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+[{"prompt": "You leave", "response": "I can't go that way. I can go south to the mall back hallway."}, {"prompt": "You dig the ditch", "response": "You glance at the ditch and instantly dismiss it as unimportant."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na Battlebase episode guide\na small brass key\na wedding programme"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're on the sandy shore of the lake. A road heads east towards the village, and another runs north along the edge of the lake. Looking south, you can see an open iron gate leading into the Witchville Cemetery.\nMisty Island, its outline shrouded in fog, is visible far across the water.\nYou can see a narrow pit near the edge of the lake.\nThe vulture hovers in the sky high overhead."}, {"prompt": "You read the sign", "response": "This highway sign reads ALAMOGORDO 23. Its steel post appears to have been twisted and deformed by some incredible force, so much so that you can't tell where the sign originally stood."}, {"prompt": "You chase jack south", "response": "You have to chase Jack in a few circles before you're able to get him to run south. You follow close behind him -\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.\nJack skids to a halt.\nThe big girl is here, leaning on a tree and counting aloud.\n\"Ninety-six,\" says the big girl."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "You are in a cave that is completely blocked by a large boulder to the West. The ground below has a fresh cavity where you fell from the hatch far above.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "Shoot portrait", "response": "Take that, you contemptible coward! There, I've shot that stupid moustache off his stupid face. Serves him right."}, {"prompt": "You drop the stool", "response": "Dropped."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes...\nYou close the last twenty feet to the gate. The guard on your right releases your arm to go talk to the gate-keeper. The other guard clamps down painfully on your left arm. The scene around you seems to blur; is it just your eyes tearing up from the pain? You feel an all-too-familiar tingling sensation along your scalp, and the world comes into focus again."}, {"prompt": "You take the white piece of the paper", "response": "I only understood you as far as wanting to take EGB 4/20/78."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "I can't go in that direction, but I can move north, west, up, down and out.\nThe Big Bad Wolf taps his foot impatiently."}, {"prompt": "You move lining", "response": "That would accomplish very little."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "I'm in a small but electrically intensive area. I can detect three variable potentiometers on a small console.\nThe first dial is set to 90, the second dial is set to 45, and the third dial is set to 70."}, {"prompt": "Disconnect radio", "response": "You disconnect the blast tab, and take the radio module as it turns black again. The key transmitter turns black as well."}, {"prompt": "You trade the pager to the packrat", "response": "The packrat carefully inspects the PAGER that you offer, then somehow stuffs it into a tiny crack in the wall. He darts toward the wall himself, pausing only long enough to throw a small object back to you, then vanishes.\nYou'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.\nThere is nice E flat valve trumpet"}, {"prompt": "You wear the dresses", "response": "(first taking the selection of dresses)\nNo point in taking the entire armload of gowns. You'd only get them damaged, and you can hardly afford to replace them."}, {"prompt": "Assail godzilla", "response": "By Huron's seven sonic saprophytes, a blow to be remembered! You scored 52 points of damage!\nGUNWAR shouts \"That's it, lad! Give 'em what-for!\"\nThe SLAVER KING pauses to regard you, glaring at you with eyes like phasic hellfire and stomping in agitation."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "A long path, walled in by literature, goes from west to east. All\naround you are bookshelves, packed with books."}, {"prompt": "You touch clown", "response": "The clown reaches out and takes your hand, the merry-go-round's tinkly music swells, and you're spun out of the upstairs bedroom into that other place.\nVague many-colored blobs of light float gently around you on all sides, and there are no shadows here. It's like being trapped inside a great big lava lamp, except that you can hear an off-key brass band oom-pahing not far away. The painted clown from the abandoned nursery, now no longer painted but quite real, is standing in front of you, gazing down at you with either pity or wry amusement (it's hard to tell which)."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "This strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A tattered label on the lid reads \"Laura Bryant Collection.\" You pried the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted out of shape.\nThis strongbox is made of metal, and is a foot across in each dimension. It is covered in rust and dented in a few places. A tattered label on the lid reads \"Laura Bryant Collection.\" You pried the box open with a crowbar you borrowed from a friend after failed attempts at picking the lock. The metal around the latch is twisted out of shape."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Your path is blocked by a towering bank of chugging machinery."}, {"prompt": "You look at the kiosk", "response": "Nice kiosk."}, {"prompt": "You go to the northeast", "response": "This store has a peculiar array of items for sale, although the shelves are largely empty now. Hard times all round, you suppose. Curious-looking rocks and crystals can be had at various prices, and there are a few pieces of basic archer's equipment for sale as well. A sign notes that the archery equipment is on clearance.\nThe proprietor-- the eponymous Merchant Guy, you presume-- sits behind the counter, eyeing you with thinly-veiled suspicion.\nOn the counter are a polished piece of labradorite, a small crystal ball and a bismuth crystal.\nOn the shelves are a glass prism, a calcite prism, a magnifying glass lens and a jar of silica.\nBeside the counter is a basket for archery supplies. Inside it you see a short arrow, an archer's arm-guard and a bow."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "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 north end. The only way you can go is back to the south.\nThe monkey is crouching at your feet."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "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.\nYou're about to run out of options -- the intersection to the\nsoutheast is occupied. The guards there are not moving. They're watching in both directions, with their backs to a closed metal door. They don't seem to have seen you; you slide deeper into the shadows nonetheless."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "Time passes.\nMcGinnity begins his delivery. When he comes to a set position, you notice he's got his index and middle fingers together, a little off-center. The ball starts high and outside, then drops vertically, with what appears to be forward spin."}, {"prompt": "You examine the horse", "response": "It's as stiff as a board. One for the glue factory I'm afraid. And to think this noble beast died whilst trying to steal a peice of cheese."}, {"prompt": "You learn the funyun", "response": "Using your best study habits, you commit the funyun spell to memory."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You're on the north shore of Lake Draounheer, at the southern edge\nof the infamous Damsogee Swamp. This is unexplored territory now; you've left the safety of the Forest of Radeekal for dangerous and uncharted wilderness. Perhaps a wiser man would turn back now - but you are a Valley Warrior, and know no fear. Mist swirls at the water's edge, and reeds bend in the cold, damp breeze. Two paths lead into the swamp, one due north, the other northwest. The path is surprisingly well-traveled; small footprints lead north.\nYou see a rowboat, an oar, a brass lamp, a bronze ring, a sword, a\nthin wand, a small leather pouch, a pair of erasers, a wine bottle, a soft pretzel, a spade, a handful of radberries, and a trowel here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the roadblock", "response": "\"Road Block,\" says the sign. That's a road block, all right."}, {"prompt": "You examine the endoscope", "response": "An intricate assembly of lenses mounted on adjustable orichalcum rods. It can be inserted into cadavers to examine their internal pathways, and may be useful for inspecting other crevices of a similar nature."}, {"prompt": "Leave", "response": "Identical passageways open to the east, west, north, and south.\nYou almost trip over a bunch of handcuffs and manacles tangled together."}, {"prompt": "You examine the cable", "response": "You see six coiled lengths of network cable. The cable is plugged into Socket WS3."}, {"prompt": "Author's end notes", "response": "Please give one of the answers above.\nSherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels\nCopyright 1987 Infocom, Inc.\n221-B Baker Street\nYou are standing in the spill of a gas streetlight outside Holmes's house. The street disappears into the fog to the north and south. The door to the house is to the west.\nYou have come in response to an urgent summons from your old landlady, Mrs Hudson. As the fog swirls around you, you huddle into your coat and shiver in the predawn chill."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Miss Muriel's Cabin (on the bicycle)\nThe road fades into grass and weeds as it reaches this lonely cabin,\nin the heart of the woods.\nAt the side of the building is an overgrown bed of flowers.\nA set of tarnished wind chimes hangs over the entrance.\nEXITS: SOUTH INSIDE"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The gate's closed, which is a pity since we could probably steal a lot of nice stuff if we could get into the throne room or the king's bedroom. But the castle's sealed up while the treasurer tries to figure out where the king's wandered off to, and I'm not going to attempt to peck my way through the giant wooden doors. There's a window above me leading to the room your body is in. There's farmland to the west, and Big Street is north.\nMy hanging-out tree is here."}, {"prompt": "You open the bottle", "response": "It takes a surprisingly strong effort to open the bottle. Finally it opens with a shhhhoop sound. In an instant, the sea-green smoke is drawn into the bottle with a whhhhhhhip; then it closes again with a ffffoomp."}, {"prompt": "You open it", "response": "You open the snuffbox, revealing a quantity of snuff."}, {"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 talk to the head", "response": "Generally, it's best to talk to living things."}, {"prompt": "You wear it", "response": "Okay, you're now wearing the red parachute.\nThe pitch of the plane is making it very hard for you to do anything. Your rendezvous with Earth is fast approaching."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Old leather chairs surround a central area where you see a large table has been set up. Atop this table is a map of the city shown from an aerial viewpoint. Gathered around the table are a group of elderly men.\n\"Ah, so good of you come here, Miss Charles,\" says an elderly gentleman seated in an armchair at the table. \"We've been waiting for you.\"\nYou glance around uneasily. None of the people here can be younger than eighty, but there's nothing frail about them. They have the look of old money and old power.\n\"Who are you are what do you want with me?\" you ask.\n\"My name is Carl Mountbatten. I meld.\" He gestures to the others in the room. \"We all meld, but none to quite the extent that you\ndo. We want to recruit you, Miss Charles, for a little job. We also want to talk to you about Tanya.\" He smiles. \"Yes, your sister. She isn't dead and, with your help, we can rescue her.\"\nPress a key...\nThe introduction to 'Meld' has finished. Feel free to check out how well you did with the 'stats' command."}, {"prompt": "You examine the chariot", "response": "Alky's chariot is a sporty little thing, with flashy gilded inlays and a low, sleek profile. The reins hang in tatters from their anchoring ring, somewhat limiting the chariot's top speed."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "How can you put this politely? \"I'm sorry, but I don't think I feel comfortable accepting a naked devil-lady as an element of my psychology.\"\nShe rolls her eyes. \"You're being really literal about this, Normal Hina.\"\n\"You're a succubus! You're trying to tell me all my problems are about being repressed, and if I embrace my sexuality that'll somehow fix everything.\"\nNega-Hina drags her claws down over her face. \"Oh my gosh, that's not what's going on here at all.\"\n\"Well, maybe you could explain what really is going on here.\"\n\"Gladly! That's what I'm actually here for anyway, is to friggin' explain things...\"\n1: \"What is this place?\"\n2: Ask about one of the places you've been.\n3: Ask about what is going on in general.\n4: What am I even supposed to be doing here?\n5: Stop talking to Nega-Hina."}, {"prompt": "You examine Mortar", "response": "The interior of the Mortar & the grinding Surface of the Pestle are covered in a foul blue Substance."}, {"prompt": "You examine the corpse", "response": "The woman impaled on the white spike is dressed as you imagine a nurse might have been in the seventies, with a button-down skirt that must once have been clean white. Her face, frozen in a look of wide-eyed shock, indicates asian-american heritage and youth."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "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.\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.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Solid crystal blocks your path."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The ice of the Cocytean piedmont is pitted and rotten, riddled with moulins of befouled meltwater. For the most part the caves are unstable, but they don't tend to change too much over winter. This one is large enough to serve as temporary depot, but small and twisty enough to keep it hidden.\nThe imposing bulk of the Iron Quagga takes up much of the space here."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sticks", "response": "The wooden sticks are almost your height, sharpened to a point at one end and the other stuck into the floor surrounding the altar, like funeral lilies.\nA thin fluid begins to leak from the metal discs, and the smell of the room markedly increases."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The foyer widens out to the East and South.\nAn old vending machine stands against the wall\nThe guy is standing by your side\nLicking his dry lips, the guy again reminds you that he is thirsty.\nThe East end of the Lobby opens to the foyer. You see the courtesy area to the North and a doorway to the South.\nThe guy is standing by your side\nYou are at the lobby courtesy area. The auditorium is to the North. The well-appointed courtesy desk stands by the wall.\nThere is a wooden chest\nThe guy is standing by your side\nYou are now in a middle-ish aisle in the audience area.\nThe guy is standing by your side"}, {"prompt": "You turn on tool", "response": "The nozzle at the end of the cylinder emits a faint beam of light, as narrow as a single hair. Then, the base of the nozzle emits a few sparks, and the beam pulses several times. The beam dissapears, replaced by a broader, pulsating blade of light, extending only a few inches out from the nozzle."}, {"prompt": "You climb it", "response": "You haul yourself up onto the rope, bringing your whole weight to bear. It holds for about three seconds -- then there is a sharp snap from above you and a muffled clank. The rope falls, spilling you to the floor amidst an untidy tangle of coils."}, {"prompt": "You look at the spider", "response": "She can't quite see what it looks like as long as it's trapped inside the lamp. She'll have to free it somehow."}, {"prompt": "You ask Tyrone about the wasps", "response": "\"I keep meanin' to clean out that ole wasp nest,\" Tyrone says. \"Send the lady guests off runnin' and screamin', they see a wasp. If we had any guests 'round here, that is. You-all pretty much the biggest batch we seen all year.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the prey", "response": "The creature does not look small, even from up here, even half-unformed by canyon shadows. It prowls across a wide ledge across the canyon and below your level. You do not think it knows you are here."}, {"prompt": "You examine the strap", "response": "The strap looks like it can be opened."}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nThe magpie hops up and flies off to the south."}, {"prompt": "Onp", "response": "You set the wand to orange-brown-purple.\nThe chicken broth starts to bubble."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The bridge creaks as you cross it, and sways a bit.\nA slope descends to the noisy stream to the west. The old wooden bridge which spans it leans comfortably against the bank at your feet. To the east rises the flank of the hill, shining in the afternoon sunlight; two usable trails lead up around it, to the south and the northeast."}, {"prompt": "You ask Ash about the belts", "response": "Ashleigh says, \"I don't know much about that.\"\nWith a disgusted shake of his head, Carl moves to the radio and begins calling for help.\nAshleigh, on the other hand, watches Bill for a few seconds before moving to him and slapping him for all she's worth. Bill stops completely: he has no idea how to react.\n\"Listen here, you pompous ass,\" Ash hisses at him, \"none of us are particularly happy right now. But you're not helping. Stop it.\"\nAfter a long few seconds of staring, Bill turns and pours himself another whiskey."}, {"prompt": "You read the books", "response": "Your eye picks out a volume titled, \"The Discoveries of Tycho Brahe, Volume II\" by Francis M. Grant and R. M. McKellen."}, {"prompt": "You look at the opening", "response": "A small hole in the south wall."}, {"prompt": "Smell mist", "response": "Cardamom. Or is it coriander?"}, {"prompt": "You search barrel", "response": "You root through the trash, tossing aside ice cream wrappers and soft drink cups. Aha! You find a pair of plastic swim goggles, which you take."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying a dinner plate, some iron bars, some nail scissors, and an encyclopedia and wearing nothing.\nAlso, your adventuring clothes, a flux capacitor, and a makeshift searchlight are on the floor."}, {"prompt": "You take the cards", "response": "With some difficulty, you fish the set of cards out of the outlet grate. Taken."}, {"prompt": "You go downwards", "response": "Making sure that no one is watching, you hop the railing and scramble down the bluff side as carefully as you can.\nSuper-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave\nYou're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. You can also head further up and down the bluff."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "Both the playground and its adjacent schoolhouse to the south lie vacant and deserted. The bare, hard-packed rectangle of earth, despite a few faint chalk marks, shows no evidence that children may have once played here--or might ever play here again.\nThe lane ends its westward progress at the schoolhouse door. At the southern end of the school, a magnificent stone steeple towers above the village roofs. To see the clock from where you now stand, you must tilt your head back and point your chin at the sky. To the southeast, a gentle slope leads to a hilltop covered with wild grass."}, {"prompt": "You look at the keyhole", "response": "A keyhole in a fitted brass plate. There is an ornate key in the keyhole, pushed in from the other side.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You're in a lounge room. It's well furnished for relaxing. There are exits to the east and west.\nYou can see a macaw, a lounge and a coffee table here."}, {"prompt": "You throw the water at Raccdaha", "response": "(the small water sack at raccdaha)\nthe small water sack flies through the air but misses totally. The creature takes a step towards her and she quickly sidesteps to avoid a shower of crimson sparks.\n\"What should I do?\"\nRaccdaha is staring into the polished surface, oblivious."}, {"prompt": "You look at the toilet", "response": "A plain vanilla toilet, having a water tank and bowl. Nothing to write home about. The toilet seat is down, but the cover is raised.\nA plunger stands next to the toilet, between it and the shower.\nRETRO ASSEMBLY -> DIAGNOSTIC : TRUE\nFrom the direction of the living room, you hear Rover entertaining himself."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "Rather annoyingly, Anna trails along behind you like a guilty conscience.\nThe guests gather in clumps along the western periphery of the courtyard, under the glow of the hanging lamps. Of particular note is the more scholarly crowd, milling about restlessly since the departure of the Rabbi. The rest of the courtyard is to east and southeast.\nMary of Bethany hovers on the periphery, largely ignored by the learned men.\nYou can also see Little Orphan Anna, Joshua and Lazarus of Bethany here.\nYou hear the guests chattering on: \"...saved the bridge, though if you ask me he should never have wandered off in the first place....\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "FC: Time passes...\nWALDO INTERRUPT: Internal mapping indicates arrival at the Sloping Corridor."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "The Phil is in the main room of the Spotted Dog, now the village's only inn. The room is dominated by an enormous fireplace in which a fire was burning - it has recently gone out - although it seems the chimney doesn't draw very well, because the air is full of smoke. Through the haze, the Phil can see  a bar, and four or five rough tables and benches. There is no-one sitting at them, though. The floor is strewn with mouldy rushes. A large pot of stew hangs over the ashes of the fire, still bubbling slightly.\nStanding stoutly behind the bar is Bardolph the Innkeeper.\nThe Phil can also see a violin and a bow here.\nBardolph starts laughing at some private joke. The Phil hopes it isn't him."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...\nThe room is dominated by a large, complicated-looking machine in its center."}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "You sit at the edge, turn, catch, and hang full-length against the wall. There ought to be a foothold...\nWell, perhaps not. You slam into the ledge and lean into stone, face and belly, trying not to slide any farther.\nAfter a moment you retake your balance, and turn. 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": "You go to the north", "response": "Your progress is halted by porous rock walls."}, {"prompt": "You examine shed", "response": "The small wooden shed might be for storage, or it might be some sort of stall. Either way it's a crude wooden structure with a plain wooden door.\nThe dog leaps up on the table and snatches the parsnip. Then it drops back down and starts chewing it."}, {"prompt": "You examine the drink", "response": "It's sixty-four ounces of refreshing lime cola in a cup that looks like a chalice. The 128 ounce version of this drink is called the 'Supreme Maw Thrust' and even though it's a better deal it doesn't get purchased much by many Mall denizens."}, {"prompt": "You ask Arjang about the poetry book", "response": "\"Due to this map and a dozen more works I cannot look into new comissions. That's what idle artisans are for, don't you think?\""}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You are on the pavement outside the Nytemare Video Plaza, one of a chain of stores which has moved into Fairhaven recently. The window is full of movie posters, and a door leads in to the northwest. Beech Avenue runs off to the south, and Elm Street to the east of here."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You swim northward.\nFlooded Chamber, Surface of Water\nYou are directly beneath the waterfall that feeds the lake.\nFreezing cold drops of water pound down on you. They fall from such a great height, it feels as though you are being pelted with stones.\nThe water is incredibly cold, you can feel your arms and legs growing numb."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "This bare stone room contains a couple of large rocks, one covered with little fragments of broken clockwork. A passageway leads east.\nIn the northeast corner, a floating arrangement of glowing blue runes indicates the location of access door E3S, which is open."}, {"prompt": "You drop the ball", "response": "The bell tinkles faintly.\nHolly swats away a mote of dust."}, {"prompt": "You unlock the drawer with the key", "response": "Unlocked."}, {"prompt": "You throw the boomerang at the lily", "response": "space."}, {"prompt": "You look at the money", "response": "Money! Just what you need for... everything, really. It's not much, but it'll buy something."}, {"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": "Go west", "response": "The 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 strapless pair of goggles, an antique bottle, a cork, and a broken stave here."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "You see an enormous room, like the great hall of a castle, filled with a maze made of cardboard boxes, takeout containers, newspapers, broken furniture, and used wrapping paper. In the center is a large, cleared area. The clearing contains a gigantic ball of some metallic liquid, hovering in the air. You can return to the living quarters to the south.\nA remote control lies on the trash, missing many essential parts.\nDr. Singh walks in, looking concerned. He finds the remote on the ground, smoking, and picks it up. He looks at the sphere in alarm, and touches it with a single fingertip. An alarm begins to sound. Dr. Singh looks at his arm, which turns grey.\nBefore he can speak, he crumbles into dust.\nDr. Law, the cloning machine seems to have been set to the lowest quality possible. I am concerned about this situation. The night crew will have a fit cleaning up the mess.\nI cannot control the machine directly, but it accesses some schematics in my database each time it copies someone. I can edit an implant into the schematics that will allow you to control the clone. The additional power should keep it from decaying for a while.\nYou need to fix and use the remote to turn off the clone machine. With all this interference, you need a signal strength of at least 99 jigawatts! There should be some spare parts lying around that can boost the remote's power.\nA clone of Dr. Singh, holding a broken remote, emerges from the sphere and lands on his feet.\nclo - Control Singh's clone"}, {"prompt": "You turn the dial to 778", "response": "The dial is set to 778."}, {"prompt": "You ask her about Nikolai", "response": "\"Nikolai is a dying brute, but even with his affliction I fear he is still more powerful than you, Darling. You must help me escape. I can subdue him, then we can rule his roost as Queen and King. Won't that be delightful?\""}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The Uptown Diner (crawling)\nA long counter divides the dining room from the kitchen entrance to the west. Booths line the east wall. Many of the windows are smashed, including most of the ones on the south wall, which provide an alternative exit to the locked front door. The floor is scattered with broken dishes and window glass.\nAn old jukebox stands in one corner, lit up and ready to play a tune.\nYour severed foot arrives through the kitchen door."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "Mr. Teeterwaller comes with you.\nA gravel driveway leads away from the road to the north. The road continues east and west. To the west you can just make out Mr. Teeterwaller's car; it's too dark to see much to the east."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "You are in the center of the mere.\nLooking south, you see the In Mere; looking down, you see the Descent."}, {"prompt": "You read napkin", "response": "It's a cocktail napkin with some hastily scrawled words on it: \"remember- you are DREAMing\"."}, {"prompt": "You kill Ignatius", "response": "You move, but you are far too slow. Or perhaps he just has a lot more practice. A knife flashes from his frock and across your neck.\nThere is plenty of ink for the wall now."}, {"prompt": "You read the 4cy", "response": "The book you wrote in your mid-20s is an unreadable and embarassing mish-mash of philosophy and autobiography. It represents a failed approach to creation, communication, and life. You feel a powerful desire to express your break with the past by exiling this book to an entirely different dimension.\nStrawberry is curled up and napping in the corner."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "You stand near the centre of a faceted, hemispherical crystal dome as large as a stadium. Unusual rock formations protrude from the rocky floor, which is streaked with mysteriously luminescent veins of quartz. Beyond the dome nothing can be made out but distorted reflections.\nThrusting out of the floor before you is a many-pointed stalagmite that holds in its clawed grip an immense, eye-like red crystal.\nHovering here is a sphere composed of swirling mist."}, {"prompt": "Land", "response": "The thin atmosphere is a subtle glow at the horizon, behind glass hemispheres large and small. Each dome brims with lush greenery and minimalist buildings.\nMaximo runs the Bell Jar Pub, an olde timey establishment\nfilled with antique astronaut paraphernalia.\nthe side of his bubble.\nyellow boiler suit.\nPhelim hauls cargo out of a low, ugly, opaque warehouse.\nThe highest ranking official that'll talk to a random space captain is Minister Ramos."}, {"prompt": "You give the fruit to the monkey", "response": "The monkey accepts the golden fruit from you gravely, taking it in both hands, sniffing it, and touching the tip of his tongue to the skin. Apparently it meets with his approval - he bites into it, chews quickly, and eats more. As you watch, he devours the whole thing.\nYour magnanimous gesture seems to have convinced the little monkey that you're his friend. He tugs at your pants leg and gazes up at you trustingly."}, {"prompt": "You ask Abuya about the wedding", "response": "Abuya looks at you, perhaps wondering why such a strange-looking man would show an interest in her wedding.\n\"I would marry this very hour if only I could arrange two things. I would want a beautiful wedding dress like the ones that I have seen in the magazines. And I would want a gift for my future husband. He doesn't like my cooking so perhaps I could give him something so that he wouldn't have to eat it...\"\nShe has a twinkle in her eye, suggesting that perhaps she knows that you have a vested interest in this wedding..."}, {"prompt": "You ask Aunt about the novel", "response": "\"You already know John Dickson Carr is one of my favorite authors,\" Aunt Caroline says. \"I doubt you have anything fresh to contribute on that subject.\""}, {"prompt": "Pray", "response": "(to God)\nHis scream rips through your mind. He is anger. He is hate."}, {"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": "Bluemen umpty", "response": "Enter saved game to store: Ok."}, {"prompt": "You examine the trapdoor", "response": "An open trapdoor swings above the sarcophagus, invitingly within reach - if you were to stand on the sarcophagus."}, {"prompt": "You search junk", "response": "You dig through the pile of junk on the table, and much to your surprise discover some leather work gloves, a screwdriver, and an inner tube."}, {"prompt": "You examine the photos", "response": "Why does anyone think people want to see their pictures? Well, since you're looking, I guess that's a stupid question.\n\"Here's my eldest, Tyler, isn't he handsome?\" Cissy croons, showing you a photo of a rather dirty little boy with a finger up his nose."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the stove", "response": "Turning on the stove while there are things on it other than the kettle could be dangerous."}, {"prompt": "You pull the lever", "response": "It is fixed in place."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA nasty knife\nA rope\nA sword"}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "A labyrinthine morass of concrete and claustrophobia. You know this place better now that you've seen the worst of it -- you know which paths to take, which alleys to avoid -- but there is a horror here that sinks its teeth into you, and does not let go.\nTangled rope ladders lead up and down. A crumbling flophouse lies to the east. Somewhere to the north is the Via Mercurii, and to the west, Cadaver Walk."}, {"prompt": "You link the dancers to yourself", "response": "Linking yourself is generally considered a very bad idea."}, {"prompt": "Go downward", "response": "The stairs end here at a huge, greenish-gold door set into the north wall. There is nothing else here; nowhere to go but onward or back."}, {"prompt": "Go upward", "response": "You make your way up through the void.\nThis is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, \"downward\" direction from this space."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "The Troll is chasing after you!\nA country road stretches to the south, its gravelled surface crunching slightly beneath your boots. It is bordered by trees and old hedgerows. Towards the east is a patch of swampy ground.\nYou can go east (towards the swamp) or south (along the road).\nYou can see a huge Troll with a club and a wooden signpost here."}, {"prompt": "You get the apple", "response": "It rattles a little, as though there were something inside."}, {"prompt": "You examine the beans", "response": "(the can of beans)\nA large can of brown beans that often supplements your dinner.\nIn the can of beans are some brown beans."}, {"prompt": "You open the door", "response": "Which door do you mean, the hallway door, or the bathroom door?"}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "This small office serves as a refuge for Branch Manager Fat. There's a desk and some computers and paperwork. It's all quite uninteresting. You press your hand to your head, and you can feel the vein in your forehead THROBBING as you clench your teeth."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading \"The Beat Barn.\" A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the woods.\nThe neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt.\nYou can see an enormous coffee mug here."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "You're standing in a dimly-lit vestibule just inside the tower's entrance. The drawbridge is closed against the north wall. A short corridor leads south, into the tower."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You walk into the hushed, secluded part of the Abbey known as Poets' Corner. The monuments here are dedicated to Britain's literary giants. The oldest of the tombs is that of Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in the year 1400.\nYour friend trails along after you."}, {"prompt": "You take the note", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You give the kielbases", "response": "You'll have to pick who gets these. You can GIVE the inflatable kielbasas TO the Vicomtes or the Countesses."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "\"Horatio, I... I need to get to the Channelworks,\" you say. \"It's the only way. If I get there I can fix everything... I can make things right.\"\nYou reach out and squeeze Horatio's hands, and he gazes at you with a look approaching awe.\nlook approaching awe.\"I...\" he says.\nlook approaching awe.\"I...\" he says.He looks you up and down and takes a deep breath. You see yourself doubled in his lenses, staring back with eyes wide.\nwith eyes wide.Then he nods.\nwith eyes wide.Then he nods.\"Okay, Marid,\" he says, very simply. \"What do you need?\"\ndo you need?\"\"Can you get me there?\"\ndo you need?\"\"Can you get me there?\"Horatio looks out across the junction, at the patrolling enforcers and the swiveling lights.\njunction, at the patrolling enforcers and the swiveling lights.\"I... Let me see.\" He scratches his head. \"If I make it look like you're a lost civilian, I can walk you to the concourse out front. I don't think anyone will bother us if we look like we're supposed to be there. But I... I don't know how to get you across the bridge. The Channelworks is closed, and the bridge only comes down for workers with passes.\"\n1) \"I have a pass.\" <Show him Crow's passkey.>"}, {"prompt": "Future", "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 go east", "response": "Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it on and late night movie night can begin!\nThor rumbles, \"The time has come for time for Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods! THOR MUST NOT BE KEPT WAITING!\"\nYour reflexes serve you well, as you duck just before a lightning bolt arcs from Thor's fingers, passing inches from your head, and striking someplace in the kitchen behind you. Instantly, all the lights go dark.\n\"Oops,\" rumbles Thor, \"Did I do that?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the fountain", "response": "The fountain is a large pool of water encased by stone. The statue in its centre depicts a cockatrice hen feeding her chicks in the manner of most birds, the act represented by the water pouring out of her mouth. At the hen's feet are the remains of a human, ravaged, with their ribs exposed through torn meat.\nYou think the artist may have been making a statement about the lengths one must go to provide for one's children. Or perhaps they simply enjoy monsters and gore.\nStairs descend below the wall to the west."}, {"prompt": "Go west", "response": "You go for a brief walk in the neighborhood, then return home. You may travel sw, s, ne, or enter your house."}, {"prompt": "You point at the vodka", "response": "You point at the spiced vodka. Nothing happens.\n\"I bet your parents were angels, because I would like to...\" the Sleaze says and ends the sentence with a short but vomit-inducing gesture show."}, {"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": "You look", "response": "You are in the living room. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with strange gothic lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy case, and a rug lying beside an open trap door. There is a brass lantern (battery-powered) here.\nYour collection of treasures consists of:\nA painting\nA sceptre\nA jewel-encrusted egg"}, {"prompt": "You deflate the boat", "response": "The boat deflates."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Whatever else their faults may have been, the Verlacs were evidently not ones to shun the printed word. Books line the walls from floor to ceiling in this dark-paneled, green-carpeted room, interrupted only by doorways to the east and south. A rich, brown leather armchair sits in stately repose near the window, with a polished brass pipe stand nearby completing the picture of some blue-blooded country squire's literary refuge. Once again, you are struck by how easily this place could have been the perfect home.\nA beautiful pair of mahogany sliding doors stand closed to the east.\nResting on the pipe stand is a sizable volume decorated with a gilded pentagram on its cover."}, {"prompt": "Bt east", "response": "Pee Wee Herman and Luke Skywalker see each other! They begin squabbling about how they need to keep apart so they can each hide easier, and their collective sugar rush escalates the conversation, which totally defeats the point. The other two kids run in to break it up, but then the four big nasty teens do their part too--sort of."}, {"prompt": "You read 19", "response": "What does it think of the early poetry of Jasper Wull?\nSlightly overrated: read page 20\nSlightly underrated: read page 21"}, {"prompt": "You sweep the flour", "response": "To which do you refer, the sack of Flour or the Foot-Prints in the Flour?"}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "A sort of bundle or package of cloth wrapped around something."}, {"prompt": "You look at the ivory door", "response": "It is closed and locked."}, {"prompt": "Red", "response": "This is a bright red box of \"Sugar Coated Corn Puffs,\" a terrifyingly unhealthy part of your complete breakfast."}, {"prompt": "You get the unit", "response": "It is not designed to be lifted, only ridden. The outer shell is extremely dense."}, {"prompt": "You look at your surroundings", "response": "Pop taps his foot as you stare around your room. (Note: type REPEAT to see how you can respond to him.)"}, {"prompt": "You give the card", "response": "Herman points at himself."}, {"prompt": "You put the basket in the box", "response": "You don't need to concern yourself with the engraved wastebasket; it's actually perfectly ordinary."}, {"prompt": "You say yes", "response": "The man touches a control.\n...glaring light --\n[Hit any key.]\nWhite Junction\nYou stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to the southeast."}, {"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 north", "response": "The foreman waves you by. You carefully navigate through the construction debris, following the hallway as it turns a corner and continues west.\nMr. Teeterwaller comes with you.\nThis is the west end of a wide east-west hallway. A sliding metal door, labeled \"Lab 7,\" leads north, and a white door, labeled \"Observation Room,\" leads west."}, {"prompt": "You look at the display", "response": "The display reads \"y = 50x - Pi*x^3.\""}, {"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 reach the nut", "response": "There seems to be nothing beyond what the eye can see.\nLornedei is waiting for your command."}, {"prompt": "You read carr", "response": "(first taking the mystery by John Dickson Carr)\nBoh-rring. this would put you to sleep for sure. Looks like Beauregard enjoys boring old mysteries as much as your aunt does."}, {"prompt": "You give finder to the dog", "response": "the barn, his tail wagging happily.\nSoon he returns with the farmer, who has an interested look on his face. \"I just finished freeing Bessie,\" the farmer says. \"This looks promising!\"\nHe does some calculations, and his look of interest turns to surprise. \"With a radius of 2.30329 feet, the height turns out to be 4.60659 feet, which (other than a little rounding error) is exactly twice the radius! And it gives a volume of 76.7765 cubic feet, which is better than any other volume I've been able to find! How did you come up with this?\"\nYou explain about the derivative of a function, how it measures how steeply the graph of the function is ascending or descending, and how ascending means a positive derivative and descending means a negative derivative. The you describe how the largest value of the barrel volume function occurs where its graph switches from ascending to descending - a location where the derivative of the function is zero.\n\"And so,\" you say, \"once I hit the water on the derivative track, the x-finder got stuck at the radius that gives the largest\npossible value for the volume of the barrel.\"\n\"Impressive!\" says the farmer. \"Most impressive.\"\nHe turns to Pennings. \"Go on now,\" he says. \"Go. There's a treat for you at the back door.\" Pennings gives a happy bark and runs out of the barn.\nThanking you profusely, the farmer returns the x-finder to\nyou and starts working on the pile of wood.\n[Your understanding of Calculus has increased. You estimate\nthat your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by seven\npoints.]"}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides (east and west) of the house."}, {"prompt": "You point the camera at the smooth cable", "response": "The transmitter has been pointed at the twelve-inch cable.\nIRIS INTERRUPT: Now I know why cable-tv was invented. All I can make out is the shape of a twelve-inch red cable."}, {"prompt": "3", "response": "\"Hate to say it, son, but his dad's got a little pull in the art department. Some of the mid-level administrators let him slip into honors Ceramics for his fine art elective.\"\ntiebreaks!\ndeal."}, {"prompt": "You go to the west", "response": "Cracked Road (crawling)\nYour path leads east and west over cracked, uneven asphalt. A glint of chrome is all you see of the diner to the east.\nYour severed foot arrives from the east."}, {"prompt": "You put the flint on the device", "response": "You slide the flint into place on the flint-and-steel lighter."}, {"prompt": "O.", "response": "You plot what to take care of next. Hmm... \"Latin Mass at 435\" is as good as any.\nYou click your tongue now you've solved everything up to extra near. Next!\nYou glance at the near line.\nLatin Mass@435, New&used Clothes@334, Sheep's milk@435, News, A conventional convent@554, Send, Handmade clothes with love in every stitch-1@444, Smokeless tobacco@534, Root Beer &/or Cream Soda@424, New Linux system--boo Windows 27@525, Get a free hint@514."}, {"prompt": "You ask the Electrowoman about the flyer", "response": "She just asks: \"Hey, are you on facebook?\" without waiting for your reply."}, {"prompt": "You eat curtain", "response": "(Grunk take curtain first)\nGrunk try pulling curtain down, but it stuck to wall."}, {"prompt": "You ask David about figurine", "response": "\"The figurines ... ah, yes. Nasty little things, aren't they? You've seen one, I take it? If not, I'll show you one in just a moment.\" David frowns at his knees. He looks so sad you want to hug him, but you don't.\n\"They have some sort of magical linkage,\" he says, \"to the actual demon to whom the sacrifice is to be made. They make their way out into the world somehow - I have no idea how, but I do believe they're not quite as inert as they may appear - and attach themselves to certain individuals who are predisposed to want what they have to offer.\n\"Once the attachment is formed, no one else can touch the figurine. It's quite impossible. I have one here ... if you'll just fetch my suitcase from the closet....\" He points, and you fetch the suitcase.\nHe sets it on his lap, unsnaps the latch, and draws out a hideous little carved statue, so deep red it's almost black, with white eyes that sparkle like diamonds or chips of ice. You have the disturbing sense that the little eyes are actually looking at you.\nDavid strokes the statue with a kind of reluctant fondness. \"I'm torn, you see. On the one hand, I'd rather anything happen than what is to happen this evening. Please believe that. On the other hand ... to be able to walk again, to make love ... well, perhaps that doesn't mean much to you. How old are you? Thirteen? Fourteen?\" He sighs. \"Your whole life ahead of you.\"\nHe pauses again, as if thinking. \"I'll tell you what I'll do. I won't take any action myself to stop it. I've come too far. I'm committed. And in any event, if I were to interpose objections at this late stage, I'm quite sure I would be ignored. If not worse. But if you can discover for yourself a way to escape your fate, and if there's anything I can do to aid you, you have only to ask. I can do that much. Perhaps I'm only indulging in a sop to my conscience; I don't expect you'll have the slightest chance to evade what's to come. But if you're clever enough to do so, I won't stand in your way.\"\nHe tucks the repellent figurine away in the suitcase again, and closes the suitcase."}, {"prompt": "You give the water to Lazarus", "response": "(first taking Clean water)\nThat seems to be a part of the bucket."}, {"prompt": "Go down", "response": "You ride down the slide until it comes to its first stop.\nThis large cylindrical room is constructed from mottled rubber webbing stretched between plastic ribs. The webbing pulses in and out to the hiss of hidden machinery.\nThe way the ribs pulse in and out is fascinating, although they seem misshapen.\nYou can try climbing back up or continue sliding down."}, {"prompt": "Zap blob", "response": "KER-POW! Blue lightning flows from your fingertips into the niarr, and for a moment, the creature grows rigid, processing the incredible energy of your blast. Then it swells, to fill almost the whole room! The thing is standing still, vibrating, all of its attention apparently focused on keeping itself intact.\nWHAM! Austin's fist hurtles into the cloud and connects with Maerr's chest! The alien's body flies out the back of the fog cloud, dispersing the vapor and skidding backwards to land alongside Esrrua.\nKA-BLAMMO!\nThe explosion was so sudden, so overwhelming that there was no time to protect yourself, no time for anything but flying backwards into the wall. When the blackness in your head lifts, the room is much changed.\nThe niarr is gone, though the walls are smeared with white goo and a sour smell hangs in the air. Gone as well are Esrrua and Maerr, apparently blown through the teleportation curtain shortly before it, too, disappeared. And now the room itself seems to be unraveling, while a series of yowls repeat in the air, conveniently translated by the software in your suit:\n\"Critical state reached... Self-consumption sequence commenced... Critical state reached... Self-consumption sequence commenced...\"\nAll of the equipment that was in this room is gone, and even the walls themselves seem to be rapidly dissolving, melting away before your eyes like film over a candle. Chunks of dirt and large rocks are falling through the rapidly opening holes, and the room seems to be a hair's breadth from collapsing outright!\nOne beneficial side-effect of the ongoing room-erasure is that the passage to the south has reopened, and a lucky thing, too, since that's the only way out of here.\nAustin is beside you, looking deeply alarmed."}, {"prompt": "You examine the train", "response": "You are certain: This is the train you took in your futile trip to the now sunk University Campus. The laths are so distorted it would look like a crumpled ball of paper... if it was not for the black, charred human parts littering its intestines."}, {"prompt": "You take the cubes", "response": "You don't need the other cubes. And taking them would make the theft more obvious."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pipe", "response": "The gas intake pipe is a small round opening that leads down into the innards of the outboard motor. It smells strongly of gasoline."}, {"prompt": "You look at Chub", "response": "Ernest Chub wants to be like you in every way. You're his hero and this leads to plenty of grovelling on his part. He really needs to get a life - of his own preferably, especially since he rented the apartment next door to you."}, {"prompt": "You give the vodka to Britney", "response": "\"I can't like drink any booze, Jen! Gus says I tend to blurt out stuff I shouldn't say when I'm drunk,\" Britney says."}, {"prompt": "You take pole", "response": "You get the pole."}, {"prompt": "You talk about the cable", "response": "'Have a look at this, Angela,' I said, shining the torch at the severed cable. 'It looks like this cable has been cut.'\n'You're right, it does!' she agreed, peering at it closely. 'And there's something else - I think this is the cable for the telephone, so it wasn't the storm that put it out of action!'"}, {"prompt": "You examine the panel", "response": "The panel's lit up, bathing the room in a dim glow. Block lettering along one edge reads \"Emergency Lighting.\""}, {"prompt": "Go up", "response": "Rotting beams spiral from the Shanty Quarter like a stairway grasping for the stars. At their head is a jutting structure like a watchtower, and it shadows all that is beneath it, shielding grimy brick and concrete from desolate sky.\nThe Shanty Quarter yawns below. Above you is the public house called the Crow's Nest -- but a fearsome eight-legged bouncer blocks the way."}, {"prompt": "Extinguish the lamp", "response": "You douse the lamp.\nIt takes a moment or two for your eyes to adjust to the poor light."}, {"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 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 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": "You go to the east", "response": "Brick in hands, you stagger up the concrete ramp. It's a good thing the ramp was there, as you doubt you could have carried the brick up all those stairs.\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.\nA bunch of young children run past, slowing only long enough to point at you and giggle.\nYour arms and shoulders feel a bit sore from carrying the weight of the brick."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Who are you?\"\n\"Ah! I have forgotten my manners.\" He clasps his hands together. \"Forgive me. I am Natos, Natos Web-eye; but most here call me Patriarch Natos.\n\"Here I am...\" He sweeps a robed arm around the chamber. \"Here is my congregation.\"\n1) \"What is this place?\"\n2) \"Are you aware that the Channelworks District is under\nquarantine?\""}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Maybe indirectly,\" you say. \"See, the newly-formed heavy elements fly out into space, and collect in gravity wells, start clumping together... some end up inside new second- or third-generation stars, while others get locked up in planets only to get dug up a few billion years later and used for neutrino detection, or jewelry, or coins. Of course gold is used in coins because it's valuable, and it's valuable because it's rare, and it's rare because... well, to a certain extent, it's the luck of the draw. If you look at a chart of the elements in the earth's crust, it turns out that iridium and the elements around it are rarer than you might expect. Right after iridium is platinum, which is very precious, and after that is gold, which is just slightly more common and just slightly less precious. But if you look at meteorites, you find that they're not lacking in iridium the way the earth is -- meteorites are loaded with the stuff. And they've got even more platinum. So it's easy to imagine that there are planets out there where there just so happened to be a lot of gold and platinum in the area of space where the planet was formed, and so they're considered common while something else -- zirconium, maybe -- is considered really valuable.\"\n\"I've heard of iridium before,\" Alley says. \"Isn't there a lot of it in the layer of the earth's crust that comes from right when all the dinosaurs died out? I remember reading something like that.\""}, {"prompt": "Go downwards", "response": "The stairs creak a bit as you descend, a low-pitched sigh like a heavy old woman getting comfortable.\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."}, {"prompt": "You check what you're carrying", "response": "You are carrying:\na pencil"}, {"prompt": "You look at the paris with 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.)\nYou're translated instantly into that bright and shallow world: silks, canopies, masques. Everything you were before takes but a moment to forget. Long hours, work, servitude; the light in Tuscany; your mother's grave.\nAnd then you're gathering your skirts and descending the grand stairs, your slippers silent on the marble."}, {"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": "Go north", "response": "Even pushing through the swinging door takes more effort than it should.\nThis is one of the few modern-day cafeterias that doesn't sport a set of vending machines in addition to standard cafeteria fare. Pale sunlight streams down through the high bank of huge windows, shining carelessly over the faded tile and the ceiling-high folded lunch\ntables alike. The kitchen door is to the south.\nJude is here, clinging to Mr. Bunny.\nTyrone stands with his arms folded across his pint-sized chest.\nGeorge stands looking miserable with his hands in the pockets of his too-big pants.\nSamir is standing nearby with his hands stuffed in his pockets.\nThe cafeteria doors are to the west, but they're completely blocked\noff behind the folded lunch tables.\nOne of the windows has been shattered, leaving an empty window frame edged with jagged glass shards.\nYou can also see a pommel horse and a blue exercise mat here.\nThe door swings shut behind you."}, {"prompt": "Inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\nA torch (providing light)\nA pile of plastic\nA screwdriver\nA tube\nA wrench\nA matchbook\nA brass lantern (providing light)"}, {"prompt": "You ask Poet,  to go to the east", "response": "FC: Cryolink established to Poet.\nPOET: Internal map reference -- Cavernous Room\nTwice the size of life, this area makes me feel like a dwarf.\nWaldo is off to the west."}, {"prompt": "You look at the sword", "response": "A slender and flexible blade, and more decorative than useful, though there have been a few occasions when it became helpful against brigands in the street. The design at the hilt is a bit ornate, but not unpleasantly so.\nThe cuckoo clock ticks sullenly."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The lane runs up from the southeast and ends at a wide clearing surrounded by gnarled and ancient trees. A wide, curving driveway runs up to the front door of your house, which lies north.\nThe front door stands open to the north.\nThe Verlac mansion looms before you, casting an air of menace over the clearing.\nThe hairs on the back of your neck prickle as you step outside. Something is wrong. Something is very wrong with the air. A heavy, charged sensation, like standing next to high-tension wires; a faint odor of spoiled meat drifting on the wind; you can't put your finger on it, but it might have something to do with that strange hole in the sky."}, {"prompt": "Xyzzy", "response": "The word \"xyzzy\" is not necessary in this story. Honest.\nYour plane will have hit the ground by now, shattering into pieces, bursting into flames."}, {"prompt": "You talk to voice", "response": "You mumble your name into the grill, and explain you have come to get Celine. A warped sigh gusts out of the grill with such force you are surprised it doesn't ruffle your hair. Then crackling dies away and the grill speaks to you no further. You assume that that means someone is coming to open the door but for all you know they could be activating the lever that drops you into the alligator pit.\nYou are starting to wonder if perhaps they've forgotten you're there, or if answering the doorbell is a mere hobby, when there comes the sound of muted rattling and banging from behind the door as someone on the other side begins the ceremony required to open it. It is finally eased open, just enough for you to squeeze through, by a Nurse, glowering at the effort required to perform the most basic tenets of her job."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "The Phil moves on Bill the  Bowman, but the latter has no difficulty in giving him a thump which knocks him right off the bridge.\nThe Phil, lacking bouyancy, is soon in difficulties and is swept helplessly down the swift and very dangerous river...\nThe Phil wakes up screaming and finds it's all a dream."}, {"prompt": "Press east", "response": "(the E button)\nThe machine whirs to life. A disposable coffee cup drops from a hidden slot and a jet of hot coffee squirts into the cup. When it has finished a lid drops from the same slot. You secure the lid on the cup before picking it up.\nThe taxicab disappears into the traffic."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "You find yourself in the library. The shelves are mostly empty now. The stage elevator is in a small alcove to the West and a short passage is to the South."}, {"prompt": "You say stranger", "response": "(to Chuck)\nYou say, \"Cindy saw Rosalita get shot by a man in a yellow poncho.\"\nChuck looks like he's been kicked in the stomach, and nods. \"Yeah, I heard that.\" He says, \"Do you know anything more about the killer? Are you close to finding him?\"\n\"Not yet.\"\n\"It makes me sick, thinking about some stranger breaking into KOLR and killing Rosalita.\" He grimaces."}, {"prompt": "You go south", "response": "The north end of the access crawlway ends at a sturdy metal hatch. A thick haze of steam hangs in the air, and the heat is like an oven -- the walls and floor are almost blistering to the touch.\nThe hatch is open."}]

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+[{"prompt": "You move the gates", "response": "Moving the gates was beyond my Purpose at that time."}, {"prompt": "You examine the door", "response": "The door, is closed."}, {"prompt": "You turn the crank", "response": "You turn the crank. The cave rumbles and part of the cave-wall slides away, revealing an exit to the northeast."}, {"prompt": "You enter backstage", "response": "(the backstage door)\nYou can't, since the backstage door is in the way.\nCome on! Come on! She'll be back any minute! Wrap it up already bub!"}, {"prompt": "You close the refrigerator", "response": "You swing the heavy door closed."}, {"prompt": "You remember the primary school", "response": "You don't have too many memories of that place. The building was from the eighties: it was ugly, but not intolerable. The playground was just concrete with hopscotch painted on it and stuff like that; you remember it got really hot in the summer. You spent minimal time outdoors. You were first in line to get in, and you just put your head down and worked, storming through arithmetic workbooks and leaving everyone behind."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "The underbrush is too dense in that direction."}, {"prompt": "You ask the bridesmaid about Lazarus", "response": "\"Wasn't he one of the potential candidates for the position of High Priest? I hear his health isn't very good.\""}, {"prompt": "You take all", "response": "basket: That seems to belong to Merchant Guy.\nsmall crystal ball: Appropriated.\nbismuth crystal: Acquired.\nglass prism: Taken up.\ncalcite prism: Appropriated.\nmagnifying glass lens: Pocketed.\njar of silica: Seized."}, {"prompt": "You examine Francis", "response": "Francis quit academia to join some kind of biotech startup, and he looks exactly like someone who quit academia to join a biotech startup should look like: Smug in a fleece.\nJulia: \"What's that patent about again?\" Francis seems positively delighted to explain."}, {"prompt": "You examine the holes", "response": "Which holes do you mean, the excavations, or the ocarina?"}, {"prompt": "Blast panel", "response": "KER-POW! ZZZORK! The alarm panel's casing splits with the force of your lightning bolt, and for a moment all the lights in the corridor flash at strobe intensity. Then they go out, and the alarm sound abruptly stops as the lights flicker back to life. Instantly, the security robots cease their attack and scuttle out of sight, leaving their fallen comrades behind.\nThe last dead robot clanks to the ground, and then the corridor is silent, except for a low hum that seems to come from far beneath you."}, {"prompt": "You pull pad", "response": "The stick pad isn't very strong?you give a tug and detach the stick pad from the mass of wires."}, {"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 outside", "response": "I can't go that way. I can go north to the beginning of the east wing."}, {"prompt": "You enter the tub", "response": "You walk around inside the tub and notice, strangely, that this place smells like His paws. Does He stand up in it? It looks long enough for him to lie down in it. The water smell saturates the area, and you know that this place must usually be wet. Right now it is only damp. He calls this place \"tub\"."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying:\na victim\na map\na diary entry"}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "Hey, pal. Can you tell me when you're open tonight?\"\n\"Oui, monsieur. We are open from seven until two am.\"\n\"Thanks.\"\n[1] Ask about a reservation.\n[2] Hang up."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "It looks like the kind of key that would open a desk drawer."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "the south."}, {"prompt": "You look at the desk", "response": "It's a flowery desk of the sort aristocrats often hide their valuables in. It has a single drawer.\nThe ornate desk is closed."}, {"prompt": "You wait a while", "response": "Time passes...\nThe automaton does a bit of dusting."}, {"prompt": "You tell demon about Sabrina", "response": "\"A graceful girl, who thanks to you will be doomed forever\" Praseidimio says."}, {"prompt": "Smell 2", "response": "You stand on your hind legs and sniff as high as you can reach, just below the button labelled '2'. Tuck presses it.\nThe lift stutters to life and slowly ascends before coming to a stop. You emerge onto the second storey balcony. On this level, you can follow hallways to the east or west."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "You are between some rock and a dark place, The room is lit dimly from above, revealing a lone, dark path sloping down to the west.\nTo one side of the room is a large manhole cover.\nThe light from above seems to be focused in the center of the room, where a single key is lying in the dust."}, {"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 go west", "response": "The vending machine is still on the fritz; you called the manufacturer three times in the last week, and you'll have to call them again. A few tables and several chairs are scattered around the room. The smell of burnt popcorn overpowers you. The lobby is back to the east.\nSmoke billows from the microwave. Something's burning!"}, {"prompt": "You read it", "response": "The heavy, brown leather cover has been largely darkened to near black from water damage, and black scorch marks fan like a sunburst from the book's spine to the outer edges. On the front cover, a tree with ten branches. The design is composed of hundreds of gold-leaf 1s and 0s rather than lines.\nThe pages stick in large clumps. Even when turned carefully, they pull out easily, reverting to a sticky pulp. Those pages that do keep their place are difficult to read. The dark green ink has run, the text melting towards the bottom of the page. Only snatches of text are\nstill legible:\n\"...the ATBASH of the Hebrews, the Scytale of the Greeks, Caesar's cypher; long have they been used to maintain the secrets of Magical Rites, clandestine endeavors and Political Intrigue. But these are ciphers created by men who believed in myths, for the benefit of men believing in myths. The Initiated Mind recognizes that information is more than just words on a page, it is secreted in the world around us; the great Symmetry of Nature demonstrates that all Life is encoded. Unlocking this Code is our Duty and Right as Humans, made Masters by God, to Understand the...\"\n\"...itself, Mysticism should not be discounted. We understand that Myths and Legends are often the misguided interpretation of the uninitiated to understand the Great Truths. Particular insight may be found in the Vedas, the Scriptures, and the sacred teachings of the Hebrews, whose Qabbalah reflect our own search for Life's Origin. It\nis from the Qabbalah that we take our insignia, the Tree of Life. It\nis unknown...\"\n\"...to advances in Technology, we are able to analyze and decipher these hidden codes with greater speed and alacrity...\""}, {"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": "You examine the wastebasket", "response": "In the waste basket you see some waste paper.\nThe Celestial Security officer asks the young woman, \"What was your date of birth?\" The woman replies, \"Um, November 12, 1959.\" The officer slowly and carefully transcribes the information onto the application form."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "You start with a bit of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, move on to a few of your favorite Wu-Tang verses, and conclude with a heartfelt imitation of how IU would sound singing Ripple by the Grateful Dead.\nStrawberry deftly steps through the maze of cords and vanishes behind some boxes."}, {"prompt": "You jump in lake", "response": "The shock of entering the frigid water has made you drop all your possessions into the lake!\nYou are floating on the surface of the lake. The water is ice cold and your ability to survive here for long is very questionable. A swim north puts you at your starting point. Conditions to the east are poor where the lake turns into swamp. The west and south shores are suitable for walking, however."}, {"prompt": "You look at the willow", "response": "The changing season has painted almost all of the willow's leaves yellow, and many golden leaflets have fallen from the willow's limbs to adorn the wall and the grass below. (But it was spring when you arrived with your father... wasn't it?)  Something glints among the willow's branches."}, {"prompt": "Plugh", "response": "You speak the magic word, and you catch a glimpse of an ancient realm of college mainframe computers and 5 1/4 floppies...\nLothlorien co-op, in the kitchen\nThe kitchen is full of the clutter of heavy use by a housefull of hungry people.\nWritten on the wall here is an inscription: 'Magic words: XYZZY and PLUGH'\nWhirlwind is sitting cross-legged here."}, {"prompt": "You turn on the top switch", "response": "You set the top switch to the on possition."}, {"prompt": "Fanny", "response": "Fanny steps out with an exasperated sigh.\nHOTEL: Danni and Abbie.\nLIMO: Ellie and Cindy.\nCLUB (with you): Fanny and Buffy."}, {"prompt": "You say help", "response": "(to yourself)\nThere is no reply.\nYou can hear voices from the front seat, and strain to listen to them."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "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 bellhop stands near the entrance, looking nervous.\nThe guest is loitering off to one side.\nI can also see a large puddle here."}, {"prompt": "You start the truck", "response": "You put the large-handled key into the ignition and start the truck."}, {"prompt": "You ask Jake about Grace", "response": "They say she's into all this sad-ism with whips and chains and such. Fancy me tying you to a bed and giving you what for?"}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "Peering through the murk, you can make out the blocky outlines of filing cabinets lining the walls and a doorway to the west. A window high up on the south wall lets in a very faint illumination."}, {"prompt": "You go north", "response": "Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one hand.\nYou can see a hole under the hedge to the north which is just about big enough to squeeze through."}, {"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."}, {"prompt": "You take the card", "response": "You pick up your card, it's the three 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": "Sing", "response": "Your lusty reel paints the air with melody:\n\"But mind the song\nDon't burn the crust\nFor too much song\nBurns bread to dust\"\n\"A delicious loaf of sourdough bread, please!\" requests the moss robed citizen.\n[5:50 pm:9|124625]  doug2008 : Name?\n[5:50 pm:9|126001]  DrkStarr: Anyone selling   10 Iron Filings\n[5:50 pm:9|126162]  BustaMike: BEST OFFER FOR  Reasonably Scary Garter of the Dungbeast\nThe Harbormaster concludes: \"And the moral o' that story is:\nspells from a spellbook in a foreign language and skeletons should never be taken on the same day.\""}, {"prompt": "You cover the sixth hole", "response": "You place your finger over the sixth flute hole."}, {"prompt": "Plant seeds", "response": "You throw the tomato seeds evenly on the vegetable patch and spread some soil over them. That was easy."}, {"prompt": "You lift it", "response": "You push the oven back against the east wall, blocking the passage."}, {"prompt": "You cut-off", "response": "That's hardly portable.\nYou can hear the crashing and clanging of a sword fight coming from the tavern common room."}, {"prompt": "You read carr", "response": "(first taking the mystery by John Dickson Carr)\nBoh-rring. this would put you to sleep for sure. Looks like Beauregard enjoys boring old mysteries as much as your aunt does."}, {"prompt": "You drop all", "response": "newspaper: Dropped.\nstrange black disk: Dropped.\nstrange metal flute: Dropped.\nbroom: Dropped."}, {"prompt": "You talk to Pico", "response": "An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit.\n\"You've taken me to 2 worlds outside the Imago Republic, Network or the Diasporan Commonwealth, captain. I can't thank you enough, but the more data I can get, the better. And, don't forget, there may be a visa chip in this for you.\""}, {"prompt": "R.", "response": "You are halfway down the hall, up to a good speed when you see something that compels you to stop and look. Here two mows face each other -- one that is not completely solid and one that doesn't reach the floor. 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. Mmrrow. You can't help yourself and rub lazily against it. It feels good. 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 go south", "response": "Outside, Just Above Trail Surface"}, {"prompt": "You examine the hatch", "response": "The hatch is round and quite sturdy-looking. There is a handle on this side, and a small notice fixed to the wall nearby.\nYou hear a heavy clunking sound from within the hatch."}, {"prompt": "You put the carton in the hat", "response": "The saxophone player gives his hat a light kick with his foot, knocking the styrofoam carton onto the concrete sidewalk.\nThe taxicab disappears into the traffic."}, {"prompt": "You look at the coffee", "response": "The clouds in your cup form a maple leaf. 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.\nA faint smell of mildew emanates from it."}, {"prompt": "You look at the mutant", "response": "(the bartender)\n(It has been some years now since the mutants of the Dark Lands were integrated into society, and you have mostly gotten used to their haphazard anatomy, their alien perception of the world. Mostly.)\nHe looks to be one of the older generation of mutants, with few features that mark him as having once been human. He wears a dignified wooden mask and a tailcoat that has been modified to accommodate additional limbs."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "I've got on me :\na grey pair of faded underpants (being worn)"}, {"prompt": "You look at device", "response": "I have no idea what this is, boss. It's a metal box with red, blue, and green buttons on its side and a narrow slot beneath them. There's a tray, also made of metal, mounted on the top. The machine looks great--- the metal is wonderfully shiny--- but there aren't any convenient labels or instructions. I don't think this is something you designed. Hey, maybe that means it'll work!\nEr, sorry, boss. That came out wrong.\nAck! Can't...resist....must eat egg! Shoot! I still can't get my beak in there!"}, {"prompt": "You examine the church", "response": "The hoary structure towers over your head, built of massive, ancient stones that are now black with age and nearly buried beneath an invading tide of ivy. The doors and windows are boarded shut. The steeple is a jagged silhouette against the brooding sky."}, {"prompt": "You cut yourself", "response": "I put the shard of glass to my throat. The cord holding my head to my body seemed but a thread. Little enough blood and air could cross that gulf...best to make a clean break--\nThen I can put myself on a pedestal, I thought with frantic\namusment, and see about putting a tourniquet around my neck! Wait, what am I forgetting--\n--falling, tumbling--"}, {"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 go west", "response": "Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't\nquite so rustic looking. It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr. Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats. You can enter the house to the west.\nJohn Stratford is sitting in his rocking chair, smoking his pipe.\nHis trusty shotgun is across his lap."}, {"prompt": "You take the tape", "response": "(the ticker-tape reel)\nTaken."}, {"prompt": "Tighten sails", "response": "You tighten sail somewhat. It helps; the sails begin to thrum in the clear, hot energy-flow. But it is not enough."}, {"prompt": "You check your inventory", "response": "You are carrying a package, a business card, a forked stick, a screwdriver, an inner tube, a gold lighter, a screw, some sharp hedge clippers, a blown fuse, a shiny penny, a leaf rake, three peanuts, and a paddle. You're wearing a gimme cap, a chambray work shirt, and some leather work gloves."}, {"prompt": "You examine the carvings", "response": "You kneel and push aside the grass to try to get a clear view of the carvings on the block, but suddenly the ghost is whirling around you, shrieking. Terrified, you lurch to your feet and stagger backward."}, {"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": "You go east", "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. A ladder leads upwards to a manhole cover."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cabinet", "response": "The cabinet's contents are untouched. The small niceties of human existence are beneath the notice of my kind."}, {"prompt": "You look at what you're carrying with you", "response": "You are carrying:\na glass of water\na suitcase, closed, containing a maintenance uniform, a waiter costume, a pet groomer costume, a professor costume, and a black and white feather\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.\nThe train passes under a tunnel, plunging the room into darkness.\nIt is now pitch dark in here!"}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "You enter the Transit capsule.\nA fifty-person maglev Transit capsule. You're standing, holding on to a strap. Through the windows you can see the Reserve Bank Station.\nThere is a Public Surveillance Notice here.\nA few commuters get on and off the Transit capsule."}, {"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": "Go north", "response": "You are picking your way through a narrow gap between high banks of vibrating machinery. Twisting aisles branch off in numerous directions, some of them so narrow you'd have to turn sideways to make your way through.\nWithout warning, a shrieking steam-release valve lets loose a scalding gout of vapor right in front of you, causing you to stagger backward, strike a low railing with the back of your knees, and topple over into a stainless-steel mixing vat twenty feet deep.\nBefore you can recover from the fall, two dozen jet nozzles set around the inner circumference of the vat's rim squirt several hundred gallons of high-density mold-injection polymer onto you, at a temperature high enough to set cloth on fire -- although this is not a major concern for you, since you are almost instantaneously submerged and completely cut off from the air. The vat is filled to the rim in less than a second and a half -- slightly less time than it takes for the heat and lack of oxygen to kill you, and you are still to some degree conscious when the hydraulic mold-press slams down onto the seething liquid, generating a pressure that rapidly turns your body into something resembling a wet, wadded-up beach towel."}, {"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 to the northwest", "response": "This is the base of a giant mountain to the north. The rocky landscape continues to the west. Snow-covered plateaus glisten in the moonlight high above. The path stops just in front of the mouth of a cave in the mountainside to the west. Railroad tracks lead from deep inside the cave to a large pile of round stones a few yards from the cave entrance. Looking to the east and southeast, you see the edge of the snowy hills. The mountainous terrain appears impassable in other directions.\nYou hear the faint groaning of creaky wheels echoing from within the cave. The scraping of metal becomes louder and louder, and suddenly an old mining cart filled with small grey stones emerges from the cave entrance. A stocky, pug-nosed dwarf with a lit candle on his hat pushes the cart along the tracks from behind. Quite oblivious or unconcerned by your presence, he continues pushing the cart until it reaches the stone pile where he dumps his load of stones. He then slowly marches around the cart to the other side and pushes it back into the darkness of the cave."}, {"prompt": "You open the manhole", "response": "Opened.\nLightning flashes on the horizon."}, {"prompt": "You put the Mix in mug", "response": "You empty the brown envelope into the mug."}, {"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": "Regard ARM", "response": "It is the same ARM you've always had attached to your right shoulder ... except now, such attachment seems to have become optional. You feel a bit nauseous thinking about it."}, {"prompt": "You take the curtains", "response": "You get the curtains."}, {"prompt": "You examine the dodecahedron", "response": "A solid of unidentifiable material, smooth, shiny, and unflawed, across whose surfaces play the images of stars. Orion. Casseiopeia. The Pleiades. The Great Bear. And here and there among the constellations, the planets, wanderers, appear: traveling back on themselves, then straight again, across the dozen facets of the gem."}, {"prompt": "You examine the chocolate", "response": "A supermarket brand of chocolate bar. It promises to have fruit and\nnut inside, but you know from experience that it will have a maximum\nof one raisin and maybe half an almond. What d'you expect for a chocolate bar that size for under a dollar?"}, {"prompt": "You look in the fountain", "response": "The fountain is empty."}, {"prompt": "Drum", "response": "The drum-shaped mechanism is out at the southwest end of the catwalk."}, {"prompt": "You look at the malls", "response": "Of the various stores you see, only store r and store m look like you can do anything with them. Store r finally looks like you can visit. A few others seem greyed-out, like in a video game or something. There can't be anything in any of them."}, {"prompt": "You kill the rat with the sword", "response": "You're closer this time, you can feel it -- the rat is out, exposed, and unprotected. You strike--"}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes...\nKathleen turns tail and leaves the room, pushing its empty trolley before it.\nYou hear a great rumbling under the floor."}, {"prompt": "You take the hurt borogove", "response": "While the rest of the borogoves are distracted by their feeding frenzy, you grab the wounded insect. Seconds later, they finish the food, and spread out again, once again in a panic. You toss the body of the now-dead borogove into the wabe, and the others calm down as soon as the scent fades away.\nThe tablet shivers in your hands."}, {"prompt": "You put Tea Recipe on spindle", "response": "The cylinder slips into place with a satisfying click, as though some mechanism has engaged."}, {"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": "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": "Go north", "response": "We had ended up at a dead end. The only way back was south.\nKeri said, \"Don't worry about it. There can't be that many tunnels.\" As it turned out, there were lots and lots of tunnels. Many, many, many tunnels. But I refused to become discouraged."}, {"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": "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 take the beam", "response": "The broken beam is too heavy for you to lift."}, {"prompt": "You take key", "response": "(the old-fashioned iron key)\n(slipping the torn journal into the pocket of your trenchcoat to get a hand free)\nYou pick up the old-fashioned iron key. It's an old key, the kind with a round barrel about a quarter-inch in diameter and flat, square teeth."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.\nThe balm has worn out.\nThe mosquitos and gnats start to eat you alive, forcing you to leave while you still can.\nA well-traveled path from the west branches south and continues east here under the refreshing shade of the bordering oaks. The sloping path leading south appears somewhat muddy but the footing does not appear to be too difficult."}, {"prompt": "You look in the Skycar", "response": "You're in the skycar; it's all around you."}, {"prompt": "You ask Holmes 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": "Go south", "response": "Ahead of her is the southeastern corner of the castle. The corridor between the building and the outer wall leads northeast, but is blocked by a great pile of stone blocks and other debris. To the west, the courtyard ends at the ravine.\nLooking up, the facade disappears into a swirling ceiling of mist. Right at the corner of the castle, a narrow doorway leads north into darkness. She can look around, or walk around to learn more. South or southeast takes her away from the ruins. East brings her around to the east side of the east wall.\nDeini is here.\nThe hovering sleepwalker shows up at the edge of the forest. It picks up speed over the dry land, swirls up sand and dust and stays next to Lornedei.\nLornedei moves a strand of hair from her face and puts it behind her ear."}, {"prompt": "You open the bottom drawer", "response": "The bottom drawer is already open."}, {"prompt": "You listen", "response": "You hear the voices in the yard, still talking.\n\"Now, my boy, you must be more careful. He told you that he visited, but I wager you he did not tell you the purpose of that visit. I wager you that."}, {"prompt": "2", "response": "You say, \"What is it you want, Melvin?\"\n\"I was wondering if you could sort these for me,\" he says, handing you the folders. There are sweat stains on them. Stifling the urge to make a comment, you adjust your grip to touch only the dry spots."}, {"prompt": "You look at ATM", "response": "This is a standard ATM, using palm prints and Mit-Klein authentication to permit customers to perform banking transactions. A palm reader juts out from the front of the console.\nThe ATM is currently switched off."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Do you think the Trading Company is behind this?\"\nHe sighs. \"Perhaps. Perhaps someone within the Company... but it's not my job to speculate. And you definitely shouldn't be doing any investigating in your current state.\"\n1) \"What's wrong with the color of the light?\""}, {"prompt": "Search sink", "response": "You find nothing of interest.\nThe TV continues, \"We have been asked not to broadcast the images we have of the crime scene, but the killer has left his usual macabre calling cards.\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the locket", "response": "It is oval-shaped, held shut with a tiny clasp."}, {"prompt": "You remember the wallpaper", "response": "...\n\"So the man linked himself to a suit of armor. And then he left the suit of armor at home, and went off to war to fight in his bare skin, thinking that whatever happened to him, the links would protect him. But at home his wife was horrified to see the armor slashed in pieces before her eyes...\"\n\"Anabelle,\" interrupted the Count, standing at the doorway with a hand on his vest. \"Do you really think this story is appropriate for the children?\"\nThe Countess shrugged, half-smiling as she always had when the Count overrode her authority. \"I hardly think it is any more disturbing than the other things Marie reads,\" she said lightly. \"The dining room is more frightening than this story.\"\n\"I don't mean that, of course.\" The Count smiled over you and Marie -- you on the floor, Marie with her skirts spread around her on the chaise. \"But our children should not be told silly\nsuperstitions about linking.\" He came into the room then, touching the Countess' shoulder with an affectionate gesture. \"Marie,\" he said, \"What is wrong with your mother's story?\"\n\"The man has confused reverse-links and ordinary ones,\" Marie replied. \"And he would have to be very stupid to do that, because reverse-links are harder to make and you can always tell when you have done it.\"\nThe Count nodded at her. \"Very good.\" He kissed the Countess and went out again...\n..."}, {"prompt": "You read the yellow paper", "response": "DUE TO MASS LIMITATIONS ON THIS TRIP ITEMS DEEMED TO BE OF LESSER VALUE OR PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE WERE RECYCLED TO EARTHBOUND CHARITY. HAVE A NICE TRIP! DOCKWORKER 175.\nWhich is funny, because with labor shortages you wouldn't have guessed there were a whole 175 people working at the space dock."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"The House for Mhairie Sioux Escrivain is... Gryffindor!\" the Hat proclaims. Everyone cheers!"}, {"prompt": "You throw the rock at Zoe", "response": "There is no way, you can barely pick stuff up and you are no Cy Young or whatever.\nParry is all, \"Oh, no, no, no. No. It's just the flu.\"\nZoe takes the plastic cup and tosses it aside."}, {"prompt": "You get all", "response": "quarter-full bottle of whiskey: Taken.\ncauldron: Taken.\ntin: Taken.\npitchfork: Taken.\npiece of gauzy cloth: Taken.\ncork: Taken.\nsoiled note: Taken.\nship wheel: You're carrying too many things already.\ncandle: You're carrying too many things already.\nrusted oil can: You're carrying too many things already.\npan: You're carrying too many things already.\nmatch: You're carrying too many things already."}, {"prompt": "You sniff the guest chair", "response": "You smell nothing particularly interesting.\nYou hear the sound of a cat scratching itself and know that it must be Goodcat/Badcat."}, {"prompt": "You go southeast", "response": "The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the cement-floored outside hall is to the west.\nThe static clears and picks up with the anchorman saying, \". . .continued threats of chemical warfare.\""}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You are entirely prepared to start building this work room."}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about Pavilion", "response": "An uncomfortable silence ensues.\nThe old man doggedly reels in a few lengths of line."}, {"prompt": "Port", "response": "(first opening the bulkhead door)\nIt seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "Sing", "response": "Your singing is abominable.\nWell, shit. Now you have to work out what to do with her. There's no chance that she has a clade sponsor, because she doesn't have a clade. Which also means that she'd be outside even what passes for a social safety-net in the refugee camps. And if the Ae Cau Shar aren't actually in the war, asylum is going to be a whole lot harder to come by even if she gets to the head of the queue, which she won't. So your choices, essentially, are to arrest her and consign her to a muddy limbo for the rest of her natural life, or turn a blind eye, let her wander off into the countryside and get arrested by rural police instead, or stoned by a Landnat gang, or abducted. Or deport her, to whatever was scary enough to make all this seem worthwhile."}, {"prompt": "You give the finger to the golem", "response": "(the golem with the fat fish)\nThat is not suitable as a hitting weapon.\n>(the golem)\nYou can't give away things that are stuck on your body."}, {"prompt": "Ready axe", "response": "You ready the rusted executioner's axe."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "Bar (western side)\nA club wouldn't be a club if it didn't have a bar. The selection is written on a chalkboard behind the counter next to an educational poster.\nThe barkeep is busy serving drinks to thirsty clubbers.\nA dubious-looking guy is leaning on the counter."}, {"prompt": "You put the 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 blue goblet,\nshrugging 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 blue goblet into your nerveless grasp and taking up the other, smiling evilly. \"Now you will drink from the cup intended for me.\""}, {"prompt": "F.", "response": "Your sword finds a narrow crevice in the spider's body. There is a shower of sparks, and it stops moving!\n(Lucky strike!)\nYou look around and find a pouch of coins worth 5 crowns."}, {"prompt": "You jump", "response": "Staring at the gnocchi you feel a memory slowly, awkwardly, awfully rise to the surface.\n--The scooter driver looks surprised. You grab for Clare and jump to the side--bounce across the road, scrape your head--\nScuffed and light headed you open your eyes... your hands are empty--Clare is a few metres away, lying awkwardly. Splattered with a thin red liquid, reflecting the scooter's bright red paintwork.\nThe scooter skids--you jump. You are in the supermarket. Your hands are empty, sweaty.\nAnother story over. Not the only one...\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 sauces."}, {"prompt": "No", "response": "Was it correct to remove the Valence from the fountain, leaving the townspeople to depend on polluted water?"}, {"prompt": "Kiss imelda", "response": "You're not about to kiss the enemy without at least a hint that she'd like you to.\nSnow continues to drift down from above."}, {"prompt": "You give the circuit to the cube", "response": "The circuit board vanishes as it gets near the cube.\nThe cube begins talking in a wavering tone. \"System has been activated,\nnow calibrating voice control.\"\nAfter a short pause, the cube begins speaking some words, with each\nword the inflection changing slightly: \"In nova fert animus mutatas\ndicere formas corpora di coeptis nam vos mutastis et illas adsirate\nmeis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora\ncarmen.\"\nThe humanfaced cube pauses, and begins speaking again, this time in a\nvoice that is both masculine and feminine.\n\"Ah, that's much better now. My voice calibration that I had stored got\nerased somewhere along the line, but I'm back to normal now. How may I\nservice you?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the knife", "response": "Lying in the chest is a knife, a plain black iron blade with a leather-wrapped hilt. You see immediately that the knife is an archetype of light.\nThe icons shift slightly in the workspace."}, {"prompt": "Blow", "response": "You blow out the onion's tearjerking odor, and Master Pokerounce starts to rub his eyes. He's weeping, all right, but he's also glaring, and he climbs down from his wobbling stool, grabs your ankles.\n\"Looks like we've got ourselves a sneak. Sneaks ain't welcome. It's back to the dungeon with you, and you'll stay put until she wants you out. Roast sneak, that's what you'll be. Only it's odd\u2026 Sir Gruy\u00e8re should've been on guard. And what's happened to these doorways? No difference, I suppose. Long's I'm around, you'll sneak nowhere.\"\nHe claps you back in manacles and dumps you in the southern cell again.\nDungeon (south cell)\nOnly one little skeleton remains inside this cell. Even unshackled, the poor child makes a pitiable sight, although you're not much better in your cacao manacles.\nNorthward an open doorway leads out to the dungeon."}, {"prompt": "You put the green moss on left Qilin", "response": "You cover its eyes with the green moss."}, {"prompt": "Go east", "response": "The school trails eastward.\nThe dome is south. We are in blue."}, {"prompt": "Go northwest", "response": "Shed (crawling)\nYou are 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.\nYour severed foot arrives from the parking lot."}, {"prompt": "You look at the river", "response": "The river is not quite as wide or deep as the one which flows through Dawg Rock, south of Lake Draounheer, but it's not a simple mountain stream either. From the direction of the current, it appears that it probably enters into the Damsogee Swamp, and thus eventually feeds the lake. At any rate, I doubt you could cross it."}, {"prompt": "You listen to model", "response": "The merry-go-round is playing a tinny little tune.\nThe merry-go-round continues tinkling its wistful little tune."}, {"prompt": "You open gate", "response": "It seems to be locked."}, {"prompt": "You describe your surroundings", "response": "I'm sitting on the bus, about four rows back. It's fairly crowded\n- lots of people going to work. Outside the window, I can see the city rolling past."}, {"prompt": "You take the storybook", "response": "You acquire the storybook."}, {"prompt": "You look at it", "response": "The mask caricatures your eldest brother Dimitri. Your father sent him three years ago to retrieve the magical Firebird from a nearby forest. Said Firebird had been stealing apples from one of your dad's rare 24K gold apple trees. Since this was causing a considerable financial setback, your father said that if Dimitri brought back the Firebird, the tsardom would be his. Dimitri came back empty-handed, lost his chance at the big promotion, and hasn't been able to get a date since."}, {"prompt": "You take tickets", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You look at the pipes", "response": "The pipes run all over the room, most eventually reaching the boiler. Two red pipes run parallel to the door. A pipe that seems to be loose from the rest of the framework is wedged in the fan at the room's south side.\nYour heart is beating so fast it could burst. You urgently need to block the door somehow."}, {"prompt": "You examine the river", "response": "Which do you mean, the underground lake or the waterfall?"}, {"prompt": "You drop the mace", "response": "You drop the mace."}, {"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": "Heat 100", "response": "You set the Ship Thermostat to 100 degrees.\nOn the monitor you can see Engineer Ghee kicking at the engine room door. He turns toward your camera and yells \"Eight Wall, you open this door immediately! And don't you dare blow us up! Do you hear me, Eight? I'm warning you!\" The thought of Ghee's disembodied spirit haunting your own widely dispersed molecules is briefly amusing.\nYou can hear something just outside your door."}, {"prompt": "Locket in sack", "response": "stone bracelet:\n(first taking off the stone bracelet)\nDone.\ngold locket: Done."}, {"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 examine the gloves", "response": "Which do you mean, Doctor Arturus's gloves, Creditor Nacarat's gloves, or the clothes?"}, {"prompt": "You examine the cord", "response": "Pulling the bell cord will ring the bell on the other side of the door which will summon Huncel who will open the door which will allow you to walk into the main room where Huncel will run some 'experiments' on you which will result in you getting treats.\nHuncel throws out a bunch of human names like 'Pavlov' and 'Goldberg' in his absent-minded telepathic mumblings describing the process."}, {"prompt": "You touch the mirror", "response": "You touch the frame of the mirror, but nothing happens. Perhaps the mirror has not been activated (in whatever way that would work.)"}, {"prompt": "You take bomb", "response": "It's small, but it's heavy, and flat on the flat floor so you can't get your fingers underneath. (That's not helped, of course, by the fact you can barely bend your left palm thanks to the brand.)\nFrom the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the researcher", "response": "\"Yeuch. I know this place is a research facility and not a pleasure resort, but the slop they serve here is unbearable.\""}, {"prompt": "You use the radio", "response": "You get on the radio and send out a May Day. And an SOS. And a panicked scream.\nIt takes nearly an hour for help to arrive, and of course by the time the search and rescue folks show up, all the excitement is over.\n\"Wait, why did you call for us? There's nothing wrong with you...\" scolds the lead rescuer.\n\"Well,\" the captain begins, \"there was this scary sea creature\nbumping against the boat \u2014\"\n\"I swear it was a narwhal!\" you interject. The captain throws you a quick sideways glance as if to say, \"Yes, it sure as hell did look\nlike a narwhal, but we're not going to tell him that.\"\nSuffice it to say, you're the laughing stock of the local village, but that's okay: you're alive, you had an incredible Alaskan adventure."}, {"prompt": "You wait for a while", "response": "Time passes. Or at least, loiters around for a while longer.\nThe librarian returns and hands the tome to you wordlessly, before returning to h/er spot behind the counter."}, {"prompt": "You take yarn", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You take the bath", "response": "There's no need for a bath right now; you're perfectly clean."}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "There is no door to the north, because in Airy Fairy Dairy Tralalala Forest the sun always shines -- even at midnight, which is somewhat inconvenient, but never mind. The kitchen lies to the south.\nAn utterly evil witch is waiting for you, patiently holding out a bright red apple. Her arm looks stiff from all that waiting, as far as you can judge from the irritated and bored expression on her ugly face."}, {"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": "Go north", "response": "You walk up the slope, and pause to take in the view. Looking south you can see over part of the forest to what may be farmland beyond.\nSo far as you can tell there's more farmland lying in the distance to north and west, while just a little way over to the east the river cuts through the forest. You see no need to risk confrontation with the settlers by walking over their fields, so after spending a few more moments taking in the view, you walk back down the slope."}, {"prompt": "You go west", "response": "The greenhouse of the Destine mansion is a tooth-glass dome. The glass reflects back the light and heat of a microscopic sun that slowly orbits a huge grosvair tree. A variety of plants grow, bloom and die\non a long plant bed.\nOn the east of the greenhouse an open sliding door leads back out to the rose garden. An open blue door leads west into the house.\nThe hayberry bush is laden with bright red round berries. The banberry shrub is a small sapling. The spindleweed is in thin yellow strands."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Remind me what you're trained in right now.\"\nThe Jenny of Tomorrow puts her hands on her hips in a mock cheerleading stance. \"Known skills: pine-nuts; cheerleading; poetry; ennui; ...and that's it.\"\n1) \"Remind me what you're trained in right now.\"\n2) \"Could you hand me your sash?\"\n3) \"Can you give me some tips about plant care?\"\n4) \"Could I have the contents of your chassis?\"\n5) \"How do you feel about parades?\"\n6) \"Can you write me a poem?\"\n7) \"Do you remember how to unlock my purse?\"\n8) \"Is it true you fought off the Brain Guzzlers almost\nsinglehanded?\"\n9) \"I'm done talking now.\""}, {"prompt": "Go north", "response": "I'm in a small meadow at the back of the cottage, separated from the forest by a rickety fence. In the middle of the meadow is what appears to be a homemade wind turbine! To the south, through the tangled pergola, is the garden.\nThe Big Bad Wolf follows me."}, {"prompt": "Slap fish", "response": "Whap! You hit the tuna like it is a punching bag.\n[ Your Stamina: 5     Bluefin Tuna: 28 ]"}, {"prompt": "You examine the hinges", "response": "The hinges of the door are screwed into the wall."}, {"prompt": "You go east", "response": "(first getting off the seat)\nYou are in a long aisle of plane seats with people in them, all alike. You could go fore and find a blocked cockpit door with no way through, so spare us both the trouble and go aft."}, {"prompt": "You touch the wall", "response": "(the walls)\nYou detect nothing extraordinary."}, {"prompt": "Close contraptio", "response": "You close the delicate contraption."}, {"prompt": "You go to the north", "response": "Temple of Number, Southern End\nYou stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and the exit to the Lyceum is south."}, {"prompt": "Swing", "response": "(your bat)\nYou take a practice swing, anticipating the pitch.\nThe pitcher starts his wind-up."}, {"prompt": "1", "response": "\"Why did you start the epidemic?\"\nJustinian puts his hands in his pockets and looks into the distance.\n\"I thought you might ask that question,\" he says. \"Let me ask you a question in return.\nquestion in return.\"Marid, have you ever wondered why the people of the Shanty Quarter suffer? They are good people. Hardworking people. Their hands are just as able as yours or mine. So why do they still starve? Why do they languish without homes? Without jobs? Without even the pity of the Council of Works to protect them?\nthe pity of the Council of Works to protect them?\"The truth is that there is no place for them here. The Channelworks District has no room for them. Furopolis has no room for them. There is an upper limit to the number of people that can be made to live in one space.\"\nthe number of people that can be made to live in one space.\"You glare at Justinian. \"And the epidemic is your way of... of culling\nthem?\"\nthem?\"Justinian's face hardens, and his voice becomes humorless.\nthem?\"Justinian's face hardens, and his voice becomes humorless.\"Don't get me wrong, Marid. I don't enjoy killing. I never have. But do you remember what I said? Death will happen with or without us. The people in the Shanty Quarter will die with or without me.\nin the Shanty Quarter will die with or without me.The only question is -- should they be made to bear a lifetime of suffering first? Scrounging for scraps and inflicting the same burden on generations of children? Should their descendants be forced to suffer because we couldn't imagine an alternative?\ncouldn't imagine an alternative?\"With Noctis, we have a choice. They have a way out. And it pains me to say this, but killing them may be the only moral choice. Even an atrocity such as this may be\njustified if it averts countless lifetimes of suffering.\njustified if it averts countless lifetimes of suffering.\"That is why I am doing this, Marid. I am killing them, yes -- but I am\neuthanizing them. I am setting them free.\"\n1) \"Why did Carnicer try to kill me and Doctor Cavala?\"\n2) \"How much does Doctor Serpens know?\"\n3) <Change the subject.> \"What will you do with me now?\""}, {"prompt": "You examine the spigot", "response": "The little plastic spigot is old, warped and corroded.\nFaintly, on the other side of the wall, you can hear a phone ringing."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "By the prominently displayed gold discs this must be the entrance to an up-market recording studio, possibly somewhere in London. There is a lounge to the west and the exit to the street is east, through a large wooden door."}, {"prompt": "You search lucca", "response": "You touch the body briefly and feel his bones ground to meal inside. He is soft and bruised from the fury of the water. But the deep, sharp wound in his back looks more like a knife wound than anything done by nature. Oh, Lucca.\nDigging through his frock, you find a rough piece of paper. It is wet, but holds together as you pull it out."}, {"prompt": "Go south", "response": "Tyrone shrugs and goes back to work on the van.\nThe open area behind the western row of cabins is thinly carpeted with scruffy, dusty weeds. A large, rusted incinerator stands in the middle of the open space. A scraggly tree has set down roots quite close to the leftmost of the three cabins whose rear walls form a barrier to the east.\nTo the south is the shed at the edge of the swamp. You can go north to the area in front of the run-down shack, where the motel's dusty van is parked. The overgrown, junk-strewn garden beside the shack is to the west."}, {"prompt": "You look in basket", "response": "The little wire basket contains...\nA plaid IC\nA green IC"}, {"prompt": "You go to the 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 Four (to the west) and Cabin One (to the east). The croquet court continues south from here, the land sloping gently downward toward the swamp - almost as if the cabins are gently sliding into the swamp or marching, with a ponderous but imperceptible tread, toward it. To the north is a broad stretch of dusty lawn, and beside it to the west a large and rather ramshackle two-story house.\nAn overgrown and uneven brick walkway leads off to the northwest, around the corner of Cabin Four."}, {"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": "Clean bar", "response": "You rub the bar."}, {"prompt": "You go to the bell room", "response": "You head east to the gallery of still life. Then east to the white gallery. And finally east to the bellroom.\nKept, conveniently, close to where the masters of the house would once have slept. There are bells large and small, clappers, tambourines, and gongs. Most of these you have never seen used at all.\nRoses from the garden below have crept up to grow around the north window, lending a sickly smell to the place.\nNearby an open heavy door leads south to the private parlor.\nCatching your eye among many other unfamiliar items is a little gold dinner bell."}, {"prompt": "You look at the note", "response": "(the book list)\nATTENTION PETER CRAGNE\nThis is your notification that your status with the Backwater Public Library is DELINQUENT due to NON-RETURNAL.\nYou are NOT PERMITTED to check out books or to access special library materials until your status is cleared.\nTo clear your status, you must return ALL books you currently have checked out:\nTo Have, and To Have Knots: An Illustrated Guide\nThe Dollmaker's Journal\nTwin Hearts Between the Planes\nBackwater Personalities (1915-1925 edition)\nTolerating An Asinine God\nThe Lives of the Roman Emperors\nDe Zeven Testamenten van de Krijsende Zeeworm\nVenator in Tenebris\n'Pataphysical Approaches to Quantum Superfluids\nLegends of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River Valley\nA Rudimentary Taxonomy of Known Scent and Grotesque\nReactions\nLife Beneath Nightmares\nThe Conservative's Cookbook\nThe Seven Gaunts\nNew England and the Bavarian Illuminati\nANCHORHEAD. A What-do-I-do-now Book Based on the Works of\nMICHAEL GENTRY"}, {"prompt": "You ask the man about the house", "response": "The old man screws his face up in confusion. \"Don't know about that,\" he mutters.\nA flurry of dead leaves goes skittering along the ground, swirling past you in the wind."}, {"prompt": "You ask Billy about the cassette", "response": "Billy shrugs. \"It's just a tape of some of our songs. We make, like, dozens of 'em, give 'em out all over the place. Who knows where that one came from?\""}, {"prompt": "Wait", "response": "Time passes.\nSuddenly and without warning, the boomerang spins back in from the\ncave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head."}, {"prompt": "J.", "response": "Fifth of Aquaria, Auritum IV\nI've made my choice. I have a job to do -- and I'm going to finish it.\nCurrent objectives:\n- Investigate the victims of the disease and identify the transmission vector\n- Go to Riggertown and ask Zoiro about his brother's activities\n- Continue investigating Doctor Arturus's domicile, in the Turris Infinita\n- Investigate the note in the 'Piper' file about the Shanty Quarter\nMarid's notes:\n- I learned that the disease is unlikely to be airborne.\n- I learned that the disease can be transmitted by ingestion.\n- I learned that the disease is bloodborne and attacks the animus, or the soul.\n- I remember that Reden died on the night of the Third, two days ago.\n- I found a coffee table set for three in Doctor Arturus's home. The table had not been tidied up, but the third wineglass was missing.\n- I found that Doctor Arturus rushed through his patient record files for some reason, leaving them unfinished.\n- I found that the gloves on Doctor Arturus's body were brand new. He couldn't have been infected through his hands if he had been wearing them.\n- I learned that Doctor Arturus died sometime between last night, on the Fourth, and this morning, on the Fifth.\n- I learned that Creditor Nacarat was killed by something he ingested. - I learned that Creditor Nacarat was connected to the Trading Company.\n- I learned that Creditor Nacarat could have hired Sal and Piper recently.\n- I learned that Creditor Nacarat was taking tea with Doctor Arturus when his symptoms emerged, and he broke a piece of tableware as a result.\n- I learned that Creditor Nacarat was admitted to the clinic on the afternoon of the Third, two days ago.\n- I learned that Creditor Nacarat died on the night of that day.\n- I learned that Sal and Piper were connected to the Trading Company. - I found a list of names that suggested Piper had been collecting debts. The reverse side of the paper had been intentionally blanked out.\n- I found a battered keyring on Sal's belt.\n- I found a note in Piper's patient record that read \"cellar in f.h. shanty quarter.\"\n- I learned that Piper was killed by something she ingested.\n- I learned that Sal and Piper were admitted to the clinic on the morning of the Third, two days ago.\n- I learned that both Sal and Piper died on the night of that day.\n- I learned that the raven is the symbol of the Greater Corindia Trading Company, a criminal syndicate.\n- I'm in the mood for a drink...\n- I hope Doctor Cavala and Horatio will be all right at the clinic...\nA chamber decked with aging bookcases and dusty plaques. The frieze that circles the walls is engraved with scenes from antiquity, lines in the lingua libria; by the exit to the south, a clock ticks\nthe minutes and seconds away.\nA rosewood desk stands in the heart of the room. Beside it, there is a storage cabinet."}, {"prompt": "You get the cards", "response": "Taken."}, {"prompt": "You wait", "response": "You fall asleep on your journey. You are awakened by whirring and clacking. Droids pick you up and give you an infra-red marking that identifies you as a potential leech on society--and juice and cookies, this time, since your possessions label you as moderately wealthy. They remind you the marking will fade in a year.\nThreediopolis, Sector 444"}, {"prompt": "You go to the south", "response": "(first opening the interior door)\nThis place is full of ghosts. You can see them in line near the teller's window as well as near the kiosk where they repeatedly run through their banking motions for eternity. The spirits are translucent figures of differing shapes and sizes, their feet lost illusions as they float about this bank lobby, forever doing their business; seemingly oblivious to you. The door to the outside world is to the north and you can see a vault door, a large, circular metal monstrosity, to the west. It is guarded by a ghostly security guard, of course."}, {"prompt": "You go to the east", "response": "The end of a narrow mountain ledge leading west. The tall mountain wall has three caves: to the northwest, north and northeast.\nA huge monster is crouching on the ledge. Its green skin is scaly, its body is bloated like a balloon, its four feet have long terrible claws, its wide mouth has thousands of sharp teeth and on top of its head is a cluster of about fifty bulging eyes as big as your head.\nThe goblin comes running after you.\nThe green monster's tongue shoots out towards your head, but you duck."}, {"prompt": "Go upwards", "response": "Boy. You sure are lucky there's a way out, even though the pulses are coming faster, The right is not glowing."}, {"prompt": "You examine it", "response": "The battered brass lantern looks old enough to have survived the rise and fall of the entire Great Underground Empire, but it's certainly quite useless now.\nThe compass rose sputters urgently.\nThe adventurer tries to break the equipment."}, {"prompt": "You talk to the guy", "response": "The guy grins as you approach and spreads his arms wide, blocking your way. \"Hey, friend! What do you need, do you need anything?\"\n[1] \"Were you just at Paco's Tacos?\"\n[2] \"Lovely weather we're having.\"\n[3] \"So, what's your name?\"\n[4] \"Spare some change?\"\n[5] Point your gun at him."}, {"prompt": "You ask Aunt about the handkerchief", "response": "\"Later, dear.\" Aunt Caroline's voice sounds thin and strained."}, {"prompt": "W,S,W", "response": "Tower, 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.\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 go north", "response": "I tapped my ID card on the scanner and it beeped like a disgruntled kitten.\nThe office space resembled that of a sports hall, high-ceilinged, with glass panels near the ceiling. Moonlight streamed through those\npanels, casting glowing shadows.\na rough grid pattern. In front of the tables, there was a whiteboard.\nTo the east was the office lounge. To the west was the registration office. The lobby lay to the south, while more office cubicles lay to the north.\nA standing whiteboard had been pushed to one side.\nI could also see a gear locker (in which were a group photo, a faded body armour and a Mingsheng's body armour) here."}, {"prompt": "Look around", "response": "Moldy stone walls stand all around you, dimly visible through the murk: you feel them more than see them. Chunks of fallen stone from the ceiling lie scattered about at your feet. You can barely make out arched doorways leading north and south."}, {"prompt": "You look at the cord", "response": "It's a plain white cord, easily tangled."}, {"prompt": "About yourself", "response": "You're not the man you were a few days ago. Your skin hangs as sallow drapes around your jaw: your hands are emaciated. Your frock billows about you; it is difficult to find any flesh within. The only solace you find in looking at yourself is that, so far, no signs of the plague are within you."}, {"prompt": "You kill the wolf", "response": "They burn with passion. No, desperation.\nA growl is the only response."}, {"prompt": "You show the flowers to the butterfly", "response": "The butterfly is unimpressed."}]