text: [Themes: Surreal]
  
  Are you sure you want to quit? 
  
  Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly moved in tomorrow.
  
  Type "about" for more information.
  
  Master Bedroom (on the mattress)
  All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The hallway is to the east.
  
  > Author
  Scene 1, "Going Exploring", was written by Tom Blawgus.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  You are carrying:
  a house key
  Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy
  
  > read Almanac
  Rather than start at the beginning of the Almanac, and having no curiosity in any specific entry in particular, you flip to a random page and begin reading at random:
  
  Just to make sure, you skim through the ontogeny section. Yeah, you were right. Not only is the metatarsal tubercule completely different, but larval Overlords are typically the size of small planets. Otherwise they're quite like tadpoles, though.
  
  Out of context, this may or may not make a whole lot of sense, but I suppose that's what you get for not looking up a specific entry.
  
  > go to the south
  The closet's much too small to fit in.
  
  > open the closet
  You're not Mr. Fantastic. You'll need to get up to reach the closet.
  
  Your vision goes blurry for a second, and a voice seems to be speaking to you right out of your brain.
  
  "Dave? Dave? Can you hear me?" says the voice. "Hang on, we're trying to get you out of there."
  
  > wake
  The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream.
  
  The voice continues. If you concentrate, you can just place the voice as Leslie's. "Listen. I think we can do this, but we need your help. We need to calibrate on this end with something you've held on that end. Can you describe something you've picked up, or something you're holding? Try telling me about it."
  
  > stand
  You get off the mattress.
  
  All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The hallway is to the east.
  
  > describe Almanac
  Ever since your youth, this book has been your dearest companion. Originally a slender mass-market paperback from Knockoff Press, it now bulges under the weight of your painfully cross-referenced annotations and additions. It largely deals with how the Atlanteans staged the moon landings in order to atrophy America's can-do attitude and defy the Cosmic Overlords, but has valuable information on many related topics.
  
  > tell Leslie about Almanac
  "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..."
  
  "Perfect! OK, we've noted Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy as characteristic of this section, which should help us get a bead on your location.
  
  > open the closet
  You open the closet, revealing a backpack and a swibble.
  
  "I really need that room," Leslie says again. "We almost have a lock on your avatar."
  
  "OK, now we need to know where you are. Can you tell me about one of the rooms you've visited in this section?"
  
  > tell Leslie about the closet
  "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..."
  
  > look at the swibble
  It's just a swibble.
  
  > take all from the closet
  backpack: Taken.
  swibble: You can't intefere with a swibble! It would be... well, you just can't.
  
  > look up the swibble in Almanac
  You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy.
  
  "I really need that room," Leslie says again. "We almost have a lock on your avatar."
  
  > open the backpack
  That's already open.
  
  > eat the swibble
  (first taking the swibble)
  You can't intefere with a swibble! It would be... well, you just can't.
  
  > tell Leslie about Bedroom
  "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Master Bedroom now..."
  
  "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..."
  
  > examine the swibble
  It's just a swibble.
  
  Leslie pipes up again. "OK! I'm going to send you a detangler. You should be able to use it to escape as-is, but if not, I can try sending you some attachments. I've attuned it to your signal in the simulator, so it should stay with you.
  
  A strange beam of green light bathes you, then disappears.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  detangler base (with a trigger attached.)
  a backpack (open but empty)
  a house key
  Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy
  
  > examine the detangler
  (the detangler base)
  Long and sleek, with various notches for extra attachments. When it's working, you should be able to just fire it. Attached to the base is a trigger.
  
  > Fire detangler
  (the detangler base)
  Taking a deep breath, you pull the trigger and shoot the detangler. Blue static washes over you and the Master Bedroom, but then dissipates. And you're still in the same room as before.
  
  "Dave? We caught a power surge in your location. That wasn't... drat, the detangler didn't work, did it? OK, we'll try again. Let me send you the focuser; I think the area of effect was too wide." You wait for the green light again.
  
  After a few moments, you hear cursing from inside your head. "Um... Dave, I'm sorry, but the lock I had for your location is busted.
  You'll need to find your way somewhere else, and try again from there. Sorry about that. I'll work on the focuser; you work on finding your way forward."
  
  > look up Leslie in Almanac
  The Atlantean legends are unclear on whether this figure is meant to represent some sort of demon or monster, or if it is merely a human being who achieved both great power and great viillainy. Her exact name varies according to the source text: sometimes it is written as "Lisellyi" or "Leslea"; other sources refer to her as "L'Z'L", perhaps as a reference to the holy tetragrammaton. Some modern academics have taken to transliterating the name as "Leslie" or even "Lucille", although this is generally recognized as a sign of less serious scholarship.