text: [Themes: Fantasy, gender choice]
  
  > go downward
  You carefully climb down.
  
  This is an open field, with a few boulders and the like scattered about. In the center of the field, someone has constructed a white gazebo, its shadow providing perhaps the only real shade in the area.
  A muddy streak slashes through the field north-south, where the water used to be. A wide white plank allows you to cross from one bank to the other. Sticking out of the ground is a stone pillar, a control panel and joystick built into its side.
  
  > examine the plank
  You can walk across this plank to reach the opposite part of the field.
  
  > examine the panel
  A control panel, set into a pillar which juts from the ground. The panel is very simple: it contains only a joystick (which can be pulled left or pushed right), and a status meter. The status meter currently has 4 blocks filled out of eleven.
  
  > pull the joystick
  You pull the joystick to the left.
  One block disappears on the status bar. Something seems different about the area once you look up from the panel. Rubbing your eyes, you suddenly realize what it is. The shadows have changed. A look upwards confirms it: The sun has moved.
  The shadow of the gazebo moves slowly across the field, as the sun strikes the gazebo from a new angle.
  
  > enter the gazebo
  You walk inside the gazebo.
  
  The gazebo has six sides, one of which is open to allow you to
  enter. The other five are walled off with thick lattices which prevent both sunlight and egress in those directions, making it fairly dim in here. A bronze sundial in the center of the room is the most impressive thing in sight, but there's also an ordinary table against one wall. Also, set into the ceiling, you can see a multi-faceted crystal.
  
  > Go outside
  You exit the gazebo.
  
  This is an open field, with a few boulders and the like scattered about. In the center of the field, someone has constructed a white gazebo, its shadow providing perhaps the only real shade in the area.
  A muddy streak slashes through the field north-south, where the water used to be. A wide white plank allows you to cross from one bank to the other. Sticking out of the ground is a stone pillar, a control panel and joystick built into its side.
  
  > go north
  You walk until you enter a garden.
  
  A beautiful garden, bounded by brick walls to the north and west.
  Alas, the stream that flowed once is no longer here, and the dragon's head fountain no longer spouts water. The bushes and flowers remain, but they droop sadly around the muddy ditch where the stream was.
  The hedge beasts are curled up on the ground, practically indistinguishable from the normal hedges. Slowly, the hedge beasts start to move again. Leaves start to twist and vines begin to wrap around things as the hedge beasts prepare to begin work.
  
  > examine the dragon
  The fountain, as has been mentioned, is made of stone, and shaped like the head of a dragon. The inside of the mouth is damp, but no water emerges.
  
  > look at the beasts
  Well, I guess they aren't just your ordinary hedges. Definitely a close relative, however, as the hedge beasts still seem to have leaves and branches and such. The hedge beasts are slowly shifting positions as they prepare to move.
  Slowly, the hedge beasts begin work again. One reaches under a bush to retrieve the gardening tools, and hands them (or vines them, I suppose) out to the others. Soon they are industriously raking the paths and pruning the plants.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes...
  The hedge beasts seem to be getting sleepier. Their movements grow slower and slower. One carefully wipes off the tools on its leaves, and replaces them under a convenient bush. The hedge beasts' movements continue to slow until they stop altogether. They're practically indistinguishable from the other bushes again.
  
  > look under the bush
  You search under the bushes. Besides a lot of dead leaves and such, you find some of the hedge beasts' gardening tools. A large wooden bucket, a strange leaf-spade, and a thorny rake, to be precise.
  large wooden bucket: Taken.
  strange leaf-spade: Your load is too heavy.
  thorny rake: Your load is too heavy. Slowly, the hedge beasts start to move again. Leaves start to twist and vines begin to wrap around things as the hedge beasts prepare to begin work.
  
  > wait for a while
  Time passes...
  Slowly, the hedge beasts begin work again. One reaches under a bush to retrieve the gardening tools, only to find they are not there. The hedge beasts rustle confusedly for a bit, and then begin work anyway. Soon they are doing their best to tend the garden tool-lessly. Eventually, however, the hedge beasts do notice the tools are on the ground, and they pick them up and start using them.
  
  > check your inventory
  You have a music box, a sun-bleached skull, a piece of paper, a small black magnet, an apple, a small fly, a grenade pin, a small remote, and a large wooden bucket.
  
  > take rake
  Taken.
  Slowly, the hedge beasts begin work again. One reaches under a bush to retrieve the gardening tools, only to find they are not there. The hedge beasts rustle confusedly for a bit, and then begin work anyway. Soon they are doing their best to tend the garden tool-lessly. Eventually, however, the hedge beasts do notice the tools are on the ground, and they pick them up and start using them.
  
  > Go south
  You follow the brook's path out of the garden, and into a field.
  
  This is an open field, with a few boulders and the like scattered about. In the center of the field, someone has constructed a white gazebo, its shadow providing perhaps the only real shade in the area.
  A muddy streak slashes through the field north-south, where the water used to be. A wide white plank allows you to cross from one bank to the other. Sticking out of the ground is a stone pillar, a control panel and joystick built into its side.
  
  > Inventory
  You have a music box, a sun-bleached skull, a piece of paper, a small black magnet, an apple, a small fly, a grenade pin, a small remote, and a thorny rake.
  
  > DROP FLY, PIN, APPLE
  small fly: Dropped.
  grenade pin: Dropped.
  apple: Dropped.
  
  > Go upwards
  The only way up from here would be to climb the gazebo.
  (And so you do.)
  
  This is the roof of the gazebo. The floor (well, roof) below is not latticed like the walls, so it must be quite dark inside. A wall, about six feet high, has been constructed across the gazebo-top. It has no apparent purpose (since you can walk around it to reach the other side of the roof), except to hold a bronze weather vane on top of it. The only good exit from here is to climb down the sides.
  Something hanging on the weather vane glints in the sunlight.
  From up here, you have a view of the open field. Still, it seems
  that you cannot see quite as far as you should be able to, and the view is distorted and shadowy beyond the edges of the grass.
  Hanging from the bronze weather vane is a golden chain with sphere.
  
  > take chain with the rake
  Aha! Reaching up with the rake, you manage to hook a prong onto the chain, and lift it off the weathervane, and from there into your hands.