text: [Themes: Slice of life, female protagonist]
  
  > Go down
  This is the living room. It's the front room of the house, and its main feature is the large sofa along the back wall by the staircase, across from the front door. Just north is a small bathroom. West is the door that leads into the dining area, and there is a sitting room set apart to the east.
  
  > examine the sofa
  It's a large, comfortable-looking sofa, upholstered with blue fabric. It sometimes acts as a vacuum, sucking various objects into its cushions.
  
  > search the sofa
  Under the sofa cushions is a comic book.
  
  > Examine book
  The comic was a gift from your uncle in a parallel universe. You find it hard to believe that a universe can exist where nobody realizes that Clark Kent is Superman with glasses. Frankly, you never really got into comicbooks, but it seems perfectly suited to keeping a nine-year-old gleefully occupied.
  
  > Go north
  (first opening the downstairs bathroom door)
  
  This is actually a small half-bathroom tucked away under the stairs.
  It has a toilet and a sink, but not much else.
  
  > put the dress in the sink
  You hold your dress under the running water, allowing it to completely soak the material.
  
  > look at the stain
  It's horrible! Strangely, it looks like chocolate.
  
  > remove the stain
  (from the dress)
  You can't take that.
  
  > turn off the water
  You turn the knob the other way, and the water shuts off. One last drop falls from the tap and plummets down the drain.
  
  > Blow dress
  You change your mind at the last mintue, and tiny frost crystals materialize as you gently exhale.
  
  > Burn stain
  Your eyes glow red for a second, but then you change your mind.
  
  > take the dress
  Taken.
  
  > look at the dress
  It's Troy's favorite color, which is partly why you picked it for tonight. It has spaghetti-strap sleeves, and a neck-line that's cut just low enough to be interesting without making any promises. Right now, there is an ugly stain on it. It is also sopping wet.
  
  > Dry dress
  You zap your dress with a quick burst of heat vision, instantly drying it.
  
  > look at the stain
  It's horrible! Strangely, it looks like chocolate.
  
  > go west
  (first opening the door to the dining area)
  
  This is the dining area. It isn't quite a dining "room" since the only thing that seperates it from rest of the kitchen is space. It consists of a large table and several chairs at the south end of the expansive kitchen. The cooking area is at the north end. The living room is out the door to the east.
  
  > look at the table
  It's a large, wooden table surrounded by chairs, and it has a checkered tablecloth that covers the top and hangs over slightly.
  
  > examine the chairs
  The chairs around the kitchen table were actually purchased at a different store, as part of a different furniture set. However, they go with the table so well, nobody's noticed.
  
  > go to the north
  Kitchen (or Cooking Area)
  This is the main part of the kitchen, where the food is prepared. A long counter runs along the east wall, broken up in the middle by the refridgerator. A small cooking island dominates the center of this area, and pots and pans hang from above it. Light floods the room from the large windows on the west wall , and there is also a small window in the north wall, next to the door that leads out into the backyard.
  
  A cockroach crawls along the kitchen counter, cheerfully minding its own business.
  
  > examine the cockroach
  Roaches really creep you out. Of course, there's a chance that there might actually be someone in the world who hates them worse than you do. The cockroach is scurrying around, probably looking for food.
  
  > show stain to the roach
  The roach looks at the stain and scurries a few inches away.
  
  > look at the island
  The island looks like it's made of a light-colored wood, and is shaped like an octogon. The center of the island is a stove range, and there is an oven hidden in the base. Your mother sometimes hits her head on the top part of the island whenever she's baking something. Pots and pans hang over it from above.
  
  > Show shoes to roach
  The roach looks at the shoes and scurries a few inches away.
  
  > examine the fridge
  The refridgerator stands against the north wall of the kitchen, breaking the long stretch of countertop on either side of it. A crayon drawing is stuck on the door with magnets, showing your Dad blasting a monster with his heat vision. It's closed.
  
  > look at the magnets
  They're an assortment of cookie-shapes, an S-Shield, and the letter Z.
  
  > look at the drawing
  The picture shows your Dad in his Superman suit, flying triumphantly, and somewhat awkwardly since he has no apparent knees or elbows. As if the suit was not enough of a tip-off, the word DAD has been printed in thick, black letters over his disproportioned head, with an arrow pointing to him. Red lines extend from his eyes to what appears to be a smaller, fatter version of Godzilla. Crudely drawn buildings are in the background, surrounded by red, yellow and orange scribbles that are meant to indicate fire, and there is a car upside-down in the air for some reason.
  
  "David, Age 9" is printed in black in the lower, right-hand corner of the paper.
  
  > examine the pans
  The cookware hanging over the island is stainless steel, and variously sized.
  
  > examine the oven
  It's closed.
  
  > open it
  Opened.
  
  > close it
  Closed.
  
  > examine the window
  It's a small window in the north wall, and it has a little yellow curtain.It's closed.
  
  > examine the curtain
  It is little and yellow. It's closed.
  
  > open the curtain
  The curtain is already open.
  
  > examine the window
  It's a small window in the north wall, and it has a little yellow curtain.It's open.
  
  > Go north
  (first opening the back door)
  Ahem. You ought to at least throw something on before you go running around outside. Tabloid publishers live for shots of celebreties in their undies.
  
  > go to the south
  This is the dining area. It isn't quite a dining "room" since the only thing that seperates it from rest of the kitchen is space. It consists of a large table and several chairs at the south end of the expansive kitchen. The cooking area is at the north end. The living room is out the door to the east.
  
  > Go east
  This room is mostly set apart from the living room by a depression in the floor and a wall with a wide opening that's a bit too big to be considered a doorway. Here is where you all come to watch TV. There are some assorted chairs and beanbags scattered about for this purpose. To the north is the laundry room, and the living room is back west.
  
  The television sits in the southeast corner of the room.
  
  > Examine tv
  It's a nice set, with a fairly large screen. Your father sometimes jokes about unplugging it so that he won't have to be interrupted by emergency news bulletins so often.
  
  > look at the chairs
  A recliner and a rocker sit positioned in front of the television, and three beanbags have been tossed around the room. They are red, yellow, and blue.
  
  > examine the recliner
  It's a large leather recliner. There is a discoloration on the arm where your father spilled coffee in his rush to get to a disaster in Taiwan.
  
  > examine the rocker
  This is a simple, wooden rocker that your dad got for your mom when she had you and your sister. You remember playing on it when you were little.
  
  > examine the red
  (the cape)
  It's meant to resemble your father's, but it's generic enough to keep the makers of the snowglobe from getting in trouble.
  
  > look at the red beanbag
  The wonderful thing about beanbags, is beanbags are wonderful things. This one's red.
  
  > examine the yellow
  This is a giant yellow beanbag. It reminds you of the sun-only much, much lumpier.
  
  > examine the blue
  This is basically a huge, plastic sack full of-um, beans, you guess. It's blue.
  
  > turn on the tv
  As the television comes to life, you hear the voice of LNN's new anchorman, Harry Sharper, describing a devastating earthquake in South America. Soon, a cracked landscape fills the screen, with an on-the-spot reporter standing in the foreground to give his perspective on the ensuing chaos.
  
  Upstairs, you hear the sounds of someone bustling around at super-sonic speed, and doors and windows slamming open.
  
  After a while, you hear the shower shut off, and footsteps padding into the general direction of your parents' room. You guess the bathroom's free, now.
  
  The TV is on. It's the news.
  
  > go to the north
  (first opening the door)
  
  This is just a small utility room tucked away in the corner of the house. To the south is the door leading back to the sitting room. A washer and a dryer line the east wall, while across from them are tools hanging on hooks and nails. A shelf runs along the back wall, with various odds and ends stacked on it.
  
  On the laundry room shelf are a tube of spot remover, a box of nails, an empty bottle of bleach, a doomsday remote control, a Copy of Metro Magazine, and a glass jar.
  
  > look at the remote
  It was once used by some supervillain as a remote control for a doomsday device. It doesn't work.
  
  > look at the Metro
  It's just last year's copy of Metro Magazine.
  
  > examine the nails
  (the hooks and nails)
  tools are hanging from them.
  
  > turn on remote
  Aaah! What have you done?! Now in ten seconds, the whole world and everything in it and everyone you know and love will be absolutely destroyed and there will be panic and mayhem and--
  
  Just kidding. It doesn't work.
  
  > look at the spot remover
  It's a tube of Zappo! Spot Remover, guaranteed to get any stain out- including chocolate-or your money back. The label on the back has instructions for use.
  
  > read it
  To remove tough stains:
  
  1. Pour spot remover onto stain
  
  2. Rinse garment, or wash as normal
  
  3. Dry
  
  4. Purchase more Zappo! products
  
  > pour the spot remover onto the stain
  You pour a hefty glob of spot remover on the stain. There, that should help take care of it! Now, what does the tube's label say you should do next?
  
  > examine the tools
  People are surprised when they find out your family keeps tools; after all, why would a man need a hammer when he can drive nails with his bare fist? Mostly, these get used by your mother, who has no special powers. Plus, there's always the occasional encounters with Kryptonite...
  
  The tools are pretty much a bare-basics set- there's a hammer, a wrench, a screwdriver, and a small saw.