text: > look at your surroundings
  An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at
  its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the
  rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly
  south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east.
  
  An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and
  creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its
  branches.
  
  The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9
  feet off the floor.
  
  > go to the northwest
  You cross the stream and walk around the pool.
  
  The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the
  forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the
  water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this
  is its northern limb.
  
  The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some
  20 feet to the south, across the stream.
  
  A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the
  pool.
  
  You can also see an arrow here.
  
  > get arrow
  (the arrow)
  Taken.
  
  > get the lily
  You'd have to wade through icy water to reach it.
  
  > Go northeast
  You cross the stream and walk around the pool.
  
  The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the
  forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the
  water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this
  is its northern limb.
  
  The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some
  20 feet to the south, across the stream.
  
  A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the
  pool.
  
  > Drink water
  Which do you mean, the stream or the water lily?
  
  > shoot the lily
  snap!
  
  > Jilnix lily
  As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged
  insects, which surge forward to plague the water lily. The carnivorous
  lily makes very quick work of them.
  
  > throw the ham at the lily
  The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the joint of cured ham with a
  vicious snap!
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a joint of cured ham
  four arrows
  an improvised ladder
  a drum (which is empty)
  a bow
  a boomerang
  a length of light rope
  the "destruction order"
  Experimental Spell Book #5
  a shard of pottery (providing light)
  your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed)
  a small wickerwork hamper (which is open)
  some provisions - an apple, a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic
  a brass lantern (providing light)
  The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding
  Provinces
  four ancient treasures:
  a golden fir-cone
  a platinum egg
  a jewelled scarab
  a jade figurine
  
  > throw the garlic at the lily
  vicious snap!
  
  > throw the apple at the lily
  (first taking the apple)
  The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the apple with a vicious
  snap!
  
  > throw the boomerang
  You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it
  quickly spins out of sight.
  
  > wait awhile
  Time passes.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.
  
  Suddenly and without warning, the boomerang spins back in from the
  cave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head.
  
  > throw the boomerang at the lily
  space.
  
  > look
  The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the
  forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the
  water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this
  is its northern limb.
  
  The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some
  20 feet to the south, across the stream.
  
  A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the
  pool.
  
  > go to the north
  The sheer black rock blocks your way.
  
  > Go south
  That would be into the pool!
  
  > Up
  the trunk will bear your weight.
  
  An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and
  creepers, hangs down the rest of the way.
  
  > Up
  You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the
  cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on
  a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you
  can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across.
  
  A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a
  wooden lean-to on a log platform.
  
  > Go north
  Although branches radiate in all compass directions, your first
  impression is that none of them lead anywhere in particular. Certainly
  this one doesn't.
  
  > throw the rope at ledge
  The ledge is too far off.
  
  > shoot arrow at the ledge
  sight.
  
  > put the ladder on the ledge
  broadest branches to the ledge.
  
  > look
  You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the
  cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on
  a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you
  can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across.
  
  An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and
  creepers, spans the abyss up to the ledge.
  
  A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a
  wooden lean-to on a log platform.
  
  > Up
  This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a
  dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge
  broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a
  tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into
  the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here,
  back north under the lintel.
  
  Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing,
  inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung
  branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here.
  
  An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and
  creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches.
  
  > throw the boomerang at the snake
  There isn't really room to throw it at the oil-snake in this cramped
  space.
  
  > shoot arrow at the snake
  You loose off an arrow at the oil-snake, but miss.
  
  > get all
  arrow: Taken.
  arrow: Taken.
  arrow: Taken.
  cave floor: That's hardly portable.
  inverted cedar: You can't reach the tree from here.
  oil-snake: I don't suppose the oil-snake would care for that.
  
  > examine the floor
  (the cave floor)
  You see nothing special about the cave floor.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  four arrows
  a boomerang
  some provisions - a clove of garlic and a joint of cured ham
  a drum (which is empty)
  a bow
  a length of light rope
  the "destruction order"
  Experimental Spell Book #5
  a shard of pottery (providing light)
  your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed)
  a small wickerwork hamper (which is open)
  some provisions - an apple and a hunk of cheese
  a brass lantern (providing light)
  The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding
  Provinces
  four ancient treasures:
  a golden fir-cone
  a platinum egg
  a jewelled scarab
  a jade figurine
  
  > give the ham to the snake
  The snake snatches and swallows whole the joint of cured ham, its neck distending to fit.