text: > look at your surroundings
  This drafty one-room cabin is so sparsely furnished as to be completely unfurnished. It looks like it has not been lived in for years and years.
  
  > Pat ball of fur
  The ball of fur twitches excitedly for a moment. Suddenly the Jack of all Traits seems to give birth as a full-grown jackrabbit is ejected from the contraption. His metabolism, following its winter of cooped-up discontent, seems to be racing away. But the furry mammal itself remains at your feet, all atremble. He pauses to look up at you. To the extent that his beady red eyes are able to emote, he seems to express gratitude. Then, with a jackrabbit start, he is gone.
  
  > examine the contraption
  You can see right away it's versatile.
  
  It's sort of squarish, but sort of longish too. Its surface is made of thick cloth, except for one edge which is a long piece of metal that looks as if it can be pulled out.
  
  On three different sides of the strange contraption you can see a hand crank, a water faucet, and an electrical switch. As if all that wasn't enough, there is also a pair of sleeves sticking out of the thing.
  
  > pull the metal
  The long piece of metal, in reality the glistening, razor-sharp blade of a jackknife, pivots out of its handle and with a "snap!" all the other features of the Jack of all Traits vanish.
  
  > close the knife
  Being careful that you don't lop off any fingers, you pivot the blade back and it closes with a "snap!" All the other dimensions of the Jack of all Traits return.
  
  > turn on the faucet
  There is a deep gurgling sound, then scalding hot water begins gushing out of the faucet, and you are surrounded by a thick cloud of steam. As the steam begins to thin out, you find yourself leaning back in a hot tub with Jacuzzi, and you can't remember when being in hot water ever felt so good.
  
  > turn off the faucet
  The washerless faucet spins round, and some hot, steamy water gurgles out.
  
  > look at the jacuzzi
  The well-insulated tub's full of hot steamy water and you. There's a plug at the bottom of the hot tub.
  
  > pull the plug
  The water, slowly at first, begins to swirl toward the plug, creating a whirl of water so loud that it's nightmarish. You close your eyes and cover your ears and when you hear the last loud slurp you find yourself standing again.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  You're empty-handed.
  
  > Inventory
  You have a jacket (being worn).
  
  > take off jacket
  You slip off what feels to be a jacket. All features return to the Jack of all Traits.
  
  > flip the switch
  "Rata-tat-tat! Rata-rata-rata-rata Tat-tat-tat!" The Jack of all Traits powerfully roars to life as you hang on the wildly chugging jackhammer like a rodeo cowboy.
  
  > Leave
  You walk along the trail a long way. With each uncertain step you take, it grows darker. Clouds gather. With large puffy white cheeks, they blow noisy cold across the sky, as will happen in this changeable realm.
  
  It looks like a picture of a wedding gown in a snow storm.
  
  The cold wind is breezing right through you.
  
  > turn on the faucet
  Your fingers are so stiff with cold, it's impossible.
  
  > wear the jacket
  As you slip on the jacket, you find that it fits you quite well. It feels a lot more comfortable than it looks. It offers much shelter from the cold, which is now nipping at your nose.
  
  > Go west
  [Refer to the top of the screen to find out where you can go.]
  
  Despite the shelter of the jacket, you're still in the midst of a cold snap. You begin to smell the vague illusory odor of "chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
  
  > look at Jack
  Suddenly, all of the thick, nasty weather surrounding you begins to swirl, then lift, slowly at first, and then more rapidly up above your head, then up further to expose the large and many trunks of dense evergreen forest, and then up and past the high tops of the trees themselves and into the heavens.
  
  The mountain air is still and cold. You are next to a frozen-over pond, ringed by dense forest.
  
  There is an old wooden sign leaning slightly over.
  
  An old man is next to the pond, standing bent like one of the age old trees of the forest, with the frost of storms past still clinging in its whiteness upon his dark overcoat. He holds in his hands a gnarled stick.
  
  The man refuses to communicate with you, but stands still and silent as the mountain air.
  
  > remove the jacket
  You slip off what feels to be a jacket. All features return to the Jack of all Traits.
  
  > examine the old man
  He wears a permafrost frown upon his face, a face that betrays a lifetime of never any joy, never any surprise, never any sunshine.
  
  > pull the plug
  The water, slowly at first, begins to swirl toward the plug, creating a whirl of water so loud that it's nightmarish. You close your eyes and cover your ears and when you hear the last loud slurp you find yourself standing again.
  
  > turn crank
  The Jack of all Traits begins to play a simple plunkety tune, and as the music becomes louder and louder the strange contraption starts looking a lot more like a box and a lot less like anything else, and the music gets louder and louder until...
  
  "Pop!"
  
  The lid springs open and a jester rears its jolly head.
  
  "Boing... Boing"
  
  The jester winks at the frozen old man, and you can almost hear the rushing torrent of flood waters coming from deep within the heart of Jack Frost. Some human color suddenly rushes into his cheeks in a flush, reddening his face and thawing the frown into much dripping and wetness, which can scarcely be distinguished from tears of happiness.
  
  Under a sunny disposition, a more quick and nimble Jack frolics down the path, making instant puddles out of his domain wherever he treads.