text: > look at your surroundings
  The dining room is simply what you call the collection of tables here where the girls come to eat. However, it is fairly large, so it is often used as a meeting room as well. Tables and chairs have been pushed to the edges of the room for the demonstration. A cupboard stands in the corner. South leads to the hallway.
  
  You can see a can of beans (in which are some brown beans), a table (on which are Pari, some ropes, an iron rod, and a purse (closed)), Mother Avni Singh, Aditi Singh, some girls, a cupboard (empty), and the rice cooker (in which is cooked rice) here.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > take the can
  (the can of beans)
  Taken.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > throw the can at Aditi
  (the can of beans at Aditi Singh)
  You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick.
  
  > put can in the cooker
  (the can of beans in the rice cooker)
  You put the can of beans into the rice cooker.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick.
  
  > turn on the cooker
  That's not something you can switch.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left leg with a stick.
  
  > Close cooker
  (cooked rice)
  You tilt over the rice cooker and some of the dry grains escape, forming a small heap of spilled rice on the ground. You quickly move away from there so that you won't be suspected. The noise of the grains falling is loud enough for Mother Singh to turn towards it.
  
  She shouts, "Aditi, go out to the closet and get the broom so you can sweep this up." Aditi complies, heading out.
  
  Aditi returns and quickly sweeps the rice up into a dustpan. She then leaves to dump it in the outside refuse pile. Putting the broom back in the closet, she returns to continue watching.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick.
  
  You close the rice cooker.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right arm with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > drop the cooker
  The rice cooker is already here.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right arm with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > Examine cooker
  A large steel rice cooker enclosed within a wooden cover. It is far too large for its legs, however, and in the common cases where it is accidentally spilled, someone always has to waste time cleaning it up.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > take the can
  You already have that.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a can opener
  a fan cover (being worn)
  a dress (being worn)
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > open the cooker
  You open the rice cooker, revealing a can of beans and cooked rice.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > put rice into the can
  (cooked rice into the can opener)
  (first taking cooked rice)
  
  You don't see any use for a handful of rice. Besides, you don't have anything to grab or carry it with.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick.
  
  > take the beans
  (the can of beans)
  Taken.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right arm with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > spill the beans
  (the can of beans)
  You have no reason to do that.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick.
  
  > eat the beans
  (the can of beans)
  You reach into the can and pull out a few beans before popping them into your mouth.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick.
  
  > go to the south
  You crouch behind the mass of girls and quickly sneak out of the room when no one is looking.
  
  The hallway looks exactly the same to the east. South leads to Room Number 1, inhabited by a girl whom you only vaguely know. North leads to the dining room. West leads to the main room. East is the hallway by your room.
  
  A door down the hallway on the odd-numbered side opens, as a girl followed by a man exit their room and head to the front. You step aside to allow them to pass.
  
  > Go south
  You don't want to randomly barge in if there's a customer with her. Besides, you see no reason why Pari would be there.
  
  A door down the hallway on the even-numbered side opens, as a girl followed by a man exit their room and head to the front. You step aside to allow them to pass.
  
  > Go west
  This is where the customers enter and wait. However, it is currently very late and so no one is here right now. It is luxuriously decorated compared to the rest of the place. A desk sits in the corner. East is the hallway. North is a closet. West leads outside.
  
  > examine it
  An ornamented desk with carvings on the side of tigers and flowers. It has two drawers, one on the left and one on the right.
  
  > open the left drawer
  The purse isn't open.
  
  The drawer appears to be locked. You'll have to get the key out of Mother Singh's purse first.
  
  > North
  (first opening the closet door)
  
  The closet is fairly large and contains many things that are used in the day-to-day running of this place, but most are unfamiliar to you. South leads out.
  
  You can see a broom here.
  
  > take broom
  You'd look pretty suspicious walking about with a broom.
  
  > wear the broom
  (first taking the broom)
  You'd look pretty suspicious walking about with a broom.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  You are carrying:
  a can of beans (open)
  some brown beans
  a can opener
  a fan cover (being worn)
  a dress (being worn)
  
  > Go north
  The closet is fairly large and contains many things that are used in the day-to-day running of this place, but most are unfamiliar to you. South leads out.
  
  You can see a broom here.
  
  > examine the broom
  The broom has been used here for at least as long as you've been used here.
  
  > put the beans in the broom
  (the can of beans in the broom)
  That can't contain things.
  
  > take broom
  You'd look pretty suspicious walking about with a broom.
  
  > Break broom
  You snap the broom in half.
  
  > East
  The hallway looks exactly the same to the east. South leads to Room Number 1, inhabited by a girl whom you only vaguely know. North leads to the dining room. West leads to the main room. East is the hallway by your room.
  
  > Go north
  The dining room is simply what you call the collection of tables here where the girls come to eat. However, it is fairly large, so it is often used as a meeting room as well. Tables and chairs have been pushed to the edges of the room for the demonstration. A cupboard stands in the corner. South leads to the hallway.
  
  You can see a table (on which are Pari, some ropes, an iron rod, and a purse (closed)), Mother Avni Singh, Aditi Singh, some girls, a cupboard (empty), and the rice cooker (in which is cooked rice) here.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's left arm with a stick.
  
  > Go north
  You can't go that way.
  
  Mother Singh quickly strikes Pari's right leg with a stick. Pari lets out a short cry.
  
  > spill the rice
  (cooked rice)
  You tilt over the rice cooker and some of the dry grains escape, forming a small heap of spilled rice on the ground. You quickly move away from there so that you won't be suspected. The noise of the grains falling is loud enough for Mother Singh to turn towards it.
  
  She shouts, "Aditi, go out to the closet and get the broom so you can sweep this up." Aditi complies, heading out.
  
  Aditi runs back in, shouting that the broom has been broken. Mother Singh says, "What! Who has done this? The broom was fine earlier; has someone damaged it on purpose? Oh, we shall get to the bottom of this mystery once I have finished with this girl! Meanwhile, go into town and tell your brother to pick up a new broom as well." Aditi quickly dashes out to follow her mother's orders, and you inwardly celebrate at having another family member out of the way.
  
  Now Mother Singh, having worked up a sweat, picks up the metal rod. She laughs and says, "Okay, my girl, prepare for some real pain now."
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's stomach. Pari tries hard not to scream, only letting out a short "Oof."
  
  > hit singh
  Violence isn't the answer to this one.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's leg. "Urgh...", groans Pari as she reels from the blow.
  
  Mother Singh shouts out, "Someone get me a book of matches for later." The girls stare nervously at each other for a minute, until one of them takes a chair, pushes it in front of the cabinet, and stands on it so she can reach on top of the cabinet. She fishes around for a little bit, finding two books of matches. Then she gets down, pushes the chair in the corner, and gives both to Mother Singh, who says, "I only need one. She's not going to last that long," The girl shudders a bit before throwing one book back into the cupboard, as Mother Singh places the other in an imperceptible fold in her dress.
  
  > take the purse
  That might be a bit too obvious.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's arm. "Arghhh!", she shouts, tears glistening in her eyes.
  
  > take the matches
  Taken.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's stomach. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", Pari screams, unable to face the pain as the rod hits a sensitive spot.
  
  > Light singh
  This dangerous act would achieve little.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's leg. Pari tries hard not to scream, only letting out a short "Oof."
  
  > Light matches
  To use the matches, just BURN an object. You don't have to light them first or anything.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's arm. "Arghhh!", she shouts, tears glistening in her eyes.
  
  > look at Singh
  A middle-aged woman who runs the place, she is warm and inviting to the customers, but cruel to everyone else. She always seems even more vicious when her husband is out at the bars, as he probably is now.
  
  Mother Singh aims a sharp blow with the metal rod at Pari's leg. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", Pari screams, unable to face the pain as the rod hits a sensitive spot.