text: [Themes: Surreal]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east.
  
  A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture.
  
  > examine the house
  Your house key. Without it, you wouldn't feel safe going anywhere.
  
  > Go west
  A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you can enter the woods to the east.
  
  > go west
  (first opening the barn door)
  
  A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to the west.
  
  > Go west
  (first opening the front door)
  (first unlocking the front door)
  (first taking the house key)
  (putting the flashlight into the backpack to make room)
  (with the house key)
  
  A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside to the east.
  
  > go to the south
  The concrete is cracked but is still servicable to park your car. The garage itself lies to the east, but there's no handle on this side of the garage door. Add a trip to the hardware store to your list of things to do.
  
  A lesser mantid stands here, staring fascinated at the reflection of the sunlight reflected on the pavement by the rear view mirror.
  
  You can also see a car here.
  
  > take the mantid
  It skitters away at your approach.
  
  > look at the mantid
  A beautiful insectoid, related to the Great Masters, but not intelligent, and much smaller. This one is barely the size of a dog.
  
  > examine the car
  Your trusty car that can get you places, except into the woods.
  
  The lesser mantid stridulates plaintively.
  
  > give the flies to the mantid
  You kneel down and hold out the dead flies on your palm. The mantid approaches cautiously, then delicately picks up the flies in its mandibles one by one and crunches them down. It seems less skittish now.
  
  > examine the car
  Your trusty car that can get you places, except into the woods.
  
  > enter the car
  Today's not the day to explore the neighborhood. Today's the day to explore the woods.
  
  > go north
  A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside to the east.
  
  > go east
  A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east down some steps into the sun room.
  
  You reposition the lesser mantid to hold its weight better.
  
  > Go east
  Are you going to leave your house open when you explore?
  
  > tell Master that the mantid likes us better
  A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to the west.
  
  You can't see any such thing.
  
  > Go west
  A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east down some steps into the sun room.
  
  The lesser mantid writhes.
  
  > close the door
  You close the front door.
  
  The lesser mantid burbles.
  
  > lock it
  (with the house key)
  You lock the front door.
  
  You turn the lock in the doorknob to lock the front door.
  
  > lock the door
  That's locked at the moment.
  
  > go east
  A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to the west.
  
  The lesser mantid burbles.
  
  > close the door
  You close the barn door.
  
  The lesser mantid snuggles its head against your shoulder. Its antennae tickle your chin.
  
  > Go east
  Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east.
  
  A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture.
  
  > give the mantid to Master
  You place it on the ground in front of the Great Master, who places its foreclaws around its neck protectively. You hear the Great Master's voice in your head: WE THANK YOU FOR THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED. YOU ARE LOYAL, SOFT ONE.
  
  The lesser mantid uses a foreclaw to clean its large, soulful compopund eyes.
  
  > tell Leslie about the mantid
  "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..."
  
  "Perfect! OK, we've noted the lesser mantid as characteristic of this section, which should help us get a bead on your location.
  
  > ask Master about the woods
  ACCESS GRANTED.
  
  "OK, can you tell us about one of the places you've visited from this section?" Leslie asks.
  
  > tell Leslie about Woods
  "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Edge of the Woods now..."
  
  "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..."
  
  > wait for a while
  Time passes.
  
  Another beam of green light hits you and your load feels a bit heavier. "There you go!" Leslie says. "I've sent you another attachment that should help."
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a focuser
  a house key
  Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy
  water bottle, which contains water
  a backpack (open)
  a flashlight
  a sheet
  detangler base (with a trigger attached.)
  
  The Great Master casually snips off the lesser mantid's head, then picks up and eats its body.
  
  > attach the focuser to the base
  With a click and a pop, you permanently attach the focuser to the detangler base.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a house key
  Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy
  water bottle, which contains water
  a backpack (open)
  a flashlight
  a sheet
  detangler base (with a trigger and a focuser attached.)
  
  > Fire detangler
  (the detangler base)
  With the focuser attached, you pull the trigger once more. Bright blue static pours out of it and crackles around your feet. For a moment, the scene seems to shift... but then it dies out, and you're back to where you were before.
  
  "Not again!" Leslie complains. "Let me check my readouts. Hmm. OK, maybe you just need more power. If you can get to a new section and get me a lock there, I'll send you an extra power source.