[{"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."}]