text: > Look around
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  An unfamiliar vehicle has been parked here.
  
  You can see a single chicken and a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  The chicken triumphantly picks out a speck of what might be linseed.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.
  
  The chicken wanders away to the north, pecking hungrily at the floor.
  
  > kick the chicken
  Flapping her wings in alarm, the bird turns tail and scrabbles back to the safety of the barn.
  
  > Go east
  You hear a far-off barking, closely followed by a panicked fluttering and squawking. A moment or two passes, and you hear the farmer shouting, the dog whining. A door slams.
  
  > go north
  You stand at the hedged-off side of the farmhouse, the back door to the east swinging open in the wind, and a path winding south to the front of the building.
  
  A short stick is leant up against the wall.
  
  > get the stick
  Your mouth is already full.
  
  > examine stick
  A rough wooden stick, about as long as one of your legs.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying a bucket of disinfectant, in your mouth.
  
  > drop it
  The stick is already here.
  
  > Go east
  The house doesn't look so impressive now that you're inside - the tiled floor is criss-crossed with muddy footprints, the air smells of dung and disinfectant, and it's no less cold than outside. Doors lead east, into the house, and west, to outside.
  
  You can see a rain hat and a coat here.
  
  > examine the coat
  A thin, matt-green waterproof coat, far too big for you and smelling strongly of disinfectant.
  
  > Wear coat
  (first taking the coat)
  You fling it loosely over your back, pulling it into shape around your neck. The unpleasant rubber lining sticks slightly against your own coat.
  
  > wear the hat
  (first taking the rain hat)
  You throw it into the air, catching it on your horns. A few shakes of the head, and it seems to stay in place reasonably enough.
  
  > Go west
  You stand at the hedged-off side of the farmhouse, the back door to the east swinging open in the wind, and a path winding south to the front of the building.
  
  A short stick is leant up against the wall.
  
  You can also see a bucket of disinfectant here.
  
  > go to the south
  A small wooden structure sits in the grass at the corner of the house, here, at the point where the path curves around to the north. It seems to be empty.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > go to the east
  You've never quite understood why humans live in such large sheds, particularly when they seem so bipedal. The farmhouse looks to be about twenty times the size of the goat-shed, with glass in its windows and a roof of straw. The path from the south winds through grass to the side of the house, to the west.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > go east
  A hedge blocks your way.
  
  > Go east
  The muddy track opens out onto the main road, here, cutting through a thick and brambly hedge. A low pit has been sunk into the track just before the road, topped with a series of parallel rungs.
  
  You can see a sheet of corrugated iron here.
  
  > go east
  You stand nervously on the muddy B-road that connects the farm to the outside world. The open sky has a grey heaviness to it, tinged with red and black from what seems to be a fire in a field to the east. The field's gate, across the road, has been left open, while your farm lies back to the west.
  
  You notice lights moving in the field, and a dark green vehicle suddenly rumbles into view, framed in the gateway. The driver - a thick-set man in white overalls - glances briefly in your direction, but either fails to notice you, or mistakes your form for that of a crouching human.
  
  The vehicle pulls across the road, disappearing through the gate of your farm, rumbling across the metal-runged pit.
  
  > Go east
  Deep, wide vehicle-tracks have cut across this ravaged field, all heading towards some sort of bonfire on the eastern side. Ash-black smoke rolls into the night sky, glowing a bloody red in the light of the fires.
  
  > go to the east
  A deep trench has been dug along the eastern side of the field, piled full of the carcasses of infected or suspected cattle. Red and orange flames curl and flicker around the corpses, and a choking pall of black smoke pours into the sky.
  
  > look at the fire
  The pit has been filled with dead cattle, soaked with petrol and flammable disinfectant, and set alight. Blackish smoke rises from the charred carcasses, and tongues of flame curl here and there.
  
  > Go north
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  > DEFRA
  DEFRA is the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (previously MAFF), the UK government agency responsible for carrying out the variously-questionable "contiguous culling" of over seven million farm animals during the 2001 Foot and Mouth epidemic.
  
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  > DEFRA
  
  > Go west
  You stand nervously on the muddy B-road that connects the farm to the outside world. The open sky has a grey heaviness to it, tinged with red and black from what seems to be a fire in a field to the east. The field's gate, across the road, has been left open, while your farm lies back to the west.
  
  > go west
  The muddy track opens out onto the main road, here, cutting through a thick and brambly hedge. A low pit has been sunk into the track just before the road, topped with a series of parallel rungs.
  
  You can see a sheet of corrugated iron here.
  
  > go to the west
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  Two unfamiliar vehicles have been parked here.
  
  > look at the vehicle
  Which do you mean, the green vehicle or the grey vehicle?
  
  > Green
  Similar to the other one, but green. Looking through the window, you can see a rack of shotguns and bolt-guns, and numerous wooden boxes.
  
  > look at the grey
  It looks like one of the big, wheeled machines that the farmer uses, but is of an unfamiliar greyish colour.
  
  Now that you are closer to it, you realise that an unpleasant smell is seeping from it.
  
  > go north
  You've never quite understood why humans live in such large sheds, particularly when they seem so bipedal. The farmhouse looks to be about twenty times the size of the goat-shed, with glass in its windows and a roof of straw. The path from the south winds through grass to the side of the house, to the west.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > go to the west
  A small wooden structure sits in the grass at the corner of the house, here, at the point where the path curves around to the north. It seems to be empty.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > go north
  You stand at the hedged-off side of the farmhouse, the back door to the east swinging open in the wind, and a path winding south to the front of the building.
  
  A short stick is leant up against the wall.
  
  You can also see a bucket of disinfectant here.
  
  > go to the east
  The house doesn't look so impressive now that you're inside - the tiled floor is criss-crossed with muddy footprints, the air smells of dung and disinfectant, and it's no less cold than outside. Doors lead east, into the house, and west, to outside.
  
  > look at the door
  Which do you mean, the back door or the white door?
  
  > White
  A flat white door, leading to the rest of the house.
  
  > drop the coat
  (first taking the coat off)
  You shake it off onto the ground.
  Dropped.
  
  > open white door
  It seems to be locked.
  
  > Wear coat
  (first taking the coat)
  You're already wearing that!
  
  > Inventory
  Your mouth is empty.
  
  You are wearing a coat and a rain hat.
  
  > Go west
  You stand at the hedged-off side of the farmhouse, the back door to the east swinging open in the wind, and a path winding south to the front of the building.
  
  A short stick is leant up against the wall.
  
  You can also see a bucket of disinfectant here.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying a stick, in your mouth.
  
  You are wearing a coat and a rain hat.
  
  > Go south
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  Two unfamiliar vehicles have been parked here.
  
  You can see a bucket of disinfectant here.
  
  > go east
  Enter saved game to store: Ok.
  
  The muddy track opens out onto the main road, here, cutting through a thick and brambly hedge. A low pit has been sunk into the track just before the road, topped with a series of parallel rungs.
  
  You can see a sheet of corrugated iron here.
  
  > Light stick
  You hold the end of the stick to one of the pyre's flames - after a while the end begins to smoulder, before slowly blossoming into fire.
  
  > kick the bucket
  You knock the bucket over. The evil disinfectant splashes out in a murky yellow tidal wave, spreading to form a puddle beneath the two vehicles.
  
  > Light puddle
  The noxious disinfectant bursts into fire with a roaring purple flame, quickly enveloping the two DEFRA vehicles. As the tyres melt and the paint peels away, you are quick to retreat to the goat yard, and the safety of the shed.
  
  Craning your neck through the window, you can make out the DEFRA official emerging from the farmhouse with four of his slaughtermen. They watch in disbelief as their transport and equipment is consumed by the blaze, backing away as one petrol tank ignites, followed by the other.
  
  The fire doesn't spread, and begins to die down, but the local fire brigade arrive within twenty minutes or so. Exasperated by the accident and the stirrings of media attention, the DEFRA men vanish silently into the night.
  
  You settle down into the straw, and wait for the sunrise.
  
  > Go east
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  Two unfamiliar vehicles have been parked here.
  
  You can see a stick here.
  
  > Go north
  A huge curve of corrugated metal sweeps overhead, resting on half-repaired walls. Haybales are stacked and scattered out of the rain, a ragtag flock of chickens pecking their aimless way around the dirt floor.
  
  You can see a puddle of disinfectant and a bucket (which is empty) here.
  
  > Light puddle
  The noxious disinfectant bursts into fire with a roaring purple flame, and begins to blazes away under its own fuel, acidic orange smoke swirling up into the sky. It is not long before the farmer and the DEFRA slaughtermen emerge from the farmhouse to investigate.
  
  > look
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  Two unfamiliar vehicles have been parked here.
  
  You can see a bucket of disinfectant here.
  
  > get the bucket
  Dropped.
  Taken.
  
  > Go east
  You've never quite understood why humans live in such large sheds, particularly when they seem so bipedal. The farmhouse looks to be about twenty times the size of the goat-shed, with glass in its windows and a roof of straw. The path from the south winds through grass to the side of the house, to the west.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  A small wooden structure sits in the grass at the corner of the house, here, at the point where the path curves around to the north. It seems to be empty.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  You've never quite understood why humans live in such large sheds, particularly when they seem so bipedal. The farmhouse looks to be about twenty times the size of the goat-shed, with glass in its windows and a roof of straw. The path from the south winds through grass to the side of the house, to the west.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > Go north
  You stand at the hedged-off side of the farmhouse, the back door to the east swinging open in the wind, and a path winding south to the front of the building.
  
  > go to the north
  Deep, wide vehicle-tracks have cut across this ravaged field, all heading towards some sort of bonfire on the eastern side. Ash-black smoke rolls into the night sky, glowing a bloody red in the light of the fires.
  
  You stand nervously on the muddy B-road that connects the farm to the outside world. The open sky has a grey heaviness to it, tinged with red and black from what seems to be a fire in a field to the east. The field's gate, across the road, has been left open, while your farm lies back to the west.
  
  The muddy track opens out onto the main road, here, cutting through a thick and brambly hedge. A low pit has been sunk into the track just before the road, topped with a series of parallel rungs.
  
  You can see a sheet of corrugated iron here.
  
  A roughly-bordered area of freshly-laid tarmac marks the centre of the farm - the goat shed and its yard lie back to the south, while the farmhouse is north. Dirt tracks lead east and west, the eastern track continuing out to the main road.
  
  Two unfamiliar vehicles have been parked here.
  
  You've never quite understood why humans live in such large sheds, particularly when they seem so bipedal. The farmhouse looks to be about twenty times the size of the goat-shed, with glass in its windows and a roof of straw. The path from the south winds through grass to the side of the house, to the west.
  
  You can see a small pile of goat-feed here.
  
  > Go east
  The house doesn't look so impressive now that you're inside - the tiled floor is criss-crossed with muddy footprints, the air smells of dung and disinfectant, and it's no less cold than outside. Doors lead east, into the house, and west, to outside.
  
  You can see a puddle of disinfectant and a bucket (which is empty) here.
  
  > Light puddle
  The noxious disinfectant bursts into fire with a roaring purple flame, and begins to blazes away under its own fuel, acidic orange smoke swirling up into the sky. It is not long before the farmer and the DEFRA slaughtermen emerge from the farmhouse to investigate.