text: > describe your surroundings
  Solar Sphere (in the golden cage)
  You are in a large spherical vault of polished stone, black as night, though your feline vision reveals all. In the exact center a magnificent amulet of tremendous size hangs in the darkness: a spherical mosaic of emerald and lapis lazuli and brown jasper, perhaps thrice your height, and as far above you.
  
  Surely those gems lack their full glory in such darkness.
  
  The scarab is pushing a man-high, lacy ball through the darkness: a spherical cage woven of fine gold wire. Near the center a strange mechanism is woven into the wire.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > examine the mechanism
  Simple, yet enigmatic. A metal framework - an outgrowth of the cage's wire lacework - suspends a few mechanical parts close together near the ball's center:
  
  A little spool, hanging from a pivot of twisted wire, with a leather strap wound several times around it and a square hole in the bottom.
  
  A hand's width below the hole in the spool, a cone of some unknown gray material, singed yellow-brown in the center.
  
  Beside the cone, a tiny bellows, like a smith's child's toy.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > get all
  Miniature Obelisk: You can't reach that from here.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball down the west arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > look at the spool
  A little spool is woven into the mechanism such that it can spin. It is wrapped with a leather strap, and there is a small square hole in the spool's bottom face.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > look at the cone
  A rounded block of some hard gray substance, with a conical pit in the top. The cone is unevenly discolored.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > get the spool
  That seems to be a part of the strange mechanism.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > look at the leather
  The strap is wrapped several times around the spool. Its free end is clearly a handle.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball down the west arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > pull the strap
  Pulling the strap spins the spool, fast. The strap pulls out of your hand and wraps itself around the spool again.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > Smell cone
  The cone smells singed.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > examine the bellows
  It appears that pushing on the little bellows will puff its contents at the singed cone.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > squeeze bellows
  A fine mist sprays from the tiny bellows, blowing across the singed cone. A sharp, unfamiliar aroma fills the cage.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball down the west arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > Smell cone
  The cone smells singed.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > look at the hole
  A little spool is woven into the mechanism such that it can spin. It is wrapped with a leather strap, and there is a small square hole in the spool's bottom face.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  your Coronation Crook
  your replacement Coronation Flail
  a Book of Songs of Getting Through the Day
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > put Flail in the hole
  That doesn't fit the hole in the spool.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball down the west arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > put Crook in the hole
  That doesn't fit the hole in the spool.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > put the scroll in the hole
  That doesn't fit the hole in the spool.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > get the cone
  That seems to be a part of the strange mechanism.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > get the bellows
  That seems to be a part of the strange mechanism.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > get the mechanism
  That's too heavy to move.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > sing Gold
  (Gold Digger)
  Voicelessly you voice Gold Digger.
  
  Gold seems like such a yielding material....
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber with you inside.
  
  > leave
  You slip through the yielding gold lace. As the ball is just rolling across the top of the chamber, you fall out and tumble down onto the jewelled globe.
  
  Solar Sphere (on the Jewelled Globe)
  You are in a large spherical vault of polished stone, black as night, though your feline vision reveals all. In the exact center a magnificent amulet of tremendous size hangs in the darkness: a spherical mosaic of emerald and lapis lazuli and brown jasper.
  
  Surely those gems lack their full glory in such darkness.
  
  A miniature obelisk about the size of your thumb rests on the jewelled globe, marking your own capital city.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball down the west arc of the chamber.
  
  The mood of Gold Digger fades.
  
  > get the obelisk
  Taken.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball east along the bottom arc of the chamber.
  
  > examine it
  A pyramid-capped square column, about the size of your thumb, carved from some fine-grained white stone. Fine inscriptions describe your nation's worth, but in no language you have ever seen.
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball up the east arc of the chamber.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a Miniature Obelisk
  your Coronation Crook
  your replacement Coronation Flail
  a Book of Songs of Getting Through the Day
  
  The clockwork scarab is pushing its lacy metal ball west across the top arc of the chamber.