text: [Themes: Fiction]
  
  > go downward
  You descend via the set of stairs.
  
  This is a huge, round room. Its walls are painted bright red. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up to a room with orange walls. A hexagonal window is in the right wall, and an archway leads out.
  
  A clanking machine sits in a corner of the room, with a hissing pipe leading to the ceiling.
  
  A strange lamp is mounted in front of the window.
  
  A bright, focused beam of light shines from the lamp and out the window on the right wall.
  
  > examine the lamp
  A bright gas lamp is mounted in an array of curved mirrors and lenses. The dazzling white light from the lamp is focused into a tight beam that shines out the window in the right wall.
  
  > examine the window
  This is a hexagonal window, not quite big enough to climb through. Through the window, you can see two thin metal spires and the empty wasteland around this complex.
  
  > examine the machine
  This is a strange clanking machine, a couple yards across. It's quite warm, and has a large gear on the side that rotates agonizingly slowly. A big iron pipe leads from the top of the machine to the ceiling.
  Steam flows angrily from a release valve on the back of the machine, indicating that it's not being delivered to its intended destination.
  
  > examine the archway
  This is a graceful archway that comes to a point at the top. Through it, you can see a dusty plain.
  
  > Go outside
  You exit via the archway.
  
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, a green room, a yellow room, a orange room, and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > examine the crane
  This is an enormous crane apparatus that sits above the three spires. It is on tracks that let it slide from tower to tower, and has a massive hook hanging from the end of a cable. It's connected with pipes to the tin shed. Steam occasionally hisses from valves on the machinery.
  
  > examine shed
  This is a small shed with tin walls. It is connected to the crane apparatus with hundreds of thin steel pipes.
  
  > enter the shed
  This small tin shed is hot and humid. A large machine takes up most of the floor space, with just enough room for you to stand. Two signs are mounted on the wall; one is labeled "THE RULES" and the other is labeled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS."
  
  Mounted in the center of the machine's console is what appears to be a small wooden toy. Beside it is a large lever.
  
  > look at the rules
  This wooden sign is bolted to the wall of the shed. It reads, "THE RULES: No disk may be on top of a smaller disk. Every disk must be on a post."
  
  > examine the operating
  This wooden sign is bolted to the wall of the shed. It is titled "OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS." Below that is a numbered list:
  
  1. Assemble tower model to desired configuration.
  2. Check rules to ensure valid configuration.
  3. Pull lever.
  
  > look at the toy
  This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny purple disk, a small blue disk, a medium-small green disk, a medium-large yellow disk, a large orange disk, and a huge red disk (from top to bottom) on it, the middle post has nothing on it, and the right post has nothing on it.
  
  > take all from the left post
  tiny purple disk: Taken.
  small blue disk: Taken.
  medium-small green disk: Taken.
  medium-large yellow disk: Taken.
  large orange disk: Taken.
  huge red disk: Taken.
  
  > put the orange on the right
  You put the large orange disk on the empty right post.
  
  > pull the lever
  A colossal rumbling shakes the earth, and a hissing of steam fills the air. You hear a series of massive thuds as something huge rearranges itself.
  
  > Examine toy
  This is a toy made out of a wooden block with three wooden posts sticking out of the top. Painted wooden disks of various sizes and colors fit onto the posts. At the moment, the left post has a tiny purple disk, a small blue disk, and a medium-small green disk (from top to bottom) on it, the middle post has a medium-large yellow disk and a huge red disk (from top to bottom) on it, and the right post has a large orange disk on it.
  
  > Go outside
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a purple room, a blue room, and a green room (from top to bottom). You can enter the green room through the exposed end of the bridge.
  
  On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  On the right spire is a tower composed of a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > take all from left
  tiny purple disk: Taken.
  small blue disk: Taken.
  medium-small green disk: Taken.
  
  > take all from right
  Taken.
  
  > put the orange on the left
  You put the large orange disk on the empty left post.
  
  > put the green on the left
  You put the medium-small green disk on top of the large orange disk on the left post.
  
  > put the blue on right
  You put the small blue disk on the empty right post.
  
  > put the purple on the right
  You put the tiny purple disk on top of the small blue disk on the right post.
  
  > Leave
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway.
  
  On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > enter the orange
  This is a big, round room. Its walls are painted a warm orange. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A ladder leads up to a room with green walls. A staircase leads down to solid, packed dirt. An archway leads out, and there is a hexagonal window on the left wall.
  
  > leave
  You exit via the archway.
  
  You stand in the middle of a vast plain sprinkled with small shrubs.
  In front of you are three thin metal spires with enormous stone disks threaded on to them. An elaborate crane system looms above the spires, its valves and gaskets oozing steam.
  
  On the left spire is a tower composed of a green room and a orange room (from top to bottom). You can enter the orange room through an archway.
  
  On the middle spire is a tower composed of a yellow room and a red room (from top to bottom). You can enter the red room through an archway.
  
  On the right spire is a tower composed of a purple room and a blue room (from top to bottom). You can enter the blue room through an archway.
  
  Behind you is a small tin shed.
  
  > enter the red
  This is a huge, round room. Its walls are painted bright red. In the center of the room is a round stone column. A set of stairs leads up to an impassable yellow stone surface. A hexagonal window is in the right wall, and an archway leads out.
  
  A clanking machine sits in a corner of the room, with a hissing pipe leading to the ceiling.
  
  A strange lamp is mounted in front of the window.
  
  A bright, focused beam of light shines from the lamp and out the window on the right wall.
  
  > go upwards
  You can't go that way. The set of stairs is blocked by a hard yellow stone surface.
  
  > go upwards
  You ascend via the a ladder leading to a square hole.
  
  This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal window on the right wall.
  
  Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire several feet from the end of the bridge.
  
  A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, directly above each other.
  
  > go outside
  You walk up to the edge of the bridge, but it ends in midair. There doesn't seem to be any place you can reach from here, so you return to the green room.
  
  This is a medium-small, round room. Its walls are painted a cool green. In the center of the room is an exposed metal pole, which goes into a small hole in the floor. It passes through a large hole in the ceiling, which is big enough to go through. Through the hole, you can see blue sky. There is a square hole in the floor, through which you can see a room with orange walls. There is also a set of stairs leading down to an impassable orange stone surface and a hexagonal window on the right wall.
  
  Through a large doorway in the left wall of the room you can see an enclosed bridge. It seems to end in midair, with a thin metal spire several feet from the end of the bridge.
  
  A pair of small lenses is set into the ceiling and floor of the room, directly above each other.