text: > Look around
  This vast barn looks like it might be used as storage space for the market opposite. A ladder leads up to a high platform at the south end. On the east wall is a large shutter.
  
  Obvious exits: North, Up
  
  > Go up
  You start to climb the ladder, but as you're about half way up, a rung gives way beneath you; you fall onto the next one down and that breaks too, and then you tumble back down to the ground, bringing the bottom half of the ladder with you as it crumbles into a heap of fragments.
  
  > look at the platform
  The platform is a raised area at the southern end of the barn's interior; it's about four metres off the floor, so from down here you can't really see what's on it.
  
  > jump
  You jump a little, and land back where you started.
  
  The blue stud on your drik starts flashing, indicating that someone is trying to contact you; to accept the call, press the blue stud.
  
  > Thank her
  "Thank you, sublieutenant, that's useful," you reply. "I'll follow it up."
  
  "We only aim to serve, sir," she replies pertly.
  
  > Bye
  "Over and out," you say.
  
  "Over and out, sir," she confirms, just before the comms link goes dead.
  
  > climb the shutter
  That is not something you can climb.
  
  There's a faint cheesy smell from somewhere.
  
  > examine the ladder
  It's a plain wooden ladder running vertically up to the platform. It looks a little rough, and a closer examination suggests it may also be a little rotten.
  
  > fly
  What do you want to fly?
  
  > go north
  The muddy street from the centre of the town to the east ends at a ramshackle wooden bridge that has unfortunately fallen into a terminal state of disrepair, leaving no other means of crossing the river. A large wooden barn stands immediately to the south, next to a pair of tumbledown shacks, while on the north side of the street is a rough enclosed area that looks like it's probably some sort of market. Behind the market the land climbs up towards the distant forest.
  
  You see a tiny black bug here.
  
  Obvious exits: North, South, East
  
  > Go north
  This fenced-in area of a few dozen square metres looks like it might be used for a market, both from the rubbish that's been left lying around, and the impress in the muddy ground of what might be stalls or tables. A small shed stands near the centre of the area, with a trestle table off to one side. Gaps in the fence allow egress to the south and southeast, as well as north along the bank of the river.
  
  The dog is lying unconscious on the ground.
  
  Obvious exits: North, South, Southeast, In
  
  > go inside
  Two people standing inside this tiny hut would be cramped; three would be excessively intimate. It is almost completely bare apart from a small hook fixed to the west wall.
  
  A fishing rod is leaning against the wall.
  
  Obvious exits: Out
  
  > take the hook
  The hook is screwed firmly to the wall of the booth.
  
  > Unscrew hook
  You unscrew the hook from the wall of the hut and take it.
  
  > tie the line to hook
  You attach the hook to the line.
  
  > Fish
  What do you want to fish in?
  
  > Platform
  (with the fishing rod)
  You can't reach it from here.
  
  > Bait hook with worm
  Done.
  
  There's a faint cheesy smell from somewhere.
  
  > Fish
  (fishing in the river)
  (with the fishing rod)
  What good luck! After a few minutes you get a bite and manage to land a small trout.
  
  > examine the trout
  You're not all that familiar with freshly-caught fish; the only trout you have encountered before have been the cooked variety, served up in restaurants and officers' messes, but from what you recall of the trout you've eaten, you think this fish is probably a trout. It looks a decent enough specimen, anyway.
  
  > Point drik at trout
  (first taking the drik from the purple belt)
  Okay, you point the drik at the small trout.
  
  > look at the platform
  The platform is a raised area at the southern end of the barn's interior; it's about four metres off the floor, so from down here you can't really see what's on it.
  
  > climb the ladder
  From the trestle table you step onto one of the upper rungs of the ladder and haul yourself up onto the platform.
  
  The loft is little more than a storage platform running the width of the barn, about three metres deep, in the space under the rafters. At the eastern end of the platform a large wooden box is fixed to the wall, next to a pile of hay in the corner.
  
  A black cat is lying on top of the box.
  
  Obvious exits: Down
  
  The cat lets out a plaintive meeow.
  
  There's a faint cheesy smell from somewhere.
  
  > give the trout to the cat
  (first taking the small trout from the old brown sack)
  The cat snatches the trout from your grasp and leaps onto the floor.
  
  > open the box
  Opening the large wooden box reveals a lettuce, a piece of ham, a small loaf of bread, and two tomatoes.
  
  > put all from the box into the sack
  lettuce:
  (first taking the lettuce)
  Done.
  
  piece of ham:
  (first taking the piece of ham)
  Done.
  
  small loaf of bread:
  (first taking the small loaf of bread)
  Done.
  
  tomato:
  (first taking the tomato)
  Done.
  
  tomato:
  (first taking the tomato)
  Done.
  
  > examine the hay
  The hay is all piled up in the corner.
  
  > search the hay
  Under the pile of hay is a pear.
  
  > move the hay
  Attempting to move it would just cause a mess.
  
  > get the pear
  Taken.
  
  > look at it
  It's green and pear-shaped.