text: [Themes: Humor, Fantasy, gnome, cave crawl, humour, strong characterization, kid-friendly, strong NPCs, memorable NPC, cute]
  
  > Look around
  This look like room for little person. It have bed that too little for Grunk. It have trunk that too little for Grunk. It have desk that too little for Grunk. Desk have stool that too little for Grunk. Room have doorway to east and west too, but them not so little. That good, because if doorway too little for Grunk, not know how Grunk get back out of room.
  
  Gnome sit at desk with pen and paper.
  
  On top of shelf there ball (that make light).
  
  On top of desk there bottle and pile of paper.
  
  > take the ball
  Gnome shake head at Grunk. "I don't see why I should just let you take my things. It's not as though you've done anything in particular to earn them."
  
  > examine the ball
  Ball glow bright blue. It size of Grunk fist and very round.
  
  > ask Gnome about the ball
  Grunk ask gnome about glowing blue ball on shelf.
  
  Gnome look up at shelf. Then him pick up ball.
  
  "That orb is a good example of mossfuressence," him say, "Just like the glowing walls in the main shrine. I had it equipped with magic words for turning it on and off."
  
  Gnome show ball to Grunk. It all blue and glowy. Then him put it back on shelf.
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or ASK GNOME ABOUT ADVENTURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT MOSSFURESSENCE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > sit on the stool
  But stool full of gnome! It not really big enough for Grunk anyway.
  
  > get Gnome
  Gnome growl, "You may be bigger than me, but that doesn't give you the right to push me around."
  
  Gnome scribble quick little thing in one corner of paper.
  
  > sit on the bed
  Bed too little. Or maybe Grunk too big. But Grunk sit down anyway.
  
  Gnome say, "I guess I'll be washing my sheets later."
  
  > remove the pants
  OK, pants off.
  
  Gnome look away. "Oh, for the love of..."
  
  > give the pants to Gnome
  Gnome not even let Grunk let go of pants.
  
  "No," say gnome. "Just no."
  
  Gnome give pants back to Grunk.
  
  > put the pants on gnome
  Gnome stop Grunk. "Hey, watch it," him say. "Those are
  
  Gnome mutter, "I could solve this, I think, if I could consult the right reference material..."
  
  > ask gnome about the exit
  Grunk ask gnome if there any exit out of shrine.
  
  Gnome say, "Well, you already know about the main entrance." Then him smile. "I won't say that there isn't another way out. But I think you should find it for yourself."
  
  Gnome work hard at making lots and lots of mark all over paper. Then gnome turn paper over and make more mark on other side.
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or TELL GNOME ABOUT ENTRANCE or ASK GNOME ABOUT ADVENTURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT MOSSFURESSENCE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > get tube
  OK, got it.
  
  > ask Gnome about the mossfuressence
  Grunk ask gnome about strange moss-fur thing.
  
  Gnome say, "Isolating the qualities of mossfuressence is a goal that eluded alchemists for decades." Then him ask Grunk, "You're familiar with how all those stories about heroes who are lost in deep underground caverns with no torches or lanterns always have mysteriously glowing fungi and shaggy mosses growing on the cave walls?"
  
  All the story that Grunk hear about hero end with "and then orc killed hero hooray." Grunk think that maybe not same kind of story.
  
  "Well, regardless," gnome say, "The essence of those furry glowing mosses has been distilled into an impure alchemical reagent. That's mossfuressence."
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or TELL GNOME ABOUT ENTRANCE or ASK GNOME ABOUT ADVENTURE or ASK GNOME ABOUT REAGENT or ASK GNOME ABOUT HEROES AND VILLAINS or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > ask Gnome about the adventure
  Grunk ask gnome about adventure.
  
  "Adventuring has become a popular hobby, these days." Gnome shake head, looking sad. "But it's really just another excuse for looting and petty vandalism. Not to mention the killing."
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or ASK GNOME ABOUT KILLING or TELL GNOME ABOUT ENTRANCE or ASK GNOME ABOUT REAGENT or ASK GNOME ABOUT HEROES AND VILLAINS or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > tell Gnome about the entrance
  Grunk tell gnome about how Grunk fall down stair.
  
  Gnome say, "You may remember a few months ago, when the ground around here shook for several hours."
  
  Gnome right! Grunk remember that.
  
  "I believe it was due to a careless mage testing some new spell for manipulating earth. Fortunately for me, this shrine was only at the very edge of its range, or else the ceiling above us might have suffered the same fate as that stairway."
  
  Pig walk into room from west.
  
  Gnome draw slow on paper. Make different long straight line that bend and cross each other in different place. Him very careful.
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or ASK GNOME ABOUT KILLING or ASK GNOME ABOUT REAGENT or ASK GNOME ABOUT HEROES AND VILLAINS or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > ask Gnome about the zork
  Grunk tell gnome about Zork.
  
  Gnome say, "That sounds familiar. I think the wizard who installed the "ztorf" command in my mossfuressent orb might have mentioned something like that."
  
  [Grunk can try ASK GNOME ABOUT PHILOSOPHY or ASK GNOME ABOUT KILLING or ASK GNOME ABOUT REAGENT or ASK GNOME ABOUT HEROES AND VILLAINS or ASK GNOME ABOUT ZTORF or ASK GNOME ABOUT NATURE or TELL GNOME WHAT GRUNK THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT. And probably other thing too.]
  
  > Ztorf
  Nothing happen.
  
  Gnome look at paper like him not know what it mean. Grunk sure that Grunk not know what it mean.
  
  > say frotz
  Grunk not know that word. Sound like magic, though.
  
  Pig run around room and bump into desk. Bottle almost fall over! But gnome catch it before it spill on pile of paper.
  
  > say ztorf
  Nothing happen.
  
  > Frotz
  Grunk not know that word. Sound like magic, though.