text: [Themes: Zorkian, Cave crawl, old school]
  
  > Look around
  Hollowed out like a wasp's nest in a rotten apple, this almost-sealed
  den can only be one thing.
  
  A glistening, pulsing egg, rocks back and forth erratically. It seems
  close to hatching! A dull, humid heat radiates out from it, and you
  sense effort and anger.
  
  > examine the Spell Book
  The chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light).
  The jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects).
  The piroo spell (unfasten object).
  The azzev spell (view the past).
  The ruther spell (transmute pure chemical elements).
  
  > learn the piroo
  You commit the piroo spell to memory once again.
  
  > Jilnix egg
  As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged
  insects, which surge forward to plague the glistening egg. They are
  unable to make any inroad into the eggshell.
  
  > Piroo egg
  Nothing happens, perhaps because the glistening egg was already
  unfastened.
  
  > look
  Smothered in a suffocating red haze, half-conscious at best, your
  position seems hopeless. The lily's membrane is tough as
  crocodile-skin and beyond it is perhaps a thousand feet of water? The
  pressure seals you in as well as any rockfall could. Indeed, only the
  pressure makes it possible at all for one Ambassador and one giant
  hatched lizard to share a space barely six feet in diameter.
  
  The creature wriggles, dripping a saliva that burns to the touch, but
  seems lapsed back into embryonic sleep.
  
  > look at the creature
  A sleek, beautiful marvel, half-insect, half-reptile. Its gauzy wings
  are only undeveloped stubs and a little amniotic fluid still coats
  them; but its sting, painted like a brimstone butterfly, looks deadly
  already.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a coffer (which is open but empty)
  an old document
  a colour chart
  a length of light rope
  a boomerang (providing light)
  a gleaming uncut diamond
  your formal credentials
  a shard of pottery (providing light)
  a small wickerwork hamper (which is open but empty)
  four arrows
  a drum (which is empty)
  a bow
  the "destruction order"
  Experimental Spell Book #5
  your Ambassador's trunk (which is open)
  a hand telescope
  a brass lantern (providing light)
  The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding
  Provinces
  some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove
  of garlic
  
  The compression tightens.
  
  The creature wriggles in sleep, stirring.
  
  > learn the piroo
  You commit the piroo spell to memory once again.
  
  > Piroo lily
  Abruptly the lily-pod bursts. A detached observer would think its
  graceful explosion reminiscent of seeds released onto a spring wind.
  But with the pressure of the water smashing into you like a hammer,
  you are soon detached from all observation, all reminiscence.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.
  
  The membrane walls exude some kind of digestive fluid.
  
  > wake creature
  The hornet sleeps soundly (thank heavens).
  
  The membrane walls exude some kind of digestive fluid.
  
  > Azzev
  A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured
  into soup, and a vision briefly appears...
  
  A highly disconcerting montage of plant and animal life being digested wholesale.
  
  Your shoulders are being folded together, like a recalcitrant
  cardboard box.
  
  The creature wriggles in sleep, stirring.
  
  > Spells
  The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that,
  you have the piroo spell (twice) and chiaro spell memorised.
  
  The hatchling wriggles in sleep, stirring.
  
  > Jilnix lily
  There really is no situation so unpleasant you can't make it worse, is
  there?
  
  The pressure is now almost unbearable!
  
  > Jilnix  hatchlinjilnix   hatchling
  There really is no situation so unpleasant you can't make it worse, is
  there?
  
  With a sudden convulsion of fibres, the lily pod crunches you up
  entirely, with merciful speed.
  
  > give the garlic to creature
  The hornet sleeps soundly (thank heavens).
  
  > shoot the hornet
  What, in this confined space?
  
  The compression tightens.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a coffer (which is open but empty)
  an old document
  a colour chart
  a length of light rope
  a boomerang (providing light)
  a gleaming uncut diamond
  your formal credentials
  a shard of pottery (providing light)
  a small wickerwork hamper (which is open but empty)
  four arrows
  a drum (which is empty)
  a bow
  the "destruction order"
  Experimental Spell Book #5
  your Ambassador's trunk (which is open)
  a hand telescope
  a brass lantern (providing light)
  The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding
  Provinces
  some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove
  of garlic
  
  The compression tightens.
  
  > burn lily
  The membrane seems impervious to everything.
  
  The hornet wriggles in sleep, talons rustling.
  
  > Bite lily
  The membrane seems impervious to everything.
  
  The membrane walls exude some kind of digestive fluid.
  
  > Spells
  The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that,
  you have the piroo spell and chiaro spell memorised.
  
  > kick the lily
  The membrane seems impervious to everything.
  
  Your shoulders are being folded together, like a recalcitrant
  cardboard box.
  
  > Ruther lily
  The spell misfires, perhaps because the lily membrane is not pure but
  a mixture or an alloy.
  
  The pressure is now almost unbearable!
  
  > shoot arrow at the lily
  What, in this confined space?
  
  With a sudden convulsion of fibres, the lily pod crunches you up
  entirely, with merciful speed.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a coffer (which is open but empty)
  an old document
  a colour chart
  a length of light rope
  a boomerang (providing light)
  a gleaming uncut diamond
  your formal credentials
  a shard of pottery (providing light)
  a small wickerwork hamper (which is open but empty)
  four arrows
  a drum (which is empty)
  a bow
  the "destruction order"
  Experimental Spell Book #5
  your Ambassador's trunk (which is open)
  a hand telescope
  a brass lantern (providing light)
  The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding
  Provinces
  some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove
  of garlic
  
  The creature wriggles in sleep, perhaps dreaming.
  
  > feed the cheese to the creature
  The hornet sleeps soundly (thank heavens).