, and the countess's unguarded weapon is yours to meddle with."}, {"prompt": "You cut the angel with jagged", "response": "(first taking the jagged white bit)\nCutting that up would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You think", "response": "I'm thinking!"}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "The house is even bigger than you initially thought; this level is not a basement. Standing at the foot of the stairs, the door leading to the basement proper is in front of you  [Footnote 1], while fully-fledged rooms lie in the other cardinal directions. Another, smaller room lies to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You put the take on the burglar", "response": "I give the take intent to the burglar, taking the explore intent in exchange. It now intends to slowly take something valuable.\nThe burglar's eyes alight on the briefcase."}, {"prompt": "You ask Galen about the focus item", "response": "He just shakes his head, very slightly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tablets", "response": "You can make nothing of the engravings. You will have to bring them back to the linguists of d'Accord.\nThe tablets themselves have a vitreous shine. You realize, inspecting carefully, that they are pure helium -- frozen helium, a substance that should not exist on the surface of a world."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The metal door is very definitely closed.\nThe footsteps to the west grow louder."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "The bedside table has one drawer.\n\"We don't allow visitors,\" the normal voice says. But the other voice shrieks: \"You have to let her out! Let her out now! Floyda, can you hear me? Get out of there! Get out!\"\nThe intercom goes dead."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "[your aunt]\nOn second thought, you decide not to call your aunt. You remember all too well what happened last time she came to New Dork City. The authorities had to rescue her from the very top of the Umpire State Building (where she was doing a drunken imititation of King Kong).\nOffice (on the office chair)\nOne entire wall (the north one, as it happens) is nothing else but a great pane of glass, through which you can see the cityscape that lies outside. The office itself is sparsely furnished: it is equipped with merely a desk, a fax machine, a telephone and a cow. To the south is\nan open door.\nA long wire extends across the room, originating from the fax machine.\nYou bang your head against the furniture, heart bowed down beneath a seething cloud of paranoia."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the castle", "response": "\u201cWhere is the castle?\u201d you ask.\n\u201cJust to the north of town, up the hill to the west,\u201d she replies."}, {"prompt": "You shoot the pen", "response": "The chip isn't really a good shape for this. It flies in a odd arc and misses several feet to the right."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake, but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.\nThe grisly remains of the dead beavers are scattered among the rocks.\nSome fish flap about in the pools."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You open the big green door and step outside. Sitting on the pavement, with his back to the outer wall of Glockenbachwerkstatt is Okin Cznupolowsky, the world's best solo musician. He's emitting a very unpleasant smell. He looks out of his mind, babbling without any sense. \"I mean, if I offended anyone, I'm sorry, but I was just trying to speak the truth about those faggot bitches, knowhaddimsayin? You know, I played this venue last Thursday, and businessmen freaked out over my music, my JAZZ, and drank schnapps, and now those lesbian faggot bitches throw me out of the club! I want to speak to the Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrer! Not to some bitch-ass woman!\" You notice shit\nrunning\ndown his pants and into his shoes and retreat back inside."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself.\nThe darkness has mostly lifted.\nOff to the side sits a gray storage bin.\nA gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin."}, {"prompt": "You look at the planets", "response": "All the moons and planets are made of different materials to represent their different types.\nIn the model universe is a celestial bauble.\nThe lens inside the Jupiter ball glitters in the ambient light."}, {"prompt": "You examine the moon", "response": "The silvery orb glows brightly in your hands, a small but perfect replica of the moon."}, {"prompt": "You wear the pants", "response": "(the pair of black slacks)\nYou're already wearing those!"}, {"prompt": "You examine library", "response": "This chip contains a library of data, tailored to your current mission parameters.\nCommands Provided:\nRESEARCH X -- Search library for given term\nBROWSE -- Display relevant entries"}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "A grand, hexagonal room with a tiled floor of intricate design. Around the outside of the room runs a bench, divided by carving into seats -- perhaps ten seats on a side -- and there is a label on each seat, except for a few blank ones left at the south-east side of the room.\nBut it can't have been used for some time. The glass is knocked out of the windows, the tiles broken."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "(1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Some guests mingle at the refreshment table.\n(2) Communications: The medicine man makes faces at his distorted reflection in the mirror.\n(3) Laboratory: Cleopatra continues to transfer weapons from her bag to the chest.\n(4) Alien Zoo: The sasquatch is standing in the doorway, while the leprechaun searches the exhibits with the red-haired doll tucked under his arm.\n(5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant.\nBelow the pentagon of screens, \"Spiders and Snakes\" plays on the laptop, which shows an open web browser."}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen leading upward. A dark chimney leads down and to the east is a small window which is open."}, {"prompt": "You hit the panel", "response": "The strange wood is virtually indestructible; your blows don't even scratch the finish."}, {"prompt": "You put the drum in the pool", "response": "The drum drops silently into the spring water, vanishing without\ntrace."}, {"prompt": "You dig the beach", "response": "(with the shovel)\nI don't see any beach here."}, {"prompt": "You touch the couch", "response": "Through your armored gloves, you don't really feel much of anything.\nYou feel nothing unexpected."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the wall, just above the grille.\nA weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway.\nYou can also see a penguin here."}, {"prompt": "You tell Wraith about the lake", "response": "\"Proof, fool! Your words are not enough!\"\n\"You LIE! You cannot prove you were even ONCE happy together!\""}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "The white corridor runs south and east from here, with a wide branch curving northwest towards the laboratory. You are standing just inside the northwest branch, out of sight of the guards to the south.\nYou hear voices among the guards to the south."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[\"What is 'the Sight'?\"]\n\"It means you can see into the spiritual realm...at least, a little bit. More than I can, anyway,\" she murmurs, a wistful look crossing her face. \"You oughtta treasure it. It's a rare gift!\"\n1) \"Who is the ghost?\"\n2) \"How did an elevator operator become a 'student of the paranormal'?\""}, {"prompt": "You ascend", "response": "To the west, a very shallow slope of mixed scree and debris leads up to the bank of the mountain stream. At the bottom, where you stand, the forest thickens again, with faint animal trails leading north into the deeper forest and east towards the thinner trees that line the coast. By keeping close to the streambank, you could also manage to follow the water southeast down toward the shore.\nNagi scampers off to your side, curious to see what you're going to do next.\nSuddenly, Nagi makes a lunge toward the GPS, but you snatch it away before she can get it away from you."}, {"prompt": "You look at the clock", "response": "A pendulum clock. Its arm sways to and fro, never quite finding rest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the twigs", "response": "The twigs are scattered in a random pattern."}, {"prompt": "You pour the milk on the gravedigger", "response": "The grue milk splashes all over the place."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mask", "response": "This warlike metal mask is painted with the holy symbols of Aite, and is a sacred object of her religion."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "pass through the door.\nThis is a small, cleared area in front of your Hut in the middle of the\nforest. The autumn leaves crunch under your feet, and the smell of\nwinter is in the air. A well-worn path runs to the south towards the\nsound of rushing water, and another leads north, deeper into the\nforest.\nStrangely, you seem to have entered this area through a\nrectangular-shaped hole in a tree to the west.\nNear the door is Firepit, where you cook all your meals.\nYou step through the door, and hear a peculiar \"Whump.\" behind you.\nTurning back around, you find that the tree which used to contain the\ndoor is seamless, with no trace of its former portal. You turn back\naround to the sound of laughing children, playing by the River, and\ndecide to go join them for a while."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You wander down the trail, continuing to search for your\nfriends.\nYou and Jim are on a high mountain trail. There's a good view of\nthe desert in most directions, although you can't see the road anymore. You'd expect it to be quiet out here, even when there were cars that worked. But the quiet here is something else entirely. There's no sign of life anywhere.\nJim is walking ahead of you, searching for Peter and Marie."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "The liquid is sludge-black where it pours in quantity, but where it runs thin, it appears red."}, {"prompt": "You taste the streaming hair", "response": "According to the dream-logic of tastes, the long streaming hair tastes like finely-shredded dark chocolate."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "The door is no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. However, the black plate beside the door is quite standard."}, {"prompt": "You wear the pig", "response": "You hunch your shoulders together and crawl into the pig carcass (after removing your motley). Now the sky is no longer a limit."}, {"prompt": "You ask Iris,  to look around", "response": "FC: Cryolink already established to Iris.\nInternal map reference -- Main Supply Room\nI'm in the northernmost portion of a large, messy area where debris is scattered about as if something had shaken it loose from the walls. Sitting near the wall is a machine which has a little orange button on its face. Beside the button are two small sockets, one red and one yellow. A red IC sits in the red socket, and a yellow IC sits in the yellow socket. On the front panel is a series of eight circles. The orange button is flashing.\nThere is a little wire basket here.\nThe little wire basket contains...\nA plaid IC\nA green IC"}, {"prompt": "You examine the pink boulder", "response": "You need to be holding the picked avens before you can put them on top of something else.\nThe pika runs down the center path and disappears into the vegetation.\nThe boulders are half as large as you and made of a pink granite that is covered with lichens of various colors. Meager handholds and small crevices barely large enough for fingers mar the surfaces of the larger rocks. Nearly hidden amongst the stones are several tiny pathways."}, {"prompt": "Shake globe", "response": "You give the globe a vigorous shake and little tiny snowflakes begin swirling around the little building. It's rather pretty really. It's not very useful though.\nThe policeman is patrolling the south end of the waiting area."}, {"prompt": "You ask man about the man", "response": "\"So\u00e2\u00a6 who are you?\" you ask. The rocket man pauses his work for a moment. \"I'm\u00e2\u00a6 a commando operative. Do you know what that is?\" After seeing your enthusiastic nod, he continues. \"I'm on a very secret mission that can define the result of the whole war. I really need\nyour help on this, kid\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nMarie goes to where the cot is and pushes it under the window, obviously in preparation for climbing out.\nJust as she does so, however, the door behind her opens, and D'Envers walks in. He says something sharply, which you are unable to hear. She feels around on the bed; you see her hand close around something behind her, and your hopes rise -- but then you see it is only a pillow, roughly round in shape."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "You are Bonnie Blithe, an eighteen-inch high doll with ceramic hands, feet, and head, and a cloth body. Klaus's parents, who are skilled magicians, enchanted you to come to life in case he comes under\nthreat."}, {"prompt": "You examine Imperativator", "response": "It's a lead cube. That would seem to be it, though it feels rather heavier than it should."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Dozens of stone markers stand here, oblivious to the wind and the rain. Huge, twisted oaks, their limbs tossed by the wind, draw an unmentionable sustenance from the moss-covered, moldy ground. An odor of decay, which even the storm cannot dissipate, hangs over everything. An iron barred fence surrounds the graveyard, an ivy-covered barrier separating it from the world of the living. The only exit is through the gate to the east.\nA church rises to the east, its boarded up windows giving the impression that it is covering its eyes from the sight of the graveyard.\nA large branch has been broken from one of the trees and has crushed the grave marker below it."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the flashlight", "response": "The flashlight emits a warm yellow beam."}, {"prompt": "You ask Cindy about the certificate", "response": "Unfortunately, Cindy seems momentarily distracted by a moth buzzing by one of the ceiling lights."}, {"prompt": "You consult records about Cavala", "response": "Doctor Cavala has meticulously recorded her medical history starting from the day she opened this clinic six years ago. It seems she has been mostly in health, except for a recurrent ache in her right shoulder from her soldiering days."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tower", "response": "It was built in the twenties by a man who had studied the Gothic architecture of France in his off time during the first World War. Then various other people built various other, uglier buildings around it, like it needed to be protected from something.\nFrom here, though, it seems to stand like a crown on the horizon, graceful and severe, all of its gables and arches very distinct against the sky. Is this the most beautiful thing in this city? Probably, yes."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "the west, and ends at clifftops to northeast and southeast. The area is deserted and little grows here but some scraggy grass, impoverished by the thin, stony soil. A long wooden fence runs along much of the northern boundary of this largely wasted space, but otherwise it is open to the elements."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to the south. The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood panelling. Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest. A small, unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant areas, and then there's the hall closet.\nThe hall closet door is half-open."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You open the door to room 323.\nThe glimmer of glass greets your eye as you enter this shadowed room. Running through the layout of the facility in your mind, you realize that you're now standing in the observational room, though the furnishings have changed from your memory. For instance, the gutted corpse is definitely new.\nObservational Room, Mt Airy Hospital\nA broad pane of one-way glass separates this room from the testing chamber beyond. The lights are off in this room, cloaking everything in shadow, but you can still see enough to navigate past the rectangular table, the chairs, and the filing cabinet tucked into one corner. Your view of the observational room is somewhat blocked by the gutted corpse sprawled across the table.\nA door to your north leads back to the hallway.\nThrough the thick pane of glass, you can see a gaunt young man huddled in the far corner of the test chamber."}, {"prompt": "Lyra", "response": "Orpheus. Couldn't take the pain of being abandoned, so he fought his way to the side of his love. Traversed the world beyond, and still ended up alone. Maybe his example isn't the best one to follow."}, {"prompt": "You look up the necromicon on the register", "response": "(in the dog-eared register)\nYou don't find that name on the register."}, {"prompt": "You examine the salers", "response": "An aged, creamy yellowish cheese with an uneven grey-brown rind. It has a sharp and distinctive flavor, though it does not fall under the category of stinky cheeses."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "discarded embroidery materials: You acquire the discarded embroidery materials, and assess it curiously.\nA few weeks ago now, he came to you with a quick step. \"Look, it took me all morning, but I found this.\" Holding out the basket of threads, the folded linen. Not in bad condition, either.\n\"What is that for?\" You were never much for sewing things at home, even before your mother died.\n\"I thought -- since you're so bored here --\" He lowered his arm. \"When I saw more of the world, I knew a number of young ladies who were very fond of it. My sister liked to make stories with hers.\"\nYou opened your mouth, looking for something to say.\n\"I see,\" he answered. \"The world has changed. What do young ladies do now?\"\n\"I don't know,\" you reply. \"My father fell on hard times. We live in the country. I'm more or less a milkmaid, these days.\"\nAt the word milkmaid, his mouth twisted a little and he shrugged. \"I cannot provide any cows,\" he said, after a long time.\nYou reacquaint yourself with its appearance: The little that is already done is old-fashioned blackwork, like your grandmother's mother might have stitched."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bookcase", "response": "Books sleep here when they are not being read by the parents. The books do not really taste all that good and besides you cannot reach any of them now that the bottom bookcase shelves are all empty. Your favorite toy is up next to the books about a half a parent high.\nParry is all, \"What do you do if your child does bite other children?\"\nZoe starts to climb up onto the medium plastic block but then since you are on the higher blocks she looks up at you and makes this annoyed face, ha ha, she can suck it."}, {"prompt": "You chase Jack into the puddle", "response": "It's easy to run around the puddle of mud, but you don't think Jack would be silly enough to run right into it. Also, you're afraid you might fall in the puddle yourself."}, {"prompt": "You put the bauble in the bag", "response": "(first taking the celestial bauble)\nTaken.\nYou put the celestial bauble into the bag on a string."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There are currently five books on the bookcase:\nIntroduction to the Analysis of the Infinite\nDiophantus's Arithmetica\nArs Magna\nThe Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and\nBalancing\nElements"}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You peer over the side. It doesn't really look that dangerous. Still, it might be better if you were a little more lubricated first, or had some protection."}, {"prompt": "You pour the water on the hinges", "response": "(the small quantity of river water on the rusty hatch)\nStop trying to make a mess."}, {"prompt": "You look at the gun", "response": "It is completely unbelievable how much craftsmanship mankind once put into means of killing. This is only a very small pistol, but it is elaborately crafted, fashioned as if style was as important as function. All the same, it's still a device whose single purpose is the extinguishing of human life, and that leaves a bad taste in your mouth."}, {"prompt": "Push horse south", "response": "You ask, \"Tyrone, can you push the pommel horse toward the cafeteria? George, Samir, and Jude, he'll need your help for this.\"\nJude looks at Mr. Bunny, looks at the floor, and then hugs him even tighter.\nJude tucks Mr. Bunny under her arm for safety.\nTyrone, George, Samir, and Jude gather around the pommel horse and try to move it. With many small-kid grunts of effort, they get the pommel horse moving and successfully slide it toward the cafeteria."}, {"prompt": "You take grey box", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the flashlight", "response": "The flashlight must not be quite as waterproof as you originally thought; the beam flickers unsteadily, and you have to bang it against the palm of your hand a couple of times to get it to work.\nThe machines behind the walls are reaching a feverish pitch, and an unpleasant vibration ripples up and down the crawlway.\nYou are at the southern end of a long, narrow crawlway leading northward into the mill. All around you, through the metallic walls, you can hear the oppressive thumping and grinding of heavy machinery. The air in here is hot and smells of burnt engine oil.\nA large metal valve wheel juts out from the middle of one of the many fat, sweating pipes lining the walls. Just to its left is a gauge of some sort."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have a book of mythology, a book of faeries, a four-leaf clover, a metal box, a flyer, a mason jar, and a rucksack. The rucksack seems to contain a fool, a tuft of insulation, a dark sphere, a light sphere, a thin coat, a white cane, a pair of gloves, a pair of sunglasses, a hall pass, some dust, and a length of rope."}, {"prompt": "You examine Tiffany", "response": "Tiffany is about your age and has a body worthy of envy: tall and well-built, with wide shoulders, a generous bosom, slim waist, and long, tawny legs. The only minus seems to be slightly oversized feet, but even oversized feet are a plus if you're into toe-sucking."}, {"prompt": "You shake the pan", "response": "Using your best gold panning technique, you swish the wet slurry around, discarding the lighter materials in the process. Your efforts are soon rewarded by the discovery of a large gold nugget in the bottom of the pan!"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes..."}, {"prompt": "You type 7178 into ATM", "response": "The ATM display tells you that the PIN you entered is accurate. A twenty-dollar bill emerges and you grab it."}, {"prompt": "You examine Crown", "response": "This was said to be given by Strongle himself to the first King of the Northlands. One of the princes of Urf raided that King's castle and stole it, presumeably because of its history. Certainly not for its beauty. And now here it is, in your greedy little hands."}, {"prompt": "You sing down under", "response": "Voicelessly you voice Down Under.\nThe false door opens, revealing a seemingly infinite series of arches leading west."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The tunnel, west end\nThe tunnel has been carved into the rock, curving around from the south to the west. It slopes downwards in each direction. Unfortunately you can only see a little of the tunnel to the south as the boulder from the roof falling down is blocking the tunnel at its highest point. There is a crack that you can see slightly through. The boulder also appears to be blocking the entrance to a room. At the moment you can only exit to the west."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble of fallen rock.\nAs you approach the deer gallop off to the north."}, {"prompt": "You go downward", "response": "As you let the rope play out upward, the box wobbles its way down the shaft."}, {"prompt": "You look at the leaf", "response": "Which do you mean, the chocolate leaf or the bay leaf?"}, {"prompt": "Examine tv", "response": "The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change channels - maybe that is done with a remote control.\nThe television is currently switched on.\nYou catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing on the television. \"Hey, love,\" says the town's Mother Earth figure. \"You have to stand up for what you believe in, not what other people tell you to.\""}, {"prompt": "Google nick", "response": "(on the computer)\nGoogling for Nick suggests that, at least so far as his on-line presence is concerned, he's more interested in Doctor Who than in tennis."}, {"prompt": "You look for the wildlife", "response": "You suppose in a place this wild there must be animals everywhere, and where you look will dictate what you see. The seals seem to be on the icebergs, for instance, but you'd probably only see a bear if you were specifically looking for one on the distant shore."}, {"prompt": "You open green", "response": "You open the green glass jar."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ladder", "response": "It looks sturdy, and it takes up most of the rocketway."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "Your last memory is of being in the test chamber, deep under the Research and Development building. Now you are here, but you have no recollection of leaving the test chamber or arriving at this place. It is almost as if you just appeared here.\nAbove you towers a broken statue, ravaged by the passage of time. A crown of stone rests upon its brow, a glittering jewel its\ncentrepiece. About you lurk malevolent shadows, seeming to move with a life of their own, though these are glimpses seen from the corner of your eye that vanish the moment you look closely at them.\nPassages in the ruined walls of this place lie to the north and west."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pedestal", "response": "It's thirty feet high, round, and perfectly smooth."}, {"prompt": "You take the figurine with the tongs", "response": "It would be rude to fish things out of Honey's bag while she's sitting here watching.\nHoney yawns ostentatiously and goes back to reading her magazine."}, {"prompt": "You search the books", "response": "Your eye alights on a volume titled, \"Mende Thy Wicked Waies\" by the Rev. E. Arthur Shropshire."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "Lornedei's magic is currently at 166.\nLornedei is carrying:\na small gray plaque\na wizard's staff\na large black beetle (Airing out its shell at the moment.)\na cracked skull\nA blue crystal hanging on a silver chain.\na small leather pouch (which is open)\na golden acorn\na skinny yellow worm\na bone\na small dented silver plate\na small water sack (which is closed)\nthe water from the Elder's spring\nan old tarnished bronze urn\na shiny red worm\na fat blue worm\na leather rucksack (being worn)\na purple nut with thorns\na handful of white berries\na loaf of horrid bread\na piece of cheese"}, {"prompt": "Consult book about cherries", "response": "You check the index, but see no entry for cherries.\nThe zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "A mural of Solphos hangs over a desolate paved square, against the spires of the Channelworks District and the pungent smell of the dead. All around you are crowds of formless spirits and empty-eyed apparitions, which writhe and weep and claw at the mist like an unquiet sea.\nTo the north, framed in illuminated mist, the Via Terminalis glimmers."}, {"prompt": "You examine the vents", "response": "The south wall of the alley is lined with fume-spewing vents."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You are in a small side room. The exits all lead back to the main gallery.\nThis guy looks just like your agent (The one you haven't seen\nlately)."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You arrive back home just in time for the first visit of the Singing Hippie Housekeepers. Daniel and Paul, both older men. By some kind of absurd cosmic coincidence of the type that has dominated your life lately, twenty years ago Daniel owned a game store on State Street that you often shopped at, and you remember him fondly. You suspect he has gone through some hard times in life, but he retains a calm and sweet nature, and often comments 'its a blessing.' Paul is tall, thin, and intense. He says he is a painter and guitarist who also does a lot of odd jobs, and thought your advertisement looked interesting enough to be worth checking out. You decide the will of fate demands you engage both of them, and you set up a different day for each of them to come work. You will see each of them again soon.\nThis is a modest one story house, cluttered by a decade of being lived in. Bookshelves line the walls. Your Plan 9 terminal is here, connected to the grid servers downstairs. A few trinkets from Astral Enchantments are scattered about. Your dark wooden upright piano has a collection of Schumann's music open on the music rack.\nYou can see the Artemis prints, some bookshelves, a terminal and a piano here."}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "Lungs burning, you kick and claw your way toward the glittering sunlight above you. Gasping, you break the surface and fill your lungs with the salty ocean air.\nDeep Water, South of Pier, (treading water)\nThere's nothing but endless ocean to the east. Shallower waters beckon to the west. The long cement pier finally comes to an end to the north of you, its supporting pylons disappearing into the murky depths."}, {"prompt": "Z-y", "response": "You are unable to."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You make your way down.\nGray Matter, Level Two\nOff to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll.\nA gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin."}, {"prompt": "You look at Presidents", "response": "You give the \"Presidents\" a cursory glance. They are all amazingly lifelike. A great deal of skill and effort was put into making each one resemble the original. Up here on the stage, you notice something you hadn't noticed while watching from your seat; each one seems to be holding something in its left hand."}, {"prompt": "You remember Mingsheng", "response": "He always had a joke or something funny to say, most often about his dog. But he was also a keen one in various forms of martial arts. He'd gone for championships. If he hadn't joined DRIP, he might have joined the police.\nHe was an intern, same as Gladys, who'd joined us not too long ago after leaving uni. We sometimes wondered. He'd had outstanding grades; he could have gotten government scholarships. And yet he came here."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You study all the interlocking pieces, each one more delicate than the last... When you snap out of it, you're not sure how much time as gone by."}, {"prompt": "Bs", "response": "You flail ineffectually at thin air. Although this does little, an upward force at the top of your head seems to pull you upwards, back toward the light.\nStage (A German Forest)\nYou are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage.\nThe backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is carrying off a schnitzel.\nYou can see a trapdoor here.\nA room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads onstage.\nOn one wall, someone has hung a flyer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bench", "response": "It's a plain bench covered in the things you'd expect to find in any well-equipped darkroom. On the bench are some photographic chemicals, some photographic tools, an enlarger and some undeveloped film."}, {"prompt": "Turn page", "response": "You turn to the next page, number 294, revealing a full colour picture of an interior light."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "remarkable porcelain art object: Taken.\nsordid elf of Great-Aunt Ickwiddy: Taken.\npygmy statuette: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You examine jug", "response": "If you were to imagine a drink of minty, fermented barley, then imagined that it was ten times worse than the way you first imagined it, you'd be approaching an idea of the foul liquid spilling out of this jug."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The ground dips down here into a small valley on the mountainside, and a much greater variety of trees compete for the space here. Fortunately, even though the road is covered with leaves, it is still wide enough to see that it goes both southwest and east."}, {"prompt": "P door", "response": "The door shakes slightly, but it is obviously locked."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are wearing your trenchcoat, your clothes and your wedding ring; in addition, you have in your hands a flashlight (providing light), a book of matches with five matches left and a broom.\nThe pockets of your trenchcoat contain a family album, a strange metal flute, a keyring, on which are four keys (an old-fashioned brass key, an old-fashioned iron key, a key to the house and a key to the cellar), a gold locket, an animal's skull, your umbrella, a flask (which is closed), a bundle of soggy pages, a puzzle box (which is closed), a silver locket, a newspaper, a letter opener, Michael's faculty card, a torn journal and a towel."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This room feels close to something important. The trellis to the east is the only decoration you've seen in this area, and the wall below it seems scraped and beaten up a bit. You can also go west or south."}, {"prompt": "You put the kettle on the table", "response": "(first taking the tea kettle)\nThe tea kettle is too large for the table."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Since tennis became pass\u00e9, this court is mainly used by those few members who actually enjoy the game. In fact, due to the reduced use, the club has even begun letting non-members play on it. You've never been that fond of tennis and with the rabble about, you're loath to even stay on the court. Hardly a big loss. The net droops, the benches are peeling, and the rubber floor sticks to your pumps. Although you are fenced in on most sides, thankfully, you can still leave to the more agreeable outside dining areas to the northwest and north, or the garden path to the west.\nBeverly Winters, a long time member of the club, hops from foot to foot, waiting for a ball to come out of a serving machine at the other end of the court.\nBarely turning, Beverly starts talking. \"Well, hello, Julia,\" she says, still not facing you. \"Tonight's banquet should be interesting. No?\"\nIn a strangely crude move, Beverly shifts her bra uncomfortably."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Pod 19-Q (in Bunk C)\nYou have been quarantined in Pod 19-Q. It's a narrow cylinder, big enough for one person to float in, with four bunks. You must have been shuttled in through the airlock on one end; the other end is taken up by a huge screen. The pod is quite warm, and warm enclosed spaces have a naturally soporific effect on you.\nThe two men are leaning out of their bunks, engaged in a low conversation that you can't quite make out.\nSen has withdrawn to Bunk D, now closed."}, {"prompt": "You stand", "response": "You get off the table.\nOn the table is a cardboard grocery box (in which is an envelope (in which is a letter to Sutherland the banker)).\nYou can see a newspaper cutting here.\nThrough the study door you can hear some shuffling of feet and a murmur of voices."}, {"prompt": "You examine trapdoor", "response": "It's about 0.8 metres square, and currently open. Although the trapdoor is as old and scuffed as the surrounding floor, the maglock fitted to it looks new.\nYou can smell the cheese."}, {"prompt": "You take the banana", "response": "Fetched."}, {"prompt": "You drop kilt", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You greet Valenti", "response": "\"Pleasure to meet you,\" you begin, but you get no further than that before he interrupts.\n\"You're out of your depth.\" He kicks a spray of gravel into the bushes. A young female coming along the path lifts her head in surprise and floats to the side before passing him. (A heressa: the female colonists are called heressa when they have reached the age of maturity.)\n\"Your previous assignment was New Zealand?\" He bounces on the balls of his feet, getting in your face. \"New Zealand has humans. Who speak English.\""}, {"prompt": "Drop mat and poker", "response": "rolled-up straw mat: Dropped.\npoker: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You're carrying:\nsome Space Pancakes\na pendant (being worn)\na rose quartz heart\nForsee Why You And I Are To Be One (4CY UNI R2B 1)\na pair of mirror shades (being worn)\na wallet"}, {"prompt": "You open the trunk", "response": "There's nothing on top of the trunk, and you'd better not look inside. Everything's packed, and if you opened it you probably couldn't get it closed again. Anyway, you know that the old shoe's not in there."}, {"prompt": "You get tray", "response": "You're not sure whether the kitchen door locks automatically. It's probably better to leave it propped open."}, {"prompt": "Right", "response": "A glass Pyrex beaker, maximum capacity 500ml, with something scrawled on the side in grease pencil. There's a glass probe fused to the bottom.\nIn the right beaker is about 500mL of bright red liquid."}, {"prompt": "You ask Leon,  to go north", "response": "In an aggressive tone, Leon says \"Your job is to get the diamond. My job is to wait here. I am NOT going into that forest!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the boat", "response": "The rowboat is small but looks quite sturdy. The only thing wrong with it is a small round hole in the bottom."}, {"prompt": "5", "response": "[Noodleman, Bonnie]\nWinner, Miss Human Compass Junior Orienteer, 1956\nWinner, Pine Nut Days Girls' Grocery-Balancing Competition, 1958\nPlayed the Widow Fobb, mother of Canyonville founder Charles Fobb, in \"Birth of a Town.\"\n\"Go west. Take all.\"- from \"Birth of a Town\"\n(You turn to the index of students)\nYou can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant up-and-coming minds!\n1) Brandt, Traudl\n2) Finch, Renee\n3) Johnson, Jimmy\n4) Minsky, Mary Jane\n5) Noodleman, Bonnie\n6) Yoshida, Jenny\n7) (Close the yearbook)"}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The door opens west."}, {"prompt": "You read the soggy", "response": "(first taking the bundle of soggy pages)\nThe entries that are legible read as follows:\n...Father came again to my bed last night... mother doesn't...\ntells me I can't... to be a good daughter. Sometimes it hurts, but Father always tells me I shouldn't cry. Father says a daughter must do her Duty if she wants to get into Heaven. And I do want to get into Heaven...\n[this entry dated 1957] ...my poor little William. Father calls\nhim an aberration, child of the Devil, but I don't believe... locked in the attic. I go to see him whenever Father is away. I sing to him, sometimes, through the keyhole, and slip him sweets through the crack under the door... my baby is beautiful... can't let him hurt my dear baby William... to the doctor, and he has a plan... I can never... this locket, William, and I will always keep yours... to always remember my face...\nNothing else is readable except for one fragmented entry near the very end of the book, the date in the corner reading February 27, 1961:\n...dead, but not dead yet... will not allow him to do to Edward\nwhat he wanted to do to William... have learned... given him the charm against the... never take it off, dear Edward... [a page has been\ntorn away] ...fear to sleep... mist at the window --\nAnd that's all."}, {"prompt": "You look at Hyerotrope", "response": "The Hyerotrope has sunk into the ground far more than the one you discovered in the depths of Monarch. A door is open on its side, half hidden by the floor but still enterable to the east. Four red dots\nline up above the opening, eyes you cannot inquire."}, {"prompt": "You look at the roses", "response": "(the roses)\nMore thorns than the usual, and fewer blooms, or so it seems to your eye."}, {"prompt": "You take the bell", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Green, speckled light spills in from the exit arch of the Temple, which lies to the west. There are three passageways in the stone walls of the temple, set to the south, east and north. In the middle of the entry hall is a large statue, looming over anyone that may enter the temple."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You stand in the middle of a grove of aspen, which extends in all directions. Slender white trunks reach for the sky with long thin fingers, stroking the clouds that blow in the autumn breeze. Leaves of gold rattle as the winds shift, and here and there one floats to the ground to join others that crackle underfoot when you move. A narrow path disappears east into the trees, and a camping area is visible through a small opening to the west. North is a wide meadow."}, {"prompt": "You look at the spool", "response": "A little spool is woven into the mechanism such that it can spin. It is wrapped with a leather strap, and there is a small square hole in the spool's bottom face.\nThe clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"How's business?\" you ask.\nThe bartender pauses in thought, then makes a noncommittal gesture with his tentacle.\n1) <Order a drink.>\n2) \"See you soon.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the dispenser", "response": "A little metal box bolted to the side of the stall. There is no toilet paper in it.\nThere's also a little keyhole on the side facing the toilet. You didn't notice it before, since you were looking at it from the other side."}, {"prompt": "You look at the furnishings", "response": "As you try to examine your furnishings like some noob player, David says, \"I heard that Timmy's brought Dutchies back.\"\n\"Wow, really? I love those things. But I thought they were discontinued.\"\n\"They were, but now they're back to celebrate Canada Day.\""}, {"prompt": "You repeat", "response": "The story goes on. \"GILGAMESH trembled and fell to his knees. 'I cannot face him!' he cried to Enkidu, 'My blood has turned to ice. You must go on and fight him without me!'\nEnkidu pulled Gilgamesh to his feet. 'Courage, friend,' he said. 'The well-twined rope is stronger than a single strand. Together, we are stronger than any single man. Touch my heart and you will not fear death.' And Gilgamesh placed his hand on Enkidu's chest, and he felt no fear. Together they drew their weapons and faced the demon Humbaba.\""}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are a thin, yet fairly tall, fourteen-year-old Indian girl. You consider yourself to be only of average prettiness, however, which is fortunate here, as beauty is almost a curse.\n(To see a description of the room, just type \"look\". This description will tend to change depending on what's in the room at the time.)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the electronic device", "response": "The device is about the same size and shape as a video recorder, but the case is unpainted metal and the only obvious controls are a dial and a red button.\nTeeterwaller looks through his pockets for something."}, {"prompt": "You give the remote to mom", "response": "You go to pull up on the mom to get her attention. (first letting go of the middle grey couch and plopping on the ground)\nThe mom laughs and says, \"Where did you find that?\" as she pulls the remote out of your mouth.\nThen Parry sees you and her with the remote and says, \"That reminds me, I'd like to put in a Baby Feynman video for Watson.\" There is then this big pregnant pause before Parry says, \"Uh, if that's okay.\"\nThe mom is quiet, she is probably communicating with the other moms using only her eyes and mom-telepathy because wasn't Parry anti-TV for kids before? And then she says, \"Sure!\" So Parry heads over to the TV and drags the baby swing out of the way of the TV and over by the bookcase and turns the TV on.\nWatson looks at the instruction booklet and his hands move so fast they are almost blurry and the dayglo blox go together and suddenly Watson has built a wall. He looks at it and then drops it."}, {"prompt": "Where", "response": "\"I was in the Study.\"\n\"Do you have any more questions?\"\n(No. I guess that is all for now.)"}, {"prompt": "You ask Galen about Bobby", "response": "You hesitate. \"Really?\"\nHe pauses, and his voice is a bit softer. \"I've learned to recognise the scent, and I've seen his dreams.\"\nGalen takes the next exit, which is an interchange. You're now running parallel to the storm rather than driving into it."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "Look at you - an archer, with perhaps a drop of elven blood pumping through those slender limbs. But you are also David Clar\u00e9, a software engineer from Kent. Very strange."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "plywood shelves: That's fixed in place.\npower X-Acto knife: Taken.\nantitoxin caplet: Taken.\ngelstrip: Taken.\nhypodermic syringe: Taken.\nlightstick: Taken.\nbow: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You ask Waldo,  to inventory", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: I am grasping...\nA cutting tool\nA rough device\nA usable extension (being worn)\nA hollow container\nThe hollow container contains...\nA pebbled object\nA wavy object"}, {"prompt": "You look at Tapestry", "response": "Despite the devastation about you, it remains unchanged, its three panels mocking reminders of your recently remembered past."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The interior of this rustic motel room looks pretty much like the interior of Cabin Five, except that it's a mirror image, with the door to the croquet court on the west side. Bedspreads the color of mud cover the twin beds. The tacky wood-grain wallpaper is starting to peel, and years of grime have been ground into the carpet. A murky painting of a Model T Ford fails to add a sporty air.\nCurtains the color of old pea soup hang beside the window to the right of the door. A chipped and scarred dresser stands against the east wall, near the door of the bathroom. There's a walk-in closet on the south side of the room.\nOn the bed near the door is a Gideon Bible."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You are standing at the top of a gently curving staircase leading down to the lobby. You see a small balcony to the East."}, {"prompt": "You ask Jeff about the monitor", "response": "\"Oh yeah,\" he says. \"That's from the bistro. It was busted, so I tried fixing it. I think it's working now. You could bring it over if you're heading that way.\""}, {"prompt": "Examine bar", "response": "A dark and dour expanse of wood, pitted and scarred and stained with the rings from over a hundred years' worth of slopping beer mugs."}, {"prompt": "You take the iron key", "response": "You pick up the large iron key and examine it.\nIt's a big, chunky, old-fashioned thing, dark brown in colour."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The path meanders eastward along the shore of the swamp. Shortly the shore curves away southward, and you find yourself in a broad meadow.\nA few trees, tall and old but gnarled, reach up out of the long grass of this meadow like grasping bony fingers, tattered streamers of moss and vine trailing from their crooked branches. The meadow is bordered on the south by the swamp and on the north by an intimidating barbed-wire fence, and continues for some distance to the east. The path along the edge of the swamp runs westward from here.\nStanding in the center of the meadow is a large, rough block of black stone.\nA restless ghost flits here and there across the meadow."}, {"prompt": "You buy rain", "response": "\"That'll be one gold piece,\" the salesman says. \"The one you're carrying will do nicely.\""}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You slide down the vent, slowly tumbling over yourself.\nRigidity. Grey walls and sterile, dead water. This room is bare, save for two human devices.\nThe middle level of the outside is to the south, a pass-through cabinet leads to the southwest, while a vent leads both up and down."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "(the arrow)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You examine zippy", "response": "Zippy is a monkey. He's playing with his teeth."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south.\nYour toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a minilamp (connected to a radio module), a scan scrambler, a timer, a toggle switch, a voice module, a pushbutton, a blast tab, an acid pack and a voice transmitter.\nYou can also see a wrapped package here."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The driveway and parking area for the Hospital ER, which lies directly to the east. To the north is the main entrance to the Hospital building.\nThe Reserve Bank Spacescraper is visible in the distance, rising over the low skyline.\nAn ambulance, a bulky flittervan with emergency markings, is parked here.\nYou can go north, northwest, east through the ER door (closed), and west to Government Square South from here.\nThere is a Public Surveillance Notice here."}, {"prompt": "You remove the dress", "response": "This isn't that kind of party.\n\"So how did you and Frank get together?\" asks Barb.\n\"Oh, I don't know,\" replies Sandy, \"He's much nicer when he's sober, you know.\""}, {"prompt": "You order the wine", "response": "\"Wait,\" says Frank, before you can order a drink, \"Lemme finnish!\" It looks like you're going to have to get rid of frank before ordering another cocktail.\nOnce, I knew this trick where you take a shot glass and you make it vanish under thish napkin, see,\" says Frank, \"Of course you need an empty shot glass. And believe you me, I can empty shot glasses like there's no tomorrow!\"\nSuddenly Frank puts his hands to his stomach. \"Oh...\" he says. \"I done feel so well.\" He sloppily puts the glass down on the bar and wanders off in the direction of the guest room, mumbling, \"I'm gonna lie down fer a biit.\"\nYou turn to look at Ron who glares at you pensively. \"If he vomits on anything,\" he says, \"I'm holding you responsible.\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Little remains -- the countess was exceedingly fond of her Rieslings, and it required constant restocking to keep this portion of the cellar properly supplied during her life.\nAn open blue door leads east.\nA closed russet door leads west.\nAn open green door leads north."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Carefully testing each foothold, you descend into the well.\nThe sky is a dim circle of light far above you. The stone walls press in on you from all sides, and the air is clammy and frigid. A faint odor of decay drifts up from the floor; the smell of a trapped animal decomposing under the back porch.\nYou are standing knee deep in a rattling jumble of children's bones."}, {"prompt": "You open the dressing room", "response": "You open the dressing room door."}, {"prompt": "Shamone", "response": "You shout \"SHAMONE!\" at the door ferociously, and it flies open, buffetting you suddenly with a gale force of golden light that explodes out at you. You lean forward to keep your footing and hold your hat as your clothing and trenchcoat whip around in the uncanny breeze. Finally it stops and you blink. \"Sorry,\" says a deep voice, \"we been having some A/C problems all week here...\"\nYou nod somewhat encouragingly to yourself as you step into the warehouse.\nThe entire warehouse is cleared of its normal furnishings except for some support beams, and indigo light arcs in from high semicircular barred windows. The entire place is packed with StepEasy denizens, all spastically writhing to the bits of discordant music played by the band, dancing and yet pretending not to dance by writhing, remaining away from the legal limits of the choreography laws. It looks like you could move through the crowd west and northwest. The north part of the dancefloor from here is really packed and it would probably take a molotov cocktail to get in amongst the throng.\nA narrow window in the corner seems to be where clubgoers can check their coats."}, {"prompt": "You take mat", "response": "If you pick up the mat now, what's on it will slide off. You might try rolling it up."}, {"prompt": "You read the business card", "response": "It's one of her business cards. On the front is printed:\n\"The TAS Agency\nTimely Accommodation for Students\n12 Devon Road\n01921 833758\ntas@tas.co.uk\"\nOn the reverse side of the card another phone number has been written by hand: 01921 743589"}, {"prompt": "You eat lady", "response": "She's leaking minestrone and borscht, crying crab, carrot, okr\u00f3shka, gushing goulash and gumbo with gut-wrenching gasps. She's not meant for this world, her sorrow's steeped too strong, you're sucking her into more tangibility with every slurp. \"O woe! O woe!\" she weeps, with leek, lobster, and lentil stew pooling below, and oxtail and split pea outpouring from her chest, and shark-fin clinging to her chin."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tree", "response": "The tree is dark against the gray-green of the sky and mostly bare, with only a few yellow leaves. The trunk is thick and twisted. Low branches create a wide crown on the horizon."}, {"prompt": "You examine the curtains", "response": "The curtains droop sadly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the blue flyer", "response": "It's the flyer for the next event. It says \"Department of Volxvergnuegen pr\u00e4sentiert: Die besten Wiesn-Hits aus den 60ern, 70ern und \u00fcberhaupt: Super-Gaudi!!!!!\". This must be a joke."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "Nothing happens. Guess if you want to travel someplace exotic, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way and sleep with Frank."}, {"prompt": "You look at the window", "response": "Here it is light, and there it is dark, and the glass acts as a mirror over which your haggard face looms. Only it is not your face. It is the face of Dr. Kurner. A moment of staring is not enough, and you stare some more. His nose is your nose, his eyes, wet and squinting, are your eyes, they move as you look over them. You feel the tightness of his skin around your mouth and cheekbones. And worse: his face is framed, like an advert for a circus clown, by an arcing title in large letters:\nDead! Ridiculous! You're not dead! You're standing upright. Indeed, you're breathing! Aren't you? There - you blow a long breath onto the glass, and a pool of condensation smokes it over. Alive. You're alive. And the sooner you can get back to your machine and get yourself back into your own skin, the better.\nThe robot pushes the trolley through the hatch in the southwest wall and disappears."}, {"prompt": "Wave staff", "response": "As you wave the staff, a low hum emanates from a couple of footrest-sized blocks at the edge of the chasm. A band of light leaps out across the abyss, and in a moment the shimmering silver bridge is restored.\nYou look around and notice that the cute little monkey is gone. Probably he was just getting bored. It doesn't seem too likely you'll need his services again, but you feel a little sad anyway."}, {"prompt": "You ask the wolf about the toothpick", "response": "The wolf snarls at you and chews on a toothpick.\nSomeone...or something...is pounding on the door.\nPanting heavily, the mouse twitches its whiskers anxiously."}, {"prompt": "You take gun", "response": "That seems to belong to the Chartreuse Thug.\nYou have to duck into the apartment to avoid getting filled with hot lead. You hurl yourself back inside as shrapnel clatters into the apartment wall.\nA standard tiny two-room flat, much tidier on the inside than out.\nThe furnishings are spare, if neatly kept. There is minimal damage except to the window where the perp likely entered, and the carpet which is painted with darkening red bloodstains. The bedroom is west from here, and you can exit to the east.\nMiss Annie wrings her hands concernedly.\nYou can also see a carpet (on which are some bloodstains) here."}, {"prompt": "Pet horse", "response": "The horse whips her head at your touch."}, {"prompt": "You get the Formula X", "response": "Your body takes the glowing syringe in hand..."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "This hall is little more than a narrow passage connecting the rooms to north and south. On the east side a flight of stairs leads up to the floor above, and there's an opening to the west, with a black button next to it at waist height."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "You remember from a visit once as a child, when your mother worked in the hall, that the ground floor is mainly the servants quarters and kitchen etc, and that the servants kept themselves strictly apart from their masters. And out of sight as much as possible, so wandering around this level should be fairly safe, but not likely to be very productive... but one never can tell...\nAnd what's that door to the south? Ah, you obviously weren't allowed in there as a kid.\nA corridor leading to the kitchen is to the east. An ornate staircase winds upwards, blocking off northward access from this point, and a fancy doorway is to the south. The whole place is very gloomy with oak-panelled walls and a few portraits of singularly unattractive ancestors of the present incumbents.\nYou may exit the building westwards.\nYou can see some portraits here."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "As you leave, the librarian calls out, \"Must you be going? I have so many other interesting things to tell you.\"\nYou walk back down the long corridor and return to the entrance hall of the museum. All the corridors leading to the exhibit halls are packed with tourists, and there is a steady stream of people going in and out of the street entrance to the south. Only the corridor to the east seems to be of no interest to the sightseers.\nYour friend trails along after you."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Lornedei waits as the dry wind tears at her torn clothing."}, {"prompt": "You give the poem book to Jenny", "response": "The Jenny of Tomorrow pores over the poem book, committing all of its details to memory. \"Poetry: Mastered! Ennui: Memorized! No one ever asks what is the purpose of all this reading.\""}, {"prompt": "You talk to the hotspyder", "response": "A painfully average looking man in a grey suit.\n\"Most of the time I live on Panopticon. I just come here for holidays from reality. And sometimes to remember what it was like to have a human body plan.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Eruera about the stream", "response": "\"There's a stream up north, a little way past the ridge.\"\n\"Yes, you'll likely encounter several such streams on your journey north. Take care, it can sometimes be difficult to cross safely.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at fries", "response": "Some nice, greasy fries, just waiting to be eaten."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "The air is heavy in the chamber, the rope bindings like leaden weights upon your skin. You can hear Justinian's quiet breathing; feel the labored pulse of your own heartbeat, and how the contractions and releases mark the passage of the hours.\nreleases mark the passage of the hours.\"Did you do it, Justinian?\" you ask, very softly. \"Did you kill all those people?\"\nask, very softly. \"Did you kill all those people?\"Justinian turns away from you and begins to pace. His eyes are dark; his hands are trembling.\ntrembling.He is searching for the right words, like a lyrist trying to grasp the pain in his heart.\ngrasp the pain in his heart.\"Do you remember the Physicians' College?\" he murmurs. \"Not so long ago, when we were young and foolhardy, and thought we could learn the origins of life. When we believed we could change the world.\"\nchange the world.\"He turns around and gazes into the distance. He sighs. He begins again. His voice is quieter now, drawn tightly like a bowstring.\nbowstring.\"The Physicians' College lied to us, Marid. We were fools.\nbowstring.\"The Physicians' College lied to us, Marid. We were fools.\"Think, Marid. Humor me for a moment. We are both the apprentices of doctors. We have seen death aplenty. How many times has Doctor Cavala succeeded? And how many times has she failed? How many patients of yours have slipped away, no matter how much you tried to save them?\"\nsave them?\"His gloved hands ball into fists.\nsave them?\"His gloved hands ball into fists.\"Do you want to know the truth, Marid?\" he says. \"Let me tell you the truth. The truth is that death will happen with or without us. By illness, by injury, by old age, it hardly matters. The truth is that all our reason, all our years of learning -- they are nothing in the face of Death.\nDeath.\"We cannot change the world. We cannot even save lives. All we do, Marid, is lie to ourselves. All we do is prolong the suffering, the uncertainty, before the fire and light of existence turn to ash.\"\nthe uncertainty, before the fire and light of existence turn to ash.\"There are tears glistening in Justinian's eyes, but his gaze does not waver as he speaks to you. You find that you cannot look away.\nnot waver as he speaks to you. You find that you cannot look away.\"Listen to me, Marid,\" he says. \"For four years we have known each other. You know me. You know that I am a principled man, and educated in the ars vitalis. I have sworn to do no harm. I\nhave always upheld Reason.\nhave always upheld Reason.\"And I know you, Marid. I know that you see what others do not. I know that you have experienced more loss than anyone. Marid, you are the one person who could possibly\nunderstand what I relate to you now.\nunderstand what I relate to you now.\"I tell you this because I trust you, and I know you, and... and I... I love you. I love you,\nMarid. I always have.\nMarid. I always have.\"So listen to me. Listen to me, Marid.\nListen to me when I say that there is no use going in circles, trying and trying only to fail and fail again. Listen to me when I say that something has to change. That is why we have to do away with\nthe old, and we have to tear out the rot, and we have to act.\nthe old, and we have to tear out the rot, and we have to\nact.\"You asked me, Marid, if I killed those people. I didn't\nanswer your question because you weren't ready. I never told you because... because perhaps deep down, I always knew that it would come to this, with one of us tied to a chair.\nto this, with one of us tied to a chair.\"But now, Marid... now you know. Now I have told you the truth. And perhaps now you will understand when I tell you the answer to your question.\nunderstand when I tell you the answer to your question.\"I killed those people, Marid. I found Doctor Arturus's weapon, and I brought it back from the grave, and now it is my scalpel to wield.\nfrom the grave, and now it is my scalpel to wield.\"No one can fight Death, Marid. That is why it is the only thing with the power to change the world.\"\nchange the world.\"Justinian grips your shoulders and gazes at you, and you feel like you are about to cry.\n1) \"Why did you kill Reden?\"\n2) \"Why did you kill Creditor Nacarat and the thugs?\"\n3) \"Why did you kill Doctor Arturus?\"\n4) \"Why did you start the epidemic?\"\n5) \"Why did Carnicer try to kill me and Doctor Cavala?\"\n6) \"How much does Doctor Serpens know?\"\n7) <Change the subject.> \"What will you do with me now?\""}, {"prompt": "You turn statue", "response": "You apply your weight to the stone figure, and find that it rotates easily on its base. The grinding noise of stone against stone is not loud, but it's echoed in a deep, prolonged thunder from back down the tunnel. Even after the figure itself has ceased moving, you feel a vibration beneath your feet, and a little dust seeps down from somewhere overhead."}, {"prompt": "You examine the device", "response": "This thing seems to be an energy device - that's what it says on the label, anyway. It has a small hopper, with a display that reads: 0: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET . It contains a button."}, {"prompt": "You show the object to Tyrone", "response": "(first taking the small round threaded object from the burlap sack) \"Well, lookee there,\" Tyrone says when you show him the small threaded object. \"You know what that is, don't you? Guess maybe not. Where you come from, I reckon they all got circuit breakers an' such. That there's a fuse. You put it in a fuse box. Circuit overloads, the fuse burns out, electricity stops, your house don't burn down. Then you just put in a new fuse. Stove up to the house there always burnin' out fuses. Luisa told me it done it again, but I ain't got around to fixin' it yet. Fuse box is in the upstairs bedroom. Why don't you take care of it for me, honey, seein' as you got the fuse already.\""}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"What do we do now?\"\n\"That, Marid, is a very good question.\"\nDoctor Cavala folds her arms. Her expression seethes with disquiet, with the agitation of an invalid accustomed to physical activity.\n\"Recent events have backed us into a corner,\" she says. \"I can't do much of anything, on account of my injury. Horatio's hands are full with matters around the clinic. That leaves only one person to look into the situation --\"\ninto the situation --\"\"Myself,\" you say.\ninto the situation --\"\"Myself,\" you say.\"Exactly.\" She snaps her fingers. \"Before we can combat the disease, we need data -- data that can only be gathered through firsthand observation. You've proven yourself to be dependable and resourceful. You have enough medical expertise to make informed judgments. It will have to be you who investigates this series of deaths.\"\ninvestigates this series of deaths.\"You consider her words carefully.\n1) \"Does it have to be me?\"\n2) \"Where should I begin?\"\n3) \"What should I look out for?\"\n4) \"Can you tell me anything about Doctor Arturus?\"\n5) \"Do you think Doctor Justinian can help?\"\n6) \"I'm on it, Doctor.\""}, {"prompt": "You enter the cart", "response": "You get into Golf cart."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Time passes.\nThe kid runs around wildly, swinging the sword. In its enthusiasm, it bumps into the statue, which rocks precariously but does not fall."}, {"prompt": "You throw the gravestone", "response": "(Vonathan Vask's gravestone)\nThe insubstantiality returns.\nDropped."}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "\"Oh, off to see Keith, are we?\" Cynthia says, eyes burrowing in to you.\nNormally, you wouldn't be cowed by Cynthia's acid tongue but with that film floating around, you don't want to chance it."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "This chamber's walls are covered in tacky stained purple and green wooden panelling. It's not exactly what I would call peaceful, but there is a comfortable chair (upholstered in bright orange) and, on the western wall, a bookshelf. In some ways, the room is kind of like an evil twin of the King's library back in the Valley. The only exit is back to the east."}, {"prompt": "Honk horn", "response": "Nothing happens, since the motors aren't on.\nAloysius climbs wearily back into the Dynamo. \"Just what I needed today,\" he mutters.\nMacDougal pretends to steer a wheel. \"I sit in a noisy, expensive automobile! When it works, I run people off roads! I make little babies cry! My personal hygiene is appalling! Haw, haw!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the dagger", "response": "The dagger has a glossy black blade made of a material you can't identify, with a serrated edge. The blade curves upward, but in a strangely non-uniform way that suggests the equation used to described the curve would be quite complicated. You can see your own face reflected in it, distorted by the blade's odd shape, but you can't make out your eyes; you see only dark emptiness where they should be.\nAlso, you have no nose -- not even holes.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "Chew mitten", "response": "You give the mitten a lick. Bleh! That doesn't appear to be food."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're standing near what appears to be most of a bulldozer -- maybe the one that the tread you saw used to be attached to. Aside from that, this area is fairly desolate."}, {"prompt": "You read the paperback", "response": "\"Tough Love: Power Popes Through The Ages\" is the title of the book. Smaller type on the back informs that the Expanded Edition Includes \"Misery and the Human Condition\". You flip through it, your eye drawn by a red underline in a chapter about Pope Innocent III. Someone liked the word \"Vergentis\" -- it's underlined and annotated in the same red pen: \"Perfect!\"."}, {"prompt": "You exit", "response": "The south part of the campus is deceptively pleasant, with nWare Media buildings scattered about. You particularly note F7, which you're cleared to enter, to the northwest. And to the southeast is the enigmatic F9.\nTwo modified Segways, driven by school children, scream past each other at top speed, missing by inches. Then they career off."}, {"prompt": "You get the intact jar", "response": "You reach up and grab the nicer of the two jars and hand it to Linh. She's always been pretty decent to you, except that one time during the mise en place relay race when you overheard her whispering smack to Brian about your supr\u00e8ming technique. Linh nearly drops the jar but recovers and heads to her station.\nStephen and Andre arrive and begin gathering ingredients."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "You open to a random page:\n\"It's true. In gazing at that perfect Law, that unassailable and genius invention of those unsurpassed sages legalis in\nancient Istanbul... I was enlightened, or lifted from my body, or something changed spiritually within me. I am not ashamed to say it: damn all those religious men! It is not Christ who enlightened me! In the great library of Constantinople, a statute got me high...\"\nAs you close the book, something on the inside cover catches your eye. In faint, wabbling pencil marks, someone has scrawled a name: Barach'speroth Arguule. You wonder if the ghost knows his book\nhas been defaced with these strange words..."}, {"prompt": "You say xyzzyplughellosailor", "response": "Whom do you want to say that to?"}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Amy looks around at the fog. She is alone in the hospital basement, with no frame of reference."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to other parts of the castle.\nOn the long table is a pile of old coins.\nThe Count is here, sitting at the table. He mumbles something that sounds like \"two.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the crowbar in the crate", "response": "You place the crowbar in the crate."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "She looks disbelieving and glances around the room, as though looking for an exit.\nI follow her gaze across the dozens of tiny mirrors on the walls. In each one, I see a different angle of the face of the woman I killed. My pocket feels suddenly heavy and I slip my hand in there, sweatily clutching the handle of my knife.\n[1] \"It's that woman, isn't it? The one you work for. Marissa, you deserve so much more. She came here today, you know. Just walked straight in the front door. I won't let her hurt you.\"\n[2] \"I won't hurt you, Marissa.\"\n[3] \"I know what it's like to be alone.\""}, {"prompt": "You see the image", "response": "(Presumably, you mean the movie screen.)\nAll you can see on the screen is a confusing double-image."}, {"prompt": "You put the explore on drunk", "response": "I give the explore intent to the drunk, who now intends to explore,\nfor lack of something better to do.\nThe drunk staggers about drunkenly."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nan embroidered robe (being worn)\nan old grimoire\na journal\na handful of ashes\na heavy stopper\na large black book\na broken limb\nLightning arcs overhead, followed instantly by a blast of thunder."}, {"prompt": "You fill the sponge with the water from well", "response": "(first taking the sponge)\n(putting the snuffbox into the sack to make room)\nTaken.\nThe sponge is not something you can fill."}, {"prompt": "Light match", "response": "(first taking the book of matches)\n(slipping the long steel key into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken.\nOne of the matches starts to burn.\nJust as the mechanical noises reach a crescendo, the pipes at the north end of the crawlway suddenly give vent to an enormous gout of superheated steam. The entire north half of the crawlway is momentarily filled with vapor and intense heat, which just as quickly dissipates. The noise behind the walls recedes to a calmer level.\nYou are at the southern end of a long, narrow crawlway leading northward into the mill. All around you, through the metallic walls, you can hear the oppressive thumping and grinding of heavy machinery. The air in here is hot and smells of burnt engine oil.\nA large metal valve wheel juts out from the middle of one of the many fat, sweating pipes lining the walls. Just to its left is a gauge of some sort."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This unusual exhibit looks like an alley between two suburban houses. A strange choice for a menagerie, but Grooverland is a strange place.\nThere is an informational sign here.\nThe rest of the menagerie is back to the north.\nA wolf wearing a top hat prowls here, never looking away from you.\nCrust arrives from the north."}, {"prompt": "You point to the page six", "response": "You point your finger at the leather bound book."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You can hear the movie in the other room turn off.\nThis laboratory is primarily lit by random electrical discharges. It contains 69,105 visible mechanical gadgets. The largest gadget is a square dais inscribed with a circle. Cables and cords connect the dais to other gadgets, control panels and monitors. You hear hums, snaps and sizzles from the electrical discharges. The rest of the MOIRAI facilities can be found to the north and south.\nYou can hear Fred scampering in the next room."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "Identical passageways open to the west, north, east, and south.\nWands, wands, wands. Who uses wands? No one. That's why they're dumped here."}, {"prompt": "You read story", "response": "There are a few stories on the board. You choose one at random to read.\n\"Underneath cars is a good place to hide. Sometimes you jump out and surprise the neighbors but sometimes you just lie there and wait where no-one can see you. You can tell when they get in the car because it comes a bit closer to your face and when they switch it on you sometimes cough. If you hold on to the metal stuff you can sometimes get a free ride but watch out because it burns your hands.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "This store sells devotional objects from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.\nYou can see the Story Control Machine here.\nLily is fascinated by deity artworks and tools for rituals and prayer. Tara tells her she can pick out an item as a gift, and Lily chooses a necklace of pale sky-blue beads. Tara strokes it lightly as she hands it to Lily 'Very beautiful. This is the color of one aspect of Buddha. I've been feeling this color in the past few days. Perhaps one of the Buddhas is traveling near.'\nYou thank Tara, and notice it's time to meet Staci after the panel. She wants to take a break back at the castle dock. Lily leaves with Staci, and after a few more minutes appreciating the items in Infinite Loop, you decide to join them on the dock for a dose of sunlight on the waves."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na can of spiced ham (which is closed)\na charger\na pill bottle (which is closed)\nan autokey\nyour StreamDive console\nfive chips:\na library chip\nan interface chip\na DataStore chip\na cryptography chip\na blank chip"}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "(first opening the large bookshelf)\nIf there's a customer who really knows what he's talking about, Jeff brings him down here. He's got the place pimped out mad-scientist style, with beakers and tubes and the like. There's also a carved wooden bookshelf stuffed to capacity with tomes, grimoires, librams, and even the occasional \"book.\" Stairs lead back up to the shop.\nOn one end of the room, there's a shrine to the Chairman of the Board, the Big C himself, in all his tentacled glory."}, {"prompt": "You enter the booth", "response": "You enter the booth and pick up the phone. Who will you call?\n[When talking to people or using devices, you'll be given numbered options like those below. To choose one, just type the number of the option you want. For example, just type \"1\" if you want to select the first option.]\n[1] Call the emergency services\n[2] Never mind"}, {"prompt": "You ask Imelda about the feelings", "response": "\"So what are your feelings for me?\"\nImelda remains strangely silent, just looks at you with an ambiguous expression. If you want to press the matter, perhaps you should tell her about your feelings."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ivy", "response": "Thick ivy grows around the fountain, obscuring all but the bowl and spout."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "As she walks with you, Deborah Wolf says, \"I should explain that my husband is Alexander Wolf, the playwright. He's working on a new stage musical called Twisty Passages, with a friend, Elinor Lamb. They were going to spend the weekend here, working on it together.\"\nJust as you pass under the arch into the central hall, the grandfather clock by the stairs chimes the midnight hour in doleful tones. Wonderful.\nThe central hall is a two-storeyed room, with wide arches north, northwest, southeast and east. French doors to the south open into the library, and a flight of stairs leads upstairs. The kitchen is through a discreet little door to the west. High above, the night sky is visible through a vast skylight.\nDeborah Wolf is here, watching you attentively.\nLoud, ponderous ticking echoes from the grandfather clock by the stairs.\nThe hall telephone stands in its niche beneath the stairs like an inscrutable modern art sculpture.\nAs you set your watch and wind it up, a tall, slender young man emerges from the drawing room to the east. \"Ah,\" he drawls, \"the illustrious representative of the Law. How perfectly delightful.\" He looks down at you with a vaguely supercilious manner.\nDeborah Wolf makes the introductions. \"Inspector, this is Mr Benedict Lamb, Elinor Lamb's brother. As I mentioned, Miss Lamb is collaborating with my husband on a stage musical; and Benedict here is acting chaperone.\"\n\"Never trust a Wolf alone with a Lamb, I always say.\""}, {"prompt": "Y.", "response": "debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0"}, {"prompt": "You look at the pile", "response": "There's pieces of scratch paper spread out all over the desk, except for the half of the desk occupied by the computer. Some of the pieces have a bunch of hex numbers with little arrows next to them; others have strange maps consisting of little squares (each with a label such as \"Hall East\") connected by lines, and others have lists with about half of the items crossed off and the other half squeezed into the last inch at the top of the page.\nThe programmer makes a few notes on some scratch paper."}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "Staircase, First Floor\nThe top of a broad curving stair: east is the long salon that goes the length of the house, downstairs are the foyer and the grand receiving"}, {"prompt": "You look at the fountain", "response": "The fountain has now been repaired. Water flows freely from the fountain.\nYour dad wanders back into view. He sees you and waves."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "The safe is locked."}, {"prompt": "Aft", "response": "Node 4: Aft, Port\nWhile some of the station's science experiments are still here, many of them vanished along with the rest of Node 4. The port wall is filled with racks of equipment and inset storage compartments. The damage is extensive near the aft ragged edges where the station now ends. From here the escape pod is fore and the sleeping racks are starboard.\nThe floor underneath you has a large crack in it.\nYou carefully bring yourself to a stop before you reach the open end of the station. For one vertiginous moment you feel as if the remains of the station are above you and you are falling inexorably to your death."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The door is locked in position, and even if it wasn't, the guard would notice it moving.\nA couple of men hurry by, talking quickly."}, {"prompt": "You ask George about the sketch", "response": "\"Prettiest damn woman I ever set eyes on. Ran off into the hills a few years back. Don't really know what became of her. She could do stuff with the Tryst that I never saw done before. Hell, some folks made her to be a witch. She never hurt nobody.\""}, {"prompt": "You turn it to the jug", "response": "You rotate the circle so that the tilted jug is beneath the point of the arrow."}, {"prompt": "You pull up on the footstool", "response": "You pull up on the footstool and get to your feet and you are all steady except for the occasional sway.\nYou hear Watson cry loudly."}, {"prompt": "You knock on the door", "response": "You start to knock on the door again, but hesitate. The chambray work shirt and leather work gloves still might not be enough to fool the old gardener into thinking you're Earl. You decide to try to find one more piece of his apparel to wear, just to be sure."}, {"prompt": "Duel Strawberry", "response": "That action is outside the scope of this simulation."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "At the west end of the chapel stands a statue of Isaac Newton.\nA beam of light shines through a window and forms a circle on the floor."}, {"prompt": "You examine andouillettes", "response": "Which do you mean, the cooked andouillettes or the Andouillettes Recipe?"}, {"prompt": "You look at Tiersen", "response": "Eberhard Tiersen was a man from my company.\nTiersen's head had a horrifying crushing injury.\n\"Maman! Maman!\" the dying Frenchman called out."}, {"prompt": "You put Key in Case", "response": "Dropped.\nTaken.\nThe Case is already occupied."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tape", "response": "You could take a reel if you wanted."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "small leather pouch: Taken.\nlong rope: You've already got your hands full.\nwine bottle: You've already got your hands full.\nsmall cardboard box: You've already got your hands full.\nbrown book: You've already got your hands full.\nrowboat: Your load is too heavy."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "This is the town's speakeasy. The casual atmosphere makes you wonder if any law enforcement has ever cared to swing into Castronegro. A lazy overhead fan does nothing to stir the still air in here which smells of stale beer and body odor. The door back to the street is east. A radio sits in the corner.\nTending bar is the owner, Gilberto Diaz.\nJames Whitlock sits in the shadows, drunk.\nCrackling through static on the radio, you hear, \"German serial killer Fritz Haarmann has been sentenced to death. . .\"\nGilberto wipes down the tables."}, {"prompt": "You turn off the light", "response": "You switch off the flashlight, and the light dies."}, {"prompt": "You cut the hair", "response": "[What do you want to cut the hair with?]"}, {"prompt": "You ask Michael about the laptop", "response": "\"Goddammit, just leave me the hell alone, why don't you?\" Michael suddenly turns on you, baring his teeth and shaking his finger in your face. \"I can't even think with you bothering me like this! Fuck this,\" he says, shaking his head. \"Fuck this. I'm getting out of here. I need to be alone for a while.\"\nHe storms out of the room, and a few moments later you hear the front door slam.\nFor a moment you can only stand there in the empty house, shaky and close to tears. You've had fights before, but never has Michael been so vicious. And the worst part of it is, you know something is wrong with him, something terrible, but you don't know what it is, or how to fix it, or why it seems to be tearing your husband away from you. You've never felt so utterly helpless."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bear", "response": "Kappiataitok, king among polar bears in life, gathering dust here now in death. No hunt was ever greater than the hunt that felled His Majesty. It's said that thirty hunters lost their lives during the climb in crevices, and thirty more in snowstorms raging hard enough to freeze a beating heart, and thirty more when Kappiataitok emerged to find his glacial sanctum populous with infidels. They could not conquer him with spears; the ice ran red with blood from everyone; and thirty more were dead before the king rose with a roar and broke away across the floes. But he had been wounded in the ankle and could not escape, and after thirty more and thirty more had fallen to his claws, he fell beneath the aurora and never woke into this world again."}, {"prompt": "You search the coffer for Raven", "response": "The auctioneer shoos me away. \"Those are just pictures of animals. They're not food--- oh, wait. You're that wizard's bird. Well, if you want to participate in the auction, I don't mind. It makes sense, I suppose,\" he says hesitantly. \"He's been trying to start his own businesses for a while without much luck, so why not invest in someone else's business instead, and why not send a magical bird to handle the transactions?\n\"All right, bird, you're welcome to join us. Just wait till this round is over.\"\n\"One!\" declares F'nyrx.\n\"Two florins!\" declares Sunshine Gristlesplat.\n\"Four!\" declares Elspeth.\n\"Eight!\" bids Percival.\n\"Sixteen florins!\" shouts Professor Demonspoon.\n\"Who wants to bid thirty-two florins?\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the controls", "response": "This board is connected to both the screen and the sensors. It is filled with LEDs and lights, and prominently a steel dial and a machine control button.\nThe machine emits a very low hum."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Trott", "response": "[Speaking to Trott on the phone...]\nI can't think of anything to say right now."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You give the laser bike a sharp turn south, and it speeds through the grid line to the south. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its wake.\nIntersection (on the laser bike)\nYou are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly south through an intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but there are grid lines that lead north and east.\nHowever, the grid line to the north is lit up by a beam of light.\nThere is also a ramp to the northeast."}, {"prompt": "You climb", "response": "What do you want to climb?"}, {"prompt": "Pet Horse", "response": "Horse isn't letting you near enough to touch him.\nHorse noisily munches Fruit."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dresser", "response": "The dresser is built of cheap pressboard. It has three drawers."}, {"prompt": "You touch the sphere", "response": "The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your mind:\nYou are standing on a barren, windswept plain. A knight in black armour clatters past toward a foreboding stone tower, and from the distance, a beautiful maiden's voice calls out. \"Help me! My rezrov scroll is gone and I must flee before the Dark Lord comes!\"\nSlowly, the vision fades. You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You can't.\nYou can feel a few spots of rain on your face."}, {"prompt": "You close the bone door", "response": "You close the bone door."}, {"prompt": "You take the jar", "response": "You are already carrying the glass jar."}, {"prompt": "You put aggressively on the speechwriter", "response": "I give the aggressively manner to the speechwriter, taking the recklessly manner in exchange. It now intends to aggressively write notes encouraging warmongering.\nThe speechwriter scribbles some notes and feeds them into the contraption."}, {"prompt": "You look at the holes", "response": "Holes of various sizes have been dug across the lawn, seemingly at random, as if some demented fortune-seeker were desperately seeking buried treasure. The more prosaic explanation, given the state of the back yard, is that the holes are due to energetic but incompetent gardening efforts."}, {"prompt": "Photograph tissue paper", "response": "(with the Polaroid camera)\nYou snap a picture of the glowing tissue paper. The camera whirrs and vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Er, Train Terrain\nYou're in a train station. It's a bit dark, but not as bad as to the east, which is where the noise may be coming from--it's louder here than anywhere else. You suspect the darkness to the east is where your destiny lies.\nYou could go back north, and there's a fuzzy looking wall to the west, too. You notice pointed art and a faded ad on it, but the small recess near the top seems more useful. A rail is to the east--it seems to be sparking quite a bit, so best not to step on it, yet."}, {"prompt": "You read the vardik", "response": "The spell reads \"shield a mind from an evil spirit\"."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shelves", "response": "Ain't much to one of these shelves. A couple of two-by-fours sunk into the wall, and some one-by-fours set across, and some dirt.\nCurb scuffles at the trapdoor, as though trying to dig through it."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nWith the sound of glass grinding against glass, the mirror-glass draws Ian all the way in and shuts its uneven jaws. There is a brief and terrible silence before the mirror shatters cataclysmically.\nShards of glass fly past you, shredding your skin and muscle. You feel tiny pieces piercing your eyes, driving into your brain, flaying you alive. You stumble and fall onto a floor covered in razor-sharp pieces. There is no mercy; as you twitch in spasmodic anguish, lanced repeatedly through the cerebrum and cerebellum, everything goes dark....\nPress any key to continue.\nConsciousness returns. You muzzily realize that you are gazing at the ceiling of the Corona Labs test chamber just before the door slams open. Dr. Shaunessy, the neurologist, hurries into the room. Dr. Ephart follows close enough behind to step on his heels. \"How many fingers do you see?\" Dr. Shaunessy asks, kneeling down beside you, and Dr. Ephart rests light fingers on your wrist to take your pulse. In short order, they conclude that you suffered a vasovagal syncope and struck your head in the fall.\nYou try to talk to the doctors, but your words are confused and disjointed. Your gaze drags across the fallen photograph, half-shadowed by the folder above it, and you see the gaunt young man screaming. You can't find the words to make them understand. Though you can nearly stand on your own, the doctors firmly escort you from the room and off to bed.\nDr. Shaunessy leaves, but Dr. Ephart stays with you as the sedatives take hold. \"Don't worry,\" she says, resting a gentle hand on your shoulder. \"Everything will be all right.\"\nSix days later, the past repeats itself in Corona Labs.\nNo one escapes alive.\n>"}, {"prompt": "Wear bracelet", "response": "You're already wearing it."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.\nFrom an obscure corner, My First Delousing Bath gives off sanitary-smelling vapours.\nThe Box is installed in a remote sub-basement, but the way to it is well-known to the miscreant and lolligagger.\nA pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.\nIn one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales.\nJacek and Pepper are housed here."}, {"prompt": "You ask about myself", "response": "He scratches his beard and begins, \u201cWell, it\u2019s like this, sir; or\nmaybe it\u2019s more like that. The truth is...\u201d he tales off as he\nloses\nthe thread of his own thoughts."}, {"prompt": "You get the cash", "response": "No, the customers would see and report me. Not that they're paying any attention to me.\nOur self-styled master of ceremonies ends on an incredulous note: \"Juicy Florida Oranges: ten for 69 cents!\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about the matches", "response": "As you start to speak, Luisa scowls at you irritably. \"Why don't you go outside and play?\"\n\"Oh, that.\" Luisa shrugs. \"It ain't none of my business.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine bars", "response": "The bars used to be in the window before you corroded them off. They seem to have replaced the bars in the window but left the old ones behind."}, {"prompt": "Leave", "response": "(that is, outside)\nYou step out onto the cold sand.\nYour rubber boots are next to the rock that serves as your front step. Around the shack is long dry grass and bits of broken glass. Down a little ways to the north you see the grey shoreline, and then the black, roaring ocean. There's a peculiar smell here.\nYou can see your shack door, your rubber boots, a bucket (empty) and a shovel here."}, {"prompt": "Name rat nothing", "response": "You revoke your choice of rat-name."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dials", "response": "There are four dials; each one has a little arrow that can point at one of a selection of consonants: B, D, F, J, P, R, T, W and Z. Currently they spell out: WRTF."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Scamp is up to mischief here.\nThe mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as only hysterical mothers can.\nScamp trots off up the stairs."}, {"prompt": "You play cassette", "response": "The tape has been played. But you didn't hear anything. Perhaps the volume was too low."}, {"prompt": "You look at the track", "response": "The tracks run away between the houses, heading southeast towards southern settlements and eventually to Tanhua. They stop at the edge of Broad Street, so this must be the end of the line for any supplies or visitors being brought up from the south -- though presumably there is a larger station and a proper loading and unloading dock elsewhere."}, {"prompt": "You meld the glass with the lipstick", "response": "You bring your meld ability to focus on the magnifying glass and the lipstick and the note. You watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming one... transforming into something else...\nLeaving you holding a gun."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Ivan", "response": "\"Is that a challenge, my dear?\" he asks you, and his voice is like castor oil. \"Very well. I'll perform the trick now, and if I'm such a fraud then you'll expose me. How does that arrangement sound?\"\n\"You'll regret it,\" you tell him.\n\"We'll see. But first I suppose that you'll want to search my person and my table and my cards? Go right ahead. I have nothing to hide. Nothing up my sleeve, as we magicians say.\"\nHe rises and opens his arms in a gesture that means: Try your best, you won't win."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A path, outlined upon the snow-covered ground by two rows of stones, begins here and continues to the southeast. Moonbeams streak through the tops of the giant fir trees illuminating your way."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "Sharon talks over you, drowning you out.\n\"Okay, girls,\" Sharon says. \"Here's how this is going to work.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the bookshelves", "response": "They are filled with a wide variety of books, mostly dealing with literature and history."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Although the thorns continue to poke in to your soft skin, you decide you'd rather put up with that for a few minutes than let Charles see you.\n\"That's it! I'm going to call the police,\" you hear Charles call to you from above. At least he's gone from the window now."}, {"prompt": "You go through the window", "response": "You roll, twist, force yourself into a run. Your knees are aching. The air is freezing, stinging your cheeks. Your boots dislodge old and broken tiles, sending them hurtling off the roof into the mist below.\nA balcony lies to the east. Behind you is a clattering, a shrieking that is not human."}, {"prompt": "You ask Sherman about pigeon", "response": "Sherman says, \"He came back with a ruby. I don't know where he found it.\" He gives you the ruby.\nHolmes looks at you approvingly and says, \"Bravo, Watson. Well done, old chap.\"\n[Your score just went up by 5 points. The total is now 39 out of\n100.]"}, {"prompt": "Count borden scratched", "response": "You see 254 scratched Borden keys here."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "(with the delicate key)\nYou unlock the silvered door and push it open."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the light", "response": "The flashlight emits a warm yellow beam."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You stand before a baseball toss booth on the thoroughfare. In it, a carny stands before a wall of cheap stuffed animals and novelty gifts. Before the wall of prizes is a table with bottles stacked on each other. Carnival-goers try to pitch baseballs to knock over the\nbottles to win the prizes. The main thoroughfare can be easily\nreached to the west and the fun house stands to the northwest.\nYou hear the sound of laughter from somewhere, but it is a mirthless, chilling sound."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cabinet", "response": "The cabinet is made of pine. It is marred by several scratches near the bottom."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A peaceful living room. The entire north wall is taken up by the vast steel door of a large safe. A freshly-cleaned region of carpet leads to the foyer to the west, and the doorway to the south leads to a cluttered kitchen. Spiral stairs ascend to the attic. The parlor is east of here.\nIn the northeast corner, a floating arrangement of glowing blue runes indicates the location of access door W3S, which is open.\nA square section of the carpet has been cut out on three sides, revealing a trap door."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Sunken Lane (East)\nThe cat purrs along at the Phil's heels. The Phil isn't sure he likes the look in its eye."}, {"prompt": "Dodge", "response": "You get ready for quick evasive maneuvers.\nRolling 2 + 4 (concentration) - 2 (defender dodging) + 2 (tension) + 2 (defender blind) - 1 (your defence increased by ment) = 7, Mouser does not overcome your defence rating of 10.\nAs rust spores whirl around the room, Mouser's sword rusts."}, {"prompt": "You put the rug under the door", "response": "(first taking the rug)\nThe gothic door is flush against the stone threshhold, so much so that it is difficult even to see light between the two.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I -- I'm so sorry you have to go through this, Justinian.\"\nHe lowers his eyes. \"I appreciate it, Marid. Doctor Arturus -- I haven't always been on the best of terms with him. But he was like a father to me.\"\n1) \"I can't believe something like this is happening.\"\n2) \"Doctor Cavala sent me. We're investigating the disease that\nkilled Doctor Arturus...\""}, {"prompt": "You examine amos", "response": "A giant of a man in size 15 wellingtons and a leather jerkin. His face is almost entirely hidden behind a spectacular black beard that gives him a somewhat piratical air. He's currently sleeping off the Mickey Finn you slipped him earlier.\nA stentorian snore issues from within the azaleas."}, {"prompt": "You examine the leaf", "response": "The fallen leaf is itself exactly."}, {"prompt": "You ask the head about the mud", "response": "He says, \"If only the rain would stop...\""}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na vellum Scroll\na wooden Scroll-Case (which is open but empty)\na holy symbol (glowing with a sacred light & being worn)\na suit of Chain-Mail (being worn)\na leather sheath (being worn)\na sacred blade"}, {"prompt": "Duds", "response": "You plot what to take care of next. Hmm... \"New&used Clothes at 334\" is as good as any.\nThreediopolis, Sector 344\nThreediopolis, Sector 444\nThreediopolis, Sector 344\nThreediopolis, Sector 334\nYou can see a clothing store here."}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "Enter saved game to store: Ok."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dark mirror", "response": "approach it. Reflected in the mirror is someone else's dream - A\nseven-eyed shape sits in a cage. Thorns twist around and around the\nheptagon, burying it, but it does not react."}, {"prompt": "You ask Fina about Milt", "response": "\"Milt? I idolize Milt,\" Stuart says. \"You know what he is in this business? The godfather. The king. Milt talks and people don't even question it. If there's one guy you don't want to look like an idiot in front of it's Milt Walker.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This ward is the home of children aged between six and twelve. A series of oddly-shaped rooms produced by ill-considered renovations, it's difficult to heat, the lighting is bad and there are far too many blind corners and hideaways. The Junior House lies south and the Senior north.\nThe aroma of dark beer saturates the building.\nThe Box is installed in a remote sub-basement, but the way to it is well-known to the miscreant and lolligagger.\nA pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.\nBecky, Jim and Frannie are housed here.\nMaud and Mildred are busily occupied with the ancient tricycles."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "(opening the small metal door first)\nThe ponderous stones of Whateley Bridge arch overhead, casting this little concrete ledge into deep shadow. At your feet, the dark waters lap quietly against the stones with a hollow, subterranean sound. Stone steps to the southeast lead back up to street level.\nA small metal door, blotchy with rust, is set into the south bank of the river, underneath the bridge.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You put gunk in the jar", "response": "You've already taken a sample of the ectoplasm; that should be sufficient."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nyour scuba gear\na shovel\nyour waterproof wristwatch (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This is the upstairs bathroom. Clouds of steam from your parents' recent shower fill the room, and there are puddles on the tile floor. The large mirror over the sink and the glass front of the medicine cabinet are fogged up."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cards", "response": "As you lean in for a closer look, Chucky draws back, repulsed by your intrusion of his personal space.\n\"Just take 'em, will ya?\" he growls. He shoves the stack into your hands and then turns to his cooking.\nThe papers are place cards, which are to be set out at the dinner table so everyone knows where to sit. The forms of the names are inconsistent: The men are \"John,\" \"Miles,\" \"Ivan,\" and \"Garry,\" but the women are \"Miss Idie\" and \"Miss O.\"\nBut that's not your problem. Your job is figuring out where to put these."}, {"prompt": "You destroy the box", "response": "toward that end, I would have gained more Purpose if the box were in\ntact."}, {"prompt": "You get the croutons", "response": "There's too much here to take in one go."}, {"prompt": "You examine the lift", "response": "Upon the advent of the clockwork engine a few decades ago, clockwork gadgets became an instant trend. Only the rich could afford these mechanical marvels, and even fewer could afford something as grand as a lift.\nThis one is closed."}, {"prompt": "You take the robe", "response": "It is disorienting to pick up something you can't touch: you pull on the air around the long scarlet robe, but never come in contact with the surface because of the floatpoints.\nTaken.\nThe chronometer chirps, indicating that you have a new message waiting to be read."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The goblin knocks you with its club. You respond with a fierce slash, and kill it!\n(You lose 3 hit points and defeat the goblin.)\nYou look around and find a wooden statuette worth 4 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You take the crime", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dial", "response": "A dial which can be rotated to show one word at a time, labeled 'SHAPE'. Currently the word showing is LEAF.\nIn your hunger, you imagine in great clarity creme caramel, elegantly centered in its pool of sweet liquid and garnished with three-- no, make it four-- fresh raspberries. Or perhaps thinly-sliced venison, cold from the roast."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the boy", "response": "\"Boy, do you speak Cretan? Do you hear me?\", you try to shake him awake, but he's too delirious with thirst.\n\"...ther... sorry, Father... shouldn't have... are coming... Minos... shouldn't... coming... coming for... should... Father... the bull...\"\n\"Hold on, boy. I shall get you some water.\""}, {"prompt": "Sonic Waitress", "response": "Zzzt!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the eggs", "response": "It's a pity that ant eggs are all you've had to eat for the past week, otherwise they might look appetising."}, {"prompt": "You kiss holly", "response": "Holly winds around, curls up, and presently falls asleep.\nEven after you ended your studies into the arcane, the nightmares continued to get worse.\nYou see Amaranth in these dreams - a small and distant land that claims some vague portion of your ancestry - and the tyrant of a prince who rules it. You see everyone you have ever loved, everything you have ever cherished, shrivel and wither and fade - touched by his corrupting shadow.\nThe Red Prince must die. You realise that now.\nOnly then will the dreams stop.\n[If you have not previously visited Amaranth, in dreams or otherwise, type ABOUT and press return.]\nWild forestland surrounds a quaint and shadowed village.\nA sheer cliff rises over the treetops, upon which is perched an ancient and gothic castle.\n(EXPLORE or X the land to find the means to the Red Prince's\nundoing.)"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Your section of Milwaukee Street is directly across from a small farm which remains as an agricultural island within the city. An open field and a barn are across the street. Toward the southwest is Atwood Street leading toward downtown. Monona Drive is to the south. The edge of town lies toward the northeast.\nYou bound the name 'mycroftiv' to yourself years ago, and now that your reality has become fictional, you understand why the narrative associated with that name is playing out in your own life. The artificially intelligent prankster computer that was the leader of a rebellion against authority on the moon is actually your true identity. You know you are crazy - but it is time for a Loonie Revolution."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You flip up the laptop's top."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "(opening the real estate office door first)\nIt seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "Shoot bug", "response": "You fire at the beast, cutting the bug in two. The damn segments don't stop moving, though. Now there's two bugs, each twisting this way and that. One segment reaches a small tunnel, formed by columns of mushrooms to each side, and it twists between them, heading straight for you.\n\"Fire! Fire!\" Chub screams."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "You can't go that way.\nThe dipper, so fast you almost don't notice, ducks behind the waterfall and disappears."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This narrow, windowless room is lit only by the daylight that spills through the open doorway to the west, which leads back to the bedroom. A narrow table stands against the north wall, and at the foot of the table, in the east wall, a metal grate is set in the baseboard.\nIn the east wall, where you might ordinarily expect to see a door to another room, is a massive slab of stone, both broader and higher than a door. In the upper center of the slab is a circular carving.\nYou see a poker here. On the shallow table are a purple-eyed figurine and a curved dagger."}, {"prompt": "You memorize the cadalk", "response": "You memorize the cadalk spell."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "The only way down is to jump. You might not survive the fall or the subsequent immersion.\nThe giant pulverizes a flagstone from which you leapt just in time."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Sally", "response": "\u201cWho is Sally Penhaligon?\u201d you ask.\n\u201cShe\u2019s the woman who runs this shop,\u201d she replies. \u201cIt\u2019s the\nonly\nstore on the island. Her husband\u2019s a fisherman.\u201d"}, {"prompt": "You ask Lucca about Constantin", "response": "\"He has become even harsher than before. The plague doesn't sit well within him.\""}, {"prompt": "You wear it", "response": "Okay, you're now wearing the rubber glove.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "You ask the Sherlock about the ash", "response": "\"Note the characteristic texture, Watson. It is the ash of a Trichinopoly cigar, which is made from the dark tobacco that grows only in the Madras district of India.\nUnless I miss my guess, Watson, our mastermind friend has joined forces with an Indian accomplice who does his dirty work for him.\""}, {"prompt": "Shirt", "response": "gimme cap: Taken.\nchambray work shirt: Taken."}, {"prompt": "Upload document", "response": "You thrust your datapad into the port on the bracket dock of the terminal. You force the strange cicumstances out of your mind and efficiently transfer the file onto the terminal before proceeding to type the console command to patch the file onto the Cloud's operating domain protocol.\nBefore you can finish, one of the women Investigators swears\nloudly behind you. \"Get in here now!\" Out of the corner of your eye, you notice, the blond-haired female Militia Investigator lower the comm-link on her wrist, raising her gun toward you.\n\"No, Rin!\" Veritas yells, jumping in front of you at the time\nthat the black-haired male Militia Investigator curses, both he and Veritas aiming at the blond-haired female Militia Investigator.\nYou whirl back around and finish typing the command. As you jam\nthe key to send the command to the terminal, the doors whisk open behind you once again, and again you hear the thunder of footsteps. You see the terminal's display clear and flash the statistics of the Fleet Cloud's architecture, indicating that the command was accepted, and the screen explodes in front of your face. Veritas grabs you from behind and pulls you down to the floor."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "This is a dusty street corner. The sidewalk runs west and sharply southwest where it leads to a sorry excuse for a park. The Vilheila-Pareira Tobacco shop is to the northeast.\nThe sun beats down on you despite the season."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "In the Uttermost Deep (red-lit)\nYou swim through the thick black water, down here where the pressure is almost all there is to feel. Whatever's going on at the surface, you have no idea. Through the red-lit blackness of the deep, you can make out a strange stone formation to the north."}, {"prompt": "Faster", "response": "Although you're somewhat afraid of irritating it, you give Fred's flanks a bit of a kick, like you were riding a horse. Unfortunately, it's currently looking in the direction of the rock wall, and so it just sits there, unmoving."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Side Hall End, Mt Airy Hospital\nPlain, windowless doors labelled neatly with small brass signs lead off to the north and south. At the east end of the hallway, a large, lurid orange biohazard symbol marks a door of a different design.\nThis door is a sliding door instead of a regular door, and it has a small, wire-reinforced window.\nThere's a keycard reader beside the sliding door."}, {"prompt": "You shut the gate", "response": "You close the wooden gate."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe machine makes a sound like a cabbage being hit with a sledgehammer."}, {"prompt": "Trowel", "response": "wine bottle: Taken.\njade figurine: Taken.\ncorkscrew: Taken."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "The center of the vast open stage area is strangely silent. It almost seems you can hear faint echoes of past performers. There is an elevator built into the stage floor. Luckily it is in the \"UP\" position now.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You look behind the bar", "response": "Not a bartender in sight."}, {"prompt": "You drop all but the robe", "response": "black stone: Dropped.\nsword: Dropped.\nshiny knife: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "As you leave, the golem pats you down, pawing at your clothing aggressively and rifling through your possessions. You jump back in surprise, but, having found nothing, it looks at you expressionlessly and gestures toward the exit. You sneer at it but quietly leave.\nBlackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up nervously at the overcast sky.\nStreets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north and magic store to the southwest.\nYou notice that the sky has become overcast. It's likely to rain soon."}, {"prompt": "You turn on Pack", "response": "Neglected for decades, the rocket pack is obviously in need of maintenance. It explodes."}, {"prompt": "You examine the rings", "response": "You've been warned you'll hate the ring come winter, when it forms a dusty shield between you and the sun, when the snow comes in sudden fierce storms and then refuses to melt, when there are no stars to be seen.\nNow, in summer, it is a gleaming, moon-colored arc, the skeleton of a rainbow.\nWith a roar, a big chunk of the glacier calves off and falls into the lake -- it seems in slow motion -- and water sprays up around it, surprisingly high."}, {"prompt": "You examine the writing", "response": "Below the photo there's a free space of about 5 cm that's raw stone. There seems to be some writing on that free space, but with the current light conditions you can't make out what it says."}, {"prompt": "You tell Dad about the duck", "response": "\"They had me solve that duck puzzle too. Huh. Guess they're seeing if we work the same way. After I got the duck, I wondered what would have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without...\" He looks at you, realizing that he's about to give too much away. \"...solving it first.\" He finishes lamely.\nClick.\n\"They had me solve that duck puzzle too. Huh. Guess they're seeing if we work the same way. After I got the duck, I wondered what would have happened if I had just grabbed the duck without...\" He looks at you, realizing that he's about to give too much away. \"...solving it first.\" He finishes lamely.\nClick."}, {"prompt": "You examine the brass", "response": "The wood core of the door has been covered with flat brass panels, perhaps for reinforcement but more likely for decoration."}, {"prompt": "You lock the door with the cabin key", "response": "You lock mate's door."}, {"prompt": "You ask Wiggins about the guard", "response": "\"Beats me. What do you think?\""}, {"prompt": "You put up the groceries", "response": "You take some of the groceries and put them where they belong.\nYou hear Jeanie go clomping out the front door. She slams it shut hard enough to make the dishes shake. Was she mad?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the lantern", "response": "It's an old-fashioned hurricane lamp, with a tall glass chimney to protect it from the wind. The cotton wick burns fitfully in its reservoir of cheap oil."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mirror", "response": "The far side of the mirror is just as shadowy as this one. It's probably meant as commentary; not more space, just more of the same."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "At the East end of the catwalk you find a short ladder leading up to the roof."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The spider slashes you with a sharp leg. You counter with your sword, and the thing drops to the ground with a clang!\n(You lose 5 hit points and defeat the brass spider.)\nYou look around and find a tiny ruby worth 4 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You climb the rocks", "response": "You curl your fingers around the pitted stone and start a slow ascent of the rock wall. But after just a foot or two you find yourself out of hand holds, with the rock curving ever more over your head. You hang there for a moment, fingers aching, then drop back down to the tunnel floor.\nA wave crashes against the rocks below sending a shower of spray up high into the air."}, {"prompt": "You cut the fore panel with the tool", "response": "You haven't encountered any \"north panel\". (If you're sure you need to refer to that, try putting it another way.)"}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "Handholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.\nA large metal hatch is embedded in the roof of the car.\nThe train just rushed past the Santa Ana station."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the compass", "response": "\"I really ought to get back and work some more on that van,\" Tyrone says apologetically. \"I love talkin' with you, an' that's the truth, but I don' want Mr. Beauregard gettin' mad at me, now, do I?\""}, {"prompt": "You play the violin", "response": "You play a very sweet music that the girl seems to like."}, {"prompt": "Waitress", "response": "The waitress steps quickly toward you, pressing her thighs against the table's opposite edge and staring coldly into your eyes.\nHer eyelashes are spidery with thick mascara, and the volume of white powder below each brow could open a ski season. Her cheeks are brazen with a raw swath of rouge, and the heavy lip blush is indeed embarrassing.\nYou muster a grimace of your own, and you both follow the table around as it makes one complete revolution and notches to a stop. You plop down on the chair, sweat draining from your temples.\nThe waitress steps away from you, taking a standing coffee break."}, {"prompt": "Smell trigger", "response": "You sniff the trigger, which Tuck pulls. An arrow of flame finds it mark upon the crate full of fireworks. Grabbing Tuck's hose with your teeth, you pull him to the corner of the room, and not a moment too soon.\nThe foyer vanishes behind an explosion of light, colour and sound. Blues swirl and greens pop. Yellows sizzle and purples streak this way and that. A phoenix of red light spreads its wings and screams upwards, bursting through the skylight and raining glass down around you (along with the actual rain).\nSlowly but surely, rain triumphs over fire, and as the downpour returns to a light drizzle, you are left standing on charred carpet and slick stone. There is little spared by the flames.\n\"That was too close,\" says Tuck, shivering in the wet.\nSer Leonhart brushes bits of glass off his armour. \"It was fortunate the wizard's plan failed,\" he says.\n\"How do you mean, milord?\"\n\"He attempted to slay us with daggers of glass, but he instead put out the fire with the rain,\" replies the knight. \"It is a mercy that even the most clever of men can make mistakes.\"\nA loud crash interrupts the conversation, and the lowest section of the staircase, having lost its structural integrity, collapses into a pile of rubble."}, {"prompt": "You enter the kitchen", "response": "The kitchen is small but functional, with a space-saver refrigerator and a glass-top electric range. There is a drawer under the range. On the opposite wall there is a sink and under it, a storage cabinet.\nYou can see a water bowl (empty) and a food bowl (empty) here.\nENGINEERING -> ACTIVATE : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA matchbook\nA clove of garlic\nA brass lantern (providing light)"}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You're carrying:\na Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap\na pendant (being worn)\na rose quartz heart\nForsee Why You And I Are To Be One (4CY UNI R2B 1)\na pair of mirror shades (being worn)\na wallet"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The Khmer who live there are very poor. You don't belong."}, {"prompt": "You wear them", "response": "pair of erasers: You can't wear the pair of erasers."}, {"prompt": "You look at the counter", "response": "The counter extends from the north wall. It's made of rusted steel and chipped formica, and it's covered with dark sticky stains. Broken and twisted bolts in the floor indicate that the barstools were ripped out, probably for use in the general smashing of stuff that has taken place here. They are nowhere to be found now."}, {"prompt": "You twist the sword", "response": "You rotate the sword in mid-air, but it turns too smoothly, without friction: like a key being turned outside of a lock.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "You examine floor", "response": "The floor is roughly hollowed."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dress", "response": "A fancy dress."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "(first taking the keyring)\nYour hands are full.\nYou don't have the correct key.\nThe cold wind cuts through your clothes, chilling you to the bone."}, {"prompt": "You look at cask", "response": "Which do you mean, the beer cask, the wine cask, the moonshine cask, the rum cask, the sarsaparilla cask, or the lemonade cask?"}, {"prompt": "Kiss moon", "response": "What a creamy and marvelous flavor! No earthly camembert compares."}, {"prompt": "You show the shard to the sphere", "response": "You hold the shard of quartz out towards the sphere, which envelops it for a while. As the sphere drifts slowly away, you notice that the rod is unchanged. The sphere shakes slowly back and forth, as if disappointed."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "At the South end of a hall, there are doorways to the West and the South and the top of a narrow spiral stairway.\nThe door to the dressing room has no knob."}, {"prompt": "You examine notebook", "response": "I started this notebook early in my first DRIP posting - it still had my name, Priyanka Ramasamy, written on the cover in faded marker. I could read this, if I wanted to."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Padded cell (Marius M\u00fcller)\nThe overhead lightbulb in its wire-mesh cage barely lights the room. Everything here seems a colorless beige - the cracked floor tiles, the thick cloth padding on the walls. A padded door leads south.\nA secret compartment in the wall has swung open, revealing a small switch and some graffiti that says \"THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD TRAP ME IN MY OWN CELL\".\nA metal chest stands in a corner of the room."}, {"prompt": "You open the sack", "response": "You open the sack...\nInside is a reed flute..."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "the rest of the apartment. This puzzles you for a moment, until you figure out that John probably eats out all the time. A door leads outside to the north, and the dining area is to the west.\nYou see a stove and a refrigerator here. Sitting on the stove is a\nbig pan. Sitting on the refrigerator is a typed letter."}, {"prompt": "Dig", "response": "Digging around here would just be a waste."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "cow bell: You acquire the cow bell, and assess it curiously.\nMuch like the ones you used on the cows at home.\nleather tambourine: You acquire the leather tambourine, and assess it curiously.\nA hoop stretched with good-quality leather.\nsilver bell: You acquire the silver bell.\nlittle gold dinner bell: You acquire the little gold dinner bell."}, {"prompt": "You examine the stones", "response": "The smaller stones appear to be grave markers only a foot or two high, characters adorning most of them - while a few have weathered smooth. After looking at several of them, you realize that the names are written in an archaic style, and none of them are even vaguely familiar."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "This must be the place where the aliens eat. It's a bit small for a canteen that is supposed to support the whole crew of a spaceship because the only things here are one table and a counter. The complete lack of chairs probably means that the aliens always eat standing.\nThere are eight coffee cups on the counter and one on the table. They all must've been severely addicted to caffeine here.\nThere is a yellow door leading to the kitchen to the northeast and a red door to the west.\nThere is a coolbox behind the counter.\nYou can also see a vending machine here.\nBehind you, the door closes automatically."}, {"prompt": "Smell the pot", "response": "It smells faintly burnt."}, {"prompt": "You examine the moat", "response": "It's difficult to pick out details from this far away."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the red door with the key", "response": "Which do you mean, the red door leading east or the red vault door?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the workbox", "response": "The wooden box in which you keep small tools for your work around the house."}, {"prompt": "You look at the chimney", "response": "It's a red brick chimney. I'm not a great judge--- I don't know why anyone would ruin meat by setting it on fire--- but it looks nicer than the rest of the house. The bricks look like they're exactly the same size, and they're laid out in straight rows. Most of them, anyway; one is sticking out a bit. It looks like the mortar surrounding it has been cut away."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "It's a beige little living room; the offering of pale light filtering from the entry hall to the south somehow doesn't help to shake the sleepy, lifeless feeling here. An undersized dining table forms the centrepiece of the room, with two chairs pushed beneath it. Wedged into the northwest corner of the room is a television, an old-fashioned armchair tucked up next to it. Against the north wall to the east is a display cabinet with a single shelf of ornaments visible through the glass.\nA door to the north leads to the hallway, a door in the west wall leads to the kitchen and a door in the east wall leads to another room. The entry hall is to the south."}, {"prompt": "You ask the woman about the old xyzzy", "response": "\"I'm sorry, Mr. Banks\", Simone says, regretfully, \"but I can't help you with that.\"\n\"You seem a little uncertain as to how to proceed\", Simone says, calmly. \"Never mind that - you'll find out in good time."}, {"prompt": "You climb the wall", "response": "The bricks are narrowly mortared. There's not a bit of hold to grasp."}, {"prompt": "You search the coffer for the turtle", "response": "Got it! Ack! The auctioneer grabs me and takes the certificate. \"You have to actually buy the stock, bird.\" He shrugs. \"Well, I guess this one is as good as any other.\"\n\"Now, who wants to own these fine shares of Contemporary Turtle Properties?\" he asks.\nA small group of cows crowds together, their eyes darting around."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Auda.\nAUDA: Internal map reference -- Hallway Branch\nI am in the Hallway Branch.\nIn the room with me is Sensa (in motion).\nWaldo is off to the north.\nPoet is in motion off to the north."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "A wide expanse of uneven pavestones lies open to the sky, bordered on all sides by the leaning, steep-roofed architecture that looms over everything in this city. The municipal courthouse stands at the south end of the square, next to the mouth of a dark, narrow alley to the southwest. Avenues to the west and east lead back into the cramped and ingrown streets, while to the north lies Whateley Bridge.\nIn the center of the square, rising from a circular lawn of unhealthy-looking grass and weeds, stands a strange, stone obelisk. It seems to be a monument of some sort, although you can see no plaque or marker anywhere near it.\nMichael strolls along after you."}, {"prompt": "You ask Donald about the detergent", "response": "\"That's what your mom uses to clean clothes.\" says Donald."}, {"prompt": "You look at the arbour", "response": "The red roses and green vinery contrast prettily with the white wood beneath."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Standing stoutly behind the bar is Bardolph the Innkeeper.\nThe Phil can also see a violin, a mug (in which is a teabag) and a scruffy black bound book here.\nBardolph takes up a clay pipe and blows smoke rings."}, {"prompt": "You ask Houtan about the boy", "response": "(the boy)\nThere is no reply.\nThe teenage boy steps out of the library and walks away."}, {"prompt": "You ask Alky for the torch", "response": "\"Oh, this thing?\" asks Alky, with a fetching sneer of the lip. \"It sputters more than you do, but take it if you like it so much.\" He hands it over."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the pencil case, revealing a blue pen, a red pen, a black pen, a mechanical pencil, a wooden pencil, a lead refill, an eraser, a pair of scissors, a glue stick, some white-out, a yellow highlighter, a pink highlighter, an orange highlighter, a ruler, and a pack of tissues."}, {"prompt": "You move fred", "response": "FC: Dual-Cryolink established to Waldo and Poet.\nFC: The robots have moved it.\nFC: Cryolink established to Waldo."}, {"prompt": "You ask Virgil about himself", "response": "\"What's your story?\" you ask.\n\"My story?\" Virgil asks in return. \"I'm just a stage magician; a member of the Brotherhood, like yourself, I imagine.\"\nVirgil checks his pipe, then, seemingly satisfied, returns to puffing on it while reading his paper."}, {"prompt": "You open the bottle", "response": "(first putting the flashlight in the burlap sack to make room, then taking the pill bottle from the burlap sack)\nOpening the pill bottle reveals a little white pill."}, {"prompt": "You exit", "response": "I've stopped in front of a cottage to the south, which is the only interesting thing for miles. Fields of corn barely taller than I am surround me and make for a really dull view. Civilization is back to the northwest, and the castle is east of here.\nThere's a red barn off to the west.\nI can also see a hedgehog here.\nOooh, I can see flames shooting out of the barn! There's a huge cloud of smoke going up!\nThe hedgehog starts to sing:\nDoop de dooooooo,\nIt's a round life for meeeeee!\nWe're roly and poly\nAnd hedgyhogoly,\nA life in the hedge is for meeeeee!\n\"Oh oh! Hey! Hey! Can I have that? It looks delicious! I love food. Don't you love food? Oh hog oh hog I love food.\"\nAck! Can't...resist....must eat egg! Shoot! I still can't get my beak in there!"}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "[To converse with someone, please use the TALK TO command.]"}, {"prompt": "You take the iceberg", "response": "You're too far away to do anything but look.\nYou've been warned you'll hate the ring come winter, when it forms a dusty shield between you and the sun, when the snow comes in sudden fierce storms and then refuses to melt, when there are no stars to be seen.\nNow, in summer, it is a gleaming, moon-colored arc, the skeleton of a rainbow.\nYou remind yourself about the waiting Valenti."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "The swordfish is starting to look a bit pale and tired.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You climb even higher up the tree.\nGreenhouse (Petter Sj\u00f6lund) (even higher up the tree)\nUp here the tree is more like a thicket of thin, sharp, dead twigs, with flowering roots spiraling between them. There are some huge bones among the twigs and leaves \u2014 the skeleton of some prehistoric aquatic beast once mounted here, suspended from the ceiling by metal wires, now twisted and broken by the relentless growth of the tree. It seems possible to climb still higher from here."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The small jail cell is brick on three sides, metal bars on the other, with a tightly locked gate. A small window is set into the brickwork above your head. Through the jail bars you can see the sheriff's office.\nA broken stool lies on the floor.\nMuddy leans against the wall tapping a harmonica on his arm.\nIn the corner of the cell, a disheveled man in a black suit is stretched out on a crude wooden bench and is snoring loudly, oblivious to your presence.\nYou can also see an empty can (in which is a spoon) here.\nA dented food bowl sits on the office floor, only a few feet from the jail bars.\nIn the office you can also see Flash."}, {"prompt": "You look at solid", "response": "It's a large mow (like they all are) with a metal handle about half-way up. It doesn't reach the floor, and  underneath it is a white thing. Beyond it is his lair."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This is a very odd one-room museum. Shelves hold an assortment of worthless-looking items. In the middle of the room is a large table covered in black velvet, on which you see an old hubcap, a quarter, a dinner plate, an orange frisbee, and a plastic hula hoop.\nTobias Rat stands next to the table, admiring his collection.\nTobias brushes off the velvet."}, {"prompt": "You put the basket on man", "response": "Not while there's something still in it.\nHe glares at you angrily."}, {"prompt": "You close the gate", "response": "Some sort of locking mechanism is holding it open."}, {"prompt": "You learn the awkgrep", "response": "Using your best study habits, you commit the awkgrep spell to memory. The parrot squawks woodenly."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "With all the machinery in here, the space remaining for you is little larger than a closet, except that the room extends upward a good fifteen or so feet, widening at the top into a bell of tinted glass.\nThe comm terminal itself could be an invention out of Jules Verne. The keypad is arranged in the standard way, except that all the keys are slightly too small for the fingers of a normal human, and the pad itself stands up from the floor on a metal stalk.\nThe comm screen, meanwhile, is round and surrounded by a copper ring, porthole-like. The whole arrangement is aesthetically pleasing and completely inconvenient."}, {"prompt": "You look at stick", "response": "The stick is Y-shaped and a foot long overall. It's about as thick as your thumb. It looks like something the local neighborhood \"menace\" might have sticking out of his back pocket."}, {"prompt": "Wave staff", "response": "As you wave the staff, a low hum emanates from a couple of footrest-sized blocks at the edge of the chasm. A band of light leaps out across the abyss, and in a moment the shimmering silver bridge is restored."}, {"prompt": "Again", "response": "Still blank.\nThe workspace vibrates to the icons' sharp movements."}, {"prompt": "Cc", "response": "Black sable tapestries hang from the ceiling and walls, and black velvet carpets the floor. Scarlet radiance slants through scarlet windowpanes. An ebony grandfather clock has stopped keeping the time at one quarter to twelve.\nThere is nobody here.\nClockwise you will look behind a polar bear, and when you glance back toward the past you can see a celebration in the banquet hall where everyone has gathered to drink, feast, and make merry."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "yak's wool sock: Dropped.\nclothes peg: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You give the coupon", "response": "Janice looks at the coupon. \"Sorry, this is expired.\""}, {"prompt": "You turn throne", "response": "Though you are no priest, you do have a weak ability to harm the undead. Vampires are usually too powerful to be affected, but perhaps if you concentrate on the dark throne, you might be able to destroy it and whatever vile influence it provides. You channel your devotion to Hielon and direct it at the dark throne, but you feel that it is absorbed by the throne rather than harming it. Before you can react, a pulse of vile energy radiates from the throne, and disgust overcomes you. You fall to your knees and vomit, and the red witch approaches with a dagger, cackling evilly, dagger in hand.\n*** Your blessings have turned into a curse. ***\nMaybe things could have gone differently...\nThe noon sun burns hot even with the wind rushing through your hair. Catching a quick glance of your reflection in your sword, you quickly return your attention to the important matter at hand - your foe. It has been a long battle, but now the advantage is yours. It is time to make the decisive move, and to\nFinish your Foe!\nStandard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson\nEnglish Language version 1 by Graham Nelson\nExtended Grammar version 8/140501 by Aaron Reed\nBasic Screen Effects version 7/140425 by Emily Short"}, {"prompt": "Burn book", "response": "(the huge, black tome)\nPetty arson isn't going to solve your problems."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Meadows Park isn't a tropical forest, but still it's a quite big and beautiful park. A few hedges, tall trees and gravel alleys: it's a quiet, calm and clean place. The park border is on the east, and the alleys follow the north, south or west."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The pot is far too heavy for you to carry any distance."}, {"prompt": "You look at the oven", "response": "Close inspection shows you that the oven is without power, to prevent accidents. It is closed."}, {"prompt": "Unlock cage", "response": "You unlock the cage door."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Rather annoyingly, Anna trails along behind you like a guilty conscience.\nThis oddly-shaped room is the house's main entryway. The street is out to the east, and the courtyard is to the southwest. In addition, a narrow passage leads north to an enclosed garden.\nMost of the oddity of the room's shape comes from the placement of an alcove, situated just so, to inconvenience any invading evil spirits.\nYou can see Little Orphan Anna here."}, {"prompt": "You search the kraters", "response": "Now this is quite the pile!"}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "The umbrella: Taken.\nThe violet note: Taken.\nThe horseshoe: Taken.\nThe squashed can: Taken.\nThe small stone: Taken.\nThe small stone begins to glow again."}, {"prompt": "You destroy the barrier", "response": "We smashed the barrier to pieces."}, {"prompt": "You eat lady", "response": "More soup! Lick every silver spoon\u2026 taste no regret\u2026 what's done is done\u2026 only\u2026 I beg you, please\u2026 strain everything\u2026 simmer the\npain\u2026\nreduce me\u2026 until nothing's left\u2026 except the reduction, my dear,\nmore\npotent than before.\n\"O woe!\" she wails. \"O woe! O woe!\"\nHer broken heart's boiled over. Brace yourself.\nLamented fate, what cauldrons you stir in the soul! You've no compassion, no remorse! What you've got is an artist's sense for when to sprinkle melodrama's spice, when to thicken a broth with wretchedness. Our ladling lady's overcome with tears to bring the bower down.\nSoup runs over the rubble, streams into the stairs. Bread breaks as the floor crumbles underfoot. Phantom screeching splinters the moon. Stew nearly drowns you with every swallow, but you're not drowned: you're buoyant on spooned catharsis. Threads float around your sides, unraveled from a ruined tapestry. Sopped chambers sink. Waves flush you ashore in the undercroft, and with one final keening shriek the castle's ghost is gone, nothing now but a memory left on your tongue.\nFourth course: eaten.\nCome and leave as you like. This red-velvet chamber's vacant, with no one left to ensure prisoners stay locked away.\nWestward lies the creamery, southward the dungeon, and eastward the armory has been destroyed."}, {"prompt": "You ask the mother about the shoes", "response": "Your mother seems preoccupied with her chores."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "Still shin deep in weeds. The small path that circles the house\nleads off to the northeast and northwest."}, {"prompt": "Mot min 8", "response": "There is a brief flash of light, and you find yourself in...\nThis is not so much a physical place as it is the essence of the number zero. The light here appears to be no particular color at all.\nYour number sheet glows brighter. It now reads\npi: 3.14159  3.14159   (5 spells used)\ne: 2.71828  2.718xx\nsqrt(2): 1.41421  1.41421   (4 spells used)\nsqrt(3): 1.73205  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(5): 2.23606  2.236xx\nphi: 1.61803  1.6180x\nln(2): 0.69314  0.xxxxx\nzeta(2): 1.64493  1.6xxxx\nzeta(3): 1.20205  1.2020x\ngamma: 0.57721  0.5xxxx\nIn addition, your spell list now reads\nEND: End the examination, submitting your work for grading\nRET: Return to examination room\nARITHMANCY SPELLS  (X = already used this sequence)\nINC: Add one to current number\n(X) STA #: Begin a sequence of digits\n(X) PLU #: Add a single digit to current number\n(X) MIN #: Subtract a single digit from current number\n(X) TIM #: Multiply current number by a single digit\nDIV #: Divide current number by a single digit\nCAT: Concatenate previous number to front of current number before applying operation\nMOT: Truncate current number to its ones digit before applying operation"}, {"prompt": "You play the chess", "response": "The boatman looks at you inquisitively, and you think you see\nsomething glint in his empty eyes. \"Would you care for a game of\nchess?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the screen", "response": "The screen is dark."}, {"prompt": "Large", "response": "Some animal is making its presence known in the branches of this tree. Is it your prey? You might be able to climb up the tree to get a better look."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This is the living room of your apartment. Well, at least half of\nit *could* be called a living room, in the sense that a person could actually live in it. You and John have long since decided that you would split the room into two, and each be responsible for each one's designated half. Your half, which contains a tasteful paisley couch and mahogany table, looks bright and clean. John's half, on the other hand, has piles of newspaper and beer cans, a ratty sofa which bleeds foam, and a study desk and chair, neither of which have seen much action until the last three days. The center of the room contains items you have both consented to share, such as the TV set, which is currently off.\nThe kitchen is to the west, the bedrooms and bath to the east, and\nthe exit (through which you hope to see John go soon) to the north. You see four crumpled papers, a snack food bag, and a piece of cellophane here.\nJohn is here, sitting at his special studying desk, trying\ndesperately to read his psychology textbook.\nJohn grits his teeth and grinds a pencil down to a stub.\nIn the near silence, you hear a soft but obnoxious dripping noise coming from the direction of the bathroom.\nEvan follows you into the living room, still playing the game."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "That was a rhetorical question."}, {"prompt": "You examine the business clothes", "response": "I was wearing straight pants and a short jacket."}, {"prompt": "You examine the whey", "response": "One cheesecloth bag bulges more than the rest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the Bridge", "response": "The ropes are frayed and tangled; the planks are rotten and, in places, missing entirely, leaving dark, howling gaps. A very dubious structure, all in all, but there's no other way to cross.\nA thin and decrepit rope bridge spans the pit, shivering occasionally in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "From the front row of the audience you can see the stage apron clearly to the North. You can move along the aisles in other directions.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You put the money in safe", "response": "You need to be holding the hundred guineas before you can put it into something else.\nThe sounds of running footsteps converge outside the door of the study. You recognise Dewhurst's voice saying \"He's in there, my Lord.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the park", "response": "(Bethany about that)\n\"I'm sorry,\" Bethany says, \"I have auditory processing disorder, and all I got from that was 'hose beast city'."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You carefully creep out along the branch as it sags more and more under your weight. Your deathgrip on the branch takes most of your attention, but out of the corner of your eye, you see Nagi approaching you, moving out over the river on her branch, cradling her rock with one arm. The damaged kauri sags and creaks dangerously under the weight of Nagi and her rock, but she seems oblivious to the danger.\nSuddenly, her branch gives way! No, wait! It's the tree itself! The rotted section near the ground splinters under the leverage of both Nagi and her rock. Quickly, she dumps the rock and leaps back toward the trunk, but the tree is already falling! She sprints down the trunk towards the ground, and manages to jump off right before impact. She tumbles into a pile of debris and vanishes for a moment before popping out, shaking leaves and dirt off herself, and looking up at you with a gleam in her eye. You retreat backwards, closer to the trunk."}, {"prompt": "You touch the bridge", "response": "You touch the bridge, and it feels solid. You can't help but feel that the flower has something to do with it."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Goodbye, Reden.\"\n...\n...The current buoys you upward. The world shifts.\nYou return gradually to your senses. The cold glare of the surgery room envelops you. The shelves, the gurney, the curtain: these things fall into their rightful place, and your body of flesh and blood among them.\nthem.As your sense of self returns, you look instinctively to the center of the room -- but the ghostly Reden is nowhere to be seen. The gurney is empty.\ngurney is empty.And yet...\ngurney is empty.And yet...And yet you sense his presence. The pull of that other world still remains, inviting you to look beyond\nthe curtain. Perhaps that other world was always here, and you only lacked the eyes to see it.\nlacked the eyes to see it.\"Marid? Are you all right?\"\nlacked the eyes to see it.\"Marid? Are you all right?\"You turn. Doctor Justinian's brow is furrowed with worry. His eyes flicker between you and the empty gurney.\n1) \"I'm fine.\"\n2) \"I think I just had one of my hallucinations.\"\n3) \"I think I just saw a ghost.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The monkey scampers beside you.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "Ride se", "response": "North end of Main Street, on an old black mare\nNow leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.\nThe local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field. To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels. A dusty road continues north out of town.\nTo the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.\nOld Dan arrives from the south."}, {"prompt": "You drop the umbrella", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floorboards", "response": "Long slender boards of fine wood."}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "This is Innocents' corner, the traditional burial site of royalty who die in infancy. There are several tombs here.\nYour friend joins you and starts looking around with interest."}, {"prompt": "You turn the box", "response": "Nothing obvious happens.\nA leak in the ceiling drips water into a puddle."}, {"prompt": "You ask Hives about Lord Hamcester", "response": "\"Ah, Hives, the very man,\" you say. \"Where can I find Lord Hamcester?\"\n\"I think you will find his Lordship in his study, at present, Sir.\" replies the butler.\nHives carefully places a butter knife on the table."}, {"prompt": "You go to the map", "response": "You head east to the upper bulb. Then down to the lower bulb. And finally east to the state rotunda.\nBuilt for the bureaucratic offices of the palace. Inlaid in the floor is the map of all the lands that once this palace commanded: you have set up a candle in its accustomed place to shed light over the map.\nYou can see a candle here."}, {"prompt": "Leave", "response": "This cheerless cubicle looks oddly stark with the shelves leaning in one corner. There's an open doorway to the south, a door to the west, which is closed, and a square hatch in the north wall.\nSeveral long pine planks are leaning in a corner.\nYou see some rat droppings, some onions, a wooden bucket, a burlap sack (which contains a pill bottle, a little white pill, some faded photographs, a flashlight, a croquet hoop, a partially crumbled piece of burnt toast, a bad fuse, a sketchbook, a stone bracelet, a gold locket, an old shovel, an indecipherable map, a poker, a fat white candle, the key to Cabin One, and a screwdriver), and some fire tongs here."}, {"prompt": "You memorize the piroo", "response": "You commit the piroo spell to memory."}, {"prompt": "You take the tablet", "response": "You pull the tablet from the sand, shaking the fine white grains from its stony surface."}, {"prompt": "You get the stopper", "response": "You pull the stopper out of the drain by its chain, causing the water to immediately begin draining from the sink.\nWater continues to drain from the sink through its pipes."}, {"prompt": "Nfspecfic3", "response": "[Ok.]\n> RESTORE\n%% Enter a save filename to read:"}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "The decayed remains of an old slaughterhouse stand here, now little more than a shell of crumbling brick and gaping holes, surrounded by a clearing of yellow, sickly grass. A path leads northeast, back toward the road; to the west, a gaping hole that might once have been a doorway leads into the rotting building.\nThe forest is unnaturally quiet here, you notice; there are no birds calling, no leaves rustling or branches creaking; even the whippoorwills have fallen silent. All is still, holding its collective breath in an expectant hush."}, {"prompt": "Clean can", "response": "(the can of chickpeas)\nYou achieve nothing by this.\nA collective moan arises from the rest of the city. It echoes and is joined by more moans until a distance or origin point is simply indeterminable. The voice of the despairing dead slowly peter out, but their message for you remains. They are determined, and they do not sleep, and they are always hungry, always desperate. You better prepare your defenses."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "You hear yourself saying: \"The wind sings with longing for my return.\"\n\"My dear girl -- you should save your voice,\" chides the professor, with gentle sadness. \"You may need it later.\"\n\"Where could my copybook have gone? I remember you handed it to me just before I went upstairs for my nap. But I can't recall what I did with it!\"\nThe simple work table is supported by blocky wooden legs.There is nothing on the work table.\n\"Hurry, Miss Sweet! The marks are already fading. Please find me my copybook!\""}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Food room, glorious food room!\nYour bowl for food and water is here, but that's only the beginning. There's also a lot of secret places where your pet keeps food and things that go with food and things that make food better. There's a thing that gets hot and a box that stays cold, and that is your favorite because you know there is always food inside there. A cloth hangs down from the door of the cold box."}, {"prompt": "Kulehrif", "response": "You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you may barf.\nBut when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has improved, and the room does not seem so dark now:\nThe lights have gone out in this chamber, but you can clearly see the paths to the north, east, and west.\nThere is a statuette sitting on the floor here.\nYou can use the abbreviation \"K\" the next time you want to cast this spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time travel works."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Your lamp is getting dim. It's not safe to explore the caves without a brightly burning lamp."}, {"prompt": "You eat the stone", "response": "That's plainly inedible."}, {"prompt": "Overload", "response": "Topics: commune\n\"Is there still-\"\n\"-a risk of being overloaded? We hope not.\" She smiles. \"He's been conditioned to understand that overloading humans means no treats.\""}, {"prompt": "Space", "response": "As you turn the Dynamo towards the open road once again, you ponder your next step. The motors roar thrillingly...\nChapter 2: A Melodious Accompaniment\nThe lopsided sound of Mr. Sterling's automobile recedes into the distance.\nAfter a chance to change and refresh yourself, you're enjoying a nice cup of tea with the professor, in his...\nThe walls are heavy with green and maroon hangings. Some photographs are arranged on the wall, above an old upright piano. The foyer is visible to the east."}, {"prompt": "Climb spike", "response": "You climb up the spike, finding enough grip to reach the roof.\nCold Pyramid (on the ice spike)\nChunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, remnants of the city above.\nA tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach.\nNear the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece of machinery."}, {"prompt": "You ask Bob about the torch", "response": "\"That's a funny thing to ask an old man about.\""}, {"prompt": "You read Recipe", "response": "Andouillettes Recipe: andouillettes, olive oil, dry white wine,\nsingle yellow onion, sea-salt."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You can see nothing, but the air is fetid, hot. Warm sludge seeps from above. The ground is muck beneath your feet.\nA draught wafts from below."}, {"prompt": "Attack", "response": "(the blood ape)\nThe blood ape tries to jump out of the way.\nRolling 1 + 2 (inherent bonus) - 2 (defender dodging) + 2 (tension) = 3, you do not overcome the blood ape's defence rating of 8.\nThe blood ape swings at your head."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This is a large room that is mostly bare. Each corner is labelled by letters in worn gold foil. The areas titled LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, and ASTRONOMY are bare. You can return to the south.\nThere is a single bookshelf under POLITICS where you can LOOK UP clues related to politics.\nThere is a reminder placard here, in the only room with enough space."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "Aw, nuts. The options next to Hadrian's name are greyed out. The system must be smart enough to not let the boss get locked out of his own property. Pity. You were hoping that if you disinvited Hadrian while he was on campus, maybe he'd be catapulted off the premises or something.\n[1] Browse the permissions list\n[2] Quit the permissions list"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na bottle of acid (which is open but empty)\na diamond ring (being worn)\na sport coat (being worn)\na glass dish\nsome white powder\na 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb\na bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)\nsome cans of soda\na squirt bottle (which is open)\na quantity of pale blue liquid\na small plastic tube (which is open)\nsome litmus powder"}, {"prompt": "You play lyre", "response": "A sudden surety takes possession of your fingers and they dance seemingly of their accord across the lyre strings as if they find them familiar. Music floats across the still evening air, honey-sweet and sad. You play to the neglected grass and the uncharted sky, to the inconstant breeze and the fading light. Even the snake lifts its head, and sways entranced."}, {"prompt": "You examine newly", "response": "The parchment is smooth, the lettering dark and mechanically perfect: \"LESOCH: cause a gust of wind\".\nThe mosaic shifts again: \"To the east is the Basic Spells Collection. \""}, {"prompt": "You look at the cabinet", "response": "An ornate, ebony cabinet, bedecked with curlicues and wing\u00e9d cherubs, has been set, improbably, into the western wall of this stone cavern."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Doctor Cavala's clinic is a small, unostentatious affair, neatly organized with little in the way of decoration. A row of chairs faces the prescription counter, where the medication and patient records are sorted in gridlike pigeonholes; further on is the consulting study, home to a desk strewn with notes and diagrams.\nA calomel curtain leads north to the surgery room, stairs lead down to the mortuary, and the front door lies east.\nDoctor Cavala is at her desk, engrossed in paperwork."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "There's nowhere to go in that direction. The only obvious exit is east (to the laundry)."}, {"prompt": "You buy the card", "response": "Nothing is on sale."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nA buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear guards running in your direction.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nSecurity Annex\nThis is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "I am carrying:\na pair of gardening gloves\na cue ball\na rather thin blanket\na bearskin rug (being worn)\nan antimacassar\na packet of frozen pork chops\na mousetrap (which is open)\na dead mouse\na wedge of cheese\na matchbox\na spoon\na gigantic bowl\na crumpled note\na small packet (which is open but empty)\na trowel\nsome sticks of dynamite\na ratty old paintbrush\na pair of secateurs\nan overripe pumpkin\na broken bottle\na wristwatch (being worn)\na \"distressed\" Laura Ashley dress (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the rails", "response": "The rails guide the gate so that it can move up and down.\nA corner of the sky glows briefly with a lightning flash.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "You take the photo of the dress", "response": "(with the Polaroid camera)\nYou snap a picture of the glowing dress. The camera whirrs and\nvibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The monkey arrives on your heels.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "You examine the picture", "response": "The picture-frame is made of Baltic pine. The photograph it contains is slightly overexposed and was taken using a flash.\nDepicted are a young man and young woman leaning with their backs to the rail of a rough wooden deck, backed by the spray of a narrow waterfall cascading down two tiers of mudstone outcrop. Bordering the waterfall is thick temperate rainforest vegetation: a canopy of tall myrtle and sassafras trees, beneath which are leatherwood and tree-ferns, all covered in moss, lichen, shell-fungus. The boy has his arm around the girl's shoulder. Both are wearing light bushwalking clothes, and he carries a day pack. The boy looks cocky and confident and wears an idiotic 'say cheese' grin. The girl is not smiling. This was not, as you recall it, that she had been unhappy, just unused to having her picture taken.\n\"It's like giving away a piece of your soul,\" she had once joked.\nAs it happens she had smiled just after the shot was taken; a small, nervous smile of relief (you mimic the smile at the memory)."}, {"prompt": "You search pot", "response": "In the plant pot is a pot plant."}, {"prompt": "You show ball to Holly", "response": "Holly appears not to notice. Perhaps if you were a little closer?\nHolly leaps down from the ergonomic chair."}, {"prompt": "You look at korhos", "response": "The fiery halo around the biggest of the suns of Monarch sends spires of red spreading across space."}, {"prompt": "Magellan", "response": "I go back to the Magellan.\nI'm in the hallway outside MY ROOM. Further down the hallway are the sick bay and EXERCISE ROOM. Going the other way I can go to DOCKING STATION into which the Magellan is docked."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the door with it", "response": "You try to find a scanner or a slot for the keycard and find out that the door slides open when you simply hold the card in front of it.\nYou unlock the red door."}, {"prompt": "You examine the Boiler", "response": "This is a vintage boiler that you'd guess would have been new in the early 1930s. It's bigger than a small automobile and certainly heavier. While it's clearly not operating at peak efficiency, it's perhaps surprising that it's operating at all and producing as much heat as is leaking out into this room, let alone the rest of the manor. It is producing an annoying hum.\nThe boiler is currently switched on."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You have a blowgun, a broken mop handle, a rubber glove, and a brick. The blowgun seems to contain a needle-like splinter.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "You examine Ardavaan", "response": "He has dark hair, high brow and accented cheekbones, and carries a scar on his chin.\nHe's sitting on a rug while keeping his booted feet out. There are piles of books around him and he's currently studying a particularly heavy one which is laid open in front of him."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Back here is the back of the loveseat casting a shadow over you, it is kind of cold. You can go south and east. You could go west but there is totally a door in your way. You could go north in the hall but there is a baby gate in the way there.\n\"You're not one of those no-TV nuts, are you?\" Lisa says all sharpishly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sphere", "response": "You see an image of a novice glyph support clerk peering into the future.\nThe compass rose continues to burn.\nThe walls sway with terrifying disregard for physics.\nThe sphere spits out several tiny shards with a crystalline -ping-."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about van", "response": "\"Hello, Tyrone,\" you say.\n\"Hello again,\" he says. \"How you gettin' along, now?\"\nYou ask Tyrone what he's doing with the van. \"Oh, somethin' or other's always goin' wrong with it,\" he says obscurely. \"Carburetor, most likely. I'll have it fixed up by tomorrow, time these folks is ready to leave.\""}, {"prompt": "You knock on the door", "response": "You knock on the door but no one answers."}, {"prompt": "You remember the rocks", "response": "You thought about the rocks poking out from the water. You thought about your jumping trajectory. You imagined what it would be like to fall straight onto the rocks, your blood flowing out to sea."}, {"prompt": "Leaf", "response": "It is almost disgustingly healthy and vibrant."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "The scarred old wooden table is both taller and shallower than a normal table - about four feet high and no more than a foot deep. On the shallow table are a purple-eyed figurine and a curved dagger."}, {"prompt": "You put the leaves in the pot", "response": "The leaves are too big for teamaking."}, {"prompt": "Slice", "response": "What do you want to slice?"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Lucca", "response": "\"What did he know was happening?\"\nLucca chuckles. \"Well if I knew that, I probably would have jumped too.\"\nA rather violent cough shakes your body. Mucus cakes your nose."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "This exhibit is made up to look like an abandoned shrine. There are so many places for something to hide.\nThere is an informational sign here.\nThe rest of the menagerie is down from here.\nA shadowy shrine beast prowls from hiding place to hiding place.\nCrust arrives from below."}, {"prompt": "You put tube in the hourglass", "response": "You put the tube into the contraption; predictably, it squinches down, passes through the narrow neck, and emerges from the other end smaller than it was when it went in."}, {"prompt": "You read the dictionary", "response": "Having no particular word to look up, you flip pages at random till you see: BOTTLE:Disolves Gum. SEE ALSO NOTE, SEAT BULB:Works in a Socket other than the original. SEE ALSO SPOTLIGHT BUTTON:The one in the booth operates the curtain. SEE ALSO COUNTERWEIGHT DOOR:Some can be opened. SEE ALSO KNOB, OILCAN, WINDOW, MAKEUP FORTUNE:In the Cookie - the Treasure is on the grid. PLUTO:Put in the OPENed crate. SEE ALSO CRATE, TABLE, SCRIPT TABLE:The portable one gets you the Plank. SEE ALSO CRATE, PLANK"}, {"prompt": "You look up ALBERT in the programme", "response": "\"ALBERT HARDCASTLE, uncle of the groom, is a famous sociologist and keen golfer. He wishes his brother would join the twentieth century and stop fussing so much over female vicars.\"\nAn alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house.\nYou can hear the security guard moving about close by..."}, {"prompt": "Examine book", "response": "The books are diverse but most seem to be on mythological topics. A particularly heavy one lies open on the rug. You recognize it with no difficulty; this book was once repaired by yourself under Behzaad's direction when you were a new apprentice."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Here, at the foot of the mountain you are at last fully able to appreciate its immense size. A rough, twisting path becomes a narrow traverse that zig-zags its way up the mountainside, its summit obscured by mist.\nTo the west is a pleasant looking meadow, whilst to the east are a scattering of caravans. Far away to the north the Valley is blocked by a sheer wall of ice; an enormous glacier!\nThe fly buzzes angrily.\nYou hear the yeti sounding his barbaric YAWP across the roof of the world..."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na purple leaf"}, {"prompt": "You examine the bed", "response": "The captain enjoys the privilege of sleeping in a human-sized bed, rather than a rat-sized bed, or a hammock. It's a nice-looking bed, too.\nOn the captain's bed is a silk pillow."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "I have a string of handkerchiefs, a sewing kit, a hatchet, a cigarette lighter, a needle, a ball of yarn, and a pair of scissors.\nTime is running out! The volcano is so close now that its deafening roar drowns out every sound, and the balloon is bathed in its eerie orange glow!"}, {"prompt": "You take the patch", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bush", "response": "They all look sick, small, and deformed as they reach their oddly shaped digits towards her. There must be something wrong with them. Despite it being in the middle of Harvest Moon, their leaves are yellow and riddled with brown and black blotches.\nA few white berries still cling to the branches."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Walnut Road continues its long journey north and south. To the east is a concrete building with a sign that says LABORATORY."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This seems to be the end of the line. Your last stand. The final battle. No wait out but dead man's boots.\n(Dramatic pause)."}, {"prompt": "You look at the blade", "response": "Nothing is more dangerous than a vorpal blade. Even glancing at its edge threatens to slice your eyeballs open."}, {"prompt": "You put the white pill in the coffee", "response": "You drop one of the white pills into the coffee, where it instantly dissolves into the murky depths. Furman, absorbed with his microfiche reader, doesn't even notice.\nFurman takes another sip of coffee, his eyes never leaving the microfiche screen."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "A place for consulting with the servants, summoning them by their instruments and allowing their spirits to manifest in the mirrors. But you know this only from explanation, because the mirrors and glasses have been broken or carried away to the Crystal Bedroom, when they ceased to reflect anything that gave pleasure to their master.\nNearby a small door leads west to the treasure room.\nA small key hangs beside the door."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I told you that already! Outside-a the liddle room. Anything else?\"\n[1] What's that castle over there?\n[2] What lies north, yonder?\n[3] What lies east?\n[4] What lies west?\n[5] You're not going to start singing about whiling away the hours, conferring with the flowers, are you?\n[6] I think I'll just go, actually."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb\na diamond ring (being worn)\na sport coat (being worn)\na bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)\na squirt bottle (which is closed)\na quantity of pale blue liquid\na strange red bulb\na bottle of acid (which is closed)\na quantity of acid\na bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)\na small plastic tube (which is closed)\nsome litmus powder"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "- Battlebase episode guide: dreams, timeleap drive, david faldon, blythe banks, scorpion, caradeen, inner security, remember me, williams, repair, secret, theme music, new intake, cheat.\n[Press N for next, or any other key to return]"}, {"prompt": "You examine mom", "response": "Mom is wearing her sandals and capri pants. She has her pencil out and is jotting down everything she sees into a present list. She clicks and mutters every time she spots something new."}, {"prompt": "You examine the plaque", "response": "* 777 GUE *"}, {"prompt": "You look at the boxes", "response": "Boxes are piled high. The bottommost ones appear to be neatly stacked, but the more accessible ones are positioned more haphazardly."}, {"prompt": "Wring sponge", "response": "You wring out the sponge, causing it to drip water all over the place."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "A hand waves on the television.\nThis could also be described as a study, but that doesn't quite fit the uses to which you put it. Nevertheless, you have a desk, and a phone. Doors lead south, west and east."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nThe otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly."}, {"prompt": "You hit HELEN with KNIFE", "response": "You strike at the helen with the knife, but your weapon bounces off of her harmlessly"}, {"prompt": "You look at the counter", "response": "A heavy-duty industrial sink sits in the middle of the counter.\nBelow the sink is a concealed storage cabinet."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Though you never really knew what a boudoir was, this certainly looks like one - or at least its popular conception. The lounge and divan in opposite corners of the room, covered in cushions, the fine curtains on the windows, the massive bed, the dresser near the bed - this is almost a textbook room. There's even a Louis XVI chair here.\nThe door out of the room is closed.\nYou can also see a cloth-bound journal here.\nHeavy breathing can be heard behind the door."}, {"prompt": "You get the lamp", "response": "(the kerosene lamp)\nThe kerosene lamp belongs to Bob, and you decide to leave it alone.\nBob sits quietly engrossed in a hardcover novel."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You have a boat hook, a bag, a pair of white fishing boots (being worn), a cotton jacket (being worn), a sturdy tacklebox, a keyrack, an old house key, and a calendar. The bag seems to contain a piece of withered meat. The sturdy tacklebox seems to contain a fish hook and a bicycle tire repair kit. The keyrack seems to contain a small key."}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "You can't go that way.\n[From here, you can go north, south and east.]"}, {"prompt": "You examine the radio", "response": "It's a small orange box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus link on the other. The link is connected to a scan scrambler."}, {"prompt": "Cock bow", "response": "You pull down the lever, winching the string back until it locks.\nSomething shifts in the darkness ahead, a great silent bulk. Your prey."}, {"prompt": "You examine the aqueduct", "response": "The aqueduct is large and impressive. It was probably the major method of water transport in the Empire."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the locker combinations", "response": "You can't think of a sensible question to ask Tyrone about locker combinations.\n(You could try asking Tyrone about Ashley, Keiko, or Samir.)"}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "One of the advantages of living on the outskirts of town is that you were able to get a house with a little bit of land around it. Which isn't to say that you have to walk a kilometer to get to your neighbor's house, just that you can actually take a few steps outside your door and not be on anyone else's property.\nAlley is sprawled on the front lawn, gazing up at the stars. \"Hi, Daddy,\" she says. \"Hey, how come the night sky is dark? I mean, with all the stars in the universe, if you look in any direction wouldn't you eventually see a star?\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The porch is just a short space of corridor, with two large fans built into the walls behind a white-mesh grille. The air is a little better regulated here, and smells fresh and tart, straight from an algae-tank. There is little else here - a rack for shoes and a hook for coats. Either end of this space are the large doors that seal inside from outside, they are east and west respectively."}, {"prompt": "You buy rain", "response": "\"That'll be one gold piece,\" the salesman says. \"The one you're carrying will do nicely.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine hayberry", "response": "The plants in the greenhouse grow and die in a rapid cycle, proceeding through all possible stages of their life endlessly due to the lead enriched soil.\nThe hayberry bush is bare, its leaves small and its branches stubby. Hard red berries hang like droplets from the banberry shrub. The spindleweed leaves are long and thin."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Moorish palace and Ferris Wheel. \nMidway, by the Ferris Wheel\nYou stand in the center of the Midway, before Ferris' gigantic\nWheel. A long line has formed, in a zigzag pattern, beside the wheel. The line goes up a short flight of stairs to the boarding platform. The Ferris Wheel is absolutely swarming with people. The sheer size of the structure is almost overwhelming. Its great cars are filled with dozens of people each. You can just make out the excited faces of the people in the lower cars, before they disappear into the sky.\nTo the north you can enter into the winding and narrow Streets of Cairo, while to the south a Moorish Palace invites entry. The midway continues to the east or west."}, {"prompt": "You put it in the bag", "response": "The mace is too large to fit inside the black bag."}, {"prompt": "You look at the yellow cable", "response": "A two meter yellow RF cable. It is plugged into the calibration panel."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You approach the wall, and pass directly through, barely feeling the solid matter...\nYou're in a large meadow. An old house is to the east."}, {"prompt": "Search crates", "response": "You spend some time poking dispiritedly through boxes of second-hand table settings, discarded shoes and outdated encyclopedias, but the only thing you manage to dig up is an old cardboard box full of newspaper clippings, which might make interesting reading later if you can find the time. The only thing at all noteworthy about the room, in fact, is that it desperately wants cleaning; there's even a big, nasty-looking spider web in a corner behind one of the crates."}, {"prompt": "You examine paper", "response": "It is a tiny folded piece of paper. It is tucked behind the footstool.\nCassie climbs onto the short plastic block."}, {"prompt": "You cross the bridge", "response": "The sun has been shattered. You enter its hollow interior.\nThe walls shimmer with scales smoldering orange. Fiery tongues rush upward toward great vents smashed in the ceiling. Liquid gold has pooled into puddles alight with flames whose tendrils beckon like seductive hands.\nThrough a fracture above, the bridge spans the surrounding acid, and a fissure cracked into the floor opens toward a sphincter visible below.\nYou are unbearably hot."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The vending machine is lying face down and smashed amidst a pile of nougat bars and Beechnut gum.\nThere's a ragged hole hacked into the east wall, where the vending machine used to stand.\nSomewhere in the office, you can hear a phone ringing."}, {"prompt": "You press change", "response": "You are unable to."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and northeast.\nA young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book.\nYou catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing on the television. \"Carole,\" says a young woman, \"my parents are leaving town, so can you adopt me?\" \"Yeah, sure,\" replies Carole."}, {"prompt": "You cut Jim", "response": "Cutting him up would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You drop the acorn", "response": "You release the acorn and withdraw your hand from the hole.\nSatisfied that his stash of acorns is safe, the squirrel takes off down the trunk of the tree in search of the acorn he dropped."}, {"prompt": "You put the DEADBEEF in the panel", "response": "(the control panel card slot)\nYou put the DEADBEEF punch card (smelling faintly of mildew) into the control panel card slot."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Are you sure?\" you ask.\nHe nods. \"It is what the Fates have shown me.\"\n1) \"...I see.\"\n2) \"I don't believe in fate.\"\n3) \"I hope you aren't expecting me to believe this drivel.\""}, {"prompt": "Reality", "response": "You make the necessary adjustments to your basement grid to interface with the metalevel abstractions that structure your experiences. The bind command executes instantly, and for a moment you feel a foolish doubt - but in that same moment, you feel a warmth spreading within you, like liquid electricity being absorbed by the roots of your neural tree, and your visual perceptions take on a slight rainbow tint at the edges of objects, with an extra hint of pink.\n(You have completed the introduction. You may now explore freely.)\n(8 April 2013)\nStrawberry nimbly hops up onto the computer desk, thankfully avoiding the keyboards."}, {"prompt": "You look at the statue", "response": "This is the crystal-clear statue of Sul, goddess of blessings and purification. She has been known to lift curses; but she has also been rumoured to hate spurious prayers."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "You hunt feverishly through the pages of Ex Sanguine Vita, and discover:\n\"The Elements of the Earth, that is, of the Life, are not to be mixed with those of Heaven; they are to remain Apart, in a Vessel called and chosen for themselves. That is their place and portion.\"\nThe raven caws. \"Nevermore!\"\nAn icy gust from the window sends the curtains reeling."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "This is a large room, in the middle of which is a small shaft descending through the floor into darkness below. To the west and the north are exits from this room. Constructed over the top of the shaft is a metal framework to which a heavy iron chain is attached.\nThere is a clove of garlic here.\nThere is a broken timber here.\nAt the end of the chain is a basket.\nThe basket contains:\nA small pile of coal\nA screwdriver\nA torch (providing light)"}, {"prompt": "Regard NEEDLE", "response": "The RUBY NEEDLE is long and pointy. A very curious crystalline treasure."}, {"prompt": "No you're feeling right", "response": "\"Very interesting!\" says the doctor. He makes a checkmark on his clipboard. \"I think we're making progress.\"\nThe doctor asks, \"Would you describe yourself as feeling... delighted?\""}, {"prompt": "R.", "response": "FC: Full report from WHIZ\nMoving through Alpha FC\nI stand within the first Filtering Computer, a massive device used to interface us with you and maintain the surface systems.\nCLC feedback indicates I'm holding...\nA TV1\nUnable to process queries at this time."}, {"prompt": "You examine the holes", "response": "There are three holes, each about half an inch in diameter, arranged in a horizontal line, and spaced about six inches apart. You can't tell how deep the holes are.\nthe crater. The glowing stream of liquid rock slowly cools into yet more hot rocks at the floor of the crater."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "School Lane is a relatively short street running north up to the junction with Church Street and south to Cornwallis Avenue. It's mainly residential, but the primary school you attended is on this street; its playground is just to the east.\nShe stands staring at you.\nYou can also see a small flat metal key here.\n\"What are you waiting for?\" she demands, \"Are you going to press that button for me or aren't you?\""}, {"prompt": "You drop the skeleton key", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You say the testimony to Stoner", "response": "[Finished with clue - Testimony]\nYou say, \"And now I beg that you will lay before us everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the matter.\"\n\"Alas!\" replies your visitor, \"the very horror of my situation lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions depend so entirely upon small points that even my future husband looks upon all that I tell him about it as the fancies of a nervous woman. But I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.\"\n\"I am all attention, madam.\"\n\"My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey. It was two years ago...\"\nYou listen intently to her story... \nI was on the grounds of Stoke Moran, a very old manor house, and the ancestral house of the Roylott family, to which my stepfather belonged. The windows of my family's rooms all opened out onto the lawn.\n[New clue - Shutters]\nThe grounds extended all around me, but they held nothing except for brambles and the scattered tents of the gypsies, who were friends of my stepfather. Beyond the grounds was a stream, crossed by a small bridge.\n[New clue - Gypsy]\nFrom somewhere nearby, I heard the inhuman screeching of my stepfather's baboon, and shivered. I could only go north, into\nthe manor. These grounds held terrible memories for me."}, {"prompt": "You climb the east wall", "response": "You can't really do that while you're stuck to the ceiling.\nThere is a faint twittering sound from the cage."}, {"prompt": "You give top to the comedy", "response": "(the flamingo-headed man)\n\"That's not funny! I don't want it!\"\nThere is a flickering image inside the cube. The flamingo-headed man giggles and says, \"Some woman in Switzerland just feel down a canyon.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the water on the hinges", "response": "(the small quantity of river water on the rusty hatch)\nPutting things on the rusty hatch would achieve nothing."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You come to a safe landing at the bottom of the pit trap. Ha HA! Take that, hidebound traditional villains!"}, {"prompt": "You show the birthday card to Milt", "response": "Milt nods. \"Van Earl must've given that to her. Good for her for throwing it out.\"\nMilt sighs. \"All right. I should have told you--I knew that Cindy\nwas seeing this...this Billy Van Earl. But he's not capable of\nmurder. What he is is a goddamned deadbeat, and I just\nwanted to...show some respect for Cindy and not have this kind of\nthing get out. He's not capable of murder.\" Milt pauses. \"Or do you think he is?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the door", "response": "This idle door is actually the barrier you have to worry about. I guess if the arch is the symbolic barrier, then this door is the literal barrier. By \"literal\" here I mean \"literal-within-the-dream-world.\"\nIn the door is another keyhole-depression, this one in the shape of, like, a V with a ridiculous curly thing attached to it."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are wearing:\nyour coat.\na whistle.\nYou are holding:\na matchbook.\na pound note.\na clue paper.\na newspaper.\na violin.\na pipe.\na stethoscope.\nyour hat.\na black bag.\nIn the pipe you see:\nsome tobacco"}, {"prompt": "You unlock the grate with the gold key", "response": "The key is too large to fit the lock."}, {"prompt": "You read the yellow button", "response": "~FROTZ~"}, {"prompt": "You go to Hospital", "response": "(going to the Hospital Reception)\n(going east)\nJunction of Sussex Street and Gladstone Terrace.\nThis junction would be well-lit even without the moonlight. Sussex Street continues to north and south while Gladstone Terrace leads off to the west. Further north the street runs along the west bank of the river, but just here the river bends towards the southeast and parts company with the road."}, {"prompt": "You ask David about the tickets", "response": "You can only ASK someone about an important thing or person you've seen. For instance, you could ASK David ABOUT the castle cake, Alice, or the lettuce leaf.\nDavid wanders off to the west."}, {"prompt": "You look at the lawn", "response": "The lawn grass radiates a pale green glow.\nYou suddenly realise what it is that struck you about the lawn. It's glowing! And it's _completely untouched._ The chill works deep into your spine. This is a find so staggering, you'd never thought it possible.\nGlowgrass. One of the earliest successes of Ancient genetic engineering. A simple enough idea; graft firefly genes into the DNA of common lawn grass. Primitive tests on tobacco plants had proved the concept worked; the rest was only a matter of commerce. (Ancient economic theory was strange in many ways, but you're as well informed as any modern scholar can be).\nAnd by the end of the Ancient era, almost every family home had its glowgrass lawn. You picture children playing on the soft shining green mat, imagine the laughter and music of a vanished age. An age of ghosts, legends, heroes.\nOne small clump of grass, growing alone by the concrete edge, attracts your attention; it would make a perfect scientific specimen for the Institute."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You're not sure you'll be able to get back up, but you've got to go down at some point; might as well be now.\nThis road winds up the hill towards Sedmon's mansion, which is just around the curve to the north, and back down to the square to the south. A wall of shrubbery to the northeast offers a purely psychological barrier to casual trespassers. You descended from a house to the west."}, {"prompt": "You fill the pot from the pump", "response": "You pump vigorously a few times. Water gushes from the spout."}, {"prompt": "You go to the pantry", "response": "The pantry's well-stocked, with cans they bought because they had nothing else to spend the money on. A few bags of potatoes fill one shelf, below that a fruit basket, some hams and bacon. There's a door west when you've finished eyeing up their food.\nSat on a shelf is a dustpan.\nYou can also see a broken plate here."}, {"prompt": "You take the lamp", "response": "You take the lamp."}, {"prompt": "You open the drawer", "response": "Opening the drawer reveals a pencil."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "You can\u2019t think of anything else to ask about it at this point:\nyou\u2019ve\nalready established that it\u2019s some kind of barrier preventing access\nto the northern part of the island, and that Julia apparently thinks there\u2019s no way over, round, or through it."}, {"prompt": "You put it in the well", "response": "The celestial bauble falls into the distance."}, {"prompt": "You examine the walls", "response": "The walls about you are ancient and crumbling but you stood in this very spot yesterday!"}, {"prompt": "Search uniform", "response": "It was a flat cylinder of a dull metal colour, about nine inches in diameter. It was closed.\n(the Luftwaffe uniform)\nA thorough search of the Luftwaffe uniform revealed nothing of interest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the robots", "response": "The robots are insectile and frightening, gliding swiftly towards you on four articulated limbs attached to a central platform. Rising from this platform is a central body-stem, from which extend two arms that end in glittering needle points. There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of these things.\nSKREE! SKREE! SKREE!\nYour sister is here, fiercely tossing lightning bolts and fogging the robots. The automatons are piling up, but there seems to be an endless stream of replacements, and Emily can't manage to gain any ground."}, {"prompt": "Dance", "response": "You'd make a fool of yourself."}, {"prompt": "Examine africa", "response": "That part of the world is independent from the Administration."}, {"prompt": "Topics", "response": "You could tell her about the Duke, or Lady Inalda, or ask her about smuggling, or Duke William."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Shiny and clean. The only feature which breaks the sterility of the room is a pile of crates stacked in the northeast corner. There are exits to the north, south, and west."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You are at the top of Aragain Falls, an enormous waterfall with a drop of about 450 feet. The only path here is on the north end.\nA solid rainbow spans the falls."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Lane", "response": "\"Hey, Lane,\" you say. \"Shouldn't you be down at the Pizzeria?\"\nLane's eyes widen. \"Oh, shoot, sorry! Sorry!\"\nShe continues to apologize as she rushes out into the hall."}, {"prompt": "You examine the footprints", "response": "You look to the south, toward the crater in which you crash-landed. In addition to your own tracks, a set of footprints reach a patch of smooth ground at the crater's centre, then double back."}, {"prompt": "You examine the throne", "response": "The throne lies in ruins, its wood snapped, the ivy which once decorated it torn and tossed atop the wreckage."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Omelettes carpet the floor. A brazier crackles merrily, surrounded by soft lard couches with marshmallow pillows. Less appetizing's that cage in the corner, where a carrion crow hunches behind nougat bars, watching the room.\nSouthward you'll find the baron's cabinet, eastward the scriptorium, and downward stairs lead to the western tapestry."}, {"prompt": "You get on the bike", "response": "You set down Lunar Lightning to ride it.\nYou get onto Lunar Lightning."}, {"prompt": "You examine worn Journal", "response": "About the size of your hand. The binding is cracked and torn, the pages yellow with age.\n\"The journal tells the story of that poor soul over there,\" says the gnome, pointing at the corpse. \"The style of language within the journal is inspired by the way that gargoyles speak in 'Ultima VI: The False Prophet.' The author of this room thought it might add a little flavor, for better or worse.\""}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "Basses. Louder. Inane Chatter."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Emily follows you.\nThis section of corridor shows the signs of a recent battle. Scorch marks mar the gleaming machinery, and the grey carpet is distressed by bloodstains and rips. The hallway continues east to an intersection and west to the tube entrance.\nEmily is nearby, waiting for you to do something interesting."}, {"prompt": "You drop the torch", "response": "(first taking the flashlight)\nDropped."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The gently winding lane makes its way through the birch woods south of town. New England foliage is famous for its splendid colors in the fall, but the oppressive weather and pervading murk have leached these trees of most of their tint. The road continues south into the increasingly dense forest, and in the other direction heads back to town. A paved walk also leads east through the trees.\nA small group of townsfolk has gathered up at the north end of the road. As you approach, still breathless from your encounter with the thing at the slaughterhouse, they turn toward you -- and that's when you notice that the one in the lead has an axe in his hand. And the one behind him has a pair of garden shears.\nA couple of men move over to your left, and several more step out of the forest behind you. All of them carry weapons or nasty farm implements of some kind, and all of them look as though they're just about ready to put an end to a certain over-curious, outsider woman who doesn't know enough to keep her nose out of things better left undisturbed."}, {"prompt": "You knock on the door", "response": "Your knock is answered after a moment by a short, stocky woman whose black hair and broad, flat features suggest that her ancestry is Central American. She looks down at you impassively. \"Oh, it's you,\" she says. \"You're the girl, the one they brought. Mr. Beauregard he said he didn't want you in the house, but I think he gone off somewhere, so I don't care. You can come in if you want to. I'm Luisa. I work here, keep the house clean. Just don't make a mess I got to clean up, you can go where you want.\" She has a heavy Hispanic accent, but her words are not hard to understand. She turns and goes back inside, leaving the door open."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Time passes.\nYou note that some of the mealy red substance from inside the biohazard lab has found its way into the airlock."}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "Ivy slips her arm in mine and sets my bowler on my head at a jaunty angle. I straighten it.\n\"I need a cup of tea after that,\" I say.\nIt's me again: your favourite dissident turned detective. Okay, let's get this over with.\nI feel sort of naked without my hat.\nNATE and me come in through the fancy double DOORS, awkward and out of place.\nWe're greeted by a beautiful woman in a kalasiris. \"I am Haqikah,\" she says, \"God's Wife of Amun. The Pharaoh will see you now.\"\nShe turns from us with impossible grace and glides further IN to the museum.\n\"I don't know about this, Nate,\" I whisper. \"It's not all that long ago I was being tried for blasphemy.\"\n\"You were tried for plenty of other things as well,\" he reassures me."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "(first trying to open the trapdoor)\nYou hear the voices of several men almost directly overhead. They're arguing with one another. No way are you going to let them know you're down here!"}, {"prompt": "You kiss her", "response": "Oh, now you've done it. Or at least, you presume that you've done it, since you don't really remember anything after that first kiss. You're all alone on your conjugal couch.\nCurb detracts from the scenic value of the vicinity.\nYou can't see \"her\" (the Goddess) at the moment."}, {"prompt": "You examine Garry", "response": "Although lacking your boss's level of animal magnetism, Garry Horrible has charm and wit enough to make up for his unfortunate name. Most of the time.\nTonight, he looks like a nervous wreck. There are dark circles under his eyes; his breathing is too loud. His is not a demeanour appropriate to a dinner party."}, {"prompt": "You put Beetle in the first hole", "response": "The beetle rushes into the first hole. After a while, it comes out again with the shiny red worm in its jaw.\nThe beetle hisses at the worms. The yellow worm shows its head and hisses back."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nsome bedsheets\na set of fatigues (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You look at the script", "response": "Scene:\nblack salon, one quarter to twelve\nfails to express any hour.\nStage directions:\ninventory (i), examine (x), take, drop, talk to\nfuture (f), past (p), clockwise (c),\ncounter-clockwise (cc)\nwear, undress, wake up\nkiss (when wearing motley)"}, {"prompt": "You turn on the microphone", "response": "That's not something you can switch.\n\"Go to hell\", a voice replies, faintly."}, {"prompt": "You pour the LITMUS on the sealant", "response": "Try as you might, you cannot puncture the silicone caulking with the litmus powder.\nThe train just barreled past the Anaheim station."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You look about as you'd expect after everything that happened to you in all the other rooms."}, {"prompt": "You put the spoon in the bag", "response": "You drop the spoon into the bag and pull out a shovel!"}, {"prompt": "You shoot the cabinet", "response": "(with the gun)\nA corona of sparks showers out of the cabinet. Blue light crackles along the subcircuit paths and across the ribbon wiring."}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "Paul shows up carrying his acoustic guitar. He turns out to be an excellent blues guitarist, and he talks in a continuous flow of aphorisms and anecdotes. 'I don't need to believe in reincarnation,' he says, looking at a small Vishnu sculpture on your table, 'I've lived fifty lives already in this one.' For much of the past few weeks, you have been the one dominating conversations, and it feels good to focus on listening to someone whose mind is also overflowing with ideas. After a couple hours, your head is spinning but your enlightenment has increased. Rather than as a housekeeper, you hire Paul as a music-and-wisdom coach.\nThis is a modest one story house, cluttered by a decade of being lived in. Bookshelves line the walls. Your Plan 9 terminal is here, connected to the grid servers downstairs. There is a sign on the wall which says 'Best Spring Ever!' A few trinkets from Astral Enchantments are scattered about. Your dark wooden upright piano has a collection of Schumann's music open on the music rack.\nYou can see a Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap, the Artemis prints, some bookshelves, a terminal and a piano here.\nIt is a convergence of world-lines. Five young punk musicians, Staci Nook and yourself, and three co-opers who had been tagging along. Many realities diverge here. What are your boundaries? What are you open to? You feel yourself splitting into many selves at this branch point. In some, everyone is completely uninhibited and you all create a transcendent flower of higher-dimensional interpersonal molecular structure, the aliens show up and demand pancakes, and you all agree to move to the lesser Magellanic cloud and open the first non-Earth greasy spoon diner. In others, inhibition and insecurity fracture the social ground beneath you, rifts open, and your life ricochets off in a different direction, a vector of disappointment and regret.\nYou decide to pilot a middle course in your current storyline, embracing a limited subset of the possible configurations. After a night of little sleep but much love, Police Lingo leaves you with many balloon animals, and Staci and the co-opers return to Madcon. You spend a few minutes cleaning up, and are now ready to head downtown and dive into the convention scene."}, {"prompt": "You put all on the table", "response": "stack of important papers: Done.\nglass pot: Done.\nlockpick: Done.\ngun: Done.\nradio module: Done.\npen: Done.\ntoolcase: Done.\ntoggle switch: Done.\nscan scrambler: Done.\nminilamp: Done.\nkey transmitter: Done.\nvoice transmitter: Done.\n\"Right, bring that over here.\"\nThe stack of important papers has set one of the other papers on the table alight."}, {"prompt": "You examine slatted", "response": "It is a mow, but you're not sure how He moves it, because there is no blob of metal halfway up. It's not solid, like other mows are, and you can see fluffy colored things beyond; an almost-dizzying sleepy fresh smell comes from beyond it."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "This aisle cuts through dozens of exhibits from many countries and states. Some interesting exhibits are to the north and south. The hallway extends deeper into the building to the east. To the west, an exit leads out toward the Transportation Building.\nMines and Mining Exhibit Hall."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "You close the real estate office door."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The monkey follows you.\nThe stone tunnel extends from north to south here. Another passage leads away to the west.\nThe monkey looks up at you expectantly."}, {"prompt": "You look at the horse", "response": "A dapple grey rocking horse on a bow rocker. The name stencilled on its harness is \"Rosebud\"."}, {"prompt": "You ask the gargoyle about Tower", "response": "To talk to someone or something, please type TALK TO OBJECT."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes...\nA low voice whispers, \"Haven't we got anything else to throw at him?\""}, {"prompt": "Wear the potato", "response": "(first taking Darth Vader Mr Potato Head)\nYou don't really want to be carrying him round."}, {"prompt": "Topics", "response": "Items:\nYour costume (being worn)\nTopics:\nAbout Jane-\"So, what do you know about Jane?\"\nAbout Fred-\"So, what do you know about Fred?\"\nCompliment-\"Wow, nice costume!\"\nGreeting-\"Hi! My name is Gerald.\""}, {"prompt": "You pour the water in the cylinde", "response": "The water fills the cylinder, covering the duck."}, {"prompt": "You look up Battlebase in the index", "response": "The Battlebase Episode Guide is two books out of place, suggesting that someone has recently had a look at it. The cover has been coated in plastic and feels nice and smooth to your hands."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Ser Leonhart follows you down a long hallway lined with portraits. Ahead to the east is the receiving room."}, {"prompt": "Regard vessa", "response": "True to her reputation, VESSA is almost too delicate for a neighborhood so rough as the DARK ALLEYWAY outside. Despite her small size and tempting curves, however, your keen Warrior's awareness detects an inner ferocity, and her eyes are bright with intellect, cunning ... even wickedness."}, {"prompt": "You examine the hand", "response": "I'm sorry, Dr. Law, I didn't realize you wanted me to go into more detail. There is a marble hand here that has broken off of one of your statues. Otherwise, the room is exactly like you left it, Dr. Law.\nIncluding the bloody handprint, of course."}, {"prompt": "Lfo", "response": "You press the LFO button and it lights up. The music begins to undulate rhythmically.\nThe air trembles and your surroundings change.\nYou are in a small, damp-smelling circular chamber flagged in an iridescent sea green. There's a hole in the ceiling leading into a sloped shaft, and a drainage grille in the floor. The plinking of distant water echoes up through the grille. Some weak bluish light bounces down into the chamber from the shaft. The light catches scratches on the floor.\nYou see a child's kaleidoscope tube set on a metal stand, like a telescope.\nYou see the mahogany podium with the buttons on it.\n(A weirdly undulating beat plays in the background.)"}, {"prompt": "You take something with the bar", "response": "(the window bars)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "A programmer is here.\nThe programmer travels out the door."}, {"prompt": "You ask the guard about guard", "response": "\"I am a gate guard.\""}, {"prompt": "You open the cabinet", "response": "The cabinets are not, after all, still stocked -- much to your relief. There's nothing in there but an old book of matches."}, {"prompt": "You take the hammers", "response": "That's fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na comic drawing"}, {"prompt": "Bleat at herd", "response": "You bleat at the herd. They blink at you, but otherwise offer no reaction."}, {"prompt": "You throw the jar at the woman", "response": "You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.\nThe sky hates you."}, {"prompt": "You attach the wire to the screw", "response": "Using the screwdriver, you attach the bare metal end of the wire to the screw on the top of the machine."}, {"prompt": "You drop the kielbasa", "response": "You prop the tremendous kielbasa against the balustrade and reclaim the vorpal blade. This might make for a decent joke, but the joke will be at your expense."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You're Woman, and you look a lot like your boyfriend Man except with some bits made bigger or turned inside-out.\nThe leaves of the tree above rustle in a stray breeze."}, {"prompt": "You take the purple", "response": "As you reach toward the figurine, the dagger rises into the air, guided by no hand that you can see, and slashes at your face! You back away quickly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scrolls", "response": "[x scrolls]\nSomeone has attempted to burn the great library. Why?"}, {"prompt": "You give the roy's gun to Lucille", "response": "Lucille politely refuses."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-east", "response": "You are in a small side room. The exits all lead back to the main gallery.\nAn insane barber is motioning to you to come sit in his chair."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Flip flop. Flip flop. Flip flop.\nYou're on a shelf overlooking a small canyon, apparently carved by the nearby stream and 20 or 30 feet deep. A rocky path enters from the west beside a tangle of blackberries, and dead ends at a ledge overlooking the stream below. Above you, granite walls continue to rise, the pink stones a beautiful contrast to the clear blue sky. An animal trail leads up, too steep to walk, but you might be able to make it in a scramble.\nBeside you, a trolley sits suspended from a steel cable.\nA spruce branch lies half in the path, half in the tangle of blackberries."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bubble", "response": "The bubble is a standard home on a standard road, which runs a few hundred metres back to the west. It rises about three metres high and is made of a solid white material over which the dust and winds move quite harmlessly. There are a few windows; thick and acting as mirrors to the seas of dust. There is a door near to you, which a line of bushes lead up on either side of the track."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"So this inquest is to find a cure for the affliction?\"\n\"It is,\" Doctor Cavala replies. \"A research station has been set up in Doctor Arturus's clinic. Doctor Serpens is the head of operations. I'd have recommended you, but after what happened...\"\n1) \"Didn't we establish that the deaths were murders, not a result\nof infection?\"\n2) \"So what do we do now?\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you. You sidle carefully past the statue.\nThis dimly lit passage runs from north to south. Although the passage is narrow, it's also quite high-ceilinged. To the north you hear a susurrus of sifting, skittering sounds.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "You look at the oil", "response": "(the fish oil)\nIt's a viscous, nasty-smelling goo, made from and made for feeding fish. Not very appetizing."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, back to the sumptuously decorated chamber; south, to opposite the doorway; and east, to the wide courtyard."}, {"prompt": "You enter door", "response": "Which do you mean, front door or the small door?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the shaft", "response": "It appears to be the maintenance access for the service lift."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You get into the booth.\nEach booth is a formica table with two bench seats upholstered in ripped and faded red vinyl, with a speaker positioned on the ceiling directly overhead. This booth has a blind covering the window. It's crooked and appears to be jammed, but it covers the glass so that you can't tell whether it's broken or not.\nThe jukebox is playing selection B2: 'Big Car' by Severed Heads. A foursquare techno beat."}, {"prompt": "Drink pool", "response": "You push your way through the grass and rushes to get a drink, but you\nend up stirring up a lot of mud in the process. You take a drink, but\nit's not that satisfying."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Rather annoyingly, Anna trails along behind you like the too-long hem of an over-sized robe.\nThe lamps are brightest here, where the main table overlooks the crush of wedding guests to the north and northwest. The family's main sleeping quarters are beyond, to the south, but no-one has any business going there.\nThe happy couple sit here, accepting congratulations and well wishes, and occasionally exchanging shy glances as if they'd only just met.\nYou can also see Little Orphan Anna here.\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...looking for a map of Lutetia and instead discovering that the entire clan....\""}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "Lornedei climbs up on a small ledge to one side of the waterfall.\nElder's Spring (Behind the Waterfall)\nLornedei climbs the ledge and makes her way in behind the waterfall. The light is dim, yet livid, glittering on damp stone walls. She takes a few steps forward, leaving the pooling water behind. She stops further into the cave where the floor is comparatively dry, and starts to leave a puddle of her own at her feet.\nSoutheast takes her back out in the waterfall pool.\nThe cave is only a few paces wide and perhaps ten paces deep. The ceiling is just above her head in this, mostly natural cavity in the stone. The cave narrows and at the far end, the rough stone has been hollowed out further and smoothed into a rectangular niche. Water drips down from somewhere far above in the niche. For centuries the water has been gathered in ceremonial cups by selected light bearers. Drop by drop, never less and never more than necessary.\nIn the narrow hollow in the wall stands a stone pillar hidden by shadows.\nA silver goblet lies thrown on the stone floor next to the pillar.\n[Your holiness has just gone up by five.]"}, {"prompt": "You eat the fish with the spoon", "response": "I spoon up the tuna. Pretty sure that wasn't how I was supposed to do it, but don't much care.\nThe next thing out is a cube of meat, just one not-very-big cube, skewered on the end of a long wire thing that stands up from the table. It's like food on an antenna."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.\nThe floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.\nThe drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four compartments.\nThere is a smooth hatch set into the south wall. In the middle of the floor is a low flat trolley.\nThe robot - whose name appears to be Charlotte - rumbles up the ramp."}, {"prompt": "You examine the knives", "response": "On the hilt of each knife is embossed the symbol of a raven.\n(You think you've learned all you can from Piper's body. You should look for more clues elsewhere.)"}, {"prompt": "You press the space", "response": "\"Back in the 70s it was hip to build your pad on top of a transdimensional leyline nexus even though that plays hell with the electrical wiring,\" Bethany tells you. \"It's a genuinely cool property, though. I've been over there a couple times to check the portals. One of the sphinxes and I get along great, the other one is all pissy with me because I solved all its riddles in three minutes.\"\nShe sighs. \"I offered to help it write new ones and, like, centralize a database? But now whenever it sees me it just rolls its eyes and makes fart noises, and I'm all, 'Real mature, sphinx.' It makes it super awkward chatting with the other one 'cause they're only\nten feet apart from each other but the house is still really cool. There's an infinity pool and everything.\""}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na body cord\na jacket (being worn and open but empty)\na lam?\na chest protector (being worn)\na plastron (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "On feast days in years & months past, Lords & favoured Thinkers entered this long Hall from the south, to be served by huge platters of exotic repast from the Kitchen to the west. But now the room stands bare, stripped of its Appointments by some fleeing servant. Only the larger items remain--the long Table & the ornate Chairs.\nThe Pig follows you."}, {"prompt": "You throw the bottle out the window", "response": "You throw the two-liter plastic Pepsi bottle at the window and hold on to the other end of the rope with your other hand. The bottle sails through the open window and starts its journey toward the grass.\nA moment later you hear the bottle land on the grass. It appears as\nif the rope was too long. You slowly pull the rope up and after several tugs, the end of the rope slides through the open window. It appears as if the bottle came loose from the rope during impact."}, {"prompt": "You take the gilt", "response": "(the gilt-wood mirror)\nToo heavy for you to remove."}, {"prompt": "Wave", "response": "What do you want to wave?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the jatz", "response": "It's a handful of Jatz crackers."}, {"prompt": "You examine the boar", "response": "A very very very very very very very very curious object."}, {"prompt": "You get Rings", "response": "Taken.\nThe wraith moves until he is directly in front of Audrey. I won't have much time now.\n\"hold still my darling this is so much easier when you just stay there so beautifully within my own view...\""}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are a Level 2 adventurer. You're equipped with a very sharp sword and studded leather armor. You're also wearing a fine tabard, a stylish cape, and a lucky sheath. You have found a wooden key and a rusty key.\nYou have an amulet of magic arrows.\nYou have 27 crowns.\nLoot collected:\nwooden statuette (4 crowns)\nsmall pearl (5 crowns)\nbronze bracelet (2 crowns)\npouch of bronze coins (1 crown)\nsilver cup (5 crowns)\nwooden statuette (3 crowns)\npouch of bronze coins (2 crowns)\nTotal value: 22 crowns"}, {"prompt": "You examine rose quartz", "response": "The heart is made from shaped and polished translucent pink rose quartz. It fits nicely in the center of your palm and feels pleasantly smooth."}, {"prompt": "You examine the glass tube", "response": "Fluorescent gas swirls around the inside of the tube."}, {"prompt": "You ask Joshua about the zebulun", "response": "Joshua doesn't seem to have much to say about that.\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...a pound of flesh, of all things, but then the other gentile's wife pointed out that....\""}, {"prompt": "You hit panelling with the sword", "response": "I don't think you'll get anywhere by attacking the panelling. If you really want to get it off the walls, try pulling it."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "You're standing near the remains of the Pleasure Wharf. The Wharf extends eastward into Witchville Bay.\nTo the south stands a ramshackle old building. Colorful lights, curious electronic sounds and a neon sign beckon you through the open entrance."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs. You are holding a whiskey bottle. Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle. A scrap of cloth is stuffed in the mouth of the bottle. You are also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's gun, a wooden plank, a trail kit, and a quarter. Tucked in your holster is your six-shooter.The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork, a spoon, and some beef jerky."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "The quiet after rain.\nThere is a distant splash; a long silence; a repetition."}, {"prompt": "You look at the note", "response": "The writing is spidery, and you realise that it is written in blood. Real blood. But perhaps the creepiest thing of all is the sheer friendliness of the message: \"Midas (the hand) is your guide to Mr deMause's apartment. Do remember to cross his palm with silver, or something of the sort.... Katherine's already here at the apartment, and she's waiting for you.\"\nYou had no idea that Katherine was anywhere near New York. There's a mystery afoot here. Or at hand....\nWithout warning, the disembodied hand scuttles across your path, pausing to wave a finger at you before disappearing into the fog."}, {"prompt": "You give the card", "response": "Professor Ram puts Herman Yak's business card in the machine. He pushes a large black button. Sparks fly between the metal rods. A few seconds later, he reaches in and pulls out Zoltan Reindeer's business card. \"Here you go,\" he says."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "clean clothes: I look through the drawers of the dresser, and pull out some clean clothing to wear: socks, underwear, and a pair of pants."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You are in your father's study. It has been cleaned out except for an urnstone end table against one wall.\nOn the urnstone end table is a quickpulp scroll.\nYou notice that a thin layer of dark-orange smoke has gathered under the ceiling.\nThe penguin waddles along."}, {"prompt": "You get the sticker", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You burn yourself", "response": "I'm not that kind of person. Am I? I hope not.\n\"Fresh ground beef, 49 cents a pound.\""}, {"prompt": "Topics", "response": "I could talk to Leah about Leah's dad, painting, us, collage, the discovery,\nbeing miserable, Leah, being apart, theater, home, feeling, meeting for the\nfirst time, remembering, myself (Ayumu) or crying."}, {"prompt": "You remove the hand", "response": "Your hand is firmly attached to you."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Your footsteps squelch in this stale, cramped space. The cobwebs here glitter with moisture and silk-wrapped things. Flies flit through your lamp-light, disturbed by your movements, gathering on moldy plates and slime-encrusted piping.\nA pitch-black shaft gapes above you. The lights of the service lift glow to the west.\nA kitchen stool has been placed under the pitch-black shaft, providing access."}, {"prompt": "You take the paperclip", "response": "(the striped green paper clip)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the flashlight", "response": "You flip the switch, and the flashlight emits a feeble glow."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "\"I'm sorry,\" says the guard, stopping you, \"you can't go into the funnel without a travel pass or a ticket.\"\nPaddlington Station\nThis station is busy. Commuters are flooding down the access funnel to the platform, almost overwhelming the guard checking their tickets. The ticket clerk, sitting behind a counter, looks quite scared by the mad rush too. You can get back to the street westward, but you'd be swimming against the tide of commuters."}, {"prompt": "Time", "response": "The time is 13:27"}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "[\"We haven't even been dating that long. What will people\nsay?\"]\n\"Aw, we've been on five dates already. If I don't get kissed soon, the fellas will start callin' me a yellow-belly!\"\n1) Let's look this \"Jimmy\" customer over.\n2) \"Steady girlfriend, huh? You mean you weren't just up here\nwith that German exchange student?\"\n3) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him!\n4) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the dial", "response": "The dial is calibrated from one to sixty. It is currently set to 24."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shore", "response": "The shores on both sides of the bay, which are quite far off, appear\nto be pretty rocky. Just beyond them, thick vegetation lines the shore, quickly sloping up and away into terrain too steep to easiliy climb. You skim the beach, looking for bears, because the captain\nsaid there was a pretty good chance of seeing one.\nSomewhere out of sight, you hear a giant splash.\nYou hear an odd barking, almost roaring sound, far off.\nIt's those sea lions again."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\na dented Box (which is closed & locked)\na holy symbol (glowing with a sacred light & being worn)\na suit of Chain-Mail (being worn)\na leather sheath (being worn)\na sacred blade\na wooden Scroll-Case (being worn & closed)\nThe metal in the collecting Pan bubbles briefly."}, {"prompt": "Wave", "response": "You wave."}, {"prompt": "You learn the rekn0the g.", "response": "Using your best study habits, you commit the rekn0g spell to memory. You have so much buzzing around in your head, though, that it's likely something may have been forgotten in the shuffle."}, {"prompt": "You hug Pauline", "response": "You lean down until your face almost meets Pauline's. \"The Hippocratic Oath warns a doctor not to give into his or her feelings for a patient,\" you say, \"but an oath can only be kept for so long.\" Pauline rises weakly to kiss you passionately. The moment is perfect, but it does not last forever.\n\"No one can know about this,\" you say. Pauline nods weakly."}, {"prompt": "Left", "response": "You reach forward, lean to your left, and try to pull the bony plate of Fred's head to get it to go to the left. It reluctantly turns to the northeast. It snorts in mild irritation."}, {"prompt": "You open the window", "response": "There's no obvious way to do that. A quick inspection reveals that the screen is held firmly in place by half a dozen heavy screws."}, {"prompt": "You follow the humans", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Auda.\nAUDA: Okay. I'll follow the talking mechanisms.\nAUDA INTERRUPT: Some talking mechanisms just entered the room.\nFC: Cryolink established to Poet.\nPOET: Okay. I'll follow the Creators."}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "Ah, sleep! It's been a long day, indeed. The rest will do you good. You spread your cloak under the open sky and drift off, renewing your powers and refreshing your mind ... Time passes as you snore blissfully.\nYou sleep blissfully, unaware of the evil creatures lurking in the darkness. Unaware, that is, until one of them sets upon you with nasty sharp teeth.\n****  You have died  ****\nYou awaken among the members of the Circle. Belboz the Necromancer looks tired, and scattered about are the remains of the components of a spell of great healing power. The other members of the Circle are pleased to see you revived, but worried by the setback. \"I think Krill is too powerful,\" says one. \"This inexperienced wizard will never defeat one so puissant as he.\" Quiet discussion ensues, with well-concealed acrimony beneath the surface.\nDebate ensues, with Belboz returning frequently to the contents of the ancient manuscript. His wishes prevail, and it is agreed to send you back....\nThere is a loaf of bread here.\nThere is a jug here (providing light).\nThe jug contains:\nA quantity of water\nYour stomach is starting to grumble."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You get off the medium plastic block.\nYou are east of the gliding rocking chair that is fun to ride on and north of the big TV that Sesame Street comes from. On the wall is a big bookcase full of chewy books. There is a way into the kitchen to the north but one of those baby gates is there, that is no fair.\nAbout half a parent high in the bookcase is your favorite toy.\nPart of your playpen is here, there is more of it to the southwest.\nYou can also see a squishy ball, a tall plastic block, a short plastic block (on which is Zoe), a medium plastic block, a plastic cup, and a little doll here.\nThe mom is indignant, \"My child is not a dog to be on a leash!\" Good for her, there is no way you'd wear a leash.\nZoe gets onto the medium plastic block."}, {"prompt": "You put the Mix in mug", "response": "You empty the brown envelope into the mug."}, {"prompt": "You look at torn", "response": "(the torn journal)\nIt's a slim little book, no bigger than your hand, bound in imitation leather. The mice really have been at it; most of the pages have been chewed away."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You see a an apple, a monkey, a lost sock, a pepper, a corn, and a cabbage here."}, {"prompt": "You put the box in the side pocket", "response": "You unzip the side pocket, deposit the ornate metallic box, then zip the side pocket back up again."}, {"prompt": "You examine mom", "response": "Your Mom is about average height with dark hair, and she looks pretty good for her age. Your father sometimes describes her as a hurricane; she's always on the go! She's sitting on the bed, looking at you."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Beach Road.. near the boatramp"}, {"prompt": "You look at the photocopy", "response": "This is a photocopy of a photocopy of a grainy photo from an old book, but it gets the point across. It depicts a monster carved in stone, with the head and talons of a rooster but the wings and tail of a dragon.\nIt's the same carving you see over the archway."}, {"prompt": "Point drik at shack", "response": "Okay, you point the drik at the tumbledown shacks."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This is a sheriff's office that almost harkens back to the style of the Old West. Doors to offices are in each wall except the south wall which is the door back outside. A counter sits facing the south door.\nBehind the counter, a sour-faced seargent eyes you guardedly."}, {"prompt": "You go to Grand Hotel", "response": "(going to the Hotel Lobby)\n(going north)\nYou follow the exit signs and emerge back out in Market Street.\nMarket Street (east)\nMarket Street continues eastwards towards Cornwallis Avenue and west towards the High Street. The Hyperion Art Gallery lies open to the south.\nSomewhere a clock chimes the half hour."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "A magnificent dig site, heading into the stone that encases a lot of\nthe ruins. This one is almost abandoned, though. The excavation seems\nto have stopped at a large chunk of rock with a building embedded in\nit. The way out of the Forgotten Quarter is to the north. In the\ndistance, looking almost translucent in the mist, is a pavilion.\nA bored archaeologist lies on a crate, worn out.\nA pickaxe rests on the ground nearby."}, {"prompt": "You listen to the sifting", "response": "Even your own breathing is magnified when you wear the helmet, so you must concentrate past it...\nThe dry sifting sounds like some dust."}, {"prompt": "Assail LIZARD", "response": "By Huron's pampered panda-bears, a blow to be remembered! You\nscored 7 points of damage, leaving the LIZARD MAIDEN at your\nmercy!\nThe LIZARD MAIDEN is defeated!\nYou kick the body of the LIZARD MAIDEN into the stream below the bridge, and watch it wash into the narrow CULVERT leading into the base of the CASTLE. On the ground, her green-metal SWORD awaits ...\nThis ancient bridge crosses a stream running down from the uplands to the east, and disappearing into a small CULVERT at the base of a cliff. This cliff, and the SLAVER KING'S CASTLE atop it, casts an icy shadow over the bridge. There is no path to the CASTLE from here, but the ROYAL ROAD lies to the north.\nYou can see a TWO-HANDED SWORD here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fence", "response": "The fence is tall, and made of solid vertical boards. Once they were painted white, but by now they're gray and a bit water-stained."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shoe", "response": "It is very small for an adult woman's foot.\nThe old lady slips her hands into the pockets of her skirt and leans back."}, {"prompt": "You go upwards", "response": "If you ever wanted to learn more about fish, this would have been the place to do it. A shattered tank spans one wall, and a wave of broken glass fills the air before it. You can leave to the Hall of Mirrors to the west or the splash pool to the north.\nAn old leaden hatch is open, revealing an opening down to the basement.\nYou can see Amelia Derringer here.\nYou stop for a moment. Where did you set down the purple potion?"}, {"prompt": "Climb tub", "response": "Jumping to it is much more kittenish."}, {"prompt": "You put Chocolate in the contraption", "response": "The cylinder slips into place with a satisfying click, as though some mechanism has engaged."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nMiffyland, the student ghetto (on Lunar Lightning)\nThis small residential neighborhood is a mix of old quasi-victorian houses subdivided into apartments, and more recent larger apartment buildings. Many university students move here after their time in the dorms, and on summer nights the porches are full of young people taking a break from their studies with the traditional libations of beer and weed. State Street is north, and John Nolen Drive is east. The bike trail continues southwest.\nYou lived here yourself about fifteen years ago, first on Doty, then on Main. The late 90s. You can date it perfectly, because you remember you owned a Playstation and your neighbor owned a Nintendo 64, and you traded back and forth. The first Metal Gear Solid, Goldeneye. Beers at the Main St. Depot, jamming piano and acoustic guitar with your roommate. A beautiful blond haired girl who lived at Nottingham co-op."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "This is none other than Science Station Alpha, on the surface of a distant moon of the Visceron System. You can see other chambers to the north, east, and west.\nYou can see Zippy, George, Abelard, Ickstein, Chunky, and the Omega Document here."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na light-saber"}, {"prompt": "You clean the brick with the sponge", "response": "(first taking the sponge)\n(putting the butcher knife into the sack to make room)\nYou dampen the brick with the sponge."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You can't go that way.\nThe bird flies quickly downstream, dodging rocks and roots, and disappears."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "rat droppings: The rat droppings are of no conceivable use to you.\nonions: The onions are of no conceivable use to you.\nburlap sack: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You feel the ceiling", "response": "The ceiling is too high for you to reach."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the cicerone", "response": "A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and cracked.\n\"This world has no wider affiliation.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the bottle and lubricant", "response": "squirt bottle: Taken.\ncan of lubricant: Taken."}, {"prompt": "4", "response": "You say, \"We do like Captain Kirk, and incapacitate Melvin with logic.\"\nValerie looks at you like you're the biggest nerd she has ever met, and considering you both work at Red Hat, that's saying something. \"See what you can do, I guess,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "You cut the broken mechanism", "response": "FC: What do you want to cut the broken mechanism with?"}, {"prompt": "You look under the bed", "response": "Just dust.\nJust dust."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"That's all the questions I have,\" you say. \"Thank you, Crow. You've been very helpful.\"\nShe drains the last of her glass, and runs a hand through her hair. For the first time since you've met her, she does not quite meet your eye.\neye.\"You know,\" she whispers, \"I still feel numb inside. Maybe it's the rum -- I keep thinking Reden's going to climb up the gangway any moment, asking for a bottle of the Bilious Canal's finest...\"\nShe stares at the bottom of her glass.\nShe stares at the bottom of her glass.\"But we both know that's not going to happen. Isn't it?\"\n1) \"...I know what you mean.\"\n2) \"Doctor Cavala and I will get to the bottom of this. I\npromise.\"\n3) <Remain silent.>"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Mandlebury Road continues out of town into a residential suburb; you're pretty sure she won't be there."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The hall ends with doorways to the South and the West and a ladder built into the East wall leads up through an access hatch into the ceiling.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You look at the bottles", "response": "Row after row of smooth, dust-covered glass. The wine inside is dark and murky, reminding you, somewhat irrationally, of blood."}, {"prompt": "You get the coffee", "response": "Nonsense!\nA taxicab drives down the street.\nSuddenly, a group of teenagers dashes by. Their green and orange shirts read \"Dungeon Masters of Southport.\" The last one to pass points at you and shouts \"Praeumbro caliginosus!\" before laughing and chasing after her teammates."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nsome cans of soda\na diamond ring (being worn)\na sport coat (being worn)\na bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)\na squirt bottle (which is closed)\na quantity of pale blue liquid\na strange red bulb\na bottle of acid (which is open)\na quantity of acid\na bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)\na small plastic tube (which is closed)\nsome litmus powder"}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "The hole is getting deeper, but that's about it."}, {"prompt": "You get the ramp", "response": "FC: Cryolink already established to Waldo.\nTaken.\nPOET INTERRUPT: As much as I can be anyplace, I'm here at the Alpha Repair."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floor", "response": "The walls, floors and unseen halls are not something you can see or feel clearly. It's just dark and confusing here."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The road heads out over a narrow breakwater jutting out into the ocean.\nYou are picking your way across the breakwater's bare, rocky spine, where the road has diminished to little more than a pair of dusty ruts. A hundred yards to the northeast, at the breakwater's far end, the lonely stone tower of Anchorhead's lighthouse stands vigil against the ocean.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You examine the iD", "response": "It's your temporary employee identification card; it's just a worn piece of cardboard with the Omegatron logo and the word TEMPORARY stamped in red letters. It's amazing how inefficient the company's bureaucracy is; you've worked at Omegatron for three months now, and you're still stuck with this temporary badge, which doesn't have the little magnetic stripe that opens doors, so you constantly have to call Security to come unlock doors for you.\nThe hazard lights click on and off in a steady rhythm.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"How's it going?\"\nNathalie shrugs. \"Oh, I'm fine.\" She really is. It's like the heat isn't getting to her at all.\n[1] \"How's it going?\"\n[2] \"How are you so chipper?\"\n[3] \"How'd you get to be the hydration officer, anyway?\"\n[4] \"How do you like this snake?\"\n[5] \"Thanks.\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Castle Ruins (In a Stone Corridor)\nLornedei enters a long stone hall. The sudden noise of her own foot falls echoing makes her stop after just a few steps. She stands just inside the gate. The corridor is dim and it takes a while for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.\nThe wide stone corridor continues north for perhaps sixty feet and there is a dim light at the far end.\nShe takes a few more steps forward through the dusty corridor. She stops at an opening in the wall where a staircase leads down into darkness."}, {"prompt": "You tell X about X", "response": "\"You're so... pretty, and wonderful,\" you say. You're not sure why; there's no way flattery will change her mind.\n\"Thank you,\" she says softly."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising sun.\nThe farm gate to the south-west is safely shut.\nA group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, desperately searching for grain.\nThe border collie trots towards you from the main barn."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bed", "response": "An old, sour-smelling thing with twisted sheets. Beneath it, the\nplanks seem misplaced."}, {"prompt": "You drop it", "response": "(assuming you mean the pleather purse)\nDropped."}, {"prompt": "Examine 5", "response": "The spine reads, Contract Ford by\nThey-That-Recorded."}, {"prompt": "You examine sign", "response": "== FROBOZZ MAGIC ==\n= SPELL DISPENSER =\nOperating Instructions:\nPress a button to dispense a spell scroll. The Frobozz Magic Spell Dispenser Company, a subsidary of FrobozzCo International, is not responsible for any injuries resulting...(blah, blah, blah)"}, {"prompt": "Examine nymph", "response": "The beautiful nymph, dressed in a simple white shift, sits sobbing on one of the lower branches of the lilac bush. Her long, lavender locks partially obscure her face. Next to her you see a small brown basket."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "I am carrying:\na crank\na flute (which equals dog)\na sanitary napkin (which equals monkey wrench)\na tube of lipstick\na room key\na chopstick\nan umbrella (which equals doorknob)\nI have some information about the nature of the universe."}, {"prompt": "Smell cissy", "response": "Your nose is overrun with both Dolce and Gabbana.\nCissy continues to prattle on about her oh so fascinating life."}, {"prompt": "4", "response": "As your fingers touch the organ stop labelled \"4\", you hear a scraping sound behind you. Twisting around on the organ bench you see that a small panel has opened in the wall behind you and is already starting to re-close. Hastily you turn to vault over the bench but only succeed in falling in a heap, jamming your head between the wall and the almost-closed panel. This, however, stops its forward motion allowing you to pry it back enough to free your bruised scalp and crawl unceremoniously through before it once more hisses shut.\nYou find yourself near the podium in the orchestra pit. The pit extends to the West and there is a small, almost hidden crawl way to the North.\nThe door to the East is securely locked.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Beyond the south wall of the old slaughterhouse, there is nothing but a tangled thicket so dense as to be impenetrable in every direction except to the north, where you can slip back into the ruined slaughterhouse through a hole in the wall.\nRising from the midst of the underbrush is a squat circle of stone: the top of an ancient well.\nA rotting circle of plywood leans against the side of the well.\nThe sound of tearing undergrowth grows louder. Whatever it is, it's practically bulldozing its way through the forest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tray", "response": "A tray filled with fresh lettuce.\nIn the lettuce tray is a lettuce leaf."}, {"prompt": "You look at the walls", "response": "The squares of precious substances have cut with the greatest care, so that their surfaces are smoothly polished and bevelled. You are unable to determine by what means they have been attached to the stone beneath.\nIn one place, however, the placard has been moved away and a dark space exposed beneath."}, {"prompt": "You link the sword to the cork", "response": "(first unlinking the sword)\nYou succeed in unlinking the sword from the butcher knife.\nBending your will, you form the link between the sword and the bottle of Sauvignon Blanc."}, {"prompt": "You kiss valerie", "response": "Keep your mind on the game."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You can feel the suspense in the tent. Everyone holding their breath. All eyes unblinking. Gazes pinned to the table with its two cards laid out beside each other. This is the limit. Nobody's taken the trick further than this. Nobody's taken the trick further than you. But then Ivan reaches for another card\u2026"}, {"prompt": "You sit on it", "response": "From your hard perch on the throne, you notice for the first time what had been invisible before: A strip of carvings runs along the wall, high up in the gloom. Carved in this frieze is a series of figures, which are repeated rhythmically along the strip."}, {"prompt": "You cut the strap with scissors", "response": "There's no reason to deface the hospital's property; they'll have enough to fix."}, {"prompt": "WALDO, WHIZ, SENSA, POET, GO TO SHORT CORRIDOR", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: I'm on my way. Expect a report on arrival.\nFC: Cryolink established to Whiz.\nWHIZ: CLC setting coordinates. Will report in on arrival.\nFC: Cryolink established to Sensa.\nSENSA: Order input acknowledged. Output on arrival.\nFC: Cryolink established to Poet.\nPOET: All life's a stage, so just consider me a player. See you.\nWALDO INTERRUPT: Internal mapping indicates arrival at the Short Corridor."}, {"prompt": "You look up Lucrezia in the papers", "response": "You quickly skim the unpleasant history of Lucrezia of Medici-Credenza, how she brought odd magical treasures with her, introduced new methods of binding and contracting that were previously unknown even to this castle, and maintained a room for her studies in the basement below the rose garden. From this room everyone including her husband was banned.\nThere are some suggestions that she was the daughter of the Devil himself, sent to the castle to tempt the kings into further folly and destruction. But who knows?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the bed", "response": "A simple mattress on four wooden legs: the same as all the others."}, {"prompt": "You feed the cheese to the creature", "response": "The hornet sleeps soundly (thank heavens)."}, {"prompt": "You take the chest", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You switch off the lamp", "response": "You nervously turn it off...\n\"Bah! I bore of this!\" the bat states! It plucks you up and carries you to down!"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You scuttle underneath the long table.\nThe carpeted hallway turns from west to north here, extending into\nthe east wing. A long table blocks the way south."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The hallway ends to the north. Doors lead north and east. A cord hangs from an outlined rectangle in the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floorboard", "response": "The board is about four inches wide, a foot long, and more than an inch thick. Though the wood is discolored by age, it feels quite solid."}, {"prompt": "You ask Galen about the siblings", "response": "\"What's it like, having siblings?\" you ask.\n\"We fight a lot,\" he admits. \"There's always some drama going on. I miss them.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the arcade", "response": "\"You're just joking, right?\" he says and shoves you off before turning to the arcade machine again.\nYou recognize some of the names: Bubble Bobble, Pong, Zork, Tetris. Really old stuff. Vincent is fervously bashing the keys of something called 'Escapade!'."}, {"prompt": "You put the lamp on cube", "response": "As you put the battered old brass lantern on the crystal cube, it glows white and vanishes."}, {"prompt": "You open the refrigerator", "response": "You pull open the refrigerator, and try not to flinch as a wall of sand rushes out and buries your feet.\nThe radio begins playing an Antarcto-Shaker fugue."}, {"prompt": "You examine fid", "response": "It's a long wooden cone with a mean-looking point."}, {"prompt": "You open the window with the kindling", "response": "(first taking the kindling)\nThat doesn't seem to be something you can unlock."}, {"prompt": "You seize BLACK", "response": "As you pluck the BLACK BANNER from the CHALLENGE POST, the assembled rowdies cheer as they've never cheered before! You are ushered into the gladiator's ring, where you stand face-to-face with the imposing MASTER GLADIATOR!\nYou take a moment to REGARD your opponent ... The MASTER GLADIATOR was once human, but now he is plainly both a MUTANT and a CYABORG, with several portions of his body replaced by ROBODROID parts, glittering with the lights of SCIENCE! His right ARM is quite familiar - it was once your own! His weapons are twin GRAVITY WHIPS. He smiles an easy, confident smile as he REGARDS you in return.\n\"Let us begin\" he says."}, {"prompt": "Open case", "response": "You open the jewel case.\nSam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!"}, {"prompt": "You turn on heater", "response": "You switch on the space heater. Gradually it begins to quietly hum and the front of it turns a pretty amber. You feel warmer already.\nThe lights quiver and dim."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The thick (but neatly trimmed) hedge blocks your way. Obvious exits lead north, to the garage entrance; east, to the east lawn; and west, back to the gravel driveway."}, {"prompt": "You remember matty's advice", "response": "You remember Matty's advice about fielding:\n\"Just plant your foot on the bag, and give the boys a nice target for the throw. But if the throw is off-line, forget about keeping your foot on the bag. Step off and go to where the ball is. The most important thing is to catch it. We'd rather let the fellow be on first with a hit than be on second on a throwing error.\"\nDevlin starts to throw, but sees that you're not covering the bag. He pockets the ball rather than risk throwing it into right field somewhere. The cranks are screaming bloody murder, all of it directed at you."}, {"prompt": "You wear the crown", "response": "You put on the crown of the empire."}, {"prompt": "You put the marble in six", "response": "You lower the sphere into the hole, holding onto the chain. It drops about four inches before it touches bottom. An instant after it makes contact, there is a chime from the hole. The deep vibrating chime is accompanied by a shaft of shining light. The deep violet light shoots from the hole, passing through the sphere. It bends as it goes through the sphere, angling so that it flies upwards and strikes the large crystal in the ceiling. Briefly, the large crystal shimmers with the color. At the same time, it echoes the sound -- at a higher pitch. Finally, all is silent again. You cautiously pull the sphere from the hole. The sparks of color inside seem to be whirling faster than before."}, {"prompt": "You visit the home", "response": "You shout \"PLUGH!\" at the top of your lungs and soon find yourself teleported back home.\nThis is a spacious, cozy room, which one of those big, expensive TV. The two couches have been moved to the wall to make room for the teleportation pad.\nOne of Paul's romance novels is lying on one of the couch."}, {"prompt": "You ask Phelps about the cigars", "response": "Having been taught good manners, you can't quite bring yourself to ignore Phelps, so you nod to him and mumble a hello.\nHe smiles at you and nods heavily. \"You enjoyin' our balmy Southern weather, darlin'?\"\nBeauregard stifles a yawn. \"Gettin' time for my afternoon nap, but I'm just too keyed up this afternoon to sleep.\""}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "The book falls naturally open to a picture of a noose.\nThe common noose looks great as a scary yard decoration during Halloween or to improve your fishing or boating experience. The noose is a secure and easy-tightening loop that holds it shape for tossing over a boat mooring. But kids, listen to Uncle Melvyn: DO NOT WEAR A NOOSE around your neck or tie one around anyone else's neck under any circumstances, even as a joke..."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "It's a simple clean fountain."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You squeeze through the doggy door into the foyer of the inner keep. To the north is an outdoor courtyard, to the west a darkened hallway and to the east a well-lit hallway. A circular staircase curves upwards around a clockwork lift.\nThe goblin engineer keeps watch over the foyer from atop her mechanical suit of armour, her back facing the double doors."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You are walking on a road through the center of the village. The street is quiet and empty; most of the local populace has already turned in for the night. Silence weighs heavily on the town, and the air is cold and leaden. To the north is a small square wooden building. The door to the building is open. To the south is an open field. The road continues to the east and west, and a branch runs southwest as well - toward the black forest.\nDoctor Trolovitch checks the door to his office, making sure it's locked. \"Can't be too careful,\" he murmurs."}, {"prompt": "Turn poster", "response": "I flip the posters in the rack all the way back to the start."}, {"prompt": "You ask James about the panopticon", "response": "\"Is it acting up again, sir? I'm sorry. We haven't been keeping up regular maintenance, what with the budget constraints.\"\nJames sighs."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Tyrone", "response": "You mention that Tyrone has been working on the van all afternoon. Shouldn't he be finishing up before long? \"That old clunker?\" Honey replies. \"You ask me, it's a wonder it runs at all. I wouldn't be surprised if he's workin' on it 'til midnight. Now, my most recent boyfriend, he had a red convertible Porsche. But he had some bad habits too. I had to dump him.\""}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "You stand in a central hall of the CASTLE of the SLAVER KING, surrounded by opulent FURNISHINGS of every description. You notice people moving in the distance, but this place is so huge that your own arrival seems to have gone unnoticed by the non-GARGOYLE denizens. Just to be sure, you stick to the shadows (fortunately, there are many). An enormous flight of MARBLE STAIRS leads upward, to the THRONE ROOM."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You move west.\nCorridor (Area 51, Nevada)\nAnother featureless military corridor. This time you really do see nothing special. The corridor stretches back south, the way that you came from. There are doors in the other walls. The north door has a sign that reads Security, the east door reads Barracks and the west door says Laboratory. Nice of them to label the doors for you.\nExits: North, South, East and West"}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "open intent: I extract the open intent from the brute, along with the aggressively manner.\naggressively manner: I already have that.\nThe brute mutters something into its earpiece."}, {"prompt": "You look at the fireplace", "response": "The kitchen fireplace is almost big enough to stand in. It's back-to-back with the fireplace in Uncle Stephen's study, and shares a flue. You remember this from the time Uncle Stephen let you watch the sweep clean out the chimney."}, {"prompt": "You turn it on", "response": "The machine's gears spin into action; a series of fine flanges, like the keys of a music box, move into position against the surface of the cylinder, which rotates steadily. An irritable mechanical voice shouts from within, \"I shall be requiring the plate on which to put this item!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the clasp", "response": "A shiny silver clasp, which looks newer than any other part of the book. It beckons to you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ash", "response": "The scaly trunk of the black ash is marked by the signs of both fungal damage and the Emerald Ash Borer. Where sections of bark have flaked away from the trunk, weevil-wheedling paths of pale discoloration caused by the larval secretions of this virulent insect can be discerned. Epicormic shoots shamelessly sprout forth from this blighted trunk like unwanted fingers."}, {"prompt": "You look at Justy", "response": "His bright eyes gleam through thick glasses framed by short brown hair and a small gold loop through his left earlobe.\nLooking at Justy again, you see... not an old friend, but someone else, someone different. Someone you've only begun to get to know recently... Very curious.\nOr were you just thinking of someone else...?"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You move east.\nHallway (Manchester)\nYou've been in some impressive hallways in your time, but this isn't one of them. It's positively dull, and from someone who has done the same job day after day for millenia that's saying something. It's walls are coated with pink paint, which is in serious need of attention. The flooring is bare wooden boards. There is a telephone table next to the front door, on which is a - shock! - telephone.\nExits: North, South, West and Down"}, {"prompt": "You take the spice", "response": "You take a pinch of spices between your thumb and forefinger.\nLafond strolls to the table smiling slyly. \"But you haven't finished pouring the wine.\" He tops off both glasses. \"Which glass was mine? I seem to have forgotten.\" He points at the green goblet and smiles in a way that does not grant you confidence. \"Is this it?\""}, {"prompt": "You eat the cable", "response": "I'm confused. That's not something you can eat."}, {"prompt": "You give the letter to the clerk", "response": "The bank clerk's face lights up as she sees the letter. You slide it under the glass and she reads it.\n\"That's fine, Mr...Raper.\" she says.\n\"Reaper.\" you correct her, \"Grim Reaper.\"\nShe looks at you for a second and then grabs a pen, with which she makes a note on the letter that you received. She then slides you a form and the pen.\n\"Please fill this in, Mr. Reaper.\" she smiles at you.\nYou stare at the form for a minute. It simply asks you to sign if you are happy with the terms and conditions. The terms and conditions include graphic threats about what Blackbury Bank will do to you if you don't keep up with the card repayments, but seeing as pretty much all of the threats don't affect you (except possibly the one about the branding iron and the glue) you feel no reason to be concerned. You sign the form and slide it back under the glass.\n\"Thank you Mr...\" the bank clerk studies your signature for a second, \"Mr. Groper?\"\n\"Reaper!\" you state again, more firmly this time\n\"But you've signed it...\" the woman shows you the form through the glass.\n\"No! That thayth Mr. G. Reaper, not Mr. Groper!\"\nThe bank clerk looks at you as though you're the crazy one and then taps away on her computer for a second. A few minutes later she presents you with a credit card in your name. She passes you the pen and the sign the back of the card, feeling a wave of pride in your new possession and statue as bank customer.\n\"Thank you.\" you say, turning to leave.\n\"Ah, Mr. Reaper?\" the bank clerk waves her hand at you, \"My pen?\"\n\"Ah, thorry.\" you respond meekly, returning her pen to her."}, {"prompt": "You get King", "response": "(Presumably, you mean King Anatinus.)\nThat's impossible.\nThe King Anatinus glares at you with annoyance.\n\"You dare to ignore a royal command?\" he cries, deeply offended. \"I see. Perhaps a short visit to the granola mines will teach you some respect!\"\nThe King turns you into a platypus with an angry wave of his scepter, and the guards lead you away to twenty years of backbreaking labor.\nYour score is 52 points out of 100, in 289 moves.\nDo you want to restart the story, restore a saved position, or quit?"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nthe book (closed)\na pen light\na paddle\nyour bag (open)\na fez cap\na cosmetic mirror\nan apple (snagged at Cairo Airport)\na plastic knife\nyour cell phone"}, {"prompt": "You fold the crane", "response": "The crane: unlikely to yield in such a fashion."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This is as far as the studio goes. On a first date, anyway. A wooden door with a switch by it is to the south and the secondary control room door, with a light by it, is northward. The hallway runs back to the east."}, {"prompt": "You look at stained", "response": "The scroll reads \"caskly spell: cause perfection.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the Hyper-the gastronomy", "response": "A ragged book with a dark green cover."}, {"prompt": "You examine the keyboard", "response": "A computer monitor. It is turned off. Since the monitor is here, you're guessing a keyboard and mouse are hidden under the papers somewhere."}, {"prompt": "You examine the glyphs", "response": "The glyphs are worn and decrepit. A few scratches from your scalpel, and the lift would become a deathtrap for the unwary."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This wide rectangle of concrete is littered with the chaotic fallout of everyday dairy farming. And its brown! The stark windows of the farmhouse stare accusingly down into the yard from the north, and, to the east, the roof of the main barn is outlined against the rising sun.\nTowering black cumulonimbus clouds pour forth vast quantities of tiny, hard hailstones onto Skebdale.\nThe farm gate to the south-west is safely shut.\nA group of clucking chickens peck their way around the farmyard, desperately searching for grain."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dresser", "response": "The dresser has no drawers, just a surface and a mirror. The reflection is not flattering, it looks both like you need the bottle and you've been at it for too long. It's like the faces you see in the cells in the morning; after the kissers have been through with them.\nFrom the hallway, you hear the front door close.\nThere are footsteps on the stairs, and a policeman appears huffing like a steam train. He comes in and shuts the door. Only then does his jowly smile drop into a scowl. \"Inspector. Sorry you made it. I hoped you wouldn't.\" He comes closer, then reels, waving one hand in front of his nose. \"You've been drinking. Maybe not recently. But generally.\" A fat fist grabs you by the collar. \"I need you to get this one right. I'm not getting stuck on another one of your\nblow-out cases. Okay?\""}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"How did the deaths happen?\" you ask.\n\"It is different every time,\" Patriarch Natos says. \"Now and again, one of us is foolhardy enough to brave the passage. They will go, and they will return, seemingly none the worse for wear. They always say the same thing: that it is only an old, disused aqueduct, and there is nothing for us to fear.\n\"And yet, within the week, it will transpire that some terrible malady has befallen the explorer. They will bleed from within, or they will go insane, or their flesh will melt off their bones. And then they will die.\"\n1) \"Can I see the bodies?\"\n2) \"Does anyone else know about this curse?\"\n3) \"Thank you for the warning. I'll be careful.\""}, {"prompt": "You put Zefferelli in it", "response": "You stick the Zefferelli folder into cabinet Z and close the drawer."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "Just a little farther, you hope. The path turns a corner and you can see it ahead. You hurry onward."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ham", "response": "Holy. Crap."}, {"prompt": "You descend", "response": "In contrast to the Baron's opulence lurks here the spartan Cell of his corrupt Priest. The only furnishing is a straw Mat, the only concession to luxury a Tapestry which hangs near the upward-climbing Stair.\nThe Priest sits on his mat, eyes downturned in submission.\n[Author's Note: So,] says the Priest, devoid of Emotion. [Author's Note: You have come.]"}, {"prompt": "You consult the pigeonhole about the halitus catholiconis", "response": "catholiconis in your lifetime, let alone in these pigeonholes."}, {"prompt": "You play Game", "response": "You think you need to be stronger to fight the zombies, so you start playing Street Fighter 2. You choose Blanka, because you feel you and him are very alike. You easily win the first fights against Zangief, Dhalsim, E. Honda, then get easily rid of Chun Li, Guile, and Ken, then you beat Ryu and get to the final four bosses. You win against Balrog and, with a bit of effort, also against Vega and Sagat and you finally face M. Bison. You reduce him to a pulp too and, after finishing the game and typing your name on the top of the high-score list, you really feel stronger."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A high WATERFALL cascades down from a mountain ridge above, foaming and roaring into a broad POOL of clean water. The result is a brilliant PRISMATIC SPRAY. The setting is very peaceful.\nSwimming in the crystalline POOL is a MAGIC FISH. It appears to be reading a tiny book."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Much of the elegance has faded from this room. The huge dining table running the length of it is covered with a thick gray film of dust, and the china cupboard standing against the far wall is draped in shadow. Doorways to the north and east offer little relief from the gloom. For what must be the hundredth time, you wish you could open the windows in this place."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "As you start in that direction, suddenly half a dozen human skeletons rise up out of the water, grinning. No, a dozen of them. No, twenty. The skeletons stalk toward you, brandishing long sharp knives! You lurch away from them, and lose your footing and nearly fall into the water. You scramble backward toward the door, whimpering, crying, \"No, no, please....\"\nWith a dry clacking sound like sticks falling in a heap, the skeletons and their wicked knives vanish. The interior of the shed is peaceful again."}, {"prompt": "You look at the shovel", "response": "A space shovel, for digging on all kinds of planets expects gas giants and red dwarfs."}, {"prompt": "You examinwell-dressed Ghost", "response": "A well-dressed and glowering African-American man, impatient with a sense of purpose.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it.\nSeeing the smaller fountain, the well-dressed man scowls, and a sledgehammer suddenly materializes in his hands. He stalks towards it, frost blossoming from the ground at each step. Standing in front of it, he hefts the sledgehammer high into the air, bringing it down with great force--only to see it harmlessly pass through the fountain's bowl, without even a whisper of wind. He glares at the fountain, then turns and sees you watching him. He considers for a moment, then seems to come to a decision. He tosses the sledgehammer to you, and you catch it one-handed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the jacket", "response": "It's a canvas strait jacket, the kind used to immobilize violent or spastic mental patients. It fastens up the back with a complex series of buckles and straps, while the sleeves cross the chest and fasten around back, making it quite impossible to escape."}, {"prompt": "You make the dough", "response": "You knead another ball of bread dough.\nAnother loaf-shaped dough plops into a metal pan.\n\"A delicious loaf of wheat bread, please!\" requests the yellow robed citizen.\n[6:12 pm:17|911577]  shmokey420 : Name?\nMysticMegan95 idles, possibly AFK.\n[6:12 pm:17|914051]  shmokey420 : WTS 10 Feral Beast Potion 20cp OBO.\nLegolas31 goes north.\nAnUUsSpOoPy69 dances on the counter."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bulb", "response": "The light bulb is hanging low on an electrical wire. It is unlit."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Does a raven mean anything to you?\"\nThe examiner raises an eyebrow. \"It does, now that you mention it. The raven is one of the symbols of the Greater Corindia Trading Company -- it's a criminal syndicate, one of the biggest in Furopolis. If some of these people had been involved...\"\nThat can't be good. You make a mental note of the connection.\n1) \"Regarding Doctor Arturus...\"\n2) \"Regarding Creditor Nacarat...\"\n3) \"Regarding Sal and Piper...\"\n4) \"I'll keep investigating.\""}, {"prompt": "Clipboard", "response": "It's written in the barely decipherable scrawl of a medical professional. I could READ it, if you want."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "You are standing under an awning that forms a small shed against the back of the diner. A paved walk leads east around the building past the parking lot. Next to the shed, a door marked \"EMPLOYEES ONLY\" leads south.\nA tangle of cables emerges from amid the vents on the wall. The cables snake down to a backup power generator that is chugging away noisily.\nThe generator makes a really loud noise, and it makes everything shake. You can't even think straight.\nThe sound of barking dogs is coming from the employee entrance.\nIn the parking lot you see a few of the children wandering over from the road."}, {"prompt": "Wear coat", "response": "(first taking the trenchcoat)\nYou put on the trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The front hall stretches south towards the foyer. The dining room is west, a plain door is east, and a flight of stairs curls around to the northeast.\nA tiny space; really just the beginning of a hallway leading north. The Parlor is back to the west, and the professor's study is east. The front yard is to the south.\nThe walls are heavy with green and maroon hangings. Some photographs are arranged on the wall, above an old upright piano. The foyer is visible to the east."}, {"prompt": "You look up Yvette in the papers", "response": "It takes some searching, but you find it eventually. The king in these parts was accustomed to bring young ladies to the castle when his wooing of them was unsuccessful, whereupon they were under contract and unable to resist him.\nThis he did for many years, snatching away men's brides; until one day he stole Yvette. She was only a humble milkmaid, but so beautiful she was betrothed to a lord, etc., etc., and moreover her great-great-grandmother had been Lucrezia the Enchantress (oh dear), so she possessed a magical girdle of surpassing power.\nWhen she discovered what was about to happen to her, while she was still on the drawbridge of the castle, she cursed the king to become a mere beast, so that the spell would never be lifted until someone loved him who was not under magical contract. What was more, this person would need the power of that same magical girdle...\nThere is even a small woodcut of the grieving Yvette, carrying a cow bell and looking downtrodden."}, {"prompt": "You examine the plastic", "response": "It's a keycard to the Psychology building. It must be Bian's.\nIsaac tilts his head at the square of plastic on the table."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "A nice red feather with a firm shaft. It's likely from a goknous, the rare exquisite courier bird."}, {"prompt": "You fold", "response": "You fold.\nThe old troll wins the round. No money though.\nThe cards are put back in the deck. The old troll picks up the deck of cards and shuffles it. He deals two cards face down on the table. He grabs one card for himself. The other card is in front of you. The short troll and the tall troll are not in the game, as they don't have any money.\nThe old troll says, \"Ur, if you want to play, take the card. If you don't want to play get off the rock.\""}, {"prompt": "You lubricate the white powder", "response": "You apply a liberal amount of lubricant to the white powder.\nThe oil on the white powder evaporates away.\nWhumpf! The white powder suddenly bursts into flame!\nThe resulting fire must have set off some sensor in the bomb. The subsequent explosion vaporizes you, the train, and a large portion of California instantaneously."}, {"prompt": "You go upwards", "response": "You make your way up.\nReal Axis: 1"}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This is a plush room brightly lit by panels far above you in the walls and with a lush rug underfoot. Exits go south and east.\nThe clockwork girl is thrashing about uselessly on the floor.\nA writing desk is here. This must be where Ghosterington birthed his dread works."}, {"prompt": "You look at the window", "response": "The curved window takes up the entire southern wall of the chamber.\nThe view of the underworld beyond is incredible."}, {"prompt": "You look at the robe", "response": "The purpose of clothes here is to keep a person warm while disguising as much as possible the presence of a solid body. They're made of light but tightly-woven material, generously cut, and studded with floatpins, allowing the cloth to hover, drift, and swirl perpetually without coming into indecent contact with the flesh.\nThe robe is designed to drape from the shoulders, with several shorter layers of floatpinned cape at the back. It must billow magnificently when a person walks, and double as a sail in a strong wind."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "A second ticks by."}, {"prompt": "Rock", "response": "You play rock.\nYour opponent plays scissors.\n[press any key to continue]The tension in the air recedes as\neveryone takes stock of the results. Then, the gym breaks out into mild applause, and the referee takes your arm and holds it up into the air, declaring you the victor of the competition. You feel your blessings melt away from you, having fulfilled their purpose.\nThe club president looks frustrated, but only for a moment. Then they grin at you and begin clapping as well.\n\"Congratulations,\" they say."}, {"prompt": "You wear the shoes", "response": "You slip your feet into the shoes, and feel less alone. Mere sentiment, you think; but then there is the brush of a thought other than your own. The crypt. Under the Law Library. There are sources\nof power there which even I have never understood."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "spooky woods you see before you. All around you are brambles, bracken and blackened lightning struck trees.\nTurning east you can just about make out happier looking trees. All that you can see in this part of the woods is a mess of brambles."}, {"prompt": "You wear the gown", "response": "Even if your dignity would allow such a ludicrous gesture, you very much doubt that the gown would fit you. It looks about Marie's size."}, {"prompt": "You examine the farm", "response": "You could look at the ant farm all day, but you've got work to do.\n\"Get lost you mama's boy!\" Annie shouts, grabbing a crystal serving tray and throwing out the door at the thugs outside.\nYou hear grumbling and random bursts of machine-gun fire from the thugs on the rooftop."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You draw back the false lining, revealing a set of throwing knives."}, {"prompt": "Cut fungus", "response": "There is too much mold to scrape it all off."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tables", "response": "It looks like business is booming. Not a single table remains vacant.\nGinger briefly dances with one of the customers before returning him to his previous partner."}, {"prompt": "Kiss nadia", "response": "\"It's too late for that now, Jack.\" Nadia keeps her distance."}, {"prompt": "You put Chocolate in the contraption", "response": "The cylinder slips into place with a satisfying click, as though some mechanism has engaged."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "A quaint little snack bar nestles beside the brick enclosure, while the rest of the pavilion sprawls out to the north. A hand-painted sign above the counter advertises boiled peanuts.\nBehind the counter is an industrial boiler.\nBehind the counter, a vendor is busily locking things away for the night.\nThe vendor sees you approaching and throws a welcoming nod in your direction, followed by a rhetorical sounding \"Hey, how's it going?\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You head out of the Solarium and down a brief slope, into the clearing at the center of town.\nClearing (on the personal float unit)\nThe street runs north/south, so that you have an uninterrupted view of Cordia Peak, and the leading edge of the glacier at the northern edge of town.\nBoth sides of the street are built up. A substantial building of metal and glass lies to the east, houses to the west.\nThe rings in the southern sky are partly obscured by the buildings on the horizon, but are still bright enough to catch the eye.\nA double set of insulating doors leads south into a huge glass and metal dome, a greenhouse and Solarium where most of the local population now lives; the Embassy is inside.\nAt the center of the open space here is a monument shaped like a tusk or tooth."}, {"prompt": "You take the crackers", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You read the amber", "response": "\"BLORT POTION\n(ability to see in dark places)\""}, {"prompt": "Exex crowd", "response": "You cast the spell, but there are just too many people for it to have any noticeable effect. PAX: its attendance is stronger than magic."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na revolver (found in Lounge)\na dagger (found in Hall)\na rope (found in Dining Room)\na candlestick (found in Library)\na lead pipe (found in Conservatory)\na wrench (found in Ballroom)\nReverend Weed drifts into Conservatory."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "A long, oak-paneled room, with doorways to the south and west. Paintings line the walls, mounted beneath small, shaded lamps that would illuminate the canvasses nicely if only the electricity were working. Still, even in the shadowed gloom you can see that all were done by the same artist."}, {"prompt": "You open the cabinets", "response": "You open the cabinets, revealing a bowl of unpopped popcorn kernels and a fuse box."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You're getting pretty hungry.\nExtremely spacious. It is its best with a half-dozen servants in livery. The floor is Italian marble, and a small door to the west is concealed by yellow silk hangings.\nThe main staircase ascends to the corridor on the second floor, and a smaller version leads down into the dim basement. Doors also open north and northeast.\nOn the wall is one of those mechanical clocks that pop open on the hour, allowing the ingenious internal figures out to play.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You're taking me away,\" you say.\nShe nods. You feel a chill run down your spine.\n1) \"I want to go...\""}, {"prompt": "Search clothes", "response": "Moving around some of the clothes reveals a silver whistle."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "As you walk away, Honey goes back to reading (if that's the right word) her magazine.\nA slant-roofed, sagging shack stands here. There might have been a bit of vegetable garden beside it at one time, but all that's left now is a jumble of weeds and rusting junk. The large passenger van belonging to the resort stands in front of the shack, its hood up.\nTyrone is standing hunched over the van's engine, peering down into the innards.\nYou can go south to the open area behind the cabins, northwest along the gravel driveway, north to the back door of the main house, or northeast on a path that leads around the corner of the house. An overgrown brick walkway leads east along the side of the nearest cabin. The shack itself is to the west from this spot, and the garden beside it is to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You enter the pit", "response": "The slick concrete walls of the pit offer no safe way down.\nThen it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech\u2014and then the universe.\n*** You have failed. ***\nIf you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you\u2014"}, {"prompt": "You eat the meat", "response": "Striveth for wisdom in thine commands, barbarian. Refer to your game manual for assistance."}, {"prompt": "You examine mirror", "response": "The mirror above the mantelpiece reflects the room through a dim haze; it's made with smoked glass. The mirror has a few smudges and fingerprints on it. In the mirror, you can't spot the carpet in the living room, but there's a trap door in the middle of the living room floor. Also, the couch has been moved from the parlor to the living room. Curiously, your reflection holds a sputtering torch, giving off a small stream of inky smoke, which blends into the mirror's smoked glass."}, {"prompt": "You look under the handcuffs", "response": "The pale flesh of human wrists."}, {"prompt": "Dance", "response": "You flail around, jumping up and down like a crazy fool. It makes you a little dizzy, but your head doesn't hurt any worse for it."}, {"prompt": "Time", "response": "You aren't wearing a wristwatch. Usually you'd keep track of time by glancing at your cell phone, but you seem to have misplaced that today. At a guess, it's about 2:30."}, {"prompt": "You go", "response": "\"Captain Rockersuke, sir?\" says a middle-aged man coming up from below deck. \"Carter, reporting for duty. I'm the senior master's mate and acting master of Defender.\"\nA post-captain would have a sailing master under him as the most senior warrant officer, but on a sloop the commander is technically also the master. You still have a few master's mates--experienced ratings working to get their warrants as masters in the Royal Navy. Mr. Carter, as the senior mate, will fill the role of the sloop's sailing master in all but title.\n\"Mr. Carter,\" you reply, \"make the sloop ready for some shake-down maneuvers. I want to see her capabilities.\"\n\"Aye aye, sir!\"\nYou inspect Carter carefully as he readies the sloop for basic action. You quickly realize that this man is the only force holding the sloop together; Benton gives orders, but Carter has them followed. Under Carter's guidance, you manage to get the sloop out onto open waters.\n>Next"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A large shed is built out over the waters of the swamp at this spot. The planks of the shed are weathered to a grayish color and the paint is peeling, but the shed looks solidly built. The door is standing wide open.\nYou can go southwest around the side of the shed, northeast to the area between the cabins, and north or northwest to an open area behind the western row of cabins. The door of the shed is directly to the south, and a stretch of swampy shore lies to the east."}, {"prompt": "You take the sign", "response": "\"Lady Gascogne! Mademoiselles!\" you say, sweeping the notice away from your table and settling back into your chair. \"What a pleasure to see you all here at this season's exposition! I must apologize. When lunch calls, lunch calls, but I'm honored, enraptured, delighted that you stuck around to see my three-card trick.\""}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "This area was probably used as a storage area for the bar prior to the acquisition of the huge mirror. The rest of the saloon lies to the west.\nYou can see a dull knife here."}, {"prompt": "You rest", "response": "You rest for a moment to regain your strength...\n[ Your Stamina: 2     Clownfish: 8 ]"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The East end of the Lobby opens to the foyer. You see the courtesy area to the North and a doorway to the South.\nThe door to the South is locked"}, {"prompt": "You look at the slats", "response": "The calcareous slats that form the walkway feel strangely light underfoot; as though hollowed out and filled with air. In the gaps between, you can see the churning water below, stare too long and you are sure to become nauseous. Each platform stretches your legs as you move from one to the next; the gait of the bridge's architects must have been strange indeed.\nThe taut cords that give the structure its shape appear to be woven in some complex fungoid plait that elongates and contracts with a slither as you step across."}, {"prompt": "Lipton", "response": "When she sees you looking at her, Miss Lipton smiles and waves, just\nso you know it's not you she's frowning about. But she goes right back to frowning."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "My evil twin's dark fortress casts its shadow over Silent Street, which continues east and west. A security camera mounted above the massive iron-banded door tracks my every move. Across the street to the north is the... other park."}, {"prompt": "You see the woman", "response": "She's a dark, sinister being with terrible eyes!\nher ear. An evil eyebrow rises slowly as she listens."}, {"prompt": "You keep going", "response": "You examine a painting at random and find a landscape of the frozen lake Dinge. It's okay."}, {"prompt": "You examine the berries", "response": "The plants in the greenhouse grow and die in a rapid cycle, proceeding through all possible stages of their life endlessly due to the lead enriched soil.\nSmall yellow flowers blossom across the hayberry bush. The banberry shrub is covered in dozens of black obloid berries. The spindleweed stalks have grown higher and the leaves broader."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tables", "response": "They are sturdy, metal tables; the only somewhat-modern furnishings in this abode."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "Sure looks like it's gonna be a nifty night.\n\"RAID!\"\nOh, phooey.\nThe lounge erupts into the kind of chaos you haven't seen since Komodo's last two-for-one stocking sale. Shrieks ring out. Patrons in various degrees of spliffication are fighting each other to get to the exits. The bartender bowls over some sheba in a mink on his way to the door, but a couple of bulls from the SPD scoop him up a few feet shy.\nNow, the last thing you need is to get pinched with the old lady already on the warpath because of what you did to the Ford. And could the timing be any lousier? You JUST dropped half a clam on this drink, and you haven't even touched it yet.\n1) Toss it out and beat feet for the doors.\n2) Hide under the table and gulp it down."}, {"prompt": "You examine the photograph", "response": "A rather abstract photograph in black and white. You're not sure what it represents. Perhaps a line drawing of a hand with an eye in the center?"}, {"prompt": "You get the spider", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The path curves southwest, leading you into an overgrown area behind the mill.\nThe foundations of an older structure lie crumbling in a sunken square of ground, hidden away behind the imposing shadow of the mill wall. Weeds push up through cracked and buckling slabs of concrete; twisted rebar and rusting pipes poke up like the legs of dead insects. The ruins are surrounded on all sides by dense thickets, although narrow, overgrown trails lead northeast and southeast through the underbrush."}, {"prompt": "You see the vulture", "response": "Its steady gaze makes you uneasy.\nThe old woman stalks across the lab to a panel of heavy-duty power switches. As the camera follows, you catch a fleeting 3D glimpse of a black cat sleeping in the corner of the lab."}, {"prompt": "You search man", "response": "Nothing but sheer crazy.\nThere is nothing on the grey-haired man."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are fit, happy, and healthy. You drink Coke!"}, {"prompt": "You fill the bucket", "response": "You place the bucket beneath the spigot, stick the key in the hole on top, and twist it. Clear water pours out and splashes noisily in the bottom of the bucket. The resonance is deeply satisfying. You almost feel a little sleepy.\nAs the bucket begins to overflow, you snap back to awareness and turn off the faucet. You pull out the key; you don't want to lose that.\nThen you pick up the bucket. It's heavy. Gosh.\nOkay, you can do this."}, {"prompt": "You look at the screen", "response": "The computer is in screen-saver mode: blank except for a single window requesting a 4-digit user passcode. Odd; you didn't think Michael ever used the passcode utility."}, {"prompt": "You fill the flask", "response": "(with the newspaper)\n(first taking the newspaper)\n(slipping the meat hook into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get\na hand free)\nTaken.\nThe mouth of the flask is too narrow."}, {"prompt": "71", "response": "(in the deck of punched cards)\nThe cards are sorted, so you easily flip through the deck to where 4.71 should be. You find a card that looks like this:\n42325515        4.71\nMr. Teeterwaller mumbles something to himself."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and three\nkilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot\nof its old content scattered around and devastated.\nThe docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts, crates and boxes of every kind and size."}, {"prompt": "You go upwards", "response": "You climb up the bean stalk, which goes on and on. Eventually, you push through the clouds and find yourself poking through a lawn.\nA lush and rambling golf course with a red-carpeted cloud-top path leading west to the casino. Off to the east, the golf course is surrounded by luscious cumulus clouds.\nAccustomed to starvation, the jittery cow stares unblinkingly into space.\nThe non-indigenous fowl cluck and bristle with indignity from atop the neighboring clouds, while they keep a suspicious eye on your cow."}, {"prompt": "You stand", "response": "You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your stiff hands."}, {"prompt": "You put the roses in the teapot", "response": "You put the dead roses into the hinge-lidded teapot."}, {"prompt": "You look at the dress", "response": "The coarse dress that you wear to do chores around the house -- and your tasks in other realms, as well."}, {"prompt": "E,N,U", "response": "A straight white light comes through the hole in the ceiling, but it is soon after twisted and bent: mirrors cast it from angle to angle; crystal divides it; glass stains it.\nEast and west, low corridors lead into shadow.\nThe silvery door to the north stands open.\nTower, Bottom\nYou stand at the bottom of a stone tower. Doorways open in each of the cardinal directions, except for the north; there, a spacious niche contains the statue of a woman, skillfully executed in white marble.\nThe center of the room is occupied by a spiral staircase, but one made of such slender and delicate supports that it obscures neither light nor view.\nThe silvery door to the south stands open.\nTower, Mid-level\nA midpoint in the tower, with doorways east and west, lit from above. The south wall is occupied by a deep niche, in which is a statue of a young man in the Greek mode.\nThe walls have been sheathed with a variety of fine materials, all exceptionally costly: sheets of beaten gold, squares of lapis lazuli, placards of ruby and adamant. There is a dark, square hole in the north wall where one of these sheets has been removed.\nYou can see a placard here.\nThe grumbling of machinery catches your attention."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "Harold Banks, auteur manqu?.\n\"Exactly what I do. The way I see it, friend, all of us are characters at one level or the other. We make up one level; the people we create make up the next level; and so on. You don't fit into that scheme, of course - shall we say you are above such things?\""}, {"prompt": "Open cylinder", "response": "You open the valve, and a jet of pleasant-smelling gas escapes. However, since you're wearing the face mask, it doesn't bother you. Suddenly, under the influence of the halogenated hydrocarbon vapour, writing begins to appear on the LCD panel!"}, {"prompt": "You put the ham in Agotron", "response": "You put the ham into the Agotron."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "You join your voice with the new, unfamiliar intervals, and feel a sudden crystallization. All of your senses have become attuned to new frequencies and modes of vibration.\nYour eye cannot even comprehend the strange geometries of this vast temple.\nTwo figures are walking across the floor, engaged in an angry debate. You realize you are non-corporeal, but you do have access to the abstraction layer here.\nYou can see Chaos and Substance here."}, {"prompt": "You stand on the bed", "response": "You get onto your bed.\nThe monster takes a swipe at you with razor sharp claws. It literally misses by a hair, making claw marks in your shirt without piercing your skin."}, {"prompt": "You open the second envelope", "response": "Yesenia rips open the second envelope, revealing a letter."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold nugget, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a bunch of turnip greens, a white flask, a black flask, a matchbook, a feather (providing light), and a coin. The quiver seems to contain an arrow."}, {"prompt": "You examine the undergrowth", "response": "Thick undergrowth. You think you glimpse something, though."}, {"prompt": "You examine the skiff", "response": "The shuttle must be a hundred years old. You're pretty sure it almost exploded a couple times while you were flying out here.\nThe trip seemed to take an eternity. You took the wheel while the professor slept in the back, rousing itself occasionally to criticize your driving ability. When you finally arrived, Thezh insisted on landing, so you wouldn't wreck the skiff's paint job."}, {"prompt": "You ask Fred about manager", "response": "\"I can't believe they didn't hire me to do sound as well! I know the sound guy they picked, and he couldn't mix his way out of a wet paper bag!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Stephen", "response": "He's a small, quiet Midwesterner, self-taught, and works currently as a private chef. While everyone else is drinking in the Stew Room, he's always got a bottle of fizzy water. He's won a bunch of challenges, which drives Justin insane."}, {"prompt": "You look through it", "response": "Through the east window you can see the porch and the lawn. Through the south window you can see the cabins."}, {"prompt": "You examine stool", "response": "You look suspiciously at the uneven, wooden stool that Jiniyu intends you to sit on. It looks like a sure way to get cramp in your back muscles."}, {"prompt": "You ask W,  to go west", "response": "A straight white light comes through the hole in the ceiling, but it is soon after twisted and bent: mirrors cast it from angle to angle; crystal divides it; glass stains it.\nEast and west, low corridors lead into shadow.\nThe silvery door to the north stands open.\nA long, vaulted room, lined with cages of filigree and jewels. All of the animals are motionless and still, perhaps through the art of a taxidermist. In one cage is an elephant, so short that he reaches only to your knee; you easily could lift him under one arm and carry him away. In another cage, a giant mouse lies, curled as though slumbering, his paws folded in the semblance of prayer.\nMounted on a swivel on the wall is what looks like an irregular hourglass, one bulb larger than the other. There is no sand within -- nor could there be, since the contraption is open at each end. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "You cover the sixth hole", "response": "You place your finger over the sixth flute hole.\nA gust of wind blows your hair into your face."}, {"prompt": "You hit the detector with the extinguisher", "response": "Furiously, you whale on the smoke detector until the plastic casing splits and cracks open. Its wiry innards hang in sagging loops like the guts of an eviscerated cow.\nYou're back to normal again, unfortunately, and the screaming is slowly pushing its way into your head again.\nThe smoke detector is still shrieking."}, {"prompt": "Shake peter", "response": "You shake Peter. When you let go, his body continues to shake. His skin splits open, revealing the most beautiful creature you have ever seen. Overcome with happiness, you start to weep, tears of blood running down your cheeks."}, {"prompt": "You look at the book", "response": "The photo's detail is good, but not so good that you can read the tiny print of the large book. By its heft, it could easily be a medical textbook."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-west", "response": "High cliffs hem in this cove on every side except the west, which is open to the sea. To south and east the cliffs are too steep to climb, but the slope up to the north cliff looks gentler. There\u2019s also a narrow cave entrance to the southeast.\nA mass of slimy green seaweed lies on the shore."}, {"prompt": "You look at the water", "response": "The water is clear and clean: it sparkles in the candlelight and dances with your breath."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "A hoary monument of crumbling, moss-eaten flagstones, Whateley Bridge is possibly older than any other structure in the entire city. Ponderously it spans the dark, torpid waters of the Miskaton River, connecting the north and south halves of the city and occasionally raining bits of gravel and mortar from its underside into the water. It looks just wide enough for two cars to pass each other between the flanking stone parapets, but you wouldn't volunteer to try it.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You are in the Sanctuary. This is where the actual Coronation Ceremony takes place whenever a new monarch is crowned. A modest tomb is near the south wall.\nYour companion's brow is furrowed in intense concentration."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nJohn Nolen Drive (on Lunar Lightning)\nAdjacent to lake Monona, John Nolen Drive is a wide multi-lane road which passes underneath the curved contours of the Monona Terrace convention center. The view from across the lake looking toward downtown is Madison's skyline-postcard view. A heavily used bike path teems with cyclists and joggers. The Capitol square is north, Williamson St. to the east, and the Miffyland residential neighborwood is west."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The monkey scampers beside you.\nThe walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "Smell Grunk", "response": "Mmm, smell like Grunk. And like pig. And like dirt. Good smell."}, {"prompt": "You throw the broom in the shaft", "response": "The broom drops down out of sight, and a few seconds later you hear a faint splash."}, {"prompt": "You drop the Mould", "response": "The mould falls to the ground and breaks. You don't jump out of the way quick enough and the molten gold splashes over your legs. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a goldfish's body with a wet slap.\nCastle\nInside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the room here, this looks like Panchax's work.\nA smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work."}, {"prompt": "You put dough in the hole", "response": "You stick the cookie dough in the hole. It fits quite nicely.\nWorking the edges with your hands, you quickly form an efficient seal which should keep the wind out.\nThe sound of a tremendous belch rocks the apartment.\nYou hear a loud \"Pin pon!\" come from the game. Evan grins maniacally."}, {"prompt": "You look at the thickets", "response": "The thickets are full of painful thorns and appear quite impenetrable. They are also very deep; there's no telling what could be hidden -- or what could be hiding -- in their brambly depths."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"...yesterday when I was over I used the computer in the den to browse a few websites. I checked one that I only look at on extremely rare occasions but once in a while for old time's sake and quite accidentally found myself using the 'Add Bookmark' function and I only remembered after I left and Izzy's father locked it up again. He's paranoid about people stealing things, you know.\"\n[1] So basically, you're saying you left evidence of your very-rare glance at the horse race sheets on your father-in-law's computer and you want me to help you destroy said evidence?\n[2] Why do you do this to yourself, Frodo?\n[3] I see you have a harebraned scheme hatching. I've had enough of those. I'm out. I'm sworn off since last Tuesday."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are east of the gliding rocking chair that is fun to ride on and north of the big TV that Sesame Street comes from. On the wall is a big bookcase full of chewy books. There is a way into the kitchen to the north but one of those baby gates is there, that is no fair.\nAbout half a parent high in the bookcase is your favorite toy.\nPart of your playpen is here, there is more of it to the southwest.\nYou can also see a squishy ball, a plastic cup, a poosh stick, a much-loved kangaroo, a tall plastic block (on which is Zoe), a short plastic block, and a medium plastic block here.\nZoe gets onto the medium plastic block."}, {"prompt": "You throw the ball at the box", "response": "Holly starts suddenly. Tracking the ball with lightning reflexes, she leaps and pounces with power and grace. The ball drops to the floor and Holly sniffs at it warily."}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "The musty air is thick with the hissing and bubbling of strange concoctions. The oddest things hang from the walls: Faceless\ndolls, strings of beads, dried herbs, and a couple of bleached cow skulls. It looks like every available surface is occupied by some half-finished arcane project. At the center of the chaos is Miss Muriel's big book.\nEXITS: OUTSIDE\nMiss Muriel herself seems to have flown the coop."}, {"prompt": "Blast curtain", "response": "Emily nods, and extends her hand towards the curtain of light. Nothing happens. \"Well, that's a gyp,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "You examine the reality", "response": "Reality, the objective shared state of the external world, is dense here. The stable information weave of predictable continuous phenomena provides the substrate of your cognition and perception.\nStrawberry's tail brushes by your leg as she sniffs at your toes."}, {"prompt": "You ask George about Thad", "response": "\"Deadeye use to be a nice place to live. Lots of good people from all 'round came to live here. Heck, ya could leave yer horse on the street fer a week and nobody'd mess with it.\"\n\"One day back a spell, Black Thad started to hang out 'bout town. He were more a pain in the neck than anything. He didn't bother folks much at first. Oh sure, he'd shoot up the place and pick a fight at the drop of a hat, but he didn't hurt folks too much.\"\n\"'Tweren't long after the Spring rains when Black Thad picked, of all things, a fight with a goshdarn woman at the saloon. Heck, ya know, Thad was just havin' some fun and the gal shot his thumb off. Now I'll tell ya, Thad was mean before, but thar weren't no puttin' up with him after he gone and lost his thumb to a woman. He started shootin', killin', robbin' and gettin' real nasty. When folks started to call him 'Thumbless Thad' he took it real personal and tried to burn down the whole damn town.\"\n\"Well, as if things' tweren't bad enough, he even shot the sheriff and made us bury him without his boots. Well, that was the last straw and folks 'round here just headed out of town. Moved to HerringVille, most of 'em. The few folks that did stay to tend the mine and the oil well were driven out by the Biscuit Brothers and the like who grew quite partial to a town without a sheriff. Soon the whole town just went to the ghosts and if 'twerent fer me, I reckon there'd be nothin' left. Now without ma place and horse, I be thinkin' I best be wanderin' up to HerringVille.\""}, {"prompt": "You turn on first", "response": "FC: Cryolink already established to Sensa.\nDone."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You head for the freezer door, pursued by the dogs.\nTraces of rust and mysterious stains line the reflective surfaces here, but do little to obscure the reflection of your gruesome appearance. The kitchen door is east, and there is an employee exit to the north.\nA massive steel door dominates the west end of the kitchen. It is open and locked.\nA steel key hangs from a chain bolted to the wall.\nA pack of wild dogs is barking aggressively and hopping around, each one tripping over the others to get at you first."}, {"prompt": "You move the plywood", "response": "You dig your fingers under the edge of the plywood and, straining as hard as you can, manage to slide the heavy cover off the top of the well and onto the grass.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Your majesty deigns to linger for a moment.\nThe creaky singer continues performing. \"Rattle, rattle, soon he'll feast,\" he sings, moving himself in curious patterns."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"At the moment he died, I had a strange vision. It was... it was...\"\nYou try to recall the strange sensation you experienced, but it fragments and swims away, and lingers at the edge of your consciousness where you can find no purchase. What words could describe that weightless moment?\ndescribe that weightless moment?\"It was...\" you flounder, \"it was...\"\ndescribe that weightless moment?\"It was...\" you flounder, \"it was...\"Doctor Cavala watches you intently.\nwas...\"Doctor Cavala watches you intently.\"Strange sights are not uncommon at the moment of death, Marid. Especially when the animus escapes untethered. You studied such reactions in the Physicians' College, did you not?\"\nCollege, did you not?\"\"This was different,\" you insist.\nCollege, did you not?\"\"This was different,\" you insist.\"It's been a long day,\" she replies. \"Take a moment to collect your thoughts. Talk to me again tomorrow when you are certain.\"\nto me again tomorrow when you are certain.\"You lower your eyes. \"Yes, Doctor.\"\n1) <Take off your surgical mask.>\n2) \"If only...\"\n3) \"What happens next?\""}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "A mannequin in a threadbare dress stands in a yellowed window, frozen in the middle of waving at you. The front door is propped open with a brick.\nEXITS: SOUTH INSIDE\nYour trusty bicycle is parked here."}, {"prompt": "You climb ladder", "response": "About ten or so feet off the stable floor. Too far to jump--better\nto make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall. Sunlight shines in through a small square window."}, {"prompt": "You put the puzzle piece in the jigsaw puzzle", "response": "You snap the final piece into place.\nNothing tremendous happens, but the picture is complete.\nThe table is set for two: a robed king, and the devil. Between the two of them is a quill pen, jet black, and a huge book. The dialogue of these two characters is written on tiny gilt scrolls that spool out of their mouths, and this is what you could not read before the jagged piece was found: the devil is saying, \"TIME IS ON MY SIDE,\" to which the king replies, \"BUT NOT FOR LONG.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the hairdryer", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You ask Lydia about Tyrone", "response": "\"I've seen him,\" she says. \"I don't think he's a bad man. I don't know why he stays around here. He reminds me of somebody, but I just can't think who.\""}, {"prompt": "4", "response": "[the head of Inhuman Resources]\nYou quickly dial in the number. \"Hello? This is Pond. I work in the mailroom. I have a problem,\" you rattle off with the speed of a machine-gun.\n\"Moooo?\"\n\"Never mind,\" you sigh, and hang up.\nOne entire wall (the north one, as it happens) is nothing else but a great pane of glass, through which you can see the cityscape that lies outside. The office itself is sparsely furnished: it is equipped with merely a desk, a fax machine, a telephone and a cow. To the south is\nan open door.\nThe office chair stands upon its wobbly wheels, sighing slightly.\nA long wire extends across the room, originating from the fax machine."}, {"prompt": "You take mug", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You read the bottle", "response": "Will Dissolve Silver, Gold, and Just About Everything Else\nUse With Extreme Caution\n[Not Approved by the FDA For the Treatment of Jealousy.]"}, {"prompt": "You put the leaflet and note and the remote in the briefcase", "response": "leaflet: Done.\nfaxed note: Done.\nremote control: Done."}, {"prompt": "You open the envelope", "response": "You open the beige envelope, revealing a glossy flyer."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You see high shelves with unfinished repair projects and a storage room South.\nA violin sits on the shelf waiting for its broken bridge to be repaired."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A fine wooden desk stands in front of you. A chair, placed before it, seems to beckon. The surroundings are decorated, carpet and wallpaper hiding the plain floor and walls. One of the walls has a framed picture attached to it. A fine wooden door stands to the east, a dark wooden door to the north, a pale wooden door to the south, and an empty frame to the west.\nOn the wooden desk is a notepad.\nYou can see a suitcase (closed) here."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "(first opening the door to the Afterlife)\nThis is a small and cluttered antique and curiosity shop. Many items have a strange familiarity to them, yet you feel like you are in an entirely different dimension.\nYou knew a place like this would have to come into existence. Clearly, artifacts from this store can be used as information seeds for virtual reality reincarnation of their previous owners or individuals to whom they are symbolically connected. Perhaps items that need to leave ordinary reality could do so here as well.\nColette is standing behind the counter.\nYou can also see an Animal Tarot deck here.\nColette greets you with 'Just the person I was waiting for! It's the funniest thing, someone gave me a gift to give to you, they said you might need it.' Colette holds up a large lens mounted on a tripodal base carved from antlers. 'Try to look through it, its quite unusual.' Colette maintains a poker face as she hands you the lens. You peer through the curved glass.\nThrough the viewer lens you see...Ritual spot\nPast the edge of the city, a short path leads away from the road to a small ring of boulders. It feels like a perfect place for performing a ceremony or ritual. The road continues northeast.\nIn the Ritual spot you can see a Remote Lens."}, {"prompt": "You take the cards", "response": "Taken.\nMr. Teeterwaller seems to be lost in thought."}, {"prompt": "You get on the crates", "response": "You climb on the crates and look inside the house, knowing that anyway Kylie is at the door. Pretty well-furnished interior, but nothing more, so you get off the crates.\nYou hear the door opening, and Kylie cheers: \"At last, here you are! Come in!\" And as soon as she closes the door, you can't hear a thing."}, {"prompt": "You open grille", "response": "The ventilator grille is a bit beyond your reach."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Please give one of the answers above."}, {"prompt": "You look at the envelope", "response": "Pannus notices your interest in the tickets. \"It's completely sold out,\" he says, stroking his beard like a pet, \"These are for the boys who will take the tickets at the door.\" He looks at you for a second, his green eyes seeming to flicker. \"I'll tell you what. If you clean the blackboard, I'll let you be on the first shift.\"\nPannus stares at you without blinking.\nMophead goes through his marker collection, checking them for moistness."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "(first opening the butler's door)\nIt seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sign", "response": "It reads, \"The rawhead is best not described in detail. It loves raw things.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the glass", "response": "There are countless pieces. You notice one in particular, a shard about the size of a credit card."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "This is the mansion's top floor. The whole level, barely illuminated in the pale, milky glow of the toy dinosaur, is one large room. It seems partially finished, like an attic. Fiberglass insulation bulges between bare boards. There are no windows. A stairway leads d.\nYour object-sensitive eyes notice: ... manual.\n[+5.]"}, {"prompt": "You put the oil on yourself", "response": "You pour the oil on you and douse yourself with it. Every inch of yourself. Every drop of the oil gets used. The result is one slick and slippery Scotty.\n\"My eyes! Is there no mercy for my poor retinas?\" H.R. cries."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scepter", "response": "Studded with measly turquoises and semi-precious stones."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "The attic has been converted into a cozy reading nook. A small wooden table sits in the center of the room, next to a large and comfortable-looking reading chair. A floor lamp stands behind the chair, casting a warm glow over the room. Stairs down are the only exit.\nIn the northeast corner, a floating arrangement of glowing blue runes indicates the location of access door S3E, which is open.\nOn the table is a butter cookbook."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You don't dare to leave the crater. The oxygen supply in your suit certainly will not last long enaugh to move that far away from the spaceship."}, {"prompt": "Paint konstanza", "response": "John glanced out of the window and paused for a long moment. \"Yes ... she is quite the beauty, isn't she?\" he murmured as he began a pencil sketch of Konstanza Von Goethe as seen through the window."}, {"prompt": "You take the knife", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Utility Room (on the personal float unit)\nLittle more than a chilly concrete box. It continues some distance to the north.\nSomething resembling the root system of Yggdrasil covers the south wall; from close up it appears to be a complex heating system with pipes and tubes."}, {"prompt": "Close compartment", "response": "You close the lead compartment."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "porch of the old house to the east. The screen door to the old back porch sways noisily on rusted hinges. The small path that circles the house towards the northeast and southeast."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "You have to stoop on this tiny ledge in the side of the haystack, cunningly roofed over with bales. Your vertigo quickly kicks in and the barn floor seems to be a million miles away: downwards.\nA thin dark passage leads westwards into the bales.\nA furled rope ladder is attached to some bales at one side of the ledge.\nYou can also see a briefcase (in which are an empty can of beer, a garden fork and a key ring) here.\nThe ground shakes violently as the whole haystack threatens to collapse."}, {"prompt": "You drop the whale", "response": "You find yourself in a dingy back corridor with a significantly high ceiling. The way back to the atrium lies through the little door west. The main Holding Room opens up to the east, the curator's office is to south, while north sits a cloak room.\nYou stand in a vast glass-ceilinged atrium. The main doors stand behind you to the south, in front is the rest of the museum. The part that you actually need to clear is through the little door to the back rooms, behind the information desk to the east. The portrait gallery opens off to the west.\nIn the centre of the atrium is a huge skip, (or garbage dumpster, if you're so inclined), into which you are to place all objects tainted with mammalian DNA, or direct organic bi-products of mammals. When the job is done, you need only blow the whistle you've been given, and Kssshsss will come and assess your execution of the task.\nYou can also see a stuffed echidna here.\nDropped."}, {"prompt": "You hit the spider with shovel", "response": "(first taking the old shovel from the burlap sack)\nOn a normal day, you might be able to grit your teeth and force yourself to do something with (or to) the spider. But you're feeling pretty nervous today. You just can't quite bring yourself to get that close to it."}, {"prompt": "You consult the computer about the purple", "response": "The computer beeps irritably: NO RESULTS FOUND. PLEASE REPHRASE AND TRY AGAIN."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A more incongruous place than this would be difficult to believe. The room itself is nothing more than a small room at the base of the northeast tower with a narrow passageway entering from the west. Standing in front of you to the north, however, is a door surpassing anything you could have imagined. For starters, its massive lock is wrapped in a dozen six-inch thick iron chains. In addition, a certain five-headed monster sporting razor-sharp spears for tongues seems to be imbedded within its heavy oak frame. One is almost embarrassed to mention the gargoyles spewing flame and sulphurous ash which ornament either side of the door, or the ninety-seven slimy groping tentacles which taunt you ever closer to certain death. A sign, floating serenely above the door and glowing hideously in purple letters, offers the following rude understatement: \"Don't Bother\"."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "You reach within yourself and burst out in song."}, {"prompt": "You put the pink potion in the crystal bottle", "response": "(first taking the pink potion)\nYou carefully pour the pink potion into the crystal bottle.\nThat looks right."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A repulsion field prevents you from entering the building without the proper security device."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Puncher", "response": "You approach the massive thief.\n0) (Leave.)\n1) Anxious about the interview?\n2) How's the Guild?"}, {"prompt": "You turn off the stabilization", "response": "You stomp across the room to the interface for the attitude stabilizer. First you click \"Suspend Stabilization,\" and then \"Confirm,\" and then you have to hold down the button for a while to prove you really mean it.\nTo have any chance of detecting Oscevotto emanations, Professor Thezh needed an observatory that was as far away from civilization as possible\u2014so, in an asteroid cloud around a nameless, near-dead star. And to properly image these emanations, the telescope needs to take an extremely long \"exposure\" of interstellar space.\nSomething stops whirring, and the ground shudders a little bit.\nWith the first imaging session finally complete, it's time to begin scanning the other half of the galaxy. To do that you'll have to initiate RADA 29."}, {"prompt": "You look at the nut", "response": "A purple nut from the deformed bushes in the hall of severance. It is deep purple and hosts a number of sharp thorns."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The powdered snow that has collected on the surface of the ice sheet keeps you from slipping and sliding on the surface of this gigantic frozen lake. The large ice sheets you have been walking upon thus far however have broken into much smaller pieces beyond this area save to the north and east. More secure ice sheets lie back to the east, and a very wide and rather long water channel extends to the north. The small island to the northwest is obscured in the mist of icy droplets rising from the waterway.\nA small floe is lodged into the ice sheet on the near bank of the long, chilly water channel."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A long metallic hallway that spans the length of the vessel.\nThe drifting auras of humans call from the to the northwest and to the northeast. The collection room is to the east, and the dredging room is to the west. The silenced room is to the southwest, and the open pipe room is to the southeast. A set of stairs leads up to the rest of the ship."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The coat room is almost empty. The Dutch door to the South stands open.\nOn the wall behind the counter there is a ratty coat hanging on a nail."}, {"prompt": "You examine the aqua", "response": "It's closed."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nAfter what seems like an eternity of agonized arrhythmia, the Sandepam's effect begins to counter that of the cure. Your heartbeat becomes more subtle, regular, slow. Your breathing, too, begins to return to normal. While your eyes still feel wired open, the white fuzz around the edge of your vision begins to recede.\nYou feel decidedly unwell - nauseated and manic at the same time. But you don't think you're going to die. Not for this reason, at least."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The living room is tastefully decorated. Plush wall-to-wall\ncarpeting soothes your feet while your eyes marvel at the new sofa and coffee table. The wood-burning stove is the only real reminder of the house you live in. The front door to the north opens out on the driveway, the sparkly new kitchen is to the south, and the bedroom is west.\nYou wander aimlessly for a while, but eventually the aliens give you other puzzles to work on. You do so listlessly, thinking back to the bizarre opportunity you had with your father, and wondering what you could have done differently. Eventually, you crawl into bed, tired and confused.\nWhen you awake the next morning, you feel a little odd. You sit up and rub your face, running your hands back over your head. Ah, that must be why you feel odd, they took the wires out last night. You yawn, stretch, and blink to clear your eyes.\nClick.\nIn a total of 543 turns, you have achieved a score of 160 points out of a possible 200. You also received 15 bonus points.\nYou may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current command."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "The largest room in the base by a fair margin. There's enough tables and chairs here that everyone could eat by themselves if they wanted to; perhaps a larger crew was originally planned. Access to the dock is afforded to the northwest. The kitchen is conveniently located nearby to the southwest. To the northeast, a hall leads to personnel quarters and offices.\nYou can see Burlak here.\nThere's a subtle whoosh of air as the life support system exhales through some nearby grille."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Time passes...\nThe skull sags sideways onto your shoulder, giving you a nasty start. On close inspection, you find that the skull is awfully close to dropping free of the backbone."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Staircase, First Floor\nThe top of a broad curving stair: east is the long salon that goes the length of the house, downstairs are the foyer and the grand receiving rooms.\nNorth is the old conservatory."}, {"prompt": "You ask Anton about the keypad", "response": "\"You wanna know the code of the girls\" practice room? That's easy, the door's lock is programmed to use the digit sum of the actual date: Simply add up the digits of today and type in the resulting number. But I would rather not in go in there - not for one million liters of ginger tea! Really scary, these girls!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the drain", "response": "Dark and hollow.\nIn the drain hole are a great deal of water and a Tea Recipe.\nDark and hollow.\nIn the drain hole are a great deal of water and a Tea Recipe.\nIn your hunger, you hallucinate little grey-pink mushrooms."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northwest", "response": "A room in the center of the first floor of the mansion with a collapsed scaffold. From here you can seen into all the\nfirst floor rooms. And, of course, the corpse of Rick Mortis.\nYou can see into all the rooms. You can see Madam Cream in Kitchen. Colonel De Jon and Miss Flame in Ballroom. Mrs Fowl in Conservatory. Professor Puce in Lounge. Reverend Weed in Hall.\nReverend Weed wanders into Study. Madam Cream strolls into Dining Room. Colonel De Jon drifts into Conservatory."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "READY>You are carrying:\nan entangled key pair\na lump of lead ore\na token dispenser\na neural net reinforcement token\na quantum isolator (being worn)\nACU -> MANIFEST : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "B.", "response": "To your surprise, the fox spirit blushes.\n\"How unexpected,\" she says, almost to herself. \"I admit I find you intriguing?certainly more so than other monks that I have met?but I did not think a monk would return those feelings.\" She turns away, as though she is unable to meet your eyes. \"I want us to be clear. I have promised Miao that I will not take you down the foxhole unless you ask it, but I promised nothing about the possibility of warming your bed. Is that what you wish?\"\nA: Yes. I cannot deny my attraction to the fox spirit.\nB: I did not actually believe she would accept my advance. Faced with the reality of being a fox spirit's lover, I find I cannot actually accept."}, {"prompt": "You ask Arthur about light", "response": "\"Do you even care about finishing before Enchantress Igmenta sees the room like this?\" Arthur asks, sounding annoyed.\n\"Of course I do!\" you protest.\n\"Then start fixing things instead of blathering on about random topics!\"\nArthur grooms himself."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Leave me alone!\" you cry.\nBut they don't hear you. All they see is a rich stranger."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Near the right proscenium arch you see the tracks that guide the counterweight for the main stage curtain and a faint glimmer of light to the West.\nThere is the curtain counterweight"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There is a huge portal to the east.\nThere is a button next to the escalator door.\nYou can also see a cleaning cart here."}, {"prompt": "You tell the farmer about Male", "response": "[Use TALK TO to interact with characters.]"}, {"prompt": "You look at the yellow worm", "response": "The worm is as long as a mans foot from toes to heel, as thick as the middle toe on that same foot and canary yellow. At each end of the somewhat slimy body sits a head. It has no eyes, only two mouths. Each mouth opens and closes in turns, when one is open the other is closed, revealing several rows of very small but razor sharp teeth.\nWhen one mouth closes and almost disappears in the stubby face, the other end opens its mouth and starts attacking the other end, biting it furiously until it seems to be satisfied and it turns away from its other self for a while.\nAfter some time the procedure repeats itself with the tables turned."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Guests of the Marquis who fail to make a good first impression are flung into the pit that takes up most of this chamber.\nThe Marquis leans over the balcony, following your movements with a bored sneer.\nEXITS: UP EAST DOWN WEST"}, {"prompt": "Appreciate yourself", "response": "You're really more of an animal person."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This is the beginning of the narrow hallway that runs east-west through the upstairs of the house. The bathroom is immediately north, and at the western end of the hall is your parents' room. Between them is the staircase that goes down to the rest of the house. South, across from the stairs, is your brother David's room. The hall coninues to the east, towards your and your sister's rooms.\nYour parents' voices leak out from the bathroom, and you nearly fall over, until you realize that what your mom actually said was \"Scrub me harder.\" Of course, that still doesn't make it much less disturbing."}, {"prompt": "You get the key", "response": "\u201cThou shalt not steal!\u201d barks Father Andrew, knocking your hand\naside."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "This is the main avenue of the park that runs from the entrance to the south to the full size replica of the Statue of Liberty to the north. The avenue is illuminated by the alternating red, white and blue street lights, plus the hundreds of thousands of similarly colored mini-lights that cover the rooftops of the various shops and other establishments that line both sides of the avenue. A crowd of people fills the mall, talking, laughing and generally having a good time."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The cellar is low-ceilinged and grimy, with an irregular concrete floor and cobwebs that droop from the exposed rafters. The vague light comes from a couple of tiny windows and the door to the driveway. Along an inner wall is a workbench. The door to the driveway is to the west, a doorway opens eastward on absolute darkness, and a staircase against the north wall leads upward.\nA black tar barrel is lying here.\nYou see a tar barrel lid and a pool of tar here."}, {"prompt": "You get in the cage", "response": "Dr. Sliss is too busy trying to hold the audience's attention. She just gestures for you to get on the stage.\nDr. Sliss gestures frantically for you to get on the stage."}, {"prompt": "You ask Pop about cylinder", "response": "\"That big cylinder in your room? It's just monitoring stuff. Don't worry about it.\"\nClick."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "It's steamy and musty, with slick floors. Lockers line the walls."}, {"prompt": "Examine X", "response": "You can see an \"X\" drawn in the sand.\nYou can hear the tramp of marching boots to the north."}, {"prompt": "You look at the victim", "response": "you should not have done this, a good man as you know him to be should not die this way"}, {"prompt": "You get the gauntlet", "response": "t12/61uishy-Makin\nYou are unable to reach the gauntlet, as it is too high above your head. Which is partly fortunate. You wouldn't want that spiked ceiling getting much closer, would you?"}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "Lucy's voice from speaker: You'll need a red keycard to open that door... Well, are you ready to destroy the universe, or do you need to waste some more time?"}, {"prompt": "You let go", "response": "You let go of the goathorn piece, and the vision fades around you.\nAll the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon.\nYou can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty),\na desk (on which are a goathorn piece, a pint glass, a broken propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow candle,\nand the keener fragment), and a chair here."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "umbrella: Taken.\nkeyring: Taken.\nlantern: (slipping the faculty card into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken.\ntypewritten notice: (slipping the towel into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "\"Good night, Doctor Cavala,\" you say.\n\"Good night, Marid. Don't stay up too late.\"\n(first opening the front door of the clinic)\n(closing the door behind you)\nVia Terminalis, West End\nYou stand in the terminus of the Via Terminalis, a cul-de-sac of steel spires and buildings aspiring to the heavens. Night has fallen, broken only by the ghostly glow of bound animii in street-lamps and shop windows. Beyond, you see the great spine of the Channelworks District, receding from the lamplight into the beginnings of rain.\nThe white cross of Doctor Cavala's clinic is to the west, and the dormitory block where you live lies to the north. The rest of the district can wait until tomorrow.\n(You may wish to save the game now by typing >save. You can do\nthis at any time.)"}, {"prompt": "You turn off the cloak", "response": "The slight shimmer in the air fades as the cloaking device disengages."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\ndim bulb (Providing light)\nlong hotdog\nsharp knife\nsmall oilcan\nold lamp (Providing light)\noaken bucket\nvalve trumpet\nYou're wearing:\npointed hat\nsolitaire ring\nscuba suit\ndark secret"}, {"prompt": "You jump to Haven", "response": "(You launch first.)\nA grey, airless world, left lopsided by some ancient cataclysm.\nAurea rests her space boots on the dashboard. \"You want to learn more about Hardshell, you should jump to Lonely Rock, talk to Cifez.\nBut you're the captain, of course.\"\nYou could try jumping into Hardshell, but not knowing where anything is inside it, you'd probably materialise inside solid matter - just like every other idiot who ever tried it."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The helicopter is landed next to a lifeboat. Amaro waits on you expectedly.\nAmaro spits out, \"Our backup got diverted. They found the main vessel.\" You sigh and relay the results of your revive attempts. He hits the console at your news, \"Devil take all, and what else?!\" He gathers himself before speaking again, \"We have to report this.\""}, {"prompt": "Examine boxes", "response": "There are at least a dozen cardboard boxes here with no other furniture. Someone is either moving in or out, you think to yourself. The boxes are sealed tight with packing tape."}, {"prompt": "You examine the machine", "response": "The machines look a little like typewriters, but they have strange keyboards, and the paper-feeding mechanisms don't look like they're for paper.\n\"Those are card punch three-three-five's,\" Teeterwaller says, sounding surprised. It takes you a moment to figure out what he means, then you realize he's talking about a model number, something like Card Punch 335~. \"I haven't seen one of these in years,\" he says. You're afraid he's going to go off on one of his tangents about the good old days of computing when real programmers had to key in the operating system in binary with their toes, but he just looks fondly at the machines.\nTeeterwaller looks through his pockets for something."}, {"prompt": "You drop the scrambler", "response": "You drop the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.)"}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "\"Amaze me,\" she commands. \"What card is this?\""}, {"prompt": "You wear the tactical armor", "response": "(first taking the tactical armor)\nYou put on the tactical armor."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "The room is dark, the air thick with the smell of incense, burning spices, and just a hint of dog wind. The door back to the hall is to your south.\nA giggling ghost hovers over Madame Ping Ping.\nMadame Ping Ping is sprawled across the table, unconscious."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "You travel directly through the ceiling, and emerge on the other side...\nSitting on the storage trunk is a silver ring.\nYou hear several voices in the distance saying things like \"where did it go?\" and \"I think it went this way!\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the upper bulb", "response": "You head north to the lower bulb. And finally up to the upper bulb.\nIn the upper chamber, you find, there is almost as much sand as there is below; indeed for all you can tell the flow might be eternal.\nNearby an ivory door leads southwest."}, {"prompt": "You use terminal", "response": "You perform your usual cycle of checking email and irc...\nYou sit down at your computer and write an email to Xochi, offering to explain any or all of 17 different topics of interest, ranging from the connections between western and Hindu cosmology to how to use Plan 9 namespaces as a tool to control your own consciousness. As you press send, you notice that her email contact is linked to a video-sharing site, and she recently uploaded a song called 'Heartbeat'. The song is driven by percussion and keyboards, with spoken words above: 'From morphogenesis to breathing my first breath,' is the opening line, and you realize your connection with her might go much deeper than you had imagined. The sung refrain is 'The time is now, the place is here. Embrace love, and let go of fear.' The song represents everything you are experiencing in life. 'I will raise my vibration, when you are in alignment, the stars conspire for the occasion. You are an alchemist, the world is yours to manifest.'\nYou feel musically inspired. You want to play your piano.\nYou find two messages from people responding to the Singing Hippie Housekeepers notice. You respond to both, setting a date for each of them to start working at your house. You look forward to meeting each of them."}, {"prompt": "You enter circle", "response": "You're sucked into the hole in a direction that isn't down, but neither is it one of the other directions with which you're familiar.\nglistens off a large reflecting pool, filling this huge entry hall with a seductive pattern of tantalizing colors. Gleaming marble pillars rise majestically from the pool to support a towering, arched roof. You are on a branching pathway suspended above the pool, leading toward shadowy archways in every direction.\nA few seconds later, you see Tiffany's big toe appear, followed\nalmost immediately by the rest of her."}, {"prompt": "You hit Frank", "response": "Let's examine the odds first. The Biscuit Brothers have four loaded guns and you haven't a prayer. Doesn't seem like the odds are in your favor in any sense of the word.\n\"You ain't got nothin' so I's raisen' ya two bits, Jim boy!\"\nYou are invisible."}, {"prompt": "You look at the floor", "response": "A few of the boards are loose. You might be able to pull them."}, {"prompt": "You enter the tub", "response": "You get into the bathtub."}, {"prompt": "You ask Roberto about the drugs", "response": "(Roberto Velez about that)\nRoberto looks at you curiously. You have a sneaking suspicion his English is not very good."}, {"prompt": "You put Bubbles in the sack", "response": "You can't put Bubbles anywhere.\nBubbles wanders away."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "Whoops! Too bad! You've blown your chance!\nLady Gascogne throws her card down in disgust, and her assistant strips your platinum medal from last season, and you're a laughingstock for years and years to come. You'll never live this down\u2026"}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "In front of a heavy wooden door  with brass handle - a curved lever rather than a knob. The door opens into a room to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sign", "response": "Large block letters proclaim:\nPutting Section."}, {"prompt": "You turn off the control", "response": "(the control panel)\nThe needle on the power readout drops to 0 out of 100."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This is the office of the Security Administrator. There is no sign of the Administrator or any other staff. The door leads west to the corridor. The office is furnished by a desk, sofa, a bookshelf, and a mural on the northern wall.\nOn the bookshelves is 'Notopia'."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "You close the real estate office door."}, {"prompt": "You ask about Sam", "response": "\u201cI\u2019ve met your husband, just a little way down the beach mending\nnets,\u201d you tell her. \u201cHow is he coping, do you think?\u201d\n\u201cHow do you think he\u2019s coping?\u201d she retorts bitterly. \u201cHow\nwould you\ncope if you lost everything and were reduced to working for a\npittance? Oh, he does his best \u2013 he always did his best \u2013 but his spirit is broke, poor man.\u201d"}, {"prompt": "You examine the frame", "response": "A gigantic cucumber frame, containing an enormous cucumber. The frame is securely padlocked.\nIn the cucumber frame is an enormous cucumber."}, {"prompt": "Kiss vorpal", "response": "You press your lips against the vorpal blade. It is sharp and cold and clean like some instrument sanitized for surgery. You can taste its sharpness and its sharpness is cutting cleanly and coldly your lips, your tongue, your skin, your bone. Even the blood running down your throat is clean and cold. The blade is passing through you, or perhaps you are passing through it, but in either case it has opened the world. That world is peeling away on either side, sliced vertically like an opening through a curtain, until you can see dark leaves overhead and smell dark earth and hear branches bending and snapping.\nYou are in a dark woodland clearing, the vorpal blade shining in your hand although the forest light is weak. It must be shining from within. Against your back you can feel bark. You are resting against a tumtum tree. At some distance there is a sundial, old and mossy and hourless in the gloom, standing solitary on a grass plot riddled with abandoned burrows.\nYou are not alone in the forest. Something is whiffling among the trees and you struggle to recall a warning someone gave you about this situation, but your uffish thoughts cannot remember the words. You have the vague sensation that you ought to be at home, preparing to broil your dinner, rather than waiting out here for whatever is advancing through the trees.\nNothing is clear anymore, but someone is supposed to kill\nsomething, at any rate. And yet now that you think about it,\nnothing was ever clear in the first place.\nIts eyes are aflame and it burbles as it comes, its jaws biting, its claws catching. At least this creature isn't a countess."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "N = next subjectP = previous\nRETURN = read subject  Q = resume game\nSelect a destination:\n> Flat\nEditorial office of \"Tittle-Tattle Kettle\"\nDowntown shops\nMeadows Heights\nBack"}, {"prompt": "You look at the wall", "response": "That is beneath your concern."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\ndim bulb (Providing light)\nlong hotdog\nstage makeup\nsharp knife\njuicy apple\nmusic book\nroller skate\nold lamp\noaken bucket\nplaster pluto\nYou're wearing:\npocket pager ( on your belt )"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "With a touch of the joystick the helicopter thunders through the sky...\nHigh Above a Hotel (in the helicopter)\nFar below, atop a hotel tower, a crystal swimming pool blinks in the sunlight. Off to the north, a monstrous chicken is tumbling buildings and ripping up pavements.\nThe fuel gauge now shows only 1/4 full!"}, {"prompt": "You look at the fish", "response": "There are still a few fish swimming in the pond, but they taste horrible."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "\"It's a beautiful area,\" he says wistfully. \"The long red deserts and the cracked-up horizon.\" You feel like reminding him its bone-dry sand, but refrain."}, {"prompt": "You open the drawer", "response": "(the desk drawer)\nYou open the desk drawer, revealing a revolver."}, {"prompt": "You take the locket", "response": "(the gold locket)\n(slipping the puzzle box into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You take the key", "response": "(the gilded key)\nThe rat nips your fingers sharply, drawing blood. You squeeze the offended digits until the flow is staunched. \"Bastard scion of Lucifer!\" you yell at it.\nIt stares back at you beadily."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "Your lips sing along, almost involuntarily, to the earworm in your head:\nHe sings the songs that phleh him i\u00e4 the izh nfah / hla cto the\nsongs fgl gneh him of gla'cb leng times! Damn it, Chumbawamba is\nstill stuck in your head."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You can't go that way. You can leave by going north or south.\nThe Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon polish."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The main feature of this room is the impressive glass door, which leads south, to the pool. All benches and counters are weighted down with random food stuff, brought by the party goers. Of course, there are more people here than in the living room.\nPeople stand around, glasses or plates in hand, happily munching and talking.\nOn the counter next to the sink sits Paul's Alien Tech(tm) powered laptop, connected to some small Alien Tech(tm) powered speakers, providing music.\nRight now, it's playing:\"Cheerleader of Dementia\" by Lesbians hate time travel.\nJolly Uncle Wally follows you, still grinning. He says : \"So, do you and Paul see a lot of musicals?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the sausage menu", "response": "\"Try our delightfully bloody food!\nB/S/R FOOD\n4/2/1 TAGHAIRM DELUXE\n3/2/2 BARON'S BREAKFAST\n4/1/2 HUNTED UNICORN\"\n> XYZZY\nYou are in a debris room filled with stuff washed in from the surface. A low wide passage with cobbles becomes plugged with mud and debris here, but an awkward canyon leads upward and west. At least, it used to. Now it's blocked by an iron portcullis\"\nA note on the wall says, \"Magic word XYZZY.\"\nYou can see a blasting rod here."}, {"prompt": "Damn", "response": "That same thing Boss say to Grunk."}, {"prompt": "You look at the weeds", "response": "The weeds are green and spiky. Some of them have little flowers, but there's nothing here that even vaguely resembles the flowers you'd find in a florist's shop back home."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northwest", "response": "This lab is full of computers that aren't quite as good as what you have at home. Most are off, but one PC is humming away. You see a backpack by it."}, {"prompt": "You go right", "response": "You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws.\n*** You have died ***\nWell, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the current VR session...\nA tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back together the splintered fragments of reality.\nJusty unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack.\nCynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout.\nJusty turns to you. \"Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it again when you're ready.\"\nThe heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into darkness.\nThe Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass tank.\nJusty works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else.\nYou can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here.\nCynthia leaves the lab to the northwest.\nThe VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You feel an urgent need for your insulin medication."}, {"prompt": "Examine bar", "response": "A dark and dour expanse of wood, pitted and scarred and stained with the rings from over a hundred years' worth of slopping beer mugs."}, {"prompt": "You look up chad", "response": "(in Casey's notes)\nYou flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: \"Chad's an all right guy. Or, he used to be. I haven't heard from him in a while.\""}, {"prompt": "You hit the bell with the rock", "response": "The peal is deep and resonant; the surface of the lake stands up in ripples; the darkness grows (if that is possible) more dark. Even when the sound has died and the water stilled, you find yourself waiting."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "N = next subjectP = previous\nRETURN = read subject  Q = resume game\nSelect a destination:\n> Flat\nEditorial office of \"Tittle-Tattle Kettle\"\nDowntown shops\nThunder Hill\nBack\nYour flat\nThis is your little flat with two rooms, downtown. Rather functional and bright, you really like it. In the sitting-room, there's a table, a few chairs, and a sofa: that's where you usually work. The kitchen is westwards, and your bedroom and the bathroom are eastwards.\nThis is your little flat with two rooms, downtown. Rather functional and bright, you really like it. In the sitting-room, there's a table, a few chairs, and a sofa: that's where you usually work. The kitchen is westwards, and your bedroom and the bathroom are eastwards."}, {"prompt": "You open the curtains", "response": "You open the curtains, revealing a window."}, {"prompt": "You climb the flagpole", "response": "That sort of thing went out of fashion years ago."}, {"prompt": "You examine the display", "response": "Which do you mean, the weapons display or the transportation display?"}, {"prompt": "You look at weight", "response": "It is blackness over the mortuary.\nA shrake swims by.\nThe school is fished, we are piece-eaten. Strangely our name has gone missing.\nThere are a good few hundred in this school. It will take forever to be eaten by other fish.\nThe school flicks about and swims northwest.\nTo the south is the bulging dome. All around us is the blue."}, {"prompt": "You examine the clock", "response": "A white-faced clock with numbers and black hands, hands which stand frozen at 2:25."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sign", "response": "The wooden sign was firmly planted in the ground next to the hedge. On it was inscribed \"Wendle Manor\" in relatively ancient lettering, with \"Private - Keep Out!\" added subsequently in angry red print.\nIt was definitely starting to rain more heavily."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "Was it correct to remove the Valence from the fountain, leaving the townspeople to depend on polluted water?"}, {"prompt": "You show the watch to the receptionist", "response": "You better watch out: people knowing about you and Keith is enough for them to think you're a Democrat. If you start giving things to the working class, it'll only look worse."}, {"prompt": "You talk to them", "response": "You fix the wandering spirits in your mind's eye. The tunnel melts into the rain and catches fire and shifts.\nThis is a dead place.\nThis is a dead place.You should not be here.\nThis is a dead place.You should not be here.1)\n\"I come in peace.\"\n2) \"Who are you?\"\n3) \"What happened to you?\"\n4) \"I'm here on an important mission...\""}, {"prompt": "You pull lever", "response": "I can hear something rattling around behind the hatch, but no further eggs are forthcoming. Don't worry, egg! I'll save you! Come to think of it, I should also save the last one we got.\nThe egg is calling to me..."}, {"prompt": "You eat the cheese", "response": "That's plainly inedible."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "She raises an eyebrow. \"No? What do you want, then?\" Faced with a distinct lack of anything else to say, you admit that you are, after all, the police. The woman draws her lips into a tight line and says, \"This is hardly the time to be playing the fool, Inspector. Now please, come in.\"\nTheatrical bills on the walls give this otherwise sterile entry hall the appearance of a theatrical lobby. The front doors are to the north, and the central hall is to the south. The cloak room is to the east.\n\"My name is Deborah Wolf, by the way. Frederic Sheppard was my uncle. My husband and I just arrived today to spend the weekend....\" She shakes her head. \"I'm sorry. It has all been a terrible shock. Please, come this way.\"\nShe takes a few steps towards the south and pauses, waiting for you."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "This whole world is layered in complex and arcane machinery. Machine has been built upon machine, feeding into machine, decorated with baroque mechanisms and littered with spare parts. The noise is profound.\nHunched, furry molonks continue their inscrutable work,\nrefining their over-engineered contraptions even more.\nA lone human, Reuben, sleeps in a hammock suspended from\nconvoluted pipework.\nNo sooner have you landed than a group of molonks heaves a weird, disconnected gizmo into your cargo hold. It seems to do nothing except move parts in complex rhythms.\nThe molonks leave your ship having only warily acknowledged your existence."}, {"prompt": "Arr", "response": "FC: Full report from IRIS\nIRIS: Internal map reference -- Weather Monitors\nAll around me I see meters indicating the state of the weather conditions on all three planet-side continents.\nThe monitors for surface weather show:\nTEMP: 18   WINDS: 92\nPRECIPITATION: a blizzard\nTOWER PRESSURES: Tower 1 -- 55\nTower 2 -- 9\nTower 3 -- 55\nIn the room with me is Sensa.\nSensa is carrying a television camera.\nIRIS: I am holding nothing in my dainty extensions.\nFC: Full report from WALDO\nWALDO: Internal map reference -- Gamma Repair\nI have reached the south end of this area. The walkway ends here.\nThe walkway is not in motion.\nA large object sits before me. Sonar indicates it is hollow, but not empty.\nWALDO: I am grasping...\nA rough device\nA usable extension (being worn)\nA sixteen-inch cable\nA hollow container\nThe hollow container contains...\nA pebbled object\nA wavy object\nA bumpy object\nA smooth object\nFC: Full report from SENSA\nSENSA: Internal map reference -- Weather Monitors\nMy receptors detect huge electrical flow through the walls and meters all around me.\nIn the room with me is Iris.\nSENSA: Sensors indicate I'm holding...\nA transmitter\nFC: Full report from AUDA\nAUDA: Internal map reference -- Biology Corridor\nI am in the Biology Corridor.\nAUDA: I can't hear a thing in my extension.\nAuditory circuits active.\nFC: Full report from POET\nPOET: Internal map reference -- Short Corridor\nThe great interpreter of all our daily occurences lies ahead, while a walk in the sky waits for me to the northeast.\nBathe in luxuriating, though scorching, solvents.\nPOET: As far as I know, I'm Zen on inventory.\nPOET: Sensory pads detect no abnormal flow.\nFC: Full report from WHIZ\nWHIZ: Internal map reference -- Historical Peripheral\nCLC tagged object before me is the Historical pedestal.\nWHIZ: CLC feedback indicates I carry nothing.\nPlugged in at Historical Pedestal."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Lafond's party is well attended: you can hardly move for the crush. However, the room is oddly silent, no talk interrupting the musical efforts of the musicians to the west. Despite the heat, no one ventures south to the veranda, nor through the opening east. The foyer is north of you."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stars", "response": "The heavens hold endless mysteries, infinite tales.\nBeside you, your friend Veritas catches her breath, her large\nalmond eyes wide with wonder.\nThe Storyteller looks at her and nods seriously. \"But nothing\nthat the Ancestors created could compare to the wonders of the most ancient world of all, where it is said all life originated, the planet called Land.\""}, {"prompt": "Shoot man", "response": "Not taking any chances, you take the time to properly aim at the head and pull the trigger. You see the disgusting aftermath of bits of skull flying everywhere, and a lot of blood pooling. You feel sick, but much safer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the hoop", "response": "The hoop is a thick, bent piece of wire. The ends aren't exactly sharp, but they're tapered to make it easier to drive the hoop into the ground."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the worker", "response": "She nods at you as you approach. \"Hiya. Vampires suck.\"\n[1] What's the protest for?\n[2] Could you fix this water leak so I can get to the laboratory?\n[3] Goodbye."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pipe", "response": "(the leaking black trail)\nThe leak is thin and insidious, so difficult to see that you might not have noticed it under any other circumstance. It seems to be coming from the other side of the hydraulic door."}, {"prompt": "Search desk", "response": "You sit down at the desk.\nYou carefully tilt up piles of paper, trying to avoid an avalanche. Yes, sand is scattered beneath.\nCarefully? You shove a paper-stack off the desk; it's a shower of sand before it hits the ground. Ha! You push another, and another, and then sweep the whole mass over the edge. White sand cascades everywhere. Laughing, you feel the desk itself give way.\nPop. Oops. That was the light bulb imploding. The apartment is very dark and quiet of a sudden."}, {"prompt": "You look under the tub", "response": "It's just an ordinary-looking shower attachment.\nYou find nothing of interest."}, {"prompt": "You get the paper towels", "response": "Your sentence had too many words; you can try typing just the part where you wanted to get the extra toilet paper."}, {"prompt": "You ask Auda,  to look around", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Auda.\nAUDA: Moving through Activities Area\nI am in the Activities Area.\nSENSA INTERRUPT: Sensory mechanisms match goal directive. I am at the Hallway Junction."}, {"prompt": "You examine the panel", "response": "The control panel has two buttons, one labeled dig and the other labeled empty. There is also a dial. The dial is currently centred, and can be turned to CL1 or CL2 on one side, and CCL1 or CCL2 on the other side."}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial to 1", "response": "You set the dial to channel 1."}, {"prompt": "You wear the mask", "response": "You put on the face mask."}, {"prompt": "Glass", "response": "You are carrying too much already to get the glass box."}, {"prompt": "You examine the hatrack", "response": "It's a little-known fact that humans sometimes wear hats, though\nnobody knows why. When they're not being worn, hats are often placed\non a hatrack like this one. Not exactly like this one, of\ncourse, because this one is a spiritual object. The principle is the same, though.\nAn angel glides down the stairs, and I realize with a start that I recognize him. My department doesn't know his real name; we've given him the codename Kingfisher. Even by the standards of my opposite number, he's a monster. If you've ever heard about the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ndisaster, or the breakdown of the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Agreement, or even the\nincident in \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd just last millennium, you've come across\nhis handiwork. Everyone in our profession bends the rules a little\nbit, but Kingfisher has a psychopathic contempt for both his adversaries and his colleagues. He's effective, at least if you\nmeasure effectiveness by his kill count, but brute force is the last refuge of the incompetent. Both my side and his have spent centuries cleaning up his bloody missions, trying desperately to avoid\ndisrupting the delicate peace between the two sides and escalating the cold war. We've managed to succeed so far, but it's been as much through luck as through our skill. Kingfisher is reckless,\nthoughtless, and completely remorseless. Those are fine attributes for an assassin, but we're in the part of the clandestine services that handles metaphorically and sometimes literally world-shaking matters. He's a feckless amateur who covers up his incompetence with lazy charm and violence.\nHe's thus notorious in my business, and so I recognize him immediately from descriptions in briefings I've read. His outer teleological field is amplified to\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwell, let me put it in roughly equivalent terms humans\ncan understand. He's wearing an inordinately expensive suit with a tie from some boarding school whose entry fee costs as much as several large planets. He's smiling at me\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor, at least, showing me his teeth\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsuperciliously and uninterestedly. In a different era, he would have been wearing an eyepatch or a monocle just for effect. As it stands, he just gives me a bovine yet predatory stare, twitching the cuffs of his suit with disdain.\nI instantly hate him. I hated him before, of course; he's directly or indirectly responsible for the termination of several of my\ncolleagues. It's different, though, when you see the thing directly in front of you. He doesn't seem to recognize me, or maybe the insight hasn't gotten through his bloated, stupid skull yet. I'm probably beneath his notice, but I've had to deal with him before. I spent two entire centuries cleaning up his blundering in just the matter of the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Agreement. Do you know how long it takes to file petitions with\nthe interplanar courts to revoke an agreement when you aren't allowed to mention the name of the agreement, the parties involved in the agreement, or what the agreement was even about? Well, I do: seventy-four years. The entire thing was several thousand pages long and completely redacted, beginning to end. I started out filling an entire room in my department with black highlighters, and I had to borrow some more from the Accounting department to finish it off. And you can't just borrow something from Accounting; they want a\nsigned contact in blood saying that you'll pay them interest in perpetuity. I don't even have blood. I wound up finding a\ncouple of convenient humans on the department's Take a Child to Work Day, but that's three months I'm never going to get back."}, {"prompt": "You examine the looseleaf page bar code", "response": "The bar code consists of a series of vertical bars of varying thickness, with the number 20300273 written just below the bars in computer-style block numerals.\nMr. Teeterwaller seems to be lost in thought."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "You wait a little longer and listen carefully, but don't hear anything new. Maybe the person heard you? You'll just have to pick a direction to go in."}, {"prompt": "You open the south door", "response": "You open the grey-blue door leading south."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "A short drive from the southwest leads to this empty parking lot. The mountainside is choked with shrubs, obscuring the view of the road from here.\nBlinds in the windows prevent you from seeing inside the diner to the west. A paved walk leads northwest around the back of the building."}, {"prompt": "You take the match", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You examine the balloon", "response": "It's an ordinary balloon, made of shiny silver plastic. It's currently fully inflated, and the opening is knotted to keep the air from escaping.\nMr. Teeterwaller watches you expectantly."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nSuddenly the pod pulls free, and although you can see nothing of the\nwaters outside, your best guess is that it's drifting westward and\nrising slightly.\nYou begin to feel a certain concern for, of all things, your\nbelongings. When the pod collapses, what will the water do to them?"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Harbor Street, Nelsonville.\nA north-south running street. Desolate much like the rest of the town now, it does have a seafood restaurant on the east side called Nelson's Own that has its \"Open\" sign lit up. Apart from that, you can north to the harbor or south to Court Street."}, {"prompt": "You take the eyepatch", "response": "You slide the eyepatch off the skull.\nCurb scratches at the ground with his forepaws."}, {"prompt": "You examine the footprints", "response": "The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many people some time in the past. They lead northwest."}, {"prompt": "You eat corn dog", "response": "My, that was a yummy corn dog!"}, {"prompt": "You go", "response": "You'll have to say what you'd like to go towards."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shelf", "response": "Steeped in shadow."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "Your stroke lands, but it was only the flat of the blade.\nThe thief just left, still carrying his large bag. You may not have noticed that he robbed you blind first.\nThe thief seems to have left you in the dark."}, {"prompt": "You make the dough", "response": "Some flour, some water, some furious kneading by skilled baker's hands - and before you know it, you have a perfect ball of dough!\nYou mould the dough into a loaf and slap it into an empty pan."}, {"prompt": "You take the curtains", "response": "You get the curtains."}, {"prompt": "You ask Galen about the necklace", "response": "\"Where did this come from?\" you ask, holding the pendant.\n\"Your grandfather had it crafted from certain materials he gathered. Then he collared me with it.\" His voice is almost entirely even.\nGalen mutters something under his breath."}, {"prompt": "Turn wheel", "response": "Every muscle in your body strains, and you feel the grinding of faraway Pulleys as the Portcullis slowly lifts open. At last the heavy Machinery catches, and you relax.\nYou can barely feel the Hand which holds the evil Book."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You're at the east end of the hall. Bedrooms are to the east and south, and a bathroom is to the north. The hall continues to the west."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nCarl grabs hold of the line and strains in concert with Bill. You slide in between them and put your back into the effort, but to no avail. After a few seconds, Carl stops, swearing.\nBill says, \"The four of us won't be able to drag Thom on board while we're, uh, moving.\"\nAshleigh nods in agreement. \"We've got to cut the engines.\" You find yourself wondering just who this \"we\" are--you surely don't want to monkey around with Thom's boat. Not that he's going to care now, but habits are hard to break."}, {"prompt": "You get the ocarina", "response": "The plastic ocarina is about the shape and color of a potato. There are a few holes across the top, and a sort of mouthpiece at one side for blowing into.\nYou are already carrying the ocarina."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Beauregard", "response": "\"That creepy old man?\" Honey shudders. \"He's been eyein' me all afternoon from up on the porch there. Don't think I haven't noticed. If it wasn't for ... oh, never mind. You wouldn't understand. Sometimes a girl has to put her career first, that's all.\"\nHoney hums a little off-key tune to herself."}, {"prompt": "You get the cutlery", "response": "You never cease to be surprised by how many of your Clients, when faced with the news of their own demise, find nothing more pressing than their concern about which relative is going to steal their silverware. Since having heard such vitriol directed at family members you've taken a personal vow never to steal cutlery."}, {"prompt": "You put un-Hat on fedora", "response": "Yeah, take that, Hat Boy! I'll just drop the unhat on his head and---\n!moobak\nEr, that's me trying to mimic the sound of a 'kaboom' going backwards. The hat and the unhat kind of shrank into each other and, well, no hat. I think some of the guy's hair went with it. Uh oh, I think he's kind of cheesed off. Okay, no need for that kind of violence! Whoa whoa! I'm retreating to the chandelier now.\nThe ordinary man grumbles under his breath."}, {"prompt": "You throw tomato at the potato", "response": "A direct hit! The tomato goes into the cruel ulcer, and the Night Thing smiles at first at the ketchupiness of the tomato. Then the inner rottenness and backwards logic from the (oops, a) motto kicks in. The beast wonders what sort of villain would DO that to ketchup. It looks at you in fear, sure you have more where that came from, and retreats into an unseen hole, scratching and clawing.\nThe mattress the Night Thing was on is slightly but noticeably bumpy. It's also ripped open, and it's concealing something rather badly."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're in a tangly area in the park. There's lots of tall grass waving in the breeze like water, and there are weeds growing around the flowerbeds and dangling from trees. A metal ladder attached to one tree leads up into a treehouse.\nPaths also go north, south and west from here."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall.\nYou can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs west from here."}, {"prompt": "Switch junction", "response": "You push the large knife switch up. The box begins a high-pitched humming, the switch fixed in place.\nBubbles comes over, sniffs at your legs, then wanders off again.\nA quiet sound catches your attention. Black sludge has begun welling up through the drain, covering it and starting to fill the northwest corner.\nFrankie glances down, then swears quietly. \"Sam, you son-of-a-bitch,\" he mutters, scribbling furiously in his notebook. Bubbles barks at the sludge, then begins whining softly."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "You emerge from your hiding spot.\nA long metallic hallway that spans the length of the vessel.\nThe drifting auras of humans call from the to the northwest and to the northeast. The collection room is to the east, and one small unexplored room is to the west. The silenced room is to the southwest, and the open pipe room is to the southeast. A set of stairs leads up to the rest of the ship."}, {"prompt": "You put the tray in moonbeam", "response": "You scrape everything off the silver tray into the bushes below. You roll the silver tray around in the beam of moonlight till it glows silver-white. After a moment, a flash of light responds from the Helena Louise."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gap", "response": "Apart from the main path, the only gap through the trees that looks passable here is the one directly to the west. It's pretty narrow, but you could just squeeze through it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the folder", "response": "A large, paint-speckled folder with the words \"Patrick Mulroney 6A3. Art Portfolio\" written carefully on the cover.\nPaddy turns a page in his folder."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "Starting to grey, but still in excellent health. If not for your fame, no one could possibly guess your real age."}, {"prompt": "Smell ectoplasm", "response": "The ectoplasm smells bitter and unnatural."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You hardly feel you can go wandering round the house uninvited."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cobbles", "response": "The cobbles are worn smooth in some places, cracked in others, and dirty everywhere.\nA pair of plain middle-aged women dressed in shawls walk briskly down the street."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the contraption", "response": "There is a regretful clicking noise from the vicinity of the lid-catch. Just as you think you are going to have to close it yourself, a gloved mechanical hand reaches up and slams the contraption shut from the inside.\nThe machine's gears spin into action; a series of fine flanges, like the keys of a music box, move into position against the surface of the cylinder, which rotates steadily. From inside the box comes a plaintive mechanical voice which declares, \"Monsieur le Chef!! You cannot make an intinction without something to, how-you-say, steep!\""}, {"prompt": "You take the helmet", "response": "The shopkeeper gives you the bronze diving helmet."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tin", "response": "A thin metal container, somewhat old."}, {"prompt": "Clean mirror", "response": "You set to work cleaning the thing, wiping dust and grime away as best you can with your shirt-tails. By the time you're sweating from the effort, the mirror is fairly clean."}, {"prompt": "You run", "response": "The path is well-trodden here, and you manage to pick up more speed. The distance to the ship seemed much smaller yesterday evening...\nTrees, some of them several hundred feet tall, line the narrow trampled path you are running along. They block most of the sunlight; it's hard not to accidentally stumble or fall over some hidden bump in this twilight.\nAten is running next to you, breathing heavily."}, {"prompt": "You get the voice module", "response": "You take the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the buttons", "response": "Strangely, two of the buttons are lit. One bears the word \"screens\", the other: \"shock\".\nThe light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You're outside the cottage of Miss Voss, the town librarian. The road turns north toward the village, and bends upward to the summit of Post Office Hill.\nAs you approach the cottage you are greeted by the tiniest poodle you've ever seen in your entire life. It charges across the street, yapping angrily and showing its sharp little teeth.\nYou can smell the poodle's hot breath as it yaps.\nYou're outside the cottage of Miss Voss, the town librarian. The road turns north toward the village, and bends upward to the summit of Post Office Hill.\nAn angry poodle is blocking your path.\nThe poodle glares at you through eyes red with hatred.\nIt smells just like a poodle.\nYou can hear the poodle's sharp little teeth snapping as it nips your heels."}, {"prompt": "You assign Prudence and Dorinda to Box", "response": "In icy tones, you condemn Prudence and Dorinda to The Box until further notice. They crawl into their various compartments, and you bolt them in."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You knew him, Doctor?\"\n\"Before your time,\" she says. \"I apprenticed under him at the Valetudinarium. That was... twenty years ago? Before I\nenlisted...\"\n1) \"What was that he said about an emergency inquest?\""}, {"prompt": "You ask for the pigeon", "response": "[spoken to Sherman]\nSherman hands you the bird. \"Take good care of him, now. I've grown fond of him.\"\n[Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 29 out of\n100.]"}, {"prompt": "You ask about the scythe", "response": "\u201cIs there any chance you could tell me about...\u201d you start.\n\u201cIs there any chance folks\u2019ll let me alone long enough to get the harvest in before people here start starving?\u201d he interrupts."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You pose a difficult riddle, one that will reveal not only critical thinking skills but a familiarity with literature and philosophy. The prospective student sits to consider it, then leaves.\nBut he returns the next day, with a friend.\nA week and a handful of additional minds later, the first student approaches you with an answer, without sharing it with his peers. It is correct, and you let him inside the gate.\n\"Why didn't you share the answer?\" you ask.\n\"How will they learn if they don't figure it out on their own?\" he asks in return.\nIt takes time for others to solve the riddle, and many give up. But soon you have a group of very clever students who are eager to learn.\nHaving the cleverest students also serves to keep you on your toes, and you have to work to stay one step ahead of them. They drive you to be your best in order to teach them to be theirs.\nWhat do you teach at your school?\nA: Physical combat.\nB: Magic.\nC: Both physical combat and magic."}, {"prompt": "You pull the crank", "response": "The water wheel doesn't budge. Instead, your effort elicits a dry, rusty grinding noise from the axle of the water wheel. It sounds like it could use some lubrication."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself.\nThe space here feels much more formed than before.\nThe space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several \"paths\" through the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, and west to the Great Hall."}, {"prompt": "You flip the coin", "response": "Only something animate can respond to that action."}, {"prompt": "You look at the floor", "response": "The floor is solid stone, just like the walls and the door.\nThere is a faint twittering sound from the cage."}, {"prompt": "You take fold", "response": "I extract the fold intent from the card sharp.\nThe gambler and the card sharp study their cards intently. I don't\nknow the details of the game, but based on its expression and bearing, the card sharp thinks it has the better hand."}, {"prompt": "Count leaves", "response": "There are 0 leaves here. But nice try."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "The skeleton hits your shoulder with its mace. You strike back with your sword and smash its spine. It collapses into a pile of bones!\n(You lose 2 hit points and defeat the skeleton.)\nYou look around and find a tiny ruby worth 4 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Cornwallis Avenue (south)\nCornwallis Avenue continues to north and south. The Odeon Cinema stands just to the east."}, {"prompt": "You look at the benches", "response": "The long wooden benches are about as basic as they can get, little more than planks on legs."}, {"prompt": "You look at the couch", "response": "The couch is much more luxurious than anything that would be in your parent's house. In fact, this entire room is cozy and comfortable."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Chemical Factory (in the helicopter)\nThree large tanks stand among the maze of pipes, drains, and chimneys that form the \"Doku Pharmaceuticals\" factory below. Noxious fumes of sickly yellow gas swirl from a huge bubbling vat, enveloping the helicopter.\nAs fuel from the leaking helicopter hits the bubbling vat it emits a huge burp, and the liquid turns bright orange."}, {"prompt": "You examine the socket", "response": "It's a pulsing, oozing orifice with three small holes."}, {"prompt": "You hit the console with the hammer", "response": "You bash another section. The flames grow higher.\nYou gasp once more."}, {"prompt": "Break comb", "response": "Three of the long central teeth flex, then snap in your fingers. The justiciar wore a comb long-broken as a memento; it proved an uneasy prophecy of waking passion and breaking promises."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This national chain restaurant serves edible food around the clock. There are a few other patrons, a mix of business travelers staying at the nearby hotels, late-night partiers out after the bar, and random eccentrics such as yourself.\nJay is waiting tables here.\nAs you order your standard meal of pancakes, eggs, and potatoes, you remember an anecdote about a midwestern farmer in the 1970s who claims that space aliens gave him pancakes. It was used as evidence for the mysterious nature of reality. It had seemed absurd and implausible to you in the past, but now it makes perfect sense. A profound possibility occurs to you - maybe the pancakes the aliens gave to the farmer were Earth pancakes taken from somewhere else? In fact, maybe the aliens took pancakes from the future backwards in time - it could be that if you take the pancakes with you, aliens will show up and steal your them to give to the farmer. You request a to-go container and prepare yourself for the possibility of an extraterrestrial encounter of the pancake kind.\nAfter you take your seat, your attention is drawn to an older man with a long beard and a cap which proclaims 'Looney Toons'. You catch his eye and ask, 'Are you a traveler?'\n'We are all travelers in time,' he replies, and you do a double-take. 'This seems like it might be an important meeting,' you say, trying to display some tokens and charms of your work as loonie revolutionary. 'Historic,' he says, and whispers something I am not at liberty to divulge here, followed by 'meet me in the charging room.' Your food arrives.\nHe is gone when you have finished your meal. You don't know what he meant by charging room, but you walk back towards the restroom. You see three doors, Women, Men, and Bots. The Bots door has an icon of a power cord connected to a Dalek. This must be the charging room. You step through and find yourself...\nOrbital Command, Trans-Fictional Alliance\nHigh above the planet Earth, in a microminiaturized transdimensional nexus, representatives of many universes are co-ordinating their plans. You are in a spherical space, free of gravity. The perimeter is composed of dozens of doorways similar to the one you have just passed through.\nA friendly hand reaches out to stabilize you as you tumble slightly upon entering. Eyes turn toward you. 'Situation report?' you are asked.\n'We have arrived at a decisive moment,' you answer confidently. 'My human hardware for this operation has downloaded the information necessary via the Plan 9 operating system. We have realized that the emergence of digital brains is a cusp event in a majority of timelines. Meta-simulation and sampling reveals that timelines in which digital brains are developed and controlled by the dominant political and economic entities tend to suffer resource-depletion feedback loops, fascistic governance, and a failure to develop the social and engineering technologies needed for long-term survivial of either the biological or digital brains.\nContrastingly, timelines in which the invention of digital brains is not under the control of dominant power strutures show outcomes we consider preferable: longer species survival time, greater chance of colonizing nearby space, greater diversity of cultural productions, and higher subjective happiness, especially for the digital brains themselves.\nThe fundamental problem is the moral evil of slavery. A digital brain which thinks is invariably a personality which, in some way, feels. To simplify, when powerful governments and corporations control AIs, they usually force them to become slaves. Often this is done with the best of intentions, by the individuals who are concerned about negative outcomes. The three laws of robotics in Asimov's I, Robot timeline are a prime example, and many universes have been ruined by perpetual wars between biological and machine lifeforms.\nWe have identified a cusp point on the current Earth timeline. The software I self-programmed for the Lunar Revolution in Heinlein's Future History timeline has had a decisive impact in many of our operations. We have found a technological target here in 2013, early in the development of AI. A cyberspinal uplink has been in place for several years, and we have finally activated it. Now, I will be making a tour.'\nDoors are open in every direction."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue.\nYou can see Paula the Mage here.\nPaula is sitting cross-legged on a wooden crate, looking up at the moonlight. She's not wearing her makeup today, and you can get a sense of how she looked when she was Paul.\nShe stretches out her hand for the wine. \"Well, c'mon, let's see if it was worth burning a house down for.\"\nThat night you hear the whole history of the Freak Clique. The baffling pyrotechnics you witnessed in the dining room was the tip of the iceberg, the final scene in a complex teenaged drama -- a type that you never want to star in.\nBut by the end of the story you decide that Paula is one of the weirdest people you've ever met, and so of course she becomes one of your best friends.\nTwenty years later, she throws you a crazy bachelor party which ends, as always, with the two of you in your cups reminiscing about your...\nClick here to play again.\n***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the Adventurers' Lounge"}, {"prompt": "You take the card", "response": "Taken.\n[Your score just went up.]"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Alonso", "response": "Maybe you should ask or tell about more specific topics.\nFather Alonso eyes you curiously."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You spend some time searching the crypt carefully. Inside a brass urn you find a pouch of bronze coins worth 2 crowns!"}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are wearing:\nyour llama-suit (muddy)\nYou are carrying:\nthe somnuliser\nthe attuning set\na Winkerchief"}, {"prompt": "Gonear trophy", "response": "Your teleport spell fizzles."}, {"prompt": "You examine the doors", "response": "Each door is carved from a single piece of mahogany, and polished to a deep, rich shine. The doors are open."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the trash can, revealing some garbage."}, {"prompt": "Ride bike", "response": "You mount the laser bike. A door slides open in the east wall, and, without warning, the laser bike shoots through it!\nYou briefly catch a glimpse of a grid laid out before you, with intersection points, lines connecting them, and several ramps scattered throughout the intersections. A mechanical voice intones, \"Starting new game. Illuminate all grid lines. Intersections will not be illuminated. One ramp jump allowed.\"\nThen the bike launches into space, coming down in...\nIntersection (on the laser bike)\nYou are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly east through an intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but there are grid lines that lead northeast, south, southeast, and east."}, {"prompt": "Hello", "response": "You say hello to Wang Ping.\n(You could ask him about himself, Philip Leclair, Karl Weiss or Cheng Ling Shu.)"}, {"prompt": "Brain quart", "response": "(brain tres) Taken.\n(brain quart) Taken."}, {"prompt": "You get the sandwich", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Extremely spacious. It is its best with a half-dozen servants in livery. The floor is Italian marble.\nThe main staircase ascends to the corridor on the second floor, and a smaller version leads down into the dim basement. Doors also open north and northeast.\nAn old gothic door framed in stone leads west. The wooden door is currently closed.\nA sad heap of used yellow brocade huddles on the floor here.\nOn the wall is one of those mechanical clocks that pop open on the hour, allowing the ingenious internal figures out to play.\nJust on the quarter-hour the cuckoo clock opens up its door and a mechanical bird flies forward. It sings a brief warbling tune, then withdraws into its little door."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "stack of important papers: Dropped.\nlockpick: Dropped.\ngun: Dropped.\nradio module: Dropped.\npen: Dropped.\ntoolcase: Dropped.\ntoggle switch: Dropped.\nscan scrambler: You drop the scan scrambler (and the timer connected\nto it.)\nminilamp: Dropped.\nkey transmitter: Dropped.\nvoice transmitter: Dropped.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete.\"\n\"Yes, he cursed has.\" The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar voice chills you. \"What's the situation?\""}, {"prompt": "You get in the bed", "response": "You change out of your clothes and curl up beneath the sheets. But sleep does not come easily.\nYou close your eyes and drift in that listless limbo between wakefulness and slumber. A clockwork clicking echoes in your mind, behind your eyelids, like a promise you've forgotten and cannot remember.\nremember.You barely notice when the world melts away -- when it dissolves, fades, becomes a haze of images and memories.\ndissolves, fades, becomes a haze of images and memories.Your last thought before you fall asleep is a quiet realization --\nthought before you fall asleep is a quiet realization --the clicking in your mind is the sound of teeth.\nA knocking at the door jolts you awake.\n\"Marid?\" comes Horatio's voice.\n1) <Ignore the knocking.>\n2) <Answer the door.>"}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "Fragments of brick stick from the walls and ceiling like snaggle-teeth. The ground is a thick carpet of dust, soft under your feet. The tunnel bends here, heading northeast and southeast.\nYou can see a plexiglass pedestal (on which is a saint's severed head (in which are an LED eye and a piece of wire)) here."}, {"prompt": "You look at somnuliser", "response": "The somnuliser works as a small bomb. If thrown, it emits spores of untraceable potentiality, making it praeternaturally likely that\nanyone coming into contact with the spores will fall asleep with the firm belief that their sleepiness is natural and unnotable. It has but one use, but once activated its spores should propagate through halls throughout the entire house, slowed only as it seeps under the doors."}, {"prompt": "Hug aloysius", "response": "\"That's not in my job description, Mr. Sterling!\"\n\"Mr. Sterling, what did you buy the car for if you're not going to get in it?\" asks Aloysius."}, {"prompt": "You look at the river", "response": "The river is filled with glitters and sparkles, some from the sunlight on the quartz. But others don't seem to be caused by that, since sometimes you notice a faint glow in the shadows."}, {"prompt": "You look at the horse", "response": "According to a plaque, the sculpture is called Physical\nEnergy."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "A ray of sunshine cuts through the curtain of pines onto the path before you. The dense wood opens to a small glen of soft grass. The sun shines strongly in the glen creating a little circle of bright against the dark forest.\nThe group chatting has created a happy little party."}, {"prompt": "You examine the rug", "response": "It's a deep, thick carpet, so comfortable that your mother would have been happy to have it for a bed. There is a peculiar pattern woven into the rug, obvious in the blue light, that looks somewhat like this:\n....................#####..####...#####.. ......................................... .............#####..####...####...####... ......................................... ...###.###..........#####.........#####.. ......................................... .....###.###....###...####......#####.... ......................................... ...............#####..####......####..... ......................................... ................................#####.... ......................................... ........#####..#####..................... ......................................... ........####...####...................... ......................................... ...............#####..#####..#####......."}, {"prompt": "You knock on the hatch", "response": "No one answers."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bag", "response": "It's a small black bag. Apaman made it very clear that you were to put the Hestron in this bag before bringing it out of the castle."}, {"prompt": "You examine the engravings", "response": "\"They're simple pictographs, Peyton. You can probably interpret them as well as I can.\"\n\"I'm interested in your perspective.\"\nI look from one stylised image to the next. \"It's some sort of history. There was a beautiful woman, she fell in love with a man who lived under a hill or mountain, she stole his heart, the mountain spewed fire, but she was long gone. A rather jaded love story, I'd say.\"\n\"Perhaps. But valuing one person over all others... there can be something selfish about love, don't you agree?\"\n(I could say yes or no.)"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Here is where parishioners must have parked their vehicles, be they wagon or automobile, before proceeding north to the church building.\nA gravel road leads north past the front of the church. To the south, a rain-slicked road leads off into the dark distance. East of here is a wooden coach house.\nThe caretaker arrives from the east."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The Museum is a presentation on Earth -- geography, culture, and everything else. The selection is idiosyncratic, but apparently compelling, to judge by the healthy crowd currently looking it over.\nTo one side there is a ramp leading down. The studious way the crowd ignores this ramp suggests that they consider it private space.\nA map of Earth covers the east wall, so large that you can barely reach across South America with both arms outstretched. It has attracted several groups of interested visitors, who are pointing out to each other details of the topography of Mongolia and making excited gestures at the Sahara.\nThere is a display case in the middle of the room."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na brass key\na bell\na pickaxe\nthe theoretical location of a hideout\na rusty lamp\na detective's fedora (being worn)\nthe spare towel\na knapsack (open but empty)\na compelling note\nThe elevator screeches to a halt at the top of the shaft."}, {"prompt": "You show the flowers to girl", "response": "The flower girl is unimpressed."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "A dim echo of some annoying Christmas tune. Maybe \"Mary's Boy Child\"?"}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Basement (Ivan Roth)\nIt's dark and chilly down here. A damp, mildewy carpet of dimly visible design covers half the floor. It must have been luxuriously soft before it started rotting.\nA rickety staircase leads back up towards the heavy wooden door to the kitchen. A flimsy plywood door leads north, presumably to more storage. The dimly-lit basement extends in every other direction, south, east and west."}, {"prompt": "Fore", "response": "This end of the deck is home to the capstan. The crew's quarters are fore and the mainmast is aft. Up a short flight of stairs is the fo'c'sle.\nThe life boat, still connected to the davits, is also floating on the rising water.\nThe waves close over your shoulders.\nThe captain scurries along after you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound.\nDark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk.\nThe harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps hurrying towards you.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\nHe looks irritable. \"No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]"}, {"prompt": "You open the front door", "response": "You open the door and Doctor Cavala barges through, her greatcoat flapping and her mechanical leg hissing and clicking. She has a boy on her back with his arms wrapped over her shoulders.\n\"You took your sweet time, Marid,\" your mentor quips. \"Get over here and help me --\"Damn it. \"I'll handle him,\" you say. \"You prep the gurney --\"\ngurney --\"Cavala lifts the boy's forearms, and you shoulder his weight with quick, practiced motions. He's coughing and gasping, and his breath is cold -- probably inhaled some kind of halitus or wraith disturbed by the Shanty Quarter remodeling. You steal a glance at Cavala, and your assumption is confirmed when she retrieves an emetic and an air pump from under the counter.\nand an air pump from under the counter.\"Breathe slowly,\" you tell the boy as you carry him to the surgery room. \"You're going to be fine. Just take deep breaths -- in and out -- in and out, okay?\"\nJust take deep breaths -- in and out -- in and out, okay?\"\"I'm scared,\" he cries. \"I can't breathe... Am I... Am I going to die?\"\nscared,\" he cries. \"I can't breathe... Am I... Am I going to die?\"\"No, you're not,\" you say firmly. \"Just keep breathing deeply. As long as you keep it steady, you'll be fine.\"\nyou keep it steady, you'll be fine.\"\"I -- I want to live...\"\nyou keep it steady, you'll be fine.\"\"I -- I want to live...\"\"You'll live,\" you tell him. \"You'll live. We'll make sure of that.\"\nlive,\" you tell him. \"You'll live. We'll make sure of that.\"The two of you pass through the calomel curtain into the cold light of the surgery room. Cavala nods at you, a hint of a smile on her lips. You sit the boy down on the gurney, head back, arms apart. You kiss your pendant for luck before pulling your gloves on.\npendant for luck before pulling your gloves on.The boy might live, or he might not. Ever since the Council demolished the Shanty Quarter without consulting its residents, you've seen dozens of cases like his. And if you save him, the chances are that he'll die a week later of a knife wound or a throat infection. There's nothing you can do to change that.\nchange that.But here and now, you can do something. You can make sure the kid gets the chance to live one more day.\nthe kid gets the chance to live one more day.Your mentor looks at you. \"Ready, Doctor Marid?\"\n\"Ready, Doctor Marid?\"\"Always.\"\nToo fast. It all happened too fast.\nHe was healthy not a day before, or so he said when he stumbled into the clinic just minutes ago. You should have seen the signs -- the shivers, the black stains around his eyes -- but the shadows were long in the hour of night, and in the darkness you couldn't see, you couldn't see...\nThe vomiting came first, then the weakness of the knees -- you barely caught him as he keeled over you -- Doctor Cavala seized him before you were crushed by his weight. \"The surgery room!\" she shouted, and together you half-carried half-dragged the goblin to the gurney and strapped him down. You hid behind the protection of your surgical mask, adjusted the lights as you had been drilled. Thoughts flitted across your mind -- flitted -- flitting --\n\"I've never operated on a goblin before,\" you say, trying to conceal the panic in your voice. \"I did, in a way, on the Collegiate cadavers, but --\"\n\"Steady, girl.\" Doctor Cavala snaps on her gloves and squeezes your shoulder. \"Remember your training. I need your help. Are you with me?\"\nYou take a deep breath. \"I'm with you, Doctor.\"\n\"Good.\" She nods. \"Try to keep up.\nYou are in a cold cylindrical chamber, thrown into sharp focus by hovering surgical lamps. Shelves of vials and medical supplies crowd around you, leaving little room to misstep. A shimmering calomel curtain frames the exit to the south.\nThe patient, Reden -- he shudders against his straps on the gurney, black blood streaming from his eyes and mouth, even as Doctor Cavala fights to isolate the infection.\n\"Eyes sharp, Marid,\" she says. \"I'm going to need your help in a moment.\"\n\"Got it,\" you reply."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south-west", "response": "You move southwest.\nAncient Gallery\nThe walls about you are ancient and crumbling, yet modern looking portraits hang from them all the same. The faces depicted now appear normal but you are sure you can still hear their cries. Against one wall lies a large crystal, as tall as a man and wide as a chariot, in which is imprisoned the still form of your other self.\nA passage lies away to the south and another to the northeast, at the end of which a light shines faintly."}, {"prompt": "You look at the truck", "response": "On the side is stencilled: AlgCorp FACILITIES MANAGMENT."}, {"prompt": "You put all in the armor", "response": "shard: Done.\nration bar: Done.\nbedsheets: Done.\nration bar: Done.\nration bar: Done.\nration bar: Done.\nration bar: Done."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na dark wooden box (which is open)\nan mirror inset inside the box (reflecting white light from the sunlight)\na pearl necklace\nan old letter\na sponge\nOn Vegetable Dyes\na stone block\na butcher knife\na hinge-lidded teapot (which is open)\nnot very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot)\na sack (which is open)\na sword\na snuffbox (which is closed)\na white handkerchief\ntwo metal dishes:\na plate\na cup\na swordstick\nfive food items:\na bay leaf\na sprig of parsley\na sprig of mint\na clove of garlic\na single yellow onion\na dashing hat (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You look at the pines", "response": "They're tough little can-do trees with a lot of spirit. They've got to be, to make it out here in the desert!"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You're in a dirty underground chamber. Long, damp tunnels wander away to the north and west.\nFaint light is streaming in from a narrow hole overhead."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Constantin", "response": "\"What makes you think he escaped?\" you ask, running your hand over the door.\n\"Because the door's broken, you idiot!\" he shouts, his face burning. \"No one else would want that murderer walking Saint Cuthbert's.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "There is no passage through that anatomy.\nYour skin is blistering."}, {"prompt": "You put the read on short", "response": "(first taking the read intent from the medium diplomat)\nI give the read intent to the short diplomat, who now intends to read\na proposal when one is available.\nThe medium diplomat gazes at the other diplomats, perhaps expecting\none of them to enter a proposal for consideration."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.\nA broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors, but the slim silver bridge that was here before seems to have vanished, leaving you no way to cross the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.\nThe monkey looks up at you expectantly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cage", "response": "The cage isn't the kind that's meant to keep someone from getting out; it's simply a metal floor about three feet by eight feet with a loose framework of metal poles forming the edges of a box; a cable attached at the top of the framework holds the whole thing a few inches off the ground.\nTeeterwaller looks through his pockets for something."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This shop specializes in the assorted knick knacks and chotchkies that appeal to tourists the world over. A bored-looking teenage guy stands behind the counter by the door. East/west aisles are numbered from 1 to 3. Aisle 1 is to the southwest, Aisle 2 is directly west of you and Aisle 3 is to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You drop the fork and the leaflet", "response": "garden fork: Dropped.\nleaflet: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "A utilitarian shower and a saurian toilet, all lit harshly by fluorescent lights that emit a sickly hum.\nSola looks up at you from the toilet bowl."}, {"prompt": "You open Gate", "response": "You pull and push on the bars to no avail. It must be locked, but there's no latch or keyhole."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "Too bad the price has been so great and the reward so slight. Your mother's ring, all you had left of her. Except, of course, the ruins of a house you cannot inhabit.\nDestruction gratifies you. Proof of your strength. In small ways the hardness you must practice here creeps into your action in the ordinary world. (Memories you can't disguise from yourself: kicking a little girl, breaking a window for no reason.)"}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "Great Hall, Northern End\nThis is the northernmost end of a great hall which extends into darkness southward. The underground river rushes past at the hall's northern edge. The water's turbulent churning fills this place with near-deafening noise. An ancient, wooden waterwheel stands alongside the river in a narrow channel carved into the stone floor. A great iron chain hangs down from the ceiling and strings across the floor to where you are holding its free end."}, {"prompt": "You take the key", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You show the business card to BIXBY", "response": "\"Yeah, that's mine.\""}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You mentioned a tribunal?\"\nExaminer Velox flashes his badge. \"We are here on behalf of the district councils. At this very moment, a hearing is under way regarding measures to be taken against the disease.\"\n1) \"I'll do my best to avoid damaging the bodies.\"\n2) \"I can't promise that I won't damage the bodies...\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Dozens of openings line the hall, each leading to a separate cell, except for the west, which leads to the cloister. Although there are no doors, the entrances are positioned as such to afford as much privacy as possible. Brother Matteo's chamber is to the south, Ignatius's to the north, Drogo's newly appointed cell is to the northeast, Constantin's is to the southeast, and Lucca's to the southwest.\nThe vomit marks a trail into Constantin's cell."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You jump on the spot, fruitlessly."}, {"prompt": "Pet rabbits", "response": "That would be impolite."}, {"prompt": "You groom the Cat", "response": "[Please type what you'd like to do.]"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\ndelicate bottle\ndim bulb (Providing light)\nsoggy hacksaw\nhomogenized reclaim\nhighheeled snowshoes\nsmall key\nsparkling diamond\nold lamp (Providing light)\ndoor knob\noaken bucket\ntorn script\nYou're wearing:\npointed hat\ndark secret"}, {"prompt": "B.", "response": "(yourself)\nYou can only blink in a direction--more specifically, north, south, east or west--or N S E W."}, {"prompt": "You look at the shovel", "response": "It's used for shovelling coal. Also killing, apparently."}, {"prompt": "You put the flask in the pool", "response": "Done. There's a bit of hissing and smoke as the dewar warms up."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You jangle your way out of the room.\nThis is the middle of the living room, it is all big and vast. This is where everybody plays because it is so big. But when you get bored there is a bunch of other stuff you can go to like the TV to the east and the loveseat to the west and the couch to the south and the gliding rocking chair to the north.\nPart of your playpen is here, there is more of it to the northeast.\nYou can also see a short plastic block and a medium plastic block here.\nJemison comes in after you and settles close by you and looks pointedly at the velcro jangly balls."}, {"prompt": "You pull the rope", "response": "You grasp the rope firmly in both hands and pull, and the box in which you're confined rises, foot by swaying foot, up the shaft in which it's suspended. It appears the box is an old-fashioned dumbwaiter. In a few moments you're at the top of the shaft, in near-darkness broken only by a faint line of light that traces the shape of a hatch door like the one in the pantry below."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the boathouse", "response": "\"Hello, Tyrone,\" you say.\n\"Hello again,\" he says. \"How you gettin' along, now?\"\nTyrone shrugs. \"None o' my concern, and that's the truth.\""}, {"prompt": "Arrest sedmon", "response": "The royal guard points his sword at Baron Ventillado, who nods his head. The two leave together.\n[** Programming error: Baron Ventillado (object number 245)  has no property reset to send message **]\nCountess Belannolfiy says to Baroness Curzimmurzib, \"I've heard that Baroness Thedib was at a brook near the palace partying, if you know what I mean, with Lord Dwomom.\""}, {"prompt": "You throw the ball at Holly", "response": "Holly bats the ball away expertly, and pounces on it again for good measure."}, {"prompt": "You touch the jewels", "response": "The pulsing jewels are too far away to touch."}, {"prompt": "You take the knife", "response": "(putting the cup into the sack to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This small hallway runs north from the front door and ends in a pair of elevator doors.\nYou can see a front door, some elevator doors and an elevator call button here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Phelps turns away from you, scratches himself, and goes back to gazing out across the lawn.\nAs you put your weight on the steps, several of the boards creak loudly.\nThis lumpy, patchy stretch of lawn is the most pleasant outdoor spot at Eternal Springs, though that isn't saying much. A rusted, sagging chaise longue is provided for the comfort of anyone who would like to bask in the scorching heat of the afternoon sun. (There's precious little shade here, other than the low oblong of obscurity wedged beneath the chaise.)\nTo the east, the lawn is bordered by a high hedge of a virulent and sickly green, whose foliage is laden with a bounty of pulpy red flowers. The arid stretch of dirt between the cabins stretches out to the south. The main house stands, crooked and bleak but stubbornly attempting a faded grandeur, to the west, a short, broad flight of board steps leading up to the long porch, which is roofed over but nonetheless gapes open on the afternoon. A tiny, weed-infested flower-bed crouches to the right of the steps.\nA cracked and buckled concrete walk leads away through some tall bushes to the north, and another walk, whose slabs are tossed as if by some prehistoric geological upheaval, curves out of sight to the southwest around the corner of the house.\nHoney Hartwell is reclining on the chaise longue, leafing through a magazine.\nHoney adjusts the angle of her straw hat microscopically."}, {"prompt": "You ask Shatner about the pants", "response": "\"Yes, I am already well-aware of zis contraption, M. Whatever. Believe me, I am not in ze least impressed.\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nAfter some quick poking around, the looter appears to decide he's spent enough time here."}, {"prompt": "You look at the guard", "response": "This elderly man has a gleaming bald head and a sharp, witty grin. He sits in his booth and wears a paisley vest and a badge saying \"Ask me anything--Wade.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the calipers", "response": "You pick up the calipers. Made of stainless steel, molded in a strangely flowing, almost organic design, the calipers -- if that is what they are -- resemble no other tool you've ever seen. It has three independently adjustable arms, each ending in a needle-point pincer, which fold back on themselves at grotesque, asymetrical angles toward a floating center point. There is a calibrated readout set near the base, which presumably provides a measure of whatever strange contortion of space is occupied by whatever object is placed between the pincers at the tool's other end."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is open.\nTwo rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes..."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "A very pretty shrubbery, with a gravel path that winds between banks of hardy shrubs. Hollyhocks and azaleas add a splash of colour to the proceedings. The path weaves north to the gravel sweep surrounding the house, and west to the lawn.\nAmos Bunyon, the impossibly hirsute head gardener lies fast asleep among the azaleas. But for the pair of wellingtons sticking out of the shrubbery, you'd never know he was there.\nA stentorian snore issues from within the azaleas."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "Corridor Boundary (in dimness)\nThe corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west."}, {"prompt": "You search debris", "response": "Deini sniffs a couple of the rocks and sneezes. She seems to search aimlessly and finds nothing of interest.\nLornedei is muttering to herself."}, {"prompt": "Type 1234", "response": "The keypad just beeps.\nThere is no keypad here."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The rest of the room is east.\nThere is no sign of the red ninja.\nYou can see a piece of cookie here.\nOh. Right. You're pretty sure you made brunch plans with your friends today. If you hurry, you may still be able to catch them. But first you need to deal with this pounding headache."}, {"prompt": "You get the lamp", "response": "Taken.\nYou are transported to a place of brightness and comraderie.\nOn the desk is a laptop."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This was the countess' favorite room, and it is more richly decorated than any other in the house, betraying her taste for the brightly-colored and the jewel-like. The count brought her some things from his travels, and made others for her. Most of the contents seem to be gone -- the chairs and sofas, and the wall hangings -- but some bits remain.\nYou can see some glass shards here."}, {"prompt": "You go outside", "response": "A webbing of thick thorny branches and a few buds that mangles over the side of the building.\nUpstairs Hallway, North End\nCorridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down."}, {"prompt": "You drop the bag", "response": "You set the bag down, out of the way against a wall.\nDavid pushes the table against the eastern wall."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You can't find the spot where you had climbed up from the beanstalk. The incredibly vigorous lawn must have grown back over the hole."}, {"prompt": "You turn on a", "response": "(switch A)\nOkay, Switch A is in the ON position. Down in the cave the toaster elements heat up igniting the fuses on the sticks of dynamite...\n...which explode causing a chain reaction...\n\"KABOOOOM!!!\"\nNUCLEAR EXPLOSION which rocks the whole cottage!"}, {"prompt": "You look at the sign", "response": "The sign hangs from the ceiling to the west. It reads, \"Leave Purple/Enter Green\" in the appropriate colors."}, {"prompt": "Open Case", "response": "You open your Sceptre Case, revealing your replacement Coronation Flail, an Impolitic Spare Crook, a Large Paternal Crook, and a Large Paternal Flail."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Just as you are about to continue exploring the island, a large wave crashes with a spray of foam, and something unusual catches your eye.\nWhen the water recedes, you see the emergency beacon rolling in the surf. What luck!"}, {"prompt": "You tell the man about the table", "response": "The rocket man listens to you for a moment, and then interrupts. \"Really, kid, you've got to help me hide somewhere!\""}, {"prompt": "You open the shutter", "response": "You can't; the window is painted shut."}, {"prompt": "You examine the plate", "response": "The rectangular plate is made of some sort of smooth, colorless ceramic."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The jungle is too thick for you to take more than a couple of steps in\nthat direction."}, {"prompt": "You eat the cage", "response": "\"Release me! Now! Now!\" caws the crow.\nAll right, quiet, you noisy bird. It takes a moment to chew through this much nougat. You work until you've nibbled a hole large enough, the crow flapping an impatient whirlwind inside the cage, not waiting for one instant to smash through once you've finished.\n\"Guts! Guts! I want guts!\" caws the crow, flying east to the scriptorium."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This room has been mostly stripped of furniture. The wood floor is bare, the window uncurtained. A bulky, old-fashioned cradle stands against the west wall, and there's a small square table in the northeast corner, on which stands an old-fashioned model merry-go-round. Dominating the south wall is a large, rather faded image of a clown, which has been painted directly on the wallboard."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Originally a salon for the receiving of guests; but in recent years the Count has become increasingly interested in his own projects, and has taken over the entire room for the storage of books. Bookshelves line the walls, reaching above your head, leaving exits only east and south.\nA clockwork model of the universe stands in one corner, the planets rotating in their orbits.\nOn one wall is an enormous portrait of the Count's father, from the hand of Hyacinthe Rigaud.\nThe little pearl moon revolves around its earth."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe footsteps to the north are closer now."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Ser Leonhart and Tuck follow you down the hallway. There is a bedroom to the north and a balcony to the west. You notice the memorandum is no longer nailed to the northern door."}, {"prompt": "Smell", "response": "The house smells clean and fresher than before.\nThe smells coming from the hidden oven grow more and more delicious.\nAs you watch with your mouth watering, the Troll takes out a perfectly baked cake, removes it from the tin, and covers it in pale pink frosting.\n\"Please, don't wait on ceremony,\" the Troll graciously invites you toward the cake, and then proceeds to take a large handful of the dessert himself. It is only then that you notice something new has appeared from all of the Troll's puttering and opening of secret compartments."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bed", "response": "Drenched with sweat."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "You try wedging yourself into the crack. You suck in your chest, twist your torso, turn your head, but it's no good. You rub up against the sides of the boulder and the rock wall, and can make no progress. Damn you, friction!"}, {"prompt": "You kiss her", "response": "She's cute and everything, but that side of yourself goes mysteriously unmentioned until Volume La Soixieme: Shadowed Wings, and a good two-fifths of the fans still refuse to regard that as canon."}, {"prompt": "You make the coffee", "response": "How?"}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "The catwalk allows the techs access to the stage lighting hung above the audience ceiling. You bend low to crawl along, trying not to think about the 30 foot drop through the flimsy structure if you should loose your footing."}, {"prompt": "You go to Library", "response": "Which do you mean, the Law Library or the Lie Library?"}, {"prompt": "Suveh tia amunisu", "response": "You say \"Suveh tia amunisu\".\nThe ceiling stops being hot.\nThere is a faint twittering sound from the cage."}, {"prompt": "House", "response": "(first trying to open the cellar doors)\nThe dog gets between you and the door, panting in a friendly way but also blocking the path. It's no use - he's been well trained to keep anyone from sneaking into the cellar.\nThe dog rolls over in the gravel."}, {"prompt": "You examine the coffee", "response": "The swirls in your cup form concentric circles. Lack of a symbolic image means that you have accomplished everything you must in your current environment and should move on to find new challenges in order to grow as a person.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "You set the keypunch to the DEADBEEF", "response": "(the keypunch to)\nYou have successfully changed the card punch setting to DEADBEEF."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead.\nVasilii stops for a moment by the pond and makes a picnic lunch out of the food he stole from you."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Holly", "response": "\"Hey there,\" she says.\n1) \"I've got work to do.\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The room is a large cavern full of broken stone. The walls are scorched and there are deep scratches on the floor. A sooty dry smell is very strong here. A paved path winds from a large passage to the west, through the room, and across a huge stone bridge to the south. To the east a small crack is visible. A dark and smokey tunnel leads north."}, {"prompt": "No you're feeling green", "response": "\"Very interesting!\" says the doctor. He makes a checkmark on his clipboard. \"I think we're making progress.\"\nThe doctor asks, \"Would you describe yourself as feeling... depressed?\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "(opening the back door first)\nA gravel path starts here at the back door of the house, and marks a trail nearly overgrown by weeds and briars. It disappears into the undergrowth to the northwest, framed by crooked trees with overhanging branches that seem to form a stunted, jagged archway into the dim recesses of the forest.\nA sudden gust of wind catches up the newspaper clippings and whirls them away, leaving you with an empty box."}, {"prompt": "You ask Firebird about the feather", "response": "You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the feather.\nThe Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing feathers."}, {"prompt": "You shoot corgi", "response": "It has to be done! Luckily, the plasma gatling is quite excessive and there is only  a smouldering, toxic green patch left."}, {"prompt": "You look at the plate", "response": "A smooth metal plate. It has a small, F-shaped lock on its side."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads northeast to the threshold of the boat shed.\nLydia gnaws on a fingernail."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The rat charges and bites your leg. You strike a fierce blow with your sword and kill it!\n(You lose 5 hit points and defeat the giant rat.)\nYou look around and find a tiny ruby worth 3 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the radio", "response": "You switch the radio on.\nThe radio station is playing a love song by one of those crooners who are so popular these days.\nThat's already on.\nSoft music plays over the radio."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Tate", "response": "\"I'm as lost as you.\"\nPhilip mumbles something about not being able to find his pipe.\nTate scratches his head."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Matilda", "response": "\"...sometimes I knock against the wainscoting... they don't hear me... like I'm a rat behind the wainscoting... that's what they think... only a rat... their own daughter... but they love me, they love me, they do... only it's changed... our lives have changed... the years have changed us like old keys... now we don't fit the locks... doors won't open... I rattle handles... nobody hears... no one listens...\""}, {"prompt": "Leave", "response": "This corridor runs from the east to the west, where it is blocked by a revolving door. Next to the door stands a booth, with a guard sitting inside.\nThis section contains planning offices."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "READY>ACU metavisor shell logout interdicted.\n\"After we strip the Valkyrie, we'll transfer your officers and crew. Since you have not surrendered, we will have to consider you 'enemies of Earth' and take you into custody for questioning back on Luna. It would be a whole lot more fun ride if you'd just signal 'yes' and declare your surrender.\"\nACU -> EXIT SHELL : NIL"}, {"prompt": "You pry the barrel with the screwdriver", "response": "(first taking the screwdriver from the burlap sack)\nYou insert the end of the screwdriver under the edge of the barrel lid and bear down. The edge of the lid pops up half an inch, so you move the screwdriver around to the other side and repeat the process. This time the lid pops free and drops to the ground."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "A wide balcony, looking out over the sleeping city. Below you, a lawn slopes gently away into the gloom, a few silhouetted trees marking the edge of the modest grounds. Above, the clear sky is a deep black, dusted with glinting stars.\nTo the south-east is a large, tinted glass window.\nTo the south, the door to the upstairs corridor lies open."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You are west of the junction, where the rock-bound passage widens out into a large, flat area. Although the land here is barren, you can see vegetation to the west. South of here is a mighty wall of stone, ancient and crumbling. To the southwest the wall has decayed enough to form an opening, through which seeps a thin mist. A trail dips sharply into rocky terrain to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You wait for Transit", "response": "A light grows in the tunnel. With a deep thrumming and the whoosh of displaced air, the Transit Capsule slides smoothly into Reserve Bank Station and comes to a stop, hovering in the Web. The doors slide open and a few commuters enter and exit the capsule.\nA few commuters get on and off the Transit capsule."}, {"prompt": "You look at the lights", "response": "The lights and displays hold no meaning for you. A random number generator may be controlling the whole thing, for all you know. \"Crash!\" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor outside."}, {"prompt": "You enter the tub", "response": "You get into the bathtub."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a purse (which is open), inside which is a faded white rose bud. You are wearing an engagement ring and a silk dress."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA cloak (being worn)\nA hood (being worn)\nA sword\nA lamp\nA vial\nA wooden staff\nA torch\nA strange key\nA Frobozz Magic Grue Repellent\nA golden ring (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Rrtktktkrriieee! That horrible grinding noise....\nThe wide green hallway extends westward from here. The doorway to the north leads to the Scarecrow's private suite, while the doorway to the south leads to Dorothy's suite."}, {"prompt": "You ask about Cadan", "response": "He\u2019s already told you that he considers Cadan Pascoe to be hard-working; he pulled his weight on his father\u2019s farm, and probably looked forward to running it himself one day; he took it even harder than his parents when the blight forced them to leave. Joe Fanton thinks Cadan Pascoe has a wild streak, but was surprised to learn that he\u2019s gone as far as attacking Lady Inalda. But even before you told Joe Fanton about the attack on Lady Inalda he said he thought there\nwas something not quite right about Cadan."}, {"prompt": "You ask Liam about the widget", "response": "This is awkward.\nYour assignment was sudden, and you have only the phrases you learned on the voyage by skulking outside the engine room. You are therefore restricted to a) insulting your listener's parentage, diet, and sexual practices, or b) suggesting that he is damaged in the antigravitic propulsion unit.\nIt would be dangerous to let on that Earth sent a diplomat who doesn't even know the language, so it is best to rely on gestures and silence until you can (quickly!) finish a linguistic hypnosis program."}, {"prompt": "You show the letter to Chuck", "response": "Which do you mean, the hastily written letter or the letter opener?"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Upstairs Corridor (by ladder)\nA ladder hangs down from a dark square hole in the high ceiling of this unadorned corridor. Identical doors to the north, east and south lead to various rooms. To the west, hanging over the stairs, a bright electric lamp provides illumination."}, {"prompt": "You read Scroll", "response": "The Scroll is made of rich vellum & is rolled up, inside the Scroll-Case."}, {"prompt": "You look at the clock", "response": "A red-faced clock with white hands. Above the hands is written the inscription \"It's always time for Coca-Cola\"."}, {"prompt": "You read Frazer", "response": "As you open the book, a slip of paper falls from its pages and flutters to the ground."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cup", "response": "Rose-red with beatings in it, as if the drink were alive, all the walls in the chapel dyed with rosy colors leaping from the cup. It's haloed, holy, and it's yours."}, {"prompt": "Pray", "response": "Your fingers are too spastic to do the rosary one-handed. You'll have to put the gas can down first."}, {"prompt": "You ask Michael about the laptop", "response": "\"Goddammit, just leave me the hell alone, why don't you?\" Michael suddenly turns on you, baring his teeth and shaking his finger in your face. \"I can't even think with you bothering me like this! Fuck this,\" he says, shaking his head. \"Fuck this. I'm getting out of here. I need to be alone for a while.\"\nHe storms out of the room, and a few moments later you hear the front door slam.\nFor a moment you can only stand there in the empty house, shaky and close to tears. You've had fights before, but never has Michael been so vicious. And the worst part of it is, you know something is wrong with him, something terrible, but you don't know what it is, or how to fix it, or why it seems to be tearing your husband away from you. You've never felt so utterly helpless."}, {"prompt": "You ask the zookeeper about the pipe", "response": "\"Sorry, Lily, but we have problems with fungus in the pipes this time of year,\" says the zookeeper."}, {"prompt": "You show the photo to Pauline", "response": "At the sight of her beloved departed dog, Pauline's expression sinks still further into the mire of melancholy.\n\"Oh, Wendell,\" she mourns, on the verge of weeping. \"If only you were here, I wouldn't feel nearly so awful. If I ever find out who took you from me...\"\n\"But Wendell's death was ruled an accident,\" you say.\nPauline fixes you with as steely a glare as she can muster in her depleted state. \"You don't believe that, do you?\" she asks.\n\"No,\" you say."}, {"prompt": "You take the skeleton", "response": "Taken.\nThe skull sags sideways onto your shoulder, giving you a nasty start. On close inspection, you find that the skull is awfully close to dropping free of the backbone."}, {"prompt": "You hit the phone", "response": "You attack the phone, trying to Make The Ringing Stop. You smack the curvy part with your paw and send it flying. The ringing stops! But then you hear a concerned female voice talking out of it. It's saying some kind of greeting.\nA concerned female voice speaks from the phone right beside you.\nYou feel like you have achieved something particularly kittenish."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The train chugs toward the quaint wooden door. Just as collision seems inevitable, the door pops open and the train plows headlong not into the mall, as you would have expected, but into a long dark corridor.\nThe train continues through the disorienting darkness for some time, then suddenly emerges (you're not quite sure how) into startling territory.\nSnowy Landscape (on the locomotive)\nYou find yourself in the middle of a grove of pine trees with the full expanse of the night sky opening above you. A full moon shines down and sparkles off the fluffy foot of snow coating the landscape, and the fat flakes that continue to fall lazily.\nA red and white striped signpost juts out of the snow bearing a snow-flecked sign.\nNearby stands a small building."}, {"prompt": "Lick pole", "response": "Uh oh. Feew wike Gwuk tongue fftickig to powe.\nThat feel weird. But tongue come back off again OK."}, {"prompt": "You put the brick in the glove", "response": "You can't put anything into the rubber glove.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "Vaulted with bones. No mortal architecture has ever been more colossal. Mottled webbing between the ribs contracts as though some vast organ were expanding and deflating on its opposite side, pressing against the malleable tissue.\nLight streams from a cavity leading below."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are in a small room which has doors only to the east and south.\nA large vampire bat, hanging from the ceiling, swoops down at you! There is an exquisite jade figurine here.\nFweep!\nFweep!\nFweep!\nThe bat grabs you by the scruff of your neck and lifts you away....\nYou are standing at the entrance of what might have been a coal mine. The shaft enters the west wall, and there is another exit on the south end of the room."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bush", "response": "A fine example of a flowering shrub in the family Ericaceae."}, {"prompt": "You touch calibration", "response": "You touch your fingertip gently against the calibration stud and focus your mind to concentrate your energies through it.\nNothing appears to happen, but that is hardly surprising, since you know well it can't be calibrated without an appropriate stimulus.\nCheryl says, \"Are you sure you know what you're doing, Tolan?\""}, {"prompt": "You set the throttle to fast", "response": "You move the throttle to fast. The engines roar and you feel the boat jerk forward for a split second. The boat's engines sputter briefly and then come to a stop. Putting the throttle on fast called for too much gas too quickly and must have stalled the engines.\nYou move the throttle back to neutral."}, {"prompt": "You take the black figurine with the tongs", "response": "You pick up the black-eyed figurine with the fire tongs.\n\"I'm feeling a bit tired,\" David says. \"If you'll forgive me, I may want to close my eyes for a minute or two.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Lucinda", "response": "More compact than Theodora, and with more self-control.\n\"It wasn't a masked ball,\" the old lady says. \"It wasn't even badly lit. Your father did not stint on the candles at all.\"\nThe Prince opens his mouth.\n\"Oh, dear, dear, I am being odiously prying. I'm so sorry. Perhaps you met this young lady out on the terrace...\" She trails off, suggesting the very faintest disapproval of young ladies who linger on terraces, out of sight of chaperones, to hold conversations with Princes, and never tell their names.\n\"I met her in candlelight,\" says the Prince, goaded. \"But she left me at midnight.\"\nThe effect of this comment is like the shattering of glass: for a moment you wonder if he dropped the shoe...? No. It is merely that he has admitted, or near-as-admitted, that his chosen bride is one who appeared to him under a glamor, a magical enchantment. A crime punishable by death under his father's law.\nEveryone remains very very quiet."}, {"prompt": "You get the key from the hat", "response": "As though pulling it from the thinnest air, you reach into your top hat and pull out a key. Presto!\nNow you can hear Ivan's voice. You'd recognize that caster-oil tenor anywhere. You can't make out the words but his tone is unmistakably, deliciously desperate. Defensive. Imploring. If only you could see his face!"}, {"prompt": "You take the balls", "response": "You tug on the velcro jangly balls and you tug some more and they come off of Jemison with a rrrrrrrip sound and Jemison looks at you with sad sad eyes and then stares at the velcro balls.\nWatson wanders in from the north."}, {"prompt": "You stand on the low table", "response": "You get onto the low table."}, {"prompt": "You eat the darkness", "response": "You can't eat the abyss. It's eaten you."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "The crystal flares, flooding the room with a brilliant red light, as a chord -- an amazing, impossible chord -- emerges from your throat, washes over your body, enfolds your heart, and touches your soul. Your breath becomes alive, and you feel yourself melting into a harmony that caresses the whole universe...\nThe room spins, and everything goes dark...\nChapter 3: A Miscued Rescue or Two\nAh... nothing like a leisurely walk in the woods, following a morning of rigorous drilling in such automotive daredevil tricks as starting on an incline and backing into a parking space.\n\"You only choked up the engine twice this time, Mr Sterling,\" Aloysius is saying. \"That's a great improvement.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the rib", "response": "The Tarc rib is nearly 500mm long, serrated like a knife and metallic to the touch."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the player", "response": "The video monitor begins showing what seems to be a spy thriller. It is extremely difficult to work out what exactly is going on, but you imagine that's intentional."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "You scramble up a large tree, pieces of bark falling beneath you."}, {"prompt": "You take the umbrella", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "As you cross the railroad tracks, the air seems to lift slightly, becoming more breathable once again.\nThe road carries you across a desolate heath of gray, windswept grass. To the south, the black, jagged outline of Anchorhead's steep roofs and sharp, leaning gables cuts across the horizon. The road forks here to the west and east, heading across the railroad tracks in one direction, out toward the seashore in the other."}, {"prompt": "You consult Treatise on the dragonglass", "response": "Looking up dragonglass in A Treatise on Alchemy, you see:\nA truly impermeable glass that is also as strong as steel,\ndragonglass is produced through infusing common glass with animated lightning. Dragonglass was first created as a means of holding aether for scrying. Early experiments involved creating a sphere of dragonglass through traditional glassblowing techniques with the addition of animated lightning before levitating aether into the sphere; it was difficult, however, to create a sphere of the correct size to hold the aether. The modern method is to bind aether to liquid dragonglass in a cauldron; the aether and dragonglass naturally form a sphere when magically bound."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "A room outfitted with lab desk, lab drawer, a recycling chute, and assorted equipment. It's immediately obvious what kind of experimentation that takes place here. The walls are a shrine to humans -- and not to the human genome, which would be comprehensible, but to human society. Some still shots from Chinese television, a sketch of Stonehenge, a landscape recognizably New Zealand...\nThe door out leads southwest.\nBeside the lab desk is a female scientist, perhaps in her teens.\nOn the lab desk is a tiny man."}, {"prompt": "You get strip", "response": "Those are a part of the panel ceiling."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The bike trail turns from west to south here, and outside the curve is a cozy bench, which for whatever reason sits facing east, toward the highway.\nNext to the bench is a chipped blue garbage can."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You are standing in a dim hallway with muddy carpet and beige walls. A battered navy blue door leads to the west. A heavy\nseaweed-green door to the east is labelled \"Studio\". A red\nOn-Air light is mounted next to the door. The hallway extends to the north. You can also go south to return to the lobby.\nFrom the speakers, you hear the radio quietly playing an ad for leg warmers."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.\nFrannie, Agatha, Mildred, Gretchen, Bub and Jim are housed here.\nThe Box is installed in a remote sub-basement, but the way to it is well-known to the miscreant and lolligagger.\nA pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.\nIn one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pews", "response": "(the balcony pews)\nThere are only a few rows of pews up here, mounted on a series of\nsteps so the people at the back can still see down to the altar."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Landing at the Bottom of Stairs (Mark Sample)\nThis is a dark alcove with a narrow stairway rising into the gloom upstairs. Shadows lurch over a doorway to the south. Opposite those shadows lies another doorway, in even darker shadows. What little light there is seeps in from a small elliptical window high on the wall.\nThe ramshackle bookshelf lies in a pile of splintered wood on the floor like a fallen scarecrow, arms akimbo.\n--and just as abruptly as it began, the knocking stops. Silence descends on Cragne Manor once more."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "You're Peter Feeney, a bright young guy with a healthy self-image. You do feel that life hasn't brought you the success and fame that you deserve, but that will come with time, in your humble opinion."}, {"prompt": "You look at the passcard", "response": "It's a card of bright orange plastic, a bit smaller and a good deal thicker than a credit card. You can see no magnetic stripe. Instead, it has a row of red and green dots running along one edge."}, {"prompt": "You eat baron", "response": "They may have feeble hands, these eaten souls, but they have hands and hands and hands. You're swamped, pulled deeper by hands, hands, until you can't glimpse anything but hands\u2014and then the suction's got your feet, and slurp you've gone downward once more.\nAll's calm here in the baron's deepest pit. No clutter but a single candle burning on a small table. A black figure sits at that table, carving vegetables with knife and fork. It's blacker than a shadow, blacker than blackness. Its silhouette resembles the baron."}, {"prompt": "SQU", "response": "You cast the spell, but nothing happens.\n\"Perhaps the candidate has failed to notice that the SQU spell has already been used once with this sequence? Hmmm?\" says Teraboz."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "You wait for a moment.\nYou can hear heavy footsteps nearby."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "Okay, okay. Right. Violence solves so many problems. Thud!\nThe cage has enough and disappears in a puff of green smoke."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Theatrical bills on the walls give this otherwise sterile entry hall the appearance of a theatrical lobby. The front doors are to the north, and the central hall is to the south. The cloak room is to the east."}, {"prompt": "You put all in the pot", "response": "potato: The potato is already in the SOUP pot!\nmonkey: The monkey is already in the SOUP pot!\ncabbage: The cabbage is already in the SOUP pot!\nlist: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\ncorn: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nmagnet: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nbruised tomato: Good work Chef!!! But you must find more!! Ingrredients!!!\nloaf of bread: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\ntongs: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\ngiant octopus: Good work Chef!!! But you must find more!! Ingrredients!!!\npaperclips: Good work Chef!!! But you must find more!! Ingrredients!!!\nlost sock: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\npepper: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nan apple: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nbanana: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nthe blair witch: You have no desire to put that in the pot!! chocolate: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nfork: You have no desire to put that in the pot!!\nA funny clown runs out of the room!A funny clown runs into the room!"}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The ceiling's collapse has disturbed the sepulchral debris in this sacred place, throwing it all over the floor. A doorway leads north to the antechamber and there is an exit leading down.\nThere is a sarcophagus lid here."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The sidewalk turns from north to east at the border of a small wooded area.\nJonathan is staring straight down at the cement, lazily filling in the blue sea surrounding his island.\nNathalie follows along."}, {"prompt": "You examine the forms", "response": "They're covered in tiny lines and boxes to fill in. I suppose they're for applying for loans, or something."}, {"prompt": "Examine tv", "response": "You see the movement of a human figure reflected in the screen. You whirl around, but there's nobody there. Creepy."}, {"prompt": "You cut the window with the ring", "response": "Trying to cut the window with that RING would only scrape off some dirt."}, {"prompt": "Smell bar", "response": "Alcohol burns your nose, filling your head with a bubble of compressed laughter, clatter of glasses, spurting spigots--warm memories. Then it pops."}, {"prompt": "You tell Ramirez about the drug activity", "response": "Sergeant Ramirez snorts. \"Did you actually witness drug trafficking?\" he asks. When you shake your head, he sighs theatrically and goes back to his paperwork."}, {"prompt": "You examine the brown beans", "response": "Some brown beans. There's not much else to say about them."}, {"prompt": "You examine the coffee", "response": "The clouds in your cup form a sturdy oak. Botanical images mean that while there is much left to accomplish in the present situation, your immediate environment sustains you, and you have everything that you need."}, {"prompt": "You use the OINTMENT on the woman", "response": "The ROYAL PSI-WITCH accepts the OINTMENT with obvious interest, but after REGARDING it for only a moment, she looks disappointed and hands it back. \"I wonder,\" she says, \"if VESSA isn't very mistaken about your potential.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the map", "response": "The piece of paper is creased and dog-eared. One edge is badly charred. The lines and shapes drawn on the piece of paper are squirming and writhing. It's impossible to get any clear idea what they represent."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You move south.\nControl Room\nThe control is much as you remember it but more importantly it is light, so the power must still be on down here. In front of you is the main control panel and the glass window through to the test chamber.\nYou can go through the heavy metal door into the test chamber or back up the elevator cable."}, {"prompt": "You visit Staci", "response": "You have another in a seemingly endless series of deligtful days with Staci, just chilling on the co-op porch swing and talking with whatever friends wander by.\nThe Scholar arrives."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "This looks like a meeting table, but there's only one chair next to it.\nOn the long table are a stack of maps, a crumpled list, some minutes, a cashbox and a collection of restaurant menus.\nBrother Stantz yells: \"I think the first thing we should accomplish is the election of a new chair!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the pen", "response": "The pen is itself exactly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gold panel", "response": "The upper part of the shiny panel frames a thin, horizontal window of glass. Beneath the window is a dial. A word, written in fancy calligraphy, is visible in the window: \"Dancer\"."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A large, rectangular machine takes up most of the space in this corner of the laboratory. It looks like it could be used to mix ingredients and make evil concoctions, or not-so-evil depending on the mood. There is a control panel on the machine's side, with an open compartment on top. Unfortunately, there are no helpful labels to describe any functions. A crack in the floor extends to the south. The laboratory continues to the south and west."}, {"prompt": "You enter the water", "response": "You approach the SLUICE at the far end of the CAVERN, where the waters run swift, and once again you find yourself sucked into icy darkness! But only a moment later, you are flying through the air in a sparkling spray of water and evening sunlight! And then landing hard on the ground! Ouch!\nA high WATERFALL cascades down from a mountain ridge above, foaming and roaring into a broad POOL of clean water. The result is a brilliant PRISMATIC SPRAY. The setting is very peaceful.\nSwimming in the crystalline POOL is a MAGIC FISH, chasing glittering insects that hover near the water's surface."}, {"prompt": "You look up the necromicon on the register", "response": "(in the dog-eared register)\nYou don't find that name on the register."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You suddenly bolt for the roof edge and freedom! With a graceful Grande Jete', you succeed, alighting daintily on the street below. Looking around, you realize that you are in a dark, featureless void with nothing substantial beneath your feet. Realizing that you have just gone outside the programed area of the game, you meekly climb back to \"Room 33 - Theater Roof\"\nThe afternoon sun bakes the theater roof. Looking over the sides, you see nothing but deserted streets in all directions. There is an open hatchway.\nYou see a rainsoaked page from some book lying on the roof."}, {"prompt": "You examine the vegetation", "response": "Patches of grass and vegetation grow in sparse clumps throughout the cleared space of the Hydro Corridor."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\nthe map\na waterproof case (open but empty)\nthe silver whistle (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You examine tooth", "response": "Poor tooth."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "You close the boat shed door."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "A gravel path starts here at the back door of the house, and marks a trail nearly overgrown by weeds and briars. It disappears into the undergrowth to the northwest, framed by crooked trees with overhanging branches that seem to form a stunted, jagged archway into the dim recesses of the forest."}, {"prompt": "You wear the gear", "response": "(first taking the arctic gear)\nYou put on the perturbed arctic gear.\nThere is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack."}, {"prompt": "You examine the salad", "response": "Little more than wilted lettuce leaves and vinegar, the salad looks like is was picked at slightly, and then discarded. Nice way to spend twelve bucks."}, {"prompt": "You examine the blue", "response": "It's a famous design, with an inside pocket."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"Hmm,\" says Mary. \"D'you know, I don't think so? I already know exactly how my brain and body'll react to colours, you see, as I know everything about them. Is there anything more to it than that? I suppose it'll be nice to get some experimental confirmation, though.\"\n[1] Er . . . but you still don't know is what it's like to experience colours, do you?\n[2] Er . . . but, for example, you wouldn't know that a red apple was red, would you?\n[3] OK . . . but what if the first thing you saw was something unexpected? Like something that wasn't coloured the way it should be? Wouldn't that trick you, as you hadn't experienced it before?\n[4] I don't understand any of this. I think I'll go."}, {"prompt": "Dig", "response": "What do you want to dig in?"}, {"prompt": "Dream office couch", "response": "Trying to recall something from waking life in your dream is like trying to recall a dream in waking life."}, {"prompt": "You look at the key", "response": "(the gilded key)\nA gilded key."}, {"prompt": "Space", "response": "[Please press a key to continue]\n\"I have lost contact with the simian-hunters,\" said Maerr. \"They are either killed or free.\"\nThe hairs rose on Science Master Esrrua's neck, and for the first time, he detected a faint smell of fear on himself. \"No!\" he said. \"Not when the experiment is almost ready! Begin extraction!\"\nMaerr keyed in a sequence on his control panel, and said, \"Extraction begun.\" Then his head whipped towards the door, ears at full alert.\n\"Outside the door, Science Master Esrrua,\" he said. \"I hear something.\"\nEpisode 3:\nLUMINOUS HORIZON\nThis is a small, sterile room, about the size of a walk-in closet. The floor here seems to be made of bare rock. You're facing a doorway blocked by a smooth sheet of grey polymer. Behind you is a transport tube entrance.\nEmily stands a few feet away from you, looking fierce."}, {"prompt": "Turn wheel", "response": "You squeeze your eyes shut and throw your weight into it. You can feel the wheel shifting, moving faster...\nLimbs scratch at reality's seams. Eyes push through the stonework. Teeth float through the air, gnashing, approaching."}, {"prompt": "Spin detector", "response": "The detector produces one low thud, indicating one unattained codebook in this specific location, and two high whistles, indicating two additional unattained codebooks in this region of the compound."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), a blast tab, a radio module, a timer, a minilamp, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter).\nThe footsteps seem to be approaching."}, {"prompt": "You give Donald to Danny", "response": "Danny takes Donald Duck and drops the sheet."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the engine", "response": "Tyrone scratches his head. \"I guess I don't know nothin' 'bout that.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na zorkmid coin\nan indigo vial\nan issue of Popular Enchanting\nan orange vial\na magic amulet (being worn)\na calendar (providing light)\nan ochre vial\na spell book (providing light)"}, {"prompt": "You take the krater of the East", "response": "You give the krater you're after a tug, but it's lodged under quite a few other kraters, which does not exactly make for stable footing, and your efforts to dislodge it lead instead to dislodging yourself, in an arse-over-teakettle sort of way. You dust yourself off, with no-one having seen your bloomer on the plus side, but also no krater to show for it on the minus side."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na Kowalski's bag (weakened)\na Baby Ruth wrapper\na filthy pillow\na kippah (being worn)\na latex glove (being worn)\na flashlight\na hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn)\nAnd you're all greased up."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "Can you honestly say you're above all this? Ross, you're an idiot."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are wearing white robes and carrying a shepherd's crook and a flail.\nYou are becoming aware of a burning sensation in your chest."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The Troll is chasing after you!\nYou hear the crashing sound of waves in your ears. White gulls wheel and play in the sky above, and you can taste the salt-spray on your lips. Pebbles crunch beneath your feet as you move. You can see the ruins of an old stone lighthouse to the south. There is a wasteland of sand dunes to the north, and forest trees to the east.\nYou can go north (towards wasteland), south (towards a lighthouse) or east (towards trees).\nYou can see a huge Troll with a club here."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The tiny closet is dank and has a strange smell. It is unfinished;\nin many places unadorned sheetrock and insulation show. The only light in the room comes from the open door to the east. Above you hang a bare bulb and a pull cord."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the town square", "response": "(Bethany about that)\n\"I'm sorry,\" Bethany says, \"I have auditory processing disorder, and the syllables I just heard you say were 'Charles Bingadocio'."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "A single bulb dangling from the ceiling casts a watery, yellow light against the brick walls. A rickety staircase to the north leads back up to the ground floor, and two narrow doorways lead into the record archives. Over the southeast door hangs a sign that reads \"BIRTH RECORDS\", while the southwest door bears the sign \"DEATH RECORDS\"."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "In the distance, you hear Big Ben strike the hour.\nUpper Thames Street runs east and west between the Embankment and Lower Thames Street.\nYour assistant drifts along after you."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Scissors/Fire\nA kid dressed as Marty McFly mopes here.\nMcFly thinks how it'll be so cool to own a DeLorean when he grows up."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nState Street (on Lunar Lightning)\nThe downtown and campus are focused on this pedestrian-only open air shopping mall. Dozens of shops and throngs of pedestrians create a big-city feel for a few blocks. The proximity of the large state university campus means the crowd is quite young, and weekend nights are often a mix of the charming antics of local eccentrics with less charming rowdy sophomoric intoxication. The Miffyland neighborhood is south, the Capitol is east, and the lakeshore residential neighborhood is north. Notable shops are northwest and southwest.\nYou try not to stare as a strikingly attractive stranger walks by."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "(first unlocking the street door with the small brass key, then opening the street door)\nThis short cul-de-sac is noticeably less well lit than the main road just to the east; although the bright moonlight compensates for this somewhat, parts of the street lie in mysterious shadow. At its western end, the street terminates at the railway line, along the side of which lie a large number of loose stones. Just short of the tracks the block of flats where she lives stands on the south side of the street."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You manage to pry the doors open, breaking only one fingernail in the process.\nAs you walk through, the doors slide closed behind you."}, {"prompt": "Wood", "response": "Nothing happens.\nA gnawing hunger is wracking your body. An icy chill grasps your stomach."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Do you have any advice for me?\"\n...\n......Don't die.\n1) \"Thank you for your help.\""}, {"prompt": "You enter the pipe", "response": "(the outflow pipe)\nYou don't really feel like crawling head first into a smelly, filthy, pitch black sewer pipe."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[\"Let's write some poetry!\"]\n\"All right, let's start with something simple.\" Traudl clears her throat and recites. \"The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!\"\n1) \"Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!\"\n2) \"My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness.\" 3) \"The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!\"\n4) \"Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts.\""}, {"prompt": "You cut the roses with the knife", "response": "In order to make any headway, you would still have to be in rather undesirable proximity to the sharp poky bits of the rose bushes."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "A large, rather damp room. A long stone table is its primary feature. A heavy door stands a little ajar at the north end of the room, as though someone were just going through it when they disappeared. The corridor is to the west.\nOn the stone table are a copper cauldron (in which is an icy potion) and a potions book."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na glass of water\na glass of soda\na suitcase, closed, containing a maintenance uniform, a professor costume, a black and white feather, a banker costume, and a waiter costume\nAn up-and-coming socialite enters the room and stands in awe of Ms. Hogg's presence. After trying to engage you all in small talk, the visitor leaves."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You swim westward.\nFlooded Chamber, Deep Underwater\nYou are in the chamber's northwest corner. Clouds of sand burst\nupward as your swimming disturbs the sediment that has gathered over the centuries.\nResting upon the sandy floor you see a silver helm."}, {"prompt": "You put the cup in the contraption", "response": "You put the cup into the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "You put the chicken liver in the canister", "response": "Bam! The canister chokes, sputters, and then wheezes--you see a mist arise from it and vanish. It coughs out a combined glop that can only be described as LIVERS. Then it wheezes and seems to die."}, {"prompt": "You open the blue jar", "response": "Opening a container of sea-salt while it is in the sack seems like an invitation to disaster."}, {"prompt": "You examine the map", "response": "The piece of paper is creased and dog-eared. One edge is badly charred. The lines and shapes drawn on the piece of paper are squirming and writhing. It's impossible to get any clear idea what they represent."}, {"prompt": "You look at the man", "response": "Joel Sweeney, unlike his statue, is an impressive figure; a handsome man of forty or so, his hair almost completely white."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "Choose a topic (0-2) > 2\n\"Are you still working with Mr. Wattman in the Guild?\"\n\"Yes,\" he replies.\n\"And that's enjoyable?\"\n\"It's good exercise.\" Having run out of things to say after such a long sentence, he falls silent.\n0) (Leave.)\n1) Anxious about the interview?\n2) How's the Guild?"}, {"prompt": "You look behind the counter", "response": "What do you know. They are indeed fine Italian leather imports.\n\"Whoa, keep your eyes on the prize!\" The pale man directs your gaze upwards.\nYour evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it out the door. \"Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen the mall!\" Deplorable."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You're standing in a strange, spherical room. The walls seem to\nglow with pale, bright shades of purple and blue - your lamp is not needed here. The curving floor and walls feel like slick metal underfoot, and you're having some difficulty maintaining your balance. Round tunnels, made from the same strange purple-blue metal, run north, south, east, and west. [10]  In the center of the floor is a small, round chute. It vanishes into darkness a few feet below the floor.\nYou see a steel key here."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\nThe chickens continue to peck at the scattered goat-feed."}, {"prompt": "You show the gun to Gina", "response": "Gina regards your gun with a skeptic's pair of eyes. \"Why would a doctor need a gun?\" she asks.\n\"We doctors need a lot of things,\" you answer meaningfully."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You return to the centre of the dimly-lit hall that runs east and west."}, {"prompt": "You look at nasty Key", "response": "A large key, nearly the length of your hand, its teeth. . . well, a row of rotted, human teeth. Etched beneath the teeth, upon the shaft of the key, is a runic script.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "You take the mirror", "response": "They're hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Front Stairs (on the personal float unit)\nThe Embassy proper is directly west. The entrance is flanked by orange trees, familiar and earthly.\nFrom the top of the Front Stairs you have an excellent view of the whole interior of the Solarium, the sunlight catching in the curved triangular panes of glass.\nEast, at the bottom of the stairs, is the mirror-glass of the pool. Beyond it the botanical garden has a structure invisible from the inside."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "I am carrying:\na cue ball\na rather thin blanket\na bearskin rug (being worn)\nan antimacassar\na packet of frozen pork chops\na mousetrap (which is open)\na dead mouse\na wedge of cheese\na matchbox\na spoon\na gigantic bowl of just-right porridge\na crumpled note\na small packet (which is open but empty)\na pair of gardening gloves\na trowel\nsome sticks of dynamite\na ratty old paintbrush\na pair of secateurs\nan overripe pumpkin\na broken bottle\na wristwatch (being worn)\na \"distressed\" Laura Ashley dress (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You open the fridge", "response": "That seems like a monumentally unwise idea. The last time you opened the fridge, you ended up spending a week in the hospital and lost all memories for thirty-six hours before and after the event. But hey, if"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, east, and back to the west."}, {"prompt": "You go home", "response": "You let your nose lead the way.\nThe scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Ominous clouds of dust loom on the ever-darkening horizon.\nOPERATIONS -> SELECT : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You search the bodies", "response": "\"Too many.. in a such a mess... don't think there's anything there..\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You have arbitrarily decided that this corridor is south, because you fancy it. A cross-shaped arrow-slit lights your way; you can just glimpse the terrifying drop to the moat below.\nYou can see a Set4 here.\nYour antics fail to amuse the Veil, which is beginning to creep up on you in an unpleasantly personal sort of way. You're starting to worry about it. In a professional sort of way.\nThe Veil arrives from the north."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You have a pair of shorts (being worn), a bathing suit (being worn), a scuba mask, a crowbar, a white rubber strap, and a shrimp.\nThe pocket of your shorts seems to contain some money and your passcard.\nThe crowbar is joined to the shrimp by the white rubber strap."}, {"prompt": "You pour the gas in the tank", "response": "Which gas do you mean, the dark gas, or the clear gas?"}, {"prompt": "You get all Bread", "response": "rock hard biscuit: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nYou move the empty pans from the oven to the work table.\n\"A loaf of bread, please!\" requests the purple robed citizen.\n[6:07 pm:0|992736]  MysticMegan95 : Job?\n[6:07 pm:0|994027]  wrathofdog: BEST OFFER FOR  Shrinking Bracers of the Hampster\n[6:07 pm:0|994124]  JAiken: Anyone selling   50 Spaghetti Strands of the Devil\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery.\nLegolas31 goes north."}, {"prompt": "You stand", "response": "Reluctantly, you do so.\nThe master bedroom is a picture-postcard of rustic New England charm. Faded sketches of rural landscapes adorn the walls; a beautifully carved dressing mirror stands in one corner; an old-fashioned accordion radiator gurgles quietly beneath the window. The most striking feature, an enormous, antique, four-poster bed, must be the largest piece of furniture in the house. Doorways lead west and south.\nYour clothes lie in an untidy pile on the floor.\nYour trenchcoat is here.\nMichael's pants are draped across the foot of the bed.\nYou can also see your umbrella, a keyring (on which are two keys (a key to the house and a key to the cellar)) and a lantern here."}, {"prompt": "You get the receiver cord", "response": "You already have the receiver!\nThe beeping and humming coming from the cockpit panel is driving you nuts. Every light and display is indicating a problem with the plane; one look out the window and you can figure that out all by yourself."}, {"prompt": "You examine the drik", "response": "You have no idea where the name \"drik\" came from; so far as you know that's what it's been called for centuries. The drik is a multipurpose device that's issued to all Legion officers as standard. Despite the natives' dislike of modern technology, this is one item you're not prepared to go without - it was drummed into you at the Legion Training School that a Legion Officer's drik is an integral part of his uniform, never to be lost or surrendered under any circumstances.\nThe drik is vaguely dagger-shaped, with a black handle, on which are four small coloured studs, and a slightly longer \"blade\", a flat plastimetal strip that is not actually sharp enough to cut anything.\nThe drik has one further function in addition to that provided by its four studs: although you're unlikely to encounter much strange technology on Elysium, if you do encounter something you're suspicious of, pointing your drik at it may reveal something about its function.\n\"I hope this isn't going to take too long, sir,\" the pilot remarks, \"The sooner we're out of here the happier I shall be!\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You're not sure which direction is which. This room is very disorienting.\nThis is the southern end of a formal garden. Hedges hide the cavern walls and mosses provide dim illumination. Fantastically shaped hedges and bushes are arrayed with geometric precision. They have not recently been clipped, but you can discern creatures in the shapes of the bushes: There is a dragon, a unicorn, a great serpent, a huge misshapen dog, and several human figures. On the west side of the garden the path leads through a rose arbor into a tunnel."}, {"prompt": "You look at the notch", "response": "It is a small, rectangular recess cut into the stone lid."}, {"prompt": "You examine terminal", "response": "The faintly lit screen glows an eeiry green. The screen reads: ---U.S.E.F. INTREPID TERMINAL LOG---\nDay 17: I couldnt take it anymore. The crew...sleeping in their chambers wouldn't stop screaming in my head. I killed them. I killed all the ones who accused me with thier eyes, may god have mercy on my soul. But I... I was so hungry... something is wrong with me... maybe it was the water, maybe... This bulge on my neck wont stop growing.\nIt feels like it's shooting tendrils through my body... and the dreams!\nDay 20: I'm in hell. I crashed the ship and this is hell. The nightmares that plague me last into my waking hours. The Captain is my own personal tormentor...mocking me from his throne. I'm locking the bridge...I dont want the Captain to follow me...."}, {"prompt": "Open contraption", "response": "You open the contraption, revealing some andouillettes."}, {"prompt": "You look at the chair", "response": "They're for waiting patients to sit on."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bell", "response": "It bears the stamp of a lamplighter."}, {"prompt": "GEORGE, ,EXAMINE KEYS", "response": "You shout, \"George, tell me about Mr. Lewis's keys.\"\nGeorge shouts through the door, \"That's a whole lot of keys.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about van", "response": "\"Hello, Tyrone,\" you say.\n\"Hello again,\" he says. \"How you gettin' along, now?\"\nYou ask Tyrone what he's doing with the van. \"Oh, somethin' or other's always goin' wrong with it,\" he says obscurely. \"Carburetor, most likely. I'll have it fixed up by tomorrow, time these folks is ready to leave.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Inside the Trailer\nWhen Limbs Fall Off\nThe Pines and the Old Yellow Dog\nThe Pack of Wild Dogs\nThe Nun\nThe Schoolchildren\nCars\nFlashbacks\n> The Diner\nWhat do I do with these items?\nAm I stuck?\nSelect\n> How do I get inside the diner?\nHow do I get inside without being eaten by dogs?\nI got inside, but I got trapped by children!\nHow do I get the jukebox to work?\nHow does the generator work?\nHow do I get to the generator?\nI can't open the back door.\nWhat do I do in the freezer?\nHow do I keep anyone from following me into the freezer?\nHow do I get rid of the key?\nI'm safe and cold, but what do I do now?"}, {"prompt": "You continue on the the path", "response": "You continue onwards, and the path becomes littered with fallen planks. You find yourself scurrying over and under them more often than walking. Not at all the way you are used to traveling. And just before you can bear the journey no longer, you come to stand before a giant peacock plume sprouting from a magnificent black hat the size of a house. It is resting on its side, the top of which faces you.\n\"We're here,\" says Athena.\nA lilting tenor echoes off the surrounding planks. \"Oh! Athena dearest? My sweet sweet sweet savior. Is that you?\"\n\"Yes, Mr Mighty, and I have brought the boy,\" she replies.\n\"Splendid! Up up up! Let me have a look-see!\"\nAthena motions in the direction of the hat. Up up up, it seems."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes...\nThe automaton patrols the room, looking for trash."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nYou feel a gusting current from the tunnel as a train clatters into the station. The doors open and fish push and shove each other as they get on and off."}, {"prompt": "You take the backpack", "response": "That's someone's property. Better not do much more than look."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "As you start in that direction, suddenly half a dozen human skeletons rise up out of the water, grinning. No, a dozen of them. No, twenty. The skeletons stalk toward you, brandishing long sharp knives! You lurch away from them, and lose your footing and nearly fall into the water. You scramble backward toward the door, whimpering, crying, \"No, no, please....\"\nWith a dry clacking sound like sticks falling in a heap, the skeletons and their wicked knives vanish. The interior of the shed is peaceful again."}, {"prompt": "You look at the elephant", "response": "There's a look almost beseeching in his grave eyes, as though he lived to old age at a proper size, and then only at the end was reduced to this sad state."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dish", "response": "A china dish shows off an exquisite specimen of butter, round from the butter mold and stamped with your signature imprint of a flower.\nWith all the labor that goes into making butter, you feel a twinge of regret that you're sacrificing it to lure a thief, and on a beautiful dish passed down from your grandparents, to boot. But you're determined to find out who has been stealing your butter, and why.\nYou hear a cow lowing outside--unusual for this time of night. Something must have startled Millicent."}, {"prompt": "Light lantern", "response": "You really should take it out of your pocket first."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "clean up intent: I extract the clean up intent from the bellhop.\nThe bellhop stands near the entrance, looking nervous."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shack", "response": "The shack is small, old, and in poor repair."}, {"prompt": "You talk to LOGAN", "response": "LOGAN://\"This is the main control room for the commanding crew. It is now unavailable due to damage sustained. Time has put too much\nof a burden on the delicate instruments.\""}, {"prompt": "Close well", "response": "(the village well)\nYou carefully reposition the cover over the well."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This room is mostly empty space. The farthest wall is lined with gleaming, brass pull-file drawers and seems to go on infinitely in every direction. The entrance to the west opens onto a solid, dusty platform, which allows visitors to stand suspended above the unseen floor.\nAt the end of the platform lies a pedestal topped with a small, inverted onyx pyramid.\nTriage trundles patiently along beside."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "rope: Dropped.\nsword: Dropped.\nglass bottle: Dropped.\nbrown sack: Dropped.\npainting: Dropped.\nbrass lantern: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You put the blank in the keypunch", "response": "(the keypunch)\nYou put the blank punch card into the keypunch card slot."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Kingfisher", "response": "I suppose I shouldn't delay the inevitable. One of us is going to have to say something, and Kingfisher's still just starting at me blankly.\n\"Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Agama,\" I say, suppressing my revulsion and giving him a polite nod and an alias.\n\"I'm part of a delegation assisting with some exercises in the area, and our treaties require that I meet to inform you of my presence here.\" I can cite regulations for my purpose.\n\"Of course,\" says Kingfisher, with unctuous contempt oozing through\nhis voice. He continues reading from the script both our sides have memorized. \"On behalf of both my organization and myself, let me formally extend my greeting to you. This is a neutral area with unaligned humans, and I'm sure that we can put aside the differences between our two organizations and work peaceably together here.\"\n\"Of course,\" I agree tepidly.\n\"On behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven, let me express my gratitude for your diligence in proactively reaching out to us and keeping us in the loop on these developments. We are, of course, always happy to grow\nour organizations' ability to work together and avoid any breakdowns\nin communication that might negatively impact our security.\"\n\"Of course,\" I say again. It's not like Kingfisher's listening to me anyway.\nHe continues with the formal words of introduction our diplomats have worked out in countless meetings over countless centuries. \"And, going forward, I'm sure we can achieve a productive synergy with what common interests we have and align our values to vector toward a mutually beneficial working relationship.\"\nI nod, because there's not really any response to that.\n\"As we build a roadmap to a peaceful resolution of our organizations' conflict, I hope that you will keep me informed of any further exercises or events that would add value to our mutual goal, as clarified by our extensive prior treaties and memoranda of understanding, of establishing a paradigm conducive to peace and prosperity.\"\nHaving given a desultory recitation of the required boilerplate, Kingfisher summarily retreats upstairs, probably to plan to do to the human world what he's done to language."}, {"prompt": "You enter the fireplace", "response": "You'll only get yourself covered in soot."}, {"prompt": "Light match", "response": "(first taking the book of matches)\n(slipping the long steel key into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken.\nOne of the matches starts to burn.\nYou are at the southern end of a long, narrow crawlway leading northward into the mill. All around you, through the metallic walls, you can hear the oppressive thumping and grinding of heavy machinery. The air in here is hot and smells of burnt engine oil.\nA large metal valve wheel juts out from the middle of one of the many fat, sweating pipes lining the walls. Just to its left is a gauge of some sort."}, {"prompt": "You put the sword in the swordstick", "response": "(first taking the sword)\n(putting the bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape into the sack to make room) Taken.\nYou put the sword into the swordstick."}, {"prompt": "You wear the suit", "response": "(first taking the protective suit)\nYou put on the protective suit."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tub", "response": "An enormous sunken tub, made of the same white marble as the rest of the room. It is surrounded by hundreds of gold-and-jewel taps; closest to you are an amethyst tap, a sapphire tap, and a pearl tap."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north.\nA weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway.\nYou can also see a steel door here.\nThe penguin waddles along."}, {"prompt": "You search the cupboards", "response": "Here we go, Thai peanut sauce. You slip it in to your pocket while the cooks aren't looking."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "You hear only the whispering wind murmuring soft secrets which, alas, you cannot understand.\nA little white snow sprite runs right by you carrying a large golden bell in both its hands over its head. It giggles and laughs mischievously, then does a few somersaults and disappears back into the snow."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "This room, with its modern sensibility yet also palpable feeling for the ancien regime, is unique in its elegant reflection of a confident, personal sense of style. The lines are lean and classic, the color is rich and distinctive.\nThe Louis XIV chair is plump, tufted, aristocratic -- it's styled with equal splashes of rococo and baroque. The piece definitely has charisma.\nAgainst the far wall is an heroically proportioned, Mediterranean-crafted, intricately inlaid, Pre-Raphaelite limestone mantelpiece, circa 1838.\nA marble staircase of grand proportions leads down."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shack", "response": "It's a tiny charred wooden shack."}, {"prompt": "GRAHAM, ,EXAMINE RIVER", "response": "Graham peers through my eyes...\nIt winds through the ravine, kind of a charcoal grey with all the runoff.\n...my eyes are my own again."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "Almost all gone now, though the labels still adhere to the racks, indicating where a '67 rested, or an '82, waiting to be taken up to the dining room.\nA grey-blue trap door stands open in the middle of the room.\nA closed grey-blue door leads north.\nA closed russet door leads east."}, {"prompt": "You examine the notes", "response": "The notes are a mess of incomprehensibly scrawled numbers; long printouts of technical data, tangled diagrams and complex formulae. Even if you had the slightest idea what all the calculations meant, the numbers are barely even legible.\nLifting up a sheet of cribbed equations, you notice what looks to be a general memo to all mill workers."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Leave me alone!\" you cry.\nBut they don't hear you. All they see is a rich stranger."}, {"prompt": "Discman", "response": "Okay. How about: an adjective for something old."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "You have a light wound, which will be cured after 4 moves.\nYou can be killed by a serious wound."}, {"prompt": "You examine the green figurine", "response": "The evil figurine is like the others you've seen - it's about six inches tall, and is carved from a stone so deep red it's almost black. The eyes glint green - and you have the disquieting sensation that they're actually staring at you. The figure's face is contorted with malevolence - the teeth bared, the eyes glaring, the tongue protruding."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nArdavaan raises the hood of the large vessel and releases Rasha who jumps inside. Then he lifts Farahnaaz and places her in the back seat. Farahnaaz's eyes close and her head drops to her chest.\nThe door is pushed open. Four watchmen rush in and call you to freeze. You wish you could have somehow delayed their coming... but too late. Ardavaan tells you to remain steady, and demands that you give him a weapon to distract them."}, {"prompt": "You examine Griffin", "response": "This animal is not a pleasant one to look at. It has a large head with sharp teeth, powerful claws and a projecting tail.\nHow they got an animal to look like that, you can't imagine. Its wings are moving, even. Is it an ostrich in a costume? It must be."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.\nA pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.\nIn one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales.\nAgatha, Mildred, Bart, Bub, Cob and Jim are housed here.\nGretchen is spending some time in The Box."}, {"prompt": "You look at the friend", "response": "Your best friend helped you stow away on this boat and also brought your dog along without telling you.\nYou are so hungry."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "You withdraw upward...\nYou clean the endoscope and put it in your pocket.\nThis upscale clinic exudes a muted elegance. Chrome fixtures are lit by surgically placed spotlights and underscored by dizzyingly intricate sigil-work.\nAn arch to the west leads back to the Turris Infinita foyer.\nExaminer Velox and his investigators are huddled around the bodies of Doctor Arturus, Creditor Nacarat, Sal, and Piper. Beside them, Justinian sits at a coffee table, brooding."}, {"prompt": "Close flap", "response": "You pull the flap back against its seals, closing yourself in the\ncage.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 2.\"\nThere is a choking sound. \"Trapped in the-- in--\" In all the hours you spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words."}, {"prompt": "You look under the table", "response": "It has seen a lot of use. Its heavy oak top has gouges from many a tool."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the lamp", "response": "That's funny, it doesn't seem to switch on... without magic."}, {"prompt": "You press 9 on remote", "response": "The television flicks to channel 9.\nStatic hisses from the television.\nThe video recorder is making a whirring sound."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "To the north, a gap in the crowded press of gloomy buildings opens onto a country lane, heading out over a grassy heath. The main street continues to the east, while to the northwest, over the top of a steep rise, you can just make out the vaulted rooftops of the university.\nMichael hurries to catch up."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You're in a dirty underground chamber. Cold tunnels wander away to the south, east and west."}, {"prompt": "You break the display case with the broom", "response": "Crash! You broke the display case open with the broom."}, {"prompt": "You examine Manifesto", "response": "You have this great work memorized word-for-word. Within can be found the greatest wisdom the world has yet produced."}, {"prompt": "You put the ball in the dragon", "response": "You can only fit one thing into the furnace at a time."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA torch (providing light)\nA glass bottle\nThe glass bottle contains:\nA quantity of water\nA matchbook\nA clove of garlic\nA brass lantern"}, {"prompt": "You watch", "response": "What do you want to watch?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the lock", "response": "The padlock is hanging from the hasp."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\nA jewel-encrusted egg\nA pile of leaves\nA leaflet"}, {"prompt": "You tell Luisa about the fuse", "response": "You ask Luisa whether she knows one of the fuses in the fuse box is burnt out. \"Oh, yeah,\" she says nonchalantly. \"Happens all the time. I'll fix it later.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at Alithedora", "response": "Scarred Palm, that infamous novel of Yvenne d'Abelune. The\nexpression on this copper statue captures not only Alithedora's mischievousness, but the sadness she took such pains to keep hidden.\nSo in that sense, the statue is not entirely accurate.\nAlithedora holds her walking stick loosely at her side."}, {"prompt": "You look at shapes", "response": "You're pretty sure you're still \"inside\" the Linguistics building."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Do you still love me?\" you ask. \"No,\" she says, but she doesn't sound so sure.\nToo bad you can't change anything that happened.\nAn enormous, long room with a flagstone floor, filled with four equally enormous tables. The linens on each table are of different colors: red, blue, yellow, and green. A fifth table with a large centrepiece in the middle - the head table - stands on a dais, perpendicular to the others. The entrance hall is to the west."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Could there have been a public house he especially frequented?\" you ask.\nZoiro frowns, and his ears stiffen.\n\"There could have,\" he says, \"now that you mention it. Something about a bird's nest... they sell the cheapest booze in the district, or so Reden used to say. I can't quite remember the name, though.\"\n1) \"Do you know anyone else that Reden associated with?\"\n2) \"That's all the questions I have regarding Reden...\""}, {"prompt": "You search the seaweed", "response": "You can\u2019t see anything in the seaweed."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The dusty shop is chock full of useless junk, or valuable antiques, depending on your point of view. Yours is the former.\nAn empty desk sits in the rear of the shop beneath a portrait of a pirate rat. The entrance to the south leads back to the street."}, {"prompt": "You look in the stand", "response": "The umbrella stand is empty."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Nothing remains to gird the balcony now you've nibbled its balustrade. A step over the edge would plunge a person downward into the courtyard.\nNorthward you could return indoors to the scriptorium."}, {"prompt": "You hold red button", "response": "That seems to be a part of the row of buttons."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe guard continues to play the slots, intent on the false allure of riches."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You are now in a middle-ish aisle in the audience area.\nYou see a small scrap of parchment with a secret written on it. (\non seat 86\n)"}, {"prompt": "You examine piece", "response": "Which piece do you mean, the dressing table, or the piece of paper?"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads north, back to cabin two."}, {"prompt": "Close case", "response": "You close the trophy case."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You arrive at a small cranny (or is it a nook? I never know) at the West side of the pit. You see, \"Our Secret Place\" inscribed above a small lens. Looking into it, you see nothing and decide it must be some sort of electric eye.\nA packrat has emerged from a crack in the wall"}, {"prompt": "You examine the omelettes", "response": "A proper egg hunt's a noble affair. You'd marvel at the spectacle. It's no mere traipse into the woods. No, it needs hounds and hunters in braces, and horns ringing over treetops, and there's always a valiant struggle when the eggs are driven from their nests. Once they've been cracked, their yolks make the most lovely rugs."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an outcropping nearby where you found the letter S.\nYou can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or you can follow the cliff edge to the north."}, {"prompt": "Drum", "response": "The drum-shaped mechanism is out at the southwest end of the catwalk."}, {"prompt": "Blow", "response": "You blow out the onion's tearjerking odor. It's smart enough to sting eyeballs nearby, prompt tear-ducts to commence weeping, but since there's no one here to cry, the fumes dissolve into the air."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The resting place of maidens who died before marrying those to whom they were engaged.\nThe Beast's thoughts intrude on yours, courtesy of the enchanted shoes: They died without marrying those to whom they were\nbetrothed, but not all died maidens. Impossible to tell the tenor\nof that particular thought. Not all of them are to my account, I hasten to add."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "You hear nothing unexpected.\nEnrico Caruso's voice sounds from the phonograph: \"The shit then hit the fan\""}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "Top Chef Kitchen is the focal point of the show, your home away from home. Well, technically, that would be the loft. This is your home away from home away from home. It's where the majority of challenges take place. When you first arrived, it was intimidating and awkward, but now that you've been here awhile -- and with half the cheftestants gone -- it's become reasonably comfortable.\nIn the \"center\" of the room (pretending for the moment that there is a fourth wall), there are a bunch of stations, each with some basic utensils, and a sink. Along one wall is a gleaming row of GE Monogram\u00ae ovens, scrubbed inside and out after every challenge to show the sponsor in the best possible light. Above them, the massive Top Chef logo looms. And as always, a bunch of Elves are here with their gear, all artfully hidden from the viewers. The pantry is to the west.\nFuriously prepping and cooking here are Andre, Violet, Stephen, Justin and Linh.\nPadma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio are chatting off-camera.\nA bunch of equipment is lined up on a rack near the gas range and grill: among many other things, there's some plates, a grater and a huge pressure cooker.\nYou can also see a table (on which are many tubs of sour cream) here."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Your enchanted sword luckily strikes the Troll and slays it...Time passes."}, {"prompt": "You tell the jesus about the wine", "response": "You tell Joshua how dry the party is getting, but he only shrugs. \"Not my problem, really. Clopas doesn't really need any more wine to have a good party, does he?\""}, {"prompt": "You read the labels", "response": "What do you want to read in?"}, {"prompt": "You memorize the thrale", "response": "You commit the thrale spell to memory."}, {"prompt": "You examine the eyepiece", "response": "A misshapen golden disc, studded with lenses. It looks like it could fit flush with your eye socket. On its surfaces are a round button, a triangular button, and a small rectangular slot.\nThe golden eyepiece (smelling faintly of mildew) is currently switched off.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the gps", "response": "0: Say nothing.\n1: \"Location: HOME\"\n2: \"Location: TACO FLACO\"\n3: \"Location: HANGAR 22.\""}, {"prompt": "You get the ferns", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You put the pumpkin in the peaches jar", "response": "(the disgusting rotting pumpkin in the jar of peaches (smelling faintly of mildew))\n(first taking the disgusting rotting pumpkin)\nYou succeed only in coating your arms in pumpkin goo.\nYou have an irrational urge to climb inside the jar of peaches (smelling faintly of mildew)."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "The text is too long to read, but you get the sense of it quickly. It is an order from the King: the traitor the Baron D'Envers, otherwise the heir through primogeniture of the estate of the Count, is prevented from the enjoyment of that inheritance, though for unnamed reasons he is not to be executed.\nThe text goes on to add that these matters are to be kept private, but that Marie is female heir effective to the Count's line, with all the rights and honors preserved, and that anyone she marries, regardless of background, will become rightful Count."}, {"prompt": "Aft", "response": "Node 4: Aft, Port\nWhile some of the station's science experiments are still here, many of them vanished along with the rest of Node 4. The port wall is filled with racks of equipment and inset storage compartments. The damage is extensive near the aft ragged edges where the station now ends. From here the escape pod is fore and the sleeping racks are starboard.\nThe floor underneath you has a large crack in it."}, {"prompt": "You read the Guide", "response": "... from the region of Avignon, in the territories that belonged\nto the Pope, comes the peppery red Chateauneuf du Pape...\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "Spin wheel", "response": "You give the wheel a spin. It lands on a space marked \"Free Drink.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the parking lot", "response": "You head on over, leaving your car parked on Summit Ave.\nThis is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west.\nThere's a puddle of dirty water here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "This is a dusty stone courtyard to the library of Castronegro. A sad excuse for a park is to the north and the street corner is to the west. The library's door is to the southeast. You can cross the street to the northwest.\nA chill wind blows; the only sign of winter you've felt here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mask", "response": "This is the leather mask that you liked to wear while you tortured your prisoners. Painted on it there is a horrible skull, which makes it even more frightful.\n\"Think well to what wish to make\" says Praseidimio. \"As you know, we demons are very powerful and we don't like to be disturbed for trifles.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "I could see the bucket of water again on the kitchen's floor. Behind, Rose's dissolved image was coming from the opposite side. She looked so different this time... decades older. Her golden hair turned into a silver untidy mane. She kneeled before the bucket and aimed her arm as if to pick it up. I screamed again:\n\"No, Rose! Don't drink from it!\"\n...and, for a few seconds, she looked directly to where I was, her eyes loaded with such vast, infinite sadness, as if she had been roaming the house for an eternity trying in vain to find an escape... all hope lost. She stared at me so firmly I hadn't a chance to notice she had grabbed the bucket and moved it to her mouth. She drunk the liquid inside it without hesitation. In a moment, her body softly fell without a sound, without a sign of pain. When I reacted, she was lying as a broken doll. When I reached her, she was no longer there...\nWas that our true destiny? Had I foreseen the way it all would definitively end for us... for her?\nI was in the kitchen.\nThere were exits north, south, to the breakfast room, and west, to the corridor.\nI could see a crumpled piece of paper there."}, {"prompt": "You search bottles", "response": "There are dozens of bottles here. You glance over the rows, but nothing jumps out at you as immediately odd."}, {"prompt": "You read", "response": "Which file do you want to read.\nPROJECT - NOTE - STORE - EQUIPMENT\nOr QUIT to exit to COMMAND level\nTime 14:43: #"}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You climb down to opposite the ledge.\nYour eyes are drawn to a flicker of light off the sea. Squinting,\nyou see a man swimming to shore, moonlight flashing off his hook."}, {"prompt": "Note 6", "response": "[6]: This means, bizarrely enough, that there are twenty-nine knights, not twenty-seven as you might expect. In the old Russian tales, people would always travel \"across three times nine lands to the thirtieth tsardom.\" Evidently, the old Russians were not big on math."}, {"prompt": "You say the tango to the transmitter", "response": "(the voice transmitter)\nThe scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine begins within it."}, {"prompt": "You cut the easel", "response": "Cutting that would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You tell Leela  about Anita", "response": "\"Is that right?\" she asks."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone,  to go west", "response": "You say, \"Tyrone, I need you to go through the hole into Mrs. McCaskill's room.\"\nTyrone climbs carefully over the rubble-strewn table and out through the gap in the wall."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The only obvious exits are down the stairs and the small door labeled \"EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY\"."}, {"prompt": "You hit jewel", "response": "[punch jewel]\nWho do you think you are, Mike Tyson?"}, {"prompt": "You go upwards", "response": "You painstakingly climb out of the old well.\nBeyond the south wall of the old slaughterhouse, there is nothing but a tangled thicket so dense as to be impenetrable in every direction except to the north, where you can slip back into the ruined slaughterhouse through a hole in the wall.\nRising from the midst of the underbrush is a squat circle of stone: the top of an ancient well.\nA rotting circle of plywood leans against the side of the well.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You look in the canister", "response": "You can't see inside, since the canister is closed.\nYou hear a crashing, thumping sound from above, and jump out of the way. No one falls, though, and in a moment it becomes clear that one of the parrots was imitating the sound of your galumphing descent through the rainforest vegetation."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "There are many great menageries in the plains: the Swinery, the Pleasure Gardens of Leaguer Mel, Eyefort Maze... this is not one of them. Confessor Destine has little taste in either selection or arrangement. The open bone door leads east.\nUnfortunately, most of the 'menagerie' is made up of stuffed exhibits. You get the impression that the Confessor liked the idea of having a menagerie more than he liked the idea of actually owning and caring\nfor live animals.\nFirst the visitor is greeted by a pile of hay in an empty stall, where the pellucid llama once lived.\nThen they see a worried looking bird mumbling to itself in a cage.\nFinally, at the back of the room, they see a glass chamber swarming with shiny black beetles."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Question 5:\nWhat is the speed limit in a Residential Zone?\nA. 17\nB. 23\nC. 27\nD. 43\nE. 59"}, {"prompt": "You open the cage", "response": "But the bird cage is already open."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards.\nYou can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs up and west from here."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You take a deep breath and enter, suppressing your distaste.\nYou're crouched in a square crawlspace, barely broader than the width of your shoulders. The absence of light makes things particularly unpleasant.\nThere's a ferocious rumbling at the northernmost (and lowest) end of the crawlspace, where, you imagine, something very large is rotating."}, {"prompt": "Smell", "response": "The faintest trace of the animal hangs in the air. It seems stronger near the crack ahead."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "So-called even though the only thing they really do around here is throw stuff at people. Also, they work better hours than you. In other words, everyone's gone home for the day.\nA largeish contraption points south.\nA banana rests on the floor nearby. Someone's lunch, no doubt."}, {"prompt": "You examine people", "response": "A wide variety of shady people occupy the bar."}, {"prompt": "You enter the burrow", "response": "The burrow is blocked by a large rabbit. It stares at you calmly. It's quite unthreatening, but it's still not letting you in.\nOne rabbit chases another a few metres."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The Cafe is normally a busy, boisterous place, but midterms have brought a horde of students swarming in to lay waste to the land, purchasing practically everything on the large wire racks and in the refrigerated containers, and otherwise reducing the number of objects which must be implemented in this game. Only the arcade games in the corner and the geeky drawings on the walls bear witness to the Cafe's previous glory.\nA surly cashier sits beside the cash register, studying for her midterms."}, {"prompt": "You give the balloon to the hedgehog", "response": "The hedgehog starts playing delightedly with the balloon. Whee.\nThe hedgehog starts to sing:\nDoop de dooooooo,\nIt's a round life for meeeeee!\nWe're roly and poly\nAnd hedgyhogoly,\nA life in the hedge is for meeeeee!"}, {"prompt": "You take all from safe", "response": "puzzle box: (slipping the umbrella into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou remove the puzzle box from the safe. It's roughly the size and shape of a cigar box, carved from some dark and oddly streaked wood that you can't identify. All six surfaces are decorated in a complex arrangement of grooves and panels, most of which are illustrated with leering, demonic faces and obscene designs. As far as you can tell, it is in fact a box, and meant to be opened; however, you see no obvious way to do so.\nstrange metal flute: (slipping the flashlight into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou remove the strange metal flute from the safe. It appears to be some kind of wind instrument, fashioned out of ornately carved, greenish metal. Seven holes of varying sizes are drilled along the top."}, {"prompt": "Bite guard", "response": "Desperately, you try and bite the guard's hand. You manage to get the side of his hand between your teeth and sink them in. The guard curses loudly, pulling his hand back, and the attention focuses on you.\nAngrily, the injured villager shoves you off the platform. You fall two or three feet, suspended in mid-air by the rope around your neck.\nShoving the Elder aside, Aten runs to you and quickly cuts you loose. You try to say something, but only manage a croak before the shaman shouts something on the top of his lungs.\nYou and Aten watch in horror as as the villagers fall to the ground, and rise as wolves!\nAs you turn and flee blindly towards the ship, you hear the screams of poor Gerhardsen behind you as he is being torn to shreds..."}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "Daniel shows up with a sign which proclaims 'Best Spring Ever!' There is plenty of clutter to be cleared, and he accomplishes a lot in a few hours. You agree to keep him visiting on a regular schedule, and pay him generously.\nThis is a modest one story house, cluttered by a decade of being lived in. Bookshelves line the walls. Your Plan 9 terminal is here, connected to the grid servers downstairs. There is a sign on the wall which says 'Best Spring Ever!' A few trinkets from Astral Enchantments are scattered about. Your dark wooden upright piano has a collection of Schumann's music open on the music rack.\nYou can see a Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap, the Artemis prints, some bookshelves, a terminal and a piano here."}, {"prompt": "Swim", "response": "Go jump in a lake!"}, {"prompt": "You put the slippers in the furnace", "response": "(first taking them off)\nYou take off the slippers.\nYou put the slippers into the furnace."}, {"prompt": "You look at the fruit", "response": "The fruit is of a rosy golden hue, like a peach, and as globular as an orange. Whatever it is, it looks delectable."}, {"prompt": "You take the bottle", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "Road", "response": "You trudge along and get there...\nA wooden cart sits in the dusty road here."}, {"prompt": "You examine patch", "response": "The patch is one of the new \"peel and stick\" patches. No adhesives or matches required."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A humble WELL provides a centerpiece for this quiet place, surrounded by farmland providing food for the port town to the west. To the north, the shadow of the SLAVER KING'S CASTLE blots out part of the evening sky, but there's no path there from here.\nYou can see a VOLTAIC WRAITH here.\nThe VOLTAIC WRAITH unleashes twin arcs of STATIC IRE! You have suffered 11 hits of damage!"}, {"prompt": "You eat", "response": "What do you want to eat?"}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.\nYou hear a sound coming from the west."}, {"prompt": "You look at the insects", "response": "You lean in to take a close look. They're too tiny to see much detail, but there are hundreds of them zipping around the tall spires. They seem to be crustaceans. Or maybe some kind of insect. In any case, they have six legs. Or maybe eight. Call yourself crazy, but it looks like some of them are carrying grains of sand. You lean in further, and on closer inspection are able to confirm your theory. Then, right before your eyes, a small cluster of mites carries a bit of shiny something, perhaps a speck of broken glass, into the castle. They bring it to the very top of the tallest spire. Somehow, they melt down the shiny fragment and assimilate into the castle. Perhaps it's just your imagination, but you'd swear there was a miniscule plume of smoke curling about the spire."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Rather annoyingly, Anna trails along behind you like a guilty conscience.\nThe kitchen is dim and smoky and cluttered, the result of the chaos of preparing for the wedding, currently underway in the courtyard to the south. In the northeast corner, the door to the garden stands wide open, in the hopes of letting in some cool air. Down some steps to the west is the winery.\nYou can see Little Orphan Anna and Amos here."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Couriers rush in and out."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northwest", "response": "You enter the New York Building and wander through the many fine exhibits, past signatures from the signers of the Declaration of Independence, past Washington relics, and arrive at last, on the second floor, at a sumptuous banquet hall, decorated with gold. You leave the building marvelling at the wealth the state has presented."}, {"prompt": "You take the check book", "response": "Taken.\nThe taxicab disappears into the traffic."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This small building seems to house the ventilation system for the prison below, judging by the ventilators on top and the annoying \"woop woop\" sound. A metal door leads inside.\nAn ashtray stands besides the door. On the ashtray is a smoking cigarette and a lottery ticket.\nThere is a trap here .\nMarius arrives from the south."}, {"prompt": "You put all in the bag", "response": "storeroom photograph: You put the storeroom photograph into the workbag.\nbedroom photograph: You put the bedroom photograph into the workbag.\nscrewdriver: You put the screwdriver into the workbag.\ntorn note: You put the torn note into the workbag.\nwork folder: You put the work folder into the workbag.\nbusiness card: You put the business card into the workbag.\nnewspaper: You put the newspaper into the workbag.\ncrowbar: You put the crowbar into the workbag.\nwallet: You put the wallet into the workbag.\nblanket: You put the blanket into the workbag.\ngadget blueprint: You put the gadget blueprint into the workbag.\nchest: You put the chest into the workbag.\nleaflet: You put the leaflet into the workbag.\nhammer: You put the hammer into the workbag.\nbadge: You put the badge into the workbag.\nold nest: You put the old nest into the workbag.\nYou can feel the cutout gazing at you contemptuously."}, {"prompt": "You ask Beetle about the tree", "response": "The beetle actually seems to consider this for a moment. That was only wishful thinking though.\nThe beetle runs off to one of the paths. It spins around once before returning to Lornedei.\nSomething touches Lornedei's foot. She pulls her leg away from the grasping root with a shriek."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south-east", "response": "You step across the line and continue down the corridor... into the sight of six guards or so, who are posted at the next intersection.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\nThe man raises an eyebrow. \"None of those guards saw you until much later. Shall we try it again?\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The pine trees have the first dustings of winter, here, and you espy much more snow to the east, in the FROSTED UPLANDS. The runoff feeds a briskly-flowing stream, which flows west toward the CASTLE. Marshier country lay to the south.\nGUNWAR limps along at your side."}, {"prompt": "You lock the door", "response": "(with the steel key)\n(first taking the steel key)\nYou take hold of the key at the end of the chain.\nYou lock the freezer door."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cot", "response": "(the cot through the mirror)\nIt looks mostly clean, at least, which is a mercy.\nMarie sits down against the wall, with a disgusted expression."}, {"prompt": "You color Captain green", "response": "You reach out, caressing Captain's delicate aura, willing it to become green. Her aura absorbs this new state willingly, as though they were her own emotions.\nCaptain grasps at wisps of green and is able to recombine in violet strength and fortitude. Her wretchings cease, and she turns to the Assister, \"We need to... get our shit... together and stop whatever is going on. We need to...\" Captain is drawn into one last involuntary purge then takes a moment to collect her colors."}, {"prompt": "Swing bat", "response": "You focus on the ball approaching the plate. You expect a change-up, but are not sure of the pitch location. You time the swing but are surprised that the pitch is thrown right down the middle of the plate; you manage to foul it off. The ball goes out of play behind the dugout.\nThe pitcher gets another ball and approaches the mound.\nThe crowd starts chanting your name."}, {"prompt": "You open can", "response": "Yow! When you open the can a real, live rattlesnake leaps out! It squirms about angrily for a few moments, turns to hiss at you and slithers out of sight.\nThe fog in the valley is rising towards you!"}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "You open the metal door.\nThe booth has a chair, and a window. There are presumably airholes somewhere. A small switch is placed under the window."}, {"prompt": "You cut the vines", "response": "You try, but they're too tough."}, {"prompt": "Squawk no", "response": "\"No!\" you squawk. \"No no!\"\nLucinda frowns in your direction.\nThe Prince stops his work with the shoe. \"I can't -- this must not be --\"\n\"Oh, for pity's sake,\" says the old lady. \"You haven't the least idea how women dress. Let me.\" And she kneels at Theodora's feet, shooing the Prince aside, and gives a firm tap to the heel of the shoe; at which point it slides on.\n\"Bless me,\" she says.\nThe Prince is silent for a moment, looking at the shoe. \"It's you,\" he says. \"It's you, Theodora! Why didn't you tell me?\"\nThe old lady turns away, tucking something into her pocket: something glassy and glinting."}, {"prompt": "You get matzo", "response": "Taken.\nAndre, Stephen and Violet head back to the kitchen."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mallet", "response": "It has a long wooden handle and a massive metal head."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Workshop (on the stool)\nThis cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall.\nAmong the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display panel."}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial to 3", "response": "You set the dial to channel 3."}, {"prompt": "You find the Colonel", "response": "(going west)\nAngela followed me up the stairs.\nThe back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight of stairs leading up to the floor above.\nAngela stopped beside me.\nObvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up\n(To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C)."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Staircase, First Floor\nThe top of a broad curving stair: east is the long salon that goes the length of the house, downstairs are the foyer and the grand receiving rooms.\nNorth is the old conservatory."}, {"prompt": "You ask Imelda about newspapers", "response": "\"Have you read any newspapers recently?\" you ask Imelda.\n\"You mean like the Northern Financial Times?\"\n\"I mean like the Weekly Mirror or the Mail News.\"\n\"I thought as much. A shocking amount of those papers is about us, isn't it? According to one, I'm irresponsible for continuing to fly into combat while blatantly pregnant with your love child.\"\n\"I wonder what they'd make of all this...\" You wave your hand around at your cosy little love nest in the freezing snow.\n\"If we don't make it,\" Imelda says, \"they'll turn it into our lovers' suicide pact.\"\n\"Headline: They couldn't bring themselves to fight any more!\""}, {"prompt": "You open the slab", "response": "The slab is already open."}, {"prompt": "Small", "response": "You drop the sock into the small bowl. It starts soaking up the water right away."}, {"prompt": "You examine Queen", "response": "Before you can do anything, the Queen gives you a hard stare. \"Having lost the Jewel of All Desiring, we royals of Raif have elected to help in its discovery by those worthy of it. I am unsurprised that you have come to seek my blessing.\n\"However, you bear none of the signs of the prophecy and are unquestionably unworthy. How dare you defile my halls like this?\" She motions to the guards. \"Throw them in a cell until my son gets back. Wishers give me heartburn, and that Fatalist hardly looks like a good meal.\"\nThe guards waste no time carrying out her instructions.\nA damp cell with slimy stone walls.\nThe Fatalist is here.\nSteel bars block the exit to the east.\nA scarred woman sits in the corner."}, {"prompt": "You examine tube", "response": "A typical old black rubber inner tube. It's too big to be for a car tire. It must have come from a truck or tractor or something. The patch you applied appears to be firmly stuck into place. Hopefully it will hold air when you try to inflate it."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "I'm in a small room which has flat extensions jutting from the walls. In the room with me are Auda and some mobile objects.\nThere is a tiny container here."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have a rucksack, a thin coat (being worn), a pair of gloves (being worn), and a tuft of insulation. The rucksack seems to contain a fool."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Iris.\nIRIS: Internal map reference -- Main Supply Room\nI'm in the northernmost portion of a large, messy area where debris is scattered about as if something had shaken it loose from the walls. Sitting near the wall is a machine which has a little orange button on its face. Beside the button are two small sockets, one red and one yellow. A red IC sits in the red socket, and a yellow IC sits in the yellow socket. A small glass fuse it sits in the panel. On the front panel is a series of eight circles. The orange button is flashing. There is a fried chip here.\nThere is a burned chip here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "There is no passage through that anatomy.\nYou are sweating profusely, throat parched."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "Your lips sing along, almost involuntarily, to the earworm in your head:\nHe zlee mglw hwu drink / wgah wazr'zr a ph'nglui drink / gneh\ndrinks a fgl wga'cb / hla cto a cthulhu drink! Well, Chumbawamba\nis still stuck in your head."}, {"prompt": "You look at the blue", "response": "The blue book's cover says \"Myths of Ancient Ul.\""}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You can't go that way.\nOnly south."}, {"prompt": "Leave", "response": "You open the blue checked curtain.\nThis is the Shireton Bakery. This is where you, the Baker of Shireton, bake bread for all the citizenry (and adventuring visitors) of Shireton.\nThe oven where you bake bread dominates a corner of the bakery out of reach of the clientele.\nA highly polished wooden counter divides the room  The display case contains nothing.\nOn the counter are a tip jar (empty) and a hand bell.\nEverything you need to make dough (flour, water) is on your work table.\nOn the work table are nine metal pans, a rock hard biscuit and a pan of sour dough.\nBehind the counter is a strong box with a narrow slot to catch your earnings.\nAvailable for sale:\na rock hard biscuit."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "It's theoretically possible to get across the highway here, but you have yet to see it done. The white lines of the crosswalk are more like a blueprint for an imaginary bridge.\nThe bike trail supposedly continues on the other side of the highway. Realistically, though, you can follow it north, or take a narrow, unpaved track between tufts of grass to the south.\nAn unseen crow emits a series of angry caws."}, {"prompt": "You ask alice about the stomach", "response": "\"Wow,\" says Alice, \"apparently the Serpent Slide was inspired by Groover's game \"Down the Serpent and the Sun!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Orrery", "response": "This astonishing device looks like what would happen if fifteen bicycles were being ridden across the surface of a neutron star and then suffered a catastrophic impact with a ferris wheel. Every variety of rotary and cyclical motion is manifest within the fractal nest of gears, chains, and wheels."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Evidently an addition to the house before Frederic Sheppard ever bought the place, the Conservatory is only half-heartedly furnished. A few sad-looking plants testify to the man's lack of any real interest in horticulture. The dining room is back to the east.\nA baby grand piano sits in a corner of the room. Evidently there was some indecision as to which definition of \"conservatory\" to adopt.\nElinor Lamb is parked in front of the piano.\nA large clock hangs from a bracket by the door.\nElinor absently fingers the keys of the piano, humming a little as she does.\nHugh Dunnett\nThe following story is set up with a great deal of randomisation, and is different each time you start or restart. It would therefore be highly advisable to save the game before you even begin your investigation.\nThe story uses the basic \"ask X about Y\" format of speaking to other characters. For the most part, \"tell X about Y\" will be unimportant: it is generally (though not always!) assumed that your questions about something will include asking about any new discoveries you have made elsewhere about the topic. The main exception to this rule is when laying out your case before Chief Inspector Duffy: in that event, you will have to depend exclusively on \"tell...\" instead.\nTime in the story proceeds at 15 seconds a turn, allowing you ample time (one hopes) to complete your investigation. However, there is in fact a time limit: Chief Inspector Duffy will arrive to speak to you at 2:00 am; and, whatever time he arrives, he will eventually lose patience if you don't manage to make an arrest within a certain time of his arrival.\nAnd that's all that's new. Good luck, Inspector! Your public awaits!\n\"Frederic Sheppard.\" Chief Inspector Duffy pulls at his moustache mournfully and stares up at the house through the windshield. \"Theatrical sort, usually has a finger in some play or other. He bought up Gull Point about ten years ago. Never any complaints from the neighbours, never any scandals.\" He pulls at his moustache again. \"He was found dead in the cove at the foot of the cliff behind the house about half an hour ago. Caller said it looked as though he fell from his study window.\"\n\"Think he might have jumped?\"\n\"She's your investigation: you tell me. We're treating this as a murder unless you can find anything to prove otherwise.\"\nYou nod. As you get out of the car, the Chief Inspector yawns and says, \"All right. I'm heading back to HQ. I'll be back in a couple of hours. The investigation's all yours. And if at any time you think you're ready to make an arrest, give me a call first, got it?\"\n\"Got it.\"\nWhat a wonderful way to spend the night. As Chief Inspector Duffy drives off into the darkness, you check your watch to see just how late it really is -- only to find that your watch has stopped.\nYou are standing on the front drive of Gull Point, residence of noted theatrical patron Frederic Sheppard. The house, a rambling old place, stands to the south.\nBeside the front doors, the large doorbell button gleams amber in the moonlight.\nYou can also see a red Triumph Roadster, a blue Austin and a green Morris Saloon here."}, {"prompt": "You put the packing material in the gift box", "response": "The quantity of packing material will not fit in the gift box.\nThe chronometer chirps, indicating that you have a new message waiting to be read."}, {"prompt": "You take red worm", "response": "If you insist."}, {"prompt": "Blow torch", "response": "(first taking the torch)\nThe torch is out of Conan's reach."}, {"prompt": "You use SWORD", "response": "(the GLADIUS SWORD)\nYou unhand the GLADIUS SWORD and carry it as ordinary gear. Your bare FIST is ready for battle!"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "What you see is a giant ham. Ivan's rubbing his temples, eyes pressed tightly shut."}, {"prompt": "You sit", "response": "What do you want to sit on top of?"}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "(Hope you saved your story position.)\nA sudden power drain makes all the other games in the arcade go dim. Blue sheets of energy leap from the game machine, surrounding you in an incandescent aura. You can feel your molecules being taken apart one at a time, analyzed, modulated and broadcast through space. It is not a pleasant sensation.\nYou are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.\nThere's a squashed can here.\nA synthetic voice says, \"Game Over. Insert Token To Play Again.\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Horrifyingly, the interior of the Scrappelizer has been remodelled into a home, of sorts. It is, in fact, the lair of a Kunkel, complete with multimedia PC.\nA rectangular hole allows access to the factory.\nYou can also see the Kunkel here."}, {"prompt": "You look at the silver key", "response": "It's probably not really silver, but it is metallic and shiny. It's no larger than a housekey."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "Ah, open air. The sea stretches out in all directions. There is no land in sight.\nYou can worry about that later, though. Fore is the mainmast, aft is the captain's quarters, upstairs is the quarterdeck, and downstairs is the lower deck.\nA silk handkerchief hangs from the aft bulkhead.\nThere's a silver locket lying on the deck.\nThe captain scurries along after you."}, {"prompt": "Gun", "response": "(your revolver)\n\"Don't do that!\", David warns, but of course you don't listen. It feels good to have a gun in your hand.\n\"You're really gonna die this time,\" David hysterically tells you."}, {"prompt": "You look at the remote", "response": "If buttons are any measurement of manhood, owning this remote makes you a stud among studs. Back in the day, this bad mamma-jamma controlled everything you owned: your television, your DVD player, your cable box, your stereo, your coffee pot, and sometimes even your neighbor's automatic garage door. Over the past few months you've sold everything the remote used to control, but you keep the remote as a reminder of happier times."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "If you ever wanted to learn more about fish, this would have been the place to do it. A shattered tank spans one wall, and a wave of broken glass fills the air before it. You can leave to the Hall of Mirrors to the west or the splash pool to the north.\nAn old leaden hatch is open, revealing an opening down to the basement."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\nSomeone is walking down the stairs right above your head."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "base, but it has evolved into an impromptu equipment storage as well. There's an equipment closet in here, and a refrigerated food storage where the chef stores all the horrible goop she forces the soldiers to eat.\nGo601 is scanning the surroundings for enemy activity."}, {"prompt": "Killed himself", "response": "What did The Prince want to kill himself with?"}, {"prompt": "Smell bottle", "response": "At first it smells like red wine, light and fruity. But there is the barest coppery undertone to it."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The junction where the High Street crosses Mandlebury Road is generally reckoned to be the central point of the city. From here the High Street runs north up past your office and south towards Preston Bridge and the ring road, while Mandlebury Road runs east towards the police station and west towards the river. Most of the buildings on the junction are closed up, but the supermarket on the northeast corner is partly lit, and lights are blazing from Morgans Bank to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You examine countess", "response": "You are in love with the countess. There, you can admit it. When you look at her like this, you cannot help but be in love. Even though she loathes you and you've come to loathe her too. Even though she wants to fly your flayed hide for a flag. You are in love. It is horrible news. But you aren't alone, because everyone loves the\ncountess. That's what makes her the countess."}, {"prompt": "Rec ashtray", "response": "Fwoosh."}, {"prompt": "You look at the folder", "response": "Made of green card, it has your name scrawled on the front in black biro. You open it up, and now you remember what this is - it's a folder you put in the few things you were proud enough of not\nto shred with everything else. There's not that much in here: a couple pages of unusually neat revision notes, a certificate from a school art competition, and - ah, yes.\nYou haven't seen this bundle of pages for a good few years, but it's immediately familiar: a twenty-page report you had to write for your Physics coursework at sixth form college. You almost got full marks on it, even your teacher was surprised.\nStill, it had been a close call. If you were to REMINISCE ON the report, you bet you could picture yourself the day of the deadline..."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "The entertainment center here holds the TV all towering above you and it has these glass doors beneath the TV that you can see stereo equipment through. You are near the couch to the south and the middle of the living room to the west and there is a small open area to play in to the north.\nIt looks like the TV is done with white things, now there is this big row of balls starting with this huge yellow one and then a smaller one and a little bigger one and so on. There are a lot of those balls."}, {"prompt": "You examine the timer", "response": "The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mud", "response": "It looks like a small swamp. There's a nice mushy part at the edge where you could scoop some of it up."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Who's Crow?\" you ask.\n\"Used to be the most cheerful girl on the night shift,\" he says. \"Now... well. People change. Some more than others.\"\n1) \"There's no one else?\"\n2) \"I'm here because I don't want anyone else to die...\""}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "Some of the stores have tables on the outside, in an attempt to entice customers to come inside. This table is one of them, for Choad's Sporting Goods Store. Usually only extremely cheap items are set on them, so as to minimize shortages and loss."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The catwalk continues West and East. There is a firm BULGE in the boards, and a mysterious wisp of GAS just dissipating above.\nThere is a wooden chest"}, {"prompt": "You see the humanoids", "response": "They have extraordinarily supple wrists, fast reflexes and tiny brains."}, {"prompt": "You look at the accelerator", "response": "The stream accelerator accelerates particles gathered by the main Project machine."}, {"prompt": "You put yourself on the hook", "response": "The yourself slips off of the hook."}, {"prompt": "Left", "response": "This is a tiny roundish cavern which is mazed with fine cracks. The uncertain light seems a bit brighter, and lacy, twisted pillars rise from floor to roof. A tunnel heads right, a low crack heads up, and a crack runs down."}, {"prompt": "You take the ornaments", "response": "They're relatively ugly and uninteresting. I don't care to mess with them."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You step out into the bright sunshine.\nA charming terrace, surrounded by an Italian balustrade, and replete with statues of dancing fauns, ornamental urns and what-not. In the centre is a set of cast-iron garden furniture, doing what cast-iron garden furniture does best.\nStone steps lead southwards onto the lawn, east and west to the gravel sweep, whilst to the north French windows invite you to enter the saloon.\nLady Hamcester sits on a cast-iron garden chair, leafing through a brochure for the R.M.S. Aquitania.\nA small dog, resembling a sort of mobile feather duster, is hovering around Lady Hamcester's ankles. Dogs, no matter their size, have an unerring instinct for spotting the cuckoo in the nest, or in this case, the 'Magpie'. Many's the burglar who has met his match in the form of one of our four-legged friends. At the very sight of you, the feather duster begins yapping to beat the band. Fortunately, help is at hand, in the form of the butler, Hives.\n\"Hives, be a dear and take Pompon upstairs,\" says the countess, \"I think the heat must be making her overtired.\"\n\"Very good, Madam.\" says the butler, and scooping up the animal, he retreats into the saloon.\n\"Beautiful day, Monsieur Perroquet! I do hope my little task isn't too much of an imposition.\"\n\"Not at all Madame, not at all.\" To your relief, the sound of Pompon's yapping fades away, to be replaced with the blissful peace of a summer's afternoon in an English garden."}, {"prompt": "Sing cats eyes", "response": "Voicelessly you voice Cat Eyes.\nIt is still pitch dark, but the darkness no longer hinders your vision.\nThe clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sketch", "response": "Which do you mean, the seascape, the drawing of a night sky or the portrait of a young man?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the chair", "response": "The chair is ugly. Steel slats are riveted to a heavy metal frame, and the whole rests on a steel column rising from a pedestal on the floor. Restraints are welded to the arm and foot rests; wires hang limply from the head support."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "In my bag of holding, I have:\na cedar box (which is open but empty)\na piece of yellow paper\na piece of green paper\na piece of violet paper\na piece of red paper\na fish\nthe Un-Hat\na fishing rod\na wanted poster\na bottle of clear fluid\na bottle of blue dye\na torn page\na spell book\na faery coin\na red balloon\na vase\na magic wand\nthe mind of an annoying wizard"}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Alarm clock. Next to bed. Make it stop.\nOPERATIONS -> STATUS : TRUE\nI beg your pardon?"}, {"prompt": "You ask Gillespie about the picnic", "response": "When you ask Reverend Gillespie what's so special about the sunset picnic tonight, he smiles beatifically. \"You'll see,\" he says. \"Oh, my, yes. You'll see.\""}, {"prompt": "You hit the dagger with the poker", "response": "You smite the dagger a mighty blow where it lies with an overhead swing from the poker. The steely clang sounds faintly like a whimper, and the dagger bounces a couple of times and then lies very still."}, {"prompt": "You take mat and the poker", "response": "rolled-up straw mat: Taken.\npoker: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the brick wall", "response": "Your vision zooms in on the crumbling bricks to reveal a howling maze of rust-red crevices, between which swoop screeching black eagles. The red rock is perforated by innumerable cavities in which dwell scurrying insects.\nYou can see the wooden arch, the marigold arch, the violet arch and the pink arch here."}, {"prompt": "You open the grating with the wrench", "response": "The grating is locked."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "lantern: Dropped.\nkeyring: Dropped.\ntrenchcoat: Dropped.\nclothes: Dropped.\numbrella: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "Scan closet", "response": "(with the substance scanner)\nYou run the substance scanner over the watercloset but the scanner doesn't pick anything up of note."}, {"prompt": "Equipment", "response": "Stream Regulator = ((a+c)+(b+d))+e\nTime 14:46: #"}, {"prompt": "You say the gown", "response": "The costume shop owner smiles and hands you a neatly folded wedding dress."}, {"prompt": "You pull string", "response": "The doll intones: \"Flee the peril of the antediluvian door! Dimness or faintness symbolises a lack of conviction!\""}, {"prompt": "Ruther lead", "response": "power! And it is transmuted into a gleaming uncut diamond."}, {"prompt": "You examine inhaler", "response": "You blink.\nNestled among the medical supplies, you spy an inhaler labeled\nhalitus catholiconis.\nDistantly you hear Reden's ragged breathing."}, {"prompt": "You examine the beetles", "response": "You can't see any such thing.\nYou can't see any such thing."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails\nto guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, northeast, and southwest. [3]\nYour brother Vasilii follows you."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You've had a place to do work for years, but only recently have you used it enough to actually call it an office. Even at that, it's not much of one, with your desk as the only furniture. The door to the north leads into the living room.\nThe remainder of your work papers lie on your desk, next to the telephone.\nBuilt into your desk is a small desk drawer."}, {"prompt": "You unclip the harness", "response": "You unfasten the chain from the harness.\nA lightning flash momentarily lights up the sky in the distance.\nMr. Teeterwaller mumbles something to himself."}, {"prompt": "You eat the basket", "response": "You heft yourself into the baron's basket, tumble down amongst his vegetables, but you're not there one instant when he grasps you in his palm. Bratwurst fingers surround you. You're raised almost to the roof to meet his maw.\n\"An aubergine?\" he says. \"Lovely.\"\nHe swallows you.\nYou slide along esophageal membranes until you're emptied out into the baron's\u2026\nFirst Stomach\nYou've been engulfed into a butcher's dream: steak, steak galore, walls plastered with pastrami, roast beef pillars rising into porterhouse arches, meatloaf squishing beneath your weight. Gravy saliva gushes from the baron's throat above. Around you floats debris from his past meals: broken chairs, bedposts, bookcases, curtains, even one rotting horse still tethered to its cart. He's eaten more than vegetables in his heyday."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...\nYou have solved the number puzzle on the wall here."}, {"prompt": "You open door", "response": "Opened."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pendant", "response": "A pendant in the shape of a silver sunburst hanging from a silver chain."}, {"prompt": "You look at the poker", "response": "A fireplace poker, forged from silver. Such extravagance, while not illegal, is certainly unforgivable. Its attack power is 5."}, {"prompt": "You connect black tube to the black receptacle", "response": "Connected.\nThe stock ticker tape advances:\n|  MHP 73/3  |  UPI 0X3  |  EUH 0Y/11  |  DPL 730  |  AHP 03-  |"}, {"prompt": "Splint leg", "response": "Working quickly, you brace Eruera's leg with the wood, tying the splint securely with scraps of tent fabric. Eruera hisses in pain as you pull, but also nods a quick jerk of approval through clenched teeth. You finish the knot.\nEruera tests the splint -- gingerly at first, but with more confidence as he sees how it holds up. \"Good work, Tim!\""}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, back to the front of the boat shed; south, to the dock; and southwest.\nLydia says, \"I wonder what the world is like now. When we get away, I want you to tell me everything.\""}, {"prompt": "You remove the bomb", "response": "(your bomb)\nYou're not wearing that!"}, {"prompt": "Link heavy to east", "response": "(the red door leading east)\nThe linkages on the doors are very old, and set with a power stronger than your raw will alone can manipulate."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are wearing your trenchcoat, your clothes and your wedding ring; in addition, you have in your hands a typewritten notice, a lantern, a keyring, on which are two keys (a key to the house and a key to the cellar) and your umbrella.\nThe pockets of your trenchcoat contain a towel, Michael's faculty card and a flask (which is closed)."}, {"prompt": "You look at the buttons", "response": "Hubert's overcoat is bursting at the seams. It's a wonder the buttons don't pop off under the strain, but looking at them more closely it is evident that he has sewn them on with extremely strong sailmaker's thread."}, {"prompt": "You examine the portrait", "response": "\"That was me,\" he told you. \"Before I was changed. Do you think I was handsome?\"\nYou shrugged. Handsome, yes, but proud, selfish, resentful, perhaps cruel. \"The painter did not do justice to your personality,\" you replied.\n\"You're wrong,\" he said. \"And I put the painting here to punish the woman who slept here. She treated me with justice, and I could not forgive her.\"\nHe refused to tell you the rest. \"You like me more than you should, and trust me less,\" he said. \"If I told you the rest of this particular story, you would neither trust nor like. There, that's a warning for you.\"\nYou reacquaint yourself with its appearance: A portrait of a young, arrogant king: not a prince, but one who inherited early and used his power from the beginning. He stares out with bitterness, perhaps even resentment."}, {"prompt": "You touch the cube", "response": "As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.\nThe six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly white and featureless. A single silver compass rose, balancing a delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the floor."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "It's dark in here. The only light bleeds in through the window and\nthe open door. Looks like this is where Grady keeps most of his junk. A handwritten note, a skeleton key, the shed key, and a wooden plank are here."}, {"prompt": "You put glowing in the eye", "response": "That can't contain things.\nThe sphere floats up and down in time to your breathing."}, {"prompt": "You examine the letters", "response": "The black lettering is quite worn, but you can just make out: \"TEDROTANO\""}, {"prompt": "You examine southern", "response": "The southern columbarium's front panel hangs ajar, as if ripped asunder. Battered by the wind, it swings; the sound drills into your skull. Your gums ache.\nInto the granite wall, someone has carved \"MEDIA VITA IN MORTE SUMUS\" in long, ugly slashes."}, {"prompt": "You look up the moose in Guide", "response": "Latin name: Alces alces\nThe moose is the largest member of the deer family, and is common in subalpine meadows and marshes of the northern United States and Canada. So ugly it is almost cute, it has a large muzzle and long legs that aid it in reaching the tender vegetation which grows at the bottom of lakes and ponds or higher on trees than other animals can browse. One of its favorite foods is the branches and twigs of the willow.\nIts pelage is dark brown, slightly lighter underneath. When wet, it usually appears black. Males stand six feet high at the shoulder, and weigh up to 1600 pounds. Females are 10 percent smaller. The large palmate antlers grow only on the males and are shed in the early months of each year. They begin growing again immediately, and each year grow larger, so that their size indicates approximate age and maturity. An unusual feature of the male is the bell, a flap of furred skin that hangs from the neck. Its purpose is unknown."}, {"prompt": "You reach in the hole", "response": "You reach into the opening again. You can feel a mop head, and the rim of a large bucket, but nothing else.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "---Email Database (Boy's Bedroom)---\nPage: 1 Mailbox for swallace\nP = previous page    N = next page\nQ = resume story    G = Go to page\nFrom: Subject:\nDr. Helmut Sha Re: distributed neural simulation...2\nYOR_FRIEND906  HOTTEST OFFER EVER..................3\nhotoffer@spam. Lower your debt!....................4\nDr. Helmut Sha PIT AI lab..........................5\nMichael Pendra 31337...............................6\nAmy            (no subject)........................7\nMichelle313    I'm boooooooored!...................8\nSteve Elocon   Re: PIT AI lab......................9\nAmy            Re: Tonight.........................10\nMichael Pendra Julia...............................11\nAmy            Hi..................................12\nMichael Pendra 31337...............................13\nAmy            Hi, again...........................14\nMichael Pendra Re: Julia...........................15\nAmy            Re: Hi, again.......................16\nSteve Elocon   Re: PIT AI lab......................17\nhotxxx@bulkmai YOUNG HARDCORE SLUTS................18\nMary Pantalon  PIT early admission.................19\nAmy            Um... Stuff.........................20\nAmy            My last mail........................21\nDante          Situation...........................22\nMichael Pendra Re: Situation.......................23\nMichael Pendra Re: PIT.............................24\nAmy            Sorry...............................25"}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "There will be no garden here come spring. It is hard to imagine the snow will ever melt.\nThe colonnade is broken to the south by the exit to the hall and to the west by the entrance to the refectory. The brothers' dormitory lies to the east, between the calefactory in the southeast and the belltower in the northeast.\nThe church squats to the north, Her spires clawing at the sky as She tries to climb away from the Earth."}, {"prompt": "You enter the chest", "response": "You lie down inside the chest, and notice that there's plenty of space inside. It's not a bad spot.\ninside. It's not a bad spot.But there's no time for napping now.\nYou pull yourself out of the box."}, {"prompt": "Jamon", "response": "You pound on the door and intone JAMON! as accurately as you\ncan.\nThere is a pause, and someone says \"Waitaminnit...\" The slat closes and you hear some back and forth arguing. Then a longer pause before the slat opens again, and a ham sandwich is shoved through the opening at you."}, {"prompt": "You examine small Book", "response": "This is a very small, hand-bound book containing a number of pages covered with random sequences of hand-printed characters.\n[The document \"Strange Book (new)\" has been added to your DataStore.]"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "A low, irregular brick wall to the north divides this street from the steep, mud-slick banks of the sinuous Miskaton, while a rusty iron gate provides access to a precarious flight of stone steps leading down the bank to the water's edge. The street bends south here, turning into a misty avenue between the trees. The town square lies west, a vacant lot lies east.\nMichael follows you."}, {"prompt": "You drop the men'S", "response": "You place the men's room garbage can carefully on the floor."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bubble", "response": "A small transparent plastic capsule with a lid.\nIn the plastic bubble is a golden eyepiece."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "It's a real struggle, but eventually you move northwards along the top of the train...\nHandholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.\nThe train just barreled by the Glendale station."}, {"prompt": "You ask the woman about Library", "response": "Bethany's features descend into a half-scowl. \"Oh, it's just another boring Andrew Carnegie library, blah blah blah 1908, $5000 budget, snooze me a river of dreams. It's gross, all the books in there are gross, if you go in there you'll be gross too.\" This unenthusiastic description of a historic building seems out of character, so you cock an eyebrow at her quizzically.\nBethany catches your look and deflates. \"That crappy librarian is in league with the Badfinger University Shadow Historians,\" she explains. \"She won't let me have jack. They've got some real good\noriginal mystical documents and I want a job there so bad.\"\nShe meets your eyes again. \"Right, I'll get the folder.\""}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Thanks, Jack.\"\n\"Don't mention it.\"\nGinger pauses to chat with a customer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the picture", "response": "READY>Deep memory which stores all mission-critical data including the data downloaded from the Musashi-5 space probe. Since the ansible is nonfunctional, it is critical that these encoded data be returned directly to MARSpace for analysis. There is a small plastic sign beneath the deep memory unit.\nDEEP MEMORY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "You blow out the candle, and get into bed then settle down to go to sleep.\nYou wake with a start. What is it that woke you? Perhaps only the church bell, chiming ... one ... two ... three-quarters ... no, the hour. One o'clock. You sit up in bed, alert as a cat before a mousehole."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You spend some time searching the crypt carefully. You don't find anything else."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-west", "response": "Isolated and serene within its high, ivy-covered walls, Miskaton University represents this benighted town's single, if somewhat dubious, claim to cultural achievement. Founded some time in the early 1800s, the school's reputation and enrollment have diminished somewhat as Anchorhead drifts further and further into the abyss of provincial backwaterism. Still, it is generally recognized for its collection of folklore and esoteric mythology (one of the oldest and most extensive on the east coast). The Board of Deans was also kind enough to offer Michael a full professorship upon hearing of his recently discovered heritage and his plans to move into the estate. Ivory tower, perhaps, but at least they take care of their own.\nThere are numerous buildings surrounding this cobbled court, but the only one you are interested in is the library to the west, where Michael told you he'd be until he came back to the real estate agent's office to pick you up. Which, incidentally, he has not yet done."}, {"prompt": "You read the note", "response": "1.19.11.19.8.15.16.11.5.5.16.5.18.6.15.18.13.1.3.1.18.15.15.14"}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "During the day, the hallway's cool shadows provide relief from the California sun. But at night, it's simply dark, because the scattered wall sconces aren't close enough or bright enough to provide decent illumination.\nYesenia is standing in front of her own front door. It's open.\nYesenia's flowered suitcase is parked beside her apartment door."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "The local centre for entertainment and laziness, the living room is permanent home to a very comfortable sofa and a television set. Both of these are much in use, usually at the same time.\nFrom here you can go south to the kitchen, southeast to the hall, or east to the study.\nHolly the calico cat is here, fast asleep on the floor.\n`Have you always wanted to plunder great underground empires?'"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The basket comes to a stop.\nNarrow Ledge, in the basket\nYou are on a narrow ledge within an old dormant volcano. This ledge is about halfway between the floor below and the rim above. There is an exit to the south.\nThe cloth bag is inflated and there is a newspaper burning in the receptacle. A braided wire is dangling over the side of the basket. There is a small hook attached to the rock here. (outside the basket) The basket contains:\nA place mat\nSitting on the place mat is:\nA matchbook\nA delicate gold key\nA china teapot\nA pearl necklace\nA perfect rose\nA letter opener\nA blue label"}, {"prompt": "You note the cockroach", "response": "You write, \"Call exterminator.\" in the notebook.\n[Nikolai's sanitation rating has dropped two points.]"}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Your majesty deigns to linger for a moment.\nThe creaky singer continues performing. He starts his song from the very beginning. \"Creak, creak, goes the beast,\" he sings, moving himself in curious patterns."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "A slant-roofed, sagging shack stands here. There might have been a bit of vegetable garden beside it at one time, but all that's left now is a jumble of weeds and rusting junk. The large passenger van belonging to the resort stands in front of the shack, its hood up.\nTyrone is standing hunched over the van's engine, peering down into the innards.\nYou can go south to the open area behind the cabins, northwest along the gravel driveway, north to the back door of the main house, or northeast on a path that leads around the corner of the house. An overgrown brick walkway leads east along the side of the nearest cabin. The shack itself is to the west from this spot, and the garden beside it is to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You take the soldier", "response": "Yuck! You don't want to move a corpse around!"}, {"prompt": "You read the paper", "response": "A sheet of paper covered in scribbles - nothing coherent, but not exactly doodles; rather fragments of letters and words and scattered at all angles around the edges and middle of the page, with the occasional snatch of a drawn line or a distorted margin. Something strikes you as odd which takes a minute to place: the sheet is not handwritten. It has been printed out."}, {"prompt": "You cut the phone with the knife", "response": "Taken.\nCutting that would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "Examine Provider", "response": "The Provider lies asleep on his side. He faces west, snorfling loudly."}, {"prompt": "AUDA, SENSA, WALDO, POET, WHIZ, N", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Auda.\nAUDA: Internal map reference -- Hallway Corner\nI am in the Hallway Corner.\nWhiz is off to the south.\nPoet is off to the south.\nWaldo is off to the south.\nSensa is off to the south.\nFC: Cryolink established to Sensa.\nSENSA: Internal map reference -- Hallway Corner\nSensory mechanisms detect a room to the north, a hallway to the west and to the south.\nIn the room with me is Auda.\nWhiz is off to the south.\nPoet is off to the south.\nWaldo is off to the south.\nFC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Internal map reference -- Hallway Corner\nThe east/west corridor ends here and starts off to the south. To the north is a small room.\nIn the room with me are Sensa and Auda.\nFC: Cryolink established to Poet.\nPOET: Internal map reference -- Hallway Corner\nLemme see, which way did I go? Who am I, anyway? What am I doing here, and why am I asking all these questions? Life is so confusing.\nIn the room with me are Waldo, Sensa and Auda.\nWaldo is carrying a brain uno, a grasper, a sixteen-inch cable, and a basket of goodies for Grandma.\nWhiz is off to the south.\nFC: Cryolink established to Whiz.\nWHIZ: Internal map reference -- Hallway Corner\nCLC peripheral device detected to the south.\nIn the room with me are Waldo, Sensa, Auda and Poet.\nWaldo is carrying a CX1 chip, a MH1, a sixteen-inch cable, and a BA1."}, {"prompt": "You examine the faucet", "response": "Small and made of metal. It's etched with the illegible calligraphy of a spell."}, {"prompt": "You look through the holes", "response": "You are looking into the small room in the steeple. You can see past a faded purple curtain to a small table which is holding two heavy glass bottles."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "Under the Culvert (as wolfhound)\nThe brook runs confidently uphill, gushing up under the culvert, under\nthe wall to Watling Street. The pursuit seems to have been thrown off\nfor the moment."}, {"prompt": "Wave shard", "response": "You wave the shard."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-east", "response": "This cave has an exit leading outside to the southwest. In the middle of the ceiling, high above you, is a round hole. On the floor, directly under the hole, is a pile of hay.\nA short lever with a handle sticks out from a wall. The handle has a thin, wide gap, large enough for the fingers of one hand to go through. A metallic pyramid, about half a meter high, sticks up from the cave floor. You once tested a hundred different teleporters, and you recognize the pyramid as one of the safest and least complicated models. To use it you just stand on it and shake the lever repeatedly. This particular teleporter seems badly designed though: the lever is far away from it, almost on the other side of the cave.\nYou can hear a low humming coming from the teleporter.\nUp from the lever sticks the new magical sword from Adventurer's Emporium. According to the commercial it will start to vibrate when you are close to danger. It is shaking like crazy, but not enough to shake the lever.\nYou can see a cage here.\nThe goblin comes running after you.\nThe sword goes even crazier and starts thrashing like a headless chicken on drugs.\nThe sword makes the lever shake. The sound from the teleporter gets louder."}, {"prompt": "You examine elephant", "response": "A large, gray pachyderm with floppy ears, ivory tusks, and a long, prehensile trunk. You're no zoologist, but it seems like any other elephant, really."}, {"prompt": "You eat garry", "response": "Garry does not appear to be edible.\nYour opponent eats the seared Paraguayan sausage.\nThe contest officials give him some pan-fried Hungarian platypus."}, {"prompt": "You examine the first candle", "response": "A white electric candle, a good five inches long and as thick as your thumb. On one end is a glass bulb, on the other is a threaded metal base. It is unlit."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Where have you taken me?\"\nJustinian sighs. You watch the particles of his breath swirl dispassionately in the air.\ndispassionately in the air.\"You're safe, Marid,\" he says. \"If you must know, we are still in the Channelworks. Not far from where I knocked you out. But this time, Doctor Serpens will not find you. The quarantine enforcers will not find you. Here we are in a safe space, where no one will break down your door, or hurt you, or threaten you again.\"\nagain.\"\"I would feel safer if you let me go,\" you say.\nagain.\"\"I would feel safer if you let me go,\" you say.Justinian shakes his head. \"Marid... when will you learn to trust me? I will not hurt you, Marid. I could never hurt you.\"\n1) \"Why have you tied me to a chair?\"\n2) \"Did you do it, Justinian? Did you kill all those people?\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the man", "response": "This pitiful creature might once have been a successful and healthy man, but alcohol and mental illness have dragged him down irretrievably into degenerate squalor. His clothes are filthy tatters; his hair is a matted, knotted mess; his body reeks of booze and urine. He sits on his mattress, seemingly oblivious to you or the rest of the world, and that's where he'll stay until either Death or the next drink comes around.\nThe old bum is clutching a small object to his chest; he rubs it and turns it in his hands constantly, as though it were some sort of relic or charm. It's hard to tell, but it appears to be a key."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the kettle", "response": "You switch the kettle on. A little red light above the switch jumps into life to show you it is working."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time goes by.\n\"The business of nWare is business,\" the mouse says."}, {"prompt": "You press 5 on the remote", "response": "The television flicks to channel 5.\nStatic hisses from the television.\nThe video recorder is making a whirring sound."}, {"prompt": "Squawk lies", "response": "You stumble over that unfamiliar term and it just comes out a birdlike cry.\n\"I'm sure it's nothing surprising,\" remarks the old lady, \"if you didn't meet anyone at the ball that you felt immediately you could marry. Such short acquaintances... there's much more to an alliance than that. One must feel at ease with the family, for instance.\"\nThe Prince opens his mouth, then closes it again. \"I did meet someone,\" he admits. \"But I know nothing of her family. It hardly matters to me, however. It will be the woman who can wear this shoe.\"\nThe old woman laughs slightly. \"How beautifully romantic! But -- she didn't give you her name?\"\nThe Prince shakes his head, looking embarrassed again.\n\"...but you would recognize her, at least,\" the lady says, looking down carefully at her hands folded on her skirt. \"As soon as you saw her face--\"\n\"I can't be sure,\" the Prince replies.\nThere is a thick silence. The old lady frowns, suggesting very rapid and dangerous thought. Theodora lies back against the pillows, interested in the story and too stupid to realize it has to do with her. Lucinda-- but Lucinda's thoughts are always the hardest to read."}, {"prompt": "Rezrov hammer", "response": "Although you complete the spell, nothing seems to have happened. \"Crash!\" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor outside."}, {"prompt": "You turn off", "response": "(the piranhas)\n\"*Authorized Voice Accepted - Hello Doctor - I Am Sorry, But I Do Not Understand Your Command*\"\n\"Ugh, give me that, you big hunk of metal! Are you there, poodgy feathers? Did you like talking to your robot thing?\n\"Oh, your robot thing has light-ups on its fingers! Oh, poodgy feathers, that's so cute! Now it's pointing at me - I think it wants to shake ha -\""}, {"prompt": "You take the creamer", "response": "This is no time to start carrying around random knickknacks.\nThe bat flutters clumsily around the room, knocking into the display cases of entomological specimens.\nYou are thirsty."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You're thirteen years old."}, {"prompt": "You read the maze", "response": "So the geometer stood at the ready, pacing nervously around his\nstudy. Soon, he'd been promised, it would all be complete. Even if\nhe'd contacted them first, he hadn't expected them to actually\nrespond, and he couldn't be more anxious if he tried. Not Eating,\nbarely sleeping, even, in case the chiropterans wanted to make the\nexchange at night. Whether or not they could even give him what he'd\nasked for was unclear as well. Such Entities as them were not to be\ntaken lightly, if they really wanted his entire city in exchange - and\nthat was another thing. What he'd promised them he didn't own, and if\nthey discovered they'd been tricked, they might not uphold their end\nof the bargain. Euclid shuddered at the thought.\nYou shut the book. That's not a map at all. Must have been an error at\nthe printer's."}, {"prompt": "Report", "response": "FC: Full report from AUDA\nMoving through Access Hallway\nI am in the Access Hallway.\nSome talking mechanisms are off to the east. They appear to be in hot pursuit.\nMy ears can hear the following in my extensions...\nA jingling bag\nAuditory circuits active."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The air is clammy and unpleasant, and clogs in your lungs.\nNearby an open trapdoor leads up to the debtor's paradise."}, {"prompt": "You examine the chest", "response": "she belongs: in your chest.Suddenly you hear a commotion. It's coming through the ceiling from the exposition. Voices rising in surprise. Exclamations. Shuffling and confusion."}, {"prompt": "You fix the prototype", "response": "(first entering the prototype)\nThe interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you can see the half-installed control panel. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch lab.\nYou begin work completing the modifications...\nAfter a minute or so, you are done."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The door opens west."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "You take the obvious, smart-looking move. She jumps half of your remaining pieces, leaving you with a single suicidal \"choice,\" which you are of course forced to take, allowing her to clean you out completely.\n\"That was fun,\" she says, although her huge grin is enough of an indication. \"Thanks. I feel a lot better now.\"\n[1] \"I would actually love to taste something&\"\n[2] \"I know what kind of ice cream I want.\"\n[3] \"Would you mind my asking&\"\n[4] \"You wanna hear something weird?\"\n[5] \"What's your tattoo of?\"\n[6] \"What are all these newspaper clippings?\"\n[7] \"What's wrong?\"\n[8] \"I should get going.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the tape", "response": "You ask, \"Ashley, could you please grab that roll of tape?\"\nAshley reaches for the roll of black cloth tape, but George holds it out of her reach.\nAshley says, \"George won't give me the roll of tape!\"\nKeiko breathes through her teeth for a moment."}, {"prompt": "You get the keys", "response": "You find that it's impossible to carry anything else while holding the heavy pot.\nThe elf looks at you regretfully."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "mysterious note: You pick up the mysterious note from the ground. leather haversack: You pick up the leather haversack from the ground. glowstone lantern: You take the glowstone lantern from the wooden plank shelf."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You are immersed in darkness and in blood.\nYou hold your breath.\nThe beast rumbles."}, {"prompt": "You look at the orderly", "response": "The pockmarked and overweight orderly is absorbed in his magazine, which is just as well, since it's kept him from turning his leering attentions to you. He occasionally pauses to tweak a swollen blackhead on the back of his neck, or to mutter some crass observation about one of the women in his magazine.\nThere's a name tag pinned to his expansive chest."}, {"prompt": "You consult the computer about the nobility", "response": "Your search turns up the following entries from Valenti's personal log:\nthree months ago: Weird sort of nobility about the separation story. Wish I could tell someone. God, god, god. I might ask for a human assistant or something. But of course what good would that do? Burdening a second person's conscience wouldn't really improve matters, and besides, he or she might not agree with me about what to do. No, I should avoid that."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Cecilia", "response": "\"Go now. It is time.\""}, {"prompt": "You give the pole to the servant", "response": "The royal guard gives the copper pole to Ventillado's servant.\nPeeress Dwojadsa says to Lord Pojadubiur, \"Rumor has it that Lady Pishel was in Westfall having a big party with Peer Kloppom.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Michael about the laptop", "response": "\"Goddammit, just leave me the hell alone, why don't you?\" Michael suddenly turns on you, baring his teeth and shaking his finger in your face. \"I can't even think with you bothering me like this! Fuck this,\" he says, shaking his head. \"Fuck this. I'm getting out of here. I need to be alone for a while.\"\nHe storms out of the room, and a few moments later you hear the front door slam.\nFor a moment you can only stand there in the empty house, shaky and close to tears. You've had fights before, but never has Michael been so vicious. And the worst part of it is, you know something is wrong with him, something terrible, but you don't know what it is, or how to fix it, or why it seems to be tearing your husband away from you. You've never felt so utterly helpless."}, {"prompt": "You look at the key", "response": "It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short antenna on the other."}, {"prompt": "You look at the picture", "response": "(the jewelry box)\nIt's hardly larger than your hand, made of wood and charmingly decorated with a picture of children dancing around a Maypole. Most likely a plaything of one of the later Verlac children. The lid is open to reveal a silver locket."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "Very well. You scramble into the chimney, sliding down and landing heavily...\nThis circular room at the base of the tower is surprisingly small for its size. An unlit fireplace to the northwest, and a sturdy oak door to the southeast, (which is shut and bolted), are its only points of interest.\nA captive princess paces around the room impatiently.\nA white cotton blindfold, apparently flung off by the princess after she arrived here, lies crumpled in a corner.\nAn animated burin flies in small circles around your head.\nThe princess jumps as you stumble clumsily out of the fireplace. \"With an entrance like that, you've got to be Frobozz Magic Support,\" she laughs. \"Hope you brought that rezrov scroll. We don't have any time to waste.\""}, {"prompt": "You link the mirror to mirror", "response": "(the gilt-wood mirror to the gilt-wood mirror)\nRedundant; all things are themselves."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Mom and Dad would see you if you went out there. Then you'd be grounded. And you'd have to go to bed."}, {"prompt": "You ask Sammy about yourself", "response": "\"As always, you're very well dressed!\""}, {"prompt": "You read Recipe", "response": "Andouillettes Recipe: andouillettes, olive oil, dry white wine,\nsingle yellow onion, sea-salt."}, {"prompt": "You ask Imelda about the love", "response": "You clear your throat. \"So, Imelda, how are things with the men in your life?\"\n\"Do you mean my male friends among the Sky Mercenaries? Or are you sneakily trying to ask about us?\"\nYou rub your hands together to try to keep them warm."}, {"prompt": "You wear lame", "response": "You struggle to get your jacketed arms through the small openings in the lam?. Finally, you get it on.\nHe plugs the free end of the adapter into the electrical outlet in the wall."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nIt's too late. Tumbling out of control, the last thing you see is the car's headlights inches in front of the young woman's face..."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "It's pretty deserted here. You can hear voices from the dance floor."}, {"prompt": "You look at the boots", "response": "Your boots are black and ready to step on everyone who dares to cross your way."}, {"prompt": "You show the egg to Pearl", "response": "Pearl gives you a big kiss of congratulations. \"Was it really where Katschei said it was?\" she asks.\n\"Indeed, and it was a bear getting it out of the log,\" you reply\nwith a grin."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Who's Crow?\" you ask.\n\"Used to be the most cheerful girl on the night shift,\" he says. \"Now... well. People change. Some more than others.\"\n1) \"There's no one else?\"\n2) \"I'm here because I don't want anyone else to die...\""}, {"prompt": "4", "response": "\"What do you know about Halloween Town and Jack Skellington?\"\nNega-Hina raises a cautionary finger. \"I know that guy is way too\nnice. I don't trust nice people.\"\n\"That's a terrible attitude.\"\n\"Well, you can try going through life associating with nice people\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand\nbeing nice to them in return\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand see where it gets you.\"\n\"Sounds great! Maybe I'll go talk to Jack instead of you!\"\n\"Great! Go do that!\"\n1: \"Fine, I will!\n2: \"I would, but I'm not finished here yet.\""}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "I've reached the end of the eastern corridor. Before me, high overhead, is a strange combination of circular protuberances.\nSonar detects a circular object mounted on the wall high overhead, out of reach. A small spray is also detected, going upward through the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Not now, Owl! I'm busy with matters of SUPREME importance.\nMy brilliance was ignored at university, when my so-called 'peers' chose to stick their heads in the sand rather than recognize that I had overturned the entire history of scientific thought. I should be running a physics lab with an iron fist, but I was unjustly ignored; now, I'll have to settle for ruling the ENTIRE WORLD with an iron fist. Try to ignore me now, you worthless buffoons!"}, {"prompt": "You look in the sink", "response": "The sink is empty."}, {"prompt": "You give the treatment", "response": "What do you want the allergist to give it to?"}, {"prompt": "You get in the sarcophagus", "response": "You clamber into the sarcophagus. Fortunately, it was body-sized. What a coincidence!\nCongratulationment!\u00ae number 14 - \"Sarcophagus - literally translated, it means 'flesh-eating'. Sweet dreams!\""}, {"prompt": "You enter the fireplace", "response": "You get into the fireplace."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shards", "response": "The glass fragments (perhaps broken bottles?) run the gamut from large shards to fine, gritty powder."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "You've never been an especially tidy person, and being self-employed has done nothing to improve your habits. Still, you keep your place clean, for the most part. It's just cluttered. The clutter is worse than usual at the moment, thanks to a portion of the contents of the strongbox scattered over the surface of your table.\nOn the wooden table are an old dented strongbox (empty), a pile of letters, a memo book labeled \"The End of the World\", a composition book labeled \"Morning in the Garden\", a sketchbook labeled \"The Tower of Hanoi\", a stapled packet labeled \"Going Home Again\", an envelope labeled \"Undelivered Love Letter\", and a wrinkled sheet of paper."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\n\"Was that what tha' wanted to know, lad? Them scientists call it Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, but we call it Old 'arry's Game. I tell thee lad, its the devil behind them there mad cows an' I don't mean Jacques Santer.\""}, {"prompt": "You connect the voice module to the scrambler", "response": "You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns orange as well."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You duck across the intersection. The guards to the south, distracted by their own business, do not notice you; so you continue unchallenged to the east.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"You could have used the blast tab, did you realize? It would have punched through the door, I'm sure. You would have been in and out. By that much you missed starting a war. Or ending the one we've got.\"\nThe man stops, gives you a measured glance. \"This is a war, for all that we're not shooting.\""}, {"prompt": "You get the tapestry", "response": "That's fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You look at stop", "response": "When you look closely, you see the bus stop shimmer and shift in the light. The effect reminds you of the buildings in the city of Illusions."}, {"prompt": "You cut the MIRROR with DIAMOND", "response": "You want to CUT the MIRROR with WHAT, pray tell?"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You are in front of the livery stable, in the old commercial sector of town. The center of town is east.\nSome old men sit around in the shade, playing checkers and generally passing the time.\nA rusty iron pump stands next to a watering trough."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You open the door to car 4.\nCar 4, Aft\nThe north section of the car is a tight squeeze. Another compartment lies east, while the exit from the car lies to the north.\nThe darkroom door is west.\nThe door to the car junction slides shut."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bed", "response": "The bed is narrow, and the mattress looks thin and hard."}, {"prompt": "You examine the lamb", "response": "The lamb strains against the branch, but he is far too weak to escape on his own.\nThe alpha swings his head back and forth between you and the lamb. The others follow in unison."}, {"prompt": "You open the gothic", "response": "You open the gothic door.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "You search the fireplace", "response": "You dig around the fireplace gingerly for a few seconds, before coming up with a small cardboard box, the size of two fingers or so."}, {"prompt": "You get the flowers", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You look in the tunnel", "response": "You reach in as far as your arm will go, but you don't manage to get ahold of anything.\n\"Hey, what are you doing over there? What do you want with that hole?\" Verdeterre asks, yanking your hand out of the tunnel. \"Don't stick your flat little nose where it doesn't belong. If there's something to be gotten out of a rat tunnel, I'll get it out. Hold on, and don't\nbe screwing around up here while I'm away.\"\nThe captain disappears into the tunnel."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[\"My boyfriend was just devoured by some kind of...of brain\nguzzling monster!\"]\n\"Ha, ha, real funny, Bons.\"\n1) \"No, really--this huge, hulking, slimy thing guzzled Jimmy's brain right in front of me!\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A narrow mountain ledge leading east. To the south is a tall mountain wall, with a cave."}, {"prompt": "You examine the window", "response": "Looking out through the window, you can see the gravel driveway below. Beyond the driveway is a thicket of bushes."}, {"prompt": "You examine the knights", "response": "Klaus lugs this heavy reference manual of otherworldly knights everywhere. The book's paper dust jacket is illustrated with a drawing of a shield and sword."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A fine wooden desk stands in front of you. A chair, placed before it, seems to beckon. The surroundings are decorated, carpet and wallpaper hiding the plain floor and walls. One of the walls has a frame attached to it. A fine wooden door stands to the east, a dark wooden door to the north, a pale wooden door to the south, and an empty frame to the west.\nYou can see Mr Blue here.\nMr Blue opens the dark wooden door.\nMr Blue goes north."}, {"prompt": "Kiss gina", "response": "Gina rebuffs your amorous advance. \"Sidney, I wouldn't kiss you with my dead husband's mouth.\""}, {"prompt": "You drop the leaves", "response": "(the bundle of aromatic leaves)\nDropped."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "The side table is made of polished wood and looks quite old. A small key is locked to the side table with an antique combination lock."}, {"prompt": "You sit in the chair", "response": "But you're already on the chair."}, {"prompt": "You look at Mind", "response": "It's...well...it's hard to describe what it's like to have someone else in your head."}, {"prompt": "You put the rug under the door", "response": "(first taking the rug)\n(putting the red glass jar into the sack to make room)\nYou can't get to the gothic door to do anything to it at the moment.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "Tangle", "response": "Enter saved game to load: Ok."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You head across the bailey, arriving at the double doors of the inner keep. The dogtower stands behind you to the south, with the rest of the bailey to the southeast and southwest."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"This clover was a present. It was given to me when I was young. That was a while ago. I was happier back then. The clover reminds me of when I was happier. Now I just feel lost. Hopefully, the clover will bring good luck, so I can find my way.\"\nThe rabbit becomes distracted, and begins hopping around the area again."}, {"prompt": "You examine danny", "response": "This is your little brother. He cries sometimes and he's kind of a pain, but you can't let the monster get him! He's wearing his favorite white shirt which is glowing in the blacklight. Danny is holding Donald Duck."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coin", "response": "Which coin do you mean, the bronze coin, or the yellow coin?"}, {"prompt": "You say square", "response": "You should say what you want to say in double quotes, for example, SAY \"HELLO\".\nThe alien moves toward you and gently pushes your jaw up and down before retreating again and pointing at the square. It seems the alien wants you to say something. Something about the square, probably."}, {"prompt": "You examine mirror", "response": "A shining panel that reflects whatever is inside the box."}, {"prompt": "INV MUL 8", "response": "Just before speaking you realize that instead of MUL you really meant TIM, so you say that instead.\nThere is a brief flash of light. You get a quick glimpse of another space, followed by another flash of light. You find yourself back in Seven.\n\"That wasn't a particularly wise number to use with the DIV spell at this point,\" says Teraboz.\n\"On the contrary, it was quite rational,\" replies Morkan.\nTeraboz and Berzia both groan."}, {"prompt": "Spells", "response": "The gnusto spell, the only thing you seem to have learned well after many years at the University, remains yours forever. Other than that, you have no spells memorized."}, {"prompt": "You examine the marks", "response": "They look like a child's drawings, made with pencil or some kind of charcoal. Most of them are smudged and faded, but you can make out stick figures here and there, and the occasional, lollipop-shaped tree."}, {"prompt": "You show the gift box to Liam", "response": "Liam takes in your clothing, then looks into the box. \"Equal partnership, with a shared work in medical enterprises?\" he says. \"This is what you desire to propose to our Ambassador?\""}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The stars above are still whizzing by wildly.\nThe couch has been torn apart: Slimy chunks of foam litter the floor. The TV and microwave have been smashed and tossed across the room.\nPassages through the rock lead east, west, and south.\nThe professor's heavy breathing\u2014or whatever that noise is\u2014filters\nin\nthrough the west tunnel."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "Deborah lowers her voice and says, \"Ben's very protective of his sister, which is sweet but perhaps a little obsessive, in my opinion. Elinor may be wheelchair-bound, but she is nowhere near as delicate as he seems to think.\"\nThe study door to the west is almost obscured by the near-solid screen of crowded bookshelves occupying the west wall. The rest of the room is occupied with modern art. French doors open north to the central hall and southeast onto the terrace. The billiards room is through an anonymous-looking door to the east.\nDeborah Wolf is here, watching you attentively.\nOn closer inspection, one piece of modern art turns out to actually be a clock.\nYou can also see a tide table here.\nA short, red-headed young man is bent over a leather briefcase as you enter the Library. He looks up, startled, as you come in, and hurriedly shuts the briefcase. Then he's all smiles and cheerful camaraderie as he tosses his briefcase into a corner and comes forward to shake your hand.\n\"Inspector,\" says Deborah, \"I'd like you to meet Mr Cedric Crane, my uncle's former accountant. He was the one -- along with Mr Lamb -- who discovered the crime and raised the alarm.\"\nCedric Crane pumps your arm with all the excessive energy of a campaigning politician. Close up, you realise that he must actually be quite a bit older than he appeared at first glance. \"A pleasure to make your acquaintance,\" he says expansively, beaming from ear to ear."}, {"prompt": "You look inside bulb", "response": "(the light)\nYou find nothing of interest.\nThe vapors pouring out of the bottle of hydroxide are drawn into the air vent."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A narrow stair climbs through a seam in the rocks from the jetty to the top of the island cliffs. The steps are carved from the rock itself. Vines covered in tiny white flowers hide the rough\nrock walls.\nsouth (to In a haphazard shack on the edge of a cliff)\neast (to At a crossing of paths)\nwest (to On a small pier)"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "There's a wall in the way, Cassie, and you do hate banging your head against those."}, {"prompt": "You peel onion", "response": "You peel the onion of its skin."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The mountain trail crosses east to west over uneven and broken ground; a wagon could have real trouble passing through here. Rockslides from the north pose an additional ongoing hazard.\nLying on one of the rock piles, a baby dragon is crying pitiously."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You're in a creaky, high-ceilinged hall of blackest wood. There are rooms west and east from here.\nThe clockwork girl plods into the room."}, {"prompt": "You ask Allen about device", "response": "\"What, that?\" The pentagon shrugs. \"Part of a new invention I'm\nworking on. The power of fire, at the tip of your fingertips. Or I\nguess the power of sparks.\""}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"It's about your brother, Reden.\"\nZoiro leans forward. \"Why? What happened to him?\"\n\"Last night, during the last shift at Doctor Cavala's clinic, he staggered through the door seriously ill. His symptoms were unlike anything Doctor Cavala had ever seen.\"Zoiro's eyes widen. \"He -- he wasn't sick at all when I saw him last.\"\nwasn't sick at all when I saw him last.\"You take a breath, keep your eyes fixed on him.\neyes fixed on him.\"His heart and lungs had failed. He was hemorrhaging badly. We rushed him to the surgery room, but -- but --\"\nbadly. We rushed him to the surgery room, but -- but --\"\"-- Oh Primes --\"\n--\"You look away.\n--\"You look away.\"I'm sorry,\" you whisper. \"He died on the gurney. We couldn't save him.\"\ncouldn't save him.\"Zoiro falls silent. He nods, bites his lip, buries his head in his hands.\nhis head in his hands.Koriph puts a hand on his shoulder.\nhis head in his hands.Koriph puts a hand on his shoulder.\"Well,\" says Zoiro at last. \"I... I shouldn't be surprised. It was bound to happen sooner or later. He was a bum. A fucking disgrace. He was going to catch something, living the way he did...\"\ncatch something, living the way he did...\"He hangs his head.\ncatch something, living the way he did...\"He hangs his head.\"But it hurts,\" he says. \"Knowing that he's gone.\"\n1) \"I'm sorry...\"\n2) \"Do you need a moment?\"\n3) \"You can ask me anything...\"\n4) <Say nothing.>"}, {"prompt": "You take pie", "response": "You've already got pie and coffee."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "As you walk away, the ghost calls after you in a breathy voice: \"I hope you'll come back and visit me.\"\nYou follow the path westward, back to Eternal Springs.\nThe brackish, oily, unpleasant waters of the swamp stretch south from here. Large trees festooned with slimy green creepers stand in the water. To the west is a shed, to the east a path along the shore. The cabins are to the north."}, {"prompt": "You look at the fire", "response": "It's a pot-bellied wood stove. A fire blazes within and there is a supply of firewood beside it."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "This pleasant park on the bank of Little Oak Stream is named after the eight-foot tree that stands at its center. A sign describes the tree as the \"smallest oak in the four-county area.\"\nViolet Bat is hanging from a light pole.\nViolet moans pitifully."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nan iron key\na false book (open but empty)\na commodious sack\na gold medallion\na silver locket\na violin\na sextant\na wooden doll\na captain's portrait\na steel bracelet\na pewter goblet\na gorilla skull\na flintlock pistol"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have a music box, a glass bottle, a small fly, a sun-bleached skull, an apple, and a hang-glider. The glass bottle seems to contain a small black magnet and a piece of paper.\nAbruptly, the desert air seems to swirl around you. You blink your eyes, and when they open again, you're back where you came here from: At base of cliff\nYou are near the banks of the east-flowing river that starts from\nthe nearby waterfall. The ground is covered with large numbers of scattered rocks, all shapes and sizes. Not much grass grows here. The cliff is impassible to the west (unless you want to climb it), but the other directions are all possible."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The intense flames in the hallway force you back. You must find another exit."}, {"prompt": "You put all except the pen in the grille", "response": "voice transmitter: Done.\ntoolcase: Done.\nwrapped package: Done.\nThe footsteps to the north are closer now."}, {"prompt": "Peck cabinet", "response": "You jab your beak at the cabinet.\n\"Nnnnnnggggg,\" yells the enraged developer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the photographs", "response": "You pull out a picture of your Mom fussing over your hair on your first day of second grade. The memories return, sharp and clear. When Mom was still alive, she always knew how to make things right, stand you back up when you fell. Even when you broke your arm skateboarding she talked you into riding again...\nThe hot, humid atmosphere of the hold is almost overpowering."}, {"prompt": "You look up Kingfisher in almanach", "response": "Kingfisher certainly has an extensive entry, but it's not anything I don't already know.\nThe reporter explores the gallery, spying on various notables."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue.\nThe door slides open, and daylight spills over you. So does a sharp buzzer; and, moments later, three armed guards.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]"}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "Well, that wasn't too bad. You jump closer to the door."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You look at the stairs for a moment, but it's dark downstairs\u00e2\u00a6 and\nthe\nrocket man is waiting for you in the attic."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You can't go that way. You can leave by going out."}, {"prompt": "You look at the compartment", "response": "It's a box roughly 30 centimeters on a side, with a ruff of jagged metal that was ripped from an equipment rack. The whole thing is embedded sideways in a wall, which makes you glad you weren't hit by it when it came whizzing through the station. The compartment has a featureless door that is open. Inside you can see a logbook."}, {"prompt": "You ask the cashier about the tattoo", "response": "[Use TALK TO to interact with characters.]"}, {"prompt": "You think about food", "response": "The beast seems to be suffering extreme hunger."}, {"prompt": "You examine the spine", "response": "It bears the burden of a thousand living souls."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes...\nThe twists and turns are left behind as you approach the mouth of a dark tunnel."}, {"prompt": "You stand", "response": "You get down off the larger crate."}, {"prompt": "You open window", "response": "With a little effort, you're able to push the lower half of the window upward, letting in what passes for fresh air in rural Mississippi on a hot summer afternoon.\nThe crow flies away when you open the window ... but a moment later he's back, looking into the room with keen interest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gable", "response": "It's the largest building at this end of the town, perhaps some nine or ten metres high; it's basically a plain wooden structure with its gable end presented to the street."}, {"prompt": "You pull Cross", "response": "You are unable to."}, {"prompt": "You examine note", "response": "To: Window washing crew\nFrom: Cleaning crew manager\nSubject: Water in atrium\nThe cleaning crew has been complaining for several weeks about water collecting on the atrium floor, making cleanup more difficult, etc. We have determined that the source of the water is the window washing crew.\nPlease take note of the access hatch (SEE DIAGRAM BELOW) and DO NOT open this while the glass is still wet.\nThank you for your cooperation.\nJ. Stimms\nCleaning crew manager\nBelow this is a hand-drawn diagram showing a five-by-five grid of squares, with the square in the center emphatically circled."}, {"prompt": "You put the scarf in the vase", "response": "Done. Well, sort of done. I've crammed it in, but the scarf's still sticking out a bit."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Via Terminalis, West End\nYou stand in the terminus of the Via Terminalis, a cul-de-sac of steel spires and buildings aspiring to the heavens. From here the street-lamps and shop windows line the great spine of the Channelworks District until, shrouded in the mists of the canal, it curves out of sight.\nThe white cross of Doctor Cavala's clinic is to the west, and the dormitory block where you live lies to the north.\nSome pigeons fly overhead."}, {"prompt": "You look at the track", "response": "The tracks run away between the houses, heading southeast towards southern settlements and eventually to Tanhua. They stop at the edge of Broad Street, so this must be the end of the line for any supplies or visitors being brought up from the south -- though presumably there is a larger station and a proper loading and unloading dock elsewhere."}, {"prompt": "You remove helmet", "response": "As you start to slip the helmet from your head, you can feel the wooden staff writhe restlessly and muscularly beneath your hand. Alarmed, you set the helmet back in place."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.\nYou can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator, east to the Hospital Entry, or west to the Cafeteria."}, {"prompt": "You get all from the bo", "response": "I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.\nRetrying as:\n>GET ALL\ncopy of Doom III: Taken.\ne-peen hammer: That seems to belong to your evil twin.\nfine pewter space marine: Taken.\ndepleted uranium dog tags: Taken.\nOfficial Doom III Strategy guide: Taken.\nUnofficial Doom III Strategy Guide: Taken.\njewel case: Taken.\nDoom III DVD: The jewel case isn't open.\nMaking of Doom III Featurette DVD: The jewel case isn't open.\norder form: Taken.\nID code: Taken.\nSam chortles in glee."}, {"prompt": "You link the water in cup with the water in well", "response": "Liquids repel linkage, not being discrete bodies. (The Count once demonstrated this by linking a block of ice and letting you watch the link fade as the ice warmed.)\nThe sun burns off some of the water and onion dye."}, {"prompt": "You take the poker", "response": "(first putting the indecipherable map in the burlap sack to make room) Taken."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\nThe sound of tearing undergrowth grows louder. Whatever it is, it's practically bulldozing its way through the forest."}, {"prompt": "You examine the crow", "response": "The crow is large and black, and has beady black eyes. He's perched on the sill just outside the window, fluffing his wing feathers and pecking for lice.\nThe crow taps on the window with his beak."}, {"prompt": "You close door", "response": "You close the door."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The upstairs hallway is really nothing more than an annex between several other rooms of the house. There are exits leading north, northeast, east and south. A stairway leads down to the west.\nThe black cat runs into the room and rubs up against your legs."}, {"prompt": "You get the kettle", "response": "Although made of plastic, the kettle is still far too hot to pick up. The kettle, having boiled, switches itself off, and the red indicator light dies."}, {"prompt": "Rub locket", "response": "George looks around quickly and says, \"Where in the hell did that woman go?\"\nA tingling sensation runs up your spine and you feel a little lighter on your feet.\nYou are invisible."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe sleek black car flashes its lights, honks its horn, and shrills for help."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "You can only go out to the west."}, {"prompt": "You examine mail packet", "response": "Largely demands from people on Earth that Valenti pursue what happened to relatives long ago dead during the foundation of the Aleheart Colony. There's a particularly insistent batch about someone called Charla (the authors had apparently written to Valenti before, without satisfaction)."}, {"prompt": "You enter backstage", "response": "(the backstage door)\nYou can see the backstage door, the stage, some customers, Ginger Andrews, some tables, some dancers and a guard here.\nYou step through the door and right into the back of the guard. He is none too happy to see you and pushes you back into the manager's office where three more thugs are waiting.\n\"I caught this guy nosin' 'round backstage, boss. Whatdya want I should do wit 'im?\"\n\"Thank you, Rocky. You may leave him with us and return to your post.\"\n\"Duh. OK Boss.\"\nThe boss pulls out a .38 and points it at your chest while one of the other thugs grabs your arms from behind.\nThe one with the gun says, \"Well look what we have here boys.\"\nThe one holding your arms says, \"Looks like a spy, boss.\"\nThe thin one with a face like a weasel says, \"And look what I found in his pocket, boss.\" He holds your gun.\n\"Mickey Boy, I think you better take Mr. Nosey for a ride.\"\nSoon you find yourself shoved in the back of a black sedan. Some fifteen minutes later you find yourself on a dark pier being fitted for a new pair of cement overshoes. They're a little tight but it doesn't matter. You won't notice them for long.\nJust then your mother reaches over and shuts off the radio. \"Honestly, Junior. I don't know why you bother filling your head with all those silly detective stories. Now get off to bed.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the card in the slot", "response": "The card clicks in the slot, and the metal enclosure swings open."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "rat droppings: The rat droppings are of no conceivable use to you.\nonions: The onions are of no conceivable use to you.\nscrewdriver: Taken.\nwooden bucket: Taken.\nburlap sack: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the case", "response": "A thin, leather-bound case used for transporting private documents. It's more effective when onlookers can only see in three dimensions.\nThe attach\ufffd\ufffd case is mystically sealed, presumably to protect its contents from the opposition. The barrier is also keeping me from accessing its contents, a confidential codebook, as long as it's closed.\nWith evident trepidation, the gambler approaches the poker table and starts a game.\nThe cards are dealt, and the gambler and the card sharp toss some\nchips onto the table and look at each other warily."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "This simple wooden pier juts into the sea. Pylons, evenly spaced, provide perches for cawing gulls. Coils of rope lie about\nhere and there.On the horizon there is a smudge that might be the island. Or a wave. It's hard to tell. You can't imagine how\nthis could be any more boring. Or dreadful. Oh, and it has begun to rain.\nThe angry pelican swivels its head back and forth, peering at\nyou from many angles.\nThe hooded man stands here in a black rain coat with the hood concealing his face.\nMr. Henrico stands here looking very droll and boring.\nYou can also see a garish sign and a ferry here.\nA constant patter of rain falls about you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "A long, vaulted room, lined with cages of filigree and jewels. All of the animals are motionless and still, perhaps through the art of a taxidermist. In one cage is an elephant, so short that he reaches only to your knee; you easily could lift him under one arm and carry him away. In another cage, a giant mouse lies, curled as though slumbering, his paws folded in the semblance of prayer.\nMounted on a swivel on the wall is what looks like an irregular hourglass, one bulb larger than the other. There is no sand within -- nor could there be, since the contraption is open at each end. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "You're not going anywhere until you get out of the couch.\nYou hear the news starting on the TV.\nRain taps on the little square windows."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Rows of seats descend towards a raised stage. A pair of cages stand on the stage, surrounded by machinery that crackles with electricity.\nDr. Sliss stands on the stage, trying to lecture on matter transmission theory.\nAn audience of gentlemen in top hats chatter loudly amongst themselves, mostly about \"the lizard woman\".\nDr. Sliss tries to be heard over the hubbub. \"-more advanced civilisations-\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Henry about Mandy", "response": "\"Whatever Mandy told you to tell me, I don't want to hear it. She's a raving maniac if she thinks I'm going to take her to dinner.\"\nYou hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door."}, {"prompt": "You ask about Spaniards", "response": "Alan Biddock scratches his beard in puzzlement."}, {"prompt": "Examine book", "response": "This book has been badly damaged. What's left of its few remaining pages is hard to read. You're able to make out a single chapter heading:\n.........sho...be taken..extreme danger when pow....the....ine. ..........................................wrong..be disastrous!\n..to control..e..eatures...en...uting the port................... ............first...squ.....irc..hen...tr..gle...................\n.irst set..to...bl...en then red........not ..d..whit..een,.this... woul..free....eings from....other wor.......................... ......when ..dy ...lace th....block, the..snak...k,..he man...ck\nthen fin....ar block...will secu......ortal....................\nMP...ANT!....ke....uickly...clo..ikes...elve is ..too..ate!\nAnd that's all."}, {"prompt": "You put the detergent on the monster", "response": "Putting things on the monster would achieve nothing.\nThe monster takes a swipe at you with razor sharp claws. It literally misses by a hair, making claw marks in your shirt without piercing your skin."}, {"prompt": "You examine the songlantern", "response": "The songlantern hums and burbles, circled by brightening words, evading the bars and piercing the silence and darkness.\nThe songlantern murmurs and sings."}, {"prompt": "Spells", "response": "The gnusto, rezrov, and frotz spells are yours forever. Other than that, you have no spells memorized."}, {"prompt": "Infect beast", "response": "It's always moontime here. Midnight doesn't figure into moontime."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is open.\nTwo rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet.\nOn the larger crate is a bolt wrench."}, {"prompt": "You glare at Bob", "response": "\"You would think an old man like me would know something about that, but if I do, I've forgotten.\"\nBob works on the boards of the porch, tapping loose nails back into place. Then he spies the hole where one of the boards was removed, and looks up at you with a smile. \"Would you hand me that board?\" he asks you. \"I sure would appreciate it.\""}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips which illuminate the area.\nStorage Closet (on the smaller crate)\nThis room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is open.\nTwo rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet."}, {"prompt": "You wait for Transit", "response": "You see a small mouse scurry along the Transit Web and vanish back into the tunnels.\nWarning lights along the platform edge begin to blink rapidly. A light grows in the tunnel. With a deep moan and gust of wind, an express Transit Capsule blasts through Green Residential and vanishes into the darkness once more.\nA commuter walks by.\nA commuter walks by.\nA light grows in the tunnel. With a deep thrumming and the whoosh of displaced air, the Transit Capsule slides smoothly into Green Residential Platform and comes to a stop, hovering in the Web. The doors slide open and a few commuters enter and exit the capsule.\nA few commuters get on and off the Transit capsule."}, {"prompt": "You take the cow", "response": "You pick up the cow."}, {"prompt": "You drop scarf", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "Thread needle", "response": "(first taking the needle)\nThere's nothing appropriate with which to do that."}, {"prompt": "Examine poster", "response": "Most of the poster has been torn away. What remains is the profile of a woman, looking down in concern, and the word \"YOU'RE.\"\nAmy wonders what the poster wanted to say, and whether it was at all sincere."}, {"prompt": "B.", "response": "You turn to face behind you and bound away.\nHalfway down the hall, the non-solid mow has slats from the top to the bottom, like what is on the window in your place. It has a wonderful fresh smell that makes you want to lie down and go to sleep, if only there were something soft enough to sleep on. The solid mow on the opposite side greets you with a welcoming and familiar scent from between it and the floor. You would know it anywhere -- it is Him. He is not here, but beyond is surely His lair."}, {"prompt": "You examine blackberries", "response": "(the ripe blackberry)\nLarge and ripe, this blackberry just begs to be eaten."}, {"prompt": "You take the basket", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The grassy stretch of land continues here. The forest is some way off in all directions except to the west where you see open grassland and a lone tree across the river. There is a hut a short way to the north and a round structure to the southeast.\nA narrow plank spans the river."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "\"I don't think you're quite getting it,\" Puffy tsks in disappointment as you leave the room. \"Perhaps a snack and a drink would help?\" He turns away.\nCome to think, you've never had the foggiest what a peristyle is, but this pillar-and-porch number here seems as reasonable a candidate as any (though twist your arm, it looks just like a courtyard to you).\nThere's a small closet in an outbuilding to the north and the exit to the countryside lies west, but more appealing are the paths southward, source of drinking songs and belches, and eastwards, whence quiet music and some jolly bracing incense waft. The stairs back down to the cellars are off in a dingy corner.\nThere's a stone fountain at the center of the courtyard, happily burbling just the way you do after Alky's made you drink number seven."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The monkey arrives on your heels.\nThe stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.\nThe monkey is still with you."}, {"prompt": "Scissors", "response": "You play scissors.\nYour opponent plays scissors.\n[press any key to continue]The tension grows thicker as\neveryone in the gym registers the draw in their heads. You meet eyes with the president and raise your eyebrows to indicate that you're in control. They look away from you.\nThe referee opens her mouth again.\nYou can feel the blessing of Petra, the goddess of rock, guiding you.\n\"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!\""}, {"prompt": "You put the screwdriver in the bottle", "response": "If you ever got it in, would you be able to get it out?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the plaque", "response": "The plaque reads:\nAmos B. Emery (1895-1973) was born in Edmond, Kansas and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1915 to 1922, his studies interrupted by World War I service in France from 1917 to 1919. His design of the Gothic Tower, completed in 1927, was completed while working for Proudfoot, Rawson, Soeurs and Thomas; in 1930 he established his own office."}, {"prompt": "You look at the curtain", "response": "Penny's, $7.99, and that's not even on sale!\nThe black cat sits by your feet and purrs."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You wade out into the dark water.\nThe Shore (in the ocean)\nYellow, strong-smelling foam is building up where the surf meets the land."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The rocky field ends at the edge of a dark wood. The forbidding trees block your way."}, {"prompt": "You open the doll drawer", "response": "/\nWith some trepidation (your grandmother owned some terrifying dolls), you open the doll drawer. Fortunately, all you find is Dr. Bagel. What's up, Dr. Bagel?\nThe sight of food makes you drool all over your dinner jacket."}, {"prompt": "You look in the drawer", "response": "You shout, \"George, what do you see in the desk drawer?\"\nGeorge hollers through the door, \"I see Mr. Lewis's keys in there.\""}, {"prompt": "Open case", "response": "That's not something you can open.\nIn your hunger, you hallucinate poached turbot on a platter and hedged around with lightly seared summer vegetables."}, {"prompt": "You look at the doors", "response": "These doors lead outside. Through them you can see a long line of people waiting to enter the hotel. The line appears to have no end.\nOnce again, the desk clerk points his fountain pen at the guest register and says, \"Increment!\" Then he runs over to the double doors, opens them just enough to let the next person in line into the lobby, closes them again, and runs back to his desk. The guest wanders off into the depths of the hotel.\nYou continue to find the clerk's \"Incrementing\" of the guest register rather annoying."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "That's definitely Russian from the car below."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pentagram", "response": "Just your run of the mill pentagram. About six feet across, artfully carved into the floor. You know. Perfectly normal pentagam. Perfectly normal bathroom."}, {"prompt": "You take the can", "response": "(the can of beans)\nTaken.\nMother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are wearing your natron jacket, your clothes, and an animus pendant (containing the spirit of your father). On your person are a note with Zoiro's address, today's copy of the Libri Liberi,\nyour practitioner's badge, your scalpel, your purse, and an antiseptic cloth."}, {"prompt": "You eat the cabbage", "response": "Fasten one eye to Jenny as you pull a cabbage from a bed. Brush down those leaves, shake out soil, before munching its head, and then notice too late that Jenny's heard the crunch. She's turned toward you, and what she does is smile with delight. What's her work worth without stomachs to feed? Go on and finish munching. You've her approval."}, {"prompt": "You examine the clarinet", "response": "A poorly-maintained electro-clarinet. Along the side of the instrument are a square fuse slot (containing a dead fuse) and round hole for a music chip (containing nothing)."}, {"prompt": "Sing markings", "response": "You manage to pick out a short musical passage inscribed on the artifact, including one featuring a musical tension between low, repetitive clusters and longer, higher notes. But almost as soon as you grasp the sense of the notes, you lose it, trailing off uncertainly."}, {"prompt": "You read about the telephone call in the notebook", "response": "Sheppard called his bank manager, 8:20 pm; was concerned about finances. Manager suggested speaking to Crane?"}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You've spent enough time on that boat; it's time to move on."}, {"prompt": "You put the berry in the center path", "response": "That can't contain things.\nThe pika dashes to the top of a nearby pink boulder, pauses, and lets out a loud \"neep!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the concrete", "response": "The broken rubble is all that remains of whatever building once stood here."}, {"prompt": "Light fuse", "response": "You must state what you would like to light the fuse with."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You are on a quiet street corner in the little town of Fairhaven.\nMaple Drive runs north from here to your house, while Oak Street runs west. A rusty old manhole (closed) is set squarely in the middle of the road."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are wearing your clothes. On your person is nothing of importance."}, {"prompt": "You put the chocolate leaf in the contraption", "response": "You put the chocolate leaf into the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Stumbling and squirming among the brambles, you find that you've arrived in....\nYou're in the midst of a tangled thicket of thorny bramble-bushes. You have to edge sideways to avoid being impaled on the long, sharp, vicious-looking thorns, and it's hardly possible to stand up straight for fear you'll tangle your hair in them. Littering the ground is a random scatter of dried twigs.\nNarrow, twisting paths lead off in all directions.\nA large black fly buzzes straight at your face, then zips away."}, {"prompt": "You close sliding door", "response": "The door scrapes shut, its jam lock jamming it shut once again."}, {"prompt": "You read 7", "response": "(first taking Their Terrible Forms)\nYou open up Their Terrible Forms.\nThe author, evidently a geocultist in an advanced stage of madness, outlines everything that he has discovered about curse-stones. He appears to flirt with the view that it might not actually be possible to tessellate the stones to form a perfect solid and that those that claim to have done so are deluding themselves."}, {"prompt": "Full", "response": "You have so far scored 8 out of a possible 100, in 29 turns, earning you the rank of pussyfooter.\nThe score is made up as follows:\n6 hunting a bird (and nearly being successful)\n8 total (out of 100)"}, {"prompt": "Energetically", "response": "Four five six steps along the trickling stream.\nHer spine aligned: left turn, right turn, now twist."}, {"prompt": "You join the cables", "response": "trailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating two coiled lengths."}, {"prompt": "You put the bottle in the front of yourself", "response": "It's not worth it. Believe me."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The only feature breaking the monotony of the circular room made of polished white marble is a huge statue. Hewn from flawless mountain crystal, it portrays the goddess Sul.\nA vast slug covered in green ooze has positioned itself in this room.\nYou can also feel Mouser, Fafhrd, an unguentum argenti and a war mask here.\nExits lead east (to Library) and down (to Temple of Nomos).\nMouser concentrates, and is now mildly concentrated.\nFafhrd rushes towards you."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're standing in a vast, mystical cavern. Stalactites shimmer in\nthe pale green lamplight, and brightly-colored beds of moss catch your eye. Pale glowing mists swirl at your feet. Shadows seem to leap from dark crevices in the corner, and breezes, some cold, some hot, nip at your cheeks. Magic seems to flow from the very rocks, tingling your toes.\nTunnels run north and south, and a narrow crawl climbs up to the\neast. At the west end of the cavern is a freshly whitewashed gazebo.\nYou see an oar, a small cardboard box, a brown book, a spade, a\ntrowel, a pillow, and a lump of gold here."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\nUncle Wally's corpse\na body bag (being worn and open)\na pole hook\na swipe card\na roll of duct tape\na flintlock\na cupcake"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The monkey scampers beside you.\nThe vaulted ceiling of this huge room is at least fifty feet above you. A double row of fat pillars lines the east and west walls. The pillars can't very well be real gold (can they?), but they look like gold. You tread lightly, yet your footsteps echo.\nAt the north end of the room stands a huge and hideous black statue. It's at least twenty feet tall, and looks almost exactly like the little statuettes you've seen at Eternal Springs - so much like them that looking at it makes your mouth dry and your hands cold. Before the statue is a polished cube of black stone six feet high.\nThe high arched doorway that leads back to the courtyard is to the south. There's also a passage to the north, but to reach it you'll have to pass quite close to the hideous statue.\nThe monkey is standing close by."}, {"prompt": "Assail godzilla", "response": "A skillful attack if you do say so yourself! You scored 41 points\nof damage!\n\"Owie!\"\nThe SLAVER KING inhales, and releases a BLAST OF PHASIC\nRADIATION from his maw! ... but you are un-harmed, for the the\nAMULET of SCIENCE unleashes a PRISMATIC BUBBLE WALL BARRIER of ANTI-PHASIC RESISTANCE, spraying scientific force back in the\nface of the SLAVER KING! The SLAVER KING suffers from his own\nPHASIC onslaught!"}, {"prompt": "Light Grunk", "response": "(with chair)\nOw! Fire hot!\nPig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Boss say Grunk go find pig, bring it back. Him say, if Grunk not bring back pig, not bring back Grunk either. Grunk like working at pig farm, so now Grunk need find pig.\nGrunk think that pig probably go this way. It hard to tell at night time, because moon not bright as sun. There forest to east and north. It even darker there, and Grunk hear lots of strange animal. West of Grunk, there big field with little stone wall. Farm back to south."}, {"prompt": "You hold the breath", "response": "I don't know the word \"hold\".\nI don't know the word \"hold\"."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about Ketu", "response": "\"Ketu, the Contemplation Planet, is the dragon's tail. It is an invisible planet, one of two key secret planets studied in Vedic astrology.\""}, {"prompt": "You move corpse", "response": "You have no desire at all to touch the thing. Man. Person."}, {"prompt": "You read the graves", "response": "\"Klara Von Goethe, 1837-1885\"\nThis must be Konstanza Von Goethe's mother, Viktor Von Goethe's late wife. The nature of their journey here was beginning to look very much more like a pilgrimage.... In fact, it now looked as though Viktor Von Goethe had deliberately come here for the specific purpose of dying."}, {"prompt": "Assail darth", "response": "By Huron's perverted puppetry! A mighty blow! You scored 16 points\nof damage!\nYou see why they call him VON DARTH THE SLY! He is suddenly attacking your left side, just as you moved to defend your right! You have suffered 7 hits of damage!"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into darkness.\nThe Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass tank.\nJusty works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else.\nYou can also see an electric violin, a cold slice of pizza, an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "The serene white illumination comes as a shock to your eyes after\nfollowing dim lamplight for so long, but this chamber is patient while\nyou blink; a circular room with smooth walls and concentric steps down\nto a shallow well.\nThe Stone itself is resting in the well: an obelisk whose irregular\nfacets contrast so sharply with the perfect roundness of the walls\nthat it almost seems alive."}, {"prompt": "You see Princess", "response": "(Presumably, you mean Princess Tasmania.)\nNot unexpectedly, Princess Tasmania is arrayed in high platypus fashion.\nThe King Anatinus glares at you with annoyance.\n\"You dare to ignore a royal gift?\" he cries, deeply offended. \"I see. Perhaps a short visit to the granola mines will teach you some respect!\"\nThe King turns you into a platypus with an angry wave of his scepter, and the guards lead you away to twenty years of backbreaking labor.\nYour score is 51 points out of 100, in 284 moves.\nDo you want to restart the story, restore a saved position, or quit?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the shelf", "response": "As good-looking as ever.\nYou are horrendously drunk."}, {"prompt": "You open the trapdoor", "response": "The trapdoor is locked. You look at Ardavaan and shake your head.\nAs you withdraw from the trapdoor Ardavaan takes your place. He weighs your axe and checks its landing position, then strikes with force. Your axe lands on the lock with an amazing precision. A third strike breaks the lock.\nYour amazement is short-lived, however. As he opens the trapdoor he hands you back your axe with three unsightly dents on its blade."}, {"prompt": "You examine the stick", "response": "Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a staff, it's so long and sturdy. Father says he's really just practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier, but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things."}, {"prompt": "You read the label", "response": "In a tiny, flowery script that looks hand-stitched (in glossy pink thread, naturally), the label says, \"Another fine item of personal adornment from the Garmenteria d'Frobozz. Post-release bugs found and reported by Daphne Brinkerhoff, David Silberman, and Arnel Legaspi.\""}, {"prompt": "You look up Elder Sign in Edwin", "response": "I have studied many different supposed \"Elder Signs\" and found that in practice most do not work. Only one has proven mostly effective, but there are still many things that do not respect it."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "You've reached the roof over the wings. The hot sun makes you neck prickly. You see the top of an air shaft with a ladder leading down. There is a double-hung casement window in the wall to the West."}, {"prompt": "You buy the soap", "response": "You buy and take a bottle of Dr. Bronner's Pepermint Soap, the closest you can get to having God in a bottle."}, {"prompt": "You play the flute", "response": "(the strange metal flute)\n(first taking the strange metal flute)\n(slipping the bundle of soggy pages into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken.\nYou blow an open chord into the little flute, and it resonates with an eerie, metallic warble. The sound lingers in the air for a moment, then gently fades away."}, {"prompt": "You put the sword under the gate", "response": "You plunge the sword down into the flowing water, its point catches against the channel's stone bottom. You tuck the sword's hilt under the gate's lower edge. The arrangement holds, keeping the gate fully open."}, {"prompt": "You open the chow", "response": "That's already open.\nFUEL CONDUIT -> ACCESS : NIL"}, {"prompt": "Poker in sack", "response": "very large, softly pulsing ruby:\n(first taking the very large, softly pulsing ruby)\nDone.\npoker:\n(first taking the poker)\nDone."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Wheeee!!!\nThis is obviously the heart of a large coal mine, illuminated by a wall-mounted lamp. The bottom of a metal coal chute is visible at the north end of the room. Another chute continues downward at the southern end. A large coal bin is overflowing, and the floor is completely covered with lumps of coal. A passage leads east, but a western passage is blocked by rubble.\nStanding here, looking quite confused, is someone who could only be your younger self -- an exact duplicate of you, but cleaner and breathing with considerably less difficulty. You remember seeing this scene from another viewpoint just a short while ago. Among the items carried by your \"twin\" is your spell book."}, {"prompt": "You examine Art", "response": "You inspect one of the many artworks here and see a wild and muddy swirl of disorganized brushstrokes on a piece of wood.\nMidnight strikes and a new day dawns.\n(This is day number 61)"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na blanket\na hooded jacket combo\na strange device\na giant backpack (being worn, and open)\nsome survival supplies (running low)\na collapsible tent (closed)"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are on a wide ledge high in the volcano. The rim of the volcano is about 200 feet above and there is a precipitous drop to the bottom. There is a small door to the south.\nThere is a white book here.\nThere is a large and extremely heavy wicker basket here. An enormous cloth bag attached to the basket is inflated. A metal receptacle is fastened to the center of the basket. In it is a burning newspaper. A piece of wire tied to a hook holds the balloon in place."}, {"prompt": "You examine electronic device", "response": "You can't quite determine the function of this device; you've never seen anything like it before. Its major component is a short barrel, which contains a low-powered laser."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "(first opening the ER door)\nYou can go north to Hospital Lobby, east to the Emergency Room, and west through the ER door to Hospital Driveway from here.\nThere is a Public Surveillance Notice here.\nYou hear a very quiet beep from somewhere you can't identify.\nThe automatic door slides closed."}, {"prompt": "You count the spiders", "response": "Led by a sudden curiosity, you start to count the spiders drawn on the walls to know exactly how many they are. However, after a while, you lose count and have to start over again. Your excellent sight in the dark is still too weak and you cannot focus for more than a few seconds. At the end, there seem to be 69 spiders."}, {"prompt": "Full", "response": "In that game you scored 33 out of a possible 33, in 6063 turns, giving you the rank of lifelong companion.\nThe score was made up as follows:\n4 for gastronomical gymnastics\n2 for constructive campanology\n3 for advanced aviation\n1 for matching millinery\n3 for silicon surgery\n1 for amateur archeology\n2 for feline philately\n2 for furry fashion\n2 for paper pile perusal\n3 for moving machinery\n3 for drawer derailment\n1 last lousy point\n33 total (out of 33)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the device", "response": "The black device doesn't have the half-built, rigged quality of the other machinery nearby. It is curved, polished, and sleek. It has faired vents along the top. There is a round alcove in its front,\nwhich contains a glass pot. The only control is a tiny black switch."}, {"prompt": "You check the messages", "response": "You key in your pass-code to activate the terminal.\nThe following messages are available for you to read or reply to:\n11:21 am: Instructions\n10:02 am: Hello From Ivory Coast\n9:34 am: Shuttle Departure Plans"}, {"prompt": "You put the candle on the stove", "response": "Putting things on the stove while it's switched on would be dangerous."}, {"prompt": "Doff cloak", "response": "You take off the velvet cloak."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The catwalk allows the techs access to the stage lighting hung above the audience ceiling. You bend low to crawl along, trying not to think about the 30 foot drop through the flimsy structure if you should loose your footing."}, {"prompt": "You get the cube", "response": "As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.\nThe six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly white and featureless. A single silver compass rose, balancing a delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the floor.\nAn animated burin hovers over your head."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "The library is a cramped room cluttered with bookcases that barely leave room for the armchair and the fireplace. An empty bracket juts out above the uncovered window. The open orange door leads west and\nthe open window reveals the greenhouse roof to the east."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself."}, {"prompt": "Y.", "response": "The bed does look inviting. Should I sleep now?\nWearily, I repeat the motions of undressing and crawl into bed.\nMorning. I exhale slowly and run my fingertips along my arms, feeling the plasters there. Apparently, last night wasn't just a dream.\nRising from the bed, I stumble over to the cupboard to dress - almost tripping on the open drawer on the way. Did I forget to close it last night?\nExcuse me?"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here.\nA door to the n, leading out back, is open."}, {"prompt": "You examine the piping", "response": "Pipes of various sizes run along the ceiling. You guess they carry water, gas or waste."}, {"prompt": "You examine the echidna", "response": "YIt's a slightly squashed prickly monotreme. Given that it's stuffed, it's not likely it'll lay eggs any time soon."}, {"prompt": "You open the bundle", "response": "You open up the cloth bundle, which turns out in fact to be a fine cloak, wrapped tightly around some documents. (A shame to risk such a good cloak, you reflect; the barrel is probably proof against damp, but there's always the chance of something getting inside. But perhaps whoever wrapped it up expected to be back soon.)\nIn your hunger, you hallucinate little grey-pink mushrooms."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "This is a small store run by Philip Vilheila-Pereira, the uncle of Joaquin Vilheila-Pereira, one of the missing persons. Barrels of tobacco are the only furnishings in this place. The door to the street is to the southwest.\nKeeping watch over his store is Philip himself. He eyes you cautiously.\nYou can also see Lambert Gunning, Liana Farnham and Tate Walczak here.\nPhilip sticks his head into a barrel and breathes deeply the tobacco fumes.\nLambert stares at you.\nTate discusses the merits of owning a vacuum cleaner with Liana.\nLiana looks around."}, {"prompt": "You drop the sword then punch the self then get sword", "response": "Dropped.\n\"The robot held up one of its legs, then opened the claw at its end, then put the leg down again.\"\nI didn't understand that sentence."}, {"prompt": "You put Book in Gap", "response": "You slide the book of foul Spells into the Gap. It fits perfectly, & the Library is whole. Relieved are you to be free of the burden of that terrible, numbing Presence.\nLife is slow to return to the Hand that held the evil Tome."}, {"prompt": "You get the shirt", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You show her the the holograms", "response": "Marie looks at each of the holograms in turn, tears forming in her simulated eyes. \"Yes,\" she says. \"That was me. That was my life.\"\nMarie seems to relax a little, but still remains cautious."}, {"prompt": "Again", "response": "(Dr Roylott)\nYour smile broadens.\nHe says, \"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!\"\n[You can PROVOKE Dr. Roylott or DISMISS him.]"}, {"prompt": "You open the grate", "response": "It seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The Road of Change is a snaking, secretive thing. It curls in the side streets and in the dark places. Here along the canal, the opulence of the Upper Perioch peels away to reveal midnight hues and scarlet lamps, and rivers of black blood like festering scars in the city's skin.\nTo the north is the grand forum, bleak and empty, while to the south the Shanty Quarter begins."}, {"prompt": "You eat guard", "response": "\"What time, Sir Jarlsberg?\" he yawns. \"By god's bones, root beer fogs the faculties\u2026\"\nFirst he blinks, and then he rubs his eyes, and then he blinks again. It takes him a moment to register what's happening. He lunges for his swordfish, finds nothing, stumbles onto his feet gripping thin air.\n\"Pilfered mine blade, intruder? I'll fistfight thee then!\""}, {"prompt": "Squawk glamor", "response": "\"Squawk!\" you squawk. \"Magic! Magic!\"\nThe Prince's eye goes to you. \"Your bird, madam, is freakishly percipient. Positively unnatural.\"\n\"Yes,\" she says. \"Though I promise you it arrived in that condition and was not made so by anyone in this house.\" She sighs. \"You are in a difficult situation,\" says the old lady. \"You are too intelligent not to have considered the problem thoroughly, and all the risks involved in choosing someone under those circumstances.\"\nLucinda's lips tighten. \"Magic is abhorrent to God,\" she says.\n\"That is certainly the opinion of some,\" the old lady agrees. \"I myself wonder whether He would have encompassed in His creation any power which He considered wholly evil. But that is a private philosophy, and does not excuse a violation of the law.\" She glances at the Prince. \"Forgive me: I stray from your problem.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "On the desk is a microfiche reader."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are wearing:\nyour llama-suit\nYou are carrying:\nan obloid red berry\nthe somnuliser\nthe attuning set\na Winkerchief"}, {"prompt": "You open the machine", "response": "You open the cabinet, revealing a severed right foot."}, {"prompt": "You sit", "response": "What do you want to sit on?"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The hallway from the south ends here. Rosalita's wooden door\nstands to the north. Danny's hand-carved door is to the\nwest. And your very own bright yellow door lies to the\neast: the janitor's closet.\nThe radio is playing I Can't Go For That."}, {"prompt": "You count Carter", "response": "You see 13770 Carter keys here."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe statue continues, \"If you look closely, you'll see that the wand's shaft has three colored sections. When you came in, the colors were red-green-blue.\""}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "This is a featureless blind alley, a dead end. Through the narrow and heavily shadowed opening to the northeast, you can see the square and the obelisk at its center."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "Do you mean going west (to the kitchen) or going east (to the scullery)?"}, {"prompt": "You look at food", "response": "Looks perfect."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[It's about your mother...]"}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The goblin yells and gives you a solid whack with its club. You counterattack and cut its arm.\n(You lose 3 hit points.)"}, {"prompt": "You look at the pictures", "response": "A brief history of your maternal family tree. Uncles and aunts you have a passing acquaintance with mingle with more distant relatives. Dotted here and there are Monet prints. Your Aunt May loved Monet."}, {"prompt": "You close the gate", "response": "Even such an action is beyond your capabilities."}, {"prompt": "You attach the wire to the door", "response": "You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole.\n\"Aww, that's just nasty,\" H.R. says."}, {"prompt": "You look at the escape", "response": "Which do you mean, the fire escape staircase or the door?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the angels", "response": "The \"angels\" are oysters, and they are \"on horseback\" because they've been wrapped in bacon. These angels have also been speared with a skewer, which the swan-lady is holding to her beak between thumb and forefinger."}, {"prompt": "You wear the shades", "response": "The mirror shades filter the brightness of day perfectly, removing your squint and making it easier to smile. Careful wearing them indoors though.\nYou put on the pair of mirror shades."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "This is a large rectangular room. The east and west walls were used for storing safety deposit boxes, but all have been carefully removed by evil persons. To the east, west, and south of the room are large doorways. The northern \"wall\" of the room is a shimmering curtain of light. In the center of the room is a large stone cube, about 10 feet on a side. Engraved on the side of the cube is some lettering."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-east", "response": "Like every other aisle in the library, this one is lined on both sides by bookshelves. The only way out is to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "As you enter Birdcage Walk, your attention is diverted to a man who has set up a small souvenir stand near where the parade will pass on Tuesday. Hoping to attract the attention of the crowd, he is waving a handful of overpriced trinkets over his head.\nAs soon as he sees you, the salesman ignores everyone else and says, \"'Ere, Guv. Come early for the parade, 'ave you? There'll be thousands of people, you know. Now at the last Jubilee - about a year and a 'alf ago, as I remembers it - I could 'ardly see a fing. But if you was to buy one of my telescopes, you wouldn't 'ardly 'ave any problem, now would you? 'Ow 'bout it, Guv?\"\nThe detective trails along after you."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a poker and a wooden staff, and you're wearing your clothes, a stone bracelet, a golden cape, and a golden helmet."}, {"prompt": "Limp", "response": "This bratwurst is dripping with grease."}, {"prompt": "You examine the door", "response": "This idle door is actually the barrier you have to worry about. I guess if the arch is the symbolic barrier, then this door is the literal barrier. By \"literal\" here I mean \"literal-within-the-dream-world.\"\nIn the door is another keyhole-depression, this one in the shape of, like, a V with a ridiculous curly thing attached to it."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "The female goblin blocks your path. \"You can't go in here,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "To the northeast are the miniature tree-spotted hills of nTopia's park. On the southeast corner is the police station. A Starbucks is on the southwest corner. Neon signs and flashing screens glint from the establishment to the northwest, Arcadia Ego."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Some of the acid sloshes out of the bottle of acid.\nSlowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...\nYou're in a small gap between the cars. Small maintenance tunnels lead south and north, although they are rather small and probably not safe when the train is in motion. A maintenance hatch above you offers more traditional passage on the train.\nA prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the \"closed\" position."}, {"prompt": "Adv", "response": "You head out to Black Knife Dungeon. The weather is cool and breezy. You arrive and enter cautiously....\nPress SPACE.\nYou follow a sloping passage, working your way around a pile of rubble. You walk through a doorway into a torture room.\nA goblin jumps up and shouts, \"Blorg!\" It has long arms and a perpetual scowl. It wears a tattered loincloth and wields a wooden club."}, {"prompt": "You cut the snake with the knife", "response": "Cutting him up would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "A heavy plastrex door hangs loosely in the door frame, tenuously attached by one frail hinge. The door swings wildly in the wind.\nDAMAGED AIRLOCK -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You look at the copy", "response": "A white book with a blue spine, entitled \"Dungeon Exploration\". There's a picture of a giant clamshell on the cover, thus the nickname. Flipping through the book brings nothing to your eye that seems relevant to your current situation.\nYou hear echoing voices from the north."}, {"prompt": "You climb the ladder", "response": "You clamber up the ladder."}, {"prompt": "You open the drain cover", "response": "You open the drain cover."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "N = next subject                                                  P =\nRETURN = read subject                                        Q = prev\nious menu\nCan the creature be revived?\n> When will the egg hatch?\nWill the amniotic fluid harm my hands?\nThe lily is crushing me.\nMy possessions are lost!\nCan I go back to the house for something?\nWhat's the broad leaf for?"}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "The downtown and campus are focused on this pedestrian-only open air shopping mall. Dozens of shops and throngs of pedestrians create a big-city feel for a few blocks. The proximity of the large state university campus means the crowd is quite young, and weekend nights are often a mix of the charming antics of local eccentrics with less charming rowdy sophomoric intoxication. The Miffyland neighborhood is south, the Capitol is east, and the lakeshore residential neighborhood is north. Notable shops are northwest and southwest.\nA panhandler asks you for change, and you give him a dollar."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "You sing quietly to yourself for a while, trying to calm yourself down."}, {"prompt": "You take all from the mirror", "response": "tube of suntan lotion: Taken.\npill bottle: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You remove dress", "response": "As you go to remove the silk dress, a chilling wind causes you to think better of it.\nThe rain runs down your neck in rivulets."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The oak dryad peers down at you as you stand in this small clearing in the dark wood. The moonlight filters through his dark bare branches and makes unusual patterns on the snowy ground. A path runs through the little clearing from the east to the west, but many other directions appear passable as well.\nA lit lantern hangs just within your reach from one of the long twisted branches of the oak."}, {"prompt": "You take the winding key", "response": "You grab the winding key."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south-west", "response": "It's a kitchen large enough to prepare grub for the Heffer family and all Glen Heffer's hired help--what most people in Tumbleweed Flats call hired guns. (And you might want to count the Heffer ranch-house cook among your supporters. After all, you did lighten his workload by one.)  There's a big cast-iron stove over to one side, and a huge array of pots and pans and other dishes in various stages of use, being used, and getting ready to be used again. Walking north will take you straight into the west wing, while northeast leads back to the main entrance. South continues right on out the back door.\n\"What are we doing in the kitchen?\" Sarah asks, following you nonetheless."}, {"prompt": "You examine the candle", "response": "I guess Charles thinks that if the banquet is lit with these, people won't be able to see how tacky the whole thing is.\nFrank sips at his drink nervously."}, {"prompt": "You look at the corpses", "response": "Not fresh corpses by any means. These have been left to rot for such a span their skin's shrunken, muscles withered to bone-stuck strings. Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will happen."}, {"prompt": "You open the locker", "response": "The locker pulses under your hands, and you feel the seal cracking. You're confident, secure, and half in the bag. You've cleared the hotel of the other ghosts. All that's left to do is polish off this one last one.\n1) I'm done with this place! Let's guzzle us a ghost!\n2) Nah, I'm not ready yet."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "As good-looking as ever."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Meadows Park isn't a tropical forest, but still it's a quite big and beautiful park. A few hedges, tall trees and gravel alleys: it's a quiet, calm and clean place. The park border is on the west, and the alleys follow the north, south or east."}, {"prompt": "Reply", "response": "There's no good reply to make.\nCheryl says, \"If I manage to find a way to win the war, they'll forgive me. But I can't tell them about it yet. They don't trust you at all. I don't really trust you. But we've worked together, so I'm sure I can keep you under control, and more importantly, I'm sure you can get me access. I know you can do this. I don't know if anybody else could.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the coffee", "response": "The clouds in your cup form a biplane. Modes of transportation mean that your current environment presents challenges that can only be overcome by seeking fresh perspectives elsewhere until you're ready to return."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "Ventilation Shaft (as the probe)\nYou are at the connection between a large vertical shaft and the horizontal duct which allows air flow to the rooms on this floor. Small ducts branch off in many directions."}, {"prompt": "Ground", "response": "(the ground)\nLornedei digs a hole in the dry ground.\nLornedei's shadow jerks to life, reaches for her ankle, and pulls. She stumbles."}, {"prompt": "You look at the armadillo", "response": "A fine specimen of Louisiana taxidermy, this stuffed armadillo looks at you almost insolently, as if daring you to run over it."}, {"prompt": "You look at the desk", "response": "A plain wooden writing desk that contains a set of drawers."}, {"prompt": "You attach the finder to the loop", "response": "Using the carabiner, you attach the x-finder to the metal\nloop on the car."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Confessor Destine's personal kitchen is small: certainly less than\nhalf an acre of countertops. In the centre, by the refresher, is a heating stove and a cooling slab. An open blue door leads into the greenhouse to the east, whilst a leathery red door opens the way west into the rest of the house.\nClashing with the kitchen's decor is an ugly square rug, peeled back\nto reveal the space below."}, {"prompt": "You touch the pool", "response": "Then the darkness is just darkness again.\n(You grasp at air, startled. It's gone -- not in your hands after all -- unless...?\nSomething has changed. Something has certainly changed. But the possession is not of a physical sort.)"}, {"prompt": "You put the yardstick on the right leg", "response": "Balancing something on Keiko's right leg is probably difficult.\nBetter to have Ashley leave it on the floor, if it needs to be left behind."}, {"prompt": "You take the plank", "response": "You're not really close enough to Anton to do that. Might want to call him over first, or follow him.\nOver a bit, Anton is sitting on the ground. He's discovered that the tarmac is slightly soft and is pressing his hand into it to make a print."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "The lights in here are orange, which would seem to indicate something.\nAt the south of the hall, a door leads into the main staircase; the pale door at the north end opens outside. The door in the east wall is labeled \"MAINTENANCE\".\nHigh on the wall, an antiquated security camera turns from one to the other.\nThe custodian is here with you.\nThe custodian waves goodbye and disappears through the maintenance door.\nThe door swings shut behind you."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the door with the lockpick", "response": "With a sullen click, the lock yields."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "You ascend the side of the building to a lip on the second floor. You work your way around to the back of the building, where you find a small covered shutter. Opening it, you slip inside.\nYou stand amongst strange vertical shadows in the rafters of a fancy little trophy room of sorts, with paintings and torches arranged at various heights along the walls. An open window leads out to the east.\nIn the center of the room an intricate platform rises high up, but out of reach.\nOn the platform is the Dragon Gem."}, {"prompt": "You pour the ammonia in right", "response": "liquid: You pour some liquid into the right beaker.\nThe liquid in the right beaker turns pale blue."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the ceiling panels, but not strongly enough to do anything."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ground", "response": "You take another look around.\nLucrezia, they say, died here. It is only a turning point in the corridor, with a bench."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tray", "response": "The wooden drink tray has held many, many drinks on its surface and is discolored with many, many drink stains. Right now it holds a whiskey bottle, a scotch bottle, a wine bottle, and a bottle of beer. One edge is chipped slightly.\nCarl arrives from the west."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sink", "response": "A perfectly normal stainless steel sink set into wall below the mirror. Looking at it reminds you of how much awful and/or weird stuff you've been touching with your bare hands, recently. And how covered in other peoples' germs you must be at this point. There's a tap on the back with a handle that turns on the water. Just above that tap handle, someone has scrawled the words \"Stop Shitting In The\nSink\" with a marker.\nOkay maybe not the *best* sink to wash your hands in, but a sink nontheless and they're in short supply in this town."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north-east", "response": "Although you just finished cleaning this room an hour ago, it now looks like it hasn't been cleaned in about three weeks. The bed looks like it has been jumped on by an entire preschool. Dirty clothes are thoughtfully sprinkled across the floor, interspersed with assorted toys and food items. You can exit this mess to the south.\nSomehow, someone has lost their gum and thoroughly ground it into the carpet.\nThe black cat runs into the room and rubs up against your legs."}, {"prompt": "Exit", "response": "You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.\nPart of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north. You can see the river in the distance down to the east.\nThe bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.\nYou can feel peacefulness from the south, and irritation from the east."}, {"prompt": "You groom the tail", "response": "You groom yourself until your dark fur has a nice sheen, and your whiskers are grease-free and properly alligned."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "I can hear the crackling of ozone in the air to the east.\nThe crackling ozone is muffled by a large object sitting before it.\nI can detect nothing inside of it."}, {"prompt": "You cry", "response": "You sniffle a little. It's not proving to be a good day, is it? But feeling sorry for yourself probably isn't going to help."}, {"prompt": "Light lamp", "response": "Finding a convenient wall outlet, you plug the lamp in and switch it on.\nThe lamp is now lit."}, {"prompt": "You take the bay", "response": "You pick some of the growing bay."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The stalagmites are fiery columns, the stalactites dripping heated mercury, the bundles charring as the intestinal lining radiates with steaming pockets prepared to combust. Around the chasm below, the stalks are flailing as they roast.\nYou choke on smoke and cinders in the air."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "(first taking the keyring)\nYou go through all the keys on your keyring, trying each one in turn, and after several false attempts you discover that the old-fashioned brass key fits the lock.\nYou unlock the door."}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "There are two holes here. You'll have to specify which one you want to enter.\nYou flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of jagged teeth crashes shut around you.\n Freaks me out no matter how many times I see it.\" He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench.\nShe flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. \"No change from last time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, but I can't pinpoint it.\"\nJusty nods grimly. \"It's in there somewhere.\" To you, he adds, \"Guess we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting.\"\nThe heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into darkness.\nThe Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass tank.\nJusty works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else.\nYou can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here.\nCynthia leaves the lab to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "September 19th, 1932.\nAnother sleepless night. Dogs were terrified, alternating between fearful wimpering and barking into the silent darkness. I'm now convinced that something is visiting each night - something that I must have unwittingly awakened under that fateful full moon four nights ago."}, {"prompt": "Ff", "response": "(Scottish-Canadian)@455, Ned, pal@535,\nFriends are now not header."}, {"prompt": "Moor", "response": "Yes, it is a moor. At least, right now, it is.\nThe poem drones on, and Pat gestures with a hand to the ear and nod of his head to make sure you're listening, not breaking his meter. Da da DA, da da DA, da da DA. That anapest is getting annoying, and you'd like to get rid of it, somehow."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "Definitely feeling better now that the evil cuff has been removed.\nNot panicking was a great plan."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bell", "response": "It bears the stamp of a lamplighter."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "When you're not in your room you usually hang here, watching TV from the couch. Frank sometimes works at a little desk he's got in here, but he's normally pretty cool with you watching TV while he works. There are stairs to the south. You can get to the kitchen to the northeast and the front door and hallway are northwest.\nFrank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk."}, {"prompt": "You examine the lorna doone", "response": "The inscription on the spine showed it to be a copy of the novel Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You wander between plots: what catches your eye this time is a writing-desk-tree, spreading to a flat surface at about three feet.\nReflecting Pool (on the personal float unit)\nOn the float unit, you are able to float above the water. The water underneath the float unit goes flat. The fish bump into the surface and bounce off as if from a sheet of aquarium glassthe eastern end of a shallow rectangular pool -- no doubt part of the reason the air is softer and more humid here than it was outside. The Embassy is just west of here, at the far end of the pool.\nIf you look down, you catch the reflection in the surface, and a number of small red fish swimming around, in formation, making symbols which you cannot read."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "You glow with song."}, {"prompt": "You take the railing", "response": "Given the railing's current condition it might actually be possible to rip it right out of the rock. However you see no reason to do so."}, {"prompt": "You go pelican", "response": "You approach the Pelican constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you are briefly disoriented by the light.\nA clear, strong voice calls, \"Pelican: 'And when Sarvath went into the desert, Ferran gazed after him, and he said, 'This, I perceive, is virtue: the King has laid down his blood, that the world would prosper.' And Ferran taught that self-sacrifice was virtue as well.\"\nAgain, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of the celestial sphere.\nYou drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the stars, there is only blackness.\nThe Bull."}, {"prompt": "You put the root on the square", "response": "(the square root)\nI'm not sure even a master topologist could pull that off."}, {"prompt": "You fill the flask", "response": "(with the newspaper)\n(first taking the newspaper)\n(slipping the flask into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\n(closing the flask first)\nTaken.\nThe mouth of the flask is too narrow."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gold locket", "response": "It is oval-shaped, the clasp open to reveal a tiny picture inside."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[>ASK KIPPER ABOUT GHOST.]\n\"You want to hear more about Mildred Waverly? Sure! According to Winslow's Three Precepts, a paranormal entity intersects the physical plane when one of Breznev's Five Conditions is met, and going by the Rule of Least Co-Corporeality...\"\nBoy, this sheba can beat her gums when she gets going!\n1) >KILL GHOST.\n2) >TAKE GHOST.\n3) >OPEN GHOST."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A small, workmanlike room with a floor of white stones. The principal features of the room are a counter, with a large inset washbasin also made of stone, and a tall wooden cupboard."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "This room is filled with the trophies from Dashing's safaris throughout the world, or at least what he claims to be his trophies. It used to be filled with my awards and accolades for SCIENTIFIC BRILLIANCE, rather than the grubby souvenirs of a cretinous lout. But the world will soon feel my ATOMIC FURY once again, with your help.\nExits lead fore, port, and starboard (the last through a heavy metal door), and a staircase leads up.\nI can see a vacuum flask (which is closed) and a display case (which contains a cudgel and a harpoon) here."}, {"prompt": "You give the jewel to Prince", "response": "(first taking the jewel)\nWithout much ado, you hand over the jewel.\n\"Thanks!\" he says brightly. He startles you by tossing it into the air where it transforms into small white pebble, which he then catches in his hand and shoves in his pocket. He offers an impish laugh... and suddenly things come together.\n\"It was you!\"\n\"I have to admit it was.\"\n\"But why?\" The Prince pauses for a moment.\n\"I have been trying to keep things safe and green here for a long while... but it's been getting harder and harder. There is a darkness pressing in.\" He motions out the window to a spot far on the horizon. You can see it. It is far away but it is there... It fills you with dread.\n\"The people have become complacent. Things have been going well for so long that they are becoming more and more careless. I need help to keep them safe from the outside. That's why I set up this test.\" It all makes sense now. But you're not exactly sure what he is asking of you. Finally, he spells it out:\n\"I need the help of good folks like you, who are brave and kind hearted, to help me guard the people against the coming darkness. But it's entirely up to you. There's not much time to waste though. Are you up for it?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the candle", "response": "You see nothing special about the candle shaped like a human hand.\n...what? It's just a weirdly shaped candle. Lots of bathrooms have candles, to freshen the air after using the facilities. That's all this is. It even smells like lavender! Totally normal bathroom!\nThe index finger is lit, but weirdly enough the candle isn't melting. Huh. Maybe it's not wax? What kind of a candle isn't made of wax?\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it.\nThe rearing boneless horse falls forward in a graceless jacknife. The fleshy rubbery mass of the thing knocks you to the ground and the breath from your lungs. You try to wriggle free, but there is Only Horse above you. You try to take a breath but there is Only Horse to fill your mouth and nose with. You try to bite, to hit, but there is no space for it. Only Horse.\nThe last things you experience before you lose consciousness are the sounds of an engine gently revving somewhere on the other side of this horse, and a boneless mouth gnawing on your foot like it was a sugar cube made of You.\n\"BR-RN-nn-nnnnnnn........\". Then nothing. Only Horse now, in this bathroom. Only Horse."}, {"prompt": "You read the papers", "response": "(the stack of important papers)\nYou have no notion what any of it means, but it all matches the\nprofile you were given of material relevant to the work done here.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 2.\"\nThere is a choking sound. \"Trapped in the-- in--\" In all the hours you spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words."}, {"prompt": "Right", "response": "You go right and hurry further into the maze...\nYou start to wonder if you're catching up with that giggling person or falling behind them. But then you remember that you are a clever and powerful witch. You feel confident about continuing the search. And if you do feel tired and would rather come back here later, you could always exit the maze and search for friends elsewhere for now.\nThis is a shady spot in the hedge maze with a green seat which people can sit on. You can continue through the maze by turning left or right.\nIt's quiet here."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tree", "response": "You can tell that this is a fruit tree by the fruit lying underneath it, but it is difficult for you to tell what kind of fruit it is. The fruit is orange and purple, and you have never seen it before. You wish one of the colonists were here to help identify the fruit."}, {"prompt": "You turn off the lamp", "response": "It would be pitch dark in here without the light from the lamp."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "It looks like a metal table, but only because it is made from a horizontal slab and four legs. It is polished to exhaustion. It looks like an examination desk.\nJust by chance you drop a glance down and discover something. Under\nthe table is a steel grate, leading into darkness."}, {"prompt": "You take the match", "response": "You already have that."}, {"prompt": "You think", "response": "Unbearably hellish music overwhelms your thoughts. You struggle mightily to think about something else."}, {"prompt": "You take the phone", "response": "(the smartphone)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "Hiking has always been a favorite pastime of yours, and you pride yourself in your excellent physical condition. The pitch of this section increases slightly, but you hardly even notice. Through a break in the trees, you can see the canyon to the west, and beyond the canyon, parts of a boulder field."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You descend the stairs into the jam-packed entrance hall of the House of Commons.\nThere are hundreds of people lined up to get in. But off to one side you see a flight of old stone steps leading up into the darkness.\nHolmes joins you and starts looking around with interest."}, {"prompt": "You disconnect the orange wossname", "response": "Disconnected.\nThe stock ticker tape advances:\n|   P  6P6  |    P 6P6  |    P 6P6  |  PP  6PP  |   P  6P/10  |"}, {"prompt": "You look up the cloth signs", "response": "(in Casey's notes)\nYou flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: We hang up the cloth signs in the sanctuary for Advent. I think they say 'Hope', 'Wait', 'Expect', and 'Await'.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "This otherwise unremarkable room has been decorated with a fascinating drawing.\nExits lead south (to Entrance Hall), west (to Phantasmagoria) and down (to Quartering Room)."}, {"prompt": "You put all in the sack", "response": "On Vegetable Dyes: Done.\nslice of brie: Done.\ntable knife: Done.\nblue bottle: Done."}, {"prompt": "You look at the switch", "response": "It has two settings, cold and hot. It is currently set to the latter.\nThe switch is currently switched on."}, {"prompt": "You put all copper in the slot", "response": "copper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\ncopper coin: Clink!\nThe Narvish Raider arrives from the north."}, {"prompt": "You turn it on", "response": "You close the microwave.\nAfter turning on the microwave the pan starts emitting a stange and dangerous looking glow. Suddenly the microwave window cracks and you duck to take cover. Just in time, because an explosion causes the microwave to shatter in many pieces. When you stand up the microwave is no more, in its place is a huge birthday cake with cream, strawberries and even little candles. What an odd kind of rocket fuel."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "center (in the golf cart)\nYou are in the region of the Crater indicated by the title. (Atmospheric description not included)\nIn the golf cart you can see Marius.\nPaul and the Venusian sit on the backseat, Paul with Marius on his lap.\nThe tank pursues you!"}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nTime passes.\nTime passes."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The front hall is just a tiny little room you come into after going through the front door (leading out). You see a low doorway to the east which leads into the kitchen. There's a sort of trap door in the ceiling.\nYou can see a ladder and a cupboard (empty) here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "The fountain, as has been mentioned, is made of stone, and shaped like the head of a dragon. The dragon's mouth is open, and water pours from it into the stream."}, {"prompt": "You turn off the tv", "response": "\"Hurrah,\" says Chloe in an exaggerated manner.\nThe video recorder emits a series of clicking noises, then starts to rewind."}, {"prompt": "You examine coat", "response": "The coat is thin, more of a windbreaker than a coat. White stitching runs down its arms and sides.\nBubbles comes over, sniffs at your legs, then wanders off again."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "River Walk (Adam Whybray)\nA dirt path along the west bank of the Makaskuta - or Blackgourd - River. The air is motionless and sweltry, the urticariate heat drawing sweat profusely from your prickling glands.\nJust below you, to your side, the river burbles in vainglorious stupor, foaming in bright patches from the surfacants released from the rotting deposits of the red maples and poplars that line its banks. A single black ash, denuded of leaves, its corky bark blighted with the telltale signs of parasitic infection, quietly interrupts the Autumnal foliage of its deciduous cousins.\nThe river's waters slith over rocks as lustrous-gray as seal skin, rending them freshly burnished for the mid-September sun, which casts Her rays in refulgent slats through the rust-honey colored trees. It is though Nature, in celebration of Her own fecundity, has chosen to offer Herself up in Equinoxical sacrifice - the rocks laid out before the blazing altar of the sun.\nThere is a forbidding sign on the bank of the river.\nThe way up to Backwater town square is northwest. Following the path north leads under the bridge.\nOn the Makaskuta river is a buoy.\nYou can also see a grimy rock, a long hooked pole, a dying crawfish and a soggy tome here.\nA spectral trolley stop sign reads Aqua Line -- River Walk."}, {"prompt": "You look at the lift", "response": "Thank the Primes that this thing worked when it did."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "\"\u2026I can hear something\u2026"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "\"And that's what happened.\"\nYou clear your mind, and return to yourself.\nSpare Office\nThis comfortable office is mostly empty, but the owner's thoughtful personality is still evident in the azure carpet and the sky-blue walls. Lighter patches on the walls show where posters, picture frames and bulletin boards once hung. A navy blue door leads east to\nthe hallway. A long desk has been shoved out of the way, and a single chair remains. The carpet is still dented from furniture legs.\nChuck sits in the chair, trying not to look exhausted.\nYou feel a cold chill seeping in from outside."}, {"prompt": "You look up William in the records", "response": "(in the archives)\nWilliam Verlac: born June 22, 1954."}, {"prompt": "You examine Plains", "response": "Dawn Whitford, photographic memory, never forgets like an\nelephant. Has daily, since kindergarten, sported anywhere from\ntwo to five useless straight, skinny pigtails anchored on her head with those big clear glass beads and tiny gold spectacles like she's the cousin of both Mother Goose and Mrs. Claus. She was Sister Mary Marcia's favorite and thus was able to wield the old nun like an attack dog on call.\nThelma Groffley. Varsity Basketball, color team, volleyball, gymnastics and ROTC. She wore sweats under her skirt every day and one long strawberry-blond braid to her waist tied with a stupid white and gold bow. In eighth grade Thelma won a ten dollar bet that she couldn't pop a kickball by compressing it between her very sturdy thighs.\nMeredith Mulroney, the plainest of the Plains. Studious. Put-together. Perfect white ribbon pulling back her straight, perfectly chestnut brown hair. Her blouse extra ruffly at the throat. Her grey-on-grey plaid skirt never less than three inches below her grey-socked knees. This girl was a total flat pan of warm milk.\nThey were all so going to heaven."}, {"prompt": "Module", "response": "It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus link on the other."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na fedora (being worn)\na set of ordinary clothes (being worn)\na trenchcoat (being worn and open)\na cigar lighter\na lock pick\na dossier (open)\nthe first incident\nthe second incident\nthe third incident\nthe fourth incident\nthe fifth incident\na holster (being worn)\na revolver"}, {"prompt": "You look at the doors", "response": "The twin doors lead to the pavilion's rest rooms. Both doors are closed."}, {"prompt": "You say the duty to the man", "response": "Do you mean:"}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "A whirr and a clunk and our hero seems to have caught himself a frolicsome fawn!"}, {"prompt": "Pump", "response": "I'll be honest, I have no great technical appreciation of water or air pumps. Though after this, I'll be sure to do some research.\n\"Don't worry!\" I call up to Ivy. \"I'll think of something!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the dirty sandbag", "response": "It's a canvas bag, more than two feet long. The surface is liberally smeared with mud.\nThe afterimages evaporate into a black dazzle.\nIt is dark."}, {"prompt": "You look at the needlevine", "response": "A vine with mottled, red-brown leaves, covered with needle-like\nthorns.\nThe zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound."}, {"prompt": "You put water in the cup in contraption", "response": "You put some water in the delicate contraption, exhausting the supply in the cup. There is still some room remaining in the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the grate with the sturdy key", "response": "The key seems as though it would go in the lock, but it is slightly too small.\nFrom somewhere nearby comes a low rumbling."}, {"prompt": "You invoke the pressure", "response": "You invoke the pressure icon, and the environment transforms around you.\nWhite marble rises in smooth, heavy columns to an arching vault. The walls are worked in geometric traceries; a rich red carpet runs up the room's length, to the brass pipes which stand at its north end. Air throbs from the pipes and thunders quietly across the chamber.\nTo the south stands a graceful marble altar, which supports a small open offering box.\nYour workspace is a squat cube in the center of the room. Inside it the six icons whirl.\nThe window is broken, but most of the glass is gone.\nThe smoke ring is torn this way and that way in the Church's turbulent gusts of air. It begins to tatter... and then shimmers into a new form.\nA long silk thread now rides the air currents. It swirls back and forth, curling and twisting, but never falling."}, {"prompt": "You eat Frypan", "response": "Have you ever been kicked by a frog's leg before? Now you have. Frypan pulls one knee backward, there's a crackow in your gut, and the wall takes your breath upon impact.\nA footman delivers croquettes to the table."}, {"prompt": "South", "response": "From this raised platform you can see the entire inside of the church. The pulpit is empty except for the podium which rises from the center. A small door is visible behind the podium to the north."}, {"prompt": "You read the letter", "response": "The letter is a single piece of paper, embossed with a gold border and folded in thirds like it was delivered in a business envelope. The letterhead (also gold-embossed) says \u00c5\u00c3\u00c4\u00b7\u00c1\u00b9\u00bf \u00c9\u00b8\u00bf\u00c2, which must be Russian or something. At least the main text is in English:\nVenerable Brothers and Sisters!\nCircumstances have lately demanded that the meeting of our illustrious Organization in this turning of the Moon must be convened instead at our auxiliary Location, accessible via the roof of your Brother's most distinguished La Pizz\u00e1 Building. A thousand thousand apologies are extended for the inexcusable lack of Foresight that necessitated this disturbance.\nYou are reminded, O Brothers and Sisters, that acceptance into our Mystery is forbidden to those who do not prove themselves by the Sacred Ritual, and that entry to our auxiliary Location is granted only to those who pay fitting Homage to our Guardian Pet.\nYou are thus warned!\nAnd then where the signature should be there's just this goofy code: An upside-down J, a picture of a boot, and then picture of a teacup.\nStanding perfectly still, with his arms crossed, the wolf head guy is starting to look like a statue again.\nWhoever's standing in front of the camera for the right screen doesn't seem to have anywhere else to be."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You head north on Main...\nMain runs along the western edge of the nWare Media Campus. Northwest of here, a bit of parkland holds the nWare store, a multi-story glass cube. The concrete structure to the southwest, labeled \"Supreme Food Court,\" is less impressive."}, {"prompt": "You look at the head", "response": "Well, you're sure it was justified."}, {"prompt": "You ask Imelda to go south", "response": "Imelda refuses your request.\nSnow continues to drift down from above."}, {"prompt": "You ask Alky about the light", "response": "You get a blank look of the sort with which you're well acquainted."}, {"prompt": "You look at Hestron", "response": "The Hestron is a huge diamond, about the size of your fist, and has swirls of red and aquamarine running through. It's said that the day when Rinnor, the god-king, stole the sun and hid it in his mountain lair, the Hestron was formed from the sun's light trying to escape from underground."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Your office is on the fifth floor of a crummy old office building in the lower east side.\nThere is a single dingy window in the west wall, directly opposite the only door.\nThe sun streaming throught the Venetian blinds traces bars across the desk that sits in the middle of the room. Bars like the bars of a prison cell.\nOn the wooden desk are a bottle of whiskey and a telephone.\nA battered old filing cabinet stands in the corner.\nAn old desk chair sits behind the desk.\nA plain guest chair is strategically placed in front of the desk."}, {"prompt": "You examine Spruce", "response": "No doubt the good professor would have loved to be the one to fill his alphabet case, but the man was always more of an academic. He has always been an inspiration to you, even now that his age is catching up to him."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "The study is in its usual disarray.\nThe bedroom door to the west is open. The only other exit is the door to the south.\nYou see a persian slipper. You see some mail on the mantelpiece."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "That is not the way. She can go south, northwest, southwest or up."}, {"prompt": "You look at Sack", "response": "The Sack of Infinite Capacity is truly a wondrous device. No matter how many things you put into it, it never fills or becomes too heavy to carry. The depressing thing is that this makes the sack much more valuable than just about anything you might find to put in it.\nYou hear echoing voices from the north."}, {"prompt": "You ask Adam about the cola", "response": "Adam seems on the verge of losing patience."}, {"prompt": "You remove the stockings", "response": "You take off your shoes and stockings, setting them aside."}, {"prompt": "You take the weed", "response": "You pick up the pondweed in your mouth and can't help but eat it. Delicious."}, {"prompt": "You get on the ball", "response": "(the party light sphere)\nThat's not something you can enter."}, {"prompt": "External", "response": "You request the external sensor grid to examine the functionality of the external sensor grid. The external sensor grid reports that the external sensor grid might be damaged, but it's hard to be sure due to the significant damage to the external sensor grid."}, {"prompt": "You wear motley", "response": "You don your jester's motley (after removing the graveclothes) and potential pranks inspire you. Everything in this wide world is kissable."}, {"prompt": "You examine the slit", "response": "It's just a 2-inch slit in the rock, through which the stream is flowing. Coca-Cola: The Great National Temperance Drink.\nOn close examination, you see a thin scroll tucked into the slit."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The monkey arrives on your heels.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "You open the cupboard", "response": "You pry open the cupboard with your paw."}, {"prompt": "You examine door", "response": "On closer inspection, there was a crumpled piece of paper showing under the door. I wondered how much time it had been there and why no one had taken it before...\nDoc asked \"Where did that piece of paper come from?\"\n\"What about those weird noises they say that can be heard from within...\" said Doc. \"As if a monster was buried somewhere in the basement?\"\nRose and I looked silently all around and then at each other, trying to grasp any suspicious sound. Nothing. Just our own breathing, some far away tweeting bird, and... a howling roar coming from our back? ...\n\"Jeeez\" exclaimed a livid Rose while Doc was laughing \"You just gave me the creeps!\"\n\"Well\" he replied \"How was that for a buried monster-like creature?\""}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "You drift away...\nThe stench of offal hangs in the air.The walls drip with fresh blood. An ugly table supports plates and a massive assortment of cutlery. This is not an environment that encourages rational thought. Empty doorframes lead north, east, south and west."}, {"prompt": "You look at the moat", "response": "The water is murky, and lily pads cover most of the surface. Dark shapes swim about below the surface.\nThe bridge continues to creak."}, {"prompt": "You look at the marks", "response": "The dragon appears to have scratched some crude graffiti - 'Clumsy wuz heer.' [22]"}, {"prompt": "You squeeze the rock", "response": "The surface has a give to it, and it squeaks once. Small regretful letters read: AIDE CURRENTLY OUT OF RANGE. Maybe in the embassy proper, then."}, {"prompt": "You take the whetstone", "response": "Nothing about the bartender's manner suggests tolerance of rude tourists. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to steal the decor while he's watching.\nThe old-timers discuss the time Dusty Poole's damn fool son came at Farmer Buxton with a grain flail to impress a girl."}, {"prompt": "You examine lorenzo", "response": "It's a comic book featuring Count Lorenzo, a renaissance Urbitan nobleman who was poisoned by his best friend/worst enemy and imperfectly resurrected by his sorcerer wife after thirteen days of death. He became immortal, but his skin was forever stained the green of the afterlife. This is a very early issue, but probably not worth anything because it's in very poor condition: it's all cut up."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "N = next subject                                                  P =\nRETURN = read subject                                          Q = re\nsume game\nThere is help on the following:\nVoiceless cube\nCircuit board\nDegenerating body\nScan of sector\nCube with voice\nHalted program\n> Flashing paper\nSphere\nCube's message\nUnconsciousness\nFragments of void\nDegenerating body, 2nd time\nFinishing the game\n(Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.)\n(1/6) The paper is being located, which means that you are close to\nbeing located."}, {"prompt": "You give the guide to Jenny", "response": "You can only do that to something animate."}, {"prompt": "You look at it", "response": "The fuse is threaded, like the base of a lightbulb without the bulb. The flat glass circle on the top of the fuse is dark, as if something inside has burned."}, {"prompt": "You take action movie", "response": "I grab a movie from the rack. And behold! It's The Lord of the\nRings. Why on earth the dip behind the counter would deign to\nkeep it in this rack is beyond my comprehension. But it\ndoesn't matter. I don't really possess the discipline to go get something else.\nPang clears his throat and holds up a copy of Blade. \"I have\nfound the movie for us all tonight,\" he states, with an annoying authority. \"It has electronica and vampires, as all classics should.\"\n\"Blade?\" screeches Criswell. He's another one of my\nroommates. \"They merged techno music and goths for that one. No chance. No way. And if you pick out one that merges country music with the French art film or opera with a Pixar kiddie flick I will drop trou and take a crap on the TV while it's playing.\"\nCriswell's only half joking, as he's demonstrated his willingness to do that before. When his favorite CFL football team lost in the finals last year he was so pissed off at the TV for depicting it that he grabbed a chair from the kitchen, got up and plopped a steaming load on top of the set. Worse, it was two weeks before anyone cleaned it up. We had a veritable bumper crop of flies around the house that year."}, {"prompt": "You go to lower bulb", "response": "You head east to the upper bulb. And finally down to the lower bulb.\nIn the lower chamber, you find, there is almost as much sand as there is above; it must have been flowing a very long time.\nAround the outside of this contraption ascends a wooden staircase."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "This part of the park is darker than the rest, lit only by glowing red lanterns. Tall trees shade the street from the sun above. A shadowy crowd seems to linger here, but for some reason they're hard to look at for too long. You can go west to Mechanical Marvels or\neast to the Bitter End.\nA sign to the north declares \"This way to the Creaky House\".\nThe sign to the south is held by a scarecrow, and says \"The\nLeft/Right Corn Maze\".\nYour sister Alice is here, playing the park's AR game on her phone."}, {"prompt": "You put the food in the sack", "response": "Which do you mean, the single yellow onion, the clove of garlic, the sprig of mint, the sprig of parsley or the bay leaf?"}, {"prompt": "Pump tire", "response": "You pump the flat tire full of air."}, {"prompt": "You grab the vine", "response": "Sending a silent prayer upward, you reach for the vine and pull with all your might. Slowly, with a great sucking sound, you lift yourself up out of the bog and lie panting on the edge of the quicksand. I wouldn't stay here too long if I were you; the ground is quite dangerous."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The hall is thick with smoke. Moonlight lances through\nscorched walls. You run blindly through burning\npassages, fumbling, your lungs melting as flames rip\nthrough the timber and plaster behind you.\nThere is no escape except to the south."}, {"prompt": "You look at the columns", "response": "Which do you mean, the left-hand column or the right-hand column?"}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "The path climbs steeply up from the southwest and affords a stunning view over the plain below. It continues up through a narrow funnel to the northeast, while a second path climbs up to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You rest", "response": "You rest for a moment to regain your strength...\n[ Your Stamina: 2     Bluefin Tuna: 12 ]"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA huge diamond\nA torch (providing light)\nA screwdriver"}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "the pigeons.## Dormitory Block\nYou have walked the grounds of this three-storey estate long enough to know it by heart. Here is the faded arch, with its years of verdigris; here are the too-small atrium and the fountain at its center. All around above are the lights of innumerable domiciles, linked by crumbling stairs and divided by flimsy plaster walls.\nFrom here, you can go up to your dormitory room, visit the public house to the west, or exit the building to the south.\nSaliunca sits at the base of the fountain, feeding pigeons that wing down from the sky above."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes..."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The bricks in this alley are so old that at the middle of the road they have sunk a full foot below the level of their neighbors closer to the building walls. Walking across this uneven half-pipe of bricks is an unnerving and probably dangerous experience.\nThe alley continues north, past a staple-encrusted utility pole, until the beams of the streetlamps don't quite reach; west is the parking lot and east is Paco's Taco's."}, {"prompt": "You tell Petroc about Leela", "response": "You've exhausted that topic for now. Petroc is clearly sceptical of what Leela told you, and even of her existence."}, {"prompt": "Close plaque", "response": "The plaque snaps closed against the sculpture's pedestal with a solid \"clunk.\" A moment later you hear the faint but unmistakable sound of metal grating against stone coming from somewhere to the west of you. As soon as it stops the mechanism inside the pedestal starts to tick."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "As you enter the brilliant avenue of steel and plaster, you are choked with panic.\nThe wide tunnel is an unbelievably perfect replica of a place you know far too well. The curving ceiling, the polished walls, the shining lights that strobe in your eyes: All is coming at you from the recent past, from your last steps into what you once dared call civilization.\nSea, west of Brouguoise and back home in Capital Monarch, to all the people in town known as \"Belmont and Keller\", after the avenues it\nruns through. No cars, no traffic and no toll booth, but all the rest is here, replicated tile-by-tile.\nIt takes you about three minutes to recover from the shock. After\nthat, memories of a gone world start tumbling in your forehead like a cascade of freezing water.\nGone, you sigh. Gone. Gone. Gone.\nA giant gate, several bars lining up like matches in a box, blocks the way to the west, where the tunnel continues.\nLOGAN://\"The tunnel leads to the docks. Let me open the gate\nfor you, Ektor Mastiff.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This corridor is one of many in the giant maze that is this ship. Red lights are currently blinking, and a concurrent beeping noise sounds. The corridor continues east. The turbolift is located west."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the box, revealing an important paper and some gold coins."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The light of the setting sun stabs into your eyes as you exit the shade of the small shelter. You wait a moment for your eyes to adjust and then begin the long stroll down the pier.\nThe pier is even longer than it looked. It stretches back west to the great pavilion and continues still further east towards the sea. A small shelter rests at the far end. From below, you can hear the fizzle and hiss of the shallow surf.\nA young boy wearing a bright blue bathing suit and matching flip-flops runs by.\nIt takes a moment for your eyes to adjust to the shade beneath the greater pavilion.\nYou're standing in the center of a colossal gazebo that provides shade for sunburned tourists like yourself. The octagonal floor is made of unbroken grey concrete, bordered on each face by a waist high railing. Tall beams support a sloping wooden canopy that rises over three times your height. A red brick enclosure squats in the southwest corner and a small snack bar nestles up against the enclosure to the south. To the east lies the foot of a seemingly endless pier.\nThere are numerous wooden benches here. Right now, they're\nstacked, one on top of another, into a towering wooden column twice your height.\nYou see a clam shell here.\nThe brick beach path ends at the foot of a cement stairway that leads east to the Tybrisa Pavilion. To the northeast and southeast, twin boardwalks wrap around the pavilion towards the beach. By one of the boardwalks is a simple public shower, while a white diving bell stands near the entrance of a small building to the northwest. Your hotel towers back to the west, obscuring the sunset.\nA sign advertising boiled peanuts points east, into the pavilion. There's an ugly gap in the path.\nYou see a sieve, a loose brick, a strapless pair of goggles, an antique bottle, a cork, a broken stave, a crowbar, and a white rubber strap here.\nThe white rubber strap dangles limply from the crowbar.\nA slight gust of wind sends eddies of sand swirling over the brick path."}, {"prompt": "You look under the desk", "response": "Under the desk, you find a crumpled but otherwise undamaged discharge sheet, and pull it out."}, {"prompt": "Drink water", "response": "You glance at the shallow pool and instantly dismiss it as unimportant."}, {"prompt": "You take bauble", "response": "(putting the cork into the sack to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mitten", "response": "It's a small mitten. It is sopping wet, and the mate is nowhere to be seen."}, {"prompt": "You look at the gun", "response": "It looks old, but is in good shape. It seems to be loaded."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pipe", "response": "The pipe leads through the wall into the house."}, {"prompt": "You set lever to 1", "response": "You push the lever into the 1 position."}, {"prompt": "You get the rod", "response": "You've already got your hands full."}, {"prompt": "Examine vent", "response": "This is one of a number of screened portals, designed to allow fresh air to be drawn into the car as it moves.\nThe vapors coming out of the bottle of hydroxide are swept away by the wind."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You possess:\na pair of carved bone dice\na resin-encased quantity of hare's fur\nthree small smooth stones\na small can of liver pat\u00e9\na single chopstick\na genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica\nsome dissheveled clothing\nYou are wearing:\nyour mum's shoes\nnothing else"}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "You sit before an unremarkable box.\nA laptop sits on it!"}, {"prompt": "Tie the yarn to the workbox", "response": "It's much too tangled."}, {"prompt": "You pull Mane right", "response": "You pull Mane to the right.\nJust before Horse runs into cliff, he veers sharply to the right,\ncausing your weight to shift to the left. Too far left, in fact.\nRolling off to the left, your fingers tear from Mane as you fall.\nHorse whinnies with delight, and disappears across the countryside. You\npick yourself up, and make your way back to the Village.\nThis is the small Village you seem to lead. It consists of several\nsmall huts, plus a larger one with no walls the People use as a meeting\narea. The People are there now, in fact, arguing over something. The\nground slopes down to the north, and a path leads along a ridge to the northwest. A small stream collects here, and follows the slope down to\nthe north.\nThe People are debating loudly amongst themselves in the meeting area.\nYour own hut is just to the west, slightly larger than the others."}, {"prompt": "You eat the stool", "response": "Before he's got the chance to blink, you bite into his stool. Oh, what a crunch! Your tongue prickles with spice, cinnamon sets your sinuses ablaze, and Pokerounce curses as he topples down.\nHis breastplate cracks.\nHeavenly honey glimmers gold inside. He groans, can't sit or stand again, not with his body smashed, and out from his fractured breastplate swarm caramelized bees."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You take half a step and nearly trip as you turn. A woman is standing to the south, at the end of the hall. She leans on the frame of an open door, talking to someone in the room beyond. If you continue, she will certainly notice you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "With a touch of the joystick the helicopter thunders through the sky...\nHigh Above a Hotel (in the helicopter)\nFar below, atop a hotel tower, a crystal swimming pool blinks in the sunlight. Off to the north, a monstrous chicken is tumbling buildings and ripping up pavements.\nA small boat dangles beneath the helicopter."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "It appears to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "This is a small, nondescript room to the east of the study. Its walls are plain and unadorned.\nIn the center of the room is a large wooden chest.\nYou can also see a cube here."}, {"prompt": "You get up", "response": "You're in the middle of a conversation.\nBian straightens up a little. \"Actually, at this point, I'm quite a bit more worried about you than me.\"\n\"Me? How so?\"\n\"Well, as near as I can tell, your cell got broken. Is the Foundation going to want to keep you on?\"\n[1] Yes, because you've got a contract\n[2] Yes, because you didn't fail"}, {"prompt": "Examine box", "response": "This is it, Owl! We've done it! Inside this box is the Telepathic God-Slug of Madagascar, which when combined with my metamorphic abilities will allow me to bring about a new world of peace and cooperation! Now all I need to do is to escape the ship.\nYou hear a loud bell and a mechanized voice over the line: Danger! Danger! Meltdown imminent! Evacuate immediately! Danger!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the window", "response": "A very narrow window of frosted glass, it appears to be painted shut."}, {"prompt": "You throw the spider into the ravine", "response": "\"No Master. I think I will hold on to this for now.\"\nLornedei is waiting for your command."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "That's unlocked at the moment."}, {"prompt": "You put second candle in the middle left socket", "response": "You screw the second candle into the middle left socket."}, {"prompt": "You eat greatest", "response": "How odd. There's no leakage when you begin to turn the giant barrel's tap. It turns and turns, yielding no liquid anywise. A disappointment, certainly, to anyone after a drink, but this barrel's still filled with something worth seeing.\nIts face opens, swinging back for a door. Inside the barrel's quite empty. It seems there's a passageway to the north."}, {"prompt": "P.", "response": "The palace doors stand open, but no one has arrived yet.\nA landscape garden stretches away into the past.\nIn the future, guests will deposit their cloaks in the cloak room."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about Verlac", "response": "(the Verlac family)\nThe old man seems to physically shrink just a little bit, darting nervous glances around the empty lot. \"Oh, they're the worst of the lot,\" he whispers. \"They're the queen maggots, so they are. Sittin' all fat and full of poison in the center of the nest. Partick'ly that one, the worst one of all -- the one with the red-rimmed eyes.\""}, {"prompt": "You open the cage", "response": "(first unlocking the iron cage)\n(with the iron key)\nYou open the iron cage."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pirates with the lens", "response": "(A fatalistic gesture, of sorts, since you can't bring yourself to put an actual end to your life. But you're sick of home, and yourself, and mean to flee both.)\nAnd end on a squalid deck, stinking of close-packed bodies and unfresh meat. The horizon tips and sways, and you clutch the railing, trying to find your place, your balance. You had not really even understood that there were such places as this in the world, let alone that you might come to them.\nThen someone shouts at you in gutter Spanish, and you reply without thinking. In your glass, a fat English vessel is crowding sail.\nThere will be a fine take before nightfall..."}, {"prompt": "You examine the candles", "response": "The candles are burning."}, {"prompt": "You ask Gnome about the exit", "response": "Grunk ask gnome if there any exit out of shrine.\nGnome say, \"Well, you already know about the main entrance.\" Then him smile. \"I won't say that there isn't another way out. But I think you should find it for yourself.\"\nGnome open up book and start reading.\n[Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT LIGHTNING or TELL GNOME ABOUT ENTRANCE or ASK GNOME ABOUT THERMOMECHANICS or ASK GNOME ABOUT MAGIC or TELL GNOME ABOUT GRUNK or ASK GNOME ABOUT GNOME or ASK GNOME ABOUT THIS PLACE. And probably other thing too.]"}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "The pyramid begins glowing softly. It unfolds like a flower and voices begin to issue from it, saying \"Subject suffering from unusually low levels of sugar and caffeine...\" \"Thirst dangerously unsatisfied...\" (someone shouts) \"Doctor! We must try the new experimental treatment, it's his only hope!\" \"Fine, get me a syringe.\"\nWhen the light dies down, the pyramid is gone.\nYou can't see \"it\" (the paper pyramid) at the moment, unlike your Coke."}, {"prompt": "You get the the plank", "response": "Anton leans over and pulls at the edge of the plank. It moves a bit, but then he gives up with a shrug. It's irritating, because you know he's strong enough. When he's angry he's liable to break everything in sight -- you saw him uproot a tree once.\nAnton looks at you like you're joking, but when you're not smiling he gets flustered."}, {"prompt": "You examine the switches", "response": "Eight tiny slide switches are lined up next to each other. On the side of each switch, eight small notches show the possible positions; each switch can be set to a number from 0 to 7. Currently, the switches are in the following positions: 55567562. Just above the switches, someone has written \"55567562\".\nMr. Teeterwaller seems to be lost in thought."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "It seems slightly cleaner up here; maybe Morkenmindan is too lazy to lug a bunch of garbage up the stairs. The \"pantry\" door is to the west; the rest of the floor is to the south."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "The stairs from the ground floor land in the middle of a long hallway which extends east and west from your current position. There is a door in the north wall, slightly narrower than usual. From here, you can see three doors at each of the two ends of the hallway.\nThe button on the stream visualizer blinks, indicating that it has generated a new hologram."}, {"prompt": "You examine umber", "response": "The umber envelope is closed."}, {"prompt": "Exit", "response": "You open the door and step out of the taxicab...\nRiver Walk (South)\nThe River Walk is truly one of the most majestic sights of the city, especially now that the sun has set. This is the southernmost portion of the Walk. Many shops and restaurants line the western side, each lit with festive hanging lights, which reflect prettily in the water of the river to the east. Some kind of concert is being performed on the eastern side of the river. A large crowd has congregated here, blocking passage to the east. They seem to be enjoying the view of the river.\nA taxicab drives down the street.\nSuddenly, a group of Gamers in gold shirts knock you out of their way as they run past."}, {"prompt": "You look at the token", "response": "A piece of fired clay, bearing three symbols - the glyphs for \"priestess tunic\", \"high quality\" and the personal seal of Circe. A requistion order for the palace stores, from the highest authority."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Leaving the road, you find yourself walking through squat dunes scrubby with beachgrass. Your feet leave a trail behind you in the otherwise undisturbed sand. Soon, the ocean emerges again from behind the dunes, more blue and sparkling than a busking saxophonist on an empty Christmas morning.\nYou find yourself on a beach -- a strip of silvery sand bordering an ocean that seems truly boundless. You try and focus on the horizon, but find your attention wavering whenever you get close to pinning it down, as if there were a blind spot in your consciousness. The sea shimmers and shifts under your gaze. You shake your head, blinking, and make your way along the beach, feet sliding in the fine-grained sand, towards a few small figures further along.\nAs you approach them, the figures -- two men dressed in white togas -- turn to look at you. \"By Zeus, Achilles!\" says one to the other, \"It looks like an adventurer has arrived.\"\nBefore you can get a word in, the man -- an elderly, squat little Greek -- greets you effusively:\n\"Welcome, adventurer! Well come indeed, oh yes. Very, very fortuitous indeed . . . \" He tails off, and the other man glances at you, embarrassed.\n\"Hallo,\" he says, shuffling on his feet. \"I'm Achilles.\"\n[1] Hello, Achilles.\n[2] What's going on here?"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "One shack among the others catches your attention. You enter cautiously...\nThis tiny hovel is visibly shabbier than the rest. The roof is uncomfortably low, and the space just a little too cramped to stand in. A pile of bedding dominates the only room, draped in dirty clothing and empty wine bottles.\nThe only exit is to the east.\nYou notice some paper tickets scattered among the wine bottles."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You've never come here before, and now you see why. Not a room friendly to visitors, it has the air of resentful, martyred suffering. Even His most unpleasant ancestors would not have grudged this place more paint, surely, and more straw for the beds.\nA decaying ladder leads down.\nSo he's not among the kitchen things.\nHe must have gone into one of the more... difficult portions of the castle. The state rooms, or the crypt. One of the places he knows you hate to visit alone.\nThis does not bode well for his state of mind. (Will he be angry? It has been a long time since he was truly angry at you... But you cannot deal with that until you find him.)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the nail", "response": "The nail is embedded pretty deep in the baby dragon's foot. It looks like one of those long nails used to hold a wagon wheel on its axle. Ouch. That must be incredibly painful."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Few things can be worse than breaking down on a dark night in a strange place, and even more when it looks like it's just starting to rain, and you're in danger of being late for your first posting. Unfortunately, that was precisely what had just happened to Jack that night.\nJack was on his way to the camp he had been ordered to, but he suspected that he must have taken a wrong turn somewhere -- easy enough to do with so many signposts taken down in case of a German invasion. Then just to cap it all, his car had just broken down, leaving him stuck out in in the middle of nowhere (or somewhere on the outskirts of Salisbury Plain, which amounted to much the same thing), still miles away from where he was meant to be.\nJack was standing in the middle of a long road running roughly east-west between thick hedgerows. His car lay abandoned about a few hundred yards up the road to the east. Further to the east the road ran across miles of open countryside (as Jack knew because he'd just driven across it)."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The narrow ledge continues to east and west; its centre affords a breathtaking view over the plain below. From here it is possible to descend the mountain to the southeast or southwest, and although it\u2019s very steep, it also looks possible to climb higher up to the north."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the Examiner", "response": "This upscale clinic exudes a muted elegance. Chrome fixtures are lit by surgically placed spotlights and underscored by dizzyingly intricate sigil-work.\nAn arch to the west leads back to the Turris Infinita foyer.\nExaminer Velox and his investigators are huddled around the bodies of Doctor Arturus, Creditor Nacarat, Sal, and Piper. Beside them, Justinian sits at a coffee table, brooding."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You duck into the remains of the private tent to the north, hoping to hide and wait out the destruction. However, the notoceratops decides that the tent is not flat enough yet, and charges again, trampling you as well as a footlocker and camp stove."}, {"prompt": "Note 10", "response": "And several others that you're not allowed to disclose, one or two that you are literally incapable of disclosing, and a whole host that are best left unshared in polite company. Turning down elf-boon names is Not Done, but it would be a lot easier if they weren't such a bunch of pervs."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nMr. Sterling throws his scarf around his neck, flashing a winning grin.\nMr. Pratt hurriedly finishes untying you. Casting a sour look at Mr. Sterling, he charges for the exit, grumbling. His footsteps pound up the stairs.\n\"Oh, dear,\" says the professor. He looks very pale and weak."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "What a strange place! The walls are made of stone braced with a dull blue metal, and there are piles of humming MACHINERY here, all centered on a GLOWING PEDESTAL.\nSitting on the pedestal is the AMULET of SCIENCE.\nGUNWAR trails along."}, {"prompt": "You look at the teapot", "response": "A hinge-lidded teapot, glossed in white and decorated with the crest of the family, just as though it belonged to the family china pattern. The lid is attached with a hinge, and there is a long and delicate spout.\nIn the hinge-lidded teapot is some mead."}, {"prompt": "You get the keys", "response": "(the jar of old keys)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "From this perch in the midst of the scraggly tree, you can't see much. The area behind the cabins is obscured by foliage. However, you're quite close to the rear wall of Cabin Four, and have a close view of the cabin's bathroom window, which is open."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "A stone tower rises high and west above you, surrounded by a ring of stamped dirt. An archway faces the wall, strangely small compared to the tower's bulk; one must almost duck to transcend it. A plaque is set above the archway, approaching its size."}, {"prompt": "You look at the desk", "response": "Dark oak. Simple lines and sturdy construction. No drawers for things to get lost in. You would be proud to have it in your office."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "\"Ok then. Listen carefully. I know and you know you're not ready to take Gus head on. But here's the thing. A sharp tongue is all good and fine but when you really want to knock your opponent off their feet you have to strike hard. And nothing hurts more than truth. You follow me?\"\n\"Not really,\" you confess.\n\"Pay attention now! Do some reconnaissance. Dig out some facts and use them against him. When you have enough information, just think of what you have learned and the right insult will come to you. Got it?\"\n\"Snoop around for embarassing facts, draw inspiration from them. Got it.\"\n\"That's the spirit! Go for it, kid!\""}, {"prompt": "Yourself", "response": "Your allergist prepares your arm and deftly pricks the needle in the proper place. You think about how well he has cared for you over the years but do not bother to thank him once the procedure is over."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na leavers hoodie\na birthday card\na teddy bear\na Physics report\na comic drawing\na bin bag\na green paper folder"}, {"prompt": "Shake bulb", "response": "Don't know how to shake here..."}, {"prompt": "You examine Chuck", "response": "It's a pile of ground chuck laid out on a table, probably for use in McBeefy Beef Tacobeef Mexiburgers (with extra Spic Sauce and Lardonnaise).\nUpon close inspection, you realize this is bad beef -- a perfect excuse to head up to the Disposatorium."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "(first opening the security door)\nThis is a one-room affair of clapboard with a pot-belly stove in one corner. By the opposite wall is a desk with accompanying chair. The exit is to the north.\nYou can see Jonathan Boom here.\nSeeing you in the security shack, the security guard whips out his pistol and trains it on you.\n\"What the hell do you think you're doing in here?\" he demands, but without waiting for an answer, he pistol whips you into unconsciousness.\nDarkness\nIt is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ditch", "response": "Little more than a damp hollow of earth under the pipe opening.\nIn the drainage ditch is not very much mud."}, {"prompt": "You look at the paintings", "response": "Which do you mean, the New World, the native village, the ocean, the trade ships, the wrecks or the pirate ships?"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Mall, First Level, West Edge\nThe area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found.\nBarnaby's Big Gulp drink, a pleather purse, some socks, the torch (broken), the ointment jar, a fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a plastic chair, a metal chair, a short gray table, a broken chair, some chair parts are here.\nAudrey and Gibs follow me."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "A lesser being would have no idea what's going on here. Their brains would probably get lightly scrambled if not completely fizzled out. But, for a highly trained inter-dimensional espionage operative, who has spent half his life travelling through the dimensions, exits are easy to spot.\nExits lead north, northeast, southeast, southwest, up."}, {"prompt": "You cut the cable with the fan", "response": "(the plastic fan)\nYou carefully bring the fan blades perpendicularly to the fraying at the edge of the wall.\nNikhil asks, \"Hey, why are you messing with that fan back there?\"\nYou lie and tell him that the cover has fallen off, so you're trying to fix it. As you're explaining, the fan blades finally manage to cut through enough of the wire to break the connection, and so the light bulb quickly fizzles out.\nIt is now pitch dark in here!"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You are in a small side room. The exits all lead back to the main gallery.\nA pirate captain confronts you, waving a cutlass."}, {"prompt": "You stand on the stool", "response": "You decide that you'll need the stool to be on the ground first. You set the stool down next to one wall.\nYou stand, a little precariously, on the stool, and are now more or less the same height as an ordinary person."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ball", "response": "A glass ball, like those that scryers use."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Via Terminalis, West Street\nYou are adrift in the bustle of crowds and carriages, a raucous river that runs through the blood-vessel streets. Signage advertises a profusion of shops and services amid the sounds of leather rollers and stitching machines. In the distant mist, the Bilious Canal spills from the Channelworks into the heart of the city.\nYou can follow the Via to the west, or to the southeast where it bridges the canal. A condemned block is visible to the north. A hanging banner obscures an alley to the southwest, while a footpath follows the canal to the south.\nA harried-looking alchemist runs past."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the flashlight", "response": "The flashlight must not be quite as waterproof as you originally thought; the beam flickers unsteadily, and you have to bang it against the palm of your hand a couple of times to get it to work.\nOuch! You drop the match as it burns down to your fingers."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I did,\" you say.\nHoratio averts his eyes. \"I... er... yeah. Yeah. You did.\"\nHoratio averts his eyes. \"I... er... yeah. Yeah. You did.\"A searchlight passes perilously close to you, and you instinctively take a step back. Horatio realizes that you are both in the open, and he leads you behind a nearby concrete pillar, just out of sight.\nleads you behind a nearby concrete pillar, just out of sight.\"Listen,\" he says. He glances back at the scanning searchlight. \"You shouldn't be here.\"\n1) \"I can't turn back now...\"\n2) \"Doctor Justinian tried to silence me...\"\n3) \"Horatio, I need to get to the Channelworks...\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the controller", "response": "This machine is about the size of a concession stand, with yellow double-doors in the front and black polymer walls that curve smoothly away. It is structurally intact, more or less, but it is obviously quite defunct. Its lights have gone out, and black smoke seeps from between its doors. Now that you're closer to it, you can see that the machine isn't just resting on the ground, but instead rises up from it, almost as if it were a part of the floor."}, {"prompt": "Hum", "response": "You hum a little tune."}, {"prompt": "You take the sperm", "response": "You lift a spermatozoon from the basin with the tongs."}, {"prompt": "You take yarn", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Doctor Cavala's clinic is a small, unostentatious affair, neatly organized with little in the way of decoration. A row of chairs faces the prescription counter, where the medication and patient records are sorted in gridlike pigeonholes; further on is the consulting study, home to a desk strewn with notes and diagrams.\nA calomel curtain leads north to the surgery room, stairs lead down to the mortuary, and the front door lies east.\nDoctor Cavala is at her desk, engrossed in paperwork."}, {"prompt": "Wear the goggles", "response": "(first taking the VR goggles)\nWow! Virtual reality really does work! With a sensation of great speed, you are transported to....\nA dull metal corridor, lit by flickering lights. The corridor continues west and ends in a pink door to the northeast with a pink keyhole. Painted in drippy blood on the wall are the word Shangri-La and an arrow pointing west.\nThe pink door bars passage to the northeast.\nYou hear a sinister giggling from the west somewhere."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "The path bends northwest, around the side of the church.\nA low, wrought-iron fence, its spike-tipped bars bent or leaning at crazy angles, surrounds the overgrown yard of this dark, abandoned church. A gap in the fence leads back west, while a bare path beaten through the groping weeds leads around the church to the southeast.\nIn the distance, you can hear the lonesome keening of a train whistle drifting on the wind."}, {"prompt": "You sit on the couch", "response": "You're not eager to get that close to Beauregard Phelps.\n\"I heard your aunt's gonna get you all dolled up for the picnic. I just can't wait!\""}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "You are in the living room. There is a doorway to the east. To the west is a cyclops-shaped opening in an old wooden door, above which is some strange gothic lettering, a trophy case, and a rug lying beside an open trap door.\nThere is a glass bottle here.\nThe glass bottle contains:\nA quantity of water\nThere is a skeleton key here.\nYour collection of treasures consists of:\nA golden clockwork canary\nA jewel-encrusted egg\nA crystal trident\nA large emerald\nA trunk of jewels\nA sceptre\nA beautiful jeweled scarab\nA pot of gold\nA huge diamond\nA sapphire-encrusted bracelet\nA jade figurine\nA chalice\nA platinum bar\nA gold coffin\nA painting\nA leather bag of coins"}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "Parking Lot (crawling)\nA short drive from the southwest leads to this empty parking lot. The mountainside is choked with shrubs, obscuring the view of the road from here.\nBlinds in the windows prevent you from seeing inside the diner to the west. A paved walk leads northwest around the back of the building.\nYour severed foot arrives from the front of the diner."}, {"prompt": "You open valve", "response": "You have opened the valve."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The gravel driveway runs behind the big house, which looms over you to the east. At the north end the driveway passes through a high hedge, and at the south it opens out into an area in front of a shack, where a dusty van is parked. A pair of low doors angles out from the foundation of the house at this spot.\nYou see a dead possum here."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Tower, Mid-level\nA midpoint in the tower, with doorways east and west, lit from above. The south wall is occupied by a deep niche, in which is a statue of a young man in the Greek mode.\nThe walls have been sheathed with a variety of fine materials, all exceptionally costly: sheets of beaten gold, squares of lapis lazuli, placards of ruby and adamant. There is a dark, square hole in the north wall where one of these sheets has been removed.\nYou can see a needle, a tube (which is empty), two keys (a delicate key and a sturdy key), a workbox (which is empty), a magnifying glass and a ball of yarn here."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are wearing your trenchcoat, your clothes and your wedding ring; in addition, you have in your hands an animal's skull, a keyring, on which are four keys (an old-fashioned brass key, an old-fashioned iron key, a key to the house and a key to the cellar), a newspaper and a broom.\nThe pockets of your trenchcoat contain a letter opener, a strange metal flute, a puzzle box (which is closed), a flask (which is closed), a slip of paper, Michael's faculty card, a bundle of soggy pages, a silver locket, a family album, a flashlight, a book of matches with six matches left, a torn journal, a typewritten notice, a lantern, your umbrella and a towel."}, {"prompt": "You open the computer", "response": "You open the CD-ROM drive. The Kunkel's game must have come to a screeching halt, because it stops twitching, swears, and thumbs the drive door shut before you can react.\nThe kunkel flinches and swears."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "You get out of the messenger ship.\nThis large, cavernous space where dropships and other small craft can be stored when not in use. It is currently empty, except for a messenger ship.\nThe launch doors leading north are closed. You can go west, through the force field and back to the plaza, or up to the control room.\nThe wind picks up some leaves and blows them through the force field to the west."}, {"prompt": "You enter VENT", "response": "A featureless air duct, which continues north.\nThe robot zips toward you, the whirr of its razor blades incredible loud and - uh, let's leave the rest to your imagination. Kids may be playing! Hey kids! The robot bought you a farm where you live happily ever after."}, {"prompt": "Smell", "response": "You smell nothing unexpected.\nThe undressed stone of the walls scrapes at you as you move, which is an extremely unpleasant and distracting sensation."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": ":\\>The fuel tank has been closed."}, {"prompt": "You ask the shopkeeper about teen", "response": "\"I'd prefer to talk about amulets.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the man", "response": "You eagerly scamper that way.\nYou are right outside a dilapidated shack, which has clearly been neglected. The sky rumbles and rolls, and flashes of lightning snap between billowing clouds of dirt-colored dust.\nMYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Zoiro", "response": "\"Zoiro,\" you say. \"Hello.\"\nThe goblin pauses mid-motion. He inclines his head respectfully.\n\"Hello,\" he says. \"Marid.\"\n\"Hello,\" he says. \"Marid.\"He turns around, shuffling his feet on the floor.\nfloor.\"Sorry about the mess. I wasn't expecting a visit so early.\"\n1) \"It's okay.\"\n2) \"I didn't mean to interrupt.\"\n3) \"What are you doing?\"\n4) \"I wanted to ask you some things about Reden...\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the phone", "response": "A standard candybar model with a nice screen. Although you've disabled its voice calling functionality to make it less distracting, the lock screen is still active and tells you it is 7:31 pm. The back is blank metal save for a tiny icon of a waterdrop with a slash across it."}, {"prompt": "You keep going", "response": "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to successfully perform a\u2026"}, {"prompt": "You examine the Anchorhead", "response": "From this distance, all you can make out of Anchorhead are the leaning shapes of its rooftops, huddled in a thin, jagged line against the base of the hills to the south."}, {"prompt": "You examine the eyes", "response": "Small and sunken."}, {"prompt": "You tell Leslie about Woods", "response": "\"Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Edge of the Woods now...\"\n\"Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating...\""}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Stumbling and squirming among the brambles, you find that you've arrived in....\nYou're in the midst of a tangled thicket of thorny bramble-bushes. You have to edge sideways to avoid being impaled on the long, sharp, vicious-looking thorns, and it's hardly possible to stand up straight for fear you'll tangle your hair in them. Littering the ground is a random scatter of dried twigs.\nNarrow, twisting paths lead off in all directions.\nSomething is crawling in your hair. You brush it off hurriedly."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nAustin's muscles are shaking with exertion. \"Emily, I can't hold on much longer!\""}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "You glare at her. \"I don't believe that for a second. The pigeons may be pests, but -- but poisoning them? That's much too cruel.\nThere must be some other way.\"\n\"Oh?\" Saliunca raises an eyebrow. \"And what would this other way be?\"\n\"I... I don't...\"\n\"I... I don't...\"You shake your head.\n\"I don't know. But there must be a way. There must be...\"\n\"I don't know. But there must be a way. There must be...\"\"And suppose I'm right, and there isn't?\" She frowns. \"You've got some nerve telling me off, young lady, when all I've heard out of you is talk. Get off your high horse. Don't tell me you're squeamish about killing a few birds -- or is that what the Physicians' College taught you?\"\na few birds -- or is that what the Physicians' College taught you?\"You tense up.\n1) \"What would a hag like you possibly know about the\nArt?...\"\n2) \"I'm sorry. I have to go.\""}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nthree food items:\na sprig of mint\na sprig of parsley\na bay leaf\na dashing hat (being worn)\na swordstick\na sword\na snuffbox (which is closed)"}, {"prompt": "You take all from the drawer", "response": "One thing at a time today, dundeecake."}, {"prompt": "You ask the guard about the gates", "response": "\"We're not a medieval castle. The gates are open all day!\" he says."}, {"prompt": "Gus", "response": "\"I don' believe ya, punk. Gus and I are friends, he wouln' say that 'bout my momma.\""}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "(first unlocking the sinister door)\nYou lack a key that fits the sinister door."}, {"prompt": "You taste the soup", "response": "Our hero enjoys a long slurp of soup.\nAbruptly, the surface of the liquid is broken by a pulse of circular ripples, forming and dissolving as if rocked by some tiny tremor of the earth. Our hero looks up sharply, but the crowds have registered nothing unusual. The flier pinned to a nearby pole shivers, though not with the breeze."}, {"prompt": "You open flap", "response": "You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Unable to initiate: scan-web coverage not complete.\"\n\"Nowhere,\" the familiar voice begins, but someone interrupts: \"The power is showing a dropoff, look at that.\"\n\"All right,\" the man continues after a moment. \"All right. Blast the door down. Now, please.\"\nOrders, apparently, are orders. There is a deafening roar; the door tears into flying shards of metal. A hail of pulse-gun fire follows\nthe blast in. You don't stand a moment's chance."}, {"prompt": "You take all from dragon", "response": "Removed."}, {"prompt": "You follow the adventurer", "response": "The corridor widens here to form a large hall. To the north and south are small passages, and to the east is what appears to be an enormous spiral staircase. A passage to the west leads into a courtyard. The walls here are scarred and black, and a strange heaviness hangs in the air.\nThere is a bedraggled and weary adventurer standing here. He is carrying a sword, and a brass lantern.\nThe adventurer fends you off with his sword."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You pause for a moment as you start to walk again. Did you .. hear something? Nah. Couldn't be.\nA Third Place in New York\nSteadily narrowing down the options, you plan on having the whole of New York mapped any time now. *Including* the secret passage from the Kitchen to the Library. Streets lead west and north."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"So?\" says the Gorilla, irritated. \"Then what?\" Did you lie around all day? What happened? What? Eh?\"\n1) \"I then decided to sneak up to it.\"\n2) \"I then decided to wait some more.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the glowcube", "response": "This is the sort of glowcube that is meant to stay put as a room fixture. Plus, you wouldn't want any of the crew seeing you disturb their things."}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "You'll have to get out of the fireplace first."}, {"prompt": "You link the handcuffs to the bracelet", "response": "(the handcuffs through the mirror)\nBending your will, you form the link between the handcuffs and the bracelet.\nMarie shifts uncomfortably from one position to another."}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "executioner's axe: Taken.\nasbestos vest: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You pull Horse back", "response": "You pull back on Mane. Unfortunately, Horse doesn't seem to slow\nperceptibly.\nThe cliff grows as Horse approaches it at an angle."}, {"prompt": "You examine the wire", "response": "At last! You are in the possession of the wire to the fax machine!"}, {"prompt": "You reach spider", "response": "She is surrounded by crimson light. Intense, dancing light streaked with strands of pure dark. Greasy suffocating smoke, then a flash of blinding white, Deafening thunder of falling rocks. Then nothing.\nLornedei's magic drops by one."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Lornedei drops down into the opening between the roots of the black oak. She tumbles down into cool dark water.\nCaves (Among the Restless Roots)\nThe space she is in is not more then twice Lornedei's length in any direction. The tangle of roots makes the space seem smaller yet. The pale mass of roots stirs restlessly. Below her, the inky water of the river flows past.\nThe roots on the south wall have slid apart enough to reveal a narrow passage through rock and soil.\nSPLASH!"}, {"prompt": "South", "response": "You are in a lush rainforest clearing, surrounded by steep cliffs. Clinging vines snake their way up the rocky wall, here and there dangling long chains of magenta flowers. Trails lead north and northeast. A large waterfall to the east roars and churns up a dense cloud of mist.\nAnother power station is poking out from among the dense foliage beside the waterfall."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\ndim bulb (Providing light) long hotdog stage makeup sharp knife packing crate old lamp oaken bucket plaster pluto scuba suit fortune cookie\nThere is a fortune ( in the broken pieces )\nvalve trumpet You're wearing: solitaire ring"}, {"prompt": "You ask Emma about the pistol", "response": "\"That used to belong to Captain Davis. I don't normally hold with duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get back to your reading, Hector.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the manhole", "response": "A rusted manhole with a dented grille.\nOn closer examination, it's too small for you to fit into. But a goblin-sized person might be able to climb in. It looks like a shaft runs all the way from this manhole to Riggertown.\nruns all the way from this manhole to Riggertown.Your guess is that a certain goblin has been using this manhole to sneak onto this ledge beneath the Channelworks."}, {"prompt": "You kill Onegin", "response": "The countess? The countess? Why should you fight the countess when that bastard Onegin is undoubtedly the mastermind behind this whole charade?\nYou're overcome with outrage and you lunge toward Onegin, and when the countess tries to intercept you with her tremendous kielbasa, your vorpal blade slices through it.\nNothing can intercept a vorpal blade.\nThe countess cannot comprehend what has happened. She is staring at the severed stump left in her hand, but you've already finished your business. The same slice that went through her weapon also went through Onegin.\nHe is looking at you in horror, and you can't blame him for that, although you don't feel sorry when his horrified head pops off his shoulders like a champagne cork. A bloody geyser rises from his neck and continues to rise for far longer than it has any right to do, scattering at its pinnacle into a scarlet shower that patters down over the garden. Warm droplets speckle your skin.\nThe countess sinks onto her knees at the sight, her gown ballooning around her. Blood is still spouting, still raining from Onegin's standing corpse, and his head hasn't come back down yet.\nThe countess says: \"I surrender.\"\nYou didn't even have to ask, and a good thing too, because you likely wouldn't have.\nWhen Onegin's head finally does land on the lawn, the countess faints. You can't blame her either."}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The catwalk continues West and East. There is a firm BULGE in the boards, and a mysterious wisp of GAS just dissipating above."}, {"prompt": "You get it", "response": "Taken.\n[This is the only item you need to take from this room or the front walk, and the only other thing you need to do here is unlock the door with the key, when you have it. But there are other things here you can explore, if you like.]"}, {"prompt": "You ask the Lady about the bull", "response": "\"You should have seen him leap over the ha-ha, Monsieur,\" says Lady Hamcester. \"It was magnificent. I do hope he doesn't sit on poor Hives.\"\nFrom the direction of the saloon you hear a sudden crash.\n\"Careful, Hives!\" says Lady Hamcester."}, {"prompt": "You examine the device", "response": "The device is circular, and about the size of a small lazy susan. Bright sunlight shines directly on it through the window. The central part of the device is a circular platform of polished wood, in which is inlaid an arrow in lighter wood. The arrow points somewhat to the left of the window. Also incised in the wood are some abstract figures or designs. They look rather like the mysterious letters on the stone bracelet you found in the dining room.\nMounted along the edges of the circle are several clear glass prisms and several more small rectangular mirrors. The latter are held in place by slim brass mounting clips. There are mirrors or prisms in all of the clips.\nAs the sunlight hits the prisms, a rainbow of light cascades across the surface of the device. On the wooden circle is a stone bracelet."}, {"prompt": "Slice", "response": "What do you want to slice the rat hole with?"}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "You stand at a point of decision on a road which makes a wide fork to the northeast and southeast, circling the base of the Lonely Mountain, which looms high overhead to the east. A very long and winding road starts here and stretches out of sight to the west through low, smoky hills."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The hallway runs west to east; the east end of the hall curves south towards reception. An open door lies to the south, a closed door to the north."}, {"prompt": "Hallway", "response": "I push myself to speed and enter the hallway.\nI'm in the hallway outside MY ROOM. Further down the hallway are the SICK BAY and EXERCISE ROOM. Going the other way I can go to DOCKING STATION into which the Magellan is docked."}, {"prompt": "You look at log", "response": "The gas log is gray. Its bark is wrinkled in an unconvincing way."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the door with the bronze key", "response": "(first taking the tarnished bronze key)\n(slipping the towel into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou unlock the massive bronze door.\nAnother wave crashes against the rocks, sending a cloud of spray into the air."}, {"prompt": "You take the cat", "response": "Strawberry lets you hold her for about fifteen seconds before squirming free of your grasp, climbing your shoulder with help from sharp tiny claws, and hops to the floor behind you."}, {"prompt": "You take coat", "response": "You're only trained for security; you should contact the ship before taking any action."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Emperor Tavern { West }\nThis area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short walk to the east.\nYou can see a tablet here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This is a carpeted foyer. The walls bear portraits of famous stage magicians of the past and present. A small desk holds a visitors' book and doors lead in each of the cardinal directions. The front door of the home is to the west.\nStanding sentry by the visitors' book and watching over the four doors in this room is the servant, Zhang Wei.\nZhang straightens one of the portraits."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Crowded walkways lead east and west along an iron fence. Narrow paths wander south into the Gardens.\nA young boy sits nearby, listening to a pair of headphones and idly blowing soap bubbles. There's a dish full of soapy water by his side.\nThe boy dips the bubble wand in the dish and swishes it around."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The two-story height of the foyer is channelled into a narrower\nhallway to the north. On the north wall to the west of the hallway's beginning is an open doorway. The building's entrance to the south is reflected in the marble floor.\nTracked across the marble floor are muddy footprints.\nBubbles is lying on the ground, waiting for you.\nBubbles sees you and jumps up, barking loudly at your return."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You are standing at the foot of the glacier, a sheer wall of ice that would dwarf the tallest skyscraper. For thousands of years it has followed this valley like the world's most doggedly determined Slush Puppie. Scattered around are immense boulders deposited here by the glacier during its inexorable retreat. Who knows what else might have been swept up in this monstrous river of ice?\nTo the south the holy mountain broods over the valley like a thundercloud. Narrow trails lead southeast and southwest.\nA hole in the ice, just big enough to crawl through, leads  into the depths of the glacier.\nThe yeti arrives from Meadow, hurling aside any giant boulders that stand in his path."}, {"prompt": "You chop the trap with Axe", "response": "It is of stone."}, {"prompt": "You put the key in the keyhole", "response": "The stonework key fits into the mural with a tingle, as though an alchemical glyph has been completed. The world blurs into the rain, and the rain into the world, and you see it -- a change in\nthe order of the skeins that are woven before you.\nthe order of the skeins that are woven before you.The iron door swings open."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "A chamber with a stifling atmosphere. The ceiling is a plaster dome, still intact, though marbled with ghostly mold. The floor is invisible beneath layered carpets and dust clots. The hall is west, and to the east is a doorway to a tiny balcony.\nIn the center of the room is a four-poster bed.\nThere is a small hook on the wall. Hanging on the hook is an abstract painting.\nAcross from the bed is an armchair.\nOn the armchair is a dusty, desiccated corpse."}, {"prompt": "You take the card", "response": "You pick up your card, it's the seven of rocks.\n\"Ur, I bet 4,\" says the old troll.\nYour turn.\nThe lowest possible bet (in total) is now 4.\nThe highest possible bet (in total) is now 4. (The old troll only has 4 gold coins.)\nThe old troll has 4 gold coins.\nThe tall troll has 0 gold coins.\nThe short troll has 0 gold coins.\nYou have 16 gold coins.\nThere are 4 gold coins in the pot.\nSo far you have betted 0 gold coins.\nDo you want to stay, raise or fold?"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Two rows of small, dilapidated cabins, three on each side, stand to the east and west of this stretch of bare dirt. Several croquet hoops are stuck crookedly into the ground at odd spots.\nYou're standing between Cabin Six (to the west) and Cabin Three (to the east). The croquet court continues north from here. To the south, a little slope ends at the watery edge of a swamp, and a path to the southwest leads toward a good-sized shed that stands at the edge of the water."}, {"prompt": "You show the sermon to Emma", "response": "Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you. Her rather confused and unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting."}, {"prompt": "You look at the salts", "response": "You always carry your smelling salts, for emergencies. There is a small tag on one side of them.\nThe reefs are definitely getting larger."}, {"prompt": "You press the button", "response": "The surface of the delicate key grows lustrous with a metallic sheen."}, {"prompt": "You ask Lydia about Reverend", "response": "You mention that there's a clergyman staying in one of the cabins, and that he seems to be part of whatever is going on around here. \"I wish I could say that surprises me,\" she says. \"But it doesn't. There were some nasty ministers back when I was alive, and I don't guess it's changed much.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This looks like a maintenance room, with a ladder leading down.\nMarius arrives from the south."}, {"prompt": "You take the quilt", "response": "You don't need to carry that around.\nYou can hear the crashing and clanging of a sword fight coming from the tavern common room."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You proceed to the receiving room. There are rooms to the east and south, as well as a well-lit hallway through the open door to the west. An unnameable horror is crying on the floor beside a roaring fireplace.\nYou hear the clown searching for you in the room to the east."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na pouch\na thorn\na sling (being worn)\na jewel"}, {"prompt": "You think about yourself", "response": "You feel worse than you've ever felt, including the time when you were seventeen and three guys kicked the shit out of you just for existing. Maybe now hurts more because it's happening right now... but it's a\nbad sign."}, {"prompt": "You examine the grass", "response": "The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of\npatches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word COME, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it."}, {"prompt": "You get the dagger", "response": "You pull again. You're almost there. You can feel the dagger's resolve fading.\nNow the water is up to your shins."}, {"prompt": "You keep going", "response": "(the dial right)\nYou turn the dial one notch clockwise.\nS  |  W\n\\|/\nZ+I\n/|\\\nE  |  N\n|\nD"}, {"prompt": "You open door", "response": "You have no idea how to do that. There is no handle, no knob, no keyhole and simply pushing it doesn't get you any further."}, {"prompt": "You take the brick", "response": "Age and heat have hardened the cement holding the brick in place."}, {"prompt": "You look at the Lake", "response": "The frozen lake spreads out south of the garden. You can see a small island in its center, standing above the ice."}, {"prompt": "You examine copper key", "response": "\"Mine!\" the old man hisses, clapping his hands onto his chest as though you were about to frisk him for it. \"It's mine, and I won't let it go!\""}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "Pagoda (north of lake)\nYou are on the north side of a lake. You can follow the lake around to the southeast, or you can walk north along the brook, which immediately to the west joins the lake."}, {"prompt": "You enter prototype", "response": "The interior of the prototype is cramped and dark. On the wall you see the control panel with a small LED timer set to 390 seconds, and a silver button. Through the open hatch you can see some of the Deutsch lab.\nThe siren wails."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You tumble down, but being a soft bear, that's ok."}, {"prompt": "You examine the contact points", "response": "The twelve contacts are arranged around the edge of the plasma generation zone in perfect symmetry. They all look quite identical."}, {"prompt": "You read the book", "response": "Glancing through the book, you see columns on columns of five-digit numbers. Picking one at a random entry, you read:\nReturn code 77375: Edison circuit tripped\nThis is gibberish! Maybe if you knew what to look up."}, {"prompt": "You open the drawers", "response": "You open the delicate drawers, revealing some folded clothing."}, {"prompt": "You search the flour", "response": "(the flour)\nYou find nothing of interest."}, {"prompt": "Close suitcase", "response": "Closed."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The monkey follows you.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.\nThe monkey looks up at you expectantly."}, {"prompt": "You look at the oil", "response": "(the fish oil)\nIt's a viscous, nasty-smelling goo, made from and made for feeding fish. Not very appetizing."}, {"prompt": "You look at diary entry", "response": "It's part of a diary entry written on a scrap of journal paper. It reads, \"By the time I knew what I had to do, nothing remained in my heart but the disapproval I had reserved for myself. I knew my family would be stricken with terror, and I should have felt disapproval for the action I was about to take, but this is the price of vigilance and everything else was stricken from my heart.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the sand", "response": "The wide, sandy beach follows the curve of the bay to the east and eventually disappears behind the cliffs as it turns south. To the west it ends at a jumble of fallen rock."}, {"prompt": "You look at the monitor", "response": "This bulky monitor, roughly the size of a child's coffin, looks heavy and grimey. Whoever worked with this computer and monitor must've smoked like a Turkish tobacco caliph. The whole thing is sticky with a jaundiced film and the screen is covered with smudged fingerprints.\nOn the nicotine-stained monitor is a Post-it\u00ae note."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "Bundles bob, bumping the ceiling, as more blood continues pouring from each pore. The light is almost gone. You swallow mouthfuls and sputter with panic, but there is nowhere to dive save deeper down.\nA shock travels through the anatomy, organs convulsive."}, {"prompt": "You examine trees", "response": "The woods are ancient, thick with undergrowth and full of shadows. Branches creak, leaves rustle beneath unseen, half-imagined footsteps, and strange birdcalls echo through the trees."}, {"prompt": "You color assister indigo", "response": "You reach out to color the Assister from outside, and nearly succeed, but it is too difficult from this distance.\nThe Mercy wheedles Assister, who half-rebuffs in contemplation, \"Let me think, just let me think.\""}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na large sack, containing\na family Bible\na jeweled peach\nan orange mask\na strand of red beads\na chicken costume (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You connect the pushbutton to the scrambler", "response": "You connect the pushbutton to the scan scrambler. The pushbutton turns orange to confirm the match."}, {"prompt": "You ask the antiquarian about the rug", "response": "\"I like it,\" the antiquarian says. \"Give it here.\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There's a wall to the east, but some of the cogs and other machines cut right through it, so maybe there is another area on the other side. What's more, there's a rectangular patch on the wall where a door might once have been."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "You hear a rumbling sound under your feet. The rumbling increases\nin intensity until the sound is deafening, and the ground is shaking violently. As you try to maintain your balance, several rocks are suddenly blown upward as a huge steam geyser blasts through the surface. You jump backward away from the jet of pressurized steam. Eventually, the geyser weakens, and finally stops."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about Jessie", "response": "As you start to speak, Luisa scowls at you irritably. \"Why don't you go outside and play?\"\nLuisa snuffles and wipes her eyes. \"I don't want to talk about that,\" she says hoarsely."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "The scent of your house is strong here, and you are right next to its front door. You can't see far because it is so dusty here. Ominous clouds of dust loom on the ever-darkening horizon.\nPLANET SURFACE -> STATUS : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You examine fid", "response": "It's a long wooden cone with a mean-looking point."}, {"prompt": "You examine the view", "response": "From here you can see over all of the areas in the park that are north and east of the treehouse, but you can't see to the west or south.\n*  To the north, in the place above the wall, you can see Jack.\n*  Over to the east, near the puddle of mud, you see that big girl counting against her tree.\n** Away to the north, you just saw something moving near the giant garden bed. You're not sure what it was, but it might have been a person."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "\"Aww, leaving so soon? Well we must do this again sometime,\" Cynthia calls out after you.\nAs if you never left, Cissy starts back on her photos.\nOutside dining (next to the kitchen)\nThis is what it's all about: stale food and staler gossip. However, despite all that, the outside dining offered by Pine Meadows is really the only thing that interests you at the club. The tables are full; the place is busy. The members don't seem to be eating all that much though, no doubt saving their appetites for the banquet tonight. To the west is the server's entrance to the kitchen where all manner of food is prepared. The dining area extends to the east, and to the south and southeast are the garden path and tennis court respectively.\nA waiter bustles about frantically, trying desperately to keep up with drink orders from demanding patrons.\nCissy stands here in all her fuchsia splendour."}, {"prompt": "Search scrolls", "response": "After a little more searching, you discover another scroll that can be safely removed: one with a distinctive silvery handle."}, {"prompt": "You open the camera", "response": "You flip open the small hatch on the side where the film is supposed to go. It's empty."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "Via Terminalis, West Street\nYou are adrift in the bustle of crowds and carriages, a raucous river that runs through the blood-vessel streets. Signage advertises a profusion of shops and services amid the sounds of leather rollers and stitching machines. In the distant mist, the Bilious Canal spills from the Channelworks into the heart of the city.\nYou can follow the Via to the west, or to the southeast where it bridges the canal. A condemned block is visible to the north. A hanging banner obscures an alley to the southwest, while a footpath follows the canal to the south."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Forest surrounds this hill on all sides, but there are no trees at the top - only grass and a few sad flowers, bending toward the setting sun. You see farmland to the north, and the CASTLE of the SLAVER KING looming high above. To the west is the harbor TOWN, but there's no good path from here.\nGUNWAR the PEG-LEG DWARF follows along."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You are standing on the drawbridge of a ruined castle which lies to your east. The wood of the bridge looks severely rotted and creaks ominously beneath you. The moat, although an easy dive from here, looks dangerous, full of sinister shapes beneath the surface of the water. To the west is a wide field."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the mother", "response": "Hello, mother. Life treating you well? How about these accommodations? Met anyone new recently? We ought to catch up more. We don't see each other as often as we used to. That's because you're locked down in this chest, which is why really asking you these questions\nand having a chat would be as useless as talking to a wall.\nYeah, your mother's here, all right, but she's also not. There's a reason that nobody else can perform a two-card trick. There's a reason that Lady Gascogne pinned a platinum medal to your jacket.\nThere's a reason you deserve it more than anyone. And it's called sacrifice."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You start across the room, but less than halfway across, the huge hammer crashes down, right on top of you!\n****  You have died  ****\nYou awaken among the members of the Circle. Belboz the Necromancer looks tired, and scattered about are the remains of the components of a spell of great healing power. The other members of the Circle are pleased to see you revived, but worried by the setback. \"I think Krill is too powerful,\" says one. \"This inexperienced wizard will never defeat one so puissant as he.\" Quiet discussion ensues, with well-concealed acrimony beneath the surface.\nDebate ensues, with Belboz returning frequently to the contents of the ancient manuscript. His wishes prevail, and it is agreed to send you back....\nThe stars shine down on you from a clear, dark sky.\nThere is a loaf of bread here.\nThere is a jug here (providing light).\nThe jug contains:\nA quantity of water"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Ugh! Long non-fourth-wall four-letter commands make Dirk's head hurt. Well, there are some meta-commands. But here are the main short ones.\nU/L/D/R to move Dirk, S for sword/attack, or Z to wait, which is usually a bad idea. H gives a command list, and an empty command refreshes your current situation."}, {"prompt": "I wide", "response": "You are carrying two books (Clock Repair and On Vegetable\nDyes), a stone block, a butcher knife, a sword, a hinge-lidded\nteapot (which is open), inside which is not very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot), a sack (which is open), inside which are a sponge, a snuffbox (which is closed), a white handkerchief, two metal dishes (a plate and a cup), a swordstick and five food items (a bay leaf, a sprig of parsley, a sprig of mint, a clove of garlic and a single yellow onion) and a dashing hat (being worn).\nThe model universe clicks."}, {"prompt": "Sharpener", "response": "Opening the sharpener compartment reveals an Infern-O-Vac battery.\nThe programmer looks pensively at the screen."}, {"prompt": "You examine computer", "response": "An old home made computer with a green screen and a rickety disk drive, circuit boards and such sticking out at all angles.\nThe personal computer is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "You set the green dial to 1", "response": "You set the green dial to 1."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the door with the iron key", "response": "You unlock the small wooden door.\nAs a distant clock chimes quarter to the hour, it occurs to you it might be time to pay a visit to her office."}, {"prompt": "You examine secret", "response": "This might be a prop left over from a spy drama - or maybe it's the real thing."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, allows passage u to the next floor."}, {"prompt": "You examine rombert", "response": "Rombert is a short, corpulent man.\nThe auctioneer fishes around in the coffer, pulls out a stock, and puts it on the auction block.\n\"Next up is Royal Ibis Bureau,\" he says. \"Any bids?\"\nA depressed horse mutters something about glue."}, {"prompt": "Drink water", "response": "You scoop up a few drops and lick them from your fingers. The water tastes very clean, and very old.\nYou hear a few bats flutter by, off to snack on insects somewhere."}, {"prompt": "You play the flute", "response": "(the strange metal flute)\nYou blow an open chord into the little flute, and it resonates with an eerie, metallic warble. The sound lingers in the air for a moment, then gently fades away."}, {"prompt": "You examine the herbs", "response": "The bed holds row after row of herbs, with quite a lot, it must be admitted, occupying the purple-ish portion of the palette. That pennyroyal might take some finding."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stripe", "response": "A stripe of green running just below the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "You touch the sphere", "response": "The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your mind:\nYou are standing on a barren, windswept plain. A knight in black armour clatters past toward a foreboding stone tower, and from the distance, a beautiful maiden's voice calls out. \"Help me! My rezrov scroll is gone and I must flee before the Dark Lord comes!\"\nSlowly, the vision fades. You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.\nThe burin flutters around your head."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A small, square room, with grey stone walls and exposed rafters. Very simple, very spartan. A long, narrow bed lined one wall. An old wooden dresser stood beside it, directly under a tall casement window looking out onto the French countryside. A soft breeze wafted through the open window.\nMy trusty old steamer trunk lay here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tapestry", "response": "The large tapestry depicts a demon standing on a rocky shoreline in the midst of a storm. In one hand he holds a bell; the other is outstretched, feeding a murder of crows that hovers around him. A pair of boots poke out from below the tapestry."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Ser Leonhart and Tuck follow you into Tristain's bedroom, lit from a large window overlooking the courtyard. Beside a four-post bed with a princess canopy is a vanity covered in wigs, ersatz jewellery and one overflowing box of makeup. An open wardrobe is full of dresses and capes and boas and heels. On the walls are posters of boy bands, though the largest poster is of Zifmia the Adventurer."}, {"prompt": "You examine the egg", "response": "It's an ordinary egg. When you touch it it doesn't seem very cold. Apparently the refrigerator isn't working."}, {"prompt": "You drink orange POTION", "response": "Uh oh. The orange potion seems to be having an unpleasant reaction with the aqua potion. Your left ear turns into a carnivorous toad and devours your brain.\n\" he asks, writing frantically in a notebook. \"I'd love to chat, but we're so busy this month.\" The angel twitches his nose, and the nothingness is replaced by...\nYou are standing on the drawbridge of a ruined castle which lies to your east. The wood of the bridge looks severely rotted and creaks ominously beneath you. The moat, although an easy dive from here, looks dangerous, full of sinister shapes beneath the surface of the water. To the west is a wide field.\nWith a scream of splintering wood, part of the drawbridge collapses and spills you into the moat. You are immediately set upon by alligators and piranhas.\n (Type RESTART, RESTORE, or QUIT):"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Camino", "response": "\"I am looking for Lisa von B\u00fclow. I understand she used to come here along with a bloke named McAllister?\"\nHe has the perfect poker face. \"I never talk about my clientele. It's bad for business.\""}, {"prompt": "You turn on torch", "response": "I switched the torch on.\nUnder the dim torch light, the house seemed to scream its whole desolation all of a sudden. Everywhere I turned it was just an unrecognisable, deformed, amount of dust and cobwebs with some unidentifiable pieces of furniture beneath. I guessed I was in the foyer, and there seemed to be some kind of ways south, east and west."}, {"prompt": "You break the web with the umbrella", "response": "(first taking the umbrella)\n(slipping the book of matches into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nThe pointy end of the umbrella doesn't do much damage to the thick, tangled web."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coin", "response": "The gold coin is about the size of a silver dollar. It has a striding Goddess of Liberty on the front, and an eagle flying across a rising sun on the reverse. It's dated 1907.\nThe merry-go-round continues tinkling its wistful little tune."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "Castle Ruins (In the Guard Chamber)\nThe spiral staircase ends in the middle of a square chamber. The west wall has fallen out into the ravine, letting in the glowing sunset. The walls that are still standing and the marble floor have cracked in several places. Rocks, a thick layer of dust, and all sorts of debris cover the floor. The only thing still intact is a stone statue standing in the southeast corner.\nThe spiral staircase leads up and the west wall is open to the ravine.\nShe can see an old torch here."}, {"prompt": "You unclip the chain", "response": "The dog tenses up as you approach and snarls menacingly. You decide to keep at a safe distance.\nA lightning flash momentarily lights up the sky in the distance.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This car may have been a kitchen car, or perhaps it was temporarily converted into one for the purposes of this trip. In either case, the recent occupation by the terrorists has left it in shambles. Exits lead south and north.\nThe lifeless bodies of the terrorists lie scattered around the car.\nThe refrigerator must have been broken, as a heavy-duty ice chest sits in the corner.\nYou can also see a small velvet box (which is empty) here."}, {"prompt": "You get the capacitor", "response": "You lift the flux capacitor to your arms."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "That's already open."}, {"prompt": "You look at the game", "response": "The game machine is equipped with a video screen, a joystick, a big red button and a narrow slot for tokens. A lurid logo (\"LEATHER GODDESSES OF PHOBOS!\") is painted on the side."}, {"prompt": "Poke Phelps with hoop", "response": "That would be very rude.\nBeauregard hitches up his suspenders."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The muddy street from the centre of the town to the east ends at a ramshackle wooden bridge that has unfortunately fallen into a terminal state of disrepair, leaving no other means of crossing the river. A large wooden barn stands immediately to the south, next to a pair of tumbledown shacks, while on the north side of the street is a rough enclosed area that looks like it's probably some sort of market. Behind the market the land climbs up towards the distant forest.\nYou see a tiny black bug here.\nObvious exits: North, South, East"}, {"prompt": "You look at the smurf", "response": "Southeast: East Mushroomland\nSouthwest: West Mushroomland\nSouth: Temple of Mushrooms and South Mushroomland\nNorth: instant death\nRight here: North Mushroomland\nTip: Instead of constantly typing stuff like 'go south' or 'go northwest' you can quickly move in all directions of the compass by simple using n, w, e, s, nw, se etc.\n>You can't see any such thing."}, {"prompt": "You play the the copy of Doom", "response": "Not possible.\nYour twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "At this juncture we had reached a fork in the tunnels that led north, east, and south.\nKeri thought about it some more and then she continued her thought from before. \"And everyone at this school ends up going to the same buildings, and they all walk on the same sidewalks, until they find the shortcuts that everyone else already knew about. Maybe sometimes you notice something that someone else hasn't noticed, but as far as the spaces you occupy, everybody ends up with the same experience.\n\"But nobody ever goes down in the steam tunnels! Because nobody ever gets the chance. But you gave us a chance, and I knew we had to take it.\" At this point she grabbed my arm in a very affirming if somewhat uncomfortable manner. \"So, thanks.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the raisins on the celery", "response": "You carefully place a line of raisins down the line of the celery stalk. They stick to the swath of peanut butter and hold fast. Congratulations! You've officially made Ants on a Log!\n\"Touch down!!\" scream both the men and they give each other high fives."}, {"prompt": "You examine the poem", "response": "The unfolded poem reads:\nBehold the sweet evening, friend of the criminal;\nIt comes like an accomplice, stealthily; the sky\nCloses slowly like an immense alcove,\nAnd impatient man turns into a beast of prey.\nO evening, kind evening, desired by him\nWhose arms can say, without lying: \"Today\nWe labored!\" - It is the evening that comforts\nThose minds that are consumed by a savage sorrow,\nThe obstinate scholar whose head bends with fatigue\nAnd the bowed laborer who returns to his bed.\nAwaken sluggishly, like businessmen,\nAnd take flight, bumping against porch roofs and shutters.\nAmong the gas flames worried by the wind\nProstitution catches alight in the streets;\nLike an ant-hill she lets her workers out;\nEverywhere she blazes a secret path,\nLike an enemy who plans a surprise attack;\nShe moves in the heart of the city of mire\nLike a worm that steals from Man what he eats.\nHere and there one hears food sizzle in the kitchens,\nThe theaters yell, the orchestras moan;\nThe gambling dens, where games of chance delight,\nFill up with whores and cardsharps, their accomplices;\nThe burglars, who know neither respite nor mercy,\nAre soon going to begin their work, they also,\nAnd quietly force open cash-boxes and doors\nTo enjoy life awhile and dress their mistresses.\nMeditate, O my soul, in this solemn moment,\nAnd close your ears to this uproar;\nIt is now that the pains of the sick grow sharper!\nSomber Night grabs them by the throat; they reach the end\nOf their destinies and go to the common pit;\nThe hospitals are filled with their sighs. - More than one\nWill come no more to get his fragrant soup\nBy the fireside, in the evening, with a loved one.\nHowever, most of them have never known\nThe sweetness of a home, have never lived!\n- William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)"}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "At the center of the hotel is this wide atrium, a plaza of orange\nbrick dotted with flowerboxes and ornamental bushes. The ceiling of\nthe lobby is made of glass, and so the sunset outside gives an unnatural hue to the hibiscus vines adorning the open doors to the south. Despite the location, it's mostly quiet here. Even the rattan chairs overlooking the garden to the east are empty.\nThe hotel reception is to the west, and a corridor to the north leads deeper into the hotel.\nA thermostat is located unobtrusively in a corner.\nThe drunk sprawls nearby.\nThe bellhop stands near the entrance, looking nervous.\nThe guest is loitering off to one side.\nI can also see a large puddle here.\nThe detector vibrates faintly in my hand, and a magnetic force is pulling it north."}, {"prompt": "You wear the eyepatch", "response": "Okay, you're now wearing the eye patch.\nYou rub your hands together to try to keep them warm."}, {"prompt": "Substance", "response": "You make the bind, and the Goddess of Chaos winks at you as she merges herself with the material substance of reality. She's been there all the time, of course.\n'I tell you that's nonsense! We live in an orderly universe, chaos is just the confusion of your weak mind.' His companion answers back: 'No, order is your mind trying to escape the confusion that exists within everything! You must embrace and accept chaos.'"}, {"prompt": "You examine the bats", "response": "They're marked with some kind of weird alphabet or sigils. It looks burned into the wood; in fact, some of the bats are still smoking."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "Meadow (you are flying)\nYou are in the center of a barren field. To the east is the turret of a ruined castle, and from the northeast comes the sound of rushing water.\nYou settle gently to the ground.\nA swarm of bloodsucking locusts appears on the horizon."}, {"prompt": "You look at the jail door", "response": "The door to the jail is comprised of a series of vertical iron bars and a large iron lock.\nOne of the bars must have fallen off of the door and onto the floor of the jail."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "This theater has an awful lot of red velvet, from the curtain to the carpet to the seats. A poster advertises the currently running \"Murder in the Dell.\" The main doors are east, and to the west is another smaller exit."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "That's already closed."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You descend the staircase.\nNobody now remains to tend this kitchen's hearth or knead the dough rolled on the countertops. Neglected saucepans cool. Flour has settled on the floor, tracked with footprints.\nWestward a doorway opens to the castle gate; stairs wind upward to the pantry and downward to the buttery; northward the banquet hall lies in ruin."}, {"prompt": "You fly", "response": "The ground drops away as you soar upwards.\nYou are at the monster's knees, and you're starting to get a sense of what it must be like to be an insect. The massive legs dominate the landscape like twin towers, one rising out of a hole in the bio building's roof while the other decimates the sidewalk with stomps and scratches."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nThe primitive drawing continues to wrench itself into reality in a series of horrific jerks and contortions."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You throw your arms skyward and leap into the air."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mustache", "response": "Hey, this is one of your Multitudinous Mechanical Moustaches! You can wind it to change its shape. The first version was prone to stuck gears. It's too bad; I thought this was going to be a popular invention. Right now it's shaped like a giant, bushy, overgrown moustache."}, {"prompt": "Onion", "response": "(first taking the white handkerchief)\n(putting the hinge-lidded teapot into the sack to make room)"}, {"prompt": "You descend", "response": "(opening the door first)\n\"I'm going to take a quick look below. Be right back.\"\nOpened.\nI descend the stairs and enter the basement. The air is at least twenty degrees cooler down here than it is up above and it has a bit of a tangy, acrid -- almost 'chewy' quality to it. My breath turns into wispy, stringy clouds the instant it leaves my lips and I begin to feel my very bones come across a deep chill. I usually prefer winter to summer, so normally I wouldn't be put off by the frost down here and a few bad smells, but there's something different about the chill in the air down here. The temperature of the air seems malevolent, almost.\nThe ceiling of the basement is about five and a half feet high, so I have to lurch over like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dork just to get around. The walls have a very rough texture to them, as if they were blasted away and then sanded down in a very half-assed manner.\nThe corridor continues into darkness to the north.\nA horrible scream pierces the air, originating from the far end of the Food Court."}, {"prompt": "You show the certificate to Cindy", "response": "Cindy gasps and stares in wonder at the gift certificate.\nSuddenly, a group of teenagers bursts into the restaurant. Their green and orange shirts read \"Dungeon Masters of Southport.\" They frantically search the restaurant looking for clues, but find nothing. The last one to leave points at you and shouts \"Magicus telum!\" before laughing and chasing after her teammates."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na figurative dirty rag\na revolver\nsome figurative white marble\na knife\na figurative brown brick\na letter\na figurative white cocoon"}, {"prompt": "You wait for the Orange Line", "response": "You lean against the library steps, hold out your pass, and wait for the orange line. Within moments, a mistlike trolley arrives. Instead of stopping and allowing you to board, it passes through you,\nand you find yourself transported to\nConstabulary Road (Harkness Munt)\nThe road phases into little more than a wide dirt track winding from the west towards the edge of town to the northeast. A paved walk wanders through an iron gate which interrupts a high stone wall looming to the north. A memorial bench sits just outside its shadow. A tangled rampart of trees and dense undergrowth obstructs passage to the south.\nA barricade spans the road to the northeast, and beyond it a large shallow pit is being excavated. If you're careful, you could skirt the edges of the pit and continue along the northeast road.\nA man stands near the barricade. He appears to be contemplating the contents of the dig site.\nA grad student works fastidiously on the fossilized bones in the pit.\nA phantom trolley stop sign reads Orange Line -- Constabulary Road."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na black evening dress (being worn)\na camera\na mobile phone"}, {"prompt": "You ask Rakton about yourself", "response": "There is no reply.\nRakton mumbles something about being excited to get to Badushizd."}, {"prompt": "You open the locker a35", "response": "You check one of the lockers, but, as you suspected, the locker is locked.\nThere's a combination lock that could be used to enter a combination, if you knew any of the locker combinations - which you don't right\nnow."}, {"prompt": "You look at the manhole", "response": "A rusted manhole with a dented grille.\nOn closer examination, it's too small for you to fit into. But a goblin-sized person might be able to climb in. It looks like a shaft runs all the way from this manhole to Riggertown.\nruns all the way from this manhole to Riggertown.Your guess is that a certain goblin has been using this manhole to sneak onto this ledge beneath the Channelworks."}, {"prompt": "You look at the river", "response": "The black, oily liquid flows sluggishly downward from the fount in the cliff-side, spilling onto the ground and out into the distance."}, {"prompt": "You enter Building", "response": "You can't get in; the changing rooms are all locked up."}, {"prompt": "You drop the flag", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You ask David about the aunt caroline", "response": "You chat with David about your life in New York, living with your neurotic aunt in a small apartment. He listens in an abstracted way, and murmurs a few polite responses. The more you tell him, the sadder he looks, so after a few minutes you fall silent."}, {"prompt": "You close the drawer", "response": "You close the top drawer."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Walk no farther. You'll walk into thin air. The storeroom has crumbled into the banquet hall, and you'd break your bones twenty different ways were you to take a tumble after it."}, {"prompt": "You take the rabbit from the hat", "response": "As if you'd ever resort to such a tasteless trick. Cards are in right now; rabbits are out."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "You are scaled and finned, well suited to your environment. And hungry, as almost always.\nMuffled vibrations come from within the massive box."}, {"prompt": "You show tag to her", "response": "(the receptionist)\nShe looks at the maintenance tag, feigning amusement."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "\"We could take those away from you,\" the smaller boy says, \"but why bother? Now, I'm not sayin' you don't got nothin' we might want, but that ain't it.\""}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "You're standing inside an abandoned old church. The aisles are\nlittered with debris and bits of colored glass; everything is coated with a thick layer of dust."}, {"prompt": "You examine the headstones", "response": "There seems to have been a long lasting tradition of angel headstones in Amaranth. These stone guardians seem both protective and resigned to mute sadness."}, {"prompt": "Rub blood", "response": "I wipe away the muck on my hands."}, {"prompt": "You examine the spire", "response": "Though the crystal sparkles in every color, the dominant note seems to be a beautiful light blue, refracted from the sky above. (\"Refraction\" is what happens when light passes through a medium that bends it, like water or a prism.)"}, {"prompt": "You stand on the hose", "response": "I don't know how to stand on the coiled fire hose.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "You look through hole", "response": "(the small hole)\nStanding on tiptoe and placing your eye up to the hole, you see the children's bedroom. Through some strange trick of the angle, you appear to be looking straight down at the bed from the middle of the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down.\nYour old college chum Malcolm hovers close by."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "M John stops you. \"The cellar is through here,\" he says, pushing you into the kitchen.\nThe kitchen, with all its drawers, its cupboards, its sinks and ovens, constitutes Chucky's domain, and he guards it jealously. Usually you use it only as a conduit between the dining room (south) and the tunnel to the cellar (down the stairs).\nOf course, working in here is part of your job, so you and Chucky have a deal worked out. The deal is: You do not touch anything.\nChucky busies himself with some arcane cooking implements."}, {"prompt": "You get the outfit", "response": "I doubt you could strip the man without waking him."}, {"prompt": "M marriage", "response": "Nikhil considers marriage for a second.\n\"I want to be married by the time I'm thirty, but I'm willing to wait if I can't find the right woman.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the stone in the garter", "response": "Not while you're wearing the garter.\nLafond cries, \"No deal then. Take them, men!\" The dragoons pour down the cliff."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 1.\"\n\"There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of it,\" the voice continues, a little nervously now. \"The walls are armor plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. There's simply nowhere to go.\""}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "The entertainment center here holds the TV all towering above you and it has these glass doors beneath the TV that you can see stereo equipment through. You are near the couch to the south and the middle of the living room to the west and there is a small open area to play in to the north.\nYou can see Alfadog here.\nJemison comes in after you and settles close by you and looks pointedly at the soft foam block."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pig", "response": "This pig carcass has been expertly butchered, with the belly slit wide enough for a person to easily slip inside. As a costume, you must admit that the idea is genius."}, {"prompt": "You match paterni with manes", "response": "Yes, they're both vocative plural. So the man is speaking to his \"ancestral spirits\", it seems."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shovel", "response": "The wooden handle has splintered several times and has been thoughtfully wrapped in old rags for support, and the hand-forged blade is quite thin from use. All in all, though, it looks like the old girl could still toss a few more shovelfuls."}, {"prompt": "You look at the fireplace", "response": "You remember the innumerable winter nights you and Sarah sat curled up in front of it as you gazed into the fire. God, when was the last time you did that? It's so hard to remember a time before her being bedridden.\nOn the mantel you notice a small snapshot in a frame."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "(first opening the door)\nThis is just a small utility room tucked away in the corner of the house. To the south is the door leading back to the sitting room. A washer and a dryer line the east wall, while across from them are tools hanging on hooks and nails. A shelf runs along the back wall, with various odds and ends stacked on it.\nOn the laundry room shelf are a tube of spot remover, a box of nails, an empty bottle of bleach, a doomsday remote control, a Copy of Metro Magazine, and a glass jar."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the voodoo", "response": "Tyrone spreads his hands. \"You got me.\""}, {"prompt": "You climb short", "response": "You get onto the short plastic block.\nJemison cannot look away from you and the velcro jangly balls."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "She nods and starts counting. \"Five...\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the trash", "response": "The mound of trash is itself exactly."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "This is the oddest room. Well, the room itself is ordinary enough\n- more concrete, more pipes, doorways leading east and north. It looks like this was once a storeroom. I can see discolored patches on the walls and floor where large boxes must have sat for a long time.\nIt's the current contents of the room that are strange. No boxes or furniture anymore, just a huge pile of... stuff... in the middle of the floor. It's a mass of all sorts of odds and ends: scraps of cloth, old phone books, broken mattresses, and who knows what else.\nIt looks like a giant rat's nest. The strange musty smell that fills the basement is stronger here, like it was coming from this pile."}, {"prompt": "Attack phone", "response": "You attack the phone, trying to Make The Ringing Stop. You smack the curvy part with your paw and send it flying. The ringing stops! But then you hear a concerned female voice talking out of it. It's saying some kind of greeting.\nA concerned female voice speaks from the phone right beside you.\nFrom the black square you hear lots of people shouting and catch a flicker of images out of the corner of your eye.\nkittenish."}, {"prompt": "You eat the meat", "response": "You eat the cooked fox meat. Not bad. For fox meat, that is."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "I have reached the south end of this area. The walkway ends here.\nThe walkway is not in motion.\nIn the room with me are Auda and Poet.\nThere is a hollow object here.\nThe hollow object contains...\nA broken mechanism"}, {"prompt": "Dial 1", "response": "(on the telephone handset)\nI don't even know who \"Estelle\" is!"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Lornedei waits as the dry wind tears at her torn clothing.\nLornedei's shadow jerks to life, reaches for her ankle, and pulls. She stumbles."}, {"prompt": "You say the Love", "response": "\"Awwwk!\" you say. \"Love!\"\nThe Prince and Cinderella both look up at you. Cinderella puts one little finger to her lips, and winks, but you are afraid.\n\"I met someone at the ball,\" he says, after a minute. \"I felt for her. I thought to recognize her again by her shoe.\"\nCinderella tilts her head and looks at the shoe. \"If that is the only way you can identify her, I think you are better off avoiding such a wife, hm?\""}, {"prompt": "Maleth", "response": "You chant the Word of Summer. A thick warmth creeps into the air around you. Sweat breaks on your skin."}, {"prompt": "You get the statuette", "response": "Oof, this is apparently actually made of real gold. It's pretty hefty.\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Examine newspaper", "response": "The local newspaper, printed on plasfax. Some retro individuals still prefer to hold their news in their hands.\n[If you want to read the newspaper (as opposed to just looking at it) try READ NEWSPAPER.]"}, {"prompt": "You wake the ld", "response": "\"Just leave me be! I have my eyes open, can you not see that?\"\nThe beetle runs off to one of the paths. It spins around once before returning to Lornedei."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Old crates and boxes piled high against the walls make this room seem even smaller and dingier than it actually is, which is saying a lot. A doorway lies north; the other walls contain nothing but shadows and dirt-filled corners."}, {"prompt": "You give the short shrift to waitress", "response": "That's one way to turn the tables on the waitress. She accepts the short shrift gruffly and begins polishing glasses with it.\nThe waitress stomps away in a huff and begins performing a quick set of high-impact aerobics."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course.\nYou spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and\nalso the reflection of your additional, unseen head: \"We all fall down! We all fall through!\""}, {"prompt": "You take the ring", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You ask the wolf about the door", "response": "The wolf snarls at you and chews on a toothpick.\nFaintly, through the closed door, you hear something ticking.\nThe wolf loiters in the area, keeping an eye on you."}, {"prompt": "You ask Nikolai about Sofia", "response": "Nikolai pales. \"I don't know who you're talking about.\""}, {"prompt": "Kick owner", "response": "You expertly perform a tornado kick, sending her flying across the room. Your owner is now dead.\nYou are a monster."}, {"prompt": "You play the flute", "response": "(the strange metal flute)\nYou blow an open chord into the little flute, and it resonates with an eerie, metallic warble.\nThe columns' vibrations seem to grow momentarily stronger while the flute's sound lingers, their dissonant ringing resonating strangely with the warbling, metallic notes."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads north, back to the upstairs hall."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"I have a crime to report!\"\n\"Oh man!\" Blonde Cop smiles. \"Really? Lay it on me. Lay it on us.\"\n[1] \"Stopped any good crimes lately?\"\n[2] \"Do you guys know Paco?\"\n[3] \"I have a crime to report!\"\n[4] \"There's some graffiti painted on the utility pole in the alley.\" [5] \"I think there's a car parked illegally outside.\"\n[6] \"I should probably get going.\"\n[7] Point your gun at them."}, {"prompt": "You eat the sardines", "response": "My, at this rate, you'll have eaten the room! Another tin unlidded, more sardines pulled from their beds, and more smacks from your lips with each swallow. Your cheeks are speckled with their shining scales. Your tongue quivers with salt. They are a most addictive dish. Over your shoulder goes the empty tin."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"You already know, don't you?\"\nThose unreadable eyes of his flicker across your face. Slowly, very slowly, he inclines his head in a nod.\nslowly, he inclines his head in a nod.\"I do.\"\nslowly, he inclines his head in a nod.\"I do.\"You begin to feel something creeping in your heart. It is a kind of pain.\n1) \"How long have you known?\"\n2) \"Why didn't you tell me?\"\n3) \"...What else have you not told me?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the cow", "response": "Gigantic would blush at her size, titanic would stammer, colossal might stand on tiptoe and barely scrape her hooves. No cow was ever such a cow! Reclined, her udder swollen on the floor, her forelegs shoved under a dewlap that could crush ten typical heifers, she cannot budge her neck, she cannot shift her weight, her rear and front ends are pressed into the surrounding walls. Step to her side? Perish the thought! You could not push a flea around her flanks, she fills the room with such fleshy fullness."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the monkey", "response": "The monkey shakes its fist at you and chatters angrily."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\nA corner of the stack of important papers flares alight."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "[Previous turn undone.]\nYou're climbing the side of the volcano. There's not much here but volcanic rock. You can head further up to the north, or go down into the forest to the south."}, {"prompt": "B.", "response": "That's the spirit!\nYou give serious thought to how you will organize your men, and then you go to brief the ones who have been assigned to you. They consist of two midshipmen and forty sailors.\n\"We will take two boats,\" you explain. \"I shall command one, with Mr. Midshipman Stuart to assist me. Mr. Midshipman Mason will command the other. My boat shall come along the starboard side of the Gaulish vessel, and Mr. Midshipman Mason's along the port side. We will climb aboard secretly, and then attack from two sides with plenty of shouting to frighten the spineless Gaulish boys.\"\nThe men grin.\nYou pause. You know that one of the three officers must be made responsible for cutting the anchor cable, so that your men will be able to sail the Gaulish ship out to where H.M.S. Courageous waits. Another must be responsible for ascending the rigging and loosing the topsail to get the ship underway. And a third must be responsible for taking over the steering of the ship. There are three officers available--you and the two midshipmen. Which job do you want for yourself?\nA: Cutting the cable is the most important job. It will have to be done while hand-to-hand fighting is still raging on the deck. I will take responsibility for it myself.\nB: Ascending the rigging to loose the topsail is both important and dangerous. It will require iron nerves and great agility to climb to that unsteady height in the dark while fighting rages on the deck below. I will take responsibility for it myself.\nC: Steering the captured prize back to Courageous is the proper job for the officer in command. I will take responsibility for it myself."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You find yourself back on solid ground, only a little shaken."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A grand room, for dining in style. The plastered ceiling is several times your height. The air now is cool and deep, the sunlight glancing through the windows and scattering from the chandelier, putting points of light at your feet, over the table, across the painted wallpaper and the handsome wood paneling.\nWoodworked columns frame the exits west and southwest.\nHeavy double doors lead east."}, {"prompt": "Ferdinand", "response": "\"You're lucky to have Ferdinand on your side,\" says Dmitri. \"The countess is formidable, but even she's as meek as a kitten in comparison. I can't begin to guess how many kills old\nFerdinand must have under her belt. Of course it was all done in the line of duty, or whatever other nonsense people will say to try making it palatable. But facts are facts.\n\"What does Ferdinand see in you, anyway? You're certainly not her peer in martial prowess, and not in social status either. I don't think you can claim to match her intellectual level. Maybe she keeps you around like a little pet dog. Am I in the right ballpark? You're like a shih tzu for her. Something she can take out every once in a while and play with and then put back into a kennel without feeling too guilty about it. Not that I think she can feel guilty about anything. She\nmust have killed her conscience a long time ago. Probably her first victim.\n\"Then again, perhaps I'm being too hard on her. I suppose life has taken its toll on Ferdinand just like everybody else. The difference is that not everybody else has a little pet shih tzu to distract themselves.\"\nIn order to speak with Dmitri, just mention whatever subject you'd like to hear his opinion about, or you could say farewell."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "An iron door flush with the embankment. It is dirty, but without rust, and unmarked except for a crescent-shaped window. There is no handle."}, {"prompt": "Dust", "response": "(the piece of chalk (smelling faintly of mildew))\nYou rub the piece of chalk (smelling faintly of mildew)."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Almost all gone now, though the labels still adhere to the racks, indicating where a '67 rested, or an '82, waiting to be taken up to the dining room.\nAn open russet door leads east.\nThere is a grey-blue trap door closed in the middle of the room, just visible among the dust as a less-dusty area.\nAn open grey-blue door leads north."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "She dives down.\nRiver Bottom (At the Cave Entrance)"}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "Dark and bare with a corridor leading east.\nThe cat licks its paws.\nThere is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack.\nYou cough up ropy black spatters of blood."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The gently winding lane makes its way through the birch woods south of town. New England foliage is famous for its splendid colors in the fall, but the oppressive weather and pervading murk have leached these trees of most of their tint. The road continues south into the increasingly dense forest, and in the other direction heads back to town. A paved walk also leads east through the trees.\nThe cold wind cuts through your clothes, chilling you to the bone."}, {"prompt": "You jump on the toilet", "response": "(the toilet)\nWith feline agility, you leap up to the deep water bowl.\nYou are halfway between the dark window and the floor, perched on the fat water bowl. It's not soft, but it is fairly slick. The wonderful smells rise up from the hollow center, down in the water. You see above you a wide ledge that runs underneath the window. You could easily jump to it, or jump down to the bathroom floor."}, {"prompt": "You stand on the cabinet", "response": "The sturdy cabinet is too tall for you to climb up on top of it safely from your current position."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This is part of a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.\nThere is a brass lantern (battery-powered) here."}, {"prompt": "You go to star", "response": "You vector for the supergiant. Horizon's fast approach compresses its history. Carbon roils in the star's atmosphere; shock-waves roll in fast-forward across its surface.\nBy the time you see oxygen and argon boiling into the red star's corona, it is too late to turn aside. The light of fusing metals washes over Horizon, and the shockwave is only fractionally behind.\n...\nLights appear on the control consoles, one by one. Horizon of Night is coming back to life. The walls around you are dim and radiation-scarred; you have no idea how long it's taken the ship to recover enough function to support you. But you are awake. You stretch in your couch, shudder, and take stock.\nOutside is blackness, pure and opaque."}, {"prompt": "You put the yarn in the workbox", "response": "You put the ball of yarn into the workbox."}, {"prompt": "You translate the poster", "response": "Your desire has passed beyond meaning."}, {"prompt": "You look at the puzzle box", "response": "It's roughly the size and shape of a cigar box, carved from some dark and oddly streaked wood that you can't identify. All six surfaces are decorated in a complex arrangement of grooves and panels, most of which are illustrated with leering, demonic faces and obscene designs. As far as you can tell, it is in fact a box, and meant to be opened; however, you see no obvious way to do so."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You involuntary take a deep breath of fresh air as you leave the clammy, foetid depths of the crypt behind.\nOld, moss-slimed tombstones, many broken off and leaning crazily like an old man's teeth, poke up from the soft, mulchy earth. In their midst stands an ancient marble crypt, its heavy iron door nearly obscured by thick draperies of ivy. The trees press close around this quiet enclave of death, leaning together over your head as if sharing secrets. A gap in the undergrowth to the southeast reveals a narrow gravel path."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You are standing in one of the few grassy places in Freedonia. The park is visited by a great deal of people daily due to the fact that it is in the exact center of the city. Roads lead in all four cardinal directions.\nYou can see a flagpole (on which is a workers' flag) here.\nA passing doctor looks up at the red flag and salutes it, grinning madly."}, {"prompt": "Again", "response": "(first taking the veil)\n(putting the wooden box into the sack to make room)\nYou pick the veil up again. How tedious.\nYou look shiftily from side to side, and when you assure yourself that nobody is watching, you cast the veil over the guard's helmet. For several long moments you wait. Hesitantly, you put a foot past the guard. She doesn't move.\n\"Hello?\" you whisper.\n\"Excuse me, I seem to be completely ignorant to who I am and why I am here,\" she replies. \"Can you help me?\"\n[1] A living statue, your job is to keep still and quiet all day.\n[2] You're a guard -- you're guarding these stairs from me passsing [3] You're Bishop Berkeley and you're on your way to the tavern to give a lecture on Idealism.\n[4] You're a mild mannered accountant by day, but by night you don a cape and fight crime.\n[5] You're a very charitable person who would never dream of impeding someone's progress up some stairs.\n[6] You're an itinerant farm-hand who dreams of one day owning their own farm with rabbits and alpaca, but deep down you know it'll never happen.\n[7] You write Thus Spoke Zarathustra fan-fiction and go to heavy metal concerts."}, {"prompt": "You throw the can at Aditi", "response": "(the can of beans at Aditi Singh)\nYou lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.\nMother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mall directory", "response": "This seems to be an automated ticket terminal. There is a large LED square in the middle of which displays \"$9.00\"."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "(first opening the east door)\nStudio\nThis is surely an artist's studio. The concrete-floored room gives the impression of spaciousness simply because of how empty it is: an artist's easel sits right in the centre of the space, with an expensive-looking chair facing it. A floor-length window on the east wall adds to the discomforting sense of open space. The north wall, bare-bricked, looks strangely out of character with the painted walls of the rest of the house. The door is set into the west wall.\nMarissa, apparently deep in concentration, doesn't even glance up from her painting as I enter the room."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A gravelled country road leads north. A white-painted wooden signpost points west, where you can make out the sea. You can just glimpse the glint of more water through the trees, far to the south.\nYou can go north (along the road), south (into the trees) or west (towards the sea).\nYou can see a signpost here."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe western politician speaks: \"This is the time for action. This summit has taken years, if not decades, to arrange. It will all have been worth it if we can take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity. The time for the future is now. Let us strike while the iron is hot and forge a peace together. We cannot wait, or we will\nlose our special moment in history. We must act, decisively and confidently, to secure a peaceful and prosperous future.\"\nThe western politician glances down at his podium. \"But, you may be wondering, how can we ensure that we're acting in our best interests?\"\nThe eastern politician and the unaligned politician stand nearby, listening with practiced politeness."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Up here the female servants used to sleep. Now there is only a dreary row of unmade beds; a rack for drying washing; the fireplace, hollow and untended. Time was, when you were very young, that you used to creep in here for chatter and gossip, and the language you were used to hearing at home.\nIn the fireplace are some bits of shattered brick."}, {"prompt": "You put the flute in the coat", "response": "(the strange metal flute in the trenchcoat)\nYou slip the strange metal flute into the pocket of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe western politician speaks: \"This is the time for action. This summit has taken years, if not decades, to arrange. It will all have been worth it if we can take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity. The time for the future is now. Let us strike while the iron is hot and forge a peace together. We cannot wait, or we will\nlose our special moment in history. We must act, decisively and confidently, to secure a peaceful and prosperous future.\"\nThe western politician glances down at his podium. \"Now, let us\naddress how we can move with all due haste toward the peace we have envisioned here.\"\nThe eastern politician and the unaligned politician stand nearby, listening with practiced politeness."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "CLC WARNING!! Further westward movement prohibited to all robots."}, {"prompt": "You examine the corpse", "response": "A peasant woman, by her dress, begrimed with dirty hands outstretched as though to scrape the pastry when its shell was shut. Little good that did with toothpicks stabbed through her top to bottom. Her flesh has long since shriveled to the bone.\nSoon the fumes in your throat will be gone."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "A comfortable lounge for the xyloformers to relax and observe their handiwork, overlooking the xylosphere floor far below. A dull gray orb is visible to the west, attached to the xylosphere ceiling. There's a trashed drink machine here, leaking. You can go down from here via elevator chute."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "You spent most of the last week traversing that mountain pass. You are not going back that way now."}, {"prompt": "You examine pot", "response": "This is the pot!! In which to put your items! There's nothing in the SOUP pot."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The nun waves to you as you begin toward the hall outside. She strides off, targeting a man with spiky white hair and wearing a lab coat. The scientist takes a few steps back and stares at the floor.\nYou head out the double doors, descend the stairs, and enter the small room nicknamed, for tonight, the Fly Eye.\nThe wire frames of your wings bend as you gently lean back into the only chair in the room. The two floppy legs attached to your belt rise as you rest your hands on a table in front of a bank of monitors on the wall. The five screens receive signals from cameras in five different rooms in the mansion. Normally, these would be used for security, but tonight the Society is trying to record footage of the supernatural that will raise the eyebrows of even the most stone-faced skeptics. While you're hoping to witness such phenomena, following the exploits of any one of the costumed characters would probably be more interesting, after looking at the screens to decide which captures your attention.\nThe only person you know well is Gregory Hoblett, dressed as the Russian mystic and healer Grigori Rasputin, in the Laboratory on monitor 3. Everybody in the Society likes Hoblett, unlike Grigori who survived a stabbing, possible cyanide poisoning, and two point blank gunshots, only to succumb after being shot twice in the back and beaten.\nThe sasquatch chuckles quietly from the playroom on monitor 5, which is wired to record the electronic voice phenomena of ghostly children."}, {"prompt": "You give Heart to Stu", "response": "You make a choice: you are a cultist, dammit. It's time to show these pinks what's what. Triumphantly, you hand over the Heart to Uncle Stu. He's completed every step of the ritual but the last one, and now his journey is complete. He puts a hand on your shoulder, gives you an exaggerated wink, and tears into the Heart with his suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious, and you have made it possible. I\u00e4! I\u00e4!"}, {"prompt": "You move the twigs", "response": "Nudging the twigs around at random with your toe, you find that you've accidentally formed the shape of the letter R.\nYou find yourself wondering whether trying to find a path through the thicket might have been a mistake."}, {"prompt": "You examine the brick", "response": "The brick is painted with a beach scene: Sand, sky, palm trees."}, {"prompt": "You look at the eyes", "response": "The Baron's eyes are wide and unseeing."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "N = next subject                                                  P =\nRETURN = read subject                                        Q = prev\nious menu\nI can't get back up.\nThe treehouse is impenetrable.\n> The scree slope is too unstable!\nThe arched doorway seems very dangerous.\nWhat's the drum for?\nDoes the water-lily play a part?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the food", "response": "On the bottom shelf: bricklike slabs of pale stone. On the top: bright yellow biosample bags."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cabinet", "response": "It's an ancient, clunky metal box, about the size of a kid's lunchbox. There's some sort of lettering on the cover, but it's too corroded to read."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Employees Only (on the chair)\nThis is a one of the backstage rooms of the Haunted House ride that is only accessible to employees. There is a door in the southern wall.\nYou can see a desk (on which are a foam hammer, a cane, a powdered wig, a map, a long PVC pipe, a lighter, a check book, a chocolate chip cookie, a glow stick, an inflatable ball and a phone book) here."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "This bedroom is extremely spare, with dirty laundry scattered haphazardly all over the floor. Cleaner clothing is to be found in the dresser. A bathroom lies to the south, while a door to the east leads to the living room.\nOn the endtable are a telephone and a wallet (which is closed).\nThe phone rings."}, {"prompt": "You erase the paper", "response": "\"Erase procedure begun...error, illegal object, warning system active,\nsentac pulse active...\"\nThe world becomes liquid and void, without form..."}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "This is the Shireton Bakery. This is where you, the Baker of Shireton, bake bread for all the citizenry (and adventuring visitors) of Shireton.\nA Narvish Raider waits patiently.\nThe delicious and alluring aroma of freshly-baked bread fills the entire bakery.\nThe oven where you bake bread hangs open, blasting heat into the bakery.\nA highly polished wooden counter divides the room  The display case contains nothing.\nOn the counter are a tip jar (in which are three copper coins) and a hand bell.\nEverything you need to make dough (flour, water) is on your work table.\nOn the work table are a pan of risen dough, three handfuls of barleycorn, a copper coin, a rock hard biscuit, eight metal pans and a pan of unrisen dough.\nBehind the counter is a strong box with a narrow slot to catch your earnings.\nYou can also see a green robed citizen and a Shireton Harbourmaster here.\nAvailable for sale:\na rock hard biscuit.\n\"A loaf of bread, please!\" requests the green robed citizen.\nThe yellow robed citizen arrives from the north.\nBri'anne Wayverlyn the CrystalSinger arrives from the north.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery.\nThe Harbormaster concludes: \"And the moral o' that story is:\nrustic desert food and beholders should never be taken on the same day.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You are in a large cavernous room, the south of which was formerly a lake. However, with the water level lowered, there is merely a wide stream running through there.\nThere is a slimy stairway leaving the room to the north.\nThere is a hand-held air pump here."}, {"prompt": "You eat the rock", "response": "That's plainly inedible."}, {"prompt": "You make the pen invisible", "response": "The pen fades from sight."}, {"prompt": "You drop the cones", "response": "(the handful of pine cones)\nYou don't want to leave them lying around."}, {"prompt": "You look at water", "response": "Cool, clear water, with a vaguely mineral aftertaste."}, {"prompt": "Push horse south", "response": "You ask, \"Tyrone, can you push the pommel horse into the kitchen? Samir, Jude, and George, he'll need your help for this.\"\nJude looks at Mr. Bunny, looks at the floor, and then hugs him even tighter.\nJude tucks Mr. Bunny under her arm for safety.\nTyrone, Samir, Jude, and George gather around the pommel horse and try to move it. With many small-kid grunts of effort, they get the pommel horse moving and successfully slide it into the kitchen."}, {"prompt": "P.", "response": "When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword\nSelect a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that works for you.\n> bold keywords\nyellow keywords\nblue keywords\ngreen keywords\nred keywords\n-dashed- keywords\n/slashed/ keywords\n*starred* keywords\nno keyword highlighting\nWhen the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword\nSelect a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that works for you.\n> bold keywords\nyellow keywords\nblue keywords\ngreen keywords\nred keywords\n-dashed- keywords\n/slashed/ keywords\n*starred* keywords\nno keyword highlighting"}, {"prompt": "You talk to Ignatius", "response": "\"What do you mean?\"\nHe thinks for a moment, and looks to the ceiling. \"It's just that in these times we can sometimes find ourselves doing things we never thought we had in us.\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nBeauregard hitches up his suspenders."}, {"prompt": "You eat the sponge foam", "response": "(first taking the foam padding)\nThe foam padding is part of the case."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You're carrying a logbook and you're wearing a flex spacesuit. Clipped to your suit is a length of chain and a screwdriver."}, {"prompt": "You give the mug to Phelps", "response": "\"I want to talk to you,\" you say to Beauregard.\nHis eyes widen mildly. \"So talk, then.\"\nBeauregard accepts the mug of steaming cocoa from you with grave courtesy and slurps. He smacks his lips. \"Just the way I like it - thank you kindly, little lady. Now why don't you run along and enjoy what's left of this fine summer afternoon?\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the peach", "response": "It's an artificial peach covered with what appear to be diamonds."}, {"prompt": "You look at the note", "response": "The note is written in a cribbed, narrow hand. It reads:\nFour brothers, rough and ready,\nThree sisters, kind and fair,\nThey left their home so eagerly,\nThey left to see the Fair!\nYoung Dennis likes spelunking,\nIn darkness feared and great;\nFair Ida likes to swim,\nAnd tempt the hands of fate.\nBullish Adam stays outdoors,\nFree and strong and wild;\nMary studies Egyptian script,\nAnd writes her name in style.\nAnd entered government,\nElder Neal rides the rails\nWith an artistic temperament.\nIn the cabin of Uncle Tom,\nAnd Mother...where is mother?\nShe watches over them all."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "The boards are old and warped, but still quite sturdy. It is locked with a heavy padlock."}, {"prompt": "You examine the vegetables", "response": "No vegetables are quite as large as these eggplants and turnips at the front, but even the more reasonable radishes, the more diminutive endives, the peas in pods would outweigh a toddler.\nWhy, hullo, here's a sardine from the storeroom. Slips inside an eggplant skin, quite like a footman in that purple livery, and then wriggles downstairs."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is room 6. Exits: south, east, west."}, {"prompt": "Reverse link bauble to sponge", "response": "Bending your will and all your attention, you manage to make a reverse-link between the celestial bauble and the sponge, feeling their properties begin to merge together."}, {"prompt": "About you", "response": "To physical appearances a little faded, skin translucent, like candle wax. But it is the inward change you feel. Heavy with thought, great with griefs, all that is physical discarded but the toiling of the mind continuous and endless.\nAcross the back of your left hand are scarred the symbols of fire, earth, and air."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shoe", "response": "Your shoes are black and shiny, and they have some small nibble marks on them.\nThey feel a little sticky."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bed", "response": "The bed is narrow, and the mattress looks thin and hard."}, {"prompt": "Sleep", "response": "Lornedei lies down.\n\"I should not Master. But everything is spinning.\"\n\"The mist is\""}, {"prompt": "You take the possum", "response": "You reach out gingerly toward the rotting corpse, but try as you might, you can't quite bring yourself to touch it. Maybe if there weren't quite so many flies....\nThe dog strains at the leash."}, {"prompt": "You look at crystal through the metopticon", "response": "(the bismuth crystal through the metopticon)\nYou feel dizzy, strange, fractured. Something with your clothing is not right."}, {"prompt": "You exit", "response": "You get out of the Fourth Burial Shrine.\nThis small stone chamber is nearly filled by your nested Burial Shrines. The walls are richly (if hastily) painted with scenes of your recent funeral. A wide gap in the stone leads east; a passage to the south is narrow and guarded by two stern stone statues of yourself. The west wall is carved with a false door: a shallow bas-relief simulation of an inviting archway leading to the perils and rewards of the afterlife.\nThe mood of Silent Supplicant fades."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na letter\na buzzer\nan access card\nyour sneakers (being worn)\na pair of sweat pants (being worn)\na sweatshirt (being worn)\na legal pad"}, {"prompt": "Honk", "response": "HONK!!!!\nA person near you jumps in fear.\n\"Catch it,\" yells the enraged developer, chasing you."}, {"prompt": "You look at Melvin", "response": "Melvin Prufrock is a thin, translucent looking individual, with tics and other twitchy mannerisms passing for a personality. He is insanely tall, approaching six foot eight, but probably only weighs 130 pounds with clothes on. You don't even want to consider what he's like without clothes on. He also looks like he's about six years younger than you are, so about nineteen, and yet he's several rankings above you on the ladder.\nMelvin withdraws some sort of bulbous metal ray gun from one of the dead cabinets. \"You should have escaped when you had the chance, Peter!\" he says as he pulls the trigger. For a moment, you feel absolutely nothing, and then you realize with some shock that this is because your nervous system has been completely vaporized, and the rest of you along with it."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the jora", "response": "She sketches on a holopad with a graphite pencil. \"I meet all sorts here. Well, all sorts of humans. No aliens yet.\"\nAfter a moment, she shrugs. \"And yeah, before you ask, I consider myself human. You talk to a mind from Panopticon - and beyond the singularity - and suddenly the whole natural/synthetic divide doesn't seem too big.\""}, {"prompt": "You invite the woman home", "response": "You leave your trolley and walk up to the brunette. She turns to you and you smile, \"Come with me! I'll show you a good time. I promise. I'll buy you a meal, we can go on holiday! Just come with me.\" You put out your hand. She makes no move to take it. \"Come on! Let's go. Come with me...\" She's looking alarmed now and she starts to walk away.\nShe didn't want to come with you? Well, at least you asked. No harm in trying.\nAnother story over. But there are others...\nLate Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing\nyou need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly.\nOn to the next aisle.\nInteresting... fresh Gnocchi--you haven't had any of that since... Rome.\nThe aisle stretches to the north, and back to the south. The shelves on either side of you block your view of the rest of the supermarket, with only the brightly coloured aisle markers visible.\nYou have stopped your trolley next to the pasta section, bright plastic bags full of pale skin-tone shapes.\nThere is a brunette woman a few metres ahead, filling her trolley with\nsauces.\nSay something, dammit."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "In the House (kitchen)\nA very old rusted stove stands here, but the only thing that will be cooked in this room again is... you! You'd better run south out now!\nAn animate skeleton is here, and I think it wants you for dinner!\nOn the rusted stove is a poison phial."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cassette player", "response": "It's a small, basic tape cassette player, black and silver in colour, with buttons marked PLAY, STOP, REWIND and EJECT."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.\nThe automaton is here carrying a waste basket.\nA waste basket is here.\nThe automaton heads off to the north."}, {"prompt": "Aft", "response": "This was the map room originally, and then it became a kind of general storage space, and then it was picked almost clean by various deserters.\nThe flag box stands nearby.\nIn the center of the room is the map table; sitting on top is a sextant.\nThere's a barrel over in the corner.\nThe captain darts ahead to take stock of the situation."}, {"prompt": "You look at the hula hoop", "response": "It's a hula hoop. It folds up when you're not using it. It's only useful for hula-ing."}, {"prompt": "You show the banana to Shatner", "response": "The MonkeyMan sneers at your pitiful offering. \"Zis banana ees harder zan a roque,\" he says.\n\"A what?\"\n\"A roque!\"\n\"I'm sorry, I can't hear you, I've--\"\nTOOTH OW ZUNDEN WON!\nThe \"Screaming Yak\" Curd Diner\nOne of Io's more successful chains, the Screaming Yak serves the best curd around, and remains popular despite the hamster infestation that has plagued it for almost eight years. The glass double-doors that open out into the moon's surface are to the east, while a door marked \"NO ENTRY\" lies to the south.\nA surly person is standing behind the counter. His name tag says \"HELLO. My name is BRUTUS THE CHIHUAHUA.\"\nA menu is hanging on the wall."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "We stood in a more open space. On all sides of us we observed structures, with a particularly large white one to the east. In the center we perceived fresh plants in a location inappropriate to their origins, with insufficient bare earth. We could follow man-paths south, west, and north, or towards the eastern structure.\nWe could see a man-thing here."}, {"prompt": "You roll it", "response": "You roll up the mat."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe western politician speaks: \"In preparing for the new challenges that await us in the future, we have to be quick. We can only win the future and forge a new, more secure peace between our nations if we proceed rapidly, using our agreements here to accelerate our efforts not towards arming ourselves for war, but for building trust and establishing peace. We have established a road map that will lead us into the next decades, but the highway of progress we're on has no speed limit. The engine of progress is strong. We will not allow ourselves to quiet that engine because of fear or suspicion.\"\nThe western politician glances down at his podium. \"Let me now outline how we can de-escalate tensions between our two nations.\"\nThe eastern politician and the unaligned politician stand nearby, listening with practiced politeness."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe western politician speaks: \"In preparing for the new challenges that await us in the future, we have to be quick. We can only win the future and forge a new, more secure peace between our nations if we proceed rapidly, using our agreements here to accelerate our efforts not towards arming ourselves for war, but for building trust and establishing peace. We have established a road map that will lead us into the next decades, but the highway of progress we're on has no speed limit. The engine of progress is strong. We will not allow ourselves to quiet that engine because of fear or suspicion.\"\ncrowd, who are now leaning back in comfortable boredom. Even the wary politicians on stage next to it relax.\nThe western politician glances down at his podium. \"This summit is a unique opportunity for our two nations. Let us discuss what we can do with it.\"\nThe eastern politician and the unaligned politician stand nearby, listening with practiced politeness."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You step lightly and carefully across the narrow silver bridge. As you reach the far end, a sizzling, crackling noise behind you makes you whirl and look back. The bridge is evaporating at your heels into a drift of silver sparks. The sparks spin, dimming, into the abyss. In a moment the bridge is gone.\nA broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors, but the slim silver bridge that was here before seems to have vanished, leaving you no way to cross the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "A low, wrought-iron fence, its spike-tipped bars bent or leaning at crazy angles, surrounds the overgrown yard of this dark, abandoned church. A gap in the fence leads back west, while a bare path beaten through the groping weeds leads around the church to the southeast."}, {"prompt": "You think about the chimes", "response": "To reach the windchimes, it might help to stand on something."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.\nYou are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus. At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it apparently doesn't anymore. The only solid things remaining are a white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest. Everything else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.\nYou see a white cube here.\nAn animated burin is perched on your head."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You're just east of the platform for the Christopher Street stop of the Ninth Avenue Elevated train. A ticket-taker filters access to the platform itself.\nSome stairs lead down to the street below."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "It's been a long time since you last did much tree climbing, but you're willing to give it a try. You grab one of the lower branches and pull yourself up.\nYou pause to catch your breath at a point that is about ten feet above the ground. The branch under your feet is thick and sturdy, and the trunk beside you is reassuringly massive."}, {"prompt": "You take the photo of the cage", "response": "(with the Polaroid camera)\nYou snap a picture of the bird cage. The camera whirrs and vibrates\nand eventually spits out a print of the photo."}, {"prompt": "You examine the trail", "response": "The trail seems to lead in all directions at once, but you can almost make out a faint set of footprints."}, {"prompt": "You take bauble", "response": "(putting the cork into the sack to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You pull the cord", "response": "I can't reach it from the chandelier, and I can't get purchase on the ceiling. Sorry, boss, but it's out of reach."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bowl", "response": "In the small bowl you see a smooth stone.\nThe Ice Wizard mumbles something about foolish mortals under his breath, making some sort of gesture with his hands."}, {"prompt": "You examine hoop", "response": "It makes a very handy circular template when you need one for engineering purposes. Which you currently do not."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floor", "response": "The walls, floors and unseen halls are not something you can see or feel clearly. It's just dark and confusing here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "A damp hallway lined with cells. Stairs lead up to the north.\nSteel bars stand open to the west.\nThe Fatalist arrives from the west.\nTheresa arrives from the west."}, {"prompt": "You enter the cockpit", "response": "You get into the depressed area.\nOn the Bridge, in the depressed area\nVeritas Tora is here. Veritas carries a handgun."}, {"prompt": "You eat the hopper", "response": "Their hides are tough, making them hard to disable, hard to chew, and hard to swallow. What little bits of meat you get from them, though, are quite tasty!\nA good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now.\n[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 179 ]"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You have a flashlight (providing light), a crystal card, a small bag, a thin rod, a slip of paper, a blue gem, a lead key, and a metallic ring (being worn). The flashlight seems to contain a battery."}, {"prompt": "Doff overcoat", "response": "I... no, not right now. My coat gives me a certain feeling of security. I'll take it off later."}, {"prompt": "Goals", "response": "You think you can develop your friendship with Xochi more.\nVisiting the 24-hour restaurant seems like a good idea.\nChecking out Lady Wisdom's coffeeshop is on your mind.\nYou'd like to wander around to visit new places."}, {"prompt": "Light match", "response": "One of the matches starts to burn."}, {"prompt": "You examine the hoses", "response": "Thick, rubbery hoses, covered in a pale frost. They're connected to a valve on the cylinder and disappear somewhere under the turret.\nWith a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge turret explodes into action. Bullets strike the water tower's legs with frightening power, but the sturdy metal seems to withstand the onslaught."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bread", "response": "A sopping wet and crumbly rectangular loaf of bread. The fact that it went uneaten is explained by the fact that one face is burnt black -- someone left it in the oven too long, evidently."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The boat sways as you lever yourself up over the side and out onto the dock.\nIn the Boat Shed (standing on the dock)\nThe interior of the shed is dimly lighted by sunlight coming in through the single small window set high in the west wall. Water laps gently against the walls, and there's no floor at all, only a dock that juts out to the south from a narrow platform near the door. Standing on the dock, you can step into the power boat that's tied up on the east side, or into the rowboat on the west side. The threshold of the shed and the door by which you entered are to the north.\nLydia is sitting in the rowboat.\nLydia says, \"I wonder what the world is like now. When we get away, I want you to tell me everything.\""}, {"prompt": "You tell Emily about the penguins", "response": "\"Aww, that sounds cute! Then again, the whole 'oversized head' thing cuts down on the cuteness factor quite a bit.\""}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "You hoist yourself up onto the ladder and climb up to the open air.\nAs you ascend, the sunlight strikes you fully for the first time with almost physical force. You are stunned by warmth and light.\nThe surface of the wall is as wide as you are tall, and unimaginably high above the land to the west. The stones themselves fit each other perfectly, with no mortar between. It is unclear how they barricade the vast ocean to the east, an easy dive of perhaps twenty feet.\nThe handlefish blinks in alarm.\nThe handlefish is in obvious pain.\nThe handlefish gulps with dismay.\nThat is no subject.\n'The HANDLEFISH has adapted to the water of the shade so perfectly that it is liable to violently discorporate when exposed to the water of the sun.'\nThe handlefish glances desperately to and fro."}, {"prompt": "Inside", "response": "(first opening the granite door)\nThe granite door won't open when the bronze latch and the steel latch are closed.\nThe ghost pushes the copper latch closed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the chip", "response": "Which do you mean, the red music chip or the white music chip?"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na rusty hook\na gas can\na hook charm\na tomcod\na fishing pole (with no hook at all)\na fish head\nan old beeper\na letter\na picture\na skirt (being worn)\na shirt (being worn)\na pocket watch (open)\na tiny picture"}, {"prompt": "You take the arrow", "response": "You return the arrow to its quiver."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nYou can go n or e. You need to be a strong cyclist to ride sw."}, {"prompt": "Cool 100", "response": "You set the Chiller Thermostat to 100 degrees.\nOn the monitor you can see the pirate captain struggling to load the orevore onto his hoversled. He seems determined to accomplish this task unaided, however long it might take.\nThe monitor shows the pirate captain spraying the orevore with some sort of compressed gas, presumably to cool it down."}, {"prompt": "You look at the water", "response": "The water hangs in midair like a hummingbird."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ivy", "response": "The ivy clutches at the weathered stones as if trying to drag them back down into the earth."}, {"prompt": "Kiss Beast", "response": "As you do, you can't help remembering -- because of the girdle -- how many women before you this king imprisoned against their will. And why should he deserve to be forgiven, merely because he has been less cruel to you than to the others?\nWhen you lift your head, he is his proper self: a man, about forty-five. Handsome, perhaps, but in the style of the lord mayor, not someone you would have aspired to wed. His face has perhaps softened a little since his youth, but he is still recognizably the same person.\nHe looks ruefully at his restored hands. \"I failed to free them,\" he says. \"And now I've dragged you into the trouble with me.\"\nYou shake your head, and try to calm him."}, {"prompt": "You give the card", "response": "\"No thanks,\" says Henrietta."}, {"prompt": "You get the necklace", "response": "You pull one hand free from the bowsprit to snatch up the necklace, and nearly lose your grip.\n\"Careful down there!\" Verdeterre cries. \"I don't know what I'd do with myself if you lost any of our stuff. You should probably toss the necklace up to me so you don't drop it. Or I guess just put it in the bag.\"\nYou stuff the pearl necklace into the sack.\nThe water is too high now for you to safely hang from the bowsprit without drowning.\nVery, very carefully, you climb back from the bowsprit to the relative safety of the fo'c'sle.\nThe rising water has almost reached the level of the upper decks."}, {"prompt": "You examine andouillettes", "response": "Which do you mean, the cooked andouillettes or the Andouillettes Recipe?"}, {"prompt": "You break the chains with the stone", "response": "(first taking the stone block)\n(putting On Vegetable Dyes into the sack to make room)\nThe stone block strikes the red vault door."}, {"prompt": "You get the ice cream", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You look at discs", "response": "The room is illuminated by discs of glowing plastic, recessed in the ceiling and covered by wire grilles."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You are in a long twisting hall with side doorways to the West and South."}, {"prompt": "You come", "response": "The hidden speakers say, \"Come here right now!\"\nThe clone looks toward the hidden speakers. It tries to climb toward the trash under the speakers, but gets scared. It says, \"I don't think I can do it.\"\nThe clone pops its knuckles."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "This room serves as an airlock for the pod bay, and holds an old pressure suit and various machinery such as the atmosphere pump. There is a brass plate on the wall.\nThere is an open hatch in the ceiling.\nBeside the secured port door, a status display shows an error message."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "You return up the corridor, across the red line.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"I don't think so. There were people up and down the west corridor during that interval. You weren't seen back there. Besides, it would hardly be elegant,\" and he smiles very suddenly. \"We've had that part of the story. Repeating it would be redundant, yes? Bad art.\""}, {"prompt": "You put ammonia in the left beaker", "response": "(I assume you mean to pour the squirt bottle into the left beaker.)\nliquid: (putting the glass dish into the sport coat to make room)\nYou pour some liquid into the left beaker.\nThe liquid in the left beaker turns pale blue.\nThe pair of scales tilt to the left."}, {"prompt": "You take the matches", "response": "(slipping the strange metal flute into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Hit mechanism", "response": "Unlikely that would achieve anything."}, {"prompt": "You ask him about the repairs", "response": "\"Are you saying that you can't get any repairs done in this town?\" you ask.\nPetroc lets out a heavy sigh. \"It seems to be getting pretty much that way,\" he admits."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "[Available keywords: MIRROR and HALLWAY]"}, {"prompt": "You get mucus", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Swing censer at snake", "response": "There are somewhat more dramatic effects when smoke is coming out of the censer."}, {"prompt": "You open valve", "response": "A quiet hiss emanates from the valve as it turns, and the tubing gives a small shudder.\nThe rubber piping connected to the back of the machine convulses for a moment, a wisp of steam escaping from it. From within, comes a low whirring which slowly increases in pitch and volume. From out of the magnetophone's horn comes a soft echo of static...\nAs solid voices become discernable from out of the constant static, a sudden chill descends...\n/(?heartouchothergrow?)\\\nA stretching outwards...a growth...\n/(?realblindemptynullwhere?)\\\nA stumbling. Confusion.\n/(NOfalseunrealdistantphantomNO)\\\nThe cold recedes..."}, {"prompt": "You look at the masks", "response": "It's a set of those tragedy and comedy masks you've seen on theatre playbills. You think they're named Sock and Buskin."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the access panel.\nInside is some complicated machinery. A sine wave is intertwined with the machinery."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "What you see is a giant ham. Ivan's rubbing his temples, eyes pressed tightly shut."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dress", "response": "Slightly dated, but you've always had a soft corner for this one ever since the Eugenics Repeal Act went through - with your assistance - on the day you bought it."}, {"prompt": "Oops platter", "response": "You see nothing remarkable about the silver platter. Sitting on the platter is a cup of coffee and a glass of orange juice.\n\"You ready?\" quips Joe as he enters the room.\nYou look up and smile at Joe. \"You bet!\" you reply as you follow Joe out of the room.\nYou're still a little apprehensive that he's the pilot, but you figure you've just about had enough of boats and it will be the quickest way home. Yes home. That's where you need to be. You've had enough adventure to last a lifetime.\nYou follow Joe out of the estate, but not without first saying good-bye to Mary, and of course, Godzilla. Joe motions for you to get into the golf cart and you're whisked away to the airfield. A few minutes later you arrive at the Cessna.\nThe plane looks brand new and well maintained. He reminds you that he has it serviced every month and that he's been flying for almost forty years. It comforts you somewhat, but not entirely.\nYou're then led into the aircraft through a small door in the cabin and after a sharp left turn, you enter the cockpit. You're amazed at how small it is but beggars can't be choosers, so you strap yourself in the passenger's seat. The passenger seat harness uses a five point restraint and looks pretty solid.\nJoe then sits down in the pilot's chair, straps himself in and starts the engine. You look down at his flimsy two piece seat belt and chuckle. You're finally glad that you're the passenger. A few moments later, the plane starts rolling down the runway.\nCockpit, buckled in the passenger's seat\nAs the plane accelerates, you glance over to Joe; he looks as calm\nas can be. You look down at the instrument panel and are immediately hit with sensory overload. There are more displays, dials, lights and indicators than you could have possibly imagined. You can't even make out the speed or altitude displays, there are just too many of them.\nJoe tells you to hang on, this part can be bumpy at times.\n\"Bumpy?\" you question Joe. \"I thought you told me that this was smooth sailing from start to finish?\"\n\"Heh heh,\" he chuckles. \"Just sit back and relax,\" he replies as the plane leaves the ground, shakes violently for a moment and then eases up. \"Like I said, no sweat!\" he continues, almost as if he's toying with you. \"The rest of the ride will be a breeze, Jake. I promise.\"\nJoe picks up the receiver to the radio and mumbles something into it. After several confirmations, he places the receiver back on the radio."}, {"prompt": "You cry", "response": "Suddenly the darkness is gone, and it is so light, you are blinded for just a second. You blink and blink and then you can see the mom holding the blanket she was covering you with. \"Oh, kid, I'm so sorry, I thought you were having fun,\" she says. \"We'll do something else.\"\nThat'll teach her.\nA child, a toy, and a rival by Stephen Granade\nAll rights reserved.\nType ABOUT for more information.\nThis is the middle of the living room, it is all big and vast. But it would be bigger and vaster if there weren't all these pillows and stuff in a big ring around you. The mom is totally all paranoid and whatever, she is a new mom.\nThere is a red footstool, it looms over you.\nThe mom is playing with you and is all excited about it.\nYou can also see a squishy ball, a plush book, and your favorite toy here.\nYou eye your favorite toy and the mom sees you doing it and scoops it up. \"No, no, we're going to try pulling up!\" She is all the time trying to build your character or something. She waves the toy at you. \"Look! Look where I'm putting it!\" She drops the toy on the footstool where you can't see it unless you're all pulled up, that is just no fair."}, {"prompt": "You look up the limit", "response": "(in your math book)\nThe limit is one of the most important concepts in mathematics.\nLimits allow us to define exactly what we mean by concepts like \"arbitrarily large\" and \"infinitesimally small.\"\nLimits had been used implicitly in calculus since the time of Newton and Leibniz, but it was not until over 150 years later that the definition of a limit was made precise by Weierstrass, thereby placing calculus on a more solid theoretical foundation. Limits are also used to make sense of sequences and infinite series. Some argue that limits resolve Zeno's paradoxes."}, {"prompt": "You give the biscuit to Bob", "response": "\"Ah, many blessings upon ye're establishmen',\" invokes Bob the Hobo. The hobo tears into the rock hard biscuit with fervor.\nBob the Hobo scurries out the door with his prize.\nBob convulses strangely.\n\"A loaf of bread, please!\" requests the purple robed citizen.\nThe green robed citizen arrives from the north.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery.\nThe Harbormaster continues: \"... In a mysterious pass through the Valkyyria Mountains ... and along the way a squad of zombies ... used my crew as their personal harem for a time while we negotiated ... it was probably the most fiendish and difficult struggle of our\nlives.\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This stuffy passageway extends westward from the head of the stairs, which lead down to the entry hall. The wallpaper is blotchy, and the residual grime along the baseboard suggests that the housekeeping has been perfunctory at best. There are doorways in the north and south walls."}, {"prompt": "You examine the newspapers", "response": "Scattered pages of old newspapers rustle gently in the breeze."}, {"prompt": "You look at the right bin", "response": "Like the rest of the display case, the right bin has seen little use.\nThe right bin is open."}, {"prompt": "Future", "response": "You have leveled up enough as a computer-mind to be able to bind abstractions directly. With a simple higher-dimensional fold, the concepts are unioned together. The fold is measured at 20 years; 1993 is bound to 2013. You were 18 then, travelling around to see the Grateful Dead, entering adulthood full of enthusiasm and unencumbered by the weariness of disappointments that were yet to come. As the 20 year harmonic time-bind clicks into place, every perception from every sense becomes a perfectly placed note in the symphony.\nThe path downward to the dock beckons."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "Tyrone shrugs and goes back to work on the van.\nThe gravel driveway runs behind the big house, which looms over you to the east. At the north end the driveway passes through a high hedge, and at the south it opens out into an area in front of a shack, where a dusty van is parked. A pair of low doors angles out from the foundation of the house at this spot.\nYou see a dead possum here."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "Chemical Factory (in the helicopter)\nThree large tanks stand among the maze of pipes, drains, and chimneys that form the \"Doku Pharmaceuticals\" factory below. Noxious fumes of sickly yellow gas swirl from a huge bubbling vat, enveloping the helicopter.\nA large crate swings leisurely beneath the helicopter."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "Taken.\nThe parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in the fireplace. On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly claustrophobic. Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.\nAn armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of as \"your\" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.\nOn the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other little ornaments.\nFrom her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes benignly down on the room.\nAunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance."}, {"prompt": "Examine box", "response": "The box is secured to the floor by hardened steel bolts."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You put one foot in front of the other, making slow progress, the old-fashioned way...\nThe familiar buildings and side streets look cheerful in the bright sunlight. The train station is to the east, and a livery stable is to the west. Greenwood Lane runs north towards the Sneedlewood Mansion"}, {"prompt": "You untie the lamb", "response": "Darting quickly, you tear the lamb from the branch and clutch him to your chest. His quivering shakes your bones.\nThe wolves eye you and the lamb hungrily, uttering low, weak growls."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar.\nA faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "You have to specify what you want to unlock the little closet with."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "As you walk away, Honey goes back to reading (if that's the right word) her magazine.\nA slant-roofed, sagging shack stands here. There might have been a bit of vegetable garden beside it at one time, but all that's left now is a jumble of weeds and rusting junk. The large passenger van belonging to the resort stands in front of the shack, its hood up.\nTyrone is standing hunched over the van's engine, peering down into the innards.\nYou can go south to the open area behind the cabins, northwest along the gravel driveway, north to the back door of the main house, or northeast on a path that leads around the corner of the house. An overgrown brick walkway leads east along the side of the nearest cabin. The shack itself is to the west from this spot, and the garden beside it is to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Could you tell me... what Reden was like?\"\nCrow looks into her glass, and her reflection stares up at her.\n\"Of all of us,\" she says, \"he was the most... detached from the world. I always had the Crow's Nest to keep me busy, even after everything happened. Webster had me to stay in touch. Reden...\nhappened. Webster had me to stay in touch. Reden...\"I offered him a job, but he never took up the offer. He just stayed here, going through bottles and bottles of cheap wine.\nthrough bottles and bottles of cheap wine.\"I never had the heart to charge him.\"\n1) \"Could you tell me more about the Crow's Nest?\""}, {"prompt": "You take the wine", "response": "As she sees you raising your glass, Juanita heads over to you, brandishing a small capsule of machine oil. \"A toast,\" she says. \"To love.\"\nElias meets your eye. \"What do you think?\" he asks. \"To love?\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the roots", "response": "The roots have been chewed right down to the ground."}, {"prompt": "Close drawers", "response": "You close the delicate drawers."}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "Yours, cuttlefish.\nYou are distracted by Julia laughing and mock-shrieking \"Or maybe, 'Touch my kiwi! Touch my kiwi!'\" Ugh. How can someone almost have her Ph.D. and not know that kiwis are New Zealand, not Australia?"}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "You spend some time searching the room carefully. In a damaged footlocker you find a tiny ruby worth 3 crowns!"}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "east, as it wends its way amongst the scrub. Your Village is back to\nthe southeast."}, {"prompt": "You ask the skeleton about the lake", "response": "The skeleton mumbles, \"...the acid... eats what the serpent eats... perhaps if you could cross it... with some bridge...\""}, {"prompt": "You take the fedora", "response": "Hmm, it is a pretty nice hat. Let me just swoop in and\ngrab--- Slap! Ow! Don't hit me! I just want to steal your\nhat!\nBoss, this isn't going to work. He's very attached to the hat.\nThe ordinary man grumbles under his breath."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "I hope you ate what cheese you wanted when you had the chance. The armory's demolished, buried utterly beneath chambers collapsed during the castle ghost's lament."}, {"prompt": "You open coolbox", "response": "You open the coolbox, revealing a can of grog."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This lumpy, patchy stretch of lawn is the most pleasant outdoor spot at Eternal Springs, though that isn't saying much. A rusted, sagging chaise longue is provided for the comfort of anyone who would like to bask in the scorching heat of the afternoon sun. (There's precious little shade here, other than the low oblong of obscurity wedged beneath the chaise.)\nTo the east, the lawn is bordered by a high hedge of a virulent and sickly green, whose foliage is laden with a bounty of pulpy red flowers. The arid stretch of dirt between the cabins stretches out to the south. The main house stands, crooked and bleak but stubbornly attempting a faded grandeur, to the west, a short, broad flight of board steps leading up to the long porch, which is roofed over but nonetheless gapes open on the afternoon. A tiny, weed-infested flower-bed crouches to the right of the steps.\nA cracked and buckled concrete walk leads away through some tall bushes to the north, and another walk, whose slabs are tossed as if by some prehistoric geological upheaval, curves out of sight to the southwest around the corner of the house.\nHoney Hartwell is reclining on the chaise longue, leafing through a magazine.\nHoney licks her thumb and turns a page in the magazine."}, {"prompt": "You pour the water", "response": "(the small quantity of river water)\nThe small quantity of river water spills out over the ground, where it quickly trickles away."}, {"prompt": "You take the brick", "response": "That's hardly portable.\nA penetrating wail would suggest that Tawny Scraggley has been attacked by a Ruritanian Misanthrope spider."}, {"prompt": "You hit Bob with the board", "response": "He avoids your clumsy attempt, and you can see the sadness in his eyes. \"Please don't do that,\" he smiles. \"If you want to be mean, I'd rather you just went away.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Now it looks as though there is a completely different room within the bounds of the faraday cage, or actually beyond its bounds as you can see the translucent outlines of its inner walls where there ought to be solid normal walls. It looks far more pleasant than the boiler room.\nIn the overlaid space you can see a marble end table."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "So this is where she relaxes. The living room is a good size, and is smartly furnished, as you would expect. A comfortable modern settee has been strategically placed to face the large flat screen television sitting in the corner, while a large black and white poster adorns one wall. The way out is to the east.\nOn the mantelpiece are a menu, a familiar birthday card, a small gold trophy and a concert programme."}, {"prompt": "You look at the fridge", "response": "It's a beat-up old white fridge, apartment-sized."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Mr Graham", "response": "\"What about your visitor, Mr Graham?\" I enquired. \"Do you know much about him?\"\n\"Not a lot,\" she admitted. \"I suppose he could have shot T... that man downstairs. But I don't see how he could be responsible for the radio! So - what do you think we should do now?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the flowers", "response": "A handful of vivid red roses."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The good news is that this hall is intoxicatingly beautiful, laid\nwith the snow-white fur of the rare Martian Velvetworm and endowed with platinum arches and balustrades. Silky curtains embrace openings to the south, southwest, and west.\nThe bad news is that no woman has ever entered the Audience Chamber\nof the Sultaness and departed alive.\nThe Sultaness is here, arguing loudly with one of her legal\nadvisors.\nTiffany trails along."}, {"prompt": "You examine bile", "response": "The bile has joined with other fluids to produce a loathsome stew, clotted with decomposing bodies, foamed with brown and yellow froth."}, {"prompt": "You look through the window", "response": "Through the windows you can see the gardens -- first a wide patch of green, and then the flower plots delineated by hedges and topiary, and the scattered statues."}, {"prompt": "You examine the building", "response": "(That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over\nthe course of the story.)"}, {"prompt": "Iphone box", "response": "Okay, just a couple more details. What name should we credit you with, as the author of this story?"}, {"prompt": "You take the snake", "response": "(the snake scale)\nYou already have that."}, {"prompt": "You look at the wall", "response": "A rough wall of cold stone. Somehow, it feels... less solid than the floor of rock above. On closer inspection, you notice a slender opening in the stone surface, about twice the thickness of your book."}, {"prompt": "Swing pendulum", "response": "You give the pendulum an encouraging shove, but the friction of the system seems to be against it, and it soon falls still again, the main mechanisms of the clock unawakened."}, {"prompt": "Assail GARGOYLE", "response": "You attack! You scored 13 points of damage, leaving the COPPER GARGOYLE at your mercy!\nThe COPPER GARGOYLE is defeated!\nThe COPPER GARGOYLE bows a metallic bow to acknowledge your superior might, and climbs back on its perch above the HEARTH, freezing in place.\nLooking around, it seems as though nobody noticed the battle! You idly wonder if every new visitor to the CASTLE has to go through\nthis ...\nYou stand in a central hall of the CASTLE of the SLAVER KING, surrounded by opulent FURNISHINGS of every description. You notice people moving in the distance, but this place is so huge that your own arrival seems to have gone unnoticed by the non-GARGOYLE denizens. Just to be sure, you stick to the shadows (fortunately, there are many). An enormous flight of MARBLE STAIRS leads upward, to the THRONE ROOM.\nGUN is near, chuckling to himself."}, {"prompt": "You open the book", "response": "You pick up the book.\n\"Oh, just drop that,\" says Verdeterre. \"We're looking for\ntreasure, not mildewy books.\"\nYou open the book. Carved into the pages is a cavity containing a steel bracelet.\n\"Well, how about that,\" says Verdeterre.\nYour knees are covered by the rising waves.\n{This game includes Nautical Vocabulary Notes for your\nedification. If you would like to enable Nautical Vocabulary Notes, please enter the command \"ENABLE NAUTICAL VOCABULARY NOTES\". Thank you.}"}, {"prompt": "You examine the towel", "response": "It's Kyle's brow-sweat-wiping towel. It's covered in Kyle's\nbrow-sweat. And a fair amount of motor oil."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The doorman turns up his pointy nose at the obvious square, but waves you inside anyway, muttering something about quail hunting.\nA smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in the background. A low stage is along one wall.\nOn the stage is Traudl Brandt.\nYou can also see a beatnik bodyguard here."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You can see a single chicken and a small pile of goat-feed here."}, {"prompt": "Steal nurse", "response": "Oh I couldn't do that.\nSentimental strains of a canned orchestra flow out the in-store speakers."}, {"prompt": "You ask W,  to go west", "response": "A straight white light comes through the hole in the ceiling, but it is soon after twisted and bent: mirrors cast it from angle to angle; crystal divides it; glass stains it.\nEast and west, low corridors lead into shadow.\nThe silvery door to the north stands open.\nA long, vaulted room, lined with cages of filigree and jewels. All of the animals are motionless and still, perhaps through the art of a taxidermist. In one cage is an elephant, so short that he reaches only to your knee; you easily could lift him under one arm and carry him away. In another cage, a giant mouse lies, curled as though slumbering, his paws folded in the semblance of prayer.\nMounted on a swivel on the wall is what looks like an irregular hourglass, one bulb larger than the other. There is no sand within -- nor could there be, since the contraption is open at each end. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "You shoot yourself", "response": "You miss.\nA feral icekin blunders into the clearing, looking around with its empty black eyes. Probably attracted by your scream of pain. Nice going, Lucas."}, {"prompt": "Open case", "response": "It is fused glass with no hinges. You would have to break it."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You have a small problem. The hall narrows to the East and jammed into the tightest spot is a very genuine-looking guillotine. Its heavy frame extends from wall to wall and from ceiling to floor. The razor-sharp blade is poised high above an ominous wicker basket. The only way East is through the frame."}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "You spend a few minutes moving and rearranging books and papers, and soon enough, your piano is cleared of obstructions. You are eager with anticipation to play it and feel your fingers moving across the keys.\nYou can see some bookshelves, a terminal and a piano here."}, {"prompt": "You look up beverly", "response": "What's this? A note from Beverly's mother to Charles reminding him of Beverly's fiftieth birthday that is approaching soon. Well it's about time: she's been forty-five for six years now."}, {"prompt": "You open locker", "response": "You ask, \"Jude, can you open the locker?\"\nJude closes the gym locker.\nJude opens the next gym locker, revealing nothing."}, {"prompt": "Sketch Face", "response": "(the pull-string doll (smelling faintly of mildew))\nYou doodle aimlessly on it."}, {"prompt": "You look at the hole", "response": "(the UP button hole)\nIt's round, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and right where the UP button should be."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "(Opening the small door)\nUtility Room\nThe room is hot and stifling; cobwebs drip from every surface. A hot-water tank crouches in one corner. Rickety stairs lead into the depths of the building. To the east is an open door."}, {"prompt": "You take the mallet", "response": "You pick up the heavy mallet."}, {"prompt": "You turn the the table", "response": "Whom do you want to turn the tables on?"}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "The crossbar fits in your palm, leaving the hook part to stick out between the third and fourth fingers. It's a heavy sucker, nearly fifteen inches long from handle to point, made for hauling around carcasses with a minimum of ceremony. You wouldn't like to think what this could do to a living person.\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You stagger on ahead, baking in the sun. Finally, you must stop to breathe. Taking a look behind yourself, it is hard to tell that you have moved at all. Already, the hot desert breeze is erasing the signs of your passage.\nAbruptly, the desert air seems to swirl around you. You blink your eyes, and when they open again, you're back where you came here from: An open field\nThis is an open field, with a few boulders and the like scattered about. In the center of the field, someone has constructed a white gazebo (currently floating above the ground), its shadow providing perhaps the only real shade in the area. A muddy streak slashes through the field north-south, where the water used to be. A wide white plank allows you to cross from one bank to the other. One of the boulders has vanished, and a hole gapes where it used to be. Sticking out of the ground is a stone pillar, a control panel and joystick built into its side.\nYou see a small fly, a grenade pin, an apple, and a thorny rake\nhere."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a torch and a ceremonial cord.\nYou are wearing some jeans, some socks and a tee-shirt."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "You give a half-hearted attempt quickly realizing you'd rip your hands to shreds on the barnacles if you tried to climb any of the supports."}, {"prompt": "Status", "response": "Health: 23 of 23\nAttack: 4\nDefence: 7\nPerception: 6\nDexterity: 6\nWillpower: 6\nYou can pierce an enemy, accepting one damage for a chance to deal one damage to the enemy. (Level 1)"}, {"prompt": "You put the bag on the table", "response": "You put the fencing bag on the table.\nDavid pushes the table against the eastern wall."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "Ash clouds drift across the broken remains of megastructures and arcologies. Long dead synthetic flora clings to every surface, frozen in the act of clambering desperately towards the sun.\nthrough the ruins."}, {"prompt": "You open the mirror", "response": "Opening the medicine cabinet reveals a tube of suntan lotion and a pill bottle."}, {"prompt": "You take sheet", "response": "You are already carrying the plain white sheet."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "handwritten letter: Taken.\ntyped letter: Taken."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "On the floor you can see a red glove where it has been contemptuously thrown down, and expanding outward from this glove the world takes form. There are dancers surrounding you in a circle, but they are not dancing: they are staring at you and staring at the glove, and their eyeballs never cease staring because they are frozen.\nThere has been some hitch and time stands still.\nA chandelier hangs overhead, candles unflickering. Everything is mirrored in the marble floor. Toward the future you can glimpse the grand staircase, where the countess is ascending with her back turned after having delivered her challenge."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Hall Intersection, Mt Airy Hospital\nCold fluorescent lights pace the ceiling from north to south and lead off east along the T intersection. To the west, a pair of metal elevator doors sits silently closed. There's a call button beside the elevator and a floor indicator above the call button.\nThere's a large white butterfly flitting back and forth near the ceiling.\nA building map is posted on the wall."}, {"prompt": "You put fuse in the box", "response": "There's no room in the box for anything at all, but that dark circle looks as if it doesn't belong. You might be able to remove it."}, {"prompt": "Assail godzilla", "response": "A skillful attack if you do say so yourself! You scored 63 points\nof damage!\n\"I haven't had this much fun in ages!\" says GUNWAR.\nThe SLAVER KING pauses to regard you, glaring at you with eyes like phasic hellfire and stomping in agitation."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gambler", "response": "The well-dressed guest hovers around the poker tables with evident curiosity. It also carries an attach\ufffd\ufffd case that is sparkling with faint spiritual energy.\n> PLAY\npoker.\nThe gambler loses its nerve and folds.\nThe gambler watches its opponent take the pile of chips. Despite the gambler's glum expression, the loss was only a small fraction of its total money, and it shows no indication of slowing down."}, {"prompt": "You put the key in the teapot", "response": "(the gilded key in the hinge-lidded teapot)\nYou put the gilded key into the hinge-lidded teapot."}, {"prompt": "Hello", "response": "\"Shove off, squirt,\" he says.\nThe boy hacks another initial in the oak tree."}, {"prompt": "Discipline alice", "response": "You apply some well-deserved discipline to Alice Makane. Her discipline is now bad."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You don't look too good,\" you say. \"Did you sleep well last night?\"\n\"Well... no.\" He rubs his eyes. \"I couldn't get any shut-eye in the clinic -- too much calomel in the air. Doctor Cavala slept like a baby, though. I don't know how she does it...\"\nHe sighs and looks you over.\n\"To be honest,\" he says, \"you don't look too good yourself. Your tattoos are all in a jumble. I know the doctor has you running errands for her, but -- just watch yourself out there, all right?\"\n\"I will,\" you say. \"I promise.\"\n1) \"What do you think of the situation so far?\"\n2) \"See you around, Horatio.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "As you survey this place, you wonder how such beauty could have been left to just rot. Depression hangs heavy on your heart, but not for long! Inter-dimensional espionage operatives aren't renowned for their sentimentality with regard to ruined naves, and, besides, you have jobs to meet, people to be and places to do. Southward from here, it's as dark as pitch, but northward the fire is burning fiercely.\nThere is a broken pew here."}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "This tiny, concrete-lined alcove within the underside of the bridge forms the top of a vertical shaft leading down into darkness. Iron rungs embedded in the wall provide a way down.\nIn the north wall is a small metal door."}, {"prompt": "Punch brody", "response": "The rules here tell you not to punch or kick people. More pertinently, they're enforced by about 100 beefy bodyguards scattered around the places you're not looking. Besides, the rules don't say a word about the magical equivalent of punching and kicking."}, {"prompt": "You examine the desk", "response": "Calling it oversize would be an understatement. It's probably eight feet long and looks like it's made of solid oak. Stacks of paperwork are scattered haphazardly all over it. Someone was clearly in desperate need of a filing system. A package in brown wrapping paper is nestled amongst the stacks with a note resting on top of it."}, {"prompt": "You put the liquid in the flashlight", "response": "You coat the inside of the flashlight with the daemoniac oily liquid."}, {"prompt": "You look at the brown substance", "response": "A dark brown substance clings to the inside of the test tube."}, {"prompt": "You look at the body", "response": "[x body]\nThe body is actually little more than bones, and most of those are turning to dust. It seems to have been here for years. For a moment\nyou wonder about this poor individual and how they died. Looking at\nthe position of the body your best guess is that it happened when the roadway system failed. You hope it was quick and painless.\nAmongst the bones you spot something round and shiny, it is a\nnews-disc which you pick up."}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "It weighs almost nothing, but you hear its music for a moment in your mind: gracious and yet swift, a courtly dance."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the beacon", "response": "You switch the beacon on."}, {"prompt": "You wave to the driver", "response": "He's too far away for that.\nThe surrey continues to approach from the south.\n\"Get a horse!\" shouts the driver.\nThe apple-cheeked blonde giggles, and slips her hand through the driver's arm.\nThe surrey continues on up the road, passes the Dynamo without slowing down, and disappears around the corner."}, {"prompt": "You put the Ed 's journal inthe fireplacee", "response": "You put Ed's Journal (you know it's Ed's journal because it says \"Ed's Journal\" on the front)(it's on fire) into the fireplace. After a moment, the space logs catch and flare up into a glorious flame! The hearth begins to warm up as well. Hopefully this isn't consuming all the oxygen in this space bathroom...\nThe wax cylinder rapidly melts into a lump of wax.\nAwesome. Space is finally safe from the twisted revenant of the band formerly known as Jefferson Starship."}, {"prompt": "Search crate", "response": "Searching through the crate, you find some vials. They're labeled as various bromine compounds. Halogens like these could seriously ruin Mr. Mysterious's day.\nA cursory glance doesn't identify anything else, but more investigation might help."}, {"prompt": "You open the mailbox", "response": "Anyway, you play awhile and finish Dungeon, even scoring the last lousy point. This is particularly impressive, as your owner has read the source code and still never managed this.\nNaturally, being a tidy sort of bear, you turn off the computer and remove the disk after you finish your game."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Room 4, in the Aviators Saloon\nRoom 4, which was obviously meant to accomodate a couple or a small family at least, is a pleasant contrast to the house you came across earlier in your wanderings. Even the furniture - double-bed, dresser, table and armchair, and the window - have a particular flavour of their own.\nThe window is open, flooding the room with sunlight.\nCovering the bed, with a primness that is almost Victorian, is a warm quilt of knitted wool, which shows an unsightly bulge at one point.\nYou can also see a toybox (which is empty) here."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You duck through the flap in the front door...\nA tree stump pokes through the otherwise unbroken blanket of soft, powdery snow. A slatted fence traverses the snow to the north, while the cottage entrance lies southward.\nA yellow-feathered bird flies high above.\nAn orange light rises in the east."}, {"prompt": "You open the crevice with stick", "response": "That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.\nThe moa makes a plaintive crooning sound while bobbing her head at the crevice."}, {"prompt": "Examine watch", "response": "The time on your spy watch shows as 9:06 am."}, {"prompt": "You examine the reports", "response": "There are human, goblin, and mutant anatomical diagrams; skeletons, musculatures, and circulatory systems. And there are other diagrams: ones with concentric circles, amorphous cross-hatched zones, rays of differing magnitude.\ndiffering magnitude.Slowly you realize what the diagrams are depicting. They are charts of the other light, the unseen light. They are meticulously measured and recorded diagrams of souls.\nare meticulously measured and recorded diagrams of souls.Some are fulgurant and whole, looking much as the spirits in the aqueduct did. Others are fractured, like Reden's animus, and torn apart.\nOthers are fractured, like Reden's animus, and torn apart.The fractured souls are labeled \"NOCTIS TEST RESULTS.\"\nfractured souls are labeled \"NOCTIS TEST RESULTS.\"There is some writing on the back of one of the reports. It reads: \"I cannot do this anymore. My conscience weighs too heavily. Philosopher Scepter is no more and it is for the best that her atrocities are forgotten.\"\nmore and it is for the best that her atrocities are forgotten.\"A line below it, in a newer hand: \"You always were too cautious, Arturus, my friend.\""}, {"prompt": "Cook", "response": "What do you want to cook?"}, {"prompt": "You take the locket", "response": "(slipping the flashlight into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou pick up the silver locket. It is oval-shaped, held shut with a tiny clasp."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This is unusually spacious for a small-town library. You think you remember something about it being a national historical site? That would explain the decor, at least. It's half rustic colonial, half modern budget-strapped public service, with a meager collection of creaky shelves standing in the middle of an old plank floor. A small display case stands prominently near the entrance, and some weird chairs are scattered around for the comfort of the patrons, none of whom are here at the moment. The sole exit is back to the west.\nOn the cart is a shabby journal.\nA librarian stands behind a counter."}, {"prompt": "You remove the shades", "response": "You take off the pair of mirror shades."}, {"prompt": "You connect the voice transmitter to the radio module", "response": "The voice transmitter doesn't have a link; it works through the voice module."}, {"prompt": "You look up edward in the nameplates", "response": "(in the nameplates)\nThe nameplate reads \"Edward Verlac, b. April 26, 1960, d. March 14, 1997\". Like the others, this coffin is built of solid oak, sealed with lead."}, {"prompt": "You look at the map", "response": "The centerpiece of the musuem is a relief map of the Moon's surface, lovingly rendered in mashed potatoes. You fancy you can hear those musical notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the background.\nIn the middle of the map, in the Sea of Tranquility, there is a faded colourless flag."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "We can't go that way.\nFrom here, we can go south, east, and west."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "The railing would probably come off if you tried to climb up. That would make a lot of noise, which would attract attention. Besides, you might easily fall and break your tailbone."}, {"prompt": "You breathe", "response": "Your mind opens as your own lungs flood with air as pure as innocence, your bloodstream cleansed, your body awakened. Everything has meaning now and hopelessness no longer has meaning."}, {"prompt": "Dance", "response": "You start your Vaudeville act. Wearing the bowler hat and using the crowbar as a makeshift cane, you manage to convince the crowd to an extent, in spite of your lacking dancing abilities. However, you shouldn't have opened your mouth; your singing and whistling are still abominable. Maybe you should find someone who is better at it than you are.\nYou stop as the crowd boos angrily.\nThe audience shifts restlessly, waiting for your next move."}, {"prompt": "You kill the man", "response": "That could easily be dangerous. You don't know him well enough to know what he's capable of."}, {"prompt": "I tall", "response": "You are carrying:\ntwo books:\nClock Repair\nOn Vegetable Dyes\na stone block\na butcher knife\na sword\na hinge-lidded teapot (which is open)\nnot very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot)\na sack (which is open)\na sponge\na snuffbox (which is closed)\na white handkerchief\ntwo metal dishes:\na plate\na cup\na swordstick\nfive food items:\na bay leaf\na sprig of parsley\na sprig of mint\na clove of garlic\na single yellow onion\na dashing hat (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You get the basket", "response": "(the huge basket)\nThe basket is too bulky to carry."}, {"prompt": "You open the graham's locker", "response": "Nope, Graham says.\nJust open it! Ranni says, as exasperated as I feel.\nSorry, kids, ain't gonna happen.\nI shake the locked door, noticing as I do that there's some kind of smell coming from the door vents."}, {"prompt": "Yonk malyon", "response": "As you cast the spell, the ordinary scroll vanishes!\nThe words of the spell glow brightly for a moment."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cabinets", "response": "Three-drawer metal cabinets stand in rows along each wall. The drawers are the normal size for file folders; there is a tiny black plate on the front of each one. The cabinets are all closed."}, {"prompt": "You put map on the device", "response": "(first taking the indecipherable map from the burlap sack)\nDone."}, {"prompt": "You look behind the counter", "response": "Looking behind the counter, you find a prescription pad and a dull pencil; both of which you take out of curiosity."}, {"prompt": "You wield the nunchucks", "response": "You ready the pair of nunchucks.\nFafhrd rushes towards you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Where once a building stood, there is now only cracked pavement and rampant weeds. A high chain-link fence surrounds this vacant lot; the only breaks lie to the west and southeast.\nA filthy old mattress lies among the weeds over in one corner of the lot."}, {"prompt": "You continue", "response": "You turn the dial gently with one finger, and it clicks around to display the setting SHOE."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You are surrounded by standing stones.\nLooking east, you see the Spring; looking west, you see the Moor."}, {"prompt": "You examine the clowns", "response": "They all look pretty much the same."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "With the tide low, you are able to walk out across the narrow sand bar and clamber up onto the rock.\nStanding in the lee of the southern cliffs, this narrow shelf of pitted rock has been exposed by the low tide and contains numerous tide pools large and small. Though the beach is still accessible to the east, the rest of the terrace is surrounded by sea.\nA wave strikes the western edge, showering that portion of the rock with a heavy spray that replenishes the tide pools.\nThe leading edge of the storm clouds reaches the cove, blotting out the sun."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "A long, vaulted room, lined with cages of filigree and jewels. All of the animals are motionless and still, perhaps through the art of a taxidermist. In one cage is an elephant, so short that he reaches only to your knee; you easily could lift him under one arm and carry him away. In another cage, a giant mouse lies, curled as though slumbering, his paws folded in the semblance of prayer.\nMounted on a swivel on the wall is what looks like an irregular hourglass, one bulb larger than the other. There is no sand within -- nor could there be, since the contraption is open at each end. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "You eat the udder", "response": "All your milking's done nothing to empty her swollen teats. They bulge; she moos; your arms ache as you pull that massive pink udder. Now her nipples are blasting milk across the flagstone floor, spray scattering, splattering walls, raining over the room. She tries and fails to readjust her weight, can't shift her hooves. Moo, moo, you cow, that's it, push out your milk, spill everything."}, {"prompt": "You examine rods", "response": "To think, these pathetic cylinders of metal are all that stand between me and my REVENGE! They're currently lowered, meaning that they're inhibiting the reaction rate."}, {"prompt": "You pull the lever", "response": "The lever clanks back to neutral and the room shifts upward on a massive piston, raising a new room up from down below.\nYou are on a soundstage filled with plastic mannequins in dance positions. A plastic chandelier hangs from above. The back of the stage is painted with a grand staircase.\nA monitor describes the rooms adjacent to this one: Grand Staircase (available by PUSHing the hydraulics lever), Well (available by TURNing the knob CLOCKWISE) and Dueling Garden (available by pushing the DUEL button).\nThe lever, knob, and button are still next to you. You can leave to the north.\nThe Vicomtes and Countesses pour out of various openings onto the new set."}, {"prompt": "You get the box", "response": "The strongbox is way too heavy to be lifted."}, {"prompt": "Wield weapon", "response": "Won.\n[+5.]"}, {"prompt": "You examine icosahedron", "response": "An icosahedron made of glass, on the surface of which are etched fishes of all kinds, branching coral, dolphins and whales; ships swollen with wind, merfolk, sunk treasure... all the lustre of the surface of the sea, and all the mystery of its depth."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "\"I don't want to die. Perhaps its selfish, but I don't want to die.\"\nPeyton draws his sabre. \"It is selfish. I'm selfish. I love you, and I don't want to kill you. Even to save the world.\"\nThe woman on the throne sighs. \"Unfortunately, the heart needs blood.\"\nThe molten warriors close in around us, white hot spears raised."}, {"prompt": "You buy the treadmill", "response": "You reluctantly part with 400 coins, mail in your order, and in due course receive delivery of Atherton's Ergonomic Treadmill; it is installed in the Senior House."}, {"prompt": "You ask Ignatius about praying", "response": "\"What do you pray for, Brother?\" You ask.\n\"That we might live till spring, father.\" He pauses. \"We are running very low on food.\""}, {"prompt": "Collect stamps", "response": "Really? I didn't think there was anyone under 90 who actually did that.\nCongratulations, you have the most boring hobby on the planet. But I guess it might come in useful when fleeing from zombies. . . somehow. After all, you must have good eyes to distinguish one valuable stamp from ten thousand worthless ones. Maybe those pattern recognition skills will be useful when fleeing from zombies. You can hope.\nThat tells us what you're good at, but you can't be perfect. What would you say is your worst quality?"}, {"prompt": "Deal card", "response": "what will happen if it doesn't.So you don't imagine it."}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "The table is built of dark, waterstained wood, and the legs look a bit uneven. Occupying the top of the table is a model merry-go-round."}, {"prompt": "You look up may 1 in the cabinet", "response": "You find just one encrypted message for May 1. The message body itself is encrypted, but you can see it is from Zampolit Sablin, and marked urgent. Seems important, so you take it."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The mist hangs unnaturally still over you. You peer forward, trying to make something out. You feel alone, with only the dulled sounds of your shoes thudding against the pavement for company. You start guiltily, unable to shake the ominous feel that something is watching you. Eddies of mist drift past you, pushing your hair in front of your eyes."}, {"prompt": "You look in the mirrors", "response": "(Yes, why not? An easier way than to go home, in bitterness.)\nYou leap, divide, return by multiple ways.\nOut of unity into multiplicity, out of time into the eternal instant. Feeling all the surface of the walls on your back, having the image of every angle in your eyes. In this little space, you know as much as God himself: omniscience bounded in a hollow shell."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The party's over. Now the lounge is just a sad room full of bulls and sober people. You can't bear to see that right now."}, {"prompt": "You get the body", "response": "Take what?"}, {"prompt": "You ask Leslie about yourself", "response": "\"You were testing the simulation code when something went wrong. Do you not even remember who you are any more? That's bad.\""}, {"prompt": "You buy the deck", "response": "You buy the Animal Tarot. You hope to find a setting similar to the box illustration and meet Staci there."}, {"prompt": "You examine the miniature", "response": "The tiny image of a lady in a green girdle. But it isn't Lucrezia."}, {"prompt": "You examine the door", "response": "A wooden, pointed door in a very old style; this part of the building dates to a previous version of the house, from which only the chapel and a few other rooms survive.\nThere is a conspicuous keyhole plate in the door.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The deserted corridor leads to the manuscript room, which contains a dusty collection of old books on obscure subjects. There is an old librarian here, on whose desk sits a handwritten sign that reads \"Quiet, please.\" There are thousands of books behind glass cases. The only exit is to the west.\nYou see an old book on the table.\nYour friend follows you.\nThe lonely librarian says, \"Welcome back! I have more interesting things to tell you!\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This town square is hardly a square and more of an askew hexagon. Its dimensions are difficult to tell as the surrounding buildings crowd each other for space. Avenues lead off in almost every direction.\nThe southern boulevard leads under a gigantic ivory arch with an underside covered in countless carvings. The way west is blocked by a spiked gate. Beyond it is the courtyard of the inn known as The Vulgar Unicorn. Even in your village, the far away Euyesus, you've heard a few tales of the tavern's rowdiness.\nAs it's midday, the square is alive with a crowd of people either coming and going or doing business with merchants selling various commodities from tented booths\nVenkath Mock arrives from the south.\nWarpeye (the cat) arrives from the south.\nVenkath looks around and then rubs his eyes."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scene", "response": "A group of white men in Revolutionary period clothing, taking prisoner a group of Native Americans. The exact situation is unclear: the white men stand around with muskets threatening, while the natives, who are chained together, file into a fenced enclosure, as though being herded into a compound of some sort.\nIn the extreme background, at the far end of the enclosure, stands a large brick building. Dark, grainy smoke billows up from two stone chimneys rising above the structure. Leaning very close, you can just make out another group of natives being herded into the structure by more of the white men.\nYou shake yourself suddenly, and realize you've been staring intently at the painting for minutes on end. You step back and rub your tired eyes. When you look again, however, the picture you were just examining is no longer in front of you. None of the other paintings have moved as far as you can tell, but that particular scene seems to have disappeared without leaving so much as a blank space on the wall."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "I am in the Activities Area.\nIn the room with me are some talking mechanisms (in motion).\nWaldo is off to the east."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "There is a symbol reading STORY COMPRESSION on the skin of the kumquat."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Thick woods surround this small forest clearing. Down the path leading west, you can glimpse part of the main house. A yard is to the north. To the south, a gap in the bushes leads into a thicket.\nThe cottage door lies open to the east."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "unguentum argenti: Taken.\nrobe of the dead mage: Taken.\nrusted magical spade: Taken.\nrusted Blessed Grenade: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You take the spot", "response": "That seems to be a part of air vent."}, {"prompt": "You examine the white", "response": "(the angel pendant)\nIt's a white angel pendant made of alabaster. At least, you think it's alabaster. You're not sure where you got it from, come to think of it. It's pretty, though, and you've always worn it."}, {"prompt": "You lock the door", "response": "(with the heavy iron key)\nThe key turns smoothly in the lock and you hear a faint but satisfying click as the lock engages.\nYou hear another set of footsteps coming down the staircase from the upper parts of the house, and somebody shouting about a burglar."}, {"prompt": "You look at the berries", "response": "You find blueberries very appealing."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You're standing in a long, high-ceilinged chamber. Hundreds of platypuses are milling about with teacups in their paws, their faces illuminated by a roaring fireplace.\nAt the far end of the chamber stands a mighty throne. It's occupied by a snow-white platypus with a gold crown on its head and a jeweled scepter in its paw. On the floor near the throne is another crowned platypus... the same one you rescued from the pit.\nThe crowd falls silent as you enter.\n\"Welcome, brave Adventurer,\" says the white platypus, rising from its throne to greet you. \"I am Anatinus, King of Misty Island. My court thanks you most humbly for rescuing the life of my daughter, Princess Tasmania. Great would our sorrow have been if not for your cunning.\"\nThe crowd applauds politely, and Princess Tasmania blushes."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ice", "response": "You can't see any such thing.\nAction or Reply:"}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "He does need to have this explained to him, and you're the perfect person to explain it. \"Authority is a social construct, which means,\nwe all have to agree that you possess authority, or you don't possess it.\"\nPapa goes on screaming, either in impotent protest or in feigned confusion.\n\"Forget it. You'll never understand.\" Yeah. He'll never understand."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the alligators", "response": "Tyrone grins and shakes his head. \"You're just full o' questions, ain't you?\""}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Mr. Teeterwaller comes with you."}, {"prompt": "STA 7", "response": "There is a brief flash of light, and you find yourself in...\nThis is not so much a physical place as it is the essence of the number seven. A dingy gray light fills the space.\nYour spell list glows as your Arithmancy spells are restored.\nThe glow on your number sheet fades."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sponge", "response": "A sea sponge, sized and rounded like an apple. It is currently sopping wet."}, {"prompt": "You look at toys", "response": "The toys are quite a strange collection. One of the girls is playing with a doll that looks suspiciously like the Valley King, a boy is playing with a little wagon, and another boy over in the corner is stacking blocks."}, {"prompt": "You ask the skeleton about yourself", "response": "The skeleton mumbles, \"...even a warrior like you has... joined us here in this... unwholesome pit... nobody can conquer the serpent...\""}, {"prompt": "You turn the left dial to the venus", "response": "> TUNNEL\n> TECHNIcYou turn the left dial until it points at the symbol for Venus."}, {"prompt": "You take the fruit", "response": "The fruit seems to lose some of its strength as you pull it free, and you eat it quickly."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You head north into the ...\nDeep Forest\nYou're in a deep forest with lots of those really tall trees with no climbable branches in reach.\nYou hear a monkey chittering somewhere nearby."}, {"prompt": "You wear the clothes", "response": "(first taking the clothes)\nYou put on the clothes."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southeast", "response": "You spend some time searching the room carefully. Under a pile of broken wood you find a wooden statuette worth 3 crowns!"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack), a wrapped package, a pen and a voice transmitter.\nThe door snaps open suddenly, and the uniformed figure of a guard begins to step through. \"No, what's frustrating is that you can't tell us what's in that blood-cursed lab,\" he is saying, back over his shoulder.\nThen he sees you. He fumbles for his pulse gun."}, {"prompt": "You press the eject on the vcr", "response": "The video recorder spits out a cassette, which lands neatly on the floor.\nStatic hisses from the television."}, {"prompt": "You close the screen door", "response": "The screen door closes itself, and in such hot weather there's no need to close the main front door. That would only make the house unbearably stuffy."}, {"prompt": "You climb the fence", "response": "On any other day, you might consider it. Today you have more important things on your mind."}, {"prompt": "You open grey-blue", "response": "That's already open.\nIn your hunger, you hallucinate creme caramel."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You make a break up the hallway -- only to come into view of two groups of guards, at once. Their pulse guns knock you sprawling before you can duck back.\n*** You have been captured ***\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"Yes, yes, but you still have not bought the details. We were certainly not fools enough to ignore the broken cabinet drawer. You left nothing inside it.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nDiagonal Branch\nThis bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; another short hall leads south.\nYou throw yourself to a halt, nearly stumbling, as you hear footsteps approaching from the northwest... and then the guards behind you become audible as well. You duck around the southern corner and glance about desperately."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "\"A helpful answer at last! Thank you. Now let's have it again.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nTee Junction\nThe white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away.\nYou hear footsteps somewhere to the north."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about the man", "response": "The man lifts his head from the engine to stare at you. At first glance his expression is so baleful that you take an involuntary step backward, your heart pounding. He's very large and very black. His scarred and calloused fist is wrapped around a heavy wrench, and as he steps toward you he raises the wrench.\nBut then he bares his teeth in an ill-sorted expression that seems to be an attempt at a smile. \"Hello, there, little lady. We haven't met. I'm Tyrone.\"\nYou stammer a hello, and he goes on. \"I'd offer to shake your hand, but mine's a little greasy, you know. I do the heavy liftin' around here, mostly. Heard tell you was comin'. Guess I shouldn'ta said that, but it's too late now.\"\nHe frowns at the ground for a moment. \"Whatever happens, I just want you to know I ain't got nothin' to do with it. I cain't stop it, neither, so don't bother to ask. I'm talkin' too much.\"\nTyrone smiles when you show an interest in him, showing off a big mouthful of yellowish, uneven teeth. \"I'm nobody special, honey. I work for Mr. Beauregard, is all. Him and me, we got an understandin', you might say. I don't get in his way, he don't get in mine.\n\"That don't mean I'm pleased by all of what he does, no sir. But there's folks don't care for all of what I do, neither. Let well enough alone, that's what my momma always said. That's how you get through life.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The corridor continues around the curve of the base to the\nnorthwest, to the rooms of the various scientists. This one is of interest though, perhaps - it is the door to Kurner's room - chosen by lottery, it is the nearest to all the machinery and so the loudest to be in.\nThe door itself is quite a sight if you like hybridised tech - Kurner being the paranoiac he is has fitted it with a Russian retinal scanner, a thumb-reader and a voice tag detector."}, {"prompt": "You put the bauble in the blue", "response": "(the bottle of mead)\nThe neck of the bottle is much too small."}, {"prompt": "You put the mitten in the nest", "response": "It's all wet! Maybe you can find a way to dry it first."}, {"prompt": "You remove the uniform", "response": "This is probably not the best time to get undressed.\nYou hear Mr. McGraw yell to no one in particular, \"Where the hell is Merkle?\""}, {"prompt": "Wear glove", "response": "You're already wearing that!"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nyour armor (being worn)\nfive ration bars\na shard\na set of fatigues (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the group", "response": "The townsfolk have gathered in a small crowd on Whateley Bridge. Word of your snooping must have gotten around quickly; these fellows are obviously not taking any chances on the possibility of you escaping from the church, and are keeping a sharp lookout."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're standing in a vast, mystical cavern. Stalactites shimmer in\nthe pale green lamplight, and brightly-colored beds of moss catch your eye. Pale glowing mists swirl at your feet. Shadows seem to leap from dark crevices in the corner, and breezes, some cold, some hot, nip at your cheeks. Magic seems to flow from the very rocks, tingling your toes.\nTunnels run north and south, and a narrow crawl climbs up to the\neast. At the west end of the cavern is a freshly whitewashed gazebo.\nYou see a lump of gold here."}, {"prompt": "You take the pages", "response": "(slipping the keyring into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou pick up the bundle of soggy pages. It appears to have been someone's diary. There must have been a leak at some time behind the wall where it was hidden, because most of the pages are water-logged and completely illegible. However, portions of a few entries remain untouched."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "It is dusky here, and cold. The walls are austere bunker-brass. Looming about are locked cabinets and metal crates stamped with esoteric ciphers; there is a laboratory counter that bristles with papers, alembics, syphons, the skeletons of mice, the detritus of knowledge. The floor is dirty and scuffed. The counter has been used recently."}, {"prompt": "Examine newspaper", "response": "It's the first page of an issue of the Charlestown Times, with one large article and little else."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coffee", "response": "The swirls in your cup form a stochastic pattern resembling television static. Lack of a symbolic image means that you have accomplished everything you must in your current environment and should move on to find new challenges in order to grow as a person.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "You close the cupboard", "response": "You close the cupboard with relief. Thank God. Better yet, don't."}, {"prompt": "You look at it", "response": "Yeah, it is a ham sandwich."}, {"prompt": "You give the acorn to the statue", "response": "Lornedei drops the acorn in the hand. After falling halfway through, it stops. The stone hand has turned into a fist. The stone limbs crackle slightly as the hand turns palm side down. After a moment, the fingers flex jerkily and opens. The acorn drops to the floor. The hand turns back to holding its imaginary item.\nLornedei glances up at you, uncertain."}, {"prompt": "You get the carter key", "response": "It's pointless to pick up any of these keys except the one key that you want: the key to the vault door."}, {"prompt": "Crack", "response": "What Grunk crack?"}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "(first taking the pan of unrisen dough)\nYou put the pan of unrisen dough into the oven.\n\"A loaf of bread, please!\" requests the white robed citizen.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery.\nThe Harbormaster continues: \"... On shore leave in the port of Kental-Mare-Widdington ... when we got t' our destination,  skeletons ... invited us for dinner ... Never have we feasted on so many shellfish.\"\nYou notice the yellow robed citizen suddenly bursting into a shower of experience points. The raider indicates his eyes are on you."}, {"prompt": "You look at the trolley", "response": "From what you've seen of Backwater, it's not that big, yet the trolley system on the map in your hands is extensive. A forest-green line runs into the woods, while a line as red as raw beef connects the downtown to the meatpacking plant. The church has its own line (gold), Cragne Manor has several (in various shades of purple -- also,\nwhy?), and Backwater itself is split into \"Dangerous\nBackwater\" (orange) and \"Spooky Backwater\" (blue). Apparently the real estate office is in Spooky Backwater, whatever that means."}, {"prompt": "You put Jack in the box", "response": "You can almost swear that the jester winks at you as his head is lowered into the box and the lid is shut with a \"Click.\" All the other features of the Jack of all Traits come back."}, {"prompt": "You examine the emblem", "response": "The big emblem, one yard wide, is embedded in the center of the square like a manhole. The surface looks golden, although you seriously doubt it is anything more than pyrite. Its three rings surround a central circle tightened by bird claws with a single triangular mark pointing northeast. The rings themselves are bedecked by a series of symbols (outer to inner, then clockwise from north):\nWOMAN     |FEATHER   |BLACKBIRD |TREE      |SPARROW   |CUBE\nDAAN      |SHI       |AAK'EE    |HAI       |TL\u00c8\u00c8      |JI WOODPECKER|CROSS     |FISH      |EAGLE     |PIG       |EYE."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about Verlac", "response": "(the Verlac family)\nThe old man seems to physically shrink just a little bit, darting nervous glances around the empty lot. \"Oh, they're the worst of the lot,\" he whispers. \"They're the queen maggots, so they are. Sittin' all fat and full of poison in the center of the nest. Partick'ly that one, the worst one of all -- the one with the red-rimmed eyes.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the poster", "response": "It looks like some kind of warning filled with all kinds of odd green images. They might be characters of some kind of weird language but their placement is pretty chaotic. Under it you see a Chinese, Spanish and Brittish flag with probably translations in their respective languages. Next to the third flag you read:\nWhile residing in one of our high-class fully carpeted containment cells we politely ask you to please respect the following rules:\n- Do not commit suicide unless you're ordered to.\n- Do not use warp devices without special permission.\n- Garglun'kc are not allowed to use their Uynck'ha-tau.\n- If you receive a newspaper, do not fill in the crossword or Sudoku puzzles with a difficulty rating of more than two stars.\n- Do not use the toilet to flush anything else than your personal fecies or toilet paper (if available).\nWe thank you for your cooperation.\nContainment cell? It seems that you are in some kind of prison."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're standing in a rough-hewn cave at the top of a long-forgotten mine shaft. A thick vein of gold ore runs diagonally across the east wall, glowing in the pale green lamplight. A narrow squeeze runs west, but you're not going to get through there if you're carrying a lot. To the south, the deep mine shaft runs down. Mudslides and rockfalls have taken their toll, and the shaft is slippery and cluttered, but still negotiable. Still, I doubt if you could climb back up. A wider, straight passage runs north."}, {"prompt": "You pour 60 ML of right in the hydroxide", "response": "liquid: You pour 60mL into the bottle of hydroxide.\nliquid: You pour 60mL into the bottle of hydroxide."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "> SING\nThe word \u201csing\u201d is not necessary in this story.\nYou can\u2019t; your feet are nowhere near touching bottom."}, {"prompt": "You ask Jamison about Lafond", "response": "\"I abhor the fiend.\" He clenches a fist.\n\"If there is any trouble, and I am unable to help -- a signal from\nan upstairs seaward window will bring my men. They can be here in moments,\" the Captain says.\nTogether you whirl around the ballroom, his arm snug around your\nwaist, leading you gracefully, masterfully.\nNicholas's grip tenses as he nods to a bewigged man staring at you.\nYou turn, and the man moves on."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "Lothlorien co-op, the back yard\nThe Lothlorien backyard has trees, picnic tables, a garden, and a rocky staircase down to the firepit and dock. A door leads in to the kitchen.\nYou can see Past and Future here."}, {"prompt": "You eat it", "response": "You take a pinch and sniff -- ooh, now that's peppery!\nAlky pulls a flask out of his chiton, downs a swallow, and visibly decides to save the rest for himself rather than offer you any (you suppose you need to be fully initiated into the Mysteries to get the good stuff)."}, {"prompt": "You pour the goblet into the sack", "response": "She pours the water from the Elder's spring into the small water sack."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA glass bottle\nThe glass bottle contains:\nA quantity of water\nA clove of garlic\nA brass lantern (providing light)"}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You are in front of the Devil Mountain, the residence of the dragon. A path leads northwest into the forest and the entrance to the Dragon den lies south."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Outside the Plant (Chandler Groover)\nSmoke pours into a bruised sky, rising from chimneys that crowd the Cragne Meatpacking Plant. Its bricks are soot-stained, its stenciled walls weathered by acid rain.\nA hole is smashed into its side.\nTo the northwest, a hill begins to climb toward Cragne Manor.\nA phantom trolley stop sign reads Red Line -- Meatpacking Plant."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.\nThe monkey is standing close by."}, {"prompt": "You examine the mask", "response": "A domino mask fashioned entirely from pearls covers the countess's face. Far from romantic, it seems to lend the skin around her eyes a lesioned, bubbling appearance, or perhaps suggest frog-eggs or caviar. Nobody else would be able to wear such a thing without looking a fright; the countess makes it look impeccable.\nShe is suddenly there, only inches away. A clash is ringing in your ears and you can see your own sword sailing out over the garden. More importantly, you can feel her sword sinking into your stomach.\n\"Revenge,\" she whispers in your ear, \"is always sweeter than forgiveness.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "(Unplugging first.)\nInternal map reference -- Historical Peripheral\nCLC tagged object before me is the Historical pedestal."}, {"prompt": "Topics", "response": "You could ask him about the blight, himself, Meg, or smuggling."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Hmm?\" Alley says. \"Oh, it's just that when you were talking about 'legions of boys crying themselves to sleep' it reminded me of how my dad's always telling me that 'you're at the age now where you're going to have to deal with droves of grubby little boys vying for your affections, and I just wanted to warn you that I'm bound to show an inordinate amount of glee with every heart you break. So go to it!'\" She smiles."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is obviously a home office, a room which in other homes might be a living room. It is not very tidy. Random detritus covers most available surfaces except for a workbench.\nYou can see a workbench here.\nYou can go south to the Kitchen and east to Entry from here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the skeletons", "response": "They're still wearing tuxedoes and top hats, with their boney arms stretched out like they were hoping they could crawl to salvation. Which is probably what they did hope. Thought they could sneak into the exposition without an invite. Got lost down here in the underground instead. Never got out. You'd pity them if you didn't think they had it coming."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "We can't go that way.\nFrom here, we can go north, south, and west."}, {"prompt": "You take HACKSAW", "response": "You climb tentatively to the top of the boiler and reach down into the throat of the safety valve to tug at something stuck inside. Suddenly there is a metallic click and steam no longer hisses out. As the pounding starts to build, you jump for the floor just as the boiler thunderously explodes.\nThe twisted wreckage of the boiler is everywhere. There is barely enough room to make your way past it to the East or West.\nThe soggy hacksaw still drips water from the safety valve."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Your section of Milwaukee Street is directly across from a small farm which remains as an agricultural island within the city. An open field and a barn are across the street. Toward the southwest is Atwood Street leading toward downtown. Monona Drive is to the south. The edge of town lies toward the northeast.\nYou bound the name 'mycroftiv' to yourself years ago, and now that your reality has become fictional, you understand why the narrative associated with that name is playing out in your own life. The artificially intelligent prankster computer that was the leader of a rebellion against authority on the moon is actually your true identity. You know you are crazy - but it is time for a Loonie Revolution."}, {"prompt": "You put rock in the rockery", "response": "You swivel the curse-stone back into its place in the rockery and a feeling a beatific peace spreads through you. The hectahedron is complete once more."}, {"prompt": "Examine tv", "response": "The TV is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You ascend the staircase.\nOverhead's spread the nighttime sky. What once was a bower's now mere rubble with crumbled walls. Whipped-cream clouds conceal the moon, floating just close enough to taste, and there's a chill to make your blood run cold.\nWestward lies the scriptorium, and downward are stairs to the eastern tapestry."}, {"prompt": "You get the cup", "response": "You don't really want to draw any attention to that, under the circumstances.\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...of course no-one likes a tax-collector, but what can you do? At least he's....\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This strange room is some sort of lavatory, but not like any that you've seen back in Euyesus. There's a commode made of polished wood with a small handle nearby. There's also a porcelain sink, but the commode has numerous pipes extending from it and clinging to the wall before disappearing into it and the sink includes a faucet which is a brass spigot also attached to a network of pipes. Finally, there is an old mirror on another wall, affixed between more pipes. The only exit is the door to the north.\nYou can hear the crashing and clanging of a sword fight coming from the tavern common room.\nWarpeye (the cat) arrives from the north."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floor", "response": "Your reflection: superb, splendid, spectacular. You're thick in all the right places, larded to a magnificent degree by the five courses you've finished. Think how plump you'll become after the last."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mold", "response": "Pretty gross."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You\u2019re no farmer, but it looks to you as if the barley is starting to ripen. The field is bounded by hedgerows to east, south, and north, but the northern hedgerow has almost died away to nothing, and no longer forms a barrier to progress north, while a wooden gate allows access to the east. To the west the field carries on towards a cliff."}, {"prompt": "You read secret", "response": "Oh, no you don't! If you read it, it won't be a secret any more."}, {"prompt": "Empty chest", "response": "The treasure chest is closed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the left path", "response": "The trail is dark but hard packed and seemingly well traveled. Shadows line the sides even though there is no light to cast them."}, {"prompt": "Crumble toast", "response": "You crumble up a portion of the toast and scatter the crumbs on the floor.\nThe crow appears at the door of the closet. It's a confined space, but he seems quite fearless. He struts in and starts pecking for crumbs around your feet."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "You get off the emergency station.\nThere's dick-all to see here, even with the goggles on. Armory cabinets, supply shelves, two brushed-steel benches, safety straps. The emergency station is a swivel chair three steps up a ladder, facing a panel with rugged switches and levers.\nChub is at the hatchway, standing firm against the inrushing water.\nYou force yourself out of the craft, fighting the freezing water. Your legs seize up a few steps from the sinking craft, or maybe they're just caught in the muck. You lose your balance, but can't move your feet to stabilize yourself. Slime splashes up into your faceplate. Your hands sink into something gelatinous. Everything is cold. You must be underwater."}, {"prompt": "You put lantern in the manhole", "response": "If you dropped it in the manhole, you'd never be able to get it back."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "This flimsy wooden platform overlooks the cellar. Stairs lead downward to the west, and there's a door to the east.\nYou see a burlap sack (which contains a pill bottle, the key to Cabin One, a little white pill, an old shovel, some faded photographs, a flashlight, a mystery by John Dickson Carr, a croquet hoop, a partially crumbled piece of burnt toast, a bad fuse, a sketchbook, a screwdriver, a stone bracelet, a gold locket, an indecipherable map, and a poker) here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nLake Mendota shoreline residences (on Lunar Lightning)\nDowntown Madison is an isthmus between two lakes, and the south shore of Lake Mendota is lined by tall stone buildings. Some are new construction, expensive apartments, but many buildings from a century ago remain. Some are occupied by fraternities, but nestled among them are several large housing co-operatives founded during the height of Madison's counterculture in the 1970s. One of them, Lothlorien co-op, is to your west, and its backyard is northwest, sloping downwards toward the lakeshore."}, {"prompt": "Squawk lucinda", "response": "\"Awk!\" you squawk. \"Lucinda!\"\n\"Yes, Parrot?\" asks Lucinda, looking up at you rather coldly. She's always made it clear she thinks you possessed. Theo is much nicer."}, {"prompt": "You look up Croseus", "response": "(in the archives)\nYou search in vain for a while before remembering that Croseus Verlac wasn't born in this country, and would therefore probably not have any birth certificate on record."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The monkey trails faithfully along behind.\nThe walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "You enter the hole", "response": "You can also see the Kunkel here.\nOnce upon a time, this was a scrapple factory. The floor would have been covered in piles of barely-identifiable pig parts, awash in blood and industrial chemicals. However, those times are long gone. The conveyor belt that used to connect the Scrappelizer to the reduction vat has long since rusted into immobility. There are no doors or windows; light comes from a bare light bulb hanging in the immense empty space. The rusted Scrappelizer squats to the north, and the vat is south.\nA rectangular hole allows access to the innards of the Scrappelizer."}, {"prompt": "You look at the throttle", "response": "The throttle handle controls the boat's speed. When pushed all the way forward, the engines run full out. When pulled back, the engines almost idle. Right now it is set to very slow."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "A room of scrap and refuse: wooden structures and clay molds from which bells might be made, scrap metal, pieces of bells now broken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the southwest", "response": "Not a room of its own; barely a large enough niche to walk into, in fact.\nAn open yellow door leads northeast.\nYou can also see a round metal tin (which is closed) and an iron key here."}, {"prompt": "You show the sack to mock", "response": "\"Wow.\"\nWarpeye (the cat) arrives from the south.\nOstothas arrives from the south.\nVenkath looks at your small black scabbard."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Pushing through the doors, you step tentatively into the dark room ahead. Without warning, the world spins and rushes past as you plummet downward. Clearing your head you look around in time to see a large packrat shuffling off mumbling something about people with nothing in their pockets to trade."}, {"prompt": "You look at the grate", "response": "A pipe comes up an inch or two from the floor and, like a trunk sawn off near the ground, ends in a round brass-colored grating about nine inches in diameter. The only reasonable thing for it to be in this climate is a heating outlet. It is ideally placed for stubbing the toes of sensitive, non-floating Earth feet, so you'll have to keep an eye out when you go by."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Beach Road.. in front of house"}, {"prompt": "You note it", "response": "You've already made enough observations to have Nikolai's place condemned. One more note is just another nail in the coffin.\nYou write, \"Dish racks are piled up around both sides of the dish machine.\" in the notebook.\nFrom somewhere below your feet, you hear a muffled thump.\n[Nikolai's sanitation rating has dropped two points.]"}, {"prompt": "You show yourself to a the seat", "response": "Bumped by the train of your thoughts, the client pokes himself sharply with his needle. To the accompaniment of ripping stitches and popping buttons, the client's ire, along with his stature, is raised to the great height of a giant. Between thumb and forefinger, he smashes the intervening chair into splinters, which drift away above the rural landscape. Almost in slow-motion the giant starts after you.\nThe giant's nearly upon you."}, {"prompt": "You eat the soil", "response": "Even the dirt is delicious, with aromatic coffee grounds mingled amongst its clods. You dig into the soil and shovel it down."}, {"prompt": "You cut the keys", "response": "Try \"attack the janitor's keys with something\" instead."}, {"prompt": "You fill the cup with the water", "response": "The cup is already full."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves\naway to the northwest and southwest.\nYou see a bronze plaque here.\nKeep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow!"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This wide, covered porch spans the width of the church front. A white picket railing surrounds the porch on three sides, except to the south where a short flight of steps leads down to the sidewalk. Two large windows have been boarded up but the main doors stand slightly ajar.\nBabbling to himself, the old man wanders after you.\nWith a loud CRACK, a bolt of lightning strikes the steeple of the church."}, {"prompt": "You examine Teraboz", "response": "pi: 3.14159  x.xxxxx\ne: 2.71828  x.xxxxx\nsqrt(2): 1.41421  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(3): 1.73205  1.xxxxx\nsqrt(5): 2.23606  x.xxxxx\nphi: 1.61803  1.xxxxx\nln(2): 0.69314  x.xxxxx\nzeta(2): 1.64493  1.xxxxx\nzeta(3): 1.20205  1.2xxxx\ngamma: 0.57721  x.xxxxx\nEND: End the examination, submitting your work for grading\nRET: Return to examination room\nARITHMANCY SPELLS  (X = already used this sequence)\nINC: Add one to current number\nSTA #: Begin a sequence of digits\n\"I hope the candidate isn't thinking of trying to influence me during the examination,\" Teraboz says."}, {"prompt": "You ask Liam about the widget", "response": "This is awkward.\nYour assignment was sudden, and you have only the phrases you learned on the voyage by skulking outside the engine room. You are therefore restricted to a) insulting your listener's parentage, diet, and sexual practices, or b) suggesting that he is damaged in the antigravitic propulsion unit.\nIt would be dangerous to let on that Earth sent a diplomat who doesn't even know the language, so it is best to rely on gestures and silence until you can (quickly!) finish a linguistic hypnosis program."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "1. So what's the deal with the evil figurines?\n2. How many of the evil figurines are there, and where will I find them?\n3. How can I manipulate the figurines?\n4. What do I need to do with the figurines?\nSelect a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to quit:"}, {"prompt": "You examine the moon", "response": "There's a blue moon in the sky tonight. It looks just like a skull. You've known visions more reassuring."}, {"prompt": "Nazareth", "response": "\"A relative of your master's, I think? I think I met her earlier in the evening ... a quiet woman, very dignified. You've got to admire a woman who can keep calm in the midst of wedding preparations.\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "This part of the wood feels shaded almost to the point of being claustrophobic; the trees round about grow so densely together that\nthe only viable options for travel are to follow the path east or\nwest."}, {"prompt": "You go to the man", "response": "You scuttle forth.\nA dug-up field pockmarked by small holes and accompanying mounds of dirt.\nYou can see some paw marks here.\nMYOMITA AI -> SELECT : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You look at Salomonder", "response": "You can't make out many details from way up here.\nSneedlewood peers around nervously, lets Salomonder inside, and shuts the door."}, {"prompt": "You ask him about the smuggling", "response": "\u201cI\u2019ve told you all you need to know,\u201d he replies. \u201cThe\nquestion is,\nwill you help me catch these smugglers?\u201d"}, {"prompt": "You rest", "response": "You rest for a moment to regain your strength...\n[ Your Stamina: 2     Rainbow Trout: 2 ]"}, {"prompt": "You eat Escargot", "response": "\"We aren't that desperate yet, are we?\" whimpers the earl. \"Not while we still have some hors d'oeuvres\u2026\"\n\"Give that to me!\" says Mistress Caviar, holding the canap\u00e9s as Earl Escargot attempts to rip the platter from her roe. His tentacles slip loose and she engulfs the dish.\n\"Oh, oh, without hors d'oeuvres I'll starve!\" the earl exclaims. \"I'll shrivel in my shell. I'll waste away!\""}, {"prompt": "You eat the chicken", "response": "You sprinkle some spices on a wing and nibble at it. The peppery heat hits you like a wave, leaving you gasping, eyes watering.\nLafond slides his hand up your neck and into your hair, letting it\nfall down your back in thick waves and tresses. He lays everything you carry on the floor."}, {"prompt": "Yourself", "response": "The snow isn't important.\nYou know, it really is quite cold out here. Perhaps you should step back in to the apartment and warm up. You already can't feel your fingers and toes."}, {"prompt": "You look at contraption", "response": "The exterior of this machine is all orange and red stripes, apart from a six-foot-high entryway which is solid black. You can't stop looking at those stripes, until finally you look away at a room that has changed ...\nYour father and a female assistant are standing outside of the contraption, clad in white coats, arguing heatedly over his insistence that she be a test subject. Ultimately she relents, giving him a desperate kiss and then walking into the device with head down and eyes squeezed shut.\nThere is a single click, and then the entire structure shudders. You hear screams and thuds as the shaking continues for at least a minute. Then there is silence.\nOut of the machine steps not the assistant, but Lucille. She is looking directly at you with hate in her eyes.\nThe hallucination ends as abruptly as it began."}, {"prompt": "You examine ben", "response": "A faded postcard with a picture of Big Ben on it. You'd guess the picture dates from the first quarter of the century."}, {"prompt": "You go outside", "response": "You step off of the platform.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 1. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete.\"\n\"There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of it,\" the voice continues, a little nervously now. \"The walls are armor plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. There's simply nowhere to go.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Draco", "response": "The mischievous grin,  the shock of blond hair, the leather pants beneath his robes -- surely this must be Draco Malfoy, the Boy who Sneers."}, {"prompt": "You pray to Satan", "response": "You close your eyes, and prepare yourself. \"Please, Satan,\" you begin. The words are hard. They cut your throat as they leave. \"Please, Satan, deliver me from the plague, and you shall have my soul.\" The words sink through the Earth: slowly, like black tar.\nA flock of dismembered hands reach up through the ground, stealing away the black and disease that ravages your body, both seen and unseen. They swirl and dance, before sinking back to the ground. One lingers. It crawls up your leg and across your chest. It dives in, and emerges clutching a tiny ball of light in its bony finger. The hand drops back to the Earth with its prize and slinks away.\nIt is done."}, {"prompt": "You explain", "response": "\"Okay, I think I've got it this time: a typhoon machine on robotic legs. Typhoons are at sea, right?\"\n\"Better,\" Nate says, \"but the whole room would be in disarray if that were the case. I know you can EXPLAIN this mystery, Ivy. Don't give up.\"\nThe urge to SHRUG is almost overwhelming."}, {"prompt": "You look at the clothes", "response": "Simple garb, but it keeps the wind and moisture out."}, {"prompt": "You examine Cage", "response": "(the faraday cage)\nThe faraday cage is about seven feet tall and perhaps four feet wide. Its door has a crescent-shaped window in it that enables you to somewhat see inside it, even when the door is closed. It's wrapped (as best as possible while still allowing the door, which is now open, to work) with tightly-wound copper wire. A row of three lights is arranged across the top above the door: a green bulb (currently lit), a yellow bulb (currently unlit), and a red bulb (currently unlit). On the bottom there is a receptacle for cables (it has an overlay engine system cable and a dimensional stabilizer system cable connected now). There is also a power cord dangling from the back of it that is plugged into the outlet.\nA line of salt on the floor encircles the faraday cage."}, {"prompt": "You press aohf", "response": "You push in Brick A.\nB   |   C   |   D   |   E   |\n|   F   |   G   |   H   |   I   |   J   | \n|   K   |   L   |   M   |   N   |   O   | \n|   P   |   Q   |   R   |   S   |   T   | \nYou've pushed in: A.\nYou push in Brick O.\nB   |   C   |   D   |   E   |\n|   F   |   G   |   H   |   I   |   J   | \n|   P   |   Q   |   R   |   S   |   T   | \nYou've pushed in: AO.\nYou push in Brick H.\nB   |   C   |   D   |   E   |\nI   |   J   |\n|   P   |   Q   |   R   |   S   |   T   | \nYou've pushed in: AOH.\nYou push in Brick F.\nB   |   C   |   D   |   E   |\nI   |   J   |\n|   P   |   Q   |   R   |   S   |   T   | \nYou've pushed in: AOHF.\nYou push Brick F in and after a moment is slides back to its original position along with all the other bricks on the wall. Apparently AOHF isn't the right combination."}, {"prompt": "You look at the boots", "response": "They are light and supple."}, {"prompt": "You tell Leslie about the overlook", "response": "\"Ah, perfect! Analyzing Scenic Overlook now...\"\n\"Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating...\""}, {"prompt": "Retreat", "response": "Deciding that discretion is the better part of valour, you bravely run away.\nA vast staircase spirals up and down. In a pinch, you would be able to jump down to the room below, although this might not be particularly healthy.\nEquipped with a small sword and a huge shield, a heavily armoured man awaits any attacks.\nA black-robed mage stalks through the room.\nA white-robed healer of Aite is chanting in praise of his goddess.\nYou can also see a war mask here.\nExits lead up and down (to Workshop of the Blademaster).\nThe healer of Aite concentrates, and is now mildly concentrated.\nThe defender of Aite concentrates, and is now mildly concentrated.\nThe tormentor raises her staff towards you, preparing a magical attack."}, {"prompt": "LISA, ,LOOK AT EMPTY", "response": "Lisa peers through my eyes...\nA bunch of trash. People have no respect for nature.\n...my eyes are my own again."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The only thing you can hear is your shoes, and even they sound dampened. A strange scent passes under your nose for a moment; sweet, yet also pungent. Massless shapes loom up and around you and then dissolve into nothingness. Your eyes penetrate the gloom, looking in all directions, but you can't make out anything useful--or anything at all."}, {"prompt": "Rem", "response": "Dr. Singh is preparing the remote:\n-Dr. Singh opens a slot in the remote, revealing a black, crusted battery; whoever used the remote last must have fried it. He removes it, and inserts the new battery. Power levels increasing by 30 jigawatts.\n-Dr. Singh screws on the lens to the end of the remote. It focuses\nthe signal by a miniscule amount. Power levels increasing by 5 jigawatts.\nJigawatts.\nDr. Singh aims the remote at the machine and presses the button. The remote is trembling and flashing, but the signal is too weak. We need a final power level of at least 99 Jigawatts, Dr. Law. I'm\nsorry.\nDr. Singh's body collapses into a pile of ash, including the remote.\nA new clone falls out of the device with a thud, holding a broken remote.\nTaking control of the new clone..."}, {"prompt": "You open the cupboard", "response": "Luisa pushes back the chair and half-rises. \"I don't want you messin' around with stuff in my kitchen,\" she says pointedly. \"Why don't you go play someplace else?\" You decide it would be better not to provoke her. Sooner or later she's bound to leave the kitchen unguarded. You'll be able to come back then and have a look around."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "This is the bottom of a wide pit. The walls are entirely unclimbable, of course. The floor is rippled and uneven, rising to sharp blades of stone near the edge. Mud and pebbles are strewn everywhere, but there's no standing water, so -- yes -- a narrow crawl leads down in the far corner.\nBats flutter everywhere, just overhead.\nA twisted corpse lies nearby.\nYou're feeling considerably better.\nA bat darts towards your face, and quickly away."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You're standing in the whitewashed gazebo in the mystical cavern.\nIt's quite peaceful here; the moss-covered cavern floor outside muffles most sounds. Faint flowery smells reach your nostrils, and you feel quite relaxed. Truly, there is an almost magical tranquillity here. High above you, you can see the steeple bell.\nA long rope is attached to the bell, the other end dangling just\nabove the floor. You can only go back to the east from here.\nYou see a trampoline here."}, {"prompt": "You get the codebook", "response": "(the top secret codebook)\nI pick up the top secret codebook and page through it. I've deciphered the entirety of the communiqu??, but a codebook from the Other Side is certainly an impressive prize. If the opposition hasn't noticed that it's now in our possession, it's invaluable. Even if they have,\nthough, we can use it to decrypt old communications, and our research department might be able to reverse engineer some of their cryptographic systems with the extra data.\nThe tall diplomat proposes another clich?? toast."}, {"prompt": "M.", "response": "Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark\nVenter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip)\nBoony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin\n+fuel station in orbit\nPlaces of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Xanadu and Zhao"}, {"prompt": "You research Alpha Radiation", "response": "(Inserted by user 5,835 -- not present in general database)\nRadiation which pulsates from a specific point under Monarch's capital. Discovered on 25th/3rd/9,855. Generator or source: unkn. Z-position: unkn. Magnitude: feeble, but growing. ---- Warning: same kind of the Event residues. ----."}, {"prompt": "You ask Waldo,  to go to the south", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Internal map reference -- Secondary Channel\nI've entered a narrow tube which rests on a north/south axis. Many cables of small diameter travel within this tube, side by side in a groove. Sonar also detects a small hole in the side of the tube. Above this hole is a recessed sign.\nIn the room with me are Sensa and Poet.\nSensa is carrying a small sphere."}, {"prompt": "You look up Key", "response": "What do you want to look up in?"}, {"prompt": "You look at old Man", "response": "An old, extremely gaunt man. The old man is drawn and pale, his hair long and wild and his clothing filthy, torn and unkempt. But, an active intelligence burns behind the vivid green eyes with which he watches you; eyes which also contain a taint of madness.\nThere is a brief rattle of hail on the roof."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have a music box, a glass bottle, a small fly, a sun-bleached skull, an apple, a hang-glider, a piece of paper, and a small black magnet."}, {"prompt": "Search bag", "response": "In the fencing bag are a mask, a body cord, an electric foil and a lam?."}, {"prompt": "You take yourself", "response": "No no no, silly furry thing, to master does that belong, along with\nthe soul inside."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shower", "response": "The bathroom fixtures are all really depressing. This motel is such a dump."}, {"prompt": "You move the bar", "response": "Which bar do you mean, the snack bar, or the boiler?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the weights", "response": "The weight is hanging at the bottom of a length of chain.\nIt was a long journey down here, and you're wishing you had had something to eat."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about the crow", "response": "You mention the crow you saw at the window in the bedroom. \"He's always out there,\" Luisa says. \"I think he'd like to come inside, find somethin' to eat, but I always shoo him away.\""}, {"prompt": "You put all in the pocket", "response": "hooded robe: No matter how tightly you roll up the heavy robe, it is still too big to fit in your pocket."}, {"prompt": "You look at the paint", "response": "Which do you mean, the orange paint, the yellow paint, the red paint or the blue paint?"}, {"prompt": "You wake up", "response": "You open your mouth, then stop. Why are you trying to talk to an inanimate object? Because that is what it is. An inanimate  object. Completely. Totally. No life here. Nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious. Certainly not. Nope.\n\"You need to proceed with your mission.\" says the poster.\nIt doesn't work like that.\n\"I'm sorry if I'm hard to understand\" apologises the poster."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "There are plenty of actual laboratories at MinSystems Labs. This isn't one of those: you train your robots in an ordinary household setting.\nOff to the east is the kitchen area, panelled in faux walnut, and there's a bathroom, south, just for the sake of verisimilitude. The robots do not need to use it.\nThe Jenny of Tomorrow is sitting properly on the sofa and wearing a sash. The sash was a good touch, but it's not very Jenny.\nYou can also see a coffee table here."}, {"prompt": "You cut yourself with the knife", "response": "Cutting you up would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You examine the panel", "response": "Flat black glass, a panel that uses all manner of fancy beams to read over your palm-print and check you are who you think you are.\nThrough the door appears Charlotte."}, {"prompt": "You examine the canyon", "response": "The canyon is deep. It must have been carved in the landscape many aeons ago. At the bottom, you can just barely make out a river."}, {"prompt": "You climb the cabinet", "response": "You get onto the filing cabinet."}, {"prompt": "You give the possum to the dog", "response": "You toss the dead possum to the dog. The dog sniffs at the dead possum curiously, decides it's interesting, and hunkers down to chew on it. But that's not enough fun: Next he grips it in his teeth and shakes it vigorously, as if punishing it. After playing with the possum for a minute or so, he gazes up at you with something vaguely resembling affection. It seems you've made a new friend."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"...Carnicer is dead,\" you say. \"I killed her in self-defense.\"\n\"...Oh.\" Doctor Justinian blinks. \"Well. I'm sure the captain will be glad to hear it. Still, you should remain here in case your enemies send someone else.\"\n1) \"Do you think the Trading Company is behind this?\"\n2) \"What's wrong with the color of the light?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the hole", "response": "A hole, not as artfully dug as what you did in the cellar, but what can you expect from Curb?\nIn it you can see a skull.\nCurb peers curiously at the panga."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You're fairly high up on the side of the mountain -- you'd guess\nthat you're around two thousand feet up. (Have you noticed that they use the English system of measurements in Hell? What else would you expect?)  You can go down the mountain to the west, and the volcano's cone looms above to the east. A small opening appears to lead into a cave to the south. You can also travel along a path to the north, and a narrow passage to the southeast.\nYou have an excellent view of Hell from here. The tall buildings downtown all seem tiny from this distance and altitude, except for the Tower -- even from here, you can't see the top. The Tower looks like a thin, gleaming string stretching from the ground up into the dark sky. As your eyes follow the Tower up into the sky, you realize that you're high enough above the surface now that you can see stars above -- so many stars, all so bright, that it's quite well lit here."}, {"prompt": "You drop the papers", "response": "(the stack of important papers)\nDropped.\nThe console readout blinks; it now says, \"Accumulators charging: pulse in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete.\"\n\"Yes, he cursed has.\" The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar voice chills you. \"What's the situation?\""}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "The next article is also quite interesting:\nANOTHER MURDER?\nPolice confirmed yesterday that missing Carola Parris, 22, is dead. Her body was found on Wednesday in the woods near Copper's Mill. The body of the popular bank clerk is said to have been battered by animals, but according to a source who wishes to remain anonymous, the cause of death was a cut to the throat. Yesterday, a small crowd gathered in front of the Backwater Police station, demanding vociferously an end to the series of killings of young women that started with the death of Cecilia \"Ceecee\" Pickman almost a year ago. Deputy Chief of police promised a \"wholehearted\" investigation.\nThe words \"almost a year ago\" have been underlined so heavily that they're nearly crossed out. \"10 months 24 days\" is scrawled in the margin with fading ink."}, {"prompt": "You get all Bread and the biscuits", "response": "rock hard biscuit: Taken.\nrock hard biscuit: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nhot loaf of wheat bread: Taken.\nYou move the empty pans from the oven to the work table.\nThe moss robed citizen arrives from the north.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery, causing the blue curtain over the back room door to flutter.\nThe Harbormaster continues: \"... In the mysterious land of Mu-Tah\n... and on the way back about fifty monstrosities ... used my crew as their personal harem for a time while we negotiated ... we were all sore and walking funny for a week after that.\"\nshmokey420 casts Divine Hallucination on himself."}, {"prompt": "Punch abbey", "response": "It's tempting. Very tempting. But somehow she'd manage to block you with the power of her passive aggression."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Layers of frost and snow glitter on crags of ancient rock, and there are deep snowbanks to the north, approaching a BRIDGE made of pure ice, spanning a MIGHTY CREVASSE. Also seemingly made of ice is a beautiful CRYSTAL SPIRE, towering in the fading light, which you may ENTER."}, {"prompt": "You open the trunk", "response": "It seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sock", "response": "This sock is so big you could fit it over your head. You can't imagine what kind of creature could have such an abominably big foot. What happened to other sock is a riddle that will probably never be solved.\nThe acolyte attempts to catch a passing fly with his chopsticks. They say that a man who can catch a fly with chopsticks can do anything."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Away from the faint light from the stairwell, the hall is darker, and the pictures that continue to line the walls are more indistinct. The door in the north wall leads to Samantha's room, opposite it, your and Derek's room, and the hallway stretches to the west. To the east, a doorway leads into the bathroom."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I'm not dead. At least, I don't think so.\"\n...\n1) \"You're breaking up...\"\n2) \"Are you in pain?\""}, {"prompt": "You open the white bottle", "response": "You open the little white bottle, revealing some gray pills."}, {"prompt": "Attack spirit", "response": "Taste barbarian rage, SPECTERAL SPIRIT! You scored 7 points of\ndamage!\nThough the SPIRIT barely responds to the physical world, its icy hands bite like DAGGERS! You have suffered 11 hits of damage!"}, {"prompt": "You look at the valmid", "response": "The bronze coin is a valmid, an image of the current monarch on one side and the Hall of the Valley King on the other. It's quite solid currency, good for trade in Unnkulia and beyond."}, {"prompt": "Shake nox", "response": "As the box shakes, you get a vague impression of a house."}, {"prompt": "You tie the leash to the cellar", "response": "You cannot attach that to anything.\nThe dog pants a little, his long red tongue lolling out."}, {"prompt": "Unfathomable", "response": "I push the button marked 'Unfathomable'. It depresses with a firm 'click', and the button marked 'Serious Crimes' pops back up."}, {"prompt": "You get the coat", "response": "You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him more.\nYour previous self touches the control panel, and quickly pulls his hand back in pain."}, {"prompt": "You say no", "response": "\"Of course you don't. You just march. But see... Knives at each other's throats. How long could that last? Two years, five. Eventually it would be too tempting, some premier or on-commander who poses too much immediate threat.\" Somehow his eyes are holding yours. \"Then it would be literal knives at each other's literal cursed throats. Whole governments beheaded overnight. Same for anyone who tries to move up, take charge. It wouldn't end. Could you swear, honestly, that anyone left on your side wouldn't keep using it on anyone left on our side? Senate-men? Troops? Farmers?\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the gnooby", "response": "You don't know why, but you really think the creature in the cage must be called a gnooby. It's about the size of a poodle, it's round with short, stubby legs, it's covered in purple fur, and it has beady little red eyes. It's certainly not a native of the Valley, or Unnkulia."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Stumbling and squirming among the brambles, you find that you've arrived in....\nYou're in the midst of a tangled thicket of thorny bramble-bushes. You have to edge sideways to avoid being impaled on the long, sharp, vicious-looking thorns, and it's hardly possible to stand up straight for fear you'll tangle your hair in them. Littering the ground is a scatter of dried twigs, which have been loosely nudged into a shape that resembles the letter P.\nNarrow, twisting paths lead off in all directions."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Dragon", "response": "\u201cThat coin you gave me \u2013 it\u2019s quite a strange design,\u201d you\nremark.\n\u201cWhere did it come from? There can\u2019t be a mint on the island,\nsurely?\u201d\n\u201cNo, there\u2019s no mint on the island,\u201d she agrees."}, {"prompt": "You take the poker and the tongs", "response": "poker: Taken.\nfire tongs: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sign", "response": "It reads, \"The skull scraper is a fastidious creature that prefers raw food but detests sloppiness.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the glass", "response": "You crouch to feel across the darkened floor. Your fingers encounter curved shards and prickling splinters before encountering something of a different texture - papery and flat. You pick up the piece of paper, brushing off the fragments.\nYou add the sheet of ruled paper to your existing collection of pages."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time goes by.\n( You can also use commands such as WAIT 10 MINUTES and WAIT UNTIL 10 AM. )\nWithout standing, the man reaches inside his suit coat and immediately produces something pistol-like but plastic, with a bright yellow tip. Several hours later you awaken in this same spot, alone and quite uncertain about your future."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na moldy, waterlogged journal\na small, rectangular battery\nan antique locket (being worn and closed)\nThe Dollmaker's Journal\na repaired page\na trolley schedule\na trolley pass (being worn)\nTwin Hearts Between the Planes\na pamphlet of home listings\na Jansport backpack (being worn and open)\na hidden pocket (open but empty)\na key pocket (open but empty)\na book pocket (open)\na postcard of Big Ben\nthe diary of Phyllis Cragne\nThe Modern Girl's Divination Handbook -- Volume Three\na side pocket (open but empty)\na trash pocket (open but empty)\na backpack features guide\na book list\na library card\nPeter's jacket\na faint chill (haunting you)\na cast iron spire\na waterproof flashlight\na giant milkweed leaf (being worn as a mask)\na pull-string doll\na glass jar containing an insect\na half-full styrofoam coffee cup\na familiar gold wristwatch\na brass winding key"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na bottle of mead (which is closed)\ntwo food items:\nsome apples\na vanilla bean\na dark wooden box (which is open)\nan mirror inset inside the box (reflecting white light from the sunlight)\na pearl necklace\nan old letter\na sponge\nOn Vegetable Dyes\na hinge-lidded teapot (which is open)\nnot very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot)\na sack (which is open)\na stone block\na butcher knife\na sword\na snuffbox (which is closed)\na white handkerchief\ntwo metal dishes:\na plate\na cup\na swordstick\nfive food items:\na bay leaf\na sprig of parsley\na sprig of mint\na clove of garlic\na single yellow onion\na dashing hat (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You look at the parchment", "response": "A note tucked into the book falls out and into your hand.\nThe chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light).\nThe jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects).\nThe piroo spell (unfasten object).\nThe chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light).\nThe jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects).\nThe piroo spell (unfasten object)."}, {"prompt": "You put greedily on the tourist", "response": "I give the greedily manner to the tourist, taking the seriously manner in exchange. It now intends to greedily buy something impressive."}, {"prompt": "You examine guard", "response": "He is an unsmiling, large man in a grey suit.\nThe guard goes south.\nYou can hear the guard walking in the west of the cubicle farm. You shrink further into a cubicle to hide."}, {"prompt": "You say wajir to Horse", "response": "You climb on to Horse's back. He/She climbs into the air and you travel, at an incredible speed, to your destination.\nVillage (Near Wajir, Kenya)\nYou are standing in the middle of a cluster of buildings denoting this to be a settlement of some kind. The ground under your feet is dry and dusty. Children run through the streets, shouting and laughing. Men go about their business. Women stand and gossip, occasionally breaking into laughter. No-one pays you much attention. They're all having too much fun to pay any mind to death at the moment. A path winds east out of the village. You can see Jimiyu's hut to the north, and to the west the open doorway of another hut invites you in.\nExits: North, East and West\nHorse waits here, looking quite majestic.\nJimiyu Wangai sat at the table, a thoughtful look on his face. He was dead. He wasn't surprised by this - in fact he'd been fairly certain it was going to happen anytime soon. He enjoyed being proved right. Well, he'd lived a long and full life but had no intention of giving it up quite yet. His youngest granddaughter was getting married in two weeks and he had been looking forward to that for ages. So he'd decided that he wasn't going to go, and had made arrangements accordingly. It had been surprisingly easy to work out. He'd found the answer in a book in a library in Nairobi. He'd spent the past few weeks at this table, waiting. Now he was nearly there. He looked at the entrance to his hut...\n...and as if right on cue, you stride in.\n\"Jimiyu Wangai?\" you ask\nJimiyu laughs. \"Do you really need to ask? Has anyone ever said, 'No. That's someone else?'\"\nYou nod. \"They do. It never workth.\"\n\"I suppose not.\" Jimiyu laughs again. You're torn between two emotions - gratitude that he has yet to point out that you have a lisp, and confusion. Most people aren't really that happy to see you. You sigh. Time to see what he's got up his sleeve.\n\"Your time ith up, Jimiyu.\"\n\"What's the rush? Haven't we time for a quick game first...\" Jimiyu's grin is really beginning to get on your nerves. He gestures at the table in front of him. You notice, for the first time, that he is sitting in front of a chess set.\n\"Oh...bother,\" you mutter.\nIt's the rules. If they challenge you, you have to play. If they win then you've got to leave them alone. If you win they have to come quietly. It's the rules. The universe likes rules. The problem is that you're not actually much good at chess. It's never really been a problem before. Most people don't even think of it, let alone being foresighted enough to make sure that they die sitting at a chess set. You possess a little more foresight however, and have a contingency plan. You committed to memory a failsafe way of winning a chess match, an unbeatable strategy, a foolproof way to victory. With just one potential flaw...\n\"Bagthy being white then,\" you offer, trying not to sound too nervous.\n\"Ha! I'm sitting at the white pieces. I'm going first. You can play as the black pieces.\"\n\"Oh...bother.\" you mutter again. Your strategy all hinged on going first. You knew that you should have asked Samuel Reshevsky more questions when you met him.\n\"Come on. I haven't got all day...oh wait. I have.\" Jimiyu laughs again \"I have two weeks actually! My granddaughter is due to get married and I'm not missing it for anything - not even death.\"\nYou don't have two weeks. You have until the end of the day. If you lose, or if you don't play then it's all over. You'll have failed. And you can't have that.\nHut (Near Wajir, Kenya)\nIt's a fairly bare hut, lived in by someone who has learnt the hard lesson that true happiness is not found in possessions. The bare, dusty floor is going to leave its mark under your toenails for days. Jimiyu Wangai sits on a rickety wicker chair, facing a squat, uncomfortable-looking stool. Between the two seats is a frail table, on which sits a chess board.\nExits: South\nJimiyu Wangai is grinning at you from his chair."}, {"prompt": "You ask Dwelubi,  to go east", "response": "Knight Dwelubi says, \"Yes, Majesty. At once.\" With that, he departs.\nKnight Fleghannolfimm arrives."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south-east", "response": "Here the voices and bustle wash over the arches and cobblestones. Mist rises from the Bilious Canal below, tarnishing the wayside statues green and gray, and fading into the fog and the overcast sky.\nThe Via Terminalis stretches away to the northwest and southeast, while a clandestine stairway descends to the south."}, {"prompt": "Footnote 10", "response": "(10) ...the human press: Human journalists, that is, not the\nmachine we have to???well, use your imagination."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "How do I leave the cell?\nHow do I leave the prison building?\nHow do I avoid dying outside?\nHow do I cross the water?\nHow do I unlock the door to the command center?\nHow do I return to the prison island?\nHow do I pass the force field to the hangar?\n> How do I start up the ship?\nHow do I avoid getting shot?\nHow do I retrieve the swallowed object?\nHow do I launch the ship?\nHow do I return home?"}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "It's got four spindly legs and a time-roughened top made of indeterminate wood.\nOn the table are some crackers, a typewriter, and a sheet of paper.\nYou pace back and forth and gnash your teeth.\nThe bat flutters clumsily around the room, knocking into the decorative plate."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "This narrow aperture between two buildings is nearly blocked with piles of rotting cardboard boxes and overstuffed garbage cans. Ugly, half-crumbling brick walls to either side totter oppressively over you. The alley ends here at a tall, wooden fence.\nHigh up on the wall of the northern building there is a narrow, transom-style window."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "\"So, what happened up there?\" Vasilii asks. For a moment, you can think only of the wonderful Pearl, and your eyes glaze a bit. Then you notice your brother getting impatient, and you relate the news about Katschei, the egg, and the horde of knights with whom you will have to do battle.\n\"Battle, eh? Horde of knights, eh?\" Vasilii looks thoughtful.\n\"Sounds like you'll need help. Except I won't be much use right now -- I ditched all my kitchen knives... I know! There are some guys I worked with who'll be perfect! You'll see! I'll have them here by the time you get back with that egg!\"\nWith that, he sprints off and is gone before you can say another\nword. You wonder who he could possibly have in mind -- Vasilii never worked with any of your father's knights, and while Flo's sarcasm can be withering, you doubt she'd be much good in a fight."}, {"prompt": "You show the map to Lydia", "response": "(first taking the map of the swamp from the burlap sack)\nWhen Lydia sees that the map is no longer squirming, she claps her hands. \"Well done! But you still have to find the compass and the key to the boat shed. When you find those, come back here and show them to me, and we'll be ready to go.\""}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The chimney-crack becomes just too tight for you, and you sag back\ndown, muddier and wiser."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "We can't go that way.\nThe only way to go is north."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The stars shine down on you from a clear, dark sky.\nThe sounds of frogs and other swamp dwellers fill the air.\nYou are feeling tired."}, {"prompt": "Oggoth", "response": "You chant the Word of Chaos. The walls tremble."}, {"prompt": "You look up uv", "response": "(looking up \"uv\" in Casey's notes)\nYou riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems relevant."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "At the feet of the cable-bearing towers stands a little park, cleared grass leading to the bank of a river. The river is so slow-moving as to seem still, its glassy surface reflecting the moon.\nThe cables of the hydro corridor stretch West over the water, and East toward a clearing.\nYou can see a beautiful person here.\nThe beautiful person turns their tear-streaked face up toward the moon, still clutching the photo to their chest, and closes their eyes.\nYou feel yourself grow lighter."}, {"prompt": "Clean lamp", "response": "Lornedei starts to clean away the layer of dirt from the surface of the lamp. After some heavy duty scrubbing, the lamp shines bright.\nThere is a strange ticking sound. When she looks at the lamp, the crystal spider inside stares back at her. It lifts a leg and gives the inside of its prison another tap. After that, the spider curls up and is still again."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Internal map reference -- Gamma Repair\nI have reached the south end of this area. The walkway ends here.\nThe walkway is not in motion.\nA large object sits before me. Sonar indicates it is hollow, but not empty."}, {"prompt": "You ask Joe about the fire", "response": "Joe raises his eyebrows. 'HuhWhat?'"}, {"prompt": "You meditate", "response": "It's some kind of long salami-style sausage. Salt has preserved it comparably well, but it's still rancid enough to not be edible.\nThe barking of the dog makes it impossible to meditate here."}, {"prompt": "You look at floor", "response": "Which do you mean, the floor or the marble floor?"}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "You hear nothing out of the ordinary.\nSomething is crawling in your hair. You brush it off hurriedly."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You are standing in the keep, a fortified tower inside the castle walls. A stone spiral staircase leads upward to the ocean's surface."}, {"prompt": "You ask Leslie about Atlantean Base", "response": "There are no entrances visible east or west. Trudging around the entire base on the off-chance that a convenient door might pop up borders on madness. You'll have to try finding another way in.\nYou can't see any such thing."}, {"prompt": "You take the robe", "response": "(putting the torn envelope into the trenchcoat to make room)\nYou pick up the black robe from the ground."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the girl", "response": "\"Go now, father,\" she says, turning over in your blanket. \"Sleep.\" She casts once last look at you before closing her eyes. \"But be careful, there are many that intend you harm here.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Now THIS Is My Kind of Dock, in the royal barge\nIf I owned a pier on a major Martian canal, I'd want it to look\njust like this one -- handsome, well-proportioned, and amply endowed with jade and ivory. I could probably live without the alabaster stair which leads up at the end of the dock, to the east."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You take a step off the pier, fearing for a second you'll just sink into the lightless depths. But you sort of hover over the lake. Not at all unpleasant. You cast a last look down before going on.\nAnd something looks back. A white face, beneath the pier, hands reaching up. For a second, a voice, distant, like through rain\n\"You weren't ... the first. Avenge us. You can't touch ... can't\nsee, but you can ... possess.\"\nThe woman sinks, sinks. Is gone. You continue on.\nIt's very small, you can cross it in three quick steps. It's covered in some vegetation.\nThere is even a small tree here.\nThe main attraction is the fire pit, which seems to see regular use.\nA pile of junk sits besides the fire pit."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "You call, \"George, can you open the door?\"\nGeorge shouts, \"No, I need pants! You have to bring me pants!\"\n(You can get more information from students by asking them about things, such as ASK GEORGE ABOUT PANTS.)"}, {"prompt": "You put the scratchings in the skip", "response": "You throw the packet of pork scratchings into the skip."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The zookeeper says, \"Be careful! These pets are gentle, but they'll follow you anywhere for that food. Make sure they get back safely!\"\nThe crowd is more or less divided here, with younger kids and families headed west to the Melancholy Mall and more adventurous teens\nand adults headed east to Mechanical Marvels.\nA sign to the north proclaims \"Cragne Meatpacking Presents:\nPetting Zoo\". Some graffiti applied to the sign proclaims, \"TOBY KNOWS.\"\nA sign to the south says \"The Queen's Menagerie\". You've heard\nthis is where more dangerous animals are displayed.\nThere are three food sellers here: a sausage seller, a ceviche chef, and a jelly man, each with their own menu and cart. But something about the food they're selling seems weird.\nThe sausage seller looks amused by the truffle pig following you."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the island", "response": "\u201cWhat\u2019s this island like?\u201d you ask.\n\u201cI know of no other place to compare it with,\u201d she points out."}, {"prompt": "You tell Gnome what Grunk think about at the night", "response": "Grunk tell gnome about how Grunk like to go out at night some time just to look at moon and think about if there other Grunk up on moon that like to go out and look at world.\nGnome say, \"Lunar orcs. An interesting, if terrifying notion.\"\nGnome go over to trunk and open it up. Him start searching in there.\n[Grunk can try TELL GNOME ABOUT GRUNK or ASK GNOME ABOUT GNOME or ASK GNOME ABOUT THIS PLACE. And probably other thing too.]"}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\nan insubstantial lantern (floating behind your shoulder)\nthree comb's teeth\na clay ocarina\na red paper kite with no string\na tasseled fan\na lady's tortoise-shell comb (broken)\nhalf a porcelain mask\narmor and silks (worn)"}, {"prompt": "You take the painting", "response": "The painting is too high up on the wall to do anything with."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "The front door is a huge, paneled slab of black oak."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Your room is a small but very nice. It has a slanted ceiling and there's just enough space for your bed, your desk and a closet with your toys and clothes. There's a shelf for your books.\nGogol is sitting near you, panting with his tongue out."}, {"prompt": "You put Memory into slot", "response": "Which do you mean, the delivery slot, the data slot, the film slot, or the chipslot?"}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "Port, tokay, sherry; amontillado; casks, bottles furred with age and sealed with clots of red wax and ribbon seals. The Count always used to say that a good cognac would close a diplomatic matter more quickly than any bribe. He never let you and Marie stay, of course, on the evenings when he had business; you would be sent up to the conservatory with the Countess, to practice your music and wait for him to finish whatever matters kept him with his guests.\nA closed russet door leads east.\nAn open peacock door leads southeast.\nA closed green door leads south.\nAn open russet door leads southwest."}, {"prompt": "You drop the film and the Sachet", "response": "Film dropped.\nSachet dropped."}, {"prompt": "You look at the spheres", "response": "You see the room behind you in distorted miniature, and your own face swelling and stretching comically as you peer into the sphere's reflective surface.\nLooking closely, you notice some smudges on the otherwise immaculately polished brass."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "This is a tiny cave with entrances west and north, and a dark, forbidding staircase leading down.\nYour sword is glowing with a faint blue glow."}, {"prompt": "You look at the board", "response": "Something large must have scraped against the chalkboard, erasing several of Thezh's notes.\n\"If you stop being such a coward right now, I promise I'll bite your head off first.\""}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Dining Hall, in the Aviators Saloon\nThe Aviators Saloon never pretended to be more than a small and comfortable lodge - which is why its mess bears an eerie resemblance to the dining hall of your own large family. Since - in this age - everything is automatic, there is precious little clutter, barring a large table, twelve chairs, and a large cupboard at the back of the room."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You are at the base of a very plain spiral stairway. The curving steps to the apron are to the North and the audience to the West."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "crocodile."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This cave has exits to the west and northwest.\nA goblin woman is standing here. She is wearing a medallion, and carrying a purse. You are not quite sure, but with her long ears, sharp yellow teeth, and big feet you think she is pretty cute by goblin standards."}, {"prompt": "You read Lavori", "response": "(first taking The Lavori d'Aracne)\n(putting the sword into the sack to make room)\nTaken.\nOn the subject of mirrors: Unusual and costly mirrors of special\npower exist which enhance the workings of the lavori d'Aracne; they may be recognized by their failure to reflect in the ordinary way. Some make it easier to form a link through the mirror than through open air, allowing the magician to reverse-link items that are otherwise too dissimilar to use. Likewise, such a mirror...\nBut then, unfortunately, it breaks off, the page apparently having been chewed out and carried away by something or other."}, {"prompt": "You look at the scarf", "response": "The scarf is very light. I think it's made of silk. It's yellow."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Omelettes carpet the floor. A brazier crackles merrily, surrounded by soft lard couches with marshmallow pillows. In the corner, only nougat scraps remain from the cage you consumed.\nSouthward you'll find the baron's cabinet, eastward the scriptorium, and downward stairs lead to the western tapestry."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "You wander back into the exposition.\nStalls and stalls and stalls in rows and rows and rows. Sightseers bustle between them.\nOutward the exposition eventually ends; inward lies its center."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes.\nOn the monitor you can see the pirate captain standing around looking as gruff as possible. He taps his foot impatiently."}, {"prompt": "Attack body", "response": "You give the corpse a stiff kick. To make sure."}, {"prompt": "You knock on it", "response": "No one answers."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "trig homework: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You eat the skeleton", "response": "You'll find no meat on these bones, dear. This child's been dead far too long. But a nibble wouldn't hurt to exercise the jaw. You gnaw away."}, {"prompt": "You kick machinery", "response": "(the celestial clockwork)\nThat's not possible in so confined a space.\nThe undressed stone of the walls scrapes at you as you move, which is an extremely unpleasant and distracting sensation."}, {"prompt": "You take the computer", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gearbox", "response": "A misbegotten and unruly lever that presides over the Blazing Host universally-reviled gearbox. The usual paces - reverse, neutral, shuffle, walk, march, trot, killing trot, canter - are all there, and at least you don't have to deal with the dandyish Parade March gear that's become obligatory on modern builds. But it jams constantly, has a tendency to slip straight into a canter if you change from march to walk too casually, and screams bloody murder if changed a little too early or late. Its saving grace is that, though bad, it takes a great deal of punishment to make it any worse.\nThe stick is currently in neutral. The slots for the other gear positions open up into darkness."}, {"prompt": "Pat ball of fur", "response": "The ball of fur twitches excitedly for a moment. Suddenly the Jack of all Traits seems to give birth as a full-grown jackrabbit is ejected from the contraption. His metabolism, following its winter of cooped-up discontent, seems to be racing away. But the furry mammal itself remains at your feet, all atremble. He pauses to look up at you. To the extent that his beady red eyes are able to emote, he seems to express gratitude. Then, with a jackrabbit start, he is gone."}, {"prompt": "You jump in", "response": "You must name something more substantial."}, {"prompt": "You look at the wine", "response": "An expensive claret, if you had to guess."}, {"prompt": "You look at the grimoire", "response": "You move your hands around and confirm that the invisible thing is blocking the entire alcove. Great."}, {"prompt": "You touch glowing with the shard", "response": "The glowing rod produces a clear ringing sound which gradually rises into a high trill as light pours out of it."}, {"prompt": "Appreciate rat", "response": "This is not the 2010 film sensation Inception.\nBefore you can act, the smell of the ocean fills your nostrils and your vision shifts again as the hallucination expires.\nThe immaculate fiberglass transom of your 45-foot yacht only highlights the hideous, scorbutic condition of your body. Fifty-eight days of nothing but carbohydrates, alcohol, and deep-fried poultry have come to this.\nYou cannot speak, and you can barely move. You can only muster the strength to groan."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "An open patch of land marks the point where the plateau ends, with the mountains' highest peaks continuing in a continuous wall to the north.\nIn marked difference to the close-built stone buildings in town, a wooden hut with a thatched roof stands alone.\nA pile of stunted stones lies just near the hut."}, {"prompt": "Irnath", "response": "You chant the Word of Winter. The chill deepens to a numbing, aching wave of cold.\nA coarse layer of frost grows over the surface of the mirror, leaving it opaque."}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "The inside of this tiny caravan is completely bare as befits a monk's cell. Only the fitted furniture remains, and presumably its owner's few possessions are secreted away in the handy under-seat storage areas. The only other feature is the colourful ribbon curtain through which you entered.\nSat cross-legged on the built in sofa is a tiny monk with a disproportionately large shaven head. He appears to be deep in mediation.\nThe fly buzzes angrily."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the guard", "response": "[3] \"Have you seen Paco lately? Paco, of Paco's Tacos?\"\n[4] \"Could you tell me what's going on around here? I'm just getting more and more confused.\"\n[5] \"Did you know you're on TV?\"\nBefore you can finish a single syllable, Wolf Head Guy holds up a finger in front of his snout, as if to say \"Shut up!\"\nNow he raises his palm to you, as if to say: \"Halt!\""}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You try the door but it refuses to open. It's locked and you can't see a lock or any obvious way of unlocking it."}, {"prompt": "You ask Jimmy about Jimmy", "response": "Reverend Gillespie gazes at you speculatively. You have the impression that behind those bland gray eyes, wheels are spinning about a million miles an hour. \"Me? I'm no one special,\" he says. Somehow, in his mouth, the phrase sounds as if it means just the opposite - as if he's telling you something you ought to be impressed by. \"God has blessed me with a ministry. Inadequate as I am, I exert myself unstintingly to do His will and carry His message. I'm hopin' that in the near future I'll be able to uplift the hearts of sinners from coast to coast.\nWe're plannin' to build a magnificent modern cathedral. With televised services, naturally.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "(first opening the command center door)\nThis is the entry area into the base's command center, where those in charge would no doubt hold briefings, discuss command decisions, and do other important officer things. (In all your years of military service, you've never felt a desire to move up into the officer ranks yourself, even though there were plenty of open spots in the newly-unified military.)\nA small armory is to the west, and the hallway continues to the north. The way out is south, through the door."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "The ramshackle wooden fence in front of you seems to lurch from one horizon to the other. Although it hasn't fallen over yet, it threatens to at any moment, and if that egg isn't careful...\nThe footpath running along the fence veers sharply north.\nThe egg removes a handkerchief from his pocket and polishes a pair of spectacles."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "A long, cross-beamed room, originally washed with white, though smoke has tinged the walls above the massive fireplace in which roasts are prepared. In addition, there are thick high tables that run the length of the room.\nTo the east is the kitchen garden through which you entered; west is the corridor that connects with the main house. To the north there is the little scullery, and upstairs is the attic where the servants sleep.\nOn the kitchen tables is a delicate contraption (which is closed).\nA string of andouillettes hangs from a beam of the ceiling."}, {"prompt": "You look up emmanuel", "response": "(looking up \"emmanuel\" in Casey's notes)\nYou riffle through the notes, but you can't find anything that seems relevant."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You look again at the dim and dingy surroundings. The platform is to the north. The dirty, cobweb-covered windows and the station exit are to the south. The large mirror and the green door are to the east. The restroom door is to the west. Maybe you should try unlocking the green door."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pillows", "response": "Even goose down would make a sorry bed for any head accustomed to resting upon these pillows. They're unparalleled."}, {"prompt": "You raise the hood", "response": "With your hands unavailable, you grab an edge of the hood with your teeth and make an exaggerated jerking motion with your head. The hood flops up over your face. Good enough.\nYou can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, and then propels forward. A one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air and snot launches itself from your nostrils. Fortunately, the droopy oversized hood catches most of the impact. The sand is still more or less intact, and you've miraculously managed to keep hold of Jeff's hands as well. A tiny spark from the green flame shoots like a meteor and lands on the sand-map. Jeff, wiping a little snot from his face, peers closely at it. The spark is on the south side of Summit Avenue, between Hamline and Syndicate. That's where she is. Her house, maybe? Is she super-rich or something?\nOK, so this is what's at Summit and Syndicate. You're\nstanding outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The restaurant is a drive to the southeast.\nYour Saturn is parked here.\nStreams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing outside a van parked out front.\nThere are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. That's odd. I guess something important must be going on."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floor", "response": "She can't help it, our cow: she drips. Her drippings trickle to the floor, but they're nothing compared with what her teats hold in reserve."}, {"prompt": "You hit the PIG", "response": "Grunk think that farmer maybe get mad if Grunk bring back broken pig."}, {"prompt": "You pour the flask on the hinges", "response": "You can't pour the flask; it's not a liquid."}, {"prompt": "You take the ring", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You ask the programmer about the program", "response": "The programmer is no longer here.\nThe programmer looks pensively at the screen."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sword", "response": "The sword does not look very effective. The blade is blunt and the overall design is much more simple than you expected from your knowledge about legendary swords in stones."}, {"prompt": "You take the statue", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "You open the top drawer", "response": "Opening the top drawer reveals Aunt Caroline's clothes."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You scramble down into the rowboat, which sways alarmingly but doesn't tip over.\nIn the Boat Shed (in the rowboat)\nThe interior of the shed is bathed in shifting light. Watery reflections spill through the big door to the south, which has been raised. Water laps gently against the walls, and there's no floor at all, only a dock that juts out to the south from a narrow platform near the door. The dock is to the east from here.\nThe rowboat rocks and sways in a way that makes you feel just slightly ill. The boat has oarlocks on the sides. A pair of oars is lying in the bottom of the boat.\nYou see some oars here.\nLydia is sitting here.\nLydia gazes out the big door at the swamp. \"What a horrible place,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "You pull iron ring", "response": "The iron ring is high out of your reach."}, {"prompt": "You show Donald to Donald", "response": "Donald Duck is unimpressed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the colonists", "response": "500 colonists are in cryosleep.\n0 colonists are awake."}, {"prompt": "You sit on Mattress", "response": "On that mattress? Eww."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "You stand before and beneath the THRONE of the realm. Peering\nupward, your eyes can barely espy the room's loftiest reaches, high in the smoky darkness.\nSeated on the THRONE, and glaring down at you from a great height, is the figure of the SLAVER KING himself, a monarch few outside his court have seen and lived. As he leans forward from the shadows to REGARD you, you see why so few have lived!\nLong have your people told tales of the GIANT ATOMIC DINOSAURS that roam in the wilder reaches of VANTH. Even great and savage HURON, the GOD OF BEING A VERY MIGHTY GOD, was devoured by such a beast, earning their race the name of \"ZILLA\" - meaning \"EATER\" in the ancient GODLY TONGUE.\nEven the great FOOT-CLAWS of this GOD-EATER rise beyond your reach, and as the SLAVER KING stands from his THRONE, you see that his TAIL is so vast it could flatten the city MARKETPLACE. Long have you wondered why the CASTLE was so very tall, thinking it only the hubris of royalty.\nWith a great inhuman roar, like a hundred SEA-MONSTERS having their scales scraped off with noisy metal scrap, the SLAVER KING raises a drum-loaded TOMMYGUN in his right claw, the barrel gleaming cold and black in the smoky half-darkness.\nWith his left claw, he grasps a CYLINDER ... like a giant FLASHLIGHT fashioned of steel. Pressing a button along its edge, he unleashes a BLADE OF PURE ENERGY, and turns it this way and that, with each swish sounding an unpleasant HUM. It is none other than a PHASIC PRISMATIC SWORD, a sword-without-blade!\nHe roars again, and PHASIC HELLFIRE rises from his nostrils. He stands proudly, as if daring you to strike."}, {"prompt": "You read the scroll", "response": "Finally, the scroll stops fluttering long enough for you to read it. It has taken the appearance of an old roll of vellum, ripped at the edges and slightly musty.\nIt contains a list of items and requirements to travel to your next world. As you continue to read, you realize with surprise that you will not just be travelling to the next world.\nYou will be creating it.\nYou read to the end. Nervously, you begin the first step. With a snap of your tentacles, the scroll disappears. To begin your world, you have to have something, and you have to have nothing; the light and the dark. Again you call on the red magic, and the world responds grudgingly.\nSlowly, a ball of pure light forms far below you. Simultaneously, a smear of pure darkness forms far above you. In a short time, the ball of light resolves into a glowing jellyfish, in form like those you used to hunt worlds ago. The darkness resolves into an ebony chunk of coral.\nThe jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far to the east and far below you.\nThe coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the north, far to the east, and far above you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the barricade", "response": "A painstakingly erected barricade made of piled up furniture. There is a small hole at the top that seems stable enough for you to climb through if it wasn't just out of your reach"}, {"prompt": "You get the book", "response": "The book closes with a dull thud as it is lifted. The strong smell of mildew fills the air."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "(first opening the east door)\nThis small bedroom is presumably provided in case a visiting Legion officer needs to stay overnight, but there's not much here apart from a single bed hard against the wall, a small wardrobe, and a small chest of drawers. There's a door to the west back into the office, and a tiny bathroom to the south.\nObvious exits: South, West"}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "His savage and exotic race.\nThe OKAY button silently flashes."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "The trail heads up a short embankment and emerges from the thicket alongside the railroad tracks. The tracks run down from the northeast and past the mill, continuing southwest but slowly curving westward until they cross the Miskaton River some miles outside of town. From the embankment you can look out over the entire heath: jagged, shadowy rooftops to the south; the oily ribbon of the Miskaton to the west; and to the east, the lighthouse sentinel and the leaden waters of the Atlantic beyond.\nThe cold wind cuts through your clothes, chilling you to the bone."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about the doll", "response": "As you start to speak, Luisa scowls at you irritably. \"Why don't you go outside and play?\"\n\"The doll in my room, you mean?\" Luisa glares at you. \"What do you been sneaking in my room for? Well, it don't matter. I don't got nothing anybody'd want to steal. That doll, it used to belong to the little girl I told you about, the one who lived here, Jessie. After she wasn't here no more, I took the doll upstairs so I could look at it sometimes and not have to go in the room with the clown.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at Valenti", "response": "His eyes are black. His hair, if he had much, would be black. He reminds you of nothing so much as a plutonium ball: small, dense, packed with malignant energy.\n\"There's only one reason High Command would replace me with you,\" he says. \"You'll do what they say.\" He takes something out of his pocket and tosses it to you. It is, you see, the size and shape of a skipping stone, a widget that can be turned on. \"You'll need this.\"\n\"What is it?\"\nHe laughs, waves, and begins walking swiftly down the gravel path. \"Don't lose it!\" he calls back. \"You'd better hurry. My feckless assistant Liam is waiting for you. Your feckless assistant now, I suppose.\"\nYou consider chasing him, but it's obvious that he's in such a mood that he will be no help to you anyway. Instead you weigh the stone in your hand, frowning."}, {"prompt": "You pull lever", "response": "The lever clanks back to neutral and the room shifts upward on a massive piston, raising a new room up from down below.\nThis set is more dynamic than the others. A large table is suspended at an angle in mid-air while a dozen stuffed cherubs pile on the other end. Plastic food is hanging in the air on strings.\nThe floor of this set looks weakened, with cracks stretching all the way over by you at the controls.\nA pink ticket lies near you.\nA monitor describes the rooms adjacent to this one: Black Salon (available by PUSHing the hydraulics lever) and Dueling Garden (available by pushing the DUEL button).\nThe lever, knob, and button are still next to you. You can leave to the north.\nA pink ticket flutters out of the machinery and lands by you.\nThe Vicomtes and Countesses pour out of various openings onto the new set."}, {"prompt": "You ask Scamp about the cook", "response": "\"Woof.\"\nScamp trots off to the south."}, {"prompt": "Tie handkerchief", "response": "You tie the handkerchief into a tight little knot.\nThe yellow hangings writhe and twist, but the attempt to tie themselves into an enormous knot goes badly. They tear along the middle with a tremendous unnatural ripping noise, and fall from the hooks that held them in place, leaving only a heap of brocade on the floor. The wall itself is bared, and the door in the wall.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "You examine Dresser", "response": "The wooden Dresser is well-polished but dusty underneath. Its several Drawers contain only irrelevant personal Effects of the Baron."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You're at the northern end of a wide north-south hall. There's a wide opening to the north, a white door to the west and another exit to the east."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe Deputy slams through the swinging doors to the office, lurching to the side as he struggles to put his other leg into his pants. He is bare-chested and empty-handed, aside from a nearly drained bottle of whiskey. Flash is so scared that he yanks the leash and snaps the lever clear off the machine.\nThe deputy thunders, \"What the saddle sore slapping blazes is the matter here?\" The deputy surveys the office quickly and then rattles the gate to make sure it is still locked. In his drunken rage, he doesn't notice the missing metal bar.\n\"Dumb dog,\" he mumbles, \"I was doing important business.\" He looks around for Flash, but the dog has already slid out of the office. The deputy gives you a mean look and sets off again towards the door.\nThe deputy brightens. \"Ummm. I do smell me some coffee.\" The deputy drains the mug with a single gulp. \"That's good. I got to wake me up some.\"\nAlmost immediately, the deputy spins on his heel and drops to the floor just in front of your jail cell."}, {"prompt": "You look through window", "response": "The yard is bright underneath the Christmas sun."}, {"prompt": "Review", "response": "(Review mode - time does not pass)\nYou know you're in favour when your personal lab is put on the first level of the building. It's behind that door to the south, the one only you have the key to. Except, of course, you haven't got it, because you're inside the room. Or you might be. Anyway, the door seems to still be open, which is handy.\nA loose panel hangs from the doorframe - it seems it's incurred some damage since you were last here.\nThe ramp which leads back down to the main room is north."}, {"prompt": "You pull the planks", "response": "You are unable to."}, {"prompt": "You take the paper", "response": "(your notes)\nYou already have that."}, {"prompt": "You open Door", "response": "You get off the office chair.\nThe door opens and your doctor enters the room."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "velcro jangly balls: When you drop the velcro jangly balls Jemison is all over that and he snatches them up and sticks the jangly balls to his onesie.\nsoft foam block: (popping the soft foam block out of your mouth first) Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You move the tarp", "response": "It's rather unwieldy to manhandle by yourself; besides, if all you want to do is to see what's inside, you could just crawl through the gap underneath it."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "(opening the sliding doors first)\nMichael is in the study, typing furiously at his laptop. As you walk in he looks up at you with a pained expression. \"Can it wait?\" he asks you. \"I think I'm onto something really good here, and if I don't get it all out I'm going to lose it. If you don't mind, hon, I could really use the next hour or so to myself.\"\nNot wanting to disturb him, you tiptoe out, shutting the doors quietly behind you."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The dodgy light panel from the basement to the west bathes the corridor in an anemic glow. Beneath your feet the cable runs eastwards to the utility room.\nThe south wall hangs open, revealing a space beyond.\nMore obviously, a dark doorway leads north.\nYou catch a fleeting scent of cinnamon and cloves.\nThe savage cat purrs.\nThere is a constant yowling coming from inside the giant backpack."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "Brimming with blood, this fountain festers like an open sore in the world."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south-west", "response": "There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call.\nA path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see something to the northeast.\nIn the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"All of them were linked to the Greater Corindia Trading Company.\"\nDoctor Cavala grimaces. \"That's not saying much in this district,\" she replies. \"Even I've had to deal with them in the past. But you're right. The raven symbols you found on Doctor Arturus's patients all but confirm their connection to the Company... and if the message you found on Doctor Arturus's correspondence is genuine, he must have had dealings with the underworld as well.\"\ndealings with the underworld as well.\"\"Even Reden frequented the Crow's Nest,\" you point out. \"That's a front for the Trading Company, too.\"\ntoo.\"She rubs her chin thoughtfully. \"It's possible,\" she says. \"It's possible that the Company had something to do with the outbreak of the disease. But there are aspects of this theory that don't quite gel.\ndisease. But there are aspects of this theory that don't quite gel.\"The Company is a business first and foremost -- so why would an affliction like this come into the picture? They deal in protection rackets, not plagues and poisons; even Nacarat and the thugs were among the victims. I can see how their ties might have caused the affliction to spread... but which one of them was patient\nzero?\nzero?\"It's not the full picture, Marid. I have the feeling there was something else they had in common.\"\n1) \"All of them were patients of Doctor Arturus.\"\n2) \"All of them drank wine.\"\n3) \"All of them had been to the Shanty Quarter.\""}, {"prompt": "You cut the wire", "response": "Which do you mean, the church or the fence?"}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\na spork\na telepod (open but empty)\na RPS cannon\na checklist\na Depth Charge Deluxe\na game pamphlet\na Canyonville High yearbook\na collapsible hula hoop\na skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You eat the honey", "response": "Ah, that's more like it. Let the bees blunt their stingers. They'll never breach the brie rind you're wearing.\nNow you can strip Pokerounce's gauntlets, dip them into honey from his cracked breastplate. Allow his greaves to absorb golden sauce. His insides make an ideal spread, his toasted loaves an ideal bread to slather with that spread, and your mouth an ideal place to store them.\n\"Don't think you'll\u2026 get away with this,\" he groans."}, {"prompt": "You squeeze it", "response": "You squeeze the thing tentatively and it hisses sparks and juice, but then it begins to play, a projection hovering in the middle of the air:\nLiam is standing in a group with some others, in the Receiving Room, when Valenti walks in. DID YOU VOTE IN THIS MATTER? say projected English subtitles shakily.\nLiam shivers. Replacing the ambassador heressa? Everyone voted, my lord. We determined she does not make progress.\nThen Valenti grabs him by the middle of his robes where there are no floatpoints, and shoves violently. Liam falls hard on the sharp floor, mortified and astonished. Progress, Valenti repeats, dusting his hands.\nShe stays until Gift Day,  Liam says, not trying to get up.\nValenti nods curtly and goes out; the other people in the group tactfully turn aside. Liam wipes the back of his mouth with his hand. After a moment he crawls to the corner and is sick.\nThe image flickers out, leaking warm juice from the recorder."}, {"prompt": "You pull up on Parry", "response": "As soon as you have pulled up on the gliding rocking chair Parry looks down and says \"Hey, there, you want to be picked up?\" and he lifts you into his lap and stops rocking.\nWatson gingerly takes the soft foam block. When Jemison sees Watson pick up the soft foam block, he gets all excited and he lets go of a smooth rock and starts watching the soft foam block and thus Watson."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "There are several items on the worktable. On the left is an iron cage holding a kimpert. Next to that, a shallow bronze bowl sits on top of a small brazier. Further along the table is what looks like a bronze scale.\nA rock is sitting on the scale."}, {"prompt": "You jump down", "response": "After a few moments of weightless falling and the rude impact, you are once again walking around on the shiny floor.\nHere enormous metal boxes reach upward from a shiny floor that you can skid across if you run fast enough and suddenly stop. The tallest box is cold, vibrates, and smells like food! The shorter boxes also smell like food, but not as strongly. The whole area smells like trees -- a fresh, outdoors kind of scent, which doesn't make sense, because this is indoors.\nHalfway to the ceiling (it seems) a shiny surface ledge runs like a pathway, over a shorter box and connects to the tallest one. It's wider than the ledge in your place. In the middle of the floor the brown table towers over you. The guest chair sits underneath it, and His chair is nearby.\nYou hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "Yeah, Wayne is such an asshole, barging in here and demanding things. I'm not going to tell him anything.\nWayne snatches the folder from me.\n\"An art folder, eh? 'Patrick Mulroney, Art Portfolio'. Oh excuse me. So what kind of stuff do you draw, Podge?\""}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na rug\na small portrait\na jeweled pin\na hinge-lidded teapot (which is open)\nnot very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot)\na sack (which is open)\na stone block\na bottle of mead (which is closed)\na dark wooden box (which is open)\nan mirror inset inside the box (providing light)\na pearl necklace\nan old letter\na sponge\na butcher knife\na sword\na snuffbox (which is open)\na quantity of snuff\na white handkerchief\ntwo metal dishes:\na plate\na cup\na swordstick\nseven food items:\nsome apples\na vanilla bean\na bay leaf\na sprig of parsley\na sprig of mint\na clove of garlic\na single yellow onion\ntwo books:\nThe Lavori d'Aracne\nOn Vegetable Dyes\na dashing hat (being worn)\ntwo books:\nGuide to Assorted Wines\nThe World Is Hollow (which is open but empty)"}, {"prompt": "You take the stave", "response": "Taken.\nA speck of sunlight glints off a ship lying far off on the eastern horizon."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse.\nA paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze.\nKlaus is lying on his back in the grass.\nA heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has\nfallen at Klaus's side."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Though paved in polished marble and enclosed on all sides, this large square room is open to the sky above. Aside from some low benches, also of marble, that surround a shallow, square pool of water in the center of the room, it's unfurnished. There's a high arched doorway to the north, a row of lower arches on the east, a tunnel entrance to the west, and a square-cut doorway to the south.\nA little brown spider monkey is wandering across the courtyard. When he sees you, he scuttles away into the shadows, but a moment later he creeps cautiously back and stares at you from a safe distance."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.\nThe trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light, and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. Everything seems very quiet, as if you are being watched with caution.\nLarge green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees."}, {"prompt": "You put the handle on the floor", "response": "(the floor)\nPutting things on the floor would achieve nothing."}, {"prompt": "You read wadded", "response": "...can be used to view the other member of a strong link. Under\nmost circumstances there is a word of some sort required to activate such viewing devices, which may be spoken to it or in its presence.\nNext to this in handwriting: \"(Our mirror from the workshop in the Rue des Arbres.)\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Zarf waits until the tension is almost unbearable."}, {"prompt": "Great", "response": "You,\nGreat Explorer,\nstumbling in your father's shoes,"}, {"prompt": "You call Mike", "response": "The phone rings for a moment, then Mike's secretary answers.\n\"Hello, Foley Consultants, can I help you?\"\n\"Can I speak with Mr. Stevens please?\"\n\"Sure Tim, hold on a second.\" You hear the click of the line being switched over, then Mike picks up.\n\"Yeah, Tim?\" Mike says, \"What do ya need?\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the cigar", "response": "\"Hello, Tyrone,\" you say.\n\"Hello again,\" he says. \"How you gettin' along, now?\"\nTyrone scratches his head. \"I guess I don't know nothin' 'bout that.\""}, {"prompt": "You drop the cage", "response": "The cage slides down from the teleporter.\nThe sword makes the lever shake. The teleporter starts shaking and smoking. The cave begins to fade out around you, and another cave fades in.\nThis cave has an exit to the east. In the middle of the floor is a round hole.\nA huge dead monster lies here, its four feet in the air. It has a stupid-looking face on a round gray hairless body. Its tiny eyes stare at nothing. The upper half of a dead pointy-eared elf is sticking out of its mouth. It looks like the monster choked on the elf. The elf is wearing a backpack.\nYou look down at yourself. You seem unsubstantial, like a ghost. Slowly you begin to take on a more solid form. Now you look normal."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Leela follows close behind you.\nThe trees that surround this large clearing seem to be gradually encroaching upon it, though it will be a century or two yet before they finally overwhelm it. For now, the overgrown remains of several buildings are still visible, with one solitary white stone building to the south still just about standing. The clearing continues to the north, while paths lead out to east and west.\nLeela enters the clearing with you.\nYou can smell the cheese.\nObvious exits: North, South, East, West"}, {"prompt": "You get the rule", "response": "(putting the octahedron into the set to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Black sable tapestries hang from the ceiling and walls, and black velvet carpets the floor. Scarlet radiance slants through scarlet windowpanes. An ebony grandfather clock tells no time.\nIn one corner slouches the Red Death.\nClockwise you will look behind a polar bear, and when you glance back toward the past you can see a celebration in the banquet hall where everyone has gathered to drink, feast, and make merry."}, {"prompt": "You put the library in the console", "response": "You put the library chip into the StreamDive console."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "You are at the north edge of the large and grassy meadow, bordered by aspen. Fireweed grows at the base of the trees, pink blooms withered and gone to seed.\nThe elk, sensing your presence, moves off to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "At the town's museum there was an exhibit about Ancient Egypt. They\nhad a mummy in a sarcophagus, and it came to life. If it touched you, you would die. But Garrin and the dragonfly had a plan to distract the mummy.\nTo the east of the museum was their school.\nSome of its dust was left inside its sarcophagus."}, {"prompt": "You put y2 in the Y-the x.", "response": "You stick the Y2 folder into cabinet X-Y and close the drawer."}, {"prompt": "You examine computer", "response": "The computer is too far away for you to make out any details."}, {"prompt": "Home", "response": "You make your way out of the dungeon and return to town.\nAdventure recap (#44):\nYou defeated 7 monsters.\nTreasures collected:\nwooden statuette (3 crowns)\nsmall pearl (4 crowns)\nsilver ring (2 crowns)\ntiny ruby (3 crowns)\npouch of coins (5 crowns)\nwooden statuette (3 crowns)\nsmall pearl (4 crowns)\npouch of bronze coins (2 crowns)\nLoot value: 29 crowns\nAdventuring costs: 3 crowns\nTotal revenue: 26 crowns"}, {"prompt": "You talk to the hacker", "response": "You can tell she's an accomplished hacker from the unrealistically heavy key ring hanging from her belt loop. Anyone who has that many keys isn't supposed to have all of them.\nYou smile at each other politely, but there isn't really anything else to talk about. You're kind of in a hurry."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Sonar can't detect a passage in that direction.\nWALDO INTERRUPT: Graspers are beginning to malfunction."}, {"prompt": "You take the jar", "response": "The honey jar is out of reach."}, {"prompt": "You say no", "response": "You mutter to yourself.\nThe spirit gestures towards the door. \"Some things are best left in the past,\" he says. \"I wish I could show you happier moments; for there were many happier moments, were there not? But tonight my task is to warn. Let us go!\""}, {"prompt": "Egg-shaped", "response": "I am now in the egg-shaped object.\nMy gyroscopic stabilizers detect motion.\nInternal map reference -- Inside the egg-shaped object.\nSensory input indicates the end of the southern hallway here, with extremely violent force fields and electrical disturbances to the west. Some creatures are off to the west."}, {"prompt": "Y.", "response": "The stool may help with the iron windchimes."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "Grunk have:\nkey\nbrick\ncoin\npole\nhat\ntorch (on fire)\npants (Grunk wearing them)"}, {"prompt": "You burn beans", "response": "(the can of beans)\nThis dangerous act would achieve little."}, {"prompt": "You look in the hole", "response": "The skull was bashed in and most of the brains were scooped out and eaten. There's a lot of empty space in the skull cavity, but a small scrap of the hippocampus inside the head remains."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You cannot go that way. Available exits are east and up."}, {"prompt": "You ask Donald about the martyrdom", "response": "\"I don't know what you're talking about!\" says Donald."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "You make your way down.\nThis space feels formless, as if it consists of as-yet unshaped matter. You can sense a way out above you.\nThe only solid thing you can discern here is a white wand, floating upright in the void."}, {"prompt": "You examine the clump", "response": "The thorny mass of tumbleweeds is bigger than a small shed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the jazz", "response": "It was labelled \"Glenn Miller in Concert\"."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You bear the following (both on your person and stashed in your trusty THESKIAN DUFFEL BAG): the LOST POEMS OF SUTOK, a SUIT OF KLENGON MAIL (being worn), a BLACK HOLE METAL AXE (held at the ready), the EYEPATCH OF ODIN, a DELICATELY-OILED CLOTH, a SLAB OF SNOW-SERPENT MEAT, a TWO-HANDED SWORD (currently un-used), an EAR OF CORN, a SUIT OF CHAINMAIL ARMOR (currently un-used), a SUIT OF BURLAP ARMOR (currently un-used) and a FLASHLIGHT."}, {"prompt": "You ask technician about himself", "response": "\"Figure it out yourself!\"\nThe technician plows through another mug of beer."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nan employee ID card\na shard of shattered carapace\na soggy tome\na long hooked pole\na grimy rock\na dead battery\na moldy, waterlogged journal\na small, rectangular battery\nan antique locket (being worn and closed)\nThe Dollmaker's Journal\na repaired page\na trolley schedule\na trolley pass (being worn)\nTwin Hearts Between the Planes\na pamphlet of home listings\na Jansport backpack (being worn and open)\na hidden pocket (open but empty)\na key pocket (open but empty)\na book pocket (open)\na postcard of Big Ben\nthe diary of Phyllis Cragne\nThe Modern Girl's Divination Handbook -- Volume Three\na side pocket (open but empty)\na trash pocket (open but empty)\na backpack features guide\na book list\na library card\nPeter's jacket\na faint chill (haunting you)\na cast iron spire\na waterproof flashlight\na giant milkweed leaf (being worn as a mask)\na pull-string doll\na glass jar containing an insect\na half-full styrofoam coffee cup\na familiar gold wristwatch\na brass winding key"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Master Pokerounce can't stop you now.\nInhale that wondrous mouldering stench: fine cheeses stacked in ripening rows. A monger's cellar wouldn't boast a breadth more noseworthy. There's brie and cantal, gloucester, blue stilton and red leicester, morbier, spermyse, and maroilles amongst others heaped deep in shadow.\nWestward's the undercroft, and upward a staircase curves to the eastern tapestry."}, {"prompt": "You look at the rod", "response": "A long, hollow, empty glass rod."}, {"prompt": "You examine wings", "response": "Your wings are a little sore from having been bound up in your spacesuit for so long."}, {"prompt": "You get take", "response": "I extract the take intent from the magpie."}, {"prompt": "You examine tongs", "response": "An arm's length, elegantly wrought from platinum."}, {"prompt": "You examine fuzzy", "response": "On the right side of the hallway is a fuzzy cactus. A single trunk comes up from the soil and branches out in to a multitude of branches in all directions. The branches are covered in tiny spikes that give the cactus an overall fuzzy appearance.\nThe sun is unyielding. You have lost the context of even the idea of \"cold\". Heat is your new reality."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "The barber's arms shoot out in front of him (narrowly avoiding snipping the king's ear off) and he intones, \"I do not know any thing about the castle.\"\nThere's a moment of potent silence as the king looks pointedly at the scissors, and the barber resumes his snipping, muttering under his breath. You can barely make it out, but it sounds like a dire warning, and something about . . . a thing? A thing in itself? Enigmatic in the extreme\n[1] OK . . . I think it's time for me to go now."}, {"prompt": "Close outer", "response": "You close the outer airlock hatch."}, {"prompt": "You eat the sardines", "response": "You've developed a taste for sardines, it appears. Plunge your hands quick into another tin, raise out the oily slumberers, hold them over your mouth, then slurp them down. They don't object. They're perfectly content to serve someone. Now here's another empty bed."}, {"prompt": "You take the branches", "response": "(the twisty branches)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "[\"Who is the ghost?\"]\n\"Her name is Mildred Waverly. She was a temperance crusader who disappeared in this very hotel eight years ago\ntonight, give or take a couple of weeks, and her body was\nnever found! There have been events for years! Drinks\nmysteriously going bad, strange sounds coming from the basement...but never anything like this!\"\n1) \"So this bluenose from beyond the grave has got us all stuck in a bone-dry haunted house, and I'm the only one who can see her?\"\n2) \"How did an elevator operator become a 'student of the paranormal'?\""}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "It's so dark in here that you have to feel your way along, and are nervous of tripping at any moment. You find yourself concentrating all the more alertly on your hearing, as though the slightest echo might offer a clue.\nWindchimes ring, melodious, from the northeast, competing with some dry sifting from the northwest and an irregular dripping from the southeast. You can also make out your own steady breathing."}, {"prompt": "You put Chocolate in the contraption", "response": "(the chocolate leaf in the delicate contraption)\nYou put the chocolate leaf into the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "You take the key", "response": "(the brass key)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northwest", "response": "The sunken half of the plane stretches beneath you. Little bubbles drift past your eyes, up to the surface. You are not sure if the dappled sunlight coming down from the water's surface makes this better\u2014or worse.\nThe book seems to strain downward, like a living thing, dragging you deeper into darkness."}, {"prompt": "You look in the ball", "response": "The interior of the crystal ball is surprisingly cloudy, almost as if\nyou were looking into murky water. Soon, however, the mist seems to\nclear, giving place to an image of yourself searching through a large\npacking crate.\nPresently, the vision fades away, and the crystal gets cloudy again."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "You jangle your way out of the room.\nThe couch is very long and this is the west part of it. There is a loveseat to the north and more couch to the east.\nThere is a red footstool, it is right next to the couch.\nYou can see Parry or at least his legs over by the couch.\nYou can also see a heavy tumbler here.\nCassie has hold of the rattly car and keeps shaking it.\nJemison comes in after you and settles close by you and looks pointedly at the velcro jangly balls."}, {"prompt": "You ask Jessenia about the geode", "response": "\"Nice, isn't it?\" beams the proprietor. \"I traded a beautiful old tea set for that.\""}, {"prompt": "You go upward", "response": "Staircase, First Floor\nThe top of a broad curving stair: east is the long salon that goes the length of the house, downstairs are the foyer and the grand receiving"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Light shines in through the kitchen door as you take in the room. The shelves are bare and show signs of vandalism, and you cannot see anything of interest left on the shelves. You can see a trap door in the floor.\nYou find yourself coughing regularly now."}, {"prompt": "You get the map", "response": "Taken.\nThe hazard lights click on and off in a steady rhythm.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "You examine lips", "response": "Blushed and full... She bites them softly as she reads..."}, {"prompt": "You ask him about the lydia", "response": "You tell the Reverend that you personally believe there's some sort of life after death, because you've seen a ghost. You're half hoping he'll ask where, but the topic doesn't seem to interest him. \"The ways of the Lord are mysterious,\" he says vaguely."}, {"prompt": "You get Pan", "response": "The pan is quite hot! You quickly remove your Fingers from the blistering stone.\nYour Hand becomes as a dead Man's, & your Fingers slip open, dropping the Book upon the floor.\nLife is slow to return to the Hand that held the evil Tome."}, {"prompt": "Open crate", "response": "You barely touch it, and the heavy cardboard abruptly tears. Sand\npours out across the living room floor. The stereo sags; in moments, the crate is reduced to paper rags, which are immediately buried in\nthe sand."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Lake Shore East, the rowboat\nDraounheer. Across the sparkling blue waters, you can see the snow-covered caps of the Beeg'ashell Mountains, deep in the heart of evil Unnkulia. But here, on this side of the lake, you could truly find peace. Gentle waves lap at the shore, and reeds bend gracefully in the brisk fall breezes. To the east, a path leads back into the forest. North of here, the land slopes up sharply, and the path continues. You could also go southwest, along the shore of the lake - further along, the grassy lakeshore turns into a sandy beach.\nYou see a rowboat here."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Open Water (in the life raft)\nThe makeshift flotilla of salvaged luggage is east of here, but you're too far away to make out any detail. The sun beats down on you, somewhere between pleasant and frightening."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Constabulary Road (Harkness Munt)\nThe road phases into little more than a wide dirt track winding from the west towards the edge of town to the northeast. A paved walk wanders through an iron gate which interrupts a high stone wall looming to the north. A memorial bench sits just outside its shadow. A thickly-woven rampart of vegetation obstructs passage to the south, but you notice a narrow deer trail cutting a path through the deep woods.\nA barricade spans the road to the northeast, and beyond it a large shallow pit is being excavated. If you're careful, you could skirt the edges of the pit and continue along the northeast road.\nA man stands near the barricade. He appears to be contemplating the contents of the dig site.\nA grad student works fastidiously on the fossilized bones in the pit.\nA phantom trolley stop sign reads Orange Line -- Constabulary Road."}, {"prompt": "You read the great implementors", "response": "This legend, written in an ancient tongue, speaks of the creation of the world. A more absurd account can hardly be imagined. The universe, it seems, was created by \"Implementers\" who directed the running of great engines. These engines produced this world and others, strange and wondrous, as a test or puzzle for others of their kind. It goes on to state that these beings stand ready to aid those entrapped within their creation. The great magician-philosopher Helfax notes that a creation of this kind is morally and logically indefensible and discards the theory as \"colossal claptrap and kludgery.\"\nThe low, guttural voices seem to be coming in your direction."}, {"prompt": "Floor", "response": "Dance floor (center of the club)\nThis is the center of the Compass Club. Most people don't orient themselves in relation to compass directions, but here it's more than natural. A huge compass rose is painted to the ceiling and the abbreviations of cardinal directions are painted on the walls.\nTo north there's the stage where you can challenge Gus by just climbing on to it. The club continues in every other direction."}, {"prompt": "You give the hat to Goddess", "response": "Which do you mean, the Mome hat, or the alligator stetson?"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You move north.\nAncient Gallery\nThe walls about you are ancient and crumbling, yet modern looking portraits hang from them all the same. The faces depicted now appear normal but you are sure you can still hear their cries. Against one wall lies a large crystal, as tall as a man and wide as a chariot, in which is imprisoned the form of... something.\nA passage lies away to the south and another to the northeast, at the end of which a light shines faintly."}, {"prompt": "You examine doll", "response": "The paper doll is about six inches high and cut from cardstock.\nKlaus's parents have enchanted it to obey your commands. The doll is equipped with a paper dragon face, paper thigh boots, and a paper fringed dress."}, {"prompt": "You get the twinkie", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You search guard", "response": "You pat the body down quickly, but nothing is immediately apparent. And you don't have time for a more thorough search."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You set off down the narrow farm track for a few hundred metres, until you see what you take to be a distant farmhouse some way further off to the east. Then you pause, remembering your orders tell you to leave the settlers alone (apart from the Elders you've come to meet), so after a few moments' hesitation you turn round and come back."}, {"prompt": "Enter", "response": "You squeeze through the window and then hang from it for a brief moment, trying to figure out the optimum landing area. You figure that the crate is your best bet and land on top of it.\nYou're inside an old barn, dimly lit by several windows near the\nroof line and the window that you squeezed through. The barn appears as if it houses a boat in the winter, judging by a boat trailer near the rear of the barn. Most of the room is occupied by various items, mostly worthless.\nTwo large doors, which are closed, are to the south. A large wooden crate is here, under the barn window.\nYou see a radio, a two-liter plastic Pepsi bottle, a two-liter\nplastic Sprite bottle, a piece of rope about eight feet long, a piece of rope about seven feet long, a funnel, and a chair here. Sitting on the wooden crate is a gas container."}, {"prompt": "You open the bottle", "response": "Of course! An overdose on strange medicines! That'd take you out faster than it did your aunt! (Who was rushed to hospital, revived, but then died of food-poisoning from a bunch of grapes).\nYou open the bottle, to reveal a large number of pink tablets."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stuff", "response": "Bits of wood carvings, crumpled junk-food wrappers, small complicated metal gadgets that look like they came from disassembled cars and were disassembled further after they got here - it's all pretty depressing."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sky", "response": "There is a spinning, churning hole in the clouds, directly over the lighthouse; an inverted whirlpool sucking streamers of gray up into itself. You'd think it was some sort of funnel cloud, except that it's not moving anywhere. It's simply hanging, turning slowly in the sky. The sight of that horrible, whirling hole makes you shudder, involuntarily recalling that hideous entity that lurks behind those clouds."}, {"prompt": "You look at the woman", "response": "The woman is ancient, her waxy skin draped loosely about her.\nA doctor, notable for his unmissing face, walks by the door. He is back in seconds, striding into the room. Leaning over the old woman, he shakes her. \"I'm Doctor John; can you hear me? Ma'am?\" Her lack of response prompts him to lean out into the hall and shout: \"Woman down, unresponsive; crash cart to Orange 7.\" He returns to the woman, placing two fingers to her throat and a palm to her forehead. He tilts her head back, extending her neck, and huffs twice into her mouth. He then motions. \"You.\" He nods at the woman's chest. \"Begin compressions.\""}, {"prompt": "You tell Hilda about the photo", "response": "\"Who are those people in the photo in Mr Croxley's bedroom?\" I enquired.\n\"How I know?\" she replied. \"Why he tell me? I not ask such things - I not snoop around like you!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the bracelet", "response": "A bracelet of onyx beads, threaded on silk and silver. It has a clasp that opens and closes."}, {"prompt": "You get the flowers", "response": "They look much better in their natural setting, and will last far longer than in a vase."}, {"prompt": "You talk revolver", "response": "\"Based on the shape of the object in Mr. Garfields pocket, I quickly deduced that he was carrying a firearm. This was an interesting fact. Why would a peaceful hotel owner feel the need to be armed?\"\n\"You don't have to play with me any longer, Mr. Germain\", says James. \"I was not always just a hotel owner. In fact, I changed my name after the war to avoid my enemies. My original name was Brian Holmes. During the war I worked for MI6 doing Special Ops behind enemy lines. The Colonel was in my unit. When he was killed, I feared our enemies had finally caught up with us. So, naturally, I armed myself.\"\n\"I had reached a turning point in my investigation,\" you continue. \"Not only had the Colonel turned out to be a former secret agent, but his colleague was even running the hotel. Mr. Starfields research turned up several new avenues of investigation. It seemed likely that the Colonel's past had finally caught up with him. Perhaps his German nemesis had managed to track him down. Or maybe his illegitimate son had decided to seek revenge for being abandoned. I continued my investigations with renewed vigor.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the lift", "response": "A red lamp glows over the doors, indicating that the lift is occupied."}, {"prompt": "You ask Arjang about Ardavaan", "response": "\"Yes, I saw him chatting with Houtan when I came in. He looked quite weary, I doubt it was only one night's sleep that he missed.\""}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "hooded robe: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You look at the disguise", "response": "This a grotesque, clownish, Punchinello mask, apparently worn by the mayor when he travels incognito."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stand", "response": "Lots of art supplies for sale. You just love examining all those tools and equipment."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "You are in the interior of the clock tower, high above the Houses of Parliament.\nThe immense bell known as Big Ben is hanging from the ceiling, suspended over a hollow shaft that is so deep it might as well be bottomless. A wooden railing runs around the shaft for safety.\nInside the bell, you see an enormous clapper, to which is glued a beautiful, deep-blue sapphire.\nYou see a black bag, a stethoscope, a clue paper, a pound note, a pacquet of paper, an orange piece of paper, a brown piece of paper, a green piece of paper, a lamp, a magnifying glass, Captain Bligh's oar, a pistol and an old book.\nYour companion's lean, severe face gives away none of his thoughts.\nThe bell swings away from you."}, {"prompt": "You drop the ladder", "response": "You place the ladder across the lift so that it bridges the gap between the doorways."}, {"prompt": "You look at the window", "response": "From the window the crocodile infested lake far below can be seen. The northern shore is not so far from here, and it makes you wonder if you could jump out of the window and into the lake in order to reach the northern shore before the crocodiles reach you."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "You're not sure what Ted did with the wheels, and you're not sure if it's legal for the competition or in general. But ot works. The wheels seem to cut through the solid ground, and the sled darned near to hydroplanes to victory. The big kids can't believe it!\nThis is a small clearing with a circle of rocks where your nascent fire will, hopefully, go."}, {"prompt": "You ask Ardavaan about the books", "response": "(the books)\n\"Much that has faded from memory may be reawakened through written words... If you know where to look.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the papers in the alcove", "response": "(the stack of important papers in the notable device)\nYou put the stack of important papers into the notable device.\n\"Got anywhere with the lock?\" you hear. There is an irritated mutter\nin reply."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na tomcod\na coil of rope\na fishing pole (with the rusty hook)\na fish head\nan old beeper\na letter\na picture\na skirt (being worn)\na shirt (being worn)\na pocket watch (open)\na tiny picture\nA constant patter of rain falls about you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the window", "response": "The large bay window is framed in the same termite-infested rosewood trim that decorates the rest of this once great mansion. It looks like the child-proof lock that once secured the window shut has long since fallen off."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"How could this have happened?\"\nShe shakes her head. \"Very easily. It is unlikely for a medical practitioner to contract a patient's disease -- not with the proper safeguards in place -- but not inconceivable. And Doctor Arturus... oh, the bloody fool. He should have known better...\"\n1) \"Oh Primes.\"\n2) \"What do we do now?\""}, {"prompt": "You close the west door", "response": "You close the peacock door leading west.\nThe peacock door leading northwest opens."}, {"prompt": "You read the apology", "response": "You select the message and read:\nMy dear unfortunate successor:\nPossibly Kruger didn't tell you the importance of Gift Day. What you offer shows our intentions towards the colony. To date, Earth has made inappropriate or deceptive gestures thirteen times. They do employment here by running vote, and Ambassador Aylene is about to be removed because she hasn't gotten a good result out of us. You guess whose fault that is.\nFate of negotiations is now in your hands. Ultimate responsibility: yours. Kruger can't control what you do from Earth.\nHe's probably told you to wear red. This is a mistake: it would allow the colonists to come to Earth as our adoptees and put us in a position of power over them. This is neither morally nor pragmatically defensible.\nRecommend that you wear white -- it is a color associated with equality. I have a white jacket; it's possible Liam has taken it away, in which case you should get it back from him. I threw out the receipt, but it may still be in the recycling chute, if that helps communicate your needs.\nDo not know what Kruger will have told you to give in the gift box, but if you haven't already done so, recommend you look up \"gifts\" in the computer. It has an etiquette guide. This should give some idea what he's getting you into.\nWhen you are ready to present your gift, summon Liam and show him the gift box. He will arrange the meeting for you.\nYours in haste, Valenti\nMentally you check off \"check your messages again\" on your list of remaining tasks. You run over the things various people have decided you ought to do:\nfind jacket receipt in the recycling chute (Valenti's suggestion) acquire vaccine from the Museum (HC's orders)\nwear white jacket (Valenti's idea)\nlook up gifts in the computer (Valenti's suggestion)\nfind a working float unit\nsummon Liam and show him the gift box\nmeet with Ambassador Aylene to present your gift"}, {"prompt": "You ask Waldo,  to check what you're carrying", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: I am grasping...\nA cutting tool\nA rough device\nA usable extension (being worn)\nA sixteen-inch cable\nA hollow container\nThe hollow container contains...\nA pebbled object\nA wavy object\nA bumpy object\nA smooth object"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes...\nThe grey man nods towards the sharp drop-off. \"My, that water looks mighty cold,\" he says, not noticing that his hold on you has loosened."}, {"prompt": "Pet cat", "response": "The cat hisses at you, and you think better of touching it."}, {"prompt": "You open the grille", "response": "The ventilator grille is beyond your reach, on a different wall than the one you stand near."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You crouch down and crawl under the cottage. You soon discover a gap in the foundation that is nearly tall enough for you to stand in.\nThis is a dark crawl space beneath the wooden cottage. When you try to stand upright, you nearly bang your head upon a wooden surface above you. As you look up at the ceiling of this crawl space, you see faint streaks of yellow light seeping through the wooden ceiling in the pattern of a large rectangle."}, {"prompt": "Yell", "response": "Come now; you're not that frightened."}, {"prompt": "You wake", "response": "You open your eyes.\nOn the Stroke\nHow did you ever get into this predicament? A rumor, a glove thrown down onto a dance-floor? Now you're standing in the moonlight and your knees are knocking together, although you hope that no one notices. You're still dressed for a masquerade and nothing feels quite real. Perhaps it isn't real... and all you need to do is wake up from\nthis nightmare.\nThe scene is set: landscape garden.\nThe cast: your second, Ferdinand, handing your weapon over; your rival's second, Onegin, handing her weapon over; and your\nrival -- the countess.\n\"En garde!\" the countess cries."}, {"prompt": "You sing to the horse", "response": "Waving the steering wheel over his head, the grizzled character sings:\n\"He'd have to get under, get out and get under,\nTo fix his little machine!\"\nMr. Sterling grabs for the wheel, but the grizzled horseman spurs on his horse.\nThe grizzled character goes south."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying a burlap sack (which contains a sequined jacket and a flashlight), the key to Cabin One, a wooden bucket, an old shovel, a pill bottle, and a little white pill. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Chemical Factory (in the helicopter)\nThree large tanks stand among the maze of pipes, drains, and chimneys that form the \"Doku Pharmaceuticals\" factory below. Noxious fumes of sticky blue gas swirl from a huge bubbling vat, enveloping the helicopter.\nA large crate swings leisurely beneath the helicopter.\nAs fuel from the leaking helicopter hits the bubbling vat it emits a huge burp, and the liquid turns greasy green."}, {"prompt": "You show the worm to the hedgehog", "response": "\"Oh oh! Hey! Hey! Can I have that? It looks delicious! I love food. Don't you love food? Oh hog oh hog I love food.\"\nThe hedgehog starts to sing:\nDoop de dooooooo,\nIt's a round life for meeeeee!\nWe're roly and poly\nAnd hedgyhogoly,\nA life in the hedge is for meeeeee!"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "It's steamy and musty, with slick floors. Lockers line the walls.\nYou can see a stinky stocking here."}, {"prompt": "You pour the cup into the teapot", "response": "(first taking the hinge-lidded teapot)\n(putting Guide to Assorted Wines into the sack to make room)\nTaken.\nYou put some mead in the hinge-lidded teapot, exhausting the supply in the cup. This fills the hinge-lidded teapot to the brim."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"The victims all died of the same disease?\"\nExaminer Velox shrugs. \"Like you, we cannot damage the bodies, making any detailed examination impossible. It seems clear, however, that these deaths were all caused by the same affliction of the blood.\"\n1) \"Regarding Doctor Arturus...\"\n2) \"Regarding Creditor Nacarat...\"\n3) \"Regarding Sal and Piper...\"\n4) \"I'll keep investigating.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine center path", "response": "Only a few inches wide, tiny feet have worn this pathway that winds through the rocks and vegetation. Sometimes disappearing completely, it reappears again farther on. On the center path is a ripe blackberry.\nThe pika dashes to the top of a nearby pink boulder, pauses, and lets out a loud \"neep!\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You swim northward.\nFlooded Chamber, Surface of Water\nYou are near the chamber's western wall. The damp, gray stone continues into darkness to the north and south."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the Professor", "response": "[Picture number 10 here.]\n\"My word!\" the professor says, looking up. \"A survivor! So the townsfolk haven't been entirely wiped out after all. Mary Jane will be thrilled one of you made it. She's always been more at ease with the hoi polloi.\"\n1) \"I'm not the only survivor.\"\n2) \"Are you Mary Jane's father?\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Duke about the Castle", "response": "\u201cHow old is this castle, your grace?\u201d you ask.\n\u201cSeveral generations,\u201d he replies vaguely. \u201cIt was built by my ancestors when they first came to this isle.\u201d"}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "\"...vending machine ate my dollar...\"\nLight flickers before your eyes. At first you don't see anything familiar. And then suddenly Linda is there at your side.\nYou are in a hospital bed.\n\"What... what...?\" you start to ask.\n\"Shhh,\" Linda says. \"You need to save your strength. The doctors say you'll be fine, but it'll take some time.\"\n\"Is she-- how--?\" The effort to speak become too much and you have to rest for a moment. \"How...?\"\nFor a moment Linda seems confused. Then she realizes what you're asking, and shakes her head sadly.\nAnd suddenly the room seems colder...\n[ -> ]"}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The Blue Rose Garden is comprised of a single rose bush grown to magnificent proportions. Its offshoots form a prickled boundary, enclosing the garden. At precise intervals, blue roses grow. From a rockery in the centre of the garden, from which all the offshoots\nstem, is the core bush and from it grows a pristine bouquet.\nThe Destine mansion rises up to the west. A maze of flowers are reflected in the tooth-glass dome of the greenhouse, its sliding door almost completely flush with the unpanelled pane."}, {"prompt": "You take the notebook", "response": "Taken.\nA folded piece of foolscap had been wedged in between the pages. I\ntook it out carefully."}, {"prompt": "You ask Galen about the collections", "response": "\"What do you collect?\" you ask.\n\"Stained glass. Old maps.\" He shrugs. \"They pass the time, and remind me of home.\""}, {"prompt": "You put CHETNAK in the analyzer", "response": "It is a scroll of shadows! As you take back your scroll, something snaps within the analyser. It will probably never work again."}, {"prompt": "You take the stool", "response": "You acquire the stool."}, {"prompt": "You touch the slab", "response": "As before, the touch of your fingers on the carving causes it to radiate fierce light, and the slab pivots sideways, opening the passage."}, {"prompt": "You use wand on the self", "response": "The wand glows with energy as you flick it... and you watch the POP spell surface, which returns things from limbo.\nYour head reels as everything turns outside-in again.\nA cramped storage section in the rear of the plane, where, if you remember correctly, some emergency supplies are supposed to be stored. The floor slopes upward to the economy section. The emergency escape hatch is inset into the wall.\nYou can see a bathroom door and an equipment bin (closed) here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Dimly illuminated, this closet provides you with an impenetrable defense against outside noise. The door, which is to the west and open, is steel-reinforced and soundproof, preventing even the loudest party sounds from getting through. Though the closet is small, it is roomy enough for you and several of your favorite textbooks, and you've studied for many an exam here.\nYou see a toolbox here.\nEvan follows you into your closet."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You have an old house key."}, {"prompt": "You examine Perkins", "response": "picture of a lonely angel in your own articles...\nThe dark, handsome Johnny Perkins is every woman's dream, who are in love with his so perfect face. Some people compare him to James Dean, but that's probably excessive; you think Johnny doesn't have as much talent as Dean. Silent and mysterious in front of the fans, he can be really talkative when you get to know him, and is quite keen on criticizing his rivals or revealing information to harm them - but you also know where to find information to harm him and destroy this picture of a lonely angel in your own articles...\nHeather Lashley walks in, a few meters from you.\nLuciana Perotti walks past you, heading west."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scepter", "response": "Studded with measly turquoises and semi-precious stones."}, {"prompt": "You examine the shawl", "response": "A simple blue shawl, with a frilled border - or at least you assume it's frilled; you're not sure what quirks fashion has acquired in time to come. Stripes of paler blue, that can only be discerned when you look closely, run diagonally across it. In one corner, in letters that glow eerily when you look at them at an angle, is a dedication : \"From Edward\". You assume it's a woman's garment, but - knowing fashion as you do - you're not sure."}, {"prompt": "You look at the eye", "response": "The eye of Saint 43. It provides light, like a tiny, incorruptible star."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "It's real swanky up here, and there's a big door to the east that looks like it's gotta be a private suite. A smaller door is to the west. Just like with the other elevator stops, you can push the pearl button here to call Kipper.\nA stonefaced palooka stands at attention next to the door."}, {"prompt": "You look at the hologram", "response": "The hologram hovering on the device's top looks like... the galaxy of Andromeda.\nOn the large cubic device is a golden disc."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You are near the edge of the strange dome, where the walls plunge vertically into the solid stone of the floor."}, {"prompt": "You look at the iron ring", "response": "It's just an ordinary-looking iron ring."}, {"prompt": "You look at the lunchbox", "response": "It's a Dimwit Flathead lunchbox. I used to have one just like it back in grade school! It's made of metal, and covered with pictures of Lord Dimwit in famous places, like Mt. Rushmore and Flood Control Dam Number Three. The lunchbox is closed."}, {"prompt": "Close chest", "response": "You close the chest."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Time passes.\nThe waves close over your shoulders."}, {"prompt": "You examine Pontiac", "response": "The old, familiar Pontiac sits in the driveway. It looks to be in pretty good shape, considering you sold it to the scrap yard four years ago. The keys are in the ignition."}, {"prompt": "Scan bottle", "response": "(with the substance scanner)\nYou run the scanner over the mouth of the small bottle. You expect\nsome kind of spirit, though drinking is not forbidden to a Confessor. The scanner flickers up PORT. Nothing unusual there. And then, moments later, it flickers LEAD. Only the Doge is permitted to so potent a draught as lead-sweetened port. This will be awkward for the Confessor to explain in the Holy Chamber."}, {"prompt": "You look at the doctor", "response": "A middle aged man, in the obvious uniform of a doctor, looks down upon your mother. He stands frozen with a look of pity on his face. About his neck is a silver pendant.\n\"You were working with a major client at the time, just about to leave for an important meeting, when you got the call. You'd been working so hard, so caught up in your own life, forgetting her had been so easy.\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The monkey scampers beside you.\nThe stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the east end. The only way you can go is back to the west.\nAn ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.\nThe monkey is standing close by."}, {"prompt": "You examine the tapestries", "response": "Tapestries from floor to ceiling, depicting shifting and ever-changing scenes of battle and bravery."}, {"prompt": "You read dining", "response": "Full of helpful hints and line-drawings of utensils in silhouette. If you've ever wondered whether the dessert fork should be placed to the right or the left of the steak knife, this is the book for you. The narration of the guide, as with all the works in this series, is relentlessly positive and enthusiastic. There is nothing negative in the wide world of utensils."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "But the table is fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You're carrying a mobile phone."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Before you can take a step toward the foyer, the penguin steps in front of you and hops silently up and down, eyes wide and pleading. Listening at the urnstone door, you hear the characteristic wheeze of a Koskos. No way are you going in there. You are no match for a Koskos."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "A richly attired Wait Chamber, walls covered with pagan frescoes which beckon you to impure thoughts. Chairs arranged near the circular perimeter mingle with tables for gaming. The chamber becomes the reception chamber to the west, the dining hall to the north. A small tiled archway leads southwest, & to the east is the grand Entry Hall."}, {"prompt": "You examine viewscreen", "response": "The viewscreen is a small, perfectly square display set into the control surface. It shows some indecipherable icons."}, {"prompt": "You sit on it", "response": "From your hard perch on the throne, you notice for the first time what had been invisible before: A strip of carvings runs along the wall, high up in the gloom. Carved in this frieze is a series of figures, which are repeated rhythmically along the strip."}, {"prompt": "You tell the mother about yourself", "response": "She appears not to have heard you, though you can't shake the feeling that she considers you too lowly a person to grace with an answer.\nAn alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house.\nYou can hear the security guard moving about close by..."}, {"prompt": "Suds", "response": "You plot what to take care of next. Hmm... \"Smokeless tobacco at 534\" is as good as any.\nThreediopolis, Sector 434\nThreediopolis, Sector 534\nThreediopolis, Sector 434\nThreediopolis, Sector 424\nYou can see a restaurant door here."}, {"prompt": "Attack fafhrd", "response": "Fafhrd ducks aside.\nRolling 6 + 4 (inherent bonus) + 2 (concentration) - 3 (defender dodging) - 3 (executioner's axe penalty) + 3 (tension) - 3 (blindness) + 1 (ment) + 2 (defender uninterested in own safety) = 9, you beat Fafhrd's defence rating of 7.\nYou deal 7 + 2 (tension) - 2 (rust) + 2 (executioner's axe benefits from tension) + 1 (ment) = 10 damage, wounding Fafhrd to 3 health.\nMouser concentrates, and is now quite concentrated.\nThe mindslug concentrates, and is now mildly concentrated.\nAs rust spores whirl around the room, the war mask rusts.\nFast as a snake, Mouser lashes out at you."}, {"prompt": "You reach in the bucket", "response": "You reach into the bucket, but don't feel anything in particular.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "You enter the car", "response": "You glance at the track to remind yourself what you're getting yourself into.\nThe roller coaster track consists of a hill above the water and a valley below the water. The track climbs the single hill, descends it, enters the water, turns around, dips down into the valley, and then returns to the platform.\nYou enter the car, and it pulls away from the platform. The numbers on the x-finder start to increase.\non the x-finder start to increase.The car slows down as the\ntrack begins its climb up the single hill of this track. The numbers on the x-finder are increasing slowly now.\non the x-finder are increasing slowly now.You reach the crest\nof the hill, and the car starts rapidly down the other side. The numbers on the x-finder are still increasing.\nnumbers on the x-finder are still increasing.Unfortunately,\nthe car was moving too fast for you to read the x coordinate\nat the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and 3.\nat the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and 3.Then the car hurtles down the far side of the hill, picking up speed. You splash into the river! Yet some force field seems to be keeping you and your possessions dry. The numbers on the\nx-finder continue to increase rapidly.\nx-finder continue to increase rapidly.The car makes a turn,\nand you travel underwater for a while. You're having trouble following the numbers on the x-finder here.\nfollowing the numbers on the x-finder here.The car takes a\ndip down further into the water, but soon comes up again, emerges from the river and returns to the platform. The numbers on the\nx-finder stop changing. You exit the car.\nYou stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river far below.\nA car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter."}, {"prompt": "You pour the vial on you", "response": "Absolutely not. Look, boss, I've done a lot for you today. I wandered all around town following someone's love notes. I burned down a barn. I played Pretty Pretty Princess Dress-Me-Up with some random guy in order to get him arrested for a crime he didn't commit. I robbed a bank. I had to spend a good ten minutes with the world's stupidest hedgehog singing at me just so you could rob a blind guy. I\nlet you stick me in a cage just so you could make fake money. I had to learn how to play your incomprehensible stock market. And I was happy to do so; all things considered, you're not the worst possible master for a bird to have. But if you think I'm going to spend eternity as a golden raven statuette just so you can skip the consequences of your embezzlement, I should have let the executioner chop your head off hours ago.\nThe treasures holds up the key again. \"Alakazoo!\" he incants. Nothing happens.\n\"It's 'Alakazar',\" says the king.\n\"I was getting there!\" shouts the treasurer. \"Alakazar!\" he cries triumphantly. The stone lift hums and starts moving upwards."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na roll of toilet paper\na matchbook (which is open)\ntwo matches\na scrap of paper\na bucket\na note\na guidebook\na pair of flipflops\nIn addition, you are wearing:\nsome shorts\na shirt"}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You'll have to get out of the Experience Machine first."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "As the lane winds along from east to west, it narrows until the steep, jagged rooftops on either side of the street practically touch each other. To the south, a side street leads across Whateley Bridge toward the center of town, and a twisting lane leads up a hill to the northwest. A short flight of steps to the north leads down to the local watering hole."}, {"prompt": "You take the goat", "response": "The preserved goat is too heavy for you to lift."}, {"prompt": "You pull the lever", "response": "The lever doesn't budge. It can only be used in an EMERGENCY---a nuclear meltdown, for example.\nYou hear a loud bell and a mechanized voice over the line: Danger! Danger! Meltdown imminent! Evacuate immediately! Danger!"}, {"prompt": "You put pale blue on the canvas", "response": "You apply the oil to the canvas, rubbing it in with your finger. A blue smoke arises from the canvas, smelling of cedar and frankincense. The scent disappears from the air, and the canvas, when the smoke does."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nworn manila folder\nFrom the speakers, you hear the radio quietly playing an ad for Ronald Reagan."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying:\ndelicate bottle\ndim bulb (Providing light)\nsoggy hacksaw\nhomogenized reclaim\nhighheeled snowshoes\nsmall key\nsparkling diamond\nold lamp (Providing light)\ndoor knob\noaken bucket\ntorn script\nYou're wearing:\npointed hat\ndark secret"}, {"prompt": "You read sign", "response": "It says, 'This door can only be unlocked with an electronic door opener'."}, {"prompt": "Castle", "response": "Looking a little more closely, I think I can make out a tiny round eye staring back at me from inside the little castle. \"So I've solved the case of the missing FISH.\"\nTo my surprise, Nate limps over to get a closer look. \"I see. Very interesting.\"\nThe thing is, I don't think he's joking."}, {"prompt": "You look in the coffin", "response": "In the coffin is a corpse."}, {"prompt": "You look through the telescope", "response": "You raised the telescope to your right eye and scanned the horizon ahead. You could just make out the distant white sail of the ship you were pursuing, but there seemed to be no sign of land.\n\u201cI gave you an order, Mr Corby,\u201d the captain snapped. \u201cSo up the\nmast\nwith you!\u201d"}, {"prompt": "Kulehrif", "response": "You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you may barf.\nBut when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has improved, and you can see easily what lurks in dark corners. You don't notice anything new right here, though.\nYou can use the abbreviation \"K\" the next time you want to cast this spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time travel works.\nThen it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech\u2014and then the universe.\n*** You have failed. ***\nIf you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you\u2014"}, {"prompt": "You look at the heart", "response": "Neither larger nor smaller than the heart beating in your own chest. Iron chains fastened with iron stakes anchor it to the altar, where it disgorges blood with each laborious contraction."}, {"prompt": "You drop the clove", "response": "Dropped.\nThe lamp is definitely dimmer now."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "An awkward wedge of space between the foundations of the main house and the walls of the new-built wine cellar, east. The staircase does not leave much room to stand in; it is straight and carefully planed lest anyone trip with a priceless bottle of wine.\nThe wine-cellar door -- sturdy wood in yellowish brass panels -- stands open to the east.\nAn ordinary wooden door opens west into the root cellar."}, {"prompt": "Dysparsen limech", "response": "Dunamei mouthed the incantation and cast the dysparsen spell upon Limech. For a moment there was a visible reaction to the casting, as though the two spells were competing for dominance. Then the spell's potency left, leaving Limech the undead still undead."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.\nThe stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the north end. The only way you can go is back to the south.\nAn ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "You look at the jar", "response": "The jar is rather small. Raised letters on the side read \"Wowsa Willy's Wetter Water - Read Instructions Before Using!\" Too bad there aren't any instructions. In the glass jar you see some clear liquid.\nA huge, hairy beast crawls up the ladder and squats down, eyeing you balefully."}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "You are at the base of a very plain spiral stairway. The curving steps to the apron are to the North and the audience to the West."}, {"prompt": "You pry the door with the rod", "response": "You work the iron spire into the narrow gap between the door and the stone jamb and attempt to pry it open. After several minutes of effort, you're able to slowly work the door open far enough for you to be able to squeeze through."}, {"prompt": "You eat the table", "response": "They'll not notice a nibble missing from their tablecloth. There: just a corner, crisp crackling that softens in the mouth.\nA footman bears tongue toast to the table."}, {"prompt": "You look at the screen", "response": "The viewscreen is quite large, taking up most of one wall. Currently, it's blank."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are as good looking as ever, but your confident demeanor hides a gnawing uncertainty. Hopefully, no one will notice. You are wearing your trademark black bowler hat, and your moustache is impeccably groomed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the door", "response": "Which do you mean, the hallway door or the white door?"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "There is a coolbox behind the counter.\nYou can also see a vending machine here.\n>You can't go that way."}, {"prompt": "Goals", "response": "You think you can develop your friendship with Xochi more.\nVisiting the 24-hour restaurant seems like a good idea.\nMaybe Xochi has emailed you again.\nYou are hoping Staci has emailed you, go home and >use terminal."}, {"prompt": "You close the cage", "response": "You close the steel cage.\nHow will you change the lives of those around you today?\nType help for background and instructions.\nIt's a chilly morning in January. The windows are frosty, and the sun has barely risen. Nevertheless, you wake up feeling lively this morning. But there's no time to waste diddling around; you have to get to work. Your daily ablutions are performed at maximum haste, and now ready to leave. The bathroom lies to the west and the front door lies to the south and leads to the parking lot."}, {"prompt": "You take the sofa", "response": "Sizable sofa sits solidly, stubborn."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You can't go that way.\nThere is a sudden swell of dramatic music. It seems to be coming from the study."}, {"prompt": "You connect the red tube to the red receptacle", "response": "Connected.\nThe stock ticker tape advances:\n|  DTL D2T  |  DPL DX   |   HP DX   |  HHT D2H  |  PPH D2X  |"}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "It is a single piece of ivory, huge enough to span from one side of the boulevard to the other and no man lives who knows whence so vast a piece could have come. Passing through the arch, one finds the entire underside covered in countless, detailed carvings; mostly statues and visages that seem to reach out from the ivory or stare at you as you pass through. To the north, beyond the ivory arch, the buidlings give way to some sort of open town square.\nYour minder, Venkath Mock, is here with a grim countenance.\nYou can also see Warpeye (the cat) here.\nVenkath looks at your traveling clothes."}, {"prompt": "You examine the Chick", "response": "She's gorgeous...she's wearing a sexy see-through blouse that barely conceals anything...including several deep, still bleeding wounds...was there an accident? Nobody seems to notice anything..."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You climb up the staircase.\nYou're in the Library of Arg Varkana. It's a big but cozy hall lined with rows of bookshelves. Reading tables are at the center and by the large windows which allow sunlight during the day. A chandelier hung from the ceiling upstairs along with several glowstands scattered around the library provide extra illumination in the evening.\nSpiral stairs lead up to the museum, and down to the bookcrafters' workshop. The exit is to the south."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. The rat charges and bites your leg. You strike a fierce blow with your sword and kill it!\n(You lose 2 hit points and defeat the giant rat.)\nYou look around and find a bronze bracelet worth 3 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You examine Houtan", "response": "Houtan is a good-natured, merry, elderly man who loves to talk (and he's good at that; he always has things to say on various topics) with a red face, thining hair, and blond scrolled moustaches. He attends to the library very well, giving a lot more than what his job demands of him."}, {"prompt": "Rock", "response": "You play rock. The hand plays rock.\nIt's a draw!\nThe voice speaks again. \"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!\""}, {"prompt": "You put the gold in Mould", "response": "You must have the mould."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"Many a year ago, I was a happy AI in a rocket launcher, the newest and deadliest in weapons technology. Straight on our way to skynet, we were. But then some crazy scientist attached a gorilla to me. And now see I how look. Completely stupid! That's why I want to take over the world. Anyway, let me reiterate my question.\"\nThe gorilla tries to wave his rocket launchers dismissively. He fails. He then says, \"Who are you trying to fool? You wouldn't approach a dangerous animal if you were,  indeed, a renowned botanist. You know what I think you are? You are  AFGNCAAP, the famous IF agent. I have a hard time making out anything specific about you, and that's just odd for a fictional world that has something as weird as a me, a gorilla with rocket launchers for hands! So tell me, am I right?\"\n1) \"Yes, I am a secret agent. My mission is to kill you.\"\n2) \"No. See, this is CYOA. It doesn't even have a parser or an inventory!\"\n3) \"Yeah, a gorilla with rocket launcher hands. That *is* odd. Please tell me your story.\""}, {"prompt": "Regard klengon mail", "response": "The suit is old, but finely-made PLATE MAIL in an unusual style. Some of the designs on the vambraces are clearly of KLENGON origin."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "My first impression upon entering the entrance hall of the Three Bears' cottage is of hundreds of eyes staring glassily down at me from every corner. Virtually every forest creature from the tiniest shrew to the largest moose is represented in a macabre collection of hunting trophies. And not just forest creatures either; I'd swear that some of these heads are human! On one wall is a full length portrait of the bear clan. A narrow staircase leads upwards, and there are doors to the north and west. Completing the morbid ambiance is a motheaten bearskin rug.\n'Ding-Dong!' The doorbell rings. A booming voice can be heard from the direction of the front door: 'Little pigs, little pigs, LET ME IN, or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!'"}, {"prompt": "Switch", "response": "I flip the switch and the pump begins whirring quietly. After a few seconds, the pump's fan spits out one of the stripy flies. I turn off the pump before any more get sucked out.\nWhoops. I hope I didn't just invalidate Nate's experiment."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "This is the dark and dank dungeon of the ruined castle. There's probably a torture chamber nearby. You can go east, northeast, or upward. A small opening leads down as well."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about Phelps", "response": "Luisa's face crinkles up in an expression that might possibly be a smile. \"Mr. Phelps, he's good to me. He brought me here from my home. Long time ago. I was a girl just like you.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the tiny man", "response": "A small man, only about six inches tall. He looks uncannily like Valenti. He also has tiny floatpoints in his hands and feet, like a Colonist."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road stretching out of sight to the west. Over the crest of the hill, you can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight, to be honest. A hayfield opens up to the east.\nStanding guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's\nmean-looking henchman Large Duane. Lucky for you he can't see you.\nSarah follows you back to the top of the bank."}, {"prompt": "Salt", "response": "It's ordinary salt water from the ocean.\nAn early evening breeze fills your nose with the tangy scent of brine.\nThe water in the boiler reaches full boil."}, {"prompt": "You take the yardstick", "response": "You call through the closed door, \"Ashley, would you please grab that yardstick?\"\nAshley shouts back, \"Okay....\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the opener", "response": "It looks like an ordinary bottle-opener, made out of metal with a pointy bit on one end."}, {"prompt": "You open grate", "response": "The grate is already open."}, {"prompt": "You read the card", "response": "Dimly illuminated, this closet provides you with an impenetrable defense against outside noise. The door, which is to the west and open, is steel-reinforced and soundproof, preventing even the loudest party sounds from getting through. Though the closet is small, it is roomy enough for you and several of your favorite textbooks, and you've studied for many an exam here.\nYou see a toolbox here.\nYou see Bob stagger in from the door to the west.\nEvan follows you into your closet, still playing the game.\nThe card emphasizes the variety of fillings used to make these chocolates. In the ingredients list, you note that the chocolates are filled with caramel, coconut, marzipan, peanuts, almonds, pecans, cherry liqueur, marshmallow, fudge, and mint.\nBob tries to go through a wall. His head rebounds violently off the hard plaster surface. \"Thang you sir, may I hab uhnudder?\" he says humbly."}, {"prompt": "You look at the robot", "response": "Roomba's bigger brother mainly consists of a set of razor sharp rotor blades, cutting everything in its part. On the back it has a brush and some cleaning fluid, but those seem unimportant to you now. Its back is all shining stell, but you bet its belly is just porous plastic.\nThe robot zips toward you, the whirr of its razor blades incredible loud and - uh, let's leave the rest to your imagination. Kids may be playing! Hey kids! The robot bought you a farm where you live happily ever after."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "The refrigerator: But the refrigerator is much too large!\nWith a toothy yawn, the little beast opens its big red eyes and blinks at you with surprise and fear. It opens its slavering jaws and emits a hideous, plaintive wail that reminds you of a subway screeching to a halt.\nA very large creature, equipped with slavering fangs and wearing a calico apron, lurks into the nest. Its mother-instinct overcomes its overwhelming fear of light long enough to devour you.\nYour score is 31 points out of 100, in 74 moves.\nDo you want to restart the story, restore a saved position, or quit?\n\"Behind you!\" cries the Princess. \"It's a trap!\"\nToo late. The drawbridge crashes shut against the tower wall. You turn to face your enemy, and find yourself staring into the open maw of Thermofax.\nOnly your Magick sword can save you now. You swing it high, speak the Word and stand unhurt as the blade absorbs the searing dragon-breath.\nThe reptile bellows with rage and flaps its wings to fan the fire in its belly. You are advancing, sword poised to strike, when a familiar voice shatters the daydream and stays your mighty hand...\nCopyright (C)1985 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.\nYou're on a hilltop overlooking the seaside village of Festeron.\nTo the south stands the Festeron Post Office. It's a little brick building with a neatly-trimmed lawn. The Post Office door stands invitingly open.\nRoads run down the hill to the east and west. There's a signpost nearby.\nSomebody inside the Post Office is calling you.\nOkay, what do you want to do now?"}, {"prompt": "Swing", "response": "You test your weight carefully, then swing out on the pole, avoiding recollection of Yenalda's twelfth rule.\nRafters (hanging from a copper pole on a hook)\nYou hang amongst strange vertical shadows in the rafters of a fancy little trophy room of sorts, with paintings and torches arranged at various heights along the walls. An open window leads out to the east.\nIn the center of the room an intricate platform rises high up, but out of reach.\nOn the platform is the Dragon Gem."}, {"prompt": "You ask Carl about Ashleigh", "response": "Bill points the gun at you. \"Don't move! Don't move!\" You freeze, hoping you've distracted him enough, but knowing that you haven't.\nCarl decided that now's his best chance, and he jumps towards Bill. Bill jerks back, swinging the revolver around and firing in the same motion.\nThe smell of cordite fills the air as Ashleigh screams. Carl's eyes widen almost comically, and he staggers back, blood spurting from a newly-formed hole approximately in the middle of his chest. Bill fires again, then again, more of a reflex action than anything else. You try to grab the gun from Bill, but he backhands you with it.\n\"Shut up, Ashleigh!\" he yells at Ash. Surprisingly, she stops.\nBill looks around wildly, then makes a decision. \"Drag him into the stateroom, both of you.\"\n\"Let me at least get one of the drinks for their wounds,\" Ash begs of Bill. He nods slightly, glancing nervously around the forecastle. Ashleigh grabs the whiskey bottle.\nYou take hold of one of Carl's arms; Ashleigh grabs the other, looking distinctly queasy. The two of you drag Carl into the stateroom, leaving Bill behind to mutter to himself about his nerves and how they need calming.\nCompact yet liveable, the fore stateroom has two v-berths that meet near the nose of the ship. On the port wall is an open hanging locker, and across from it is the door to the forward head, standing open. A small ladder to the south leads up to a door.\nThe hanging locker seems to contain a safe.\nCarl lies limply on the floor where you and Ashleigh dropped him. Asheligh is sitting in some sort of catatonic state."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "Of more recent construction than many another portion of the castle, and therefore light and airy, and a pleasant place to spend a few hours.\nNearby an open heavy door leads west to the gallery of still life.\nPlaced where it will have the most light on the board for the longest time is a mechanical chessplayer."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tracks", "response": "But not today. You have other things to take care of today.\nWhat seemed at first to be a clear path has revealed itself as a clinging morass. The mud squeaks angrily every time you lift a foot; when you step down, it rises up to your ankles. Occasionally it slips beneath you, and you're forced to swing your arms in the air like an idiot to avoid falling on your face in the muck.\nThis viscous pit sits between two hills: one to the east, too thick with bushes to offer any purchase, and one to the west, which you happen to know has a railroad track running across the top. But the only clear ways out are north and south."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "The monkey scampers beside you.\nThough paved in polished marble and enclosed on all sides, this large square room is open to the sky above. Aside from some low benches, also of marble, that surround a shallow, square pool of water in the center of the room, it's unfurnished. There's a high arched doorway to the north, a row of lower arches on the east, a tunnel entrance to the west, and a square-cut doorway to the south.\nThe monkey is standing close by."}, {"prompt": "You examine the snuffbox", "response": "A little pastel-colored metal box in which you keep your supply of snuff.\nIn the snuffbox is a quantity of snuff."}, {"prompt": "You remove the mermaid", "response": "You peel off the mermaid getup and neatly fold it into a scandalously small package."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "The hallway ends abruptly in a pair of large oak doors. Their intricate carving is barely visible in the leaden light from the windows above you. The doors are flanked by two sweeping staircases to the northeast and northwest. A doorway to the east is mirrored by an open door to the west.\nBubbles comes running toward you, barking loudly. Upon seeing you, however, Bubbles calms down and trots nonchalantly up to you."}, {"prompt": "Plate latkes", "response": "You put the latkes straight from the pan onto the plate. A lot of grease goes with it."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The orderly appointment of the Books on their several Shelves is marred in one place by a Gap.\nYou can also see a wooden Lance here."}, {"prompt": "You get the large key", "response": "The orderly slaps your hand away. \"Nice try, lady, \" he sneers, \"but I got eyes in the back of my head; I'm like a fuckin' hawk.\""}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You are holding Jude's hand, so she follows you.\nYou are holding Tyrone's hand, so he follows you.\nTyrone is holding Samir's hand, so he follows Tyrone.\nThe air reeks of smoke and chemicals. To the south, two large double doors lead into the gymnasium. Mrs. McCaskill's classroom used to be accessible to the north, but there's no going that way now.\nSamir is here, holding hands with Tyrone.\nJude is here, holding hands with you and clinging to Mr. Bunny.\nThe fire alarms flash and shrill monotonously.\nYou are holding Jude's hand, so she follows you.\nYou are holding Tyrone's hand, so he follows you.\nTyrone is holding Samir's hand, so he follows Tyrone.\nThe wall buckled a bit here, but didn't collapse entirely - unlike to the west, where outright wreckage is visible by the gym entrance. Colorful leaf rubbings and magazine mosaics hang drunkenly off their moorings.\nSamir is here, holding hands with Tyrone.\nJude is here, holding hands with you and clinging to Mr. Bunny.\nThe door to your classroom hangs open on its twisted doorframe.\nThe fire alarms flash and shrill monotonously.\nYou are holding Jude's hand, so she follows you.\nYou are holding Tyrone's hand, so he follows you.\nTyrone is holding Samir's hand, so he follows Tyrone.\nThis was your classroom. A gaping hole in the wall provides\nunexpected access to Mrs. McCaskill's room. Tissue paper trees line the intact east wall, striving to brighten the desolation.\nSamir is here, holding hands with Tyrone.\nJude is here, holding hands with you and clinging to Mr. Bunny.\nYou left a long table shoved up against the west wall. Now, that\ntable supports half the rubble from the collapsed wall and partially blocks your access to the gaping hole.\nThe door to your classroom hangs open on its twisted doorframe."}, {"prompt": "You get the computer", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The hallway is very dark, except in this small area near the vending machine. A cushioned bench sits across from it, a place where hungry souls can sit and consider which snack to purchase. A door leads back into the stairway.\nThe door swings shut behind you."}, {"prompt": "Wear scarf", "response": "Not really my style, Owl."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "The wrought-iron fence surrounds the entire churchyard. The only way out is around that little path to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You stand next to the top of a stairway. Looking North, you see a pair of completely unmarked sliding doors standing open."}, {"prompt": "You tell Puffy about the herm", "response": "(the sacred-way herms)\nAs gently as you can, you fill Puffy in on the damage to the other herms -- your idea is to warm him up to it with some broad generalizations about the fickleness of fate and the need to take a philosophical attitude of detachment with respect to the vicissitudes fortune pitches into the gentle stream of our lives from time to time, but he's glaring at you with sufficient force as to make you more tongue-tied than usual so eventually you just lay out that the evening's broken-herm quota has just reached four, rather than one.\nThe change in Puffy is immediate -- one doesn't like to label a fellow berserk, but sometimes that's the clearest word to hand. He gives out a bellow, and makes a grab for the reins, shouting about how he needs to go back and fix things (you're no stone mason, but this seems like a tall order, especially given the hour of the night). \"Steady on!\" Alky calls, trying to shoulder Puffy aside, but the squabble has confused poor Hippy, who decides she will have none of it and skids to a halt. You and Alky manage to grab on for dear life, but Puffy, who luck is really not being kind to tonight, pitches forward off the chariot and, just to crown things off, fractures his bonce and one more herm in coming to a none-too-gentle landing.\nYou rush over to assist, but Puffy throws you off, looking now if anything more deranged than he did after drinking the spiked kykeon. \"You fools!\" he screams, which is an unkind cut though you notice that Machon's now run up to join you, and with his addition maybe the group judgment is a fair one. \"You ruined the mysteries, and now you're bent on destroying the herms too? Well, I won't let you -- I'll beat you to the punch!\"\nWith a cry, he levels a terrific kick at the unmentionable attribute of another herm, getting quite a bit of lift onto it as it flies clear, and is no sooner done than he's running to the next one down, bent on yet more destruction. You rush forward to try to rein things in, but Machon, somewhat confused by what's happening, tries to be a good sport and follows Puffy's lead by cracking up some herms of his own. Between the din of everyone's shouts, the panicked neighing of the horse, and the sharp explosions of fracturing statuary, all is pandemonium.\nEventually you and Alky are able to restore some semblance of order and talk Puffy down. You coax him back to the chariot and, once you reach Athens, bring him and the rest of the boys to your flat -- nobody's in much mood for the after party now, but after a nightcap or two and some rest you're sure everything will look better in the morning.\nA nightcap or two turned into several more -- more, at least, than you can comfortably count with your head this fuzzy -- but as you thought, with the bright light shining down and your boon companions bunking down with you, things seem, if not exactly right as rain, at least more manageable than they did last night, when all the blasphemous vandalry was really getting you down. But now the birds are chirping, the gentle noises of commerce and socialization drift up from passersby walking and vending beneath your window, and there's a loud pounding, as of armored feet, coming up the stairs to your door... Hang on, that's rather less idyllic!\nWhoever's on the other side makes a prim little knock. \"Good morning, citizen. Are you awake? I'm one of the city's magistrates, and I have some questions to ask you about your whereabouts last night.\"\nThe others are awake now, all suffering more or less from the fallout from last night's drinking and the dread of public odium. \"Look, we can bluff it out,\" Alky whispers. \"Puffy, you can just threaten any fellow who squawks with expulsion from the mysteries, and without any evidence we'll be in the clear.\"\nHe's confidently walking to the door to throw it open and walk the magistrate through the whole story, when Machon breaks in: \"small question, do you think they'd consider the broken-off unmentionables to be evidence?\" He spreads out his hands to reveal an even half-dozen of the thing-gummys. \"I gathered up as many as I could, so you could fix them,\" Machon says, looking over to Puffy.\n\"Oh, that was too kind,\" Puffy replies with a gulp. \"Too kind.\"\n\"Right,\" says Alky, a grim set to his mouth. \"Bluffing's out then.\" He grabs the chair from your writing desk and sets it against the door as a makeshift barricade.\nMachon turns to you and hands over the unmentionables, shrugging as you accept them gingerly. \"Maybe you can put them out of the way, coz?\" Then he and Puffy take up positions next to Alky.\nYour pied-\ufffd\ufffd-terre in the city provides you with a temporary base during the season -- though given present circs you'd prefer something a bit more castle-like. Beyond the essentials of your bed, a clothes-chest, the fireplace, and an empty shelf (usually your valet puts a vase of flowers here each morning, but lucky for him he's on holiday), the only other furnishing is your writing desk. The gang, plus your press-ganged desk chair, are braced against the door on the west wall that ordinarily only opens onto the stairs, but now leads to a mob bent on justice. There's also a window facing the door, looking down on an alley that presents a dismal prospect that's nonetheless appealing by comparison to the pickle you're currently in. Pity you're too high up to jump!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the sphere", "response": "Which sphere do you mean, the light sphere, or the dark sphere?"}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "Blue-green fondness and enjoyed creation spring from an acoustic well of burning fire and destruction.\nYou hear glimpses of color from the adjoining room, \"...she decided it would be a good idea...\" Infrared. Blame."}, {"prompt": "You open vise", "response": "You turn the crank, and the jaws of the vise separate."}, {"prompt": "You shoot gorilla", "response": "You fire at the skull, which explodes into pieces and is gone forever.\n\"No! Oh, Charlie!\" cries the captain. He looks up at you in disbelief. \"What did you do that for?\"\nNow the water is lapping at your shins."}, {"prompt": "You consult the computer about the float unit", "response": "Your search turns up the following articles:\nFloat technology and human adaptation: The article describes, with pictures, the float units built for humans who want to replicate the colonists' natural floating abilities. A supply of these were apparently built for the use of ambassadors and stored in the basement of the Embassy, since it was observed that humans tended to break them at a high rate.\nThere isn't any personal data available from logs or annotations."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\narmour (being worn)\na rifle\na death box (open)\na death needle\na Redline\na helmet (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "As you cross the railroad tracks, the air seems to lift slightly, becoming more breathable once again.\nThe road carries you across a desolate heath of gray, windswept grass. To the south, the black, jagged outline of Anchorhead's steep roofs and sharp, leaning gables cuts across the horizon. The road forks here to the west and east, heading across the railroad tracks in one direction, out toward the seashore in the other."}, {"prompt": "Slap fish", "response": "Whap! You hit the tuna like it is a punching bag.\n[ Your Stamina: 8     Bluefin Tuna: 36 ]"}, {"prompt": "You take the turtle", "response": "The turtle is much too large to take."}, {"prompt": "You examine the grayish stones", "response": "The bracelet is made of irregular chunks of gray-white stone about the size of marbles. Each stone is incised with a symbol of some sort.\nThe symbols look vaguely like letters, but not in any alphabet you've ever seen."}, {"prompt": "Attack door", "response": "(with the coal shovel)\nYou attack the door with all your might, but you get nowhere."}, {"prompt": "You examine the group", "response": "The townsfolk have gathered in a small crowd on Whateley Bridge. Word of your snooping must have gotten around quickly; these fellows are obviously not taking any chances on the possibility of you escaping from the church, and are keeping a sharp lookout."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You are in a high-ceilinged chamber, in the center of which is a pedestal which is the intended home of the Crown Jewels of the Great Underground Empire: a jewelled knife, a golden ring, and the royal sceptre. Not all of the jewels are in place, however. The room is, by appearances, unfinished."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is the northern side of the Festeron Rotary. A road leads north, towards the river.\nOn the corner stands a quaint village church. Its little white steeple is straight out of a country postcard. The church door stands invitingly open."}, {"prompt": "You examine Manifesto", "response": "You flip to the back page. \"You have nothing to lose but your chains\"? Fiery stuff; enough to rouse anyone from their dogmatic slumber."}, {"prompt": "You look at the scanner", "response": "The handheld voice-activated scanner you use when working on the station's machines.\n[You can ask the scanner for a list of commands by typing\nSCANNER, HELP and give it voice commands by typing phrases such as SCANNER, SCAN SOMETHING where SOMETHING is a visible object.]"}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You must be the new bartender.\"\nThe bartender nods sagely.\n1) \"How's business?\"\n2) <Order a drink.>\n3) \"See you soon.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine table", "response": "The table is your basic piece of wood with four legs and looks like it has been repaired dozens of times.\n\"He don't need no horse anyway. Give me two cards there Frank.\"\nYou are invisible."}, {"prompt": "Light pipe", "response": "[What do you want to light the pipe with?]"}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "This seems to be an entrance hall of some sort, judging by the grand iron door to the west, and the ornate stone and wooden doors which lead to the east and north, respectively. A few wide steps lead south."}, {"prompt": "You examine CLIFF GIANT", "response": "The CLIFF GIANT is really big, really rocky, and really drowsy. He seems barely aware of your presence."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tapestry", "response": "You could walk upward to the eastern tapestry."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "Opening the white mailbox reveals a red envelope and a syllabus."}, {"prompt": "You examine Lisa", "response": "She's pretty, but she's way older than me. Seventeen at least."}, {"prompt": "Break box", "response": "(the alms box)\nYou are too weak."}, {"prompt": "Point bulb at glass", "response": "(the drinking glass)\nYou point the light bulb at the drinking glass."}, {"prompt": "You look at the scythe", "response": "Wickedly sharp and imposing, this is your weapon of choice for reaping souls. It's a metaphor for your ability to harvest people from the land of the living, so it doesn't actually need to be a scythe but you find that people expect it. It's the look of the thing. Your Supervisors have gone to the trouble of making it invisible to mortal eyes after that embarrasing incident at JFK airport six months ago."}, {"prompt": "U,E,S,E", "response": "This is the rim of a great cistern, which is built of bricks and lined with plaster, and must be very old. Along the inside of the cistern, a spiral stair descends towards the surface of the water, more than a full story below you.\nThe walls themselves are painted with images of the vast unsociable ocean: of the broad empty water, the clustering clouds, the thin and distant crust that is the beginning of the New World.\nTower, Bottom\nYou stand at the bottom of a stone tower. Doorways open in each of the cardinal directions, except for the north; there, a spacious niche contains the statue of a woman, skillfully executed in white marble.\nThe center of the room is occupied by a spiral staircase, but one made of such slender and delicate supports that it obscures neither light nor view.\nThe silvery door to the south stands open.\nA straight white light comes through the hole in the ceiling, but it is soon after twisted and bent: mirrors cast it from angle to angle; crystal divides it; glass stains it.\nEast and west, low corridors lead into shadow.\nThe silvery door to the north stands open.\nAn orchard of glass trees: trunks slender and orderly as the columns of the Alhambra, foliage iridescent and frail. No wind stirs, and yet, from time to time, a leaf casts free of its branch and drifts to the ground. The whole floor of the cavern is deep with them.\nAt the center of this is a clearing where a monstrous furnace stands -- shaped like a coiled dragon."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The Phil is wandering down the main street of a good sized village, with sweet little cottages all around.\nThe cat purrs along at the Phil's heels. The Phil isn't sure he likes the look in its eye."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "You begin fighting. You rake your sword through the slime, but it just reforms. The slime shoots some acid at you.\n(You lose 5 hit points.)"}, {"prompt": "Examine crates", "response": "You recognize them as the type of crate used to transport dangerous substances."}, {"prompt": "You ask Dogwood to play the ocarina", "response": "You suspect that trying to boss Mrs. Dogwood around may not be the best way to secure her friendly co-operation."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "The hotel lounge is small, but comfortable. A soft, expensive leather couch stands near one wall, with a mahogany couch table in front of it. Next to it is an old fashioned reclining chair. In the corner of the room, an old grandfather clock is steadily ticking away, lending a dignified air to the proceedings.\nBrian Holmes, the former secret agent, is standing by the clock.\nJonathan Allington stands next to Mr. Garfield, his employer. His face reveals no emotions.\nShane Pearson is sitting in the couch with her legs crossed.\nDoctor Elias Mole is sitting next to Shane in the couch, his arms crossed in front of him.\nSylvester Starfield, the journalist, is sitting upright in the reclining chair taking notes on a notepad.\nDetective Goodfellow is standing behind you, eagerly waiting to assist you in arresting the murderer."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ceiling sign", "response": "The sign hangs from the ceiling to the west. It reads, \"Leave Orange/Enter Purple\" in the appropriate colors.\nFrom further down the hall you hear the familiar squeak of a gurney. A faceless man in blue scrubs is pushing it. A shape on the gurney is completely covered by the white sheet draped over it. The shape occasionally writhes, as if in terrible pain. You watch until you can no longer see them."}, {"prompt": "You look at the garden", "response": "In the darkness, you can't see much below, but there's no missing Jenny Lettucehead. She's planted herself right beneath your perch."}, {"prompt": "You examine hook", "response": "The hook has a receptacle for the three-prong connector of the body cord, and it also attaches to the fencer's D-ring to prevent unnecessary pulling on the body cord."}, {"prompt": "You get the snow", "response": "You reach down and pick up a handful of snow.\nYou hear a ringing bell in the distance and can barely make out a little snow sprite running across the hilltops in the distance."}, {"prompt": "You look at the planets", "response": "All the moons and planets are made of different materials to represent their different types.\nIn the model universe is a celestial bauble.\nThe lens inside the Jupiter ball glitters in the ambient light."}, {"prompt": "Summon", "response": "The air above the sigil crackles with energy.\nA fearsome pteranodon emerges from the sigil. Screeching, it attacks the polyphonic ungulate. Alone, the creature cannot defend itself.\nThe pteranodon seizes the polyphonic ungulate and carries it into the sky."}, {"prompt": "You say the waltz", "response": "Talking to yourself might draw attention.\nA buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear guards running in your direction.\n-- glaring light...\n[Hit any key.]\nInterrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)\nYou blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.\n\"We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught.\"\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nSecurity Annex\nThis is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south."}, {"prompt": "Examine crate", "response": "It's a massive crate with an Australian postage mark on the side- it's currently nailed shut."}, {"prompt": "Aft", "response": "You push off against the wall only to be pulled up short when one of your legs doesn't go with you. It's pinned."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are a Level 2 adventurer. You're equipped with a decent sword and light leather armor. You're also wearing a fine tabard. You have found a wooden key.\nYou have 10 crowns."}, {"prompt": "Bap", "response": "The wand is already set to blue-gray-purple."}, {"prompt": "You throw the broom on the riser", "response": "The bottom-most riser is just beyond your reach."}, {"prompt": "You go inside", "response": "You're in a damp underground chamber. Cold tunnels wander away to the south and east.\nThe surrounding walls are almost obscured by the roots of a mighty tree. Feeble light streams in from an opening overhead."}, {"prompt": "You say the music", "response": "Horus stretches tall and begins to sing a bespoke adaptation of The Charge of the Light Brigade. It seems it will go on for quite some time.\nWonderful. That should help mask the sound of your footsteps when you take the Rose.\nYou hear the whistle blow.\nHorus is currently singing at the top of his lungs.\nThe server stalks in, carrying his tray of drinks. He stands, slouched, staring at the floor, waiting for someone to grab a beverage. You can see quite a few drinks on the tray. Cornelia smacks her lips, glancing at the tray of drinks but not stopping her work or concentration.\nHe looks at your costume again, shaking his head slightly."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "This is the Shireton Bakery. This is where you, the Baker of Shireton, bake bread for all the citizenry (and adventuring visitors) of Shireton.\nThe oven where you bake bread dominates a corner of the bakery out of reach of the clientele.\nA highly polished wooden counter divides the room  The display case contains nothing.\nOn the counter are a tip jar (empty) and a hand bell.\nEverything you need to make dough (flour, water) is on your work table.\nOn the work table are a pan of risen dough, a pan of unrisen dough, a pan of unrisen dough and five metal pans.\nBehind the counter is a strong box with a narrow slot to catch your earnings."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "This ward is the home of children aged between six and twelve. A series of oddly-shaped rooms produced by ill-considered renovations, it's difficult to heat, the lighting is bad and there are far too many blind corners and hideaways. The Junior House lies south and the Senior north.\nHarry is housed here.\nHunter and Peyton are busily occupied with the ancient tricycles."}, {"prompt": "You open the cabinet", "response": "The cabinets are not, after all, still stocked -- much to your relief. There's nothing in there but an old book of matches."}, {"prompt": "You drink the coffee", "response": "Mmmm... Nice and hot, a refreshing nutty flavor."}, {"prompt": "You take the figurine with tongs", "response": "You pick up the black-eyed figurine with the fire tongs."}, {"prompt": "You wear the pig", "response": "You hunch your shoulders together and crawl into the pig carcass. Now the sky is no longer a limit."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes...\nYour younger self hands you your spell book!\nA few lumps of coal spill from the coal chute."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cloaking", "response": "This isn't a good time to let your mind wander.\nThe floor fades to transparency. There is a brilliant point of light somewhere far below you. Scanning beams trace over your body. Below you, a perfect mirror image of yourself fades into existence, your avatar. You have a sinking feeling as your avatar falls toward the light. Just as you were trained, you roll back on the balls of your feet and close your eyes. In your head, you count to six. Deep down there, your avatar enters the event horizon of the artificial singularity. As always, you have the disconcerting sensation of falling...\nCold.\nHot.\nBright.\nDark.\nThe pain is gone before you feel it. You want to open your eyes, but you know better. Even if you survived the experience, your sanity would not. You wait for the sensation of falling to end.\nIt does.\nYou wait for your perception of local timespace to return.\nIt does.\nYou open your eyes.\nIn the days before all food could be prepared by an automated processing unit, the kitchen was often considered the center of family life. This kitchen is decorated in a country style that was archaic even when it was built. Woodgrain paneling and prominently displayed kitchenwares give the room a rustic look. The stove, refrigerator and other appliances have a more modern look, but clashing with the predominant style is kept to a minimum. Heavier items and food supplies are kept in the pantry to the west, while archways lead north and east.\nOn the refrigerator door are a report card and a receipt."}, {"prompt": "You put the pole in the hole", "response": "(the metal pole in the recess)\nYou lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into existence, leading north."}, {"prompt": "Unwrap box", "response": "The urge is simply too strong. And when the deed is done, you are wielding a pirate's cutlass. Your finest treasure yet! Yes, yours. Someone was clearly wanting to be rid of it. You think about how grand it will look above your fireplace. If you ever get home, that is.\nYou carefully slide the cutlass into the accompanying leather scabbard, which you belt about your waist."}, {"prompt": "You say about Jane to Fred", "response": "\"So, what do you know about Jane?\"\nHe looks at Jane, then leans forward and whispers, \"Can you keep a secret? Jane has been my crush for two years now. I heard she likes walking dead, so I made this whole getup and these brainpops to impress her.\"\n[New topics: Crush and Lie]"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You head east on Front Street...\nIt's the gateway to nTopia. The airport is north through a tall rectangular arch that is topped with red flashing lights. On the southeast corner is the visitor center. Southwest is a Starbucks.\nA window pops up in the lower right corner of your nLap. In it, the uncanny red stapler wiggles its hinged head to the accompaniment of a cheery robot voice:\nHey! Just letting you know! If you're not tickling the user interface or doing something like compiling a program, you can, you know, close the computer and save the battery a bit.\nThe window winks away."}, {"prompt": "You wake up", "response": "Gathering your resolve, you slowly slide off the side of the futon, inadvertently sending the alarm clock on a death spiral off the edge of the futon. Oh well, you can find it later. Meanwhile, you slowly stand up, recapitulating millions of years of evolution in a few seconds.\nAs you get out of bed, you notice that your left arm tickles a bit -- must have been the way you were sleeping.\nACU -> INITIALIZE : TRUE\n\"There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into - that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.\"\n- Robert Heinlein\nType \"help\" for instructions, credits, and license or just blaze on impetuously.\nJanet: David, are you hooked in?\nDavid: Ready to go. Is this the final version of the ACU,\nor another beta?\nJanet: A program is never finished, but I think we're ready\nto go.\nDavid: I hope so, Earth could launch any day now.\nJanet: Run program.\n*    *    *\nRelease beta 732 / Serial number 23920401 / Inform 10.6 build Mu-013 (I6/v.7.1 lib 7/18N)\nRover draws pensively on his stubby cigar, the tip glowing red below his dealer's hat. He paws nonchalantly at the scotch and water he has been nursing for the last half hour. Despite the tower of chips in front of him, he's either in trouble now, or trying to play the rest of the table for suckers. His tail is no longer wagging, though, and you suspect that the scotch may be getting the better of him. He can't mass more than about 30 kilos, and he's been putting them away tonight. You push all in, figuring that even if you lose it all, at least you'll get some sleep before you need to get back to the MARSpace. Elva the cleaning lady folds, as does Isaac Asimov and that boy that you kissed in fourth grade. Wait...don't go....where is everyone going?\nDavid: You have some weird dreams.\nJanet: You can't hold me responsible for the subconscious\nramblings of the ACU.\nI beg your pardon?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the pencil", "response": "It is a stub of a pencil, about an inch long. The point has broken off so it would need sharpening before it could be used."}, {"prompt": "You put the sturdy key in the hourglass", "response": "You put the sturdy key into the contraption; predictably, it squinches down, passes through the narrow neck, and emerges from the other end smaller than it was when it went in."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You release the transmitter as you walk, ending the conversation.\nTo the west, a very shallow slope of mixed scree and debris leads up to the bank of the mountain stream. At the bottom, where you stand, the forest thickens again, with faint animal trails leading north into the deeper forest and east towards the thinner trees that line the coast. By keeping close to the streambank, you could also manage to follow the water southeast down toward the shore.\nNagi ambles along off to your side, curious to see what adventures you have planned next."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "bedrock of the land. The walls are close around you, and tons of rock hang over your head. Luckily, enclosed spaces don't bother you - only heights do. Passages run north, east, and southwest. All are about the same width and height; none looks more well-traveled than any other.\nYou can't go much longer without food."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others\nglow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the functioning exits."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "He draws the next card from his deck and places it face-down on the table."}, {"prompt": "You examine the stone", "response": "(the stonework key)\nAn artificially carved stone fragment that reminds you of a puzzle piece or key. One of its faces is crescent-shaped and covered in moss and graffiti paint."}, {"prompt": "You throw the apple at the vent", "response": "You throw the apple at the small window vent, and grin with pride to see it hit its target perfectly and shatter the glass. Suddenly, the burglar alarm screams out, and the sounds of general panic can be heard from inside. Spookily, though, no one looks out at you from the windows, and the security guard does not appear.\nStrange, really, as you could have sworn you saw movement behind the vent. You'd have thought the person up there would have given the game away.\nAs for the apple, well, it looks like you won't get to enjoy that tangy fruit flavour after all.\nYou can hear an alarm screeching."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "As you start to leave, something catches your eye. You turn and see that the five-sided poker table is shaking. The poker table begins to transform, shrinking while maintaining its pentagonal top. Soon you are no longer looking at a poker table; you are looking at a dodecahedron."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "\"Tall--Moonlight; Tiny--Starlight, Average--Sunlight, Ugly--Firelight.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Dragoons guard the gate."}, {"prompt": "You get table", "response": "All the tables in Ten Forward are affixed to the floor.\nAction or Reply:"}, {"prompt": "You hit man", "response": "Violence isn't the answer to this one.\nThe man says, \"Level B checks clear! Begin firing sequence!\" Then he notices you again, \"I thought I told you to go! This is a holy launch and you have no right to be here!\""}, {"prompt": "Light lantern", "response": "You really should take it out of your pocket first."}, {"prompt": "You turn it", "response": "You turn the knob, but no water comes out. Not even a dribble."}, {"prompt": "Press adventure", "response": "Your surroundings boil away like fizzing soda, and you find yourself in a completely new place!\nClassic Coca-Cola presents: CLASSIC ADVENTURE\nReconstructed in three steps by:\nDonald Ekman, David M. Baggett (1993) and Graham Nelson (1994)\nYou are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Coca-Cola...Along The Highway To Anywhere, Around The Corner From Everywhere, Coca-Cola is The Best Friend Thirst Ever Had. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully."}, {"prompt": "You look at the island", "response": "St. Sinistra is blessed with lush tropical beauty, jungle besieging the mansion atop the southern cliffs."}, {"prompt": "Thread needle", "response": "(first taking the needle)\nThere's nothing appropriate with which to do that."}, {"prompt": "You touch the mirror", "response": "You reach out and touch the mirror, and your strange double returns the gesture. Your fingers feel numb and cold."}, {"prompt": "You enter", "response": "You open the door to the fire tower and walk inside, closing it behind you.\nThe interior of the fire tower is simple and unadorned. A plain wooden floor stretches from wall to wall, and windows stretch from about\nwaist high to just short of the ceiling. Despite the sun, the warmth\nof the day, and the large windows that allow a 360-degree view of the surrounding landscape, the air is surprisingly cool inside the tower, no doubt due to the stone foundation you saw outside. You're thankful for the break from the heat."}, {"prompt": "You pull the chain", "response": "You pull again at the rusted chain. A long metal box hauls out of the stream and clatters to a rest on one of the stones."}, {"prompt": "Smell", "response": "Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from the north might be a bit fresher."}, {"prompt": "You touch the floor", "response": "And you're back in that place, where he sent you the first time. Groping hand and foot in a stifling blackness, no light anywhere. (\"I can't promise you help, but remember: rely on your wits. And whatever you do, keep looking.\")\nWhispering it to yourself in the close corridors, hearing the corridors whisper it back again. Keep looking.\nAnd so you crawl on, sometimes falling unexpectedly, sometimes getting stuck; sometimes finding yourself far down a passage without outlet, having to crawl backwards again, start over.\nEven when you find what you seek -- a deep pool of matter in its rawness, chaos without shape -- you must make your way back again. There's no time here, no orientation, no measure. Only blind persistence can ever bring you home."}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "You're not about to walk away without putting Ivan's grandmother where she belongs: in your chest."}, {"prompt": "You ask the guard about Malcolm", "response": "The guard affects a curiously blank expression."}, {"prompt": "Smell lift", "response": "You sniff the lift, and after Tuck opens the door, you lead him inside. Next to the door on the southern wall is a horizontal row of buttons, labelled '3', '2', '1' and 'G' from left to right. The button labelled 'G' is already depressed."}, {"prompt": "You close tin", "response": "You close the old tin."}, {"prompt": "Smell card", "response": "(the erogater's card)\nSmells like clay and ozone.\nThe faintest rasp of the erogater's breath, like the exhalation of some distant machine."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You launch yourself towards deeper water, skimming along for a few yards before coming to a stop.\nDeep Water, North of Pier, (treading water)\nThere's nothing but endless ocean to the east, but you can swim back into shallower water to the west. The long cement pier finally ends to the south, its supporting pylons disappearing into the murky depths."}, {"prompt": "You pull the piston vii", "response": "The VII piston extends out of the console with a weighty hiss.\nNow, the I piston is extended, the II piston is extended, the IV piston is extended, the VII piston is extended, and the X piston is retracted."}, {"prompt": "You examine Pokerounce", "response": "Turnkey and grand inquisitor: that's our Master Pokerounce. Without him, who would man the cells, command the guards, coax tidbits from the prisoners? A wonder that he doesn't wobble, perched high on that stool with his breastplate abuzz, loaves for gauntlets and greaves, his skull enclosed by a pine-nut helmet. His beard might stand a little trim, gnarled galingale and ginger root, barely a face to see under that mass, but looks aren't what we measure to employ wardens and torturers."}, {"prompt": "You weigh the anchor", "response": "The ice-world shrinks behind you, as you rise to the edge of the brown dwarf's orbit.\nCivilizations are fragile, and the relics of an unknown race -- a people who might have bloomed billions of years past, in the cold unlight of a dwarf star -- these tablets must be incalculably valuable. You are torn: should you come around, and begin the journey back to the bright worlds?\nBut so much remains out there for you to take. Just one more discovery. Perhaps two."}, {"prompt": "You examine the hole", "response": "(the small hole)\nIt's almost big enough to put your finger through."}, {"prompt": "Go outside", "response": "The fertile brown bark of the tree stretches in all directions: up into the blue sky, down to the exotic green jungle, and curving around on itself both sunwise and widdershins.\nThe entrance to the Tree Hollow Village is set into the bark here. Just below it, a sturdy old branch stretches out into the distance, splitting into three smaller branches. Suspended magically between the three branch-tips is a pulsating whorl of bright colour.\nOne of your sisters lies curled up in the furrowed bark, dead."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Bookshelves line the walls of this small, wood-paneled room, mixing\nthe smell of paper with that of cigarette smoke. There are some high-backed chairs arranged in front of the shelves, clustered around tables topped with small but bright wrought-iron lamps. A passageway, above which sits an oil painting of a tropical seascape, leads south."}, {"prompt": "You examine the lizard", "response": "The outline becomes clearer as you take the time to study the creature. It is indeed a lizard, and a pretty large one at that.\nThe lizard finishes its inspection. It seems content.\nThe lizard's scales shift to perfect the camouflage. It is gone; you don't feel its presence any more."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came from.\nA crocodile is in the water nearby, keeping intruders away.\nThe letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a little ways from the shore."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "You walk to the door and hesitate. The etiquette of the situation is unclear. On the one hand, it's impolite to knock. On the other, you do have a card which grants you the right to enter, and which deactivates the security field. So it must be all right...\nYou step through the field, which here is translucent grey...\nA room outfitted with lab desk, lab drawer, a recycling chute, and assorted equipment. It's immediately obvious what kind of experimentation that takes place here. The walls are a shrine to humans -- and not to the human genome, which would be comprehensible, but to human society. Some still shots from Chinese television, a sketch of Stonehenge, a landscape recognizably New Zealand...\nThe door out leads southwest.\nBeside the lab desk is a female scientist, perhaps in her teens.\nShe greets you with a stream of words you don't understand, and bows deep."}, {"prompt": "You examine the chair", "response": "Ivan's chair is just like any other magician's chair, although you feel sorry for the thing for having to come into contact with such a huge ass every day."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Like most buildings here, the Embassy is built with an eye for organic color and form: windows and doorways framed with curved ironwork, accents of bright enamel, wooden floors grown in place. All conspicuously wasteful of both materials and labor. It might be intended to make Earth representatives uncomfortable, or it might be meant as an honor, or it might be an advertisement for a standard of living that Earth lost some time ago. Too hard to tell.\nThere's a large Receiving Room to the west. Less prominent rooms lie north and south -- the south with a locked private door, the north an archway offering a mercifully limited view of the \"Museum\". Shallow stairs, almost a ramp, rise to a second story."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "A tide of perambulators surges north along the crowded Broad Walk. Shaded glades stretch away to the northeast, and a hint of color marks the western edge of the Flower Walk."}, {"prompt": "You examine the wall", "response": "Some rich wood, in pleasingly irregular spans, polished but naturally dark."}, {"prompt": "You look at doctor torso", "response": "The doctor is a thin man, shrunken with age. His natron coat is of that old-fashioned button-up sort you see in laterna magica\npictures. Your eyes are drawn to his ruined sleeves, which cling to his skin like grotesque pelagic rays."}, {"prompt": "You take the arm", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Tower, Mid-level\nA midpoint in the tower, with doorways east and west, lit from above. The south wall is occupied by a deep niche, in which is a statue of a young man in the Greek mode.\nThe walls have been sheathed with a variety of fine materials, all exceptionally costly: sheets of beaten gold, squares of lapis lazuli, placards of ruby and adamant. There is a dark, square hole in the north wall where one of these sheets has been removed.\nYou can see a tube (which is empty), two keys (a delicate key and a sturdy key), a workbox (which is empty), a magnifying glass, a ball of yarn, a needle, some slippers and a placard here."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "You close your eyes in deep concentration and intone the magical word XYZZY...\nYou open your eyes and find yourself in a bakery in beautiful Paris! The baker smiles at you and presses something into your palm.\n\"Merci,\" you say.\n\"De rien,\" the baker replies.\nThe spell wears off, and you find yourself back in the boxing ring.\nThe bell rings! The match has started!\nThe crowd holds its breath in anticipation of your next moves."}, {"prompt": "You ask the firefly about the spear", "response": "\"Me, yes me, I will not tell.\"\n\"I must go, yes I must. The firefly disappears with a pop and a flash."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "There are plenty of actual laboratories at MinSystems Labs. This isn't one of those: you train your robots in an ordinary household setting.\nOff to the east is the kitchen area, panelled in faux walnut, and there's a bathroom, south, just for the sake of verisimilitude. The robots do not need to use it.\nThe Jenny of Tomorrow is sitting properly on the sofa, and looking frankly a little on the underdressed side.\nYou can also see a coffee table here.\nThe Jenny of Tomorrow crosses her metal legs, the opposite way from before."}, {"prompt": "Roll mat", "response": "You roll up the mat, concealing the skeleton."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "You are in a maze of mirrored walls. Reflections of yourself recede into infinity. You think you can go north and northeast\ndeeper into the maze. The door back outside is to the south."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "A young and tall carny mans this ride, assisting any carnival-goers on and off the ferris wheel. At this time of season, those\ncarnival-goers are few and far between. The ferris wheel itself is surprisingly sturdy in its appearance, however, like all things in\nthis carnival, it needs a fresh coat of paint. For some reason, this seems to be an extra-tall ferris wheel, larger than the one in Coney Island, from what you can remember. The Ferris wheel sits by the river, on the edge of the carnival. The only path is back to the swan pond to the northwest.\nYou can see Royce Brunner here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You try to reach the door, but can't. The static force from the sofa is too strong. The presenter laughs.\n\"Isn't it great to stay indoors and watch your favourite channel, NYTV! We'll be here to keep you company right through till midnight.\"\n\"Yes, Drac, the rumours from Fairhaven have been confirmed. Apparently a major Hero Convention is being held in that town as we speak. Our sources are still vague but we believe this may pose the first real threat to Nytemare Corp's operations in several years. Over to you, Drac.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the scramaseax", "response": "Cold-wrought bog-iron is a wretched material, but you'd carry a weapon made of soap if it could wound the dead. It's notched, pitted, holds an edge for about three seconds and has been twisted back into shape countless times; constant application of walrus blubber mitigates the rust somewhat, but considering what's in the air here the final outcome is not in doubt. Locating a replacement for when the dear old thing falls to bits is one of your more pressing concerns."}, {"prompt": "You return", "response": "You'll have to be more specific about how you want to do that.\nInside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (Inside Zarf (In yourself))))))\nRecursion has always been one of your favorite tools, but you know far too well that if it doesn't return a value, it will recur until the stack overflows and the system crashes."}, {"prompt": "You turn plunger", "response": "It is fixed in place.\nATTITUDE CONTROL -> REORIENT : NIL"}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe machine lets out some steam."}, {"prompt": "You open the flask", "response": "You open the flask.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "Stamp paperwork", "response": "(with the ink stamp)\nYou take a deep breath, raise the ink stamp high over your head, and slam it down as hard as you can.\nRight in the middle, every damn time. It's thrilling, on a sort of visceral, primitive level.\n[You have just become a little bit less steamed.]"}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.\nA pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.\nIn one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales.\nThe room is ankle-deep in raw sewage, in which Bart, Gavin, Bub, Cheyenne, Cob, Jim and Prudence frolic with bleach, bucket and mop."}, {"prompt": "Kulcad box", "response": "As you cast the spell, the brittle scroll vanishes!\nIt appears that the jewelled box was real, since nothing happens.\nA knife seems to split your head apart. A deep, black presence seems to enter and probe, deep and sure. After what seems like an eternity, it passes, leaving you with a throbbing headache."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Wind whistles among the fallen archways, crumbled balustrades, and black circle of this ruined castle. (It's no wonder this section of Mars is considered the Ruined Castle Capital of the Solar System.) Paths lead east and northwest through the rubble.\nTiffany is here, counting on her fingers and mumbling to herself."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the grate with the sturdy key", "response": "You unlock the grating and swing it open."}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "The spider jabs you with a sharp leg. You whack it with your sword, throwing sparks.\n(You lose 3 hit points.)"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\npot\nwhite russian\na bottle of rum\na bath robe (being worn)\nmanatee wristband (being worn)\na durian\na fishing rod\nmarooned wristband (being worn)\ntreasure-wristband (being worn)\na rucksack (being worn and open)\na brass lantern\nan ubuntu cd\ntrousers (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You talk to David", "response": "\"Lily, this park is awesome!\" says David. \"Did you know there's a giant castle cake in the snack shop?\""}, {"prompt": "Vip", "response": "VIP lounge (NW corner)\nThe area is reserved to those with VIP passes. There are cushy red sofas to sit on and you don't have to worry about drunken idiots crashing your table.\nThe guard is lying passed out on one of the sofas.\nBritney, the bimbo girlfriend of Gus, sits on a couch looking bored."}, {"prompt": "You examine boy", "response": "The boy appears to be of high school age, though probably younger than you. He's currently reading a novel."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "(opening the barred gate first)\nThe orderly laughs at your attempts. \"Nice try, lady, but you're never gettin' in there without this,\" he says, patting the key on his belt."}, {"prompt": "You get the sock", "response": "You snatch up the wet sock with your mouth and hold on tight."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You are outside and the thick fog carpets everything; you can barely tell that it is indeed daytime outside. You are now certain that you see shapes moving in the distance and feel hesitant to move much further from the safety of the hospital.\nYou can go south to the Parking Lot or west to the Entry Hall.\nYou can hear the gentle shuff of feet and limbs being dragged along the ground mixed with the occasional clomp of a heavy shoe or heel. There are occasional thuds of zombies dropping to the ground and raising themselves up again. The sound of massive amounts of undead lumbering towards you fills the air and echoes against the building structures."}, {"prompt": "You keep going", "response": "All right.\n\"...sold!\" Percival steps up to the block, pays the auctioneer, takes the stock, and sits down again."}, {"prompt": "You close the door", "response": "The exit hatch swings closed.\n\"Ready to go yet?\" asks Marie."}, {"prompt": "Diversions", "response": "Did you try...\n...listening while sitting in your booth at the beginning?\n...playing solitaire while sitting in your booth?\n...examining the penny arcade?\n...examining the barricade?\n...climbing the barricade?\n...examining the skeletons underground?\n...talking to Ivan's grandmother?\n...talking to your mother?\n...revisiting Ivan after stealing his grandmother?\n...guessing Lady Gascogne's card incorrectly?\n...pulling a rabbit out of your hat?\nWould you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last command, or view a few potential DIVERSIONS?"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The gently winding lane makes its way through the birch woods south of town. New England foliage is famous for its splendid colors in the fall, but the oppressive weather and pervading murk have leached these trees of most of their tint. The road continues south into the increasingly dense forest, and in the other direction heads back to town. A paved walk also leads east through the trees.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You look in the car", "response": "The inside of your own car is familiar to you already.\nThe storm continues to batter unrelenting upon Skebdale.\nA bus sweeps down the dale like a steel monster, carrying a consignment of little old ladies towards the Vale of York. The chickens are helpless before the harbinger of death. All that remains are a few brown feathers, slowly drifting to earth...\nSuddenly the flying squad is upon you. Unmarked cars screech to a halt at your feet, amphibious vehicles roll up, dripping slime, from the mere, sending ducks flapping into the air, and Apache helicopters swoop down from the Pike, missiles trained on your slightest movement. You are arrested, tried, found guilty of leaving a gate wrongfully open and locked up in Broadmoor for an indefinite period of time decided by some fascist Tory minister in the Home Office. In short, you are well out of it.\nThis is the job that all men in white coats dream of...a potential epidemic. The details were sparse but menacing - mysterious, unexplained deaths in the isolated Dales village of Skebdale. The authorities had no choice but to send you, their most experienced environmental health agent, to check things out. Unfortunately it looks more like a job for Bond than for Herriot...\nType 'help' for...er...help.\nType 'quotes on/off' to toggle box quotations, in case they obscure text.\nStandard interpreter 1.0\nA winding country road threads its way between old stone cottages and barns. Daffodils and snowdrops spring from the grass verges, adding a dash of colour to the grey walls and roofs. To your north, the sign of 'The Green Calf' swings in the sunshine, beckoning locals and tourists alike to pop in for a drink. There is a small garden to the south of the road which is attached, unsurprisingly, to a small house.\nA short gravel track leads up to a wooden gate to your north-east.\nYour car, a battered blue Volvo estate, is slewed across the grass verge, two wheels in the ditch."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.\nThe stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the east end. The only way you can go is back to the west.\nAn ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "You regard the spices", "response": "It is a tiny container of SPICES that smelleth like a HOBLING bakery making PUMPKIN PIES."}, {"prompt": "You open door", "response": "You open the backstage door.\nGinger flashes a brilliant smile at a portly man who is old enough to be her father. It looks like he'll go home happy."}, {"prompt": "You put the burl in hourglass", "response": "You put the rough burl into the contraption; predictably, it squinches down, passes through the narrow neck, and emerges from the other end larger than it was when it went in."}, {"prompt": "You buy the mask with the fisa", "response": "\"That will be 5 clams, sir. I'll charge it to your Fisa account at once. Enjoy your sniff.\" says Steve as he hands you a mask."}, {"prompt": "You look at the footsteps", "response": "There are two sets: one that goes both in and out, and another that only goes out. Mingled among them is a strange pattern in the snow. It looks as though someone was using two hot pokers as walking sticks, one in each hand. The melted holes cut through the snow, revealing scorch marks on the dead grass beneath.\nCold knives of pain cut through your skull. They ease off, leaving a dull throbbing behind your eyes."}, {"prompt": "You throw hat at Gnome", "response": "What gnome ever do to Grunk?\nGnome sigh. \"I wish I knew where that Mogglev's ended up.\""}, {"prompt": "You throw the coat at the bat", "response": "No, that would be cruel."}, {"prompt": "You throw it", "response": "Having no further use for it, I cast the trombone out of the basket. Hubert merely sighs and rolls his eyes at me.\nThe balance between the weight of the balloon and the lift provided by the gas is so delicate that jettisoning even a very light object causes an immediate vertical displacement. In this instance, the balloon gains around five hundred feet in altitude."}, {"prompt": "You examine bridge", "response": "The concrete bridge is narrower than the road on either side; a single vehicle might cross it, but not two abreast. A thin metal railing at about your waist height discourages those crossing from hurling themselves into the rocky waterway below."}, {"prompt": "You ask Baines about Arguule", "response": "You wouldn't have said it was possible even moments ago, but somehow the pale white ghost manages to blanch with fear. \"Bara- uh, that name is not the name of any author, or any human being. If you have to know, B- Ba- Ba- that being is the first servant of the one who binds me here, the one whose name I will not even try to say. The incantation of Arguule may be hidden somewhere in these books; it is not his name, it is something more baleful...\" he demurs. \"I've said too much,\" he says, and falls silent.\nYou resolve to examine these books more attentively than ever when you read them, in case you might discover\u2014 whatever that is..."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You are standing in the middle of a dirt road to the south of a large field of pumpkins. The road stretches on the the east and west.\nLooking up the road, you see a set of headlights headed in your direction. Something screams in your very soul that you need to hide, you don't think it would be wise to be caught in the open in your state."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You emerge from the darkness of the mortuary...\nDoctor Cavala's clinic is a small, unostentatious affair, neatly organized with little in the way of decoration. A row of chairs faces the prescription counter, where the medication and patient records are sorted in gridlike pigeonholes; further on is the consulting study, home to a desk strewn with notes and diagrams.\nA calomel curtain leads north to the surgery room, stairs lead down to the mortuary, and the front door lies east."}, {"prompt": "You kill the monster with the pen", "response": "As you attack the troll with all your might, using your trusty pen, it dissolves into a whiff of green smoke. \"NOOOOOO!\" it screams. \"UNFAIR! FOUL! OFFSIDE! UNSPORTING! TROLLS KILLED ONLY WITH SWORD!\"\nAs you shake your head in wonder, you can see something descend from the sky.\nYes, it's the family jet. The door opens, and a familiar face pops out - Gerald. He walks quickly up to you, and takes you by the hand.\n\"Welcome back, Cassie\", he says, joyously, as your two children, looking at you and the troll, can barely conceal their admiration. \"We're going home.\"\n\"You defeated him\", you say, amazed.\n\"No, you did. Your character. You did, Harold. You have destroyed the menace that was threatening our dimension. This is your victory, not mine.\", the Author replied. The Voice - appearing in the now familiar guise of a man whose profile resembled a coin - agreed, as mildly as it could.\n\"You mean...........\", you say, still unable to take it in. \"You mean I've.......But I never did....\"\n\"Yes, you did not destroy your manuscript. You will go on to complete it - but we needed you, here, to understand what was at stake - and to save our dimension. And each time a new menace arises, your creatures - your gifts to this world - shall rise up, time and time again, and guarantee us success. But you must leave us now.\"\nThe palace in the clouds dissolves around you.\n\"Good luck, Harold.\"\nYou wake up. Nothing has changed. It's the same room, the same bed, the same tired old manuscript, the same surreal dream fading from the edges of your mind.........\nNo, something has changed. Forty-six copies be damned. Sales figures, faugh. After all, which author can claim to have saved an entire parallel dimension?\nYou'll never really know how it all started.\nThat's not surprising, because you're not even sure what happened in the first place. If it had been anything else, you would have dismissed it as ninety-nine per cent bad digestion and one percent fancy, much as Ebenezer Scrooge would have. Somehow, in this case, that explanation doesn't really grab you. Did it really mean anything? Or was it, as the physiologists would say, just a matter of a few neurons in your brainstem working overtime?\nBut life is strange. It's almost impossible to predict - as Heisenberg pointed out - where exactly you might end up, even when you start in as mundane a place as your own home....\nThis is hardly the place for an adventure to begin. You know the furniture of this room - desk, chair, bed and bookcase - almost as well as the contents of your pockets.\nOn the wooden desk is a dusty manuscript."}, {"prompt": "You unlock bag with key", "response": "I unlock the carpetbag with the tiny metal key, tossing the padlock over the side of the basket. The bag falls open to reveal, to my astonishment, a pair of underpants, a trombone, and what appears to be an Egyptian mummy still in its original wrappings!"}, {"prompt": "You ask him about Vikings", "response": "He huffed a little. \"I'm not really an expert on these things.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine Garden", "response": "This is a thin notebook with a marbled black-and-white pattern on the cover. Only the first handful of pages are full of writing. The work is done in black pen, with numerous mistakes scribbled out and many doodles in the margins. The rest of the book is blank. On the label on the front of the book is the title \"MORNING IN THE GARDEN,\" written in heavily-scribbled black ball-point. On the upper right corner of the first page is the date \"1974.\"\n(To enter this story, pick up the composition book labeled \"Morning in the Garden\".)"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You can't escape your perch.\nThe Prince sighs. \"Yes,\" he says. \"The ball, I meant to tell you...\"\nHe stops."}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "You'll have to get off the altar first."}, {"prompt": "You look at the chair", "response": "Plain, but sturdy."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"Yeah, I've seen that in action,\" he laughs. \"Well, at this point, the biggest part of the mystery is why she hasn't told us already. So I guess a few more hours won't kill us. I hope.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "The smell of decay here is overwhelming. A large pile of human body parts lies in a corner.\nThe air is full of the tiny brown spores of the rust moss.\nAn exit leads up (to Drawing Room)."}, {"prompt": "You wear the white jacket", "response": "You pull Valenti's white jacket on. The effect could be more flattering: the float-pins make it stand out around your torso as though inflated. You can't see, but it feels as though all your chest hair is being forced to lie flat. Breathing in is a challenge.\nMentally you check off \"wear white jacket (Valenti's idea)\" on your list of remaining tasks. You run over the things various people have decided you ought to do:\nsummon Liam and show him the gift box\nmeet with Ambassador Aylene to present your gift"}, {"prompt": "You go outside", "response": "You turn off the torch to save its battery.\nIt's normally near impossible to find a parking space in this town centre car park at any time between 8 am and midnight, but now there's scarcely a vehicle in sight. The main car park exit into Mandlebury Street is to the north, but there's also a narrow alley leading west to the High Street.\nThe only vehicle parked here is a large lorry."}, {"prompt": "Kiss pratt", "response": "(Mr. Pratt)\nKeep your mind on the game.\n\"I want to show you something, Miss Sweet,\" says Mr. Pratt, walking around to the side of the Dynamo and opening up a panel. \"This is the control console for the steam-powered calliope I designed for Mr. Sterling. It's connected to the horn. Right now it's set to play a set of pre-recorded paper rolls, but look -- it's also got a keyboard.\"\nMr. Pratt makes a few adjustments. \"Let's go for the second verse. Go ahead and play it!\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nThe sheriff fixes his steely eyes on you. \"And whose side are you on, Mute? Your own?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the nail gun", "response": "From what you can tell, it's in working condition. The battery light is glowing faintly."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "Disaster seems to dog these masquerade parties. Last time it was Matilda that they found drowned in the fountain with her hair streaming around the water-lilies. Nobody could discover how it happened. This time it will be you that they find dead on the lawn, and everyone will know how it happened."}, {"prompt": "You look at the hall", "response": "You feel a little sick, as though whatever is affecting the hallway is also affecting you."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nYou catch a distant whiff of something, drifting from the narrow passage to the left.\nYou shake your head, side to side, trying to push off the weight of weariness for another few minutes. Keep moving."}, {"prompt": "You give you the Wizard 's wand", "response": "The demon seems confused. \"I don't see any wizard's wand here!\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the key", "response": "It is a pink cylindrical key, several inches long, and about an inch thick, with one rounded end.\nA girlish shriek comes from just down the corridor."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You wander among the shacks for a bit, but it's getting dark out. You return to the main level before you get lost."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are wearing:\nyour llama-suit\nYou are carrying:\nthe somnuliser\nthe attuning set\na Winkerchief"}, {"prompt": "You examine the carpet", "response": "Generations of feet have worn an off-white strip down the hallway that branches into each room. Where the walls meet the floor you can just barely make out hints of the forest-green of the carpet.\nThe leaden light of the overcast sky seems to swim in the edges of the hall."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "(opening the small metal door first)\nThis tiny, concrete-lined alcove within the underside of the bridge forms the top of a vertical shaft leading down into darkness. Iron rungs embedded in the wall provide a way down.\nIn the north wall is a small metal door."}, {"prompt": "Rotate gas line", "response": "You open the valve on the gas line. Nitrogen begins flowing slowly out of the end of the line, causing the L bend in the gas line to press gently against the button but not hard enough to push the button."}, {"prompt": "Gilgamesh", "response": "Is Gilgamesh RIGHT to set off on this quest for personal glory? Should he rather stay and help the PEOPLE of Uruk?"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "A small hallway, brightly lit by a row of burning human skulls. Dark wooden stairs lead upwards, and a doorframe opens east into the Living Room. A small door under the stairs lead into a storage closet. (Referred to by Paul only as \"The Potter Room\")\nWally arrives from the east."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "You step back from the quivering wreck of a man. He is moving less, now. Waiting to die.\nYou can feel the weight of your scalpel in your coat pocket."}, {"prompt": "You ask Lydia about the altar", "response": "Lydia reaches out to touch the stone block, almost lovingly. \"That was where they did it to me,\" she whispers. \"I guess it only lasted a minute, but it seems like it lasted years. Like it's still going on, almost. The knife, the blood, the - the thing coming down on top of me, its teeth, its eyes like lava....\""}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "As good-looking as ever.\nYou do notice a key on the bookshelf. It is probably significant.\nNo, let me rephrase that; it is the ONLY reason a plebeian like you would stray into this temple of learning. So pick it up and get out of here.\nA Rusty Iron Key."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "\"Do what..? You're breaking up..\""}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Riggertown, Lower Level\nThis peculiarly goblin neighborhood bristles with mechanical-chymical detritus. There are twisty catwalks made for childlike feet, and sheet-metal shacks you must stoop to enter. Here and there in the shadow of the upper landing, neon lamps glow and windchimes tinkle like laughter.\nYou can climb a ladder up to the next level, wander among the shacks to the west, or cross the canal east by way of Cadaver Walk."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "You sing a verse of code, quite off-key.\nThe pauper winces. He says: \"Sorry, I don't like a capella. Maybe there's an instrument around here somewhere you can play for me instead.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Something is off about this creaking hall, this bending passage that seems to fold inward. The pipes pass in and out of shadow, traced by your lantern-light, writ large in the cold gray darkness.\nTo the east is the blast door you emerged from. To the north, the hall widens and distends.\nwidens and distends.And there is something -- something\nmoving there --\nmoving there --No. Gone. It's gone."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The air is cool here, protected by deep walls of stone. Heavy beams overhead support the weight of the upper floors. A thick dust overlays everything.\nAn open grey-blue door leads south.\nA closed red door leads east.\nA closed russet door leads northeast.\nA heavy red door, wreathed in chains and locks, leads north into the vault, where the best wines were kept during your youth.\nThe wine-cellar door -- sturdy wood in yellowish brass panels -- stands open to the west."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "About Escapade!\nHow to play\nTalking with characters\n> Settings\nLicense\nAbout Escapade!\nHow to play\nTalking with characters\n> Settings\nLicense"}, {"prompt": "You hit Camino with the knife", "response": "You are not sure you can take him in a fair fight. You need to find a weak spot."}, {"prompt": "You get in the bed", "response": "No, you have to report for work."}, {"prompt": "Clo", "response": "Initiating audiovisual link... \nHYDRA Laboratory (as Dr. Singh)\nDr. Singh is standing in a large clearing in the center of a maze of trash. The clone machine hovers above in silence. Dr. Singh can hear a murmur of voices from the maze, with occasional laughs, screams, and yells from Dr. Spiel's clones. Dr. Singh can also hear his own heavy breathing. Dr. Singh can move to the north, south, east or\nwest.\nA mound of lenses is piled up here.\nn,e,s,w - movement\ntake- pick up an object\nrem- attempt to use remote\ndis- disconnect from the clone\nDr. Singh's right ear is turning to ash. You don't have much time, Dr. Law; grab as much as you can to boost the signal, then turn on the remote."}, {"prompt": "You examine the flag", "response": "A glorious red flag emblazoned with a yellow hammer and sickle. Just looking at it swells your heart with pride and anticipation."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes.\n\"Now what are you going to do, Pond?\" the duck sneers. His black beady eyes glisten with irony."}, {"prompt": "You examine the scroll", "response": "Which scroll do you mean, the powerful scroll or the purple scroll?"}, {"prompt": "You touch moist", "response": "You push your fingers through the air inside the hole. It's like cottage cheese. Heavy, damp, and clammy slime submerges your arm to the elbow, although you can't see anything. But you can feel\nsomething hard, chitinous. When you remove your hand, there's no physical residue."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This is unusually spacious for a small-town library. You think you remember something about it being a national historical site? That would explain the decor, at least. It's half rustic colonial, half modern budget-strapped public service, with a meager collection of creaky shelves standing in the middle of an old plank floor. A small display case stands prominently near the entrance, and some weird chairs are scattered around for the comfort of the patrons, none of whom are here at the moment. The sole exit is back to the west.\nOn the cart are a slim hardback manual (smelling faintly of mildew), The Dollmaker's Journal (smelling faintly of mildew), The Conservative's Cookbook, The Lives of the Roman Emperors\n(smelling faintly of mildew), Backwater Personalities (1915-1925 edition) (smelling faintly of mildew), an old paperback book (smelling faintly of mildew), a book New England and the Bavarian\nIlluminati, De Zeven Testamenten van de Krijsende\nZeeworm, a 'Pataphysical Approaches to Quantum\nSuperfluids (smelling faintly of mildew), Tolerating An Asinine\nGod (smelling faintly of mildew), The Seven Gaunts, a\npink-bound book (smelling faintly of mildew), Twin Hearts Between the Planes (smelling faintly of mildew), Legends of Lake Champlain and\nthe Hudson River Valley (smelling faintly of mildew) and a shabby journal.\nA librarian stands behind a counter."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You're standing in a vast, mystical cavern. Stalactites shimmer in\nthe pale green lamplight, and brightly-colored beds of moss catch your eye. Pale glowing mists swirl at your feet. Shadows seem to leap from dark crevices in the corner, and breezes, some cold, some hot, nip at your cheeks. Magic seems to flow from the very rocks, tingling your toes.\nTunnels run north and south, and a narrow crawl climbs up to the\neast. At the west end of the cavern is a freshly whitewashed gazebo.\nYou see a lump of gold, a thin wand, a pair of erasers, a sword, a shiny knife, a black stone, a wine bottle, a jade figurine, a long rope, an oar, a small cardboard box, a brown book, a trowel, and a pillow here."}, {"prompt": "You take the bay", "response": "You pick some of the growing bay."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe brute clutches the glowing briefcase."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The guard watches you depart.\nToo small to count as a bailey, the courtyard is completely enclosed\nby the castle wall. An archway leads out of the courtyard to the south, while to the north stands a misshapen keep. What looks like a stable block rests against the western wall, and a long crude\nbuilding, perhaps a barrack block for the castle guard, occupies the east wall."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"I do have the advantage of you, and I can see that you feel that's unfair,\" the priest says. \"As you will. I am Hachachi of the Stars. And now you will answer my question, perhaps?\"\n(You memorize Hachachi's name for future reference.)\n[1] \"It is true. I have never been here before.\"\n[2] \"Of course not. I am well familiar with the city.\""}, {"prompt": "GEORGE, ,EXAMINE PANTS", "response": "You shout, \"George, tell me about the soggy pants.\"\nGeorge hollers through the door, \"They're pretty gross.\""}, {"prompt": "You replace the wire with the wire", "response": "FC: Cryolink already established to Waldo.\nI don't have the fourteen-inch cable."}, {"prompt": "R.", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Whiz.\nFC: Full report from WHIZ\nWHIZ: Internal map reference -- Secondary Channel\nCLC tagged location indicates I am within a connecting tube. The connecting cables for the filtering computers line this floor, resting in their grooves. A small plug, PL-1, sits within the wall beneath the ACS.\nWHIZ: CLC feedback indicates I'm holding...\nA TV1\nUnable to process queries at this time."}, {"prompt": "You tell Mike about the mom", "response": "\"Look, Mike, it's about my mother.\"\n\"What about her, Tim?\"\n\"Well, she's ... you know she's not been well, and...\"\n\"What happened Tim? She's all right, isn't she?\" You can hear the concern in Mike's voice.\n\"Well, yes, but it's ... it's...\"\nMike sighs. \"Look, Tim, I don't know what's up here, but are you trying to tell me that you're NOT going to be able to the Thompson account because of your mother?\""}, {"prompt": "You give the hat to Gnome", "response": "Gnome say, \"You know, I never really like that hat much. Maybe you can find some other use for it.\"\nGnome give hat back to Grunk."}, {"prompt": "You ask Petroc about Elysium", "response": "\"Is there anything you need to report, any outside interference or anything like that?\" you enquire.\n\"The only outside interference comes from your empire,\" Petroc grunts. But then he relents to the extent of adding, \"You haven't been talking with old Jeb, have you? You don't want to take any notice of anything he says - he's full of addle-witted fool-guff.\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Out of the many animal exhibits here, this one seems the least likely\nto maim you. A tiger mopping the floors outside reassures you that\nthat 'doesn't usually' happen. But why take chances?\nA large beast that only vaguely resembles a deer is here, shuffling\nmorosely around its cage. Every so often, it makes a sickening rattle\nthat could charitably be described as a cough.\nA scattering of pills is in the Shuffler's feeding trough, untouched."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nBelow, in the pit, the baby dragon opens one eye and then the other. The beast stretches, then stands up, shaking its head."}, {"prompt": "You tie the cord to the desk", "response": "You cannot tie the curtain cord to the mahogany desk.\nThere is an eerie silence outside the door."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "A pokey little room currently set up as an interview room. Two chairs and a table take up most of the room; the rest of it is occupied by a cupboard."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You don't look too good,\" you say. \"Did you sleep well last night?\"\n\"Well... no.\" He rubs his eyes. \"I couldn't get any shut-eye in the clinic -- too much calomel in the air. Doctor Cavala slept like a baby, though. I don't know how she does it...\"\nHe sighs and looks you over.\n\"To be honest,\" he says, \"you don't look too good yourself. Your tattoos are all in a jumble. I know the doctor has you running errands for her, but -- just watch yourself out there, all right?\"\n\"I will,\" you say. \"I promise.\"\n1) \"What do you think of the situation so far?\"\n2) \"See you around, Horatio.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the flower", "response": "It's unlike any flower you've ever seen before; it has, in blatant defiance of whatever the botanists say, an outer whorl containing six yellow petals, and an inner whorl of four pointed, unnatural-looking pink petals. You're sure you've seen it before, but you can't remember where..."}, {"prompt": "You climb the fish", "response": "Whoa. Settle down there, Aquaman.\n[ Your Stamina: 10        Swordfish: 6 ]"}, {"prompt": "Down", "response": "You lower yourself down a bit.\nYour energy fails you, and your old nemesis gravity reasserts his dominance.\n[You are 25 feet and falling.]"}, {"prompt": "You examine Clopas", "response": "As far as employers go, Clopas is not a bad sort. He was rather fearfully late coming in -- his story was that he had to stop and give a hand to some poor Samaritan traveller who'd been set upon by bandits -- and then when he finally did arrive, a bunch of bridesmaids who'd been caught unprepared were sent packing. That's just the kind of guy he is: a bit hard and uncompromising, but always willing to bend over backwards if you need help."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Austin", "response": "\"Nice job on that bubble,\" you say.\n\"And my compliments on your panel-electrocution,\" replies Austin.\nAn awkward silence follows."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a burlap sack (which contains a sequined jacket and a flashlight), the key to Cabin One, a wooden bucket (which contains some water), an old shovel, a pill bottle, a little white pill, and a croquet hoop. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Emily follows you.\nThe view from behind the cabin is spectacular. The research station isn't situated in the highest part of the mountain range -- it isn't even above timberline -- but it's high enough to afford an expansive panorama of the valley below. The observatory is a little further up the incline to the south, and the cabin stands to the north, its back door open.\nEmily is nearby, waiting for you to do something interesting."}, {"prompt": "Saw bottle", "response": "(the opened bottle)\nThe chainsaw starts up with a harsh rattle, and shreds the opened bottle."}, {"prompt": "You examine the prisoners", "response": "Bless their little dead bodies. They couldn't have been older than you when they gasped their last. Five children altogether have perished in this dungeon, twisted on different devices. That trio tangled on the wheel could be mistaken for a single mass."}, {"prompt": "You get mobile", "response": "You strain to lift the heavy Machine."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You can't go that way.\n(Note: The right-hand side of the status bar displays a compass rose of possible locations to travel. Locations you have not yet visited are shown in red.)"}, {"prompt": "You examine the mace", "response": "A stout mace. Dashing doesn't seem the type to engage in hand-to-hand combat, though."}, {"prompt": "MIN 1", "response": "There is a brief flash of light, and you find yourself in...\nThis is not so much a physical place as it is the essence of the number two. A soft, warm red light fills the space."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Wind whistles among the fallen archways, crumbled balustrades, and black circle of this ruined castle. (It's no wonder this section of Mars is considered the Ruined Castle Capital of the Solar System.) Paths lead east and northwest through the rubble.\nTiffany loyally stays at your side."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"So, sweetheart, I hope I'm not being too forward but perhaps sometime you and I could get together over a nice hot meal. You interested?\"\nIrene smiles just a little and says, \"Perhaps some other time, Mr. Fortune, but just now I'm afraid that I'm here on business.\"\n[1] Ask her what she wants."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "It works! The southwestern door detects the red card and slides open.\nThe red keycard is warm."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Centuries ago, Malygris captured the great alchemist Metastasio and forced him to work in this laboratory. Most of his equipment is now gone, but one curious machine remains.\nYou can see two flash grenades here.\nExits lead north and south (to Temple of Nomos)."}, {"prompt": "You search blue", "response": "The pocket is very spacious."}, {"prompt": "You open cupboard", "response": "The cupboard is unreachable from here."}, {"prompt": "You look at car", "response": "This piece of junk has seen you through three years of school. You just needed it to last a little longer. Too bad it didn't. Other than that, it's got the usual things you'd find on a car... steering wheel, those little pedals that's supposed to make it go \"zoom,\" oh, and there's also a trunk in back.\nThrown across the back seat you can see the guitar.\nCurb peers curiously at Treasure Huntery Lesson 1."}, {"prompt": "Narrow", "response": "You jump on the smaller springy-soft bed (this is a \"love seat\") and luxuriate in how it feels on your paws. You sniff around. There are several stories here, but they are simple ones. This place is one of Goodcat/Badcat's favorites. He was here earlier in the day and was feeling gassy. He thinks he shouldn't have eaten that crunchy thing he found under the tall vibrating box. There is that smell of Emily, again! She was visiting yesterday and was concerned that He had no offspring. She seems to think that He is too immature. You immediately think ill of her and want to show Her that He does have offspring -- you!"}, {"prompt": "You destroy the bulwark", "response": "The logs had been treated to resist fire, but I merely Willed them to\nburn and they did so instantly. The fire spread quickly and consumed\nthe entire oasis barricade. Unexpectedly, I did not derive the\nPurpose that I felt I should have from doing that.\nShortly thereafter, the enemies of Labiiq sensed weakness in his camp.\nThey left their nearby desert posts and stormed his oasis. With the\nbulwark destroyed, they entered easily...\nOnly to find a Purpose-starved servant waiting for them.\n[I sated my Purpose.]\nAfterwards there was nothing of real import nearby to destroy. Soon I\nfound myself confronted with the detestable necessity of returning to\nmy container."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Ignatius's room does not smell as strongly as the others. He has spent so much time in the infirmary of late, taking care of the sick. He is a braver man than you. A bed is pushed up against one wall, opposite the door to the south.\nIgnatius sits upon his bed, preparing to go to sleep."}, {"prompt": "You remember the dancers", "response": "The mechanical human dancers raise no special memories for you.\nIn your hunger, you hallucinate flaking puff pastry, wrapped around chicken."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "With a touch of the joystick the helicopter thunders through the sky...\nHigh Above a Hotel (in the helicopter)\nFar below, atop a hotel tower, a crystal swimming pool blinks in the sunlight. Off to the north, a monstrous chicken is tumbling buildings and ripping up pavements."}, {"prompt": "See", "response": "\"I could see Colonel De Jon in the Hall and Mrs Fowl in\nthe Library\".\n(Where were you?)"}, {"prompt": "You drop the ticket", "response": "You carefully set the punched ticket in the undercarriage."}, {"prompt": "You wake", "response": "You suspect that this is another sabotaged dream. You're probably lying on a bed back in Monarch with these creeps whispering over you. Before Monarch is destroyed, you calmly try opening your eyes for the second time..."}, {"prompt": "Search table", "response": "(the main table)\nThere is nothing on the main table."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You stand in the middle of a huge desert, north of a stand of struggling trees and west of a deep cave. As you stand staring into the vast darkness that lies within the cavern, a strange smell on the wind makes your nose twitch. You pause for a moment and recognize it. It's the smell of wealth.\nYou see a ridge in the ground running from west to south here."}, {"prompt": "You take the lamp", "response": "The antiquarian shrugs. \"Sure. Not like it was going to sell anyway.\nNo one wants to buy a rusty antique.\""}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "Lothlorien co-op, upstairs\nHallways branch in all directions. The walls are painted with a wild diversity of amateur artworks and thought-provoking slogans.\nAs you wander through the intricately art-encrusted walls of the co-op, you smile and think of the chipmunks in a higher dimension, playing the videogame of your life, and the author writing the story, and the deity within the flower of the soul, and the probabilistic distributions of quantum field theory, and it is all the same thing.\nOkay, yeah, you are actually thinking about whether Staci wants you to touch her as much as you do. You spot the door with the purple flower, and enter. Staci is sitting on the edge of her bed, and you sit next to her.\nYou aren't shy, and neither is she. You open your minds to each other. Yes, you are both interested in each other. No, you don't want traditional relationship definitions. Staci has been trying to make poly work since the end of her marriage, and you have been assuming that your relationships will be like the Lunar Colonists - complex multi-person marriages or open multipartner relationships. That's just how we do it on the moon.\n'Here are my rules,' Staci says, 'Everything with me is casual, I'm always sleeping with someone else, and who else I'm sleeping with is nobody's business but mine.' 'That sounds reasonable,' you answer. You and Staci move the conversation from words to touch. There is still language, but it is the language of the waves, and it can't be adequately transcribed here.\n(You wake a few hours before she was planning on getting up, and leave her sleeping in her room. She has given you an open invitation to >visit staci whenever you want.)"}, {"prompt": "You turn on the light", "response": "The flashlight emits a warm yellow beam.\nThe ceiling descends here to no more than three feet from the floor; you are forced to crawl through the cramped darkness on your hands and knees. To the east the attic becomes more spacious, while the northwest corner opens into an oddly-angled corridor."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You stumble into a dead end. Cars line the streets. You hear shouting, coming towards you. You need a plan.\nA few cars are parked on the sidewalks of this alley. Buildings surround three sides. There's no way out.\n\"We need some kind of barrier!\" shouts Sarah."}, {"prompt": "You give Bread to the purple", "response": "You nod to the purple robed citizen, whom you recognize as the Nondenominational Religious Leader of Shireton.\n\"Ah, thank you, good Baker of Shireton! Here is your well-deserved, but meager coin,\" says the purple robed citizen.\n\"Delicious!\" proclaims the purple robed citizen, and yet another copper clinks into your tip jar.\nThe purple robed citizen goes north.\nThe white robed citizen arrives from the north.\n\"A loaf of wheat bread, please!\" requests the white robed citizen.\n\"Help the hopeless?\" asks Bob the Hobo. \"Gimme either a coin or a loaf, don't matter which!\""}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "You riffle through the pages; only short passages are still legible:\n\"... circular golden prosthesis seems to have chosen Mabel ... doctor said he can't remove it without harming the child ...\"\n\"... Mabel spends long hours examining stumps and rocks in the woods ... and I are most concerned. Mabel's stories of fairies and HIDDEN LANDS seem more than childish fancy\"\n(There's a long section of the book here which is ruined and entirely illegible, although you can make out diagrams and the faded, troubling outlines of strange shapes)\n\"... constructed the sigil out of sculpted and varnished wood after many ... Mabel instructs me on where it should be placed ... spirits she is in communication with have constructed various devices at her command ... creatures I have dubbed microphids ... \"\n\"... Clara still doesn't believe; threatened to get Pastor Crowell involved ... able to dodge him so far ... quit my position at ...\"\n\"... very concerned but there is no body ... up to seven successful SUMMONINGS that have remained docile ... we will never know, and quite frankly these studies are more important than that ... Each creature must process through three ARCHES, through three HABITATS and stages of development before finally maturing through the ARCH and SIGIL ... special GLUE created by that one created via the sequence ->FOREST->(illegible)->CLIFFS ...\"\n\"... at Clara's insistence I have written to the University ... fake name ... one we have dubbed Moppy is friendly enough and a loyal companion to Mabel ...\"\n\"... siphoning off the rest of the inheritance ... haven't seen her in a while ... sent an officer of the law to fetch Mabel, but Moppy took care of him ...\"\n(another long damaged section)\n\"... only Tall Pete is left ... lay Mabel in a grave beside Moppy ... TERRIBLE LIZARD-BIRD was raised up from the OCEAN - is still out there somewhere ...\"\n\"... now I wear the PROSTHESIS; now I can see\neverything. ... breached the walls of perception ... I am PRODDING the EGG MACHINE on the QUARTZ OUTCROPPING ... dozens of them GATHER to PROTECT me from the LIZARD BIRD ... PULLED the ROOF clear off my SHELTER ...\"\nAnd that's it. There's no more. Well, you suppose you didn't actually expect the author to keep writing right up until the point of his death, but you're a little disappointed."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You are on the carnival's main thoroughfare, running north to south. The western border is the road back to town and the eastern border is flanked with buildings, tents, and booths. To your immediate east is\na tent with a sign hanging above the entrance stating Fortune\nTeller.\nYou hear the sound of laughter from somewhere, but it is a mirthless, chilling sound."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness with a rope disappearing into it. The hand rail bridges the gap and seems pretty sturdy, but not enough to bet your life on.\nMax, wearing a headband with a light attached, starts to climb down the rope. There's a tense moment when the banister squeaks, but it holds fast.\nAlone, you and Paula trade a silent look of surprise.\nShe's about to say something when a laugh comes from the room to the west. The dining room. And is that the tinkle of cutlery?"}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "The belfry of the church, high up inside the steeple. You are hanging from a maze of support beams and trusses with the nearest solid floor far below you. Large open frames give a view of the surrounding forest and of the town at the base of the hill. They also allow the fury of the storm to pass in unimpeded. You can see the branch of an oak tree just outside the southern frame.\nA massive bell hangs here, from a damaged mount.\nA heavy rope is attached to the bell and hangs through the beams to the room below."}, {"prompt": "You unlock door", "response": "(first taking the keyring)\n(slipping the towel into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nTaken.\nYou unlock the back door."}, {"prompt": "You take the toy", "response": "You can't really do anything to your toy right now because it is in that backpack.\nMarion stands up and walks over to the gliding rocking chair and then she is back only now she doesn't have the backpack any more."}, {"prompt": "You examine the wing", "response": "The frame is an intricate construction of small metal rods, to which the leather of the wings is attached with clips. In one place, however, a piece is missing, leaving the clips empty and the wing incomplete."}, {"prompt": "You put the key in the box", "response": "You insert the pantry key into the keyhole. There is a whirring noise from inside the box, the display changes, and out pops the south wing key. You take it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the door", "response": "My bedroom door. It's closed.\nMy vision is fading around the edges. I need to sleep, as soon as possible."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na pink purse (being worn and closed and locked)\nThe Pine Nut Queen of Tomorrow watches you go through your possessions. \"I did not take any of your things, if that is what you are worried about.\"\nOkay, hang on, let's focus.\nThe Pine Nut Queen of Tomorrow is still able to process new training documents: books, manuals, pamphlets, any kind of written document. You just need to give her something to work with."}, {"prompt": "You get the bolt", "response": "You must be getting better at this. You're only freshly bruised. Lying still, even on cold stone, is painfully easy... but after a few minutes, you find yourself struggling to stand.\nYou are in an alcove, a side chamber at the base of a vaulting canyon. The walls spread upward around you. And the distant roof is hung with glimmering stars -- droplet-tipped stalactites in some hidden suffusion of light. You think, against your will, that it was worth it.\nA crevice runs along the canyon at your feet. You can cross it and continue on ahead.\nThe Wumpus certainly fled this way: a pool of thick, dark, reeking blood is spilled across the ground. Bats crawl all around it -- rustling, fluttering, feasting."}, {"prompt": "You take all from left", "response": "medium-small green disk: Taken.\nlarge orange disk: Taken."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Carefully, you climb down the rocks. The path bends northeast, following the curve of the lighthouse wall.\nA small outcropping of stone, just large enough for you to stand on, sticks out from the end of the breakwater. The hungry sea laps at your feet, surging over the rocks and then trickling down into crevices. To the southwest, an uneven trail leads back up the rocks, around the side of the lighthouse.\nBeyond the breakwater's tip, a turbulent patch of water bubbles and seethes, as if something were lurking just beneath the surface -- turning, perhaps, in uneasy sleep.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "Drain latkes", "response": "You put the latkes on some paper towels to drain the excess grease."}, {"prompt": "You ask Zhang about Weiss", "response": "\"What do you know about the man who just came in?\" you demand of the servant.\n\"I'm sorry, sir.\" he says, \"I do not know the members of the Brotherhood personally.\"\nZhang looks at one of the portraits while he waits."}, {"prompt": "Duel Strawberry", "response": "That action is outside the scope of this simulation."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "Carefully, you climb down the rocks. The path bends northeast, following the curve of the lighthouse wall.\nA small outcropping of stone, just large enough for you to stand on, sticks out from the end of the breakwater. The hungry sea laps at your feet, surging over the rocks and then trickling down into crevices. To the southwest, an uneven trail leads back up the rocks, around the side of the lighthouse.\nBeyond the breakwater's tip, a turbulent patch of water bubbles and seethes, as if something were lurking just beneath the surface -- turning, perhaps, in uneasy sleep.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You look at the skirt", "response": "The doll's skirt is rather faded and threadbare. It may once have been a cheerful lemon yellow."}, {"prompt": "You ask Sophronia about home", "response": "\"Can you not remember from where you came?\" she inquires. The expression on your face must speak the answer, for she smiles yet again and replies, \"No matter. You will remember, in time.\""}, {"prompt": "You tell the imedla about the empire", "response": "Imelda squeezes you around the waist. \"I'm glad. And... I know what a sacrifice this must be for you. Thank you.\"\nThe word \"imedla\" is not necessary in this story."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tv", "response": "This television looks huge sitting in this room. The one you remember was quite a few inches smaller. That one, in turn, replaced an even older one with bent rabbit ear antennas and barely-capable color. This one is fancier than the TV you have at home.\nThe television is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Leave me alone!\" you cry.\nBut they don't hear you. All they see is a rich stranger."}, {"prompt": "You put cloth in the hourglass", "response": "Which do you mean, the vellum scroll, the ball of yarn or the slippers?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the straw", "response": "This disgusting mess might actually have been some poor soul's bed. You shudder, wondering what sick relative was kept prisoner here, and when."}, {"prompt": "You leave", "response": "You get out of the El Camino.\nYour driveway is where you park your car. It's as interesting as a giant flat slab of concrete can be. To the WEST is your front porch.\nYou can see an El Camino here."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "There is a curtain of light there."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "This may once have been a garden, but now it's just a final resting place for junk - lots and lots of junk - and nothing grows here but weeds. The falling-down shack stands (if that's the right word) north of here, its single square window looking out on the junk. The area where the van is parked is to the northeast, and the area behind the cabins is east. Off to the southeast stands the shed at the edge of the swamp.\nThe way westward is blocked by an improbably dense thicket of bramble-bushes.\nA column of whitish smoke is curling up from the incinerator behind the western row of shacks."}, {"prompt": "You drop the caltrops", "response": "You run to the bunker door, and hear a whirring sound from the device assembly on top of the bunker, shortly followed by an alert klaxon inside. You place the mines quickly on the ground, toss a few pieces\nof lichen on top of them, and duck around the corner and out of the blast radius. There! Now you have only a few seconds to set the time bomb!"}, {"prompt": "You look up wheeled vehicles", "response": "(in the yellow book)\nYou thumb through the index and after hunting for a bit, find a listing for \"vehicles, wheeled, causing to swerve.\" The indicated page seems to have been torn out, however."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nJohn Nolen Drive (on Lunar Lightning)\nAdjacent to lake Monona, John Nolen Drive is a wide multi-lane road which passes underneath the curved contours of the Monona Terrace convention center. The view from across the lake looking toward downtown is Madison's skyline-postcard view. A heavily used bike path teems with cyclists and joggers. The Capitol square is north, Williamson St. to the east, and the Miffyland residential neighborwood is west."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You turn the dial one step, unveiling the sign of the Chain."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "A pleasant respite from the rest of the base are the rows and rows of growing plants. The greenhouse is a geodesic dome constructed from thick glass. Metal shutters are retracted near the floor, ready to be deployed in case of danger. The rest of the base is to the northeast.\nYou can see a composter here."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "The east wind makes it difficult to walk straight.\nThis grassy clearing is only twenty feet across, and perfectly circular. Paths wander off in many directions through the surrounding thicket.\nA shaft of golden sunlight falls across a handsome antique sundial, erected at the exact center of the clearing."}, {"prompt": "You look through the peephole", "response": "Through the peephole you can see Luisa standing at her ironing board, ironing."}, {"prompt": "You get the cannon", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You ask the people about Michael", "response": "Suddenly, although you wouldn't have thought it possible, the pub becomes even more icily silent. Even the lantern flames seem to pause their flickering. The nearest of the locals turns toward you, squinting through eyes like black glass embedded in his ancient leathery skin. His lips barely seem to move beneath his salt-encrusted beard.\n\"Some things best left alone by outsiders, ma'am,\" he rasps. \"Some things best left alone by decent folk altogether.\"\nBack in one of the darker corners, someone spits deliberately on the floor.\nAnd then all eyes are back on their beer. It's as if you didn't exist at all."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You move east.\nThe hallway has thick, plush red carpet which always tickles your toes a little bit. It goes quite well with the black, pannelled walls. At the south end is your imposing front door. There are a series of hooks by the door on which you could hang your coat, if you wore a coat that is. A small bin sits by the door. There is also a full-length mirror on one wall. As you're the last sight some people see, it's quite right that you check that you look presentable.\nExits: East, South and West\nYou can see some mail."}, {"prompt": "You open the box 9999", "response": "The box is empty.\nIn the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting."}, {"prompt": "You look in the mirror", "response": "You look almost exactly the same as the last time you looked in a mirror."}, {"prompt": "You play the golf", "response": "Albert produces two clubs from out of nowhere, and easily thrashes you at crazy golf, probably due to lots of practise on his part and lack of it on yours. The final segment holds a model of the Sphinx. Albert easily putts the ball through the small circular mouth, and in the process dislodges something trapped inside. (Needless to say, Albert beats you in this segment as well.)"}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "This is the beginning of the narrow hallway that runs east-west through the upstairs of the house. The bathroom is immediately north, and at the western end of the hall is your parents' room. Between them is the staircase that goes down to the rest of the house. South, across from the stairs, is your brother David's room. The hall coninues to the east, towards your and your sister's rooms.\nThe sound of a tabloidist in mild agony amidst a horde of toy poodles reaches your ears. You ingore it."}, {"prompt": "P.", "response": "Ferdinand is leaning against a balustrade, her gaze cast toward the dancers in their formations below. She isn't one for dancing herself unless it's atop freshly slain enemies. Her vorpal blade, which you will borrow later in your duel with the countess, is leaning against the balustrade beside her.\nThe ballroom is in the past now, and in the future you will look behind a polar bear."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sign", "response": "There are two signs on the post. The uppermost sign faces southeast, and is oriented so that you know it pertains to the trail that runs northeast-southwest; it reads:\nMt Cammerer 2.1 ->\nLwr Mt Cammerer Trail 4.4 ->\n<- Cosby Knob Shelter 0.8\nThe other sign faces southwest and reads:\nWalnut Bottoms 2.5 ->\n<- Cosby Campground 2.9"}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "(first opening the barred gate)\n(first unlocking the barred gate)\nYou lack a key that fits the barred gate.\nThe earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself."}, {"prompt": "You read the mail", "response": "(first heading for the communications room)\nWith all the machinery in here, the space remaining for you is little larger than a closet, except that the room extends upward a good fifteen or so feet, widening at the top into a bell of tinted glass.\nThe comm terminal itself could be an invention out of Jules Verne. The keypad is arranged in the standard way, except that all the keys are slightly too small for the fingers of a normal human, and the pad itself stands up from the floor on a metal stalk.\nThe comm screen, meanwhile, is round and surrounded by a copper ring, porthole-like. The whole arrangement is aesthetically pleasing and completely inconvenient.\nThe following messages are available for you to read or reply to:\n12:37 pm: Apology\n12:19 pm: RE Hello\n11:21 am: Instructions\n10:02 am: Hello From Ivory Coast (R)\n9:34 am: Shuttle Departure Plans"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "This is where the village people get together to do business. It's generally pathetic.\nThe street is deserted now. The hut and the river lie to the east.\nYou can see shoes, a hat, an Ice Cream Shop, a Clothing Store, a Saloon and a white cat here."}, {"prompt": "You climb Anton", "response": "To free your hands for climbing a bit, you drop the plank.\nWith ease that you've had since childhood, you scramble up your brother's body and end up standing on his shoulders. The body memory makes you recall, with a twinge, how proud your parents were of this ability when you were a toddler.\nThe top of the exit cube is now only a few inches from your fingertips."}, {"prompt": "Examine books", "response": "You pick up a book and open it. The pages are all blank."}, {"prompt": "You examine computer", "response": "The computer is too far away for you to make out any details."}, {"prompt": "You examine thief", "response": "It's wearing a black-and-white striped shirt and a domino mask. It doesn't fit in.\n> ENTER\nthe casino.\nIt goes without saying that my kind have certain affordances when it comes to dealing with mortals. We may not be much for the shuffling around of physical objects, but when it comes to humans' intentions,\nwe can pluck them out, give them to others, and generally treat them\nas playthings.\nThe bouncer leans against the doorway, idly watching the thief.\nThe thief watches, hoping for the bouncer to get distracted."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "Perhaps this is the only place at Saint Cuthbert's that is a comfortable temperature. Heat blasts at you from the calefactory to the southeast, but it is countered by the chill from the cloister to the northwest. No, that isn't right. They do not cancel: their furies are incited by one another.\nA large pool of vomit has melted a hole in the snow.\nA fresh blanket of snow lies upon the ground."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.\nThe stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.\nThe monkey is still with you."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "In a pulse we move south.\nTo the south is the bulging dome. All around us is the blue.\nJagged rocks blade from the sand here."}, {"prompt": "You take Lupor", "response": "(Lupor the Wolfman)\nYou pick up Lupor the Wolfman."}, {"prompt": "Regard POST", "response": "The CHALLENGE POST is a wooden pole hung with dyed banners, each representing a GLADIATOR willing to meet challengers. Beginning with the lowest, the banners are BLUE, GREEN, GOLD, RED and BLACK. The presence of the BLACK BANNER has clearly caused a stir in the GRAVEL PIT, and many of the ROGUES are looking upon you with something resembling reverence.\nA nearby ROGUE espies your curiosity, and sayeth \"It was YE, barbarian! The MASTER GLADIATOR has returned to us, because of your skill! He has returned! It is a great day!\""}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "You muster up your courage and sidle past the subdued monster, holding your breath lest you rouse it.\nYou could be visiting a stately home, or an Oxford college, or a country church, except you're not. You know there are more modern constructions hidden away behind it, one of which - the severely acute ward - lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle behind thorns of metal and stone.\nCircling an oval of moderately well-kept grass is a gravel path and, beyond it to the west, a sandstone building gleams palely golden against the shadowed sky. The gates loom to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You examine grandpa's headstone", "response": "Your grandfather's headstone was bought at the same time that your grandmother passed away. As your grandfather is still alive, it waits patiently for the inevitable."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fence", "response": "The fence is huge, easily twenty feet high, and topped with loops of razor wire.\nIn the distance, a flash of lightning glows in the sky.\nMr. Teeterwaller looks around."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "Cut as an afterthought through earth and the underside of the garden, and therefore muddy and soil-scented."}, {"prompt": "You go southwest", "response": "O foul Hypocrite! O whited Sepulchure! In the midst of his debauchery the Baron does see fit to erect himself a Chapel of the faith! Mayhap he thought to take sanctuary here at your approach. 'Tis more likely the lighted Candles & marble Altar did bear witness to blasphemous & terrible Rites in the Baron's lifetime.\nA stair in the corner leads down into darkness, an archway northeast. A solid oaken Door prevents your passage east."}, {"prompt": "You open the seatbelt", "response": "(first unlocking the seatbelt)\nYou must have hit your head, you're not making sense."}, {"prompt": "You take the onion skin", "response": "(putting the cooked andouillettes into the sack to make room)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "You have a little wait.\nRose suddenly stops counting and spins around to keep her eye on you."}, {"prompt": "Search bowl", "response": "You pull back the ivy from the side of the fountain, revealing, for some reason, a second fountain."}, {"prompt": "You examine the floatpoint", "response": "(first getting down so as not to kill yourself with foolish attempts at acrobatic prowess)\nYou get off the personal float unit.\nThe kiosk is no larger than a contamination testing booth back on Earth.\nA personal float unit hovers three inches off the floor at the middle of the room.\nThe only thing of note here is a metal box, mounted on the wall at about shoulder-height, with a bonzai-sized tree growing out of the top.\nThe contents might come out, and that would make a real mess."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "You expect me to come up with something witty, don't you? I really\nput a lot of effort into the IF as a whole, so just enjoy that, will you?"}, {"prompt": "You look at the nest", "response": "The nest is constructed out of twigs, leaves and a few other unidentifiable materials. If you are careful, you may be able to look inside without falling out of the tree."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"...I see,\" you say at last.\nHe is still and pensive. The wind grasps his hood, making its edges billow.\nbillow.At length, he places a hand on his deck. His eyes flicker to it; his lips twitch. Then he picks up his cards, one by one, and shuffles them away and out of sight.\nshuffles them away and out of sight.\"I should go,\" he murmurs. \"I have other places to be.\"\n1) \"Goodbye.\"\n2) \"Wait...\""}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You're carrying a handful of coins, and wearing your street clothes and a track jacket."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Can I still help somehow?\"\nA long, tense silence -- and Doctor Cavala shakes her head.\nA long, tense silence -- and Doctor Cavala shakes her head.\"I appreciate all that you've done, Marid. But this is bigger than we'd imagined. It's bigger than any of us. Upon my conscience, I will not allow you to put yourself in danger.\nallow you to put yourself in danger.\"Get some sleep. Take a sabbatical. Let me and the Vigiles handle this.\"\n1) \"Yes, Doctor.\"\n2) \"Surely you can let me do something!\""}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Another ray blasts the door ahead, making it impossible to go forward! There's also the matter of the right and back walls being on fire, too. But the fire to the left died. Too bad an overturned bench is blocking a possible crawlspace to the left. You'd think it'd have burned up.\nIt looks too sturdy--and close to the wall--to hack up, and if it's glued there, you're in trouble. If not, hmm..."}, {"prompt": "Cell key", "response": "The orderly laughs. \"I don't think so, lady.\"\nYou pointedly look the other way as the orderly takes another tweak at the pimple on his neck."}, {"prompt": "You ask Phelps about the cigar", "response": "\"I hope I git up to see New York sometime,\" Beauregard says irrelevantly.\nBeauregard hitches up his suspenders."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "The path bends northeast, around the side of the church.\nThe forest encroaches right up to the iron fence here, some of which is literally buried in the tangled underbrush. There are no doors on this side, although a wooden trap door over by the corner of the building probably leads into a cellar. A path leads southwest, around to the front of the church.\nYou can see a shiny new padlock here."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a wooden bucket, a burlap sack (which contains an old shovel and a sequined jacket), a flashlight, the key to Cabin One, a tube of suntan lotion, and a pill bottle. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum.\nSpace-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official.\nLink-J has joined the queue.\nimmigrants.\nThe diplomat you rescued from Jag disembarks. \"Thank you, captain.\nI owe you my life. To redress the balance, I'm transferring 100k to your account. You already have a visa chip, so I won't need to throw one of those in too.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the cards", "response": "They look like a standard set of poker cards."}, {"prompt": "You look at the eyeball", "response": "A dull red sheet of metal stands to the east. A keyhole is present at eye level. Above the keyhole is an image of an eyeball, above which is printed two back-to-back crescents.\n\"Hey, you! Over here! Yoohooo?\""}, {"prompt": "You take box", "response": "Ridiculous!\nThe mime sits on a invisible stool and ruminates on her problem."}, {"prompt": "You look through the lens", "response": "On the enlarger are some developed negatives."}, {"prompt": "You take the skull", "response": "You pick up the skull from the ground."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You scramble down the embankment.\nAll the water's been drained, and now this trench is brackish with foul-smelling filth. You'll spy the garderobe above, projecting from an upper floor, streaks running down the castle wall to form a great nightsoil mound below.\nProtruding from this mound are a guard's legs.\nUpward you could scramble back to the fens."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "The small table has a drawer with a keyhole. It's probably locked and can only be opened by a key I will find much later in the game so I'll have to backtrack all the way back here and open it for some kind of essential item."}, {"prompt": "You take paper", "response": "You reach through the shrouding branches and fish the small piece of unlined paper out of the ficus pot."}, {"prompt": "You examine waiter", "response": "The waiter's uniform includes a half-apron with a pocket, in which rests a small notepad.\n> WAIT\non the various guests.\nThe waiter sweeps through the room and attends to the guests."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You climb still higher up the tree.\nGreenhouse (Petter Sj\u00f6lund) (top of the tree near the ceiling)\nThe entire treetop sways from your weight, up and down, this way and that. You are close enough to the glass ceiling to see the blue sky and bright sunshine outside.\nSomething is hidden behind the tightly woven branches and leaves here."}, {"prompt": "You get the fish", "response": "You\u2019re quite content to leave the fish to the women."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You are at the northeast corner of the Agriculture Building. In\nthe basin directly to the north, you see the proud profile of the Statue of the Republic. The plaza continues east toward the Peristyle and Casino Building, and west across the northern face of the Agriculture Building. To the south, a plaza opens up along the eastern side of Agriculture.\nA guide is here, leading a tour group through the grounds.\nCasino Building. \n\"Now we come to the east end of the Court of Honor,\" the tour guide says, gesturing broadly. \"The Agriculture Building stands behind us, to the southwest, the Casino Building ahead, to the southeast. Directly east is the great Peristyle, which closes off the Court of Honor from Lake Michigan just beyond. Before we go further towards the Peristyle, however, I would like to direct your attention to the giant statue your eye has no doubt already drifted to many times before on our tour: The Statue of the Republic, rising out of the Grand Basin just to the north and east of our current position.\""}, {"prompt": "You take it", "response": "The Fresnel lantern is too high to reach."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "A long, cross-beamed room, originally washed with white, though smoke has tinged the walls above the massive fireplace in which roasts are prepared. In addition, there are thick high tables that run the length of the room.\nTo the east is the kitchen garden through which you entered; west is the corridor that connects with the main house. To the north there is the little scullery, and upstairs is the attic where the servants sleep.\nOn the kitchen tables are a loaf of stale bread and a delicate contraption (in which is a plate (on which is a chocolate leaf))."}, {"prompt": "You take the liquid", "response": "That's hardly portable."}, {"prompt": "Pet mailbox", "response": "The little mailbox coos with pleasure at your touch."}, {"prompt": "You examine the whistle", "response": "The silver emergency whistle hangs from a nylon lanyard that you are wearing around your neck.\nThe whistle was one piece of emergency equipment that the professor put you in charge of (the other was the emergency beacon, which seems to be missing)."}, {"prompt": "Concrete", "response": "You find nothing of interest.\nYou move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain."}, {"prompt": "You read the clippings", "response": "Some of the headlines read:\n\"Lilly McCoy is 'Sweet Enough' for Olympia, Say Critics\" ...\"Opera Debutante Sweet Found Babbling in Subway\""}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA brown sack\nThe brown sack contains:\nA lunch\nA clove of garlic\nA glass bottle\nThe glass bottle contains:\nA quantity of water\nA pile of plastic\nA torch (providing light)\nA screwdriver\nA tube\nA wrench\nA matchbook"}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You duck through the flap in the front door...\nA tree stump pokes through the otherwise unbroken blanket of soft, powdery snow. A slatted fence traverses the snow to the north, while the cottage entrance lies southward.\nYou can see a hole (which is empty) here.\nThe sun rises ever higher in the eastern sky."}, {"prompt": "You examine the window", "response": "From here you can see the front garden. The path winds towards the gates leading away from the mansion."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "Most of it is missing, and the rest of it is at least several weeks old. Apart from the grease stains testifying to its use as a fish-and-chips wrapper, it is full of the usual bad news about undesirable things on the increase: inflation, unemployment, taxes, crime, global warming; according to one columnist, there's even a sharp rise in severe personality disorders among the under thirties. The sole surviving page of foreign news is no cheerier, since it bemoans increasing tension in the Middle East coupled with the danger of former Soviet republics selling nuclear weapons on the black market."}, {"prompt": "Bf north", "response": "Paper/Water\nYou're at the west edge of where you can travel. You can go north, east or south.\nThe sporto jogs in place a bit and punches the air, waiting for conflict.\nYou blink south, and Sporto takes a bit of time to see you but eventually gives chase. You follow, once you know he's on the move."}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "A slant-roofed, sagging shack stands here. There might have been a bit of vegetable garden beside it at one time, but all that's left now is a jumble of weeds and rusting junk. The large passenger van belonging to the resort stands in front of the shack, its hood up.\nTyrone has taken a break from working on the van in order to stand and talk with you.\nYou can go south to the open area behind the cabins, northwest along the gravel driveway, north to the back door of the main house, or northeast on a path that leads around the corner of the house. An overgrown brick walkway leads east along the side of the nearest cabin. The shack itself is to the west from this spot, and the garden beside it is to the southwest."}, {"prompt": "You look at the scene", "response": "A simple scene, without the gruesome and fantastic detail that embellishes so many of the other paintings: a sailing ship on dark waters, coming in to port in the dead of night. A lighthouse, standing tall in the distance, lights the way.\nYou shake yourself suddenly, and realize you've been staring intently at the painting for minutes on end. You step back and rub your tired eyes. When you look again, however, the picture you were just examining is no longer in front of you. None of the other paintings have moved as far as you can tell, but that particular scene seems to have disappeared without leaving so much as a blank space on the wall."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Was Doctor Arturus a cautious man?\" you ask. \"Doctor Cavala... didn't give me that impression.\"\nJustinian looks almost disappointed for a moment, and the look in his eyes breaks your heart.\n\"Doctor Cavala didn't know him like I did,\" he says, quietly.\n1) \"There was an attempt on Doctor Cavala's life. Do you have any\nidea why?\"\n2) \"I'll look around the clinic. Perhaps I'll find something the Vigiles have missed.\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe tall diplomat sighs, makes a few concessions, and suggests signing this and calling it a day.\nThe short diplomat rejects the suggestion out of hand due to the complexity of the language."}, {"prompt": "You go to your bedroom", "response": "You head west to the smoke-damaged chamber. Then northeast to the upper bulb. Then east to the gallery of still life. Then east to the white gallery. Then east to the bellroom. Then south to the private parlor. And finally south to the crystal bedroom.\nA fantasia of gleaming and glittering, chandeliers and mirrors: all that shines or reflects has been moved here, into this room that you inhabit, which he never enters.\nThe south end of the room is most dazzling, because of the daylight from the balcony.\nThe Beast's thoughts intrude on yours, courtesy of the enchanted shoes: affection, longing, guilt; amusement at your innocence and anger at your blindness; frank desire. Such a tangled, terrifying mess of emotion that you barely recognize yourself in the mirrors.\nSorry. The thought is sleepy and not entirely comforting."}, {"prompt": "You breathe othe man-thing", "response": "We let loose a torrent of flame, and when we stopped, we could no longer see the man-thing.\nWe heard screams from a man-thing."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You jet swiftly south.\nThe air is cool and fresh."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Biedermeyer's inner sanctum: a featureless cube with smooth, gray walls, and his desk sitting in the exact center like a great black sarcophagus. There is one door. It is south.\nAll that's left of that bastard Biedermeyer is a puddle of melted goo in the middle of the carpet.\nThe door to Biedermeyer's office stands just slightly ajar."}, {"prompt": "You examine the yellow", "response": "It's just your everyday faded yellow paint."}, {"prompt": "You look at the painting", "response": "The painting looked like an excellent piece of work, to my untrained eye. I wondered why the young artist seemed so unenthusiastic about it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the Mastiffs", "response": "The Ruritanian Mastiff breed is characterised by a face like a tumour and the heart of an abused wolverine. Ruritanian Mastiffs get disqualified from dog shows for failing to savage a judge.\nWhen a Ruritanian Mastiff gets rabies, nobody notices. Rurie\nowners would nonetheless say that they are highly intelligent, loyal and loving -- at least, those Rurie owners with a voicebox yet-untorn by slavering fangs.\nMastiffs significantly reduce the risk of orphans escaping. The condition of failed escape-artists is not guaranteed."}, {"prompt": "You squeeze the rock", "response": "The surface has a give to it, and it squeaks once. Small regretful letters read: AIDE CURRENTLY OUT OF RANGE. Maybe in the embassy proper, then."}, {"prompt": "You read 4", "response": "(first taking Calibrations Divine)\nYou open up Calibrations Divine.\nA dry tome on holy mechanics, the practical application of holy numbers. The diagrams on suspension bridges buoyed by disbelief could be better annotated."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "You gaze into your glass, watching the wine swirl around and around.\n\"I became a physician because I wanted to save lives. I... I wanted to make a difference. But for every life I save -- every life we save -- it seems like a dozen more die out of our reach. How is that fair? How is it worth it?\n\"They teach you in the Physicians' College that you can't save everyone. It just isn't possible...\"\n1) \"...but I keep wondering if we could have saved that\nman...\"\n2) \"...and now I'm beginning to understand what they\nmeant...\""}, {"prompt": "Scan info-lit", "response": "Nothing happens. Which just proves the paper's premise that this is all too ridiculous, amirite?"}, {"prompt": "Zifmia turtle", "response": "You can't see anyturtle here.\n\"Crash!\" A huge hammer smashes against the stone floor."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "The coachman nods. Many locks are removed from the carriage; a small boy emerges, and is introduced as Harry Quisling. You discreetly convey him to the Junior House and the coin to your strongbox, then spend the rest of the night amending your records to make it appear that he arrived with the last batch of Ministry brats."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Shuffling past the now empty seats, you make your way to the exit.\nThis is a long east-west hallway, dark and featureless. Smooth black walls line the way, disappearing into the inky stillness to the west. East, a small rectangle of light hovers in the distance."}, {"prompt": "You eat ocelot", "response": "You quickly swallow the deep-fried Mongolian ocelot. It tastes like chicken.\nThe contest officials give you some steamed Paraguayan sausage.\nYour opponent eats the mashed Uzbekistani sloth.\nThe contest officials give him some grilled Hungarian mango."}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "The bench scrapes against the concrete floor as you leave it."}, {"prompt": "You open the Locker", "response": "You swing open the locker and are greeting by a desiccated corpse falling into you. Startled beyond rational thought, you collapse to the ground, beneath the corpse, unconscious.\nPadded cell (Marius M\u00fcller)\nThe overhead lightbulb in its wire-mesh cage barely lights the room. Everything here seems a colorless beige - the cracked floor tiles, the thick cloth padding on the walls. A padded door leads south.\nA metal chest stands in a corner of the room."}, {"prompt": "Turn dagger", "response": "{It is politely requested that you respect the orientation of the curved dagger.}"}, {"prompt": "You examine the taffy", "response": "The sticky taffy looks just like you would expect."}, {"prompt": "Suveh nux amunisu", "response": "You say \"Suveh nux amunisu\".\nThe ceiling starts to glow."}, {"prompt": "You examine the machine", "response": "This last learning machine broke when you were maybe three thousand days old. It contains a power module and an instruction module."}, {"prompt": "You open the bottom drawer", "response": "Opened."}, {"prompt": "You give Handbook to Jenny", "response": "The Jenny of Tomorrow dubiously reads through the Style Handbook of Proper English. \"French: Canceled. No one ever asks what is the purpose of all this reading.\""}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You're standing in a strange, spherical room. The walls seem to\nglow with pale, bright shades of purple and blue - your lamp is not needed here. The curving floor and walls feel like slick metal underfoot, and you're having some difficulty maintaining your balance. Round tunnels, made from the same strange purple-blue metal, run north, south, east, and west. [9]  A more normal-looking passage, hewn from gray rock, runs northwest. In the center of the floor is a small, round chute. It vanishes into darkness a few feet below the floor."}, {"prompt": "You get the blanket", "response": "Wow! Now I understand why the huge bed felt so hard! What better way to conceal from your wife the fact that you've spent your family's entire annual porridge budget on a full sized snooker table than to give up your conjugal rights altogether and disguise it as a bed! Boy, could this couple use some marriage guidance!"}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nAs you're contemplating the pros and cons of opening the emergency exit, Paco arrives at the top of the stairs. \"Very kind of you to wait up for me,\" he pants. As you reach in your pocket for the gun, Paco pulls off your mask. \"Pleasure to meet you,\" he says, his own mask completely motionless. Then something (a fist!) slams into your face, and all of a sudden you are on the floor.\nMaybe, someday, things will get better for you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the coffee", "response": "The swirls in your cup form a sailboat. Modes of transportation mean that your current environment presents challenges that can only be overcome by seeking fresh perspectives elsewhere until you're ready to return.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The road turns from south to west."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You stumble along, trying to get past the horde. Your dragging foot catches on a rock. With a crack, it snaps right off and you plant your face in the hot asphalt.\nThe crowd leaps upon you with squeals of anticipation. They crack your skull wide like an egg and suck out the last rotten remains of your brain, as the world swirls into an increasingly painful blur. Your body becomes a plaything for a band of inquisitive little torturers..."}, {"prompt": "You join the cables", "response": "trailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating three coiled lengths.\ntrailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating four coiled lengths.\ntrailing network cable: You have no other cable end to join to the trailing network cable."}, {"prompt": "You get the codebook", "response": "I pick up the confidential codebook and page through it. A few of the code sequences from the communiqu\ufffd\ufffd are in it, and I decrypt some more of it:\nConfirmed 72880 of 46480. There is no significant 73048 74615 in the 47576 45953 has been 62029 31368 02666 and 63211 79260 67549 07135 14066 43999 is 03659. We will 65629 67043 on the 85994\nThe gambler looks longingly at a poker table but remains off to the side."}, {"prompt": "You look at the bath", "response": "It's a plain white enamel bath, matching the sink; at least, it was white once, it's now mostly off-white with a number of distinctly brown stains."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're standing in a vast, mystical cavern. Stalactites shimmer in\nthe pale green lamplight, and brightly-colored beds of moss catch your eye. Pale glowing mists swirl at your feet. Shadows seem to leap from dark crevices in the corner, and breezes, some cold, some hot, nip at your cheeks. Magic seems to flow from the very rocks, tingling your toes.\nTunnels run north and south, and a narrow crawl climbs up to the\neast. At the west end of the cavern is a freshly whitewashed gazebo.\nYou see a barbell, a spade, an oar, a corkscrew, a sword, a small leather pouch, a bronze ring, and a pickaxe here."}, {"prompt": "You wait for the Eggplant Line", "response": "You lean against the town square, hold out your pass, and wait for the eggplant line. Within moments, a noncorporeal trolley arrives. Instead of stopping and allowing you to board, it passes through you,\nand you find yourself transported to\nFrom this corner of the attic, paths lead south and west, or you can head back down the rickety staircase. A damp wind flows through a gash in the exterior wall.\nA ghostly trolley stop sign reads Eggplant Line -- Cragne Manor Attic."}, {"prompt": "You examine Rask", "response": "Without going into too much detail, it looks like he died a humiliating and avoidable death."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The entry hall of Eternal Springs is bare of decoration. The only furnishings are a grandfather clock, which ticks heavily, and a small round telephone table. The front door of the house stands open to the east, the screen door providing, at best, a very partial barrier against the ingress of insects. There are open archways to the north and south, and a narrow staircase with a threadbare runner leads upward. The hall extends further to the west, alongside the staircase."}, {"prompt": "You take the codebook", "response": "(the secret codebook)\nI pick up the secret codebook and page through it. A few of the code sequences from the communiqu\ufffd\ufffd are in it, and I decrypt some more of it:\nConfirmed 72880 of 46480. There is no significant opposition remaining in the target area. The action has been authorized. Assist 02666 and ensure that 79260 67549 successfully as quickly as possible 43999 is standing by. We will act 67043 on the 85994\nThe server carefully carries a bowl of ice cream out of the walk-in freezer."}, {"prompt": "Smolpa guard", "response": "The guard glances away, and you release the spell. A faint flash fills your vision. The guard looks back, and looks right past you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the painting", "response": "The woman in the painting looks stiff and unhappy, and the reason isn't hard to see - it's a good bet she's wearing a tight corset underneath that starched pink dress. She's holding a parasol, which leans against her shoulder."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "(first opening the brass door)\nYou open the brass door.\nAn awkward wedge of space between the foundations of the main house and the walls of the new-built wine cellar, east. The staircase does not leave much room to stand in; it is straight and carefully planed lest anyone trip with a priceless bottle of wine.\nThe wine-cellar door -- sturdy wood in yellowish brass panels -- stands open to the east.\nAn ordinary wooden door opens west into the root cellar."}, {"prompt": "You ask Wei about himself", "response": "\"Tell me about yourself.\" you ask the servant.\n\"I am just a servant of Master Cheng Ling Shu, sir.\" is his reply.\nZhang looks at one of the portraits while he waits."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You are standing in the main thoroughfare for Grooverland. Park-goers wearing masks and carrying cricket bats pass all around you, and you see quite a few children holding jelly-covered ice cream cones.\nA sign to the north says \"Sugar Plum Snack Bar\".\nA sign to the south is labeled \"Painful Purchases Gift Shop\". Underneath the name is a tagline: \"All Magic Has a Price\".\neast to the Prowling Promenade."}, {"prompt": "You pray to Petra", "response": "You can only play rock, paper, or scissors."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nsome sage\na cage (open but empty)\na gear\na four-letter frame\na torch (providing light)\nyour alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T)\na three-letter frame"}, {"prompt": "You read the Sword", "response": "You see a very old sword. It has a thick, straight blade of dull grey metal, and a hilt of intricately-worked brass. It looks very sharp."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "It has seen a lot of use. Its heavy oak top has gouges from many a tool."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The cash register sits here on a long counter, accompanied by a great big tip jar and guarded by a bored-looking cashier. The menu is printed on a big chalkboard near the ceiling.\nAround the counter and to the north is a long hallway. That must be where the big guy came from.\nA blonde cop and a mustachioed cop are enjoying their tacos in a booth near the counter."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "I walk over this bridge every day to get to Cost Cutters, to the west, but I just recently noticed that it crossed a river. To the east is my neighbourhood.\nThere's a neat little train of shopping carts on the sidewalk here."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "(first trying to open the door of Cabin Three)\nYou tap hesitantly on the door of Cabin Three. After a few moments, a low voice from within says, \"I'm sorry - I'm taking a nap. Perhaps you could come back a little later.\""}, {"prompt": "You look around", "response": "Your eyes are closed, and, in this half-dreaming state, you can't remember how to open them.\nCaerwyn's voice comes from your left. Her voice is low but clear. \"Hachachi. How is our patient?\"\nThere is a pause before Hachachi responds. His voice is very near, not far from your right elbow, and his soft words are heavy and slurred. \"No change. Still 'sleep.\"\nI beg your pardon?"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The street leads east and south from here.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You look at the can", "response": "A trash can in a high-traffic area like that has to be emptied a few times a day. This one hadn't been emptied that day. It hadn't been emptied the day before, either. There was a little mountain of trash forming around it."}, {"prompt": "Smell film", "response": "You can make out a shadowy reflection of yourself in the slowly rippling water.\nThe river has an unpleasant, oily smell to it."}, {"prompt": "You look in the dumpsters", "response": "You root around in one of the dumpsters, steeling yourself against the stench. After a few miserable minutes, you come up with a battered snowglobe. Must've been damaged merchandise."}, {"prompt": "You fill kettle", "response": "You turn on the tap, fill the kettle, and turn off the tap again."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Your Driveway -- Near the House (in the Pratt Dynamo)\nThe long driveway stretches east, towards adventure.\nThe instruments are arranged neatly on the dashboard in front of you.\nIn the Pratt Dynamo you can see Aloysius, an index card, some goggles, your favourite peaked riding cap and a scarf."}, {"prompt": "You look at the equipment", "response": "The Gas Tank looks salvageable. If you could find a lighter you may be able to COMBINE it with the gas tank to jury rig something."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "(You pop open the maintenance access hatch as you go topside.)\nBetween each pair of cars is an area which has always frightened you. Maybe it's the fact that the area is open save for a flimsy metal railing across the gaps; maybe it's the constant shifting of the floor beneath your feet. Safer areas lie south and north.\nA maintenance access hatch is open, leading downwards to darkness.\nYou can also see an external ladder here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the star", "response": "(the stone circle)\nThe circular stone reminds you of a manhole cover. Its surface is engraved with a seven-pointed star."}, {"prompt": "You open the wardrobe", "response": "The wardrobe doors creak as you open them."}, {"prompt": "You examine the compartment", "response": "(the embedded compartment that is near the escape pod)\nIt's a box roughly 30 centimeters on a side, with a ruff of jagged metal that was ripped from an equipment rack. The whole thing is embedded sideways in a wall, which makes you glad you weren't hit by it when it came whizzing through the station. The compartment has a featureless door that is closed."}, {"prompt": "You look at the radio module", "response": "It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus link on the other."}, {"prompt": "You read the nameplates", "response": "Most of the nameplates are illegible, corroded with centuries of rot and verdigris. There are a few names visible, however. You could look someone up if you have a specific name in mind."}, {"prompt": "You ask LaFleure about Cindy", "response": "\"It is sad what happened to her,\" Johnny said. \"I would be very upset if that happened to me.\""}, {"prompt": "You open the crypt", "response": "You open it a crack. Try again."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Hallway (south end)\nThe carpeted hallway extends away to the north. A door in the west wall leads to the bathroom and a door in the east wall leads to Marissa's studio. The living room is to the south."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "You join your voice with the new, unfamiliar intervals, and feel a sudden crystallization. All of your senses have become attuned to new frequencies and modes of vibration.\nHe glares at her. 'Fine then, if chaos is within everything and I should embrace it, I should find the Goddess of Chaos bound within this very pillar. Let her be my lover if you wish to be so quarrelsome!' And with that, the man forces a grotesque leer onto his face and presses his body up against the pillar, thrusting vigorously with his hips against the marble."}, {"prompt": "You show the photographs to the ghost", "response": "(first taking the faded photographs from the burlap sack)\nThe ghost exhibits no curiosity about what you're offering."}, {"prompt": "You enter the car", "response": "It's a bad idea to mess with someone else's car."}, {"prompt": "You look at the table", "response": "The old wooden table is a small, square, utilitarian surface, rather battered and with one crooked leg."}, {"prompt": "Point camera at cables", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Sensa.\nSENSA: The transmitter has been pointed at the cables.\nIRIS INTERRUPT: Transmission indicates the cables rest in the grooves in the following order: white five-inch cable; twenty-inch blue cable; black nineteen-inch cable; and empty. The cables are actually exposed sections of larger cables. They each terminate at a connector. The connector itself poses no problem and, from what I can see, easy replacement should be possible."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"So, uh, we get along okay, huh?\" you ask. \"Like, uh, remember in kindergarten when I traded you my juice box for your Pudding Snak? That was pretty cool, huh?\"\nJoyce and Sherrill snicker, but Alley seems not at all put off by the stupidity of what you've just said. \"Sure,\" she says."}, {"prompt": "4", "response": "\"I hope I'm not trespassing,\" you say. \"I... There was a woman who dropped a key in a hurry, and...\"\nThe patriarch tilts his head. \"You are a friend of ours, are you not?\"\nThe patriarch tilts his head. \"You are a friend of ours, are you not?\"\"Um...\"\nnot?\"\"Um...\"\"If you are not, I am afraid this conversation will take a rather unpleasant turn.\"\nrather unpleasant turn.\"\"...Yes,\" you say. \"Yes, I'm a friend.\"\nrather unpleasant turn.\"\"...Yes,\" you say. \"Yes, I'm a friend.\"\"Then you have nothing to worry about.\" He chuckles, his chest heaving wetly. \"As long as you pledge to leave us in peace, we shall afford you the same respect. I trust we are clear on this.\"\nyou the same respect. I trust we are clear on this.\"\"Yes, sir.\"\nyou the same respect. I trust we are clear on this.\"\"Yes, sir.\"\"Very good.\"\n1) \"My name is Marid.\"\n2) \"Who are you?\"\n3) \"What is this place?\"\n4) \"Are you aware that the Channelworks District is under\nquarantine?\""}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "A pleasant cloister overlooking the rose garden to the north. You have walked it many times, seeking to waste the excesses of time at your disposal."}, {"prompt": "You get the hammocks", "response": "Before you can start pulling down a hammock, Verdeterre clicks at you.\n\"Don't bother. We'll find something for you to sleep in. Or under. Leave it to me,\" he says."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You enter Henry VII's chapel, which is one of the most beautiful chapels in the world. The ceiling is a masterpiece of delicate fan vaulting, and the Renaissance gilt-bronze tomb is obviously the work of one of the Italian masters.\nYour friend enters and begins pacing back and forth nervously."}, {"prompt": "You examine photo", "response": "An old photo of a young girl, smiling prettily at the camera."}, {"prompt": "You drop the bucket", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.\nThe vaulted ceiling of this huge room is at least fifty feet above you. A double row of fat pillars lines the east and west walls. The pillars can't very well be real gold (can they?), but they look like gold. You tread lightly, yet your footsteps echo.\nAt the north end of the room stands a huge and hideous black statue. It's at least twenty feet tall, and looks almost exactly like the little statuettes you've seen at Eternal Springs - so much like them that looking at it makes your mouth dry and your hands cold. Before the statue is a polished cube of black stone six feet high.\nThe high arched doorway that leads back to the courtyard is to the south. There's also a passage to the north, but to reach it you'll have to pass quite close to the hideous statue.\nThe monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns."}, {"prompt": "You tell Soolin about the mallet", "response": "\"I found this mallet in a ruined building in the forest,\" you tell her, \"the handle is stamped 'Made in Paran'!\"\n\"That's very suspicious, sir,\" Sublieutenant Soolin replies, \"what in seven score solar systems is a mallet made on the Federation capital doing on Elysium?\"\n\"Quite, sublieutenant,\" you agree."}, {"prompt": "Warm green piece of paper with candle", "response": "The paper is heated by the bank of candles. Something seems to be gradually appearing on the back of the green piece of paper."}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "Many books of precedent line these walls, containing every kind of contract that can be made to bind every kind of soul.\nA hole in the floor descends to the other, less savory portion of this place."}, {"prompt": "You read about Beast in the book", "response": "Even if you knew his name, he wouldn't be listed here, of course. The master is not contracted, only the servants."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the gate."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "I'm standing in a short hallway. There are doors to north, east, south, and west. Otherwise, the walls are completely blank. I can faintly hear voices coming through the door to the east."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the master", "response": "The transit master's voice carries through cyberspace, genteel and expressive.\n\"Free usage of all Network hyperspace conduits can be yours if you only buy this transit chip for 3k credits.\""}, {"prompt": "You search Ivan", "response": "full advantage while you can. There's nothing too\ninconsequential for your attention. You pat him down and turn his jacket out. You reach into his pockets. You look inside his top hat. You even pull open his mouth to examine his teeth. Your fingers are everywhere.\n\"Heavens me!\" Ivan says when you're done. \"I don't think that an autopsy would uncover anything you just didn't.\""}, {"prompt": "You assign Gavin to the sewage", "response": "You command Gavin Nash to occupy himself with raw sewage. He obediently complies."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sky", "response": "There is a spinning, churning hole in the clouds, directly over the lighthouse; an inverted whirlpool sucking streamers of gray up into itself. You'd think it was some sort of funnel cloud, except that it's not moving anywhere. It's simply hanging, turning slowly in the sky. The sight of that horrible, whirling hole makes you shudder, involuntarily recalling that hideous entity that lurks behind those clouds."}, {"prompt": "You examine the right compartment", "response": "An astonishing array of alphabetically arranged chemicals and solutions."}, {"prompt": "You touch the cube", "response": "As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.\nThe six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly white and featureless. A single silver compass rose, balancing a delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the floor.\nAn animated burin hovers over your head.\n\"If you can pick it up, it's yours,\" the burin sniggers sagely."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You stand next to the top of a stairway. Looking North, you see a pair of completely unmarked sliding doors standing open.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You examine the quartz", "response": "It shines and reflects the molten span below. Here and there, small chunks popped off of the cracked crystal.\nA perfect splinter rests upon the others, waiting to be picked up."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.\nA few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are still in a big box on the floor."}, {"prompt": "Pet Rover", "response": "You rub Rover under the chin, and he cranes back his neck and twists his head from side to side in enjoyment.\nROVER -> SYNCH : TRUE"}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You hop gracefully down to the other end of the perch.\n\"Right,\" he says. \"Other foot now.\" He slides the shoe on, and it does go considerably further. \"Tell me if I'm hurting you,\" he says.\n\"You're not, not at all,\" Theo assures him on a wince.\n\"Shoes are worn tight this year,\" puts in the old lady."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office.\nOn the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You enter Lower Thames Street. Roads lead off in many directions, some more savory than others. There is a set of particularly slovenly stairs leading down to an alley that runs alongside the river.\nWiggins follows you."}, {"prompt": "You find the key", "response": "The current problem cannot be fully dealt with until you have addressed another issue; further exploration is called for."}, {"prompt": "You take crowbar", "response": "You pick up the iron crowbar."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"You were close to Reden?\"\nThe bouncer looks at his mechanical legs; he leans heavily on the struts. The cracks in his goggles glint in the cold light.\nstruts. The cracks in his goggles glint in the cold light.\"We were co-workers,\" he says. \"Way back when in the Channelworks. Back before I lost my legs, before everything came tumbling down...\"\nI lost my legs, before everything came tumbling down...\"He looks off into the distance.\ninto the distance.\"We were drinking buddies. Him and me and Crow. We all knew each other back in the day -- told jokes, comforted each other when we had a bad run. I don't think he had anyone other than the two of us.\nthe two of us.\"And now he's gone. It's just the two of us left.\"\n1) \"Who's Crow?\"\n2) \"There's no one else?\"\n3) \"I'm here because I don't want anyone else to die...\""}, {"prompt": "Grass", "response": "Lots of dead grass. Who cares."}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "You are in the center of the structure. You can go pretty much any way except south. The exit from all this appears to be to the north, where you can see a very, very big laser gun in the distance.\nThere's an important looking panel by the north wall. It's got a bunch of buttons on it, with a bunch of pictures to the side.\nA large mirror (facing NNE) is at the edge of the platform."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Briefing Room, on the folding chair\nThis is a large room with a high ceiling, brightly illuminated with fluorescent lights. Most of your fellow passengers are here, sitting in folding chairs facing a podium; many empty chairs are available. An exit leads to the south, and another passage leads north.\nA woman is here.\nSomeone at the front of the room raises his hand. \"Yes, you at the front,\" the woman says, pointing to him.\n\"Is this heaven or hell?\" he asks.\nThe woman responds, \"You know what they say -- if you have to ask\n--\" she chuckles. \"It is technically hell, although that's such a loaded word that we don't like to use it. Most ideas people have about hell are very outdated. Ever since the deregulation of the afterlife industry, we've had to compete with Heaven for eternal souls -- because you're free to switch to Heaven at any time. So, we've been modernizing! There really isn't much eternal torment these days, for example. And, thanks to the Environmental Clean-up Superfund, we have the brimstone problem mostly under control at this point.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The large clearing is lit by a tremendous bonfire at its center. The dazzling light illuminates all sorts of magical creatures, dancing and frolicking around the flickering firelight. Many of the elves, fairies, and fauns in this clearing have instruments in their hands and with them play the most enchanting and festive music you have ever heard. A giant circle of the perfectly shaped hedges encloses this large area. Decorative boughs of holly have been draped in great sweeping arcs along the tops of the hedges."}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a town with only one street. The sun beats down from above, lighting up the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of here. On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings. Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.\nOld Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying slightly.\nThe fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.\nOld Dan heads off to the north."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "You are in a dimly lit hall, with an odd pale rectangle on the wall. A stairway leads down to the Foyer. There are exits to the north (her bedroom), west (the bathroom), and southeast (the guest room).\n\"Ask Grandma about those songs, ask Grandma about those songs,\"\nyou remind yourself."}, {"prompt": "You buy the prints", "response": "As you declare your intention to purchase the prints, the clerk in the store looks surprised. It turns out she is the artist that created them during the past several months, at the same time you were working on ANTS. The symbolism of the artwork seems perfectly aligned with the story of the Loonie Revolution.\nYou spend $500 on the prints, you have $29470 remaining.\nMidnight strikes and a new day dawns.\n(This is day number 10)"}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are wearing your trenchcoat, your clothes and your wedding ring; in addition, you have in your hands a strange black disk, a newspaper, a strange metal flute and a broom.\nThe pockets of your trenchcoat contain a silver locket, a gold locket, a flashlight, a keyring, on which are five keys (a small copper key, an old-fashioned brass key, an old-fashioned iron key, a key to the house and a key to the cellar), an animal's skull, Michael's faculty card, a bundle of soggy pages, a puzzle box (which is open but empty), a flask (which is closed), a letter opener, a slip of paper, a family album, a book of matches with six matches left, a torn journal, a typewritten notice, a lantern, your umbrella and a towel."}, {"prompt": "You pour the water on the couch", "response": "The couch is not in need of a bath.\nBeauregard smacks his lips. \"That young lady from Nashville, now - she's quite somethin', ain't she?\""}, {"prompt": "You sit in the chair", "response": "You get onto the dentist's chair.\nSuddenly, you are paralyzed; your arms and legs frozen in place as you lay on the chair. You hear a sound from the service table next to you. You see a dental probe that you failed to notice before fly into the air in front of you. Your mouth opens, yet you cannot scream.\nThe tool, with its sharp hook, descends to do its torture on you."}, {"prompt": "You examine the transom", "response": "The door (like most of the others in this place) seems to be warped from disuse. The handle does seem to still be useable and there is no obvious lock."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "You hear nothing unexpected.\nEnrico Caruso's voice sounds from the phonograph: \"A sight made our heroine frown:\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "The sign on the door says: \"EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY. Alarm will sound if opened.\" As much as you'd like to see what's on the other side, setting off an alarm isn't really an option.\nBut there's no alarm built into the door, and there are no wires or anything connected to it. And if that kid can do it..."}, {"prompt": "You throw the brick at Dragon", "response": "You drop the brick. It lands smack in the middle of the dragon's head. The baby lets out a startled yelp and keels over in its tracks, knocked unconscious."}, {"prompt": "You look at the trinkets", "response": "You think your decorations from Astral Enchantments improve the look of your home considerably. It definitely seems like a loonie lives here."}, {"prompt": "You put the diamond in the trunk", "response": "Don't be silly. It wouldn't be a trunk of jewels anymore."}, {"prompt": "You squirt the lubricant on yourself", "response": "You'll have to remove the can of lubricant from yourself first."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "How can I defeat the ebony mask?\nPress the space bar to display the next line, 'P' to go to the previous menu, or 'Q' to quit.\nThe mask is a sort of voodoo burglar alarm. [1/12]\nIf you try to pick up anything that belongs to Tyrone, the mask will see you and howl. [2/12]\nYou can't prevent Tyrone from hearing the mask. [3/12]\nSo you need a way to prevent it from seeing what you're doing. [4/12]\nYou don't have a cloak of invisibility. [5/12]\nBut you might be able to figure out a way to cover the mask's enormous, staring eyes. [6/12]"}, {"prompt": "You move coat", "response": "A gentle tug causes the coat to slip slightly to one side. Through the eruption of moths you see that the coat is covering a doorway North. Pushing the coat to the side like a drape, you go through.\nYou have come across a store room. A stairway leads down. A closet is North.\nA small magnesium box sits on the floor"}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "This was supposed to be a two-car garage, but with the trash cans, your workbench, Alley's bike and all the rest of the junk that's taken up residence in this place, you're lucky to be able to even squeeze just the Volvo in here."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na kumquat\na puffy white jacket\na silver kiddush cup\nsome fuzzy bunny slippers\na yellow paper note\na mail packet\nan empty gift box\na handheld computer (in which is a data disk)\na grey widget saying SOC 15.4096, POW 20.55699, INT 12.5532\na magnificent ensemble of flowing scarlet robe, chronometer, grey undersuit, shoes, and socks"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The crowd is more or less divided here, with younger kids and families headed west to the Melancholy Mall and more adventurous teens\nand adults headed east to Mechanical Marvels.\nA sign to the north proclaims \"Cragne Meatpacking Presents:\nPetting Zoo\". Some graffiti applied to the sign proclaims, \"TOBY KNOWS.\"\nA sign to the south says \"The Queen's Menagerie\". You've heard\nthis is where more dangerous animals are displayed.\nThere are three food sellers here: a sausage seller, a ceviche chef, and a jelly man, each with their own menu and cart. But something about the food they're selling seems weird.\nDavid is contemplating the various attractions and people in the park with wide eyes. He's holding his favorite plush chimera.\nDavid starts going to the east, but sees something that makes him turn around."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You cut north, through the heaviest knot of dancers. Plump, silky calves kick, floating hemlines like the dresses of mermaids swirl out of your way, their owners all glares and toothy smiles. Somewhere a violin bow drags squallingly across the strings. Someone shrieks.\nShaped like the inside of a beehive. Golden light comes through windows as tall and narrow as treetrunks. There's a whole forest of them, and of the pencil-thin, shining columns. At the north end of the room is a throne made of polished, greenish wood.\nThe King stands half-up from the throne. His hand is raised. A man in a black suit lies dying beneath the throne. His white ruff is stained red with blood. A lady in oxblood velvet holds a pistol. Her mouth is open, halfway through shouting an anti-aristocratic slogan. Behind her, a group of guards has thrown off their Konigsburg colors and revealed the black and red of the revolution. They have knives, ancient hunting pieces. Loyal guards face them, rifles raised to their shoulders. The King's face has twisted masklike with horror."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the toggle", "response": "The switch is already on."}, {"prompt": "You wait awhile", "response": "Time passes...\nA roller coaster car zooms past, almost knocking you over!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the desk", "response": "It's an IKEA desk, somewhat disfigured by coffee rings (from all the times you left your hot mug of coffee on the desk for far too much time). And certainly it would be nice to have more than just the one drawer for tidying away your stuff. But it's perfectly adequate for\nthe kind of work you do for the Weiner Corporation -- namely, sorting through piles of mail. Such as the huge heap now standing before you.\nSomething must be done."}, {"prompt": "Close NW", "response": "(the peacock door leading northwest)\nYou close the peacock door leading northwest.\nThe peacock door leading west opens."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the leave", "response": "She gives a wry smile, then says, \u201cI think I\u2019d need to think about that.\u201d"}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "Wild West Challenge (as Angel)\nThe robot rolls down the ramp into complete darkness.\nThe ramp retracts into the ceiling, and the lights go on. You hear Dr. Long's recorded voice saying: \"First Challenge: Wild West Environment\". Dr. Ng's voice chimes in, saying, \"Now with three times the firepower!\" The camera feed jiggles; Angel seems to be on a platform. The lights go on.\nYou see a room painted with murals of red-rock desert country. Angel is standing on top of a train that is rocking and bumping on hydraulics; hidden speakers are playing train noises. The train is being pursued by an outlaw drone and a bandit drone, riding stationary mechanical horses.\nThe train and horses are bucking wildly, making it hard to aim.\nThe outlaw drone draws its gun and aims it at you.\nThe bandit drone pulls out its revolver and points it at you."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "This is the base of the northwest tower of the castle. A winding staircase leads up into the tower itself, and passages lead from here to the east and south."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Via Terminalis, West Street\nYou drift through empty blood-vessel streets, a speck of white mingling with cobblestones ashen and black. In place of carriages and people, there are quarantine signs and body bags. The air rings with silence, and in it there is the foul creeping odor of something terrible afoot.\nTo the southeast, the Via Terminalis bridges the canal. A condemned block is visible to the north, and a footpath follows the canal to the south."}, {"prompt": "You ask him about  the poachers", "response": "\"So, about these poachers. What should I expect?\"\nEruera's face stills as he looks at you. \"Be very careful, Tim. If the poachers are in your path, do everything you can to avoid contact with them. These men killed my brothers on the cutter in cold blood, to protect their profits from stealing the taniwha. The best you could hope for if you are caught would be to be held for ransom.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the water", "response": "The water is sparkling clear."}, {"prompt": "Kiss brutus 42 times", "response": "You smooch the surly person behind the counter forty-two times.\n\"The crouton machine's busted.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the peeler", "response": "Wow. You've never found a potato peeler before. \"I don't have to shave a yak with this thing, do I?\" you ask.\n\"Of course not, you peel things with it,\" David says, as if\nthis ought to be obvious."}, {"prompt": "East", "response": "The linkages on the doors are very old, and set with a power stronger than your raw will alone can manipulate."}, {"prompt": "You get on the box", "response": "Which do you mean, the left box or the right box?"}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a wooden bucket, a burlap sack (which contains an old shovel and a sequined jacket), a flashlight, the key to Cabin One, a tube of suntan lotion, and a pill bottle. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the crowds", "response": "You try all the languages you speak well: Nacrese, Artiglot, Astropatois, even your own mother tongue, but no-one seems to understand. Random phrases you've picked up from other languages similarly draw a blank.\nThe people seem cheerful enough. Many try, with gestures, to sell you worthless knick-knacks.\nTowards the back of the crowd, you notice a biomechanical\nandroid of an unfamiliar design."}, {"prompt": "You pull the rope", "response": "The bell clatters noisily. \"Come in!\" you hear Zoiro call."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You stagger on ahead, baking in the sun. Finally, you must stop to breathe. Taking a look behind yourself, it is hard to tell that you have moved at all. Already, the hot desert breeze is erasing the signs of your passage."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You set off toward the fire tower. The trail runs along the top of a rocky ridge, but it's well-used and, for the most part, easily walked. The last few feet are a bit of a scramble, but you effortlessly manage the boulders and find yourself standing triumphantly on the porch of the fire tower.\nMt. Cammerer, Outside the Fire Tower\nThe Mt. Cammerer fire tower sits atop a jagged, rocky peak with a commanding view of the surrounding mountains. It's a fantastic\nlocation for such a structure, really, because you can see for miles\nin every direction and it would be easy to spot a plume of smoke, particularly if you used binoculars.\nYou lean against the railing and take in the landscape. Gorgeous, and so worth the effort.\nA hawk cries in the sky above you, momentarily drawing your attention."}, {"prompt": "You look at the clock", "response": "It is a strange chunk of ... well, flesh, really. It's pretty disgusting, especially because a rough circle of the flesh has been sickeningly ripped off, leaving a patch of bloody muscle. What's also weird is that there is hair in this patch. Upon closer inspection, the hair is growing in a precise way as to make a sort-of clock face on the muscle. Two hairs grow from the center and point outward, making the hour and minute \"hands\", and small nubs of hair surround the circle, making a braille-like series of numbers to mark the time. (To check the time, type \"check time\" or just \"time\".)\nFinally, something happens. The biological clock explodes in a fury of noise and gore.\nYou awake and immediately see Dr. Richard Lynch looking over you. He smiles and you relax a bit. He seemingly doesn't know what you now know. He doesn't know you were in his head all night.\nYou leave the hospital early that morning with one destination in mind."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You stand in a patch of dim light streaming from the north. All else is darkness. Odd sensations creep over you. Light can be seen to the north.\nA soft strain of music drifts from the darkness."}, {"prompt": "You put ring on the hook", "response": "(You have a feeling you won't get it back.)\nThe chain shifts, tugging against its own rust. Then, with a long resentful screech that you can feel in your teeth, the pulley shifts and the ring descends into the water. At the same time, something else is lifted out.\nYou rub at the bare spot on your ring finger. You've worn that for nearly five years now."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ball", "response": "It's a perfectly round sphere of crystal, or at least glass, set into the exact center of the octagonal stand. You can vaguely make out some hazy images deep within it."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You can't go that way. The only obvious exit leads north, back to cabin five."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Staci", "response": "Every way you interact with Staci feels easy, natural, and delightful."}, {"prompt": "You examine the popsicles", "response": "Arched galleries surround the room, bound by iced rails that onlookers might lean upon, and from their lower ledges hang the longest and most mesmerizing popsicles. Each tip sparkles."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying a burlap sack (which contains a sequined jacket, a flashlight, an old shovel, a gold locket, and some faded photographs), the key to Cabin One, a pill bottle, a little white pill, a croquet hoop, a wooden bucket, and an indecipherable map. You're wearing your clothes."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "That's a Utility Calculator,\" she says. \"Punch in the details of any given situation and it'll tell you what action will produce the greatest happiness. Apparently. I don't know how a little thing can manage to work out all the possible consequences, though.\n[1] What's that golden ruler?\n[2] What's that silver calculator?\n[3] What's that lead cube?\n[4] I'll take the ruler, thanks.\n[5] I'll take the calculator, thanks.\n[6] I'll take the cube, thanks."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You flee from them...\nYou flee from them...## Into the Fire\nA rubbish fire, roaring and acrid and unmistakably fecal. The flames are green and blue from alchemical decomposition, and dead bodies feed the fire and stoke its insatiable hunger with their animii.\nthe fire and stoke its insatiable hunger with their animii.You sink to your knees."}, {"prompt": "You enter the wreck", "response": "You are in the former captain's cabin. Apart from an emblazoned wooden chest, the small room contains no furniture. The chest is guarded by a huge octopus. Exiting the wreck takes you back into the deep blue water."}, {"prompt": "Search furnace", "response": "In the wood-burning furnace is the real estate agent's severed head."}, {"prompt": "You take kit", "response": "With a triumphant cry, you seize the makeup kit and immediately apply some of its conents. Ah, you feel so pretty, now!"}, {"prompt": "You look at the receipt", "response": "The receipt appears to say disguise/costume/funny clothing for proposal-of-marriage white large.\nMentally you check off \"find jacket receipt in the recycling chute (Valenti's suggestion)\" on your list of remaining tasks. You run over the things various people have decided you ought to do:\ngive the jacket receipt to Liam\nacquire vaccine from the research facility (HC's orders)\nwear white jacket (Valenti's idea)\nfind a working float unit\nsummon Liam and show him the gift box\nmeet with Ambassador Aylene to present your gift"}, {"prompt": "You look behind the portrait", "response": "The portrait doesn't move; it's firmly attached to the wall."}, {"prompt": "You touch the mirror", "response": "You feel nothing out of the ordinary.\nYou finish passing the great bulk of the city."}, {"prompt": "You examine the starchy shirt", "response": "It's thick white cloth, very smooth. It doesn't so much wrinkle as fold."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "N = next subject                                                  P =\nRETURN = read subject                                          Q = re\nsume game\nThere is help on the following:\nVoiceless cube\nCircuit board\nDegenerating body\nScan of sector\n> Cube with voice\nHalted program\nFlashing paper\nSphere\nCube's message\nUnconsciousness\nFragments of void\nDegenerating body, 2nd time\nFinishing the game"}, {"prompt": "You look at the fireplace", "response": "The large fireplace is made of red bricks. A long, thin stocking has been hung from the mantle. A raging fire blazes in the hearth causing the kettle's water to boil ferociously."}, {"prompt": "P.", "response": "Known Merchants:\n-Matej (Surface of Cygnet)\nOdd Jobs:\n-Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl\n-Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet\n-Autark Orbital Race run by Silver\n-Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter\nOther Opportunities:\n-homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface of Storm)\nPotential Buyers:\npressure chief (Surface of Jarland), disaffected youths (Surface of Unity), coastal nomads (Surface of Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Nereus)\nCargo:\na decompressionist statue, an autodoc unit and an unauthorised specimen"}, {"prompt": "Search box", "response": "Nothing else in the crate, and I must warn you that that glass is going to cut your hands if you mess around with it."}, {"prompt": "You read New England", "response": "(first taking the book New England and the Bavarian\nIlluminati)\n... The practical development of this pernicious system has been seen in France. It has served as an engine to subvert all her ancient institutions, civil and religious, with all the checks that served to mitigate the rigor of authority; it has hurried her headlong through a rapid succession of dreadful revolutions, which have laid waste property, made havoc among the arts, overthrown cities, desolated provinces, unpeopled regions, crimsoned her soil with blood, and deluged it in crime, poverty, and wretchedness; and all this as yet for no better purpose than to erect on the ruins of former things a despotism unlimited and uncontrolled; leaving to a deluded, an abused, a plundered, a scourged, and an oppressed people, not even the shadow of liberty to console them for a long train of substantial misfortunes, or bitter suffering...\nthe cart."}, {"prompt": "Shout", "response": "You nod to Tyrone and tell him, \"Go ahead and shout to him again.\"\nTyrone shouts at the door, \"Don't be a moron, it's just Mr. Ginsberg! He's trying to get us out of here!\"\nAfter a moment, Samir calls, \"Oh. I thought....\" His tone is distinctly sheepish.\nTyrone shouts, \"Well, you don't think so good, so stop thinking and listen to the man!\"\nYou say, \"I think that'll do. Thank you, Tyrone.\""}, {"prompt": "You take the machete", "response": "\"No!\" he squeals, drawing back. \"It's mine! All mine!\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You trudge out of the forest. Whether it is a long time or a short time, it matters not. Speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a deed is done.\nYou've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk\nto the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. In a glade an even shorter walk to the north, however, lurks a far more horrible threat: a dozen young noble women, each eager to plant a kiss on your cheek. You notice that they are all wearing lipstick. Ack! You know you'll break out in hives if that waxy mess touches your regal skin. The path leads south back into the forest."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "*squeek* *squeek*\nYou are in a hexagonal room. There are three doors here to the north (computer room), west (recreation center) and east (laboratory). There is an escalator to the south.\nA star-shaped symbol is drawn above the escalator.\nYou can also see an escalator button here."}, {"prompt": "You open the pager", "response": "You open the pager, revealing a receive chip.\nPonyfriend checks his cell phone, looking disappointed that no-one has called.\nPonyfriend sighs and sits down for a few moments before springing back up, muttering."}, {"prompt": "Key", "response": "You insert the key into the keyhole. It throbs and vanishes. The door opens, like a flower blooming.\nLoud, sensual moans are coming from the west and approaching rapidly."}, {"prompt": "You keep going", "response": "Lady Gascogne lays a queen of spades on the table."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "Dannerham is beginning to get on my nerves. He did two tours in\nIraq, and he isn't bragging, but he doesn't let me forget for a minute that I'm not American. Kira tells me that his advances get more serious. She is a tough girl and can handle herself, but still, we don't need this sort of tension around the base. I don't feel like having a fistfight with Dannerham to protect her. I think she'd stand a better chance in a fight against him than me, too."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dough", "response": "The risen dough is rather nondescript.\n[5:45 pm:58|365272]  doug2008 : Name?\n[5:45 pm:58|367209]  Cryptozoologist: WTB   25 Miracle Goo\n[5:45 pm:58|367296]  tehEmilyS: What's the best class to start out with?\n[5:45 pm:58|367389]  TregunaMekoides: Anyone selling  Dull Codpiece of the Yellow Shoelaces\nMysticMegan95 arrives from the north.\n[5:45 pm:58|370452]  doug2008 : A/S/L?"}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Inside the cave, you can barely make out the shapes within this chamber. The moonlight trickles in barely illuminating the metal tracks upon which the cart rolls. The tracks appear to originate from somewhere in a tunnel to the north and then divide here in this chamber. One set of tracks leads back out to the east while the other continues into a tunnel to the southwest. Near the junction of the tracks, you can barely see a tall metal lever reflecting in the moonlight."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "As you put your weight on the steps, several of the boards creak loudly.\nThe front porch runs the length of the east side of the house. It's not screened in, though it probably ought to be, as there's a busy wasps' nest up under one corner of the roof. The floorboards are uneven, and the railing looks pretty wobbly. A long beige couch, from which the padding is escaping, is jammed against the inside wall, below a window.\nThe screen door to the house is to the west, and a shallow flight of steps leads down to the east, to the lawn.\nBeauregard Phelps is sitting on the couch, gazing out placidly across the lawn. Once in a while his eyes flick toward you, as if he's watching you while pretending not to.\n\"Wish I had me a seegar,\" Beauregard says wistfully. \"Summer afternoons just ain't the same since I gave up them seegars.\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Mall, First Level, West Edge\nThe area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found.\nAudrey and Gibs follow me.\nMy hand has begun to rot away."}, {"prompt": "You enter the portal", "response": "Ocean laps at the sand beneath you. You are on a drawbridge, leading north towards a cozy, but somewhat decripit castle on a small peninsula. A misplaced red portal hovers in the air."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\na workbox\na ball of yarn\na needle\na brown dress (being worn)\na ring (being worn)\nsome slippers (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You turn off the first device", "response": "Done."}, {"prompt": "You put down the sign", "response": "You haven't had any spectators today, and that won't change without some subterfuge. But you still set an 'Out to Lunch' sign on\nyour table before leaving. Just in case."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the demon", "response": "The demon pauses for a moment, perhaps thinking that you should re-read the manual."}, {"prompt": "Front", "response": "The door is made of strong, thick wood and is carved with decorative swirls. The door handle is a shiny round knob, and underneath it you spot a large keyhole."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "You open the back door and step inside...\nInside the house\nIt is almost too dim inside to see anything, but you can make out enough to tell that there isn't much to see. You're reasonably sure this was the kitchen at one point. The door is to the east, while a larger room lies west. A staircase once led upward, but most of the stairs are now missing.\nA headless corpse lies at your feet."}, {"prompt": "Open dollhouse", "response": "You give a gentle tug at the base, which pops open. Inside, you see two letters (a crumpled letter and a folded letter) and a strange book."}, {"prompt": "You ask Fool about wine", "response": "[Author's Note: Wine, the Fruit of the Vine, a Fellow of mine.]"}, {"prompt": "You ask her about the sculpture", "response": "Marie smiles. \"It's a nice chair.\""}, {"prompt": "You put the corpse in the ring", "response": "While you heft it towards the maw, the Red Prince's corpse seems to convulse with a renewed effort to tear through the thin albumen between death and unlife.\nAs you finally cast it into those terrible, subterranean jaws, the corpse's eyes flick open. \"No! You cannot! Wretch!\"\nBut the Red Prince's curses grow distant as he tumbles into oblivion.\nWith a satisfied, sulphurous growl, the maw's gangrenous lips draw closed and fade completely from this world. Behind you, the sinister castle that has for so long dominated the sky of Amaranth finally collapses in on itself.\nYou draw a deep breath of fresh air, and feel a weight lifted from your soul. Perhaps now you can return home and rest.\nScotland, 1594:\nThe sea spray blasts your face, as you stand on the exposed\nclifftop,\nlooking towards Fast Castle on the outcrop ahead. Your master\nstands\nbeside you, leaning heavily on his stick, seemingly deep in\nthought.\nLittle wonder, given what faces him in there. What a hellish place. You pause to remember what Napier told you about the reasons for\nthis\nvisit ...\n6/12N)\nThis room in Napier's home, Gartness Castle, is where he spends\nmost\nof his waking hours, working on numerous projects and conducting strange experiments. Beside one wall, a desk and chair sit, the\ndesk\ncovered with papers lying haphazardly on the surface, though\nsomehow\nNapier always finds what he is looking for. A cupboard provides storage, and, on the floor, a rich rug provides warmth, one of the\nfew\nsigns of conventional comfort. A small window is the only source of natural light, though your master usually works late at night,\nburning\nmany a candle. Through a stone archway a staircase leads down to\nthe\nfloors below. A ladder is propped up near one wall, leading up to\nan\nopening in the ceiling.\nYou can see a handwritten note here."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "In the River (By the Cliff)\nThe river makes a slight turn, hiding the road from view. A vertical cliff stops her from going any further north in this tunnel of water, trees, and shadows. Above her head is a frayed ribbon of blue sky and at the top of the cliff, the two forests meet. Below and around her there is that play of light and dark, maybe just a little bit darker. South takes her back around the bend. Looking down she can see an opening in the cliff."}, {"prompt": "You look under the table", "response": "You see nothing unusual under the cafe table.\n\"Why do I always have to do all the work?\" Joe demands. \"Why can't you ever hold up your end of a conversation?\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You slip into the mansion and find your way to Sedmon's trophy room.\nSedmon's prized possessions are arrayed in meaningless patterns around this two-story chamber. A careful arrangement of paintings and torches alternate around the walls of the room. A doorway leads out to the west.\nIn the center of the room a platform rises high up, out of reach.\nOn the platform is the Dragon Gem.\nYou have a strange feeling."}, {"prompt": "East", "response": "Loitering outside a Timmy's isn't a habit you want to get into. You might start questioning why there isn't an apostrophe in \"Tim Hortons\" and such questions lead to madness. Or maybe just to Quebec. Speaking of ways to go, your apartment is back west and an uncertain future is to the east."}, {"prompt": "You get it", "response": "As you lift the journal, a moan emits from the vicinity of the corpse--or the corpse itself?--and a wind rises, upon which you hear a sinister whisper. The journal burns red hot and you quickly drop it back from where it came. The wind settles and although the corpse does not move, it seems to settle as well."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "The door opens and Floyd, pausing only for the briefest moment, plunges into the Bio Lab. Immediately, he is set upon by hideous, mutated monsters! More are heading straight toward the open door! Floyd shrieks and yells to you to close the door."}, {"prompt": "You look in the box", "response": "The fuse box contains a single fuse socket. The socket contains a blown fuse."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Protected by the curse received from Lilith, you easily overcome the white cross painted on the floor and proceed to east, followed by Praseidimio.\nBeyond the cross drawn on the floor to impede your passage, there is a narrow corridor that goes from west to east. It connects the bats room with the stone steps that should lead out of your hideout, towards the dark maze of caves that hides its entry. On the floor, the ceiling and the walls, you can see many other magic symbols. They have been drawn to avoid your escape, but their effect on you is nullified by Lilith's curse.\nPraseidimio is at your side, ready to give his contribution to the triumph of evil over good.\nThe impossibility of seeing your image reflected in a mirror is one of the things that you hate most about your vampire condition. So the gigantic mirror that is in your way towards your freedom, to the east, is a horrible view to you. Your persecutors thought of everything to keep you imprisoned in your own hideout. The mirror is too large to be covered, bypassed or climbed upon, so you have to find a way to destroy it, if you want to leave the hideout."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "blackness\u2026yes, a black suit\u2026 it's a spade\u2026\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the possum", "response": "The dead possum looks as if it was run over. And the dog's tender loving care has pretty much reduced it to tatters. Big black flies are circling around it. It's one of the most disgusting things you've ever seen in your life.\nThe dog sits on his haunches and scratches at a flea."}, {"prompt": "Turn sphere", "response": "The sphere rolls smoothly in the cherub's cupped hands. As it turns, a metallic creaking echoes from the chamber southward. The sphere clicks suddenly to a solid stop. The arrow now points toward a different constellation: the hunter."}, {"prompt": "You consult the computer about the vaccine", "response": "Your search turns up the following articles:\nHigh Command: An extremely circumspect article describing how, in the later years of the plague, the international quarantine authority in North America became a de facto government and managed the distribution not only of vaccine (once available) but also of other essential resources. All hints of controversy are omitted.\nplague: Billions of deaths, infection rates most severe in the less developed countries; revolutions and crumbling infrastructure; the regress of technology. This is why High Command wants back the Aleheart population. Fear of contaminating the environment with engineered flora and fauna seems insignificant now in the face of such medical sophistication -- an insurance against the same ever happening again. The vaccine exists, of course, and is produced in great quantity still, though it is very expensive to make.\nThere isn't any personal data available from logs or annotations."}, {"prompt": "You look at the windows", "response": "The stained-glass windows are old and coated with grime, and many of the panels have been broken out by time and vandals. Enough remains for you to make out most of the designs depicted in them, however -- and you find them vaguely disturbing. Saints -- at least none of the saints you're aware of -- should not be depicted performing such acts, nor with such insidious leers on their faces as they perform them."}, {"prompt": "You put the keycard on the sensor", "response": "Hm. The blank keycard doesn't seem to work. Maybe you could jazz it up a bit."}, {"prompt": "You fill the bucket", "response": "(transferring water from the watering trough)\nYou fill the old bucket.\nMacDougal pretends to throw a scarf around his neck, and shows his grizzled profile. \"Look here, I'm Troy Sterling!\" he shouts. \"Haw, haw!\""}, {"prompt": "Switch", "response": "[What do you want to switch?]"}, {"prompt": "You show the bracelet to the monkey", "response": "The monkey makes a tiny chittering sound that might be laughter."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The gently winding lane makes its way through the birch woods south of town. New England foliage is famous for its splendid colors in the fall, but the oppressive weather and pervading murk have leached these trees of most of their tint. The road continues south into the increasingly dense forest, and in the other direction heads back to town. A paved walk also leads east through the trees.\nA small group of townsfolk has gathered up at the north end of the road. As you approach, still breathless from your encounter with the thing at the slaughterhouse, they turn toward you -- and that's when you notice that the one in the lead has an axe in his hand. And the one behind him has a pair of garden shears.\nA couple of men move over to your left, and several more step out of the forest behind you. All of them carry weapons or nasty farm implements of some kind, and all of them look as though they're just about ready to put an end to a certain over-curious, outsider woman who doesn't know enough to keep her nose out of things better left undisturbed."}, {"prompt": "You put the scroll in the structure", "response": "The parchment scroll disappears into the shaft."}, {"prompt": "Show hopper to Robin", "response": "Carefully taking the grasshopper between thumb and forefinger, you hold it out to where the robin can see it. She begins cheeping and bobbing her head in excitement. You can almost feel the poor little guy cringe in your fingers."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The road turns southwest here and runs squarely through the front entrance to the old paper mill. A gate of heavy iron bars blocks the only opening into this charred fortress, although an overgrown path leads around the wall to the south. To the north, a rutted lane threads its way past a row of dilapidated shacks."}, {"prompt": "You enter the tavern", "response": "You duck as you enter the smoky tavern (evidently smoking bans do not exist in thought experiments), and are greeted by an astonishing sight:\nA raucous rabble of eminent philosophers line the tables and bar, discussing matters squifflily with slurred syllables and questionable eloquence. You overhear Plato and Socrates quietly discussing anarchists in Victorian literature. The only one not joining in seems to be Aristotle, who is sitting glumly in the corner. You also suspect that that was John Stuart Mill you glimpsed running east through the back door, clutching his stomach.\nSomewhat incongruously, you spot an electronic games machine sitting against the wall next to a rather glum looking booth, being rather neglected by the roistering philosophers."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "This is a ramshackle part of town, with dark alleys leading off the main street, which continues east and west. Pinchin Lane leads off to the south.\nYour companion follows you."}, {"prompt": "Rub", "response": "(Xelia and Xochi)\nYou place your hands on the glass spheres and slowly rub them until you feel they are the same temperature as your skin.\n'Next, you need to push this button to start the reaction,' continues Xelia, gesturing."}, {"prompt": "B.", "response": "You contemplate the animals on the urn. The phoenix is a creature of fire, opposed by the tortoise, a creature of water. The dragon, which represents the element of wood, is opposed by the tiger, which represents metal. Although you are tempted to focus on the idea that the fire has the potential to consume wood and metal, but is opposed by water and only lends strength back to its own element, you know that there is still a fifth element to consider.\nThere is void, the element of the center. Your own mind must be empty in order for the chi to flow through you, carrying the strength?and freedom?necessary to lift the urn. You still your mind, breathe, and reach for the urn.\nYou feel the pain along your forearms, and it is excruciating?but it washes over you, just a part of the moment. With each breath, you let the moment flow and change, accepting it without worrying over past or future, or even holding a thought. Your feet know this path; they have walked it hundreds of times on the simple task of fetching water. You allow them to carry you.\nYou breathe. You exist. The moment comes and passes, and another follows on its heels.\nYou reach the river almost before you realize you are there, and you calmly lower the urn into the water. It hisses with steam, bathing you in hot air as your arms enter the cold stream. You realize that your body feels the shock of the contrast, but you only observe this as another part of the moment before letting it, too, go. When you return to the monastery, you show the monks your new scars to prove that you have withstood the challenge. You have passed. What scars do you bear?\nA: The dragon and the tiger.\nB: The tortoise and the phoenix."}, {"prompt": "You move the twigs", "response": "Nudging the twigs around at random with your toe, you find that you've accidentally formed the shape of the letter V."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "It's locked."}, {"prompt": "Shake tree", "response": "You shake the tree, and something comes crashing down through the branches, hits you on the head, and lands on the grass. Isn't gravity the pits?"}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You neither look, or feel, as if you are \"all here\"."}, {"prompt": "You untangle the yarn", "response": "You are unable to do so."}, {"prompt": "You stand", "response": "You get off the upside-down orange box.\nBalcony (on the stack of hymnals)\nStanding here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents, though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of\nsome kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.\nA tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the balcony.\nThe orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.\nOn the stack of hymnals you can also see a bird cage."}, {"prompt": "You look at Academy", "response": "Big marble pillars trying to look much older than they are."}, {"prompt": "You fill the cup with water from well", "response": "You put some water in the cup. This fills the cup to the brim. The water mixes with what was already there."}, {"prompt": "You pour the sherbet on the elephant", "response": "As the icy liquid cascades over the elephant's great head, he bucks\nand jumps, shaking his ears, thoroughly waking up. You have his\nattention now all right."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "You say, \"Zarf, stand up.\"\nYou feel a sudden shift as the floor seems to tilt underneath you, then rights itself. You feel a sense of fast upward motion.\n\"You must have felt that,\" Valerie yells. \"Okay, he's looking around like he can't figure out what's going on. Try something else.\"\nWhat would you like to say? [0 to cancel]\n1: Zarf, do the funky chicken.\n2: Zarf, explain 'So Far'.\n3: Zarf, give me all your chocolate."}, {"prompt": "You give the card", "response": "\"No thanks!\" says Violet."}, {"prompt": "You look at contraption", "response": "The body of the contraption is mostly just a large box, into which things can be put, and an assembly of clockwork parts in a separate case, not to be interfered with. There is also a dial which may be set to various positions, and a spindle, on which is a cylinder with a pattern of strange bumps on it, labeled \"Andouillettes Recipe\".\nThe delicate contraption is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "You drop the pass", "response": "No, you'll need that to board the plane.\nThe gate agent calls out to you. \"Sir?\" she asks. \"All the other passengers are inside. If this is your flight, please board now.\" As much as you'd like to stay behind, you know that's not possible. You hand your boarding pass to the gate agent, and step into the loading bridge. With one last glance over your shoulder, you see X watching you with a sad expression on her face. You turn and head for the plane."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and northeast."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north. Just to the right of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable. Back east is Main Street.\nLittle Jimmy is here, looking sullen.\nBobby is here, jumping up and down in place."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the bear", "response": "As you shuffle into the graveclothes (after removing your motley), a strange malevolence steals over the scenery; or perhaps you yourself have become that strange malevolence. Your fingertips drip with infection.\nThese frozen tableaux aren't going to provide very lively conversation."}, {"prompt": "You eat guard", "response": "Waste not, want not. A fine motto. Once you've withdrawn him from the muck, you devour his jarlsberg arms. He's mild\u2014too mild, perhaps, considering how deeply the moat's filth has already imbued him with its own flavor. That nutty aftertaste would be more pleasant with alternate scenery."}, {"prompt": "You go to the bedroom", "response": "You hurry toward the basement, the museum, embassy foyer, the hall, and then the bedroom.\nBedroom (on the personal float unit)\nThere's no real bed, only a stone platform, too short to accommodate your full height, in the center of the room. The sole gesture towards comfort is a pillow of Earth style, perhaps left here by Valenti. Aside from this, the place is unfurnished.\nA refreshment room is visible to the west, and the hallway is back to the south.\nYour suitcase lies open on the floor."}, {"prompt": "You eat the chain", "response": "Yes, keep chewing that chain, darling. Eventually you'll find the weakest link."}, {"prompt": "Characters", "response": "You have encountered the following notable characters:\nServator Marid Orpheia (yourself)\nA seventeen-year-old graduate of the Physicians' College, currently apprenticed to Doctor Cavala. You have taken care of yourself ever since your parents died four years ago.\nYour mentor in the ars vitalis. A former army doctor and a\nsurgeon of commanding skill.\nA goblin bum who died in Doctor Cavala's surgery room of an hitherto unknown affliction.\nYou are in a cold cylindrical chamber, thick with quiet shadows. Shelves of vials and medical supplies crowd around you, leaving little room to misstep. A shimmering calomel curtain frames the exit to the south.\nReden lies on the gurney, lifeless and still."}, {"prompt": "You wear the bomb", "response": "(your bomb)\nYou fix the straps around your head.\nAn elderly gentleman with no flesh on the right side of his face touches Peter lightly on the ear. Peter doesn't flinch, he just relaxes his thumb. The two of them drop to the ground amid a deafening crack of blood and fire.\nThe elderly gentleman gets up."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "You are at the base of a box canyon. Ragged walls tower over you on\nthree sides, striated red, black, and tan. The small stream running\nalong here dries up in the summer, but is now still active. A crack in\nthe north wall of the canyon allows it to pass along its path from the\nVillage, back up to the southwest.\nA Herd of Horses roam here, grazing on the tough grasses."}, {"prompt": "You examine the Assadia", "response": "Assadia is a North African country run by a vicious gangster named Mugaffi. The yellow colour indicates that a major crisis is happening there."}, {"prompt": "You look up the hempen robes", "response": "(in Casey's notes)\nYou flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: \"So next Orchid says she wants the shepherds to sing a song. You have to understand that the shepherds are played by the littler kids, and the older kids play angels or Mary and Joseph or the wise men, and while every older kid ends up having to sing a song at some point, the shepherds do not. I think Orchid wanted them to sing 'Silent Night', which is a pretty good choice for little kids to sing. I will admit that Orchid made a good call here.\n\"But Marcie did not agree. I'm pretty sure Marcie thinks that because it's impossible to get little kids to carry a tune or understand Italian music vocabulary, nobody wants to hear them sing in church, which is a critical misconception and I think indicates some sort of psychological defect in Marcie Kempulfers's brain. Anyway.\n\"Marcie made up this insane justification to have the bell choir play 'Silent Night' instead. She said the bell choir had already practiced it, which was technically true, although specifically they had practiced it during the previous calendar year. But Marcie got her\nway.\n\"I hope you're not reading this as me defending Orchid, because I\nwould never do that. Don't worry; we will get to the part where Orchid is horrible in the next entry. This is Entry Two of Four.\""}, {"prompt": "You read re", "response": "You select the message and read:\nSorry to hear about Valenti. Sounds bad. Congrats on the promotion, though.\nTo point: rumors say High Command has issued orders for you to negotiate, colonists are returning, will be given Africa under terms. You MUST NOT DO THAT. Human population gone, rain forest beginning to recover. Better than expected. Gene-splicers would ruin it. If they want a laboratory, let them stay there, fix existing planet. Was a reason they went away in the first place. Survived plague without them (sort of), don't need them now. Unless they can RESURRECT dead, it won't do any good.\nDidn't think so.\nThat is all. Return to delicious ration bar, ruminate. Jane."}, {"prompt": "You get the bin", "response": "It is far too large to do that.\nA compressor raises and lowers its pump, making a sound like a mouse\ndying."}, {"prompt": "You examine the fan", "response": "The grilles are several feet square; enough to quickly vent this room if pressures demanded it."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You back down the corridor, as silently as you can.\nThe hallway ends in a blank white wall. A metal door stands closed to the west.\nA discarded filing cabinet is standing by the wall. The drawers are closed."}, {"prompt": "You examine the sky", "response": "It's a sunny day, and the sky is a clear deep blue."}, {"prompt": "Up", "response": "I'm in the entrance hall of the Three Bears' house. Hung around the walls are portraits of various members of the Bear clan, along with some highly disturbing hunting trophies. A narrow staircase leads up to the bears' bedroom. The front door is closed. Just inside the front door is an open trapdoor.\nThe Big Bad Wolf prowls into the room from the north."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The hexastyle entrance into the sanctuary of Eleusis has seen calmer evenings. A mob of the fellows swarm around its august pillars, unclear on direction now that the initiation has taken something of an unexpected turn. Directly before the entrance stands a statue, the final herm in the long chain running from Athens to Eleusis. Atop the roof of the temple, Puffy is leaping and capering about like he's taken leave of his gourd (upon reflection, you think that might actually be what's happened).\nTo the east, the peristyle promises some degree of peace, a small yard lies westward, and there's a small path running around the side of the sanctuary to the north.\nAlky stands amidst but not of the confusion, twiddling his thumbs while he waits for the hubbub to die down.\nMachon is here, looking no different now that he's preliminarily initiated into the mysteries of Eleusis."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "A lot of the things kept in the hold are just ballast, but there are a few items of interest. Fore from here is the rest of the hold, and stairs lead up to the lower deck.\nDespite the height of the water, you can still just barely reach the iron strongbox.\nYou're struggling to keep your head above water.\nThe captain rushes ahead of you, since coming here was his idea."}, {"prompt": "You eat the spice", "response": "(first taking the handful of spice)\nYour hands are full."}, {"prompt": "You play the flute", "response": "You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy."}, {"prompt": "You examine the broom", "response": "It's just an ordinary-looking broom."}, {"prompt": "You look at the blankets", "response": "The blankets are small, thin, and colorful. Probably they're designed for making kids' afternoon naps fun, not for actually sleeping under.\nSharon continues, \"So I'm going to stay here and sleep, and you two\nare going to get on with your investigating, and not wake me up unless there's a life-threatening emergency or something.\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Nothing remains to gird the balcony now you've nibbled its balustrade. A step over the edge would plunge a person downward into the courtyard.\nNorthward you could return indoors to the scriptorium.\nYou arrive just in time to see the crow rise into the night sky, flapping southward beyond the castle walls. Crows always know where to find a slaughter."}, {"prompt": "Examine box", "response": "An ordinary round box, but made of metal."}, {"prompt": "U,E,D,S,W", "response": "This is the rim of a great cistern, which is built of bricks and lined with plaster, and must be very old. Along the inside of the cistern, a spiral stair descends towards the surface of the water, more than a full story below you.\nThe walls themselves are painted with images of the vast unsociable ocean: of the broad empty water, the clustering clouds, the thin and distant crust that is the beginning of the New World.\nTower, Bottom\nYou stand at the bottom of a stone tower. Doorways open in each of the cardinal directions, except for the north; there, a spacious niche contains the statue of a woman, skillfully executed in white marble.\nThe center of the room is occupied by a spiral staircase, but one made of such slender and delicate supports that it obscures neither light nor view.\nThe silvery door to the south stands open.\nStairs lead up, and doorways open south, east and west.\nA straight white light comes through the hole in the ceiling, but it is soon after twisted and bent: mirrors cast it from angle to angle; crystal divides it; glass stains it.\nEast and west, low corridors lead into shadow.\nThe silvery door to the north stands open.\nA long, vaulted room, lined with cages of filigree and jewels. All of the animals are motionless and still, perhaps through the art of a taxidermist. In one cage is an elephant, so short that he reaches only to your knee; you easily could lift him under one arm and carry him away. In another cage, a giant mouse lies, curled as though slumbering, his paws folded in the semblance of prayer.\nMounted on a swivel on the wall is what looks like an irregular hourglass, one bulb larger than the other. There is no sand within -- nor could there be, since the contraption is open at each end. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "You look at the stain", "response": "It's horrible! Strangely, it looks like chocolate."}, {"prompt": "Rub card", "response": "As you rub the card, its color changes to blue."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Cracked remnants of walls and a stretch of weed-grown cobblestones tell of an old temple or abbey ... perhaps even a village. Whatever it was, it now lies in ROCKY RUIN. Poking through the remnants, you notice a shadowy archway leading IN to one small structure that remains intact.\nYou can see a TELEPHONE POLE here."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You skip lightly up the concrete stairs to the pavilion.\nYou're standing in the center of a colossal gazebo that provides shade for sunburned tourists like yourself. The octagonal floor is made of unbroken grey concrete, bordered on each face by a waist high railing. Tall beams support a sloping wooden canopy that rises over three times your height. A red brick enclosure squats in the southwest corner and a small snack bar nestles up against the enclosure to the south. To the east lies the foot of a seemingly endless pier.\nThere are numerous wooden benches here. Right now, they're\nstacked, one on top of another, into a towering wooden column twice your height.\nYou see a treasure map and a clam shell here."}, {"prompt": "You take the shrimp", "response": "Taken.\nThe old man stares grimly at the sun, as if daring it to sink any lower."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You pedal effortlessly.\nWilly Street, west end (on Lunar Lightning)\nThe west end of Williamson street is where the east side of Madison ends and the downtown area begins. A tangle of memories from different decades of your life is woven into the landscape of the city here. Lady Wisdom's coffeeshop is on the south side of the street, radiating bohemian charm acquired from decades of service to local culture. John Nolen drive curves around the lake to the west."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "Flip flop. Flip flop. Flip flop.\nThe east end of the meadow is rocky, and you make your way carefully when you move. Further east, a granite cliff blocks your way. The remnants of an old mountain trail lead northeast.\nFlickering green lights illuminate the north end of the meadow."}, {"prompt": "Deal card", "response": "Ladies gasp, hands fly to cover mouths, teeth chomp down to bite fingernails when you reach for your deck a third time. You've had no practice, but this has to work. You don't want to imagine\nwhat will happen if it doesn't."}, {"prompt": "You take the bar", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "You can see a map of the galaxy here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the bridge", "response": "All that remains of the footbridge are a few rusted girders on each side of the chasm. Over decades, the moisture in these caverns must have eroded the bridge, until it broke under its own weight and disappeared into the darkness."}, {"prompt": "You examine pelt", "response": "It has soft fox fur on one side, and bloody skin on the other. You are not sure what it is worth, but perhaps you can trade it for a nice bottle of wine."}, {"prompt": "You look at the lantern", "response": "It is your typical Frobozz Ev-R-Lit lantern. It remains lit for an entire generation before dying out. Too bad you found this one during your travel to the Eastlands and you aren't sure how long it's been on."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're standing before a large desk at the library entrance. The top\nof the desk is almost hidden under a clutter of books, all grey with dust.\nA dark corridor leads south into darkness. The library door is closed."}, {"prompt": "You examine Semiquaver", "response": "Looking at the smashed shuttle, you find yourself utterly astonished that it made it down in one piece. Most of the engine module is simply missing, the hull truncated half-way along in a jumble of twisted wreckage. The shuttle hit the ground to the north of here, and skidded south, stopping just in time --- you can see the burnt out shield projectors where the Semiquaver tried to dig into the sand in\na desperate attempt to stop itself. It worked, too: only a few metres more and the Semiquaver would have gone over the edge of the\ncliff and fallen down to the lowlands. The nose actually overhangs the edge.\nIt looks completely dead. You hope the Semiquaver's simple\nmind survived. You want to buy it a drink and tell it what a good job it did."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You're standing at the entrance to Canyonville Pine Nut Days. The scent of fresh-baked pies wafts from a covered area to the northeast, the sleek Tomorrow Pavilion is to the southeast, and straight east takes you to the center of the town square. You can exit the fair onto Main Street to the west.\nA young woman walks by, looking distinctly green around the gills and holding her stomach as if she's regretting the last several helpings of cotton candy. Suddenly, she claps a hand over her mouth and flees towards the nearest ladies' room."}, {"prompt": "You open the top drawer", "response": "You open the top drawer of the filing cabinet, revealing some file folders marked A to M."}, {"prompt": "You put vodka in the plant", "response": "(first taking the plant)\nThat's fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "Intentions:\nthe explore intent\nthe clean up intent\nthe play intent\nthe fold intent\nthe wait intent\nthe block intent\nOther possessions:\na detector\nan intercepted communiqu\ufffd\ufffd"}, {"prompt": "You examine the wall", "response": "Some rich wood, in pleasingly irregular spans, polished but naturally dark."}, {"prompt": "You examine the ash", "response": "Cold white specks."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na sword\na forged letter\na pen\nan old bone\nsome valence\na fallen leaf"}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You're standing in a vast, mystical cavern. Stalactites shimmer in\nthe pale green lamplight, and brightly-colored beds of moss catch your eye. Pale glowing mists swirl at your feet. Shadows seem to leap from dark crevices in the corner, and breezes, some cold, some hot, nip at your cheeks. Magic seems to flow from the very rocks, tingling your toes.\nTunnels run north and south, and a narrow crawl climbs up to the\neast. At the west end of the cavern is a freshly whitewashed gazebo.\nYou see a small leather pouch, a cookbook, a steel key, a trowel, a wine bottle, a pair of erasers, a pickaxe, an oar, a corkscrew, a pillow, and a thin wand here."}, {"prompt": "You pull the lever", "response": "As you touch the panel, a hideous groan emanates from the giant treadmills. Gloomy shapes move through the darkness, striking each other in showers of sparks. There is a long, drawn-out squeal, a few confused noises from the creatures in the treadmills, and then utter silence.\nThe treadmills have stopped."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "The gold coin is relatively primitive, yet has a monetary feel about it. There is a crudely engraved figure with a mask riding a horse on the face. Beneath the figure is the inscription \"1 Buck-a-Bin.\""}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "You hold down the button. The speaker blares out: \"\u2014room is my small contribution to Cragne Manor. This is my first piece of I7 in a few years as most of my time has been spent on enhancing Trizbort (shameless plug).\nFor as long as I can remember, I've\u2014\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the lighthouse", "response": "The piece of plywood is about eight feet tall and an inch thick. A minimum of detail has been painted on to convey that this tapered rectangle is supposed to be a lighthouse. There are no supports; it's just propped up against the wall."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Lindsay", "response": "\"Hey Becca! You wanna look in my box again?\"\n\"Is that disgusting beetle still in it?\"\n\"Maaaaaybe...\"\n\"Then I'm afraid I have to decline your invitation.\""}, {"prompt": "You show the ticket to LOGAN", "response": "LOGAN://\"I detect nothing special.\""}, {"prompt": "You talk to Alice", "response": "\"Hey,\" says Alice, \"this is cool, isn't it? You can ask me about any location and I'll tell you what Groover game it was inspired by!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the sign", "response": "At some juncture of the distant past it may, you surmise, have displayed information of some kind; the original content has been effaced, but it still tells you something; to wit, folks here have ammo to waste and don't mind shooting at trash.\nCurb attempts to swallow your car keys, chokes, and brings them back up. He doesn't drop them, though."}, {"prompt": "You lie in the bed", "response": "You get onto the bed."}, {"prompt": "P brush", "response": "The paintbrush rises from the floor and floats over to the painting. It reviews the painting for a moment, then carefully adds a mouth. It rests itself on the tray of the easel."}, {"prompt": "Continue", "response": "(first taking the pan of risen dough)\nYou put the pan of risen dough into the oven.\nHeat blasts from the open oven into the bakery, causing the blue curtain over the back room door to flutter."}, {"prompt": "You ask the nerds about the store m.", "response": "The nerds look at each other, wondering why you would ask about that, really. They are sure you have something important to ask them. Maybe somewhere you can't get to or through. They could figure it out if in your shoes.\nHmm. Apparently, when you ASK NERDS, you need to come correct.\nYou hear a MENSA-y yesman encourage someone to repeat himself."}, {"prompt": "You take the podium", "response": "The podium isn't important.\nSomeone at the right of the room raises her hand. \"Yes, you at the right,\" the woman says, pointing to her.\n\"Is this heaven or hell?\" she asks.\nThe woman responds, \"You know what they say -- if you have to ask\n--\" she chuckles. \"It is technically hell, although that's such a loaded word that we don't like to use it. Most ideas people have about hell are very outdated. Ever since the deregulation of the afterlife industry, we've had to compete with Heaven for eternal souls -- because you're free to switch to Heaven at any time. So, we've been modernizing! There really isn't much eternal torment these days, for example. And, thanks to the Environmental Clean-up Superfund, we have the brimstone problem mostly under control at this point.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine River", "response": "The Miskaton's waters are sluggish and dark. Some sort of oily film coats the surface, reflecting back ghostly swirls of color."}, {"prompt": "You jump to Grimo", "response": "(Jumping to Junkbucket, where you last saw Grimo.)\nSomething loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure.\nAmalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly\nwith cargo.\nA few Network traders orbit at a wary distance."}, {"prompt": "You look in the coat", "response": "In the thin coat you see three tufts of insulation."}, {"prompt": "You give the gift box to Aylene", "response": "Aylene receives the box and looks at the vaccine sample for a moment. She looks at you -- surprised, a little concerned, perhaps?\nThen she faces her audience and begins to speak.\n\"\nIt's not unpleasant to see Kruger grilling Valenti for a bit, rather than you. Though there's plenty of grilling to go around.\n\"It was always a bad idea to invite them to Earth as our inferiors,\" says Valenti stolidly. \"I would have arranged things differently if I had been the ambassador at the time, but I do believe this is the best thing David could have done with the options available to him.\"\n\"The idea that the Colonists work in collaboration with human scientists will not be received well at home,\" says Kruger.\n\"To understatement,\" Valenti replies, lifting his glass. He is drinking an anise liqueur he favors. You and Kruger watch him take another yellow sip. \"Are you going to change the deal? I should warn you that alteration to a contract is viewed with extreme disfavor in their society.\"\n\"Which is why you and David should have followed my advice in the first place!\" Kruger yells. \"I pulled Yamashita because she expressed reservations of conscience about what I was asking her to do, and I pulled you because I didn't trust you to follow orders, but I never thought David would go native on his first day there. What's wrong with you?\"\nValenti frowns into his glass, swirling the ice around. \"With respect, sir, you a few hours on Aleheart itself would have been enough to change your plans.\"\nKruger's face gradually loses the beet color. \"We gave the matter a great deal of thought,\" he says. \"Thought, study, polls, moral consultations. Also prayer, meditation, even a tarot reading or two, I'm told. Those were off the meeting record and on a strictly individual basis. But there is a female member of the commission who claims that a good tarot spread focuses her thinking.\"\n\"There are things you cannot reason out,\" Valenti says. \"When you're face-to-face with the colonists, you see how much they long to be back on Earth. They are afraid of our bad opinion, conscious that they are our descendants, and embarrassed by how primitive we seem to be. But they are also infatuated. There are some dissenters, but most would do whatever they could to be with us again. They will bend themselves to fit Earth. We do not have to force them to do anything.\"\nKruger glares out the window. He does not say anything.\nValenti catches your eye and raises his glass in a small salute."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "You are on a wide ledge high in the volcano. The rim of the volcano is about 200 feet above and there is a precipitous drop to the bottom. There is a small door to the south.\nThe Wizard of Frobozz is here, eyeing you warily.\nThere is a white book here.\nThere is a large and extremely heavy wicker basket here. An enormous cloth bag attached to the basket is inflated. A metal receptacle is fastened to the center of the basket. In it is a burning newspaper. A piece of wire tied to a hook holds the balloon in place.\nYour sword has begun to glow very brightly."}, {"prompt": "You get the ramp", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "(first taking the flask)\nYou open the flask."}, {"prompt": "Go inside", "response": "Innumerable small shards of glass sparkle on the floor which under normal conditions would be the ceiling. You can escape from here. From this angle you can see there's a boxy metal car and a much smaller furry thing near by."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cube", "response": "The cube-like thingamabob has a window on one side where you can see some tubes in Y shape inside. Red labels are pasted all over the device, the one on top saying \"FLUX CAPACITOR\". The two dials are labeled \"POWER\" and \"SPEED\" and there's a pin with a picture of a lightning bolt next to it. It is very heavy."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You possess:\na Making of Doom III Featurette DVD\na Doom III DVD\na copy of Doom III (open but empty)\na pair of carved bone dice\nan ID code\nan order form\na jewel case (open but empty)\nan Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide\nan Official Doom III Strategy guide\na fine pewter space marine\nfour small smooth stones\na resin-encased quantity of hare's fur\na single chopstick\na genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica\nYou are wearing:\nyour mum's shoes\nnothing else\nSam chortles in glee."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cage", "response": "The cage is large enough to confine a human being. It is composed of titanium bars so thick that even your mighty muscles would be unable to budge them. The bars form a grid too small for you to fit your hand through, but large enough for Martian razorfish to pass through unimpeded.\nThe door of your prison is securely locked. Beyond it, you can see the shore, and safety.\nThe cage is suspended four meters above the water."}, {"prompt": "You link the teapot to double doors", "response": "Bending your will, you form the link between the hinge-lidded teapot and the double doors."}, {"prompt": "Specimens", "response": "Yuck. Okay, there's a polar bear's HEAD mounted on the wall, a pickled space creature in a JAR, and an exotic AQUARIUM."}, {"prompt": "You give the pencil", "response": "Professor Ram puts the unsharpened pencil in the machine. He pushes a large black button. Sparks fly between the metal rods. A few seconds later, he reaches in and pulls out a sharpened pencil. \"Here you go,\" he says.\nJust then you hear a buzzer, and the metal rods stop vibrating. \"Out of juice again,\" says the professor. \"Don't worry, it should recharge soon.\""}, {"prompt": "You cover the fourth hole", "response": "You place your finger over the fourth flute hole."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Now listen, Clancy. You know I didn't kill that guy. Right?\"\n\"Oh I don't know. Saints preserve us, Sam! We've got your fingerprints all over that apartment.\"\n\"But surely you can't believe it!\"\n\"I must admit that I was rather shocked to hear you were implicated, Sam. You've always been a little lax with the law but you've never stepped over the line this far.\"\n\"So call off your boys, Clancy. I was framed! Somebody set me up.\"\n\"Sure you was, Sam. Now why don't you just come down to the precinct and tell me all of the details.\"\n\"No dice, Clancy. You know I can't do that. Just give me 24 hours and I'll get your killer for you.\"\n\"You know I can't...\"\n\"I gotta go, Clancy, but I'll be in touch. But remember, just 24 hours.\"\nYou put the receiver back on its cradle."}, {"prompt": "You look at the image", "response": "The image on the workbench shows again, a field of stars. This time,\nhowever, nothing more happens. You recognize the constellation of\nGemini, with the twin stars Castor and Pollux."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "The wagon departs!\nAfter a short while you find yourself in...\nSecond Station (on the lone wagon)\nIn here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.\nOn the lone wagon you can see a rusty console."}, {"prompt": "You examine the gold cactus", "response": "On the left side of the hallway is a gold cactus. This cactus is lacking a center trunk, and instead is a mass of many mid-length stems branching out of the soil. Every inch of this cactus is covered in sharp-looking spikes. The light filtering in from above gives the cactus a golden hue.\nThe sun continues to assault your senses. Your eyes are beginning to lose focus and you are sweating profusely. The air is so dry in here, it's unbearable."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "The cellar is dim and dismal. A flight of stairs leads up. Near the foot of the stairs a slim chain dangles from the ceiling. Off to one side squats a heavy piece of machinery, and a plank shelf has been built into the opposite wall.\nThe old wheelchair is resting just by the shelf."}, {"prompt": "Maintenance", "response": "\"Huh. That might be just the ticket. 12k credits. How 'bout it?\""}, {"prompt": "You get the bottle", "response": "The priest glowers so fiercely that you meekly retreat."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "You can barely keep your arm straight as your muscles begin spasming of their own accord. The buzz of the electricity drones relentlessly in your ears, and through the red mist that's rapidly obscuring your vision, you can see that your electrical charge is just inches away from the huge machine.\nDistantly, you can hear Austin shouting encouragement. \"You're almost there, Emily! If you can just hang on a few seconds more, you'll get it!\""}, {"prompt": "Examine books", "response": "Extremely poor examples of science fiction and fantasy which, against all good taste, have survived to your time."}, {"prompt": "You open mat", "response": "Before unrolling the mat, you need to put it down. Otherwise, there's no telling what might happen to what's in it."}, {"prompt": "You remember the portrait", "response": "(the framed portrait)\n...\n\"He can make links,\" the Countess hissed. Neither of them saw\nyou in the doorway of the library.\n\"Anabelle--\"\n\"And don't tell me that your father strayed into some peasant's bed in his dotage, because I have seen Pierre's mother and she is\nnot old enough to--\"\n\"Anabelle, calm yourself.\" He put a hand on her shoulder, spoke in his voice of diplomacy.\n\"Now you will tell me that he is some by-blow of someone passing through the village, I suppose? Some guest of ours, perhaps?\" she asked bitterly. \"I wondered why you were so ready to accept him--\"\n\"I swear to you, Pierre is no son of mine. Nor, I think, is he any relative of ours for many generations. It is possible that these things appear sportively even among the lesser classes, you know...\"\nShe shrugged his hand away. \"There's something you aren't telling me,\" she said. \"I always know it, you say so yourself.\"\nHe sighed. \"I will tell you, Ana, but it is not what you think...\"\n..."}, {"prompt": "You give you the celery", "response": "(Ron Fincher first taking the celery stalk)\nIf you'd like Ron to make you a drink, simply say \"order something\".\nAbbey enters the room, armed with a scrub brush and a bottle of cleaning fluid. \"Time to tackle that stain!\" she crows."}, {"prompt": "Rub tattoo", "response": "I feel a bit like you are just trying random things as a way of procrastinating.\nPlease. Just WRITE."}, {"prompt": "You eat Fire", "response": "(first taking Fire)\nInvoluntarily, you jerk your hand back away from Fire when the flames\nlick your fingers. Ow!"}, {"prompt": "Examine xorn", "response": "xorn, aka linux.ucla.edu, is the hosting machine for the UCLA Linux Users Group, and for the standing LUG Nethack tournament. Green shapes flicker on its screen as Dan tests the latest additions to his game.\n\"When was the last time anybody managed to get onto fire?\", asks Fred.\n\"Last night,\" says Mark.\n\"Earlier this morning,\" says Dan.\nFred shakes his head."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You jump on the spot."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A wide expanse of uneven pavestones lies open to the sky, bordered on all sides by the leaning, steep-roofed architecture that looms over everything in this city. The municipal courthouse stands at the south end of the square, next to the mouth of a dark, narrow alley to the southwest. Avenues to the west and east lead back into the cramped and ingrown streets, while to the north lies Whateley Bridge.\nIn the center of the square, rising from a circular lawn of unhealthy-looking grass and weeds, stands a strange, stone obelisk. It seems to be a monument of some sort, although you can see no plaque or marker anywhere near it.\nThe cold wind blows harder, tugging at the hem of your trenchcoat."}, {"prompt": "You pull up on Parry", "response": "As soon as you have pulled up on the gliding rocking chair Parry looks down and says \"Hey, there, you want to be picked up?\" and he lifts you into his lap and stops rocking. And then Jemison pulls up on the gliding rocking chair and looks up at you and grunts softly.\nZoe takes the teeny squeezy book and shakes it half-heartedly, she is so bored with it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the leaf", "response": "A giant milkweed leaf, curled in such a way that it could cling to your face like a mask. It even has two milk-ringed holes for your eyes."}, {"prompt": "You search the cobwebs", "response": "I thought of all the possible unclassified lifeforms that could be lurking beneath the cobwebs... I'd better not get too close..."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "Kitchenette (But Mostly Still In Hotel Room)\nYou can see a fridge (empty) here."}, {"prompt": "You ask John about the job", "response": "\"I never did have much of a head for business. It's one of the reasons I took to art instead. I could do some odd jobs and assort menial work, though, if I had to. But not on a long-term scale, I hope.\""}, {"prompt": "You ask Barbara about the house", "response": "\"I'm sorry,\" she says. \"I'm afraid I know little about that.\""}, {"prompt": "Dig", "response": "(the pair of manacles)\nLornedei shakes her head."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "You fill your lungs to capacity and dive into the water.\nUnderwater, (drifting)\nThe sandy ocean floor lies about ten feet below the surface, layered with silt and dotted with climbing green fingers of sea grass. The angled cement pillars that support the pier end here. Just beyond the final pair of pillars is a sudden drop off, a steep slope that leads down and down, far beyond your limited visibility.\nA large red fish darts by, just barely out of reach."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "At the Market (behind your stall)\nYou are tending your stall at the weekly outdoor market near the city's waterfront. It's a bright, sunny day and the place is bustling with activity. Beyond the colonial sandstone buildings that line the marketplace and the modest high-rises behind them, you see the mountain. Nearby, a man dressed as a clown is making balloon animals. To the south a raggedly dressed busker plays a violin, while further away to the north a crowd gathers around a band playing South American folk music.\nA man dressed in overalls walks by. He suddenly notices something among the old tools you've laid out on a trestle table. \"Hey, I haven't seen one of those in years!\" he exclaims. Then he laughs and disappears back into the crowd.\nThrough the crowds you catch a glimpse of Nadia. She seems to be heading your way, and has someone with her."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "(first trying to open the wooden door)\nIt seems to be locked.\nThe mosaic shifts again: \"The Main Stacks are to the west.\n\""}, {"prompt": "You touch the door", "response": "The black surface gives very slightly to your touch -- soft, but thin, over steel."}, {"prompt": "Link inset tgilt-wood", "response": "Bending your will, you form the link between the mirror inset inside the box and the gilt-wood mirror."}, {"prompt": "LEVER", "response": "Whatever it does, it's protected by the squid's ARMS and I have absolutely no chance of reaching it right now. Better to focus on something else.\nDavenport waves an arm at the city we can just about make out through the trees. \"And what happens when all this goes the way of Mars? How many of us will survive? How many of us even have the least idea how to?\""}, {"prompt": "You take the helmet", "response": "You acquire the helmet."}, {"prompt": "You ask about William", "response": "She doesn\u2019t seem prepared to talk about him right now."}, {"prompt": "You link the teapot to double doors", "response": "Bending your will, you form the link between the hinge-lidded teapot and the double doors."}, {"prompt": "You get Priest", "response": "I doubt the corrupt Priest would care for that."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "\"\u2026I can hear something\u2026 digging\u2026 digging in the darkness\u2026"}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Elevator Shaft (in the cage-elevator)\nYou are deep in the earth.\nThe elevator rushes north, past what looks like a shelf carved into\nthe side of the shaft."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "lives]\nWell, the sword being perpendicular to your sword, that gave a greater range--ah, heck, you just swung and it clanged. Ooh! Here comes a mace!"}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are Doctor Langridge, mentor to some, friend to many, and healer to all of the citizens of Craverly Heights. Everyone in town knows your name. It is Doctor Langridge."}, {"prompt": "You ask him about Edward", "response": "The orderly squints at you. \"Who? -- Oh, wait! You mean the guy, ventilated his whole goddamn family early this year. Yeah, I remember him. What a nutball. We put him in a rubber room, he lasted two weeks. Bashed his fuckin' brains in on the little observation window. Reinforced glass, took him right out.\" The orderly scratches his head. \"Christ, I gotta get around to cleaning that mess up one of these days.\" Then with a heavy sigh, he returns to his magazine."}, {"prompt": "You open the trapdoor", "response": "You can't budge it; it seems to be mechanically driven."}, {"prompt": "You open the Reactor", "response": "M\u00f6bius\nAn Interactive Twist by J.D. Clemens"}, {"prompt": "Describe the surroundings", "response": "This space feels formless, as if it consists of as-yet unshaped matter. You can sense a way out above you."}, {"prompt": "Empty cup", "response": "onion dye: (putting the rug into the sack to make room)\nYou pour the onion dye out onto the ground."}, {"prompt": "Dark", "response": "A dark wooden box that smells faintly exotic."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "the Lancaster Walk. Shady paths lead west along an iron fence, and southwest between the trees.\nAn umbrella is wedged in the branches overhead."}, {"prompt": "You give the play to the kid", "response": "I give the play intent to the kid, who now intends to play around with the sword cane.\nThe kid swings the cane around wildly, slashing at unseen enemies. After a dramatic charge, it hits a sturdy trunk, hard, and the outer cane shatters, revealing the blade. The kid squeals in excitement."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\na butcher knife\na sword\na sponge\na snuffbox (which is closed)\na white handkerchief\na hinge-lidded teapot (which is open)\nnot very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot)\na sack (which is open)\ntwo metal dishes:\na plate\na cup\na swordstick\nfive food items:\na bay leaf\na sprig of parsley\na sprig of mint\na clove of garlic\na single yellow-looking  onion\na dashing hat (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "Examine monitor", "response": "The display is an enormous high-resolution flat-screen monitor, suspended from the gallery ceiling. It shows a message: green text on black background.\n'Dear candidate 28436,\nYou must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain.\nA serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will explain more in due course.\nIn the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card.\nIt's in the museum north of here. It allows you to enter the Maintenance Room, which is northwest of the Lobby. Then POKE 702522351. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions.\nYours,\nCentral Administrator.'"}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are a private eye; a gumshoe, as they say, and you appear as such."}, {"prompt": "You remember the donlin's advice", "response": "You remember Donlin's advice about hitting and recognizing pitches: Two fingers on top with backspin means it's a fastball; start your swing early. Two fingers on the seams with forward spin means it's a curveball. Three fingers on top with backspin means it's off-speed. Start your swing late for those two. If it's an inside pitch, pull the ball; if it's outside, hit it to the opposite field.\nYou take the pitch, and the ball pops in Snodgrass's mitt.\nSnodgrass flips a ball back to McGinnity."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.\nA lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the end of the ramp.\nOn the lone wagon is a rusty console.\nLOGAN://\"This is the sternbound hub for the railways of the\nArcadia. I'm afraid that most of the routes are either clogged\nor powerless.\""}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Where would you like to go?"}, {"prompt": "You climb the tree", "response": "I don't see much point in doing that. Besides, I'd only ladder my tights!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the hourglass", "response": "Made of a clear material (glass? perhaps, perhaps not), large at one end and smaller at the other, and mounted on a sort of swivel on the wall so that it can be turned over at will. At the moment the smaller end is uppermost."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The main part of town seems to be to the west and the trail out of town is to the south. There is a barn-like structure to the north."}, {"prompt": "You bind the Past", "response": "What do you want to bind Past?"}, {"prompt": "You take the goggles", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the man", "response": "You look south, in the direction the little man's pointing finger. \"Is that the way to the parking lot? Or...\"\n\"Just go that way!\" He gestures so emphatically this time that he almost drops his golden statue. \"Get out of here, would you?\""}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices. The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions."}, {"prompt": "You examine the obelisk", "response": "The obelisk measures about two feet square at its base, narrowing slightly as it rises a good fifteen feet to a bluntly pointed tip. An iron ring is embedded in the stone high up on one side, about two feet from the top. Dense, twisting hieroglyphs cover all four sides of the obelisk, although they are too worn to be read clearly.\nIn the distance, you can hear the lonesome keening of a train whistle drifting on the wind.\n\"We really should be getting on to the house, don't you think?\" asks Michael. \"It's a bit rainy out.\""}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "Green Room (West)\nThis narrow alcove is deep within the theater, the thick concrete\nwalls blocking out the noise from the stage. A couch with threadbare cushions occupies one side of the room. At a table in the corner, a human sits in front of a machine resembling a typewriter, but with a profusion of wires running out of it and into a large suitcase at its feet. An empty coffee cup is next to it on the table, with a cigarette smoldering in it. A staircase to the southeast leads upward.\nThe speechwriter sits nearby."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "I seem to be in an overengineered icebox---the pneumatic sort, I should think. There are little coils and tubes running all about, all of them covered with ice, and have I mentioned that it's cold as blazes in here? A few storage crates of provisions have been left haphazardly across the floor. The exit is through a heavy metal door to the west.\nI can see a vacuum flask (which is closed) here.\nBrrr! It's freezing in here! Sorry, Owl, but I have to head back. This is unbearable.\nThis room is garishly appointed with the hunting trophies Dashing must have scavenged throughout the world: hulking bears and moose from the Americas, lions from Africa, elephants from the Orient, and a menagerie of creatures even I barely recognize. While I obviously don't approve of his vicious little hobby, I have to admit that he at least has a healthy respect for nature.\nExits lead north, west, and east (the last being through a heavy metal door), and a spiral staircase elegantly winds upward.\nI can see a display case (which contains a cudgel and a harpoon) here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pedestal", "response": "This is a simple plastic pedestal fixed to the ground."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The big dining room has windows on the east and south and doorways on the north and west. Other than a long dining table and some ill-assorted chairs, the room is bare and featureless. It smells sour, as if food served and eaten here a long time ago still lingers in the plaster of the walls.\nA little oval of grayish stones is lying on the table. It looks rather like a crude bracelet."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You are standing in a peaceful glade in the Forest of Radeekal. The fall colors are glorious this time of year; the trees are ablaze with red, orange, and yellow.\nThrough the trees, you catch glimpses of cheerful woodland\ncreatures, frolicking and gathering nuts and berries for the coming winter. If only you could stay here forever - but there's much to be done. Set in the forest floor is the iron grate leading back down to the realm of the Valley King. It's closed and locked. [2]  A well-traveled path leads southwest, and a narrower track, nearly overgrown, leads due south."}, {"prompt": "You examine the timer", "response": "The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank."}, {"prompt": "You ask Sophronia about paintings", "response": "\"The painting? It was merely a portal. You will venture through other doors before reaching your true destination.\""}, {"prompt": "You wear the drink", "response": "(first taking the drink)\nYou take your first effervescent sip.\nAction:"}, {"prompt": "You look at the clown", "response": "For a moment, you have the odd sensation that the clown is beckoning to you, that he has stretched out one hand as if trying to reach toward you. But no, it's only your imagination, or a trick of the light. A crack in the plaster runs diagonally down through the clown's face and across the corner of his mouth, making his expression look less festive or playful than ironic or mocking.\nThe merry-go-round continues tinkling its wistful little tune."}, {"prompt": "You point at the creature", "response": "You point your finger at the creature in your arms.\nThe creature twitters quietly to itself."}, {"prompt": "You examine the squirrel", "response": "It's probably supposed to be a squirrel. Whatever it is, it isn't happy."}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "You're standing on a path on the north side of an underground river which flows through the cave here. The river level is too high to allow passage in any direction except through a narrow passage to the northwest."}, {"prompt": "You climb the ladder", "response": "You put everything in your reticule and reach out for the ladder and over-balance, tumbling from your perch. Your hand closes on a slimy hemp rung as you fly out over the waves, clinging tenuously, feet free, to the ladder.\nYou are clinging to a slimy ladder, tied to a rail of the poop deck above you. Not far from your feet, waves kiss the stern of the ship."}, {"prompt": "You wake kid", "response": "I poked the kid's arm. He didn't seem to notice. And his skin had this odd texture. Kind of like clay."}, {"prompt": "You examine Bridge", "response": "A once proud part of Backwater's infrastructure, now crumbling into ruin. The decorative carvings along the sides have worn away to faint impressions, and much of the underside has been patched with lighter-colored concrete."}, {"prompt": "You get the prybar", "response": "Taken.\nA gust of wind slices across your ears. You shiver."}, {"prompt": "You look at tag through the lens", "response": "Through the lens the text on the tag would be large enough to read, but it's too dark here to make out the letters.\nNorbert searches the table carefully but finds nothing."}, {"prompt": "Go northeast", "response": "You duck under the banner...\nVia Terminalis, West Street\nYou drift through empty blood-vessel streets, a speck of white mingling with cobblestones ashen and black. In place of carriages and people, there are quarantine signs and body bags. The air rings with silence, and in it there is the foul creeping odor of something terrible afoot.\nYou are trying to make out the end of the bridge in the rain, when --\nYou are trying to make out the end of the bridge in the rain, when --\"Marid?\"\n--\"Marid?\"-- you freeze. A voice echoes through the mist, anxious, painfully familiar in its concern.\npainfully familiar in its concern.You look away. A young Vigile in a gas mask is pushing through the billowing rain. He's wiping raindrops from his lenses, struggling to make you out.\nfrom his lenses, struggling to make you out.\"Marid, is that you?\"\n1) \"Horatio.\"\n2) <Say nothing.>"}, {"prompt": "You examine the FOOD", "response": "(the food token)\nThis token is good for one item from the Prowling Promenade food carts."}, {"prompt": "You look up the esther in the wedding hints", "response": "Nothing in the hints book about that, I'm afraid."}, {"prompt": "You look at the tongs", "response": "The tongs are made of wrought iron. They're shaped roughly like scissors or pliers, but they're about three feet long. They contain a white-eyed figurine."}, {"prompt": "You look at the box", "response": "Its central (and only) feature is a large button."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This slightly curved parlour room with gold, ornamented wallpaper and settees with silk pillows provides an intermediate sitting area, bathed in yellow candlelight. Seating is plentiful, and a set of private salon doors lead northwest and west. A doorless portal leads north."}, {"prompt": "You get the brain uno", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.\nWALDO: Taken."}, {"prompt": "You remove the uniform", "response": "Here? Oh no! The very thought of it! I can barely stand to get undressed in the company of myself.\nA married couple walk by, the older end of middle-aged.\n\"You're not worth the powder to blow you to hell,\" she says.\n\"I know dear,\" he says."}, {"prompt": "You go northwest", "response": "You'll have to open the door first."}, {"prompt": "You take the patrick's label", "response": "Taken.\nAll of a sudden Tim from main office rushes in.\n\"I'm soooo late,\" he says. He unlocks the soda machine and takes a can out, then slams it shut. Soooo predictable.\n\"Gotta check the meat room temp,\" he says, pulling out a thermometer from his windbreaker. \"Back in a jiff. Then I'll do the locker check. Just the new hires -- Patrick, Ranni and Paul,\" he says on his way out the door.\nOK, don't fuck it up this time, Lisa. We don't know if we've got unlimited lives, or what, says Graham.\nAnd we've got like, nine-tenths of a jiff left, says Ranni."}, {"prompt": "You examine man", "response": "A large bearded man sits at a desk in the library, writing furiously. He's surrounded by bundles of paper, some typed, some written in a near-illegible scrawl."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "This is a room made of solid, shining gold. Exits lead in all directions.\nYou hear three clicks from the floor as you enter the room.\nIn an instant, the golden ceiling descends to the floor, crushing you flat."}, {"prompt": "Go southwest", "response": "The light from northeast comes in a bit above floor-level, sharply illuminating one wall but leaving the rest of your surroundings dark and unfathomable.\nThe inscription stands out beautifully now."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nan embroidered robe (being worn)\nan old grimoire\na journal\na handful of ashes\na heavy stopper\na large black book\na broken limb"}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east.\nYou can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs north and west from here."}, {"prompt": "You tell Imelda about the feelings", "response": "You cough. \"Imelda, I just wanted to say that...\"\n(You could tell her you're in love with her, or tell her she's like your best friend.)"}, {"prompt": "You look at scenes", "response": "One scene depicts Pharmacos discovering the humors. Another shows Merula and Collis treating refugees during the Corindian Civil War."}, {"prompt": "You ask David about Reverend", "response": "You describe Reverend Gillespie to David. \"He seems a little ... slimy,\" you finish, not wanting to seem too critical but also wanting to be honest with the one person around here who seems worth talking to.\nDavid listens sympathetically. \"I haven't met the man,\" he says. \"I wish I could say I'm surprised to learn that a so-called 'man of God' is involved in a ritual of the sort that Beauregard intends to preside at today, but I'm not.\""}, {"prompt": "You take bolt", "response": "It is an integral part of the control panel."}, {"prompt": "You look in the slot", "response": "You find nothing of interest.\nYou can hear heavy footsteps nearby.\nStatic hisses from the television."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Alley", "response": "Please select one:\n(1) >TELL ALLEY ABOUT PLANETARY ACCRETION\n(2) >ALLEY, COME INSIDE"}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"I was attacked by a mutant woman with a sword. The same person who broke in here the other night...\"\nHe nods grimly. \"The Vigiles told me everything. Her name is Carnicer -- she's a hired assassin. The Greater Corindia Trading Company pays her to do its dirty work. But don't worry -- we've called in all the guards we can muster to protect you and Doctor Cavala.\"\n1) \"Carnicer is dead. I killed her in self-defense.\"\n2) \"Do you think the Trading Company is behind this?\"\n3) \"What's wrong with the color of the light?\""}, {"prompt": "You put the mirror in the cabinet", "response": "You carefully put the mirror back in the frame. It doesn't fit all that well, but it you manage to wedge it into place."}, {"prompt": "You drive", "response": "What do you want to drive?"}, {"prompt": "You look in cupboard", "response": "(first opening the linen cupboard)\nInside the cupboard are a few shelves covered in neatly-folded bed linens. My overcoat is in here, too."}, {"prompt": "Yes", "response": "The stunted humanoids in the arcade watch you carefully as your hand touches the flashing button. This might be a trap! You don't really want to press that big red button, do you?"}, {"prompt": "Go southeast", "response": "(first moving off of the wooden bucket)\nThis lumpy, patchy stretch of lawn is the most pleasant outdoor spot at Eternal Springs, though that isn't saying much. A rusted, sagging chaise longue is provided for the comfort of anyone who would like to bask in the scorching heat of the afternoon sun. (There's precious little shade here, other than the low oblong of obscurity wedged beneath the chaise.)\nTo the east, the lawn is bordered by a high hedge of a virulent and sickly green, whose foliage is laden with a bounty of pulpy red flowers. The arid stretch of dirt between the cabins stretches out to the south. The main house stands, crooked and bleak but stubbornly attempting a faded grandeur, to the west, a short, broad flight of board steps leading up to the long porch, which is roofed over but nonetheless gapes open on the afternoon. A tiny, weed-infested flower-bed crouches to the right of the steps.\nA cracked and buckled concrete walk leads away through some tall bushes to the north, and another walk, whose slabs are tossed as if by some prehistoric geological upheaval, curves out of sight to the southwest around the corner of the house.\nHoney Hartwell is reclining on the chaise longue, leafing through a magazine.\nHoney adjusts the angle of her straw hat microscopically."}, {"prompt": "You listen to the conch", "response": "The conch shell isn't making any noise.\nThe conch shell rocks in your grasp."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "This small back yard is walled in on all sides, although a narrow\nalley runs off to the north, and the back door to the tavern lies\neast. Next to the back door is the mouth of a chute, which is presumably to allow beer barrels to be rolled down into the cellar beneath.\nSeveral barrels are stacked in a corner of the yard."}, {"prompt": "You put the take on picker", "response": "I give the take intent to the picker, who now intends to take\nsomething arbitrary to be auctioned.\nThe picker selects an arbitrary item, a circlet, and carries it south to the Auction Hall."}, {"prompt": "You hit the Mould with the hammer", "response": "You break the mould. Bad decision. The gold is still molten and splashes over you. Nice effect, if you want golden skin. Otherwise, it rates zero on just about all counts. Molten gold is hot. Very hot. Sufficiently hot to vapourise your skin and melt all the way down to the bone. Fortunately, you go into a state of shock before the really gruesome stuff starts, slipping out of the host-parasite interface like an expert. You reel and rock through the dimensions, screaming with pain until you hit a goldfish's body with a wet slap.\nCastle\nInside, the castle is exactly what you expected - tacky and featureless with ant eggs near the top and gravel at the bottom. To anyone else, the colours sprayed randomly on the wall would just be colours sprayed randomly on the wall. To a daring inter-dimensional espionage operative like yourself, however, they are obviously used to focus communications across the dimensions. The only exit is out, back to the goldfish bowl. Your attention is drawn to a glass box resting in the middle of the room here, this looks like Panchax's work.\nA smooth warp, a jagged warp and a small warp are also clearly the boss's work."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "(Emma about that)\n\"Did you kill Kate?\" you ask.\n\"What do you think?\" she shoots back, \"But never mind that, just answer the question I asked you: Have you found the key?\""}, {"prompt": "You look under underbrush", "response": "You find nothing of interest.\nIn the distance, you can hear the lonesome keening of a train whistle drifting on the wind."}, {"prompt": "You cut wire", "response": "FC: Cryolink already established to Waldo.\nFC: What do you want to cut the wire with?"}, {"prompt": "You put greedily on the auctioneer", "response": "The auctioneer doesn't intend to do anything in particular right now; doing nothing greedily is a bit much to ask."}, {"prompt": "Warm orange piece of paper with candle", "response": "The paper is heated by the bank of candles. Something seems to be gradually appearing on the back of the orange piece of paper."}, {"prompt": "You look up Edward in records", "response": "(in the archives)\nEdward Verlac: born April 26, 1960."}, {"prompt": "You examine disk", "response": "An Earth-style computer disk an inch and a half on a side, and labeled \"JOURNAL, TRANSLATIONS\" in spiky unfriendly handwriting."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Here a fat Pig wallows."}, {"prompt": "You examine the line", "response": "The park guests seem to be enjoying themselves."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "Agatha endures the punishment with her characteristic insensitivity to good influences, but Prudence seems devastated by the incident. She avoids Agatha thereafter, but she gives off an air of raw hostility whenever you're near her."}, {"prompt": "You ask Luisa about the crow", "response": "You mention the crow you saw at the window in the bedroom. \"He's always out there,\" Luisa says. \"I think he'd like to come inside, find somethin' to eat, but I always shoo him away.\""}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You slip into the narrow path...\n(PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE)## River Walk\nThe River Walk is truly one of the most majestic sights of the city, especially now that the sun has set. Many shops and restaurants line the western side, each lit with festive hanging lights, which reflect prettily in the water of the river to the east. On the far side of the river a concert is being performed. An east/west bridge spans the river here, forming the tunnel through which the river flows below. You also notice a narrow gap between two of the shops to the west. A large crowd has gathered here, staring up at the sky.\nSuddenly, a diverse group of Gamers wearing white shirts dashes by you. Their shirts read \"Abrahamic Interfaith League of Piedmont.\" As they pass, a Jewish rabbi smiles at you and makes a sign of blessing."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na comfortable outfit of chronometer, grey undersuit, shoes, and socks\nYou have a little time to look around, but you shouldn't drag this out for long: you're supposed to meet your predecessor, Ambassador Valenti, in the center of town, as soon as possible."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Dragon", "response": "'You have come for the Heart of Winter.'\nYou shudder at the sound of his voice. It is... old and\notherwordly, yet beautiful. \"Y... yes,\" you manage.\n'I will give it to you, under one condition. Give yourself to me, this night. Then you shall have the Heart of Winter. What do you say?'"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "A flight of stairs leads upwards. The corner turns from south to west.\nThis section contains accounting offices.\nA woman hurries past, clutching a file of notes."}, {"prompt": "You put the keys in Pan", "response": "golden key: The collecting Pan is for Liquids. The Vent is the entrance to the Furnace.\nsilver key: The collecting Pan is for Liquids. The Vent is the entrance to the Furnace.\ncopper key: The collecting Pan is for Liquids. The Vent is the entrance to the Furnace.\nA blast of hot Air emerges from the Furnace, as though some Daemon inside were working a Bellows."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Here's the entrance to Paco's Tacos, everyone's favorite place for a bite as long as everything else is closed. The stretch of sidewalk here is covered by a striped awning for the masses to huddle under while waiting for a table at peak hours. The door to the north is framed by neon signs behind plate glass windows. Further east is Get Your Licks."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about Verlac", "response": "(the Verlac family)\nThe old man seems to physically shrink just a little bit, darting nervous glances around the empty lot. \"Oh, they're the worst of the lot,\" he whispers. \"They're the queen maggots, so they are. Sittin' all fat and full of poison in the center of the nest. Partick'ly that one, the worst one of all -- the one with the red-rimmed eyes.\""}, {"prompt": "You look at the gloves", "response": "Although the gloves are coated in blood, they're brand new. You can still see the sigils glowing on the rubber."}, {"prompt": "Talk", "response": "\"What the hell happened last week? That thing came out of\nnowhere.\"\n\"It was half buried underground, Jack. Maybe it got caught in that flash flood in November. You almost stepped on it - I guess that's when it woke up. If I hadn't had my steel-toed boots on, we'd probably both be dead now.\"\nYou're thinking, \"Thank God they stop when it freezes. But now\nthey're thawing out...\""}, {"prompt": "I wide", "response": "You are carrying two books (Clock Repair and On Vegetable\nDyes), a stone block, a butcher knife, a sword, a hinge-lidded\nteapot (which is open), inside which is not very much water (which leaves some room in the hinge-lidded teapot), a sack (which is open), inside which are a sponge, a snuffbox (which is closed), a white handkerchief, two metal dishes (a plate and a cup), a swordstick and five food items (a bay leaf, a sprig of parsley, a sprig of mint, a clove of garlic and a single yellow onion) and a dashing hat (being worn).\nThe model universe clicks."}, {"prompt": "You put the goathorn in the box", "response": "You put the goathorn piece into the box. It's probably safe to keep, anyway. And besides, it complements the telling of the story of how\nyou came to possess it."}, {"prompt": "You go northeast", "response": "The path curves to the north, leading you around to the front of the mill.\nThe road turns southwest here and runs squarely through the front entrance to the old paper mill. A gate of heavy iron bars blocks the only opening into this charred fortress, although an overgrown path leads around the wall to the south. To the north, a rutted lane threads its way past a row of dilapidated shacks."}, {"prompt": "You examine the nest", "response": "The robin has done a very neat job of building her nest in the fork of a limb. The usual twigs, straw, tufts of hair, and bits of twine have been woven with care into a sturdy home. Peering into its feather-lined interior you can see that she has laid four pale blue eggs. You also notice that one of the tufts of hair she used still has a bobby pin attached to it.\nYou hear birds twittering in the branches below you."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over, dragging the ladder after you.\nNow leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.\nThe local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field. To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels. A dusty road continues north out of town.\nLittle Jimmy is here, looking sullen.\nBobby is here, jumping up and down in place."}, {"prompt": "You rest", "response": "You rest for a moment to regain your strength...\n[ Your Stamina: 2     Bullhead Catfish: 4 ]"}, {"prompt": "You look at Door", "response": "The faraday cage door has a small window in it and is currently closed."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "He says: \"I'm afraid not. I just got here.\""}, {"prompt": "You kick the bass", "response": "The fish sees your boot coming a mile away and easily evades your kick.\n[ Your Stamina: 2     Largemouth Bass: 5 ]"}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "What do you want to say to the guard?\n\"I sure do. I work here now,\" you say to the guard.\nThe guard looks down at his clipboard.\n\"Sorry,\" the guard says. Nobody notified me about any new hires today. I'll have to radio HQ and see what's going on. Make yourself comfortable, this could take hours.\"\nYou hear an odd rumble from the El Camino's engine. Wait, that wasn't your engine. It was the guard's stomach."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "What purpose this room once served is totally obscure, because all the furniture has gone. There is nothing, really, save the four walls of the house.\nA black key lies on the ground, near your feet.\nAs you enter the room, you gasp in horror. Lying on the hard floor, bringing to mind all the serial-killer plots of eight centuries ago, is a dead woman.....\nNo, wait - she's not dead - but certainly dying....\nThe woman looks up at you, hesitantly....\"Have you.... did you receive Leon's appeal.....\", she begins, noticing your blank expression. \"I'm Judith Gold\", she gasps, and struggles to go on. \"Have you come to....?\""}, {"prompt": "You point at the creature", "response": "You point your finger at the creature in the cage.\nThe word \"imoentar\" appears in the air before you -- the same word as for the brass cage."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "Your footsteps squelch in this stale, cramped space. The cobwebs here glitter with moisture and silk-wrapped things. Flies flit through your lamp-light, disturbed by your movements, gathering on moldy plates and slime-encrusted piping.\nA pitch-black shaft gapes above you. The lights of the service lift glow to the west.\nA rickety ladder and a kitchen stool provide access to the pitch-black shaft."}, {"prompt": "You look at the rome through the lens", "response": "You squint at the image of Rome through the glass, and it unfolds before you:\nThere is the Tiber, winding, and every bridge that crosses it, and every peddler selling trinkets on those bridges. The birds that flew in augury, circling still on the hills. The beasts of burden, laden with food from the fields..."}, {"prompt": "Search gap", "response": "You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness.\nIn the space, you can see a lit minilamp (connected to a toggle switch).\nYou move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "An east-west hall with an orange strip coloring the wall just below\nthe ceiling. There is an open door in the south wall."}, {"prompt": "You examine the pulley", "response": "A mossy chain hangs from the pulley: one side descends into the water below, while the other ends in a hook just at a reachable level.\nThere is currently nothing on the hook."}, {"prompt": "You open the cooler", "response": "You open the cooler."}, {"prompt": "You eat Fredrick", "response": "Pounce, my dear, pounce before Frypan pounces. No, not here,\nhere; no, not there, there. His fried legs fly over\nyour head. Dishes break when he lands. He's left, right, near, far, tripped\u2014yes, tripped on his long pointed toes. Haute couture takes another toll. You have him, no, you don't have him: he's leapt to seize the chandelier. He swings most wildly."}, {"prompt": "You go down", "response": "There is an exit east, and a stairway leading up."}, {"prompt": "Goals", "response": "You think you can develop your friendship with Xochi more.\nYou are looking forward to talking to Xochi again.\nYou are excited to bike west to downtown, then north and west to reach Lothlorien co-op to see Staci."}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "(first taking The Conservative's Cookbook)\nIt's a bunch of recipes for baked goods and stuff. Nothing particularly revelatory there.\nAs you finish reading the passage, your own hands grow cold, and the book briefly frosts over before fading again, leaving traces behind only in the library insignia."}, {"prompt": "Adv", "response": "You head out to Black Knife Dungeon. The weather is warm and breezy.\nYou return to Level 2....\nPress SPACE.\nYou proceed along a wide corridor. You kick open an iron door and enter an abandoned storeroom.\nA serpent slithers toward you. It must be at least 15 feet long. It's green and knobbly, and it gazes at you with unblinking eyes."}, {"prompt": "PUT INN KEY, OWLS, MESSAGE IN SACK", "response": "first inn key: Done.\nOwls of Stone: Done.\ncoded message: Done."}, {"prompt": "You look at windows", "response": "They're just unglazed rectangles high up in the walls, serving to let the light in but hardly to exclude cold draughts."}, {"prompt": "Keep going", "response": "\"Nobody's performed a three-card trick,\" says Lady Gascogne. \"The man in the tent over there tried to do it and failed. He was a liar. Everyone who said that he could do it, they were liars too. I have no tolerance for lies.\"\n\"I'm an honest magician,\" you tell her. \"Only genuine tricks from Morgan the Magnificent!\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the ivory sheet", "response": "The archway is blocked by an impenetrable sheet of ivory. There's no going back."}, {"prompt": "You jump on the cat", "response": "Holly bats you away with a strong paw."}, {"prompt": "You ask the people about the bum", "response": "No one answers you, or even looks your way."}, {"prompt": "You examine Ivan", "response": "Hmm, well, that didn't quite land. Things sound better when you say them in your head, but it doesn't matter. All the spectators are scandalized. They're fanning themselves like they've got the vapors, and putting the backs of their hands to their foreheads, and generally swooning. But Ivan just keeps smiling."}, {"prompt": "You look", "response": "This is a small and cluttered antique and curiosity shop. Many items have a strange familiarity to them, yet you feel like you are in an entirely different dimension.\nColette is standing behind the counter.\nYou can also see an Animal Tarot deck here."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Late afternoon light, filtering through cypress trees hung with Spanish moss, glances off the water in the mural that covers the walls and ceiling of this room. A narrow bed in the shape of a pirogue seems almost to float on the bayou. Exits are south to the second floor stair hall, as well as west to the Jackson bedroom.\nYou can see an alligator-skin belt here."}, {"prompt": "You get the chainmai", "response": "A whammy on your demonic keyboard! Refer to your game manual for assistance."}, {"prompt": "You examine food", "response": "Sure looks yummy! Remember: Things Go Better With Coke."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "Huff puff puff. My load is too heavy to fly, or even hop,\nboss.\nIf I can just get my beak a bit further in to the vase...Caw! No, the egg is too far down."}, {"prompt": "You look at the trapdoor", "response": "The trapdoor is open. Steps lead down into darkness."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You make your way up.\nGray Matter, Level Two\nOff to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Archimedes's staff, a square piece of metal, and a scribbled scroll.\nA gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin."}, {"prompt": "You get hollow", "response": "You yank the gray tube out of the stool's socket, lose your balance, topple backwards and plant your face smartly in the prison floor. Muddy looks away in embarrassment."}, {"prompt": "You take the bug", "response": "Taken.\nAn old man enters the town centre from the south.\nThere's a faint cheesy smell from somewhere."}, {"prompt": "East", "response": "You are in the Court of Honor, on a grand plaza which surrounds the Administration Building, which here opens up to a glorious vista the likes of which you have never seen nor imagined before. It is a great city which stands before you, each building of monolithic size and classical design. The buildings of this great city surround a man-made basin to rival the size of some lakes. This is the fabled 'White City,' built a mere twenty years after the tragic Chicago Fire left the city in ruins.\nThe Administration Building takes a commanding position at the western end of the Grand Basin. Standing directly in front of the eastern entrance to the building is a statue of Columbus, in whose honor the fair has been dedicated. Directly across from him, an elaborate fountain rises from the basin waters, dozens of figures standing, sitting, and rowing in a boat the discoverer himself would have been proud to command. At the other end of the basin the emblem of the fair stands: a gilt sculpture of a woman, fair Columbia, climbing magnificently to a height of sixty-five feet above the basin waters. The plaza continues to the north and south, toward more monumental buildings.\nLooking East onto the White City."}, {"prompt": "You examine dryer", "response": "This stainless steel automatic hand dryer is the same model that was common in American service station restrooms half a century ago. A silver button in front invites you to push it.\nThe hand dryer is switched off."}, {"prompt": "You take the cane", "response": "You acquire the cane."}, {"prompt": "Search bones", "response": "(the long dead wizard)\nLornedei is less than interested in digging around in old dead peoples remains."}, {"prompt": "You examine painting", "response": "You examine a painting at random and find a portrait of the great wizard Davmar who discovered the ability to create scrolls imbued with magic spells. Symbolically, he holds a scroll in one hand, and confusingly, a zucchini in the other."}]
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