text: [Themes: Fiction]
  
  > Go down
  You descend via the square hole.
  
  This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall.
  
  > leave
  You exit via the archway.
  
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway.
  
  On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > enter the shed
  This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS."
  
  Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever.
  
  > take all from left
  medium-small green disk: Taken.
  large orange disk: Taken.
  
  > take all from right
  tiny purple disk: Taken.
  small blue disk: Taken.
  
  > put the orange and the green on right
  large orange disk: You put the large orange disk on the empty right post.
  medium-small green disk: You put the medium-small green disk on top of the large orange disk on the right post.
  
  > put blue and the purple on the left
  small blue disk: You put the small blue disk on the empty left post. tiny purple disk: You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue disk on the left post.
  
  > pull the lever
  A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges itself.
  
  > go outside
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway.
  
  On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  On the right spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > enter the orange
  This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall.
  
  A beam of light enters the room through the window and makes a bright spot on the right wall.
  
  > Go up
  You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole.
  
  This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal window on the right wall.
  
  Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an enclosed bridge. At the end you can see a yellow room.
  
  A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, directly above each other.
  
  > go outside
  You walk through the bridge to the next tower, entering through an archway.
  
  This is a medium-large, round room. Its walls are painted a pale yellow. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up to blue sky. Through a square hole in the floor, you can see an impassable red stone surface. There is a hexagonal window on the left wall and an archway leading out.
  
  A narrow, steel, cylindrical device sits in the middle of the room, aimed at the window on the left wall. A pipe leads from the device to the floor. Steam leaks from the joints in the pipe.
  
  A golden mirror is mounted beside the cylindrical device, directly below a lens set into the ceiling.
  
  > go upwards
  The set of stairs leads to the roof, and it's made of stone slick with grease and condensed steam. You don't trust the footing up there.
  
  > examine the device
  This is a long, thin metal tube with pipes and gauges sticking out of it and a sealed hopper on top filled with small metal balls. The largest pipe leads down through the floor. Steam hisses in the pipes, and a large gauge on the side indicates that the device is "READY TO FIRE." There is a big lever on the back of the device.
  
  > pull the lever
  There is a loud thump and a burst of steam as a steel ball fires from the mouth of the device and out the window. You hear a tremendous crash as the shot shatters something in the purple room.
  
  > Go east
  You don't have a compass. If you would like to go to a place, please type GO TO (PLACE).
  
  > Exit
  You cross the bridge to the green room.
  
  This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal window on the right wall.
  
  Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an enclosed bridge. At the end you can see a yellow room.
  
  A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, directly above each other.